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By Peter Larson ' In an age when churches seem increasingly sectarian and SANIBEL^APTIVA AND THI ISLANDS r«OM etTEKO BAT TO THE OASPAR1LLAS 2 SICTIONS 64 PAGES DECEMBER 8,197B 2Oc membership-conscious, Capture's S»affl85IK^^ Chapel by the Sea is a curious exception to the rule. Since its formation in 1947 the Chapel has been non-sectarian and,. technically speaking, mem- berless. During five months of the year protestants of every stripe congregate beneath the palms to worship in amicable coexistance, making the Chapel a Peaceable Kingdom of Epsicopaleans, Pres- worship on Captiva. Before that the congregation depended on ite, Seating byterians, Methodists, et al. time the island was churcnless; Fort Myers ministers who com- For nearly 60 years the Chapel the chapel building itself was a muted to Captiva and preached in building has been the only place of derelict schoolhouse, owned and exchange for free meals and over- abandoned by the county. night lodging. The school house, Captiva's Chapel by the Sea traces its first, was built in 1901 on land ecumenical roots to the late 1940's, donated by William Bender, an when the wood frame building was By Susie Hotty ..,.-.:- Austrian sailor who was ship- in need of major repairs. As one wrecked on Captiva as a boy and present-day Captiviari recalls,. The Sanibel City Council had a busy morning Tuesday electing amayor and vice- returned to the island years later "The Methodists couldn't afford to mayor and appointing two planning com- to become Captiva's first home- fix the building and they knew the missioners. But by morning's end, Duane steader. rest of the islanders wouldn't help White had emerged as mayor, Francis In her History of the Seashell pay for repairs as long as the, Bailey was vice-mayor, and Don Manchest- Islands, Elinore Dormer notes church was run by brie denomina- er and Joe Searing had been named to the that the school building doubled as tion." planning commission. . a church whenever a circuit Fiscal necessity prevailed over The mayoral election moved quickly. In preacher arrived on the island. parochialism and in 1947, a group accordance with the city, charter. City "On such occasions," writes Mrs. of islanders bought the church for Attorney Neal Bo wen took over the chair to u ask for nominations. Bailey, Porter Goss Dormer, the families arrived on the Methodists for $7,000 - with ' and Charles. LeBuff quickly' said . they foot or by mule-dfawn wagon, the condition that the building wouldtxot accept a nomination. bringing enough food to last all always be used as a church. The Bailey then nominated Zee Butter for re- day. They^ picnicked between non-denominational chapel won election to the post she has held for the past morning and evening services ..." the immediate support of Captiv- _year, and LeBuff offered White!s name. The one-room schoolhouse was ians and in 1953 the. Chapel abandoned after several years' use incorporated. Charter members ; ^Wiii#tlren was elected when it was discovered that most. included Susan- Karr, Carl C. In the election of the vice-mayor, Butler of Captiva's students lived further Erler, Charles S. Alt, Dorothy Chap«l By th* S*a> a 'Poacaafal* Kingdom up-island. The deserted school fell Wedekind and Beulah Wiles. Of of IpUcopaladnji. Methodists, Prasbytor* and Goss both stated they did not want to lans, •t.al. "'" •'"•'"• \ ^ be considered for the position. Butler then into disrepair until 1921, when the five, only Erler an^d Karr still entered Bailey's name: as the sole nomina- Worshippers yt resident " pastor Dr. Captiva resident Hattie Gore reside full-time in the Sanibel- construction of the Herman tion. He was elected unanimously. David E. Wvlnland. launched an effort to restore the Captiva area. • Dickey memorial addition. With" In accepting the mayor's" chair, White "I don't think the church ever the addition, the Chapel accom- said, "I am highly honored that my fellow had a mortgage/' says Mrs. Wil- modated 120 worshippers. councflmen felt I was worthy to serve as chairman of the council and ceremonial head I lard J. Schultz, chairman of the During the height of the winter u Chapel board of" directors and season nearly twice that "number of the city. But it takes all of us to get things done. And we have an outstanding track Ul daughter of charter member of worshippers attend services at record of working together." ~Charles Alt; "Everyone pitched in the Chapel. Seated outside the White said he would consider himself a and bought the church outright." ao. Chapel on folding chairs, the councilman first and mayor second. In the LU According to Mrs. Schultz the overflow crowd can listen not only past White has suggested that the city ae chapel was administered for many to the sermon but to the sound of might want to consider amending the Q years by the Captiva Civic Associ- birds and the whispering surf. charter to a strong mayor form of govern- ation. Administration was later Despite the informal setting, ment rather thai) the weak mayor-strong assumed by a regular board of church attire at the Chapel re- city manager form now in force. He said this directors. Since its inception the week, however, he has "always been a mains rather formal. strong believer in adhering to the charter. I chapel has never had an actual "It's the only opportunity some shall make that my goal in this year serving Winging it: membership but relies instead on of us have to dress up,*' explains Sunday morning offerings and asmayor." : / •• - . •'• '••'•-•C- ..; •;•. On the wing from their Mrs. Schultz. "The rest of the Following the election of the mayor and breeding grounds in the Contest is islanders'cup of tea private contributions to meet ex- week we wear shorts and slacks. I vice-mayor,, council turned to the: business penses. The Chapel's operating northwestern United think most of us look forward to of appointing two planning commissioners States, white pelicans have By MarkTwombly budget last year was roughly dressing up." _ to fill the seats of Manchester and Joe arrived again to winter in Tve been doing $10,000. The Chapel's biggest annual McMurtry whose terms expire December Pine Island Sound. For In recent years, major changes event is a candlelight Christmas 31.,:': •••.••.•:,•• ' ••--;.:::::. •• ••;•:•.;.-; more see page 1-B. A month ago Norma_ and John at the Chapel have included con- McMurtry announced bust week that he Hodosko were debating whether this for years. Captiva's first Khoolhous* also smrvod as a Eve service. In recent years as or not they should buy a new car. makachlft chap*l wh»n circuit-riding building for use as a Methodist struction of a parsonage during many as 500 worshippers have • continued on 4-A Fve won praachors vlsltad th« Island. church. the 1950's. Traditionally, the par- attended the outdoor, carol- The, eight-year-old Impala they The Methodists purchased the sonage is occupied five months of singing service. were driving was snowing signs of televisions, pots building from the county in 1921 the year - from November to For decades Captiva's Chapel by terminal rust. and for the next 26 years the mid-April— by a retired minister the Sea has remained almost Their jobs as housekeeping and chapel became the site of regular in residence. changeless. For some residents maintenance managers at the Col' and pans— Sunday Worship services. Top The last major expansion of the the church has become a symbol of ony Motel on SanibeFs east end small to sustain a resident pastor. Chapel came in 1961, with the sorts, hemmed in and threatened By Peter Larson Although conferees discovered no miracle afford them a relatively easygoing you name it. I by development pressures that solution to the pepper dilemma, organizers lifestyle and the chance to do a mount with' eijch passing >years In Greek- mythology it took Hercules to deemed the meeting a success. .modest amount of travelling on Developers of one residential pro slay the Hydra,-a. multi-headed monster "It was the first time Florida's schinus their "days off. But the financial But nothing that grew new heads as fast as they were experts, have gathered under one roof," strain of raising four children.and ject recently built a sewage treat- 9 ment facility that borderis bn cutoff. noted Dr. William Webb, a national forestry paying for cancer surgery for Last weekend a team of Florida experts expert and SanibeL resident who helped Norma made buying a car a major this big. Chapel property* a gesture/ that convened at the Sanibel-Captiva Conser- conduct the conference. Hopefully someone outraged many Chapel worship- vation Foundation Center to battle a will carry away a spark from this meeting; budgetary decision., modern Hydra, an "unkfllable" weed breakthroughs always begin with a spark." Then one day John opened bis 'I think it exhibits a complete known as Scninus or Brazilian pepper. Attended by more than 80 forestry and mail to find a questionnaire about disregard for the island,*' says Flourishing alongroadsides, dftchbftttks and biology^ experts, the conference attracted Mrs. Schultz. "The developers had other disturbed areas, experts say the weed delegates trom state and federal parks and continued on 13-A is growing at an alarming rate in South acres of land but they had to build ; Florida, displacing native vegetation in "its • continued on 32-A I the thing next door to the Chapel." wake; . - wS'-Srr-m*~T~'-—"T- — *-'• ^7'" **' •*'•'••--•' i,-- -y-fiju-ir^rf irr."*r
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ByMarkTwwnMy to CROW only the land on which CROW CROW was homeless and virtually non- buildings will stand. Under such an ar- existent for the next year until a board ByDooWUtelM«d before the commissioners on Wednesday Just when it appeared that GROW (Care rangement a special amendment to the member offered her Captiva home as morning aad had expressed appreciation to and Rehabilitation of Wildlife) was dose to city's land^use pibm rwouldibe required to temporary headquarters. CROW is still Lee County Commissioner D9ug Taylor thetcotnmissioners for prompt action last ending its six year struggle to secure obtain a development permit. operating from those temporary quarters. "I feel like this suggested atthe eomminioiiers* Wednes- ^ week in scotching a move to change toll permanent quarters, a major problem has Other suggestions call for the IWA to Several offers of land were made by the Christmas trees for sale day meeting that the three dollar toll on the policy by accepting detached tickets. The developed that is sure "to prolong the co-sponsor a development permit to build Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation Sanibel Causeway should be lifted on commissioners did not, at that time, search. • •-•:,:',,, •..'.-,-.' ..••'•.... .--Y;.., :'•-•: ..... the CROW facilities, and a proposal that the and Manner Properties but none of the is all a bad The third annual Christmas Tree Sale, weekends in order to give county residents mention-'the anonymous letter to Mrs. The Island Water Association (IWA) has city simply include the leased land when offers proved acceptable, for various conducted by the Sanibel-Captiva Lions easier access to the island's public beaches. Butler, but Rodda; explained that the letter withdrawn its offer to lease to CROW 14 considering IWA expansion plans. ~ •• reasons. _ . Club, will begin on Saturday, December 9 Taylor said that such a move had been had arrived after Mrs. Butler's statement to acres of undeveloped land located' on the 28 "We are pretty.••; well |n agreement, Then, earlier this year the IWA made the and will last until Christmas Eve. This recommended in an anonymous letter to the the commissioners. acre site of the IWA's hew storage tanks although we are not in actual agreement,'1 offer to lease land to CROW. The only catch re-run year all the trees, which are expected to commissioners that had objected to the tolls Mrs. Butler, informed of the commission and reverse osmosis treatment plant. Winterrowd commented Wednesday after- was that CROW would have to overcome and proposed that they be -removed on discussion late Wednesday evening,, said CROW had already drawn up building noon. "I think it wiU work out alright." city building restrictions in the wetlands- arrive from Northern Michigan on Decem- weekends. that she thought such a move would be plans for its-headquarters and was close to Ms. Cherbonnier would say only that lowlands area in order to construct a ber 8, will be white spruce and will range According to Commissioner Harry Rodda "disastrous," saying that the added traffic filing for a development permit. This CROW directors are attempting to "work planned two story piling structure with — in size from four feet to twelve feet. (District Two), he also received the letter, would put an "unbearable burden on island summer the organization initiated a out ait arrangement that is comfortable for office space, a wildlife clinic, and living Adelaide According to activity chairman Roy Davis, but had not-read it prior to it being raised on roads and other services." $100,000 fund drive to build permanent IWA and for us to livie with." quarters for two CROW employees. Archi- this type of tree was chosen exclusively Wednesday. _ After Commissioner Taylor introduced quarters and establish a two year operating "I feel like this is all a bad re-run," she tect George Tuttle had designed the head- this year because for the past two years ' Councilman Zee Butler has appeared the subject at Wednesday's session, County budget. . added. quarters to use solar heating, recirculate Cherbonnier Attorney Jim Yaeger and former County CROW functions as an animal rescue and From th.e time it was established in 1972 treated wastewater, and collect rainwater white spruce were uniformly full and Attorney Jim Humphrey, who was in the beautifully shaped. The sale will be recovery clinic, caring for and treating sick CROW has suffered housing problems. It in a cistern. Island weather audience at the time, warned the commis- and injured wildlife and, if possible releas- began with a compound at a private conducted across from Bailey's General sioners that the proposal to waive the tolls ing them back into the wild. residence in the Rocks subdivision on In August the Sanibel Planning Commis- Store from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m seven on weekends would be in conflict with the According to IWA President Joe Winter- Sanibel, but was forced to move when sion agreed that a CROW headquarters is a days a week. All of the net proceeds from This report is based on records kept by the county's bonding resolution on the proposed Sanibel-Captiva Chamber of Commerce on rowd, the Association's Board of Directors neighbors complained of the smell and noise permitted use in wetlands-lowlands, and the sale will help support Lions Club $18 million refinancing of the causeway. The decided to withdraw the land lease offer from the-sick and injured animals the that CROW should be allowed to build its charitable activities. Causeway Road. ' issue of validation of this bonding resolution after it was learned the lease might organization specializes in caring for. new facilities on the IWA site. is now before the state's Supreme Court. jeopardize future expansion of the water High Low Rain The commissioners took no action but treatment plant and storage tank facilities. Thursday, November 30 84 74 0 commissioner Taylor commented that if the In a November 17 letter to GROW Earlier mail delivery Friday, December 1 82 70 Vz" bond issue is not validated he would pursue President Adelaide Cherbonnier, Winter- Saturday, December 2 80 68 0 the proposal further. / rowd said that leasing the 14 acres could put Commissioner Rodda said yesterday that a future IWA board- "in an indefensible Residents who live east of Tarpon Bay Sunday, December 3 No reading taken "quite, apart from 'the bond validation position" should it want to expand on the Proposed sightseeing tours would serve islands Road on Sanibel should be receiving their Monday, December 4 83 70 0 aspect, I would oppose such a change in the site. ' • ._ . • "•'••::•• •, -'' '- mail one to two hours earlier, according to Tuesday, December 5 84 74 0 toll structure in any case." The IWA is currently constructing two By Susie Holly 867 between Captiva and Fort Myers and all talking to Mariner Properties, Inc. and Sanibel Postmaster Paul Adams. A new Wednesday, December 6 82 76 0 Mayor Duane White said yesterday that five million gallon water storage tanks and points in between" and running to Disney some other area resort owners. "If a tourist delivery route has been added to the east in his view "the consequences of such an is planning to build a reverse ^osmosis A proposal to run sightseeing tours from World and Sea World, Sarasota, Busch staying there wants to go somewhere away end, speeding up mail delivery in that action by the commissioners may not have treatment plant on the acreage, located Sanibel and Captiva to other points of Gardens, and aU airports within 150 miles. from Sanibel, the only way to do it is hire a been adequately considered before it was west of Rabbit Road on the south side of interest in Florida ran into some opposition Objections to the application could result cab or rent a car. Otherwise, they have to area, said Adams. He also reminded raised in the meeting." from; the Sanibel City Council Tuesday. stay there and go to the beach," he pointed residents to help promote better mail Sanibel-Captiva Road. in a public hearing before the PSC. "Such an action could affect the bond Development restrictions in the wetlands Saying they did not know enough about the C. Don Lindo, president of Lindo's Tours, out. "What happens when the weather is service during the holidays by using ZIP validation," said Mayor White. "Additional- -lowlands, which comprise much of the IWA project and its possible impact on the island, said this week he thought council did not bad?" codes, including a return address and ly, I would think that any change in revenue tract, limit development to about three of council members voted to file an objection understand what his operation actually "An area developing as fast as Sanibel using the proper postage on cards and Babies for Christmas producing facilities in the county should be the 28 acres. But a relaxation in the with the state Public Service Commission would entail. "I am not proposing to bring and Captiva needs an economical sightsee- letters. given careful consideration, particularly at' restrictions could enable" IWA to utilize people onto Sanibel and Captiva. I would be ing tour service," Lindo said. Christmas is 4or kids, they say, and the Island Reporter a time when funds are needed so desperate- . more of the land. IWA officials fear that providing a service for people already The tours would run about twice a week has made a tradition of featuring children in our Christmas ly for roads and other community services." i leasing 14 acres to CROW would negate any The PSC must approve or deny the staying there," he said. and the tour buses would be small, carrying edition. Every Christmas we publish stories and photo- "White added that he would like to see possibility of using more of the tract for project, proposed by Hondo's Tours USA, The service would not include sightseeing from 15-25 passengers, he explained. The Kelleher pleads guilty graphs of the islands' newest residents --children who-were consideration given to a more formal under- expansion of the IWA facilities. Inc., a* Clearwater Beach-based operation-. tours of the islands themselves, he added. operation would work out of one of the born djiring the year. If you have a child who was born standing between the county and the City of CROW's Board of Directors met Wednes- The company has applied to the PSC to Lindo said he discovered there was a need hotels on the island or establish its own Thomas P. Kelleher, former Sanibel during 1978, or you know of someone who has, please Sanibel that there would be consultation day to discuss the setback. According to conduct tours originating on "State Road for a tour bus service on the islands after small office, according to Lindo. , resident and businessman, has pleaded contact the Island Reporter at P.O. 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Those applica- work out the specifics of the point system. allocating development permits under the year. Up to 90 permits could be allocated tions receiving the highest number of points • The planning commission will be would hot accept a reappointment to the city's new rate of growth law is scheduled during the first quarter, and up to half the will be granted a permit. Those that do not responsible for assigning points to each for its first public hearing at 9:00 a.m. remaining allotments could be approved in get a sufficient number of points will be application. Each commissioner individually ,-. • Council members made six nominations. Thursday, December 14. City council re- each of the next two quarters. In the final considered again during the next quarter, will rate each project then turn in their, Bailey nominated Clark Neweombe, at the quarter of the year, the city could allocate and given bonus points for the delay. signed rating forms at a public meeting ; viewed a rough draft of that allocation suggestion of McMurtry. Butler nominated system Monday during its third workshop whatever is left along with a 15 per cent • In a tentative rating system, council when the results •• wQl be compiled. The Vv Warren Hyde; Goss nominated Peter Smith. Joe Searing- [left] and Don Man- overage allowance. In other words, if 90 commission will have 20 days to complete Chester topped Jour other candi- session on the subject fa a week's^ time. agreed to give 10 points to multi-family and Manchester: LeBuff nominated Carl Councilman Porter Goss, provided pi draft permits were allocated during the first projects, 60 to single-family homes, 30 for the task. Wagner; and White nominated Searing. date* in city council appointments to quarter, half of that, or 45 could be allocated • Applicants then will have a 10-day planningcommission. proposal for the workshop- outlining' a low-cost housing, 10 for outperforming the Goss also nominated Louise Johnson, but method for receiving, reviewing, evaluating in the second quarter. Then, half of 45, or 28 land use plan, 10 for environmental location, appeal period to take any objections they her name was later withdrawn because of and granting development permits for 180 could be given our during the third quarter, 10 for location in relation to public services, might have to council. ' her lack of availability during the summer dwelling units each year as prescribed by leaving 42 permits plus the 15 per cent 10 for design features, 5 for public welfare • Each housing type - single-family and months. "We need year-round help," Bailey the growth law. Using Goss' proposal as a overage for the final quarter. ' and amenjtites, 5 for phasing a project over multi-family - will have a reserve allotment pointed out. starting point, council made some tentative • If fewer applications are made than are time, and 2 for a carryover bonus from to ensure that each has a chance of receiving Manchester was reappointed to his seat decisions and directed City Attorney Neal available during any quarter, the rate of quarter to quarter. A task force of Planning a permit. Multi-family housing will have a on the fourth ballot. A fifth ballot was Bowen to incorporate them into ordinance growth allocation system will not be put Director Bruce Rogers, Planning Commis- reserve of 45 dwelling units, and single- necessary to break a tie between Smith and form. • into effect. * , sioner Don- Manchester, Mayor Duane family will have a reserve of 100. In other Searing. Searing won with a 3-2 majority. words, if permits are granted for all 180 Manchester, an island realtor, joined the dwelling units, at least 45 must be multi- commission last April to replace Don family and 100 must be single-family ~ if Marshall whoresigned before his term was applications were received for that many up. Manchester has lived on Sanibel since Gault group to counter one-party politics units of each type. 1973 when he moved here from Cincinnati Vice Mayor Francis Bailey [right] ByMarkTwombry to her. "I had to go it alone," said Gault. "I point of view, Gault feels it will appeal more • Applications will be dated and numbered where he was director of international sales congratulates new Mayor Duane didn't have aiiy help." to working people than the retirees he says upon receipt by the planning department for the Baldwin Piano Company. He also has White. Defeated city council candidate Joe Gault It was COTFs participation in the make up the bulk of COTTs membership. and permits will be issued in the same worked for the Chicago Musical Instrument "I think COTI consists mainly of retired order, provided they have the sufficient Company and Wurntzer. He holds a degree has called for the establishment of a new campaign that prompted Gault's call for an political organization to counter, what he opposition organization. He cite's the COTI people who have no time to get involved in number of points. in dvfl engineering from the University of city government. My side consists of • Council will annually review the Michigan. - - calls a "one party system on Sanibel." board's endorsement of Klein and then But- Gault, who was the top vote getter ler without consulting its membership, and working people who don't have as much allocation system to "determine if the Searing moved to Sanibel in 1975. Prior November 7 in a three way city council seat the organization's financial investment in time to put into organizing or going to community needs the purposes of -(the rate to that move he handled customer accounts race but lost to incumbent councilman Zee campaign ads supporting the candidates as council meetings." of growth) ordinance are being met." and services for the Associated Dry Goods Bulter in a rim'off election November 21, examples of COTTs "unfair" advantage. He feels the rival organization should • In the event of natural disasters or Corporation. A native New Yorker, Searing said his campaign experience led to his meet regularly to inform members about other crises, council will have the power to received a bachelor's degree in psychology "The city council election is supposed to proposal. be bipartisan," he said. "But they've turned local problems and formulate positions to suspend or change the rate of growth from Dartmouth and has had additional, recommend to city officials. Gault does not' allocation process. training in real estate law and financial it into a party system. They've made it a Among the three candidates who sought one party island." rule out endorsing candidates who would Council has until January 19 to implement analysis. the council seat in the Novembr 7 election, support the organization's positions. the rate of growth law passed in the refer- While on Sanibel, Searing has served on Gault was viewed as the independent Gault said he has in mind an organization "It would be geared to supporting the endum election November 21. As proposed the executive committee of the Shell. Fair, candidate. Ms. Butler had the inherent that would serve as an alternative to the things that the minority, a big minority, in the draft allocation system ordinance the board of directors for the Rocks Civic advantage of the incumbent, while Mike Committee of the Islands. "If you're going wants. It would be a coalition of people who discussed Monday, the first set of permits Association and the board of the Sanibel- Klein had the official support of the Board of. to have a party system let's have more than see things a little differently than does city under the new law will be issued in early Captiva Lions Club. He works part-time at Directors of the Committee of the Islands, a one party," he said. "I like to think of it as a hall . . .people who would like to have a March. the West Wind Inn. 1000 member political organization. balancing factor. Right now it's all one voice and dont now.**/ A council workshop was scheduled for Asked about his appointment this week, Ms. Butler edged Klein by four -votes to sided:" Several people already have expressed 9:00 this morning with Sanibel special Searing replied that he was "aware that it is earn a spot in the run off, and the COTI Although he says the organization won't interest in forming such an organization, counsel Fred Bosselman to discuss some of not all fun and games. It is serious business directors promptly switched their support represent a particular group or political said Gault. . '.... the legal concerns of the growth ordinance. andl intend to treat it that way." LAST CHANCE TO WE'RE READY... A CHRISTMAS PRESENT YOU CAN OPEN AND For Christmas ENJOY 52 WEEKS A YEAR The thrill of fi nd ing something under the tree is the excitement of what's inside. You're not supposed to know. 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I U.S. 41,3 mi. south of airport 4S2-1M3 This is a ; •'•''" new subscription _^ - renewal. Hours: 9-5 Won.-Sat. 1 -5 Sun. Island Reporter December 8,1978 A7 A6 December 8> 1978 Island Reporter amveson 16 for the record It's Santa Claus season again, fruit to children*, December 23. The gifts should be By Susie Holly and the heavy weight harbinger of He wall reappear Friday, De- wrapped and tagged and placed in years, the city has not enforced the no parking happiness has announced his cember 22 at the Children's Center a brown paper bag. The outside of regulations along that road because of the lack of schedule of island visits. of the Islands at 10:00 a.m. to adequate parking space for the popular county-owned the bag should clearly show the public beach. The. city and county have jointly Santa will make his first appear- distribute gifts and meet the name of the family and include County backs purchases constructed a 50-vebicle parking lot just off the road ance Saturday, December 16 at children. specific directions to the house, Make reservations here for BIRD TOURS conducted by : and plan to enlarge that area to take care of 150 the annual community Christmas As a prelude to his big tour written in black ink. Griffing Bancroft. Knowledgeable Ornithologist and Author Responding to a request from the city of Sanibel - vehicles. The parking lot was part of a court order in a tree lighting.; Every year the tall Christmas Eve, Santa has again Santa will have many stops to of Snowy, the Story of an Egret. The White Cardinal and presented to the codimissioners by Councflman Zee lawsuit filed against Lee County and Sanibel by the Vanishing Wings. make, so please be ready with a Bulter on Wednesday, the Lee County Commissioners owners of some surrounding property. City Manager spruce tree growing across from promised this year to mate a agreed to endorse the city's purchase of the Brown William Nungester said if the education program does the Sanibel Community House is special visit to island homes on camera if you want to photograph' and Causeway properties, approved by Sanibel voters not work, the, city's next approach will be to enforce set aglow with multi-colored Saturday, December 23. him. Sellers in an election on November 21. The county endorse-, the no parking regulation, possibly entailing the lights. The lighting ceremony is a Starting at about 5:30 p.m. If your gift is large, please call ment, required in the application for a city loan from creation of a tow-away zone. community event, with caroling Santa will deliver gifts parents the fire hall or a member of the New York Times Book Review the Farmers .Home Administration, was given Kiwanis Club to make arrange- unanimously, subject to approval of the language by amja visit by Santa Claus. have left for their children at the t f dli S_„„_' ii . on order ^ in stock the County Attorney. Parhs board to form This year people will begin fire hall on Palm Ridge Road. If ments for delivery. Santa's visits gathering at the tree at dusk to you would like Santa to personally are sponsored by the Kiwanis Club Carps action protest At the suggestion of the planning commission, city sing carols. Santa is scheduled to deliver a gift to your child or each year, and the dub has offered FICTION council agreed this week to form a parks and arrive via fire truck at about 6:00 children, leave the gift or gifts at to arrange a visit by Santa to any recreation board to manage the Brown property. The The Sanibel City Council this week protested recent p.m. to pass out gifts of candy and the fire hall before noon of- group. 1 WAB AND REMEMBRANCE, by Herman Wouk. city is in the process of acquiring that property which action by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in issuing (Little. Brown, $15.) The Henry family of "The is to be made into a low intensity use public park. Winds of War" during World War II. a cease and desist order to local builder William Frey f. , • Council will appoint that board soon after the first of tV^ Florist of Sanibel 2 CHESAPEAKE, by James A. Michener. (Ran- involving the construction of two homes in Gulf Fines dom House, $12.95.) Four centuries of Maryland's subdivision. The Corps contends that Frey has put the year. . Com*amm our b*autrful Eastern Shore. - piece* NEW €O]>roOMINnJM OFFERING at KING'S CROWN 3 FOOLS DIE, by Mario Puro. (Putnam's, $12.50.) illegal fill material in the subdivision which is located Hollywood tycoons and literary celebrities gam- in a wetlands area. The city, however, has issued Frey Holiday CW^IM- blewithfate. Tr— all the necessary city permits for the construction. "I Christmos dscorotlons Treat yourself to an outstanding Gulf-view and beautiful Sanibel 4 THE FAR PAVILIONS, by M.M.Kaye. (St. Mar- tin's, $12.95.) Love and war in the high Hima- • deplore the way the Corps has gone about.it to bring now on display i sunsets while inside this lovely condominium home. Pool and Tennis layas. this to everybody's attention," Councilman Zee Butler iurs: Mon. triro Sal. 8:30-5:00 i said. She pointed out that the city has always worked v on site for your enjoyment. 5 EVERGREEN, by Belva Plain. (Delacorte. $10.) Located in the new Landlubber Plazo i - Jewish immigrant.woman's rise from Lower very cooperatively with the Corps in the past and that . 1619 Periwinkle Way #103 472-3125 East Side poverty. a recent change in Corps leadership may be the cause CITYOFSANIUL 6 THE EMPTY COPPER SEA, by John D. Mac- PLANNING COMMISSION also located in Ft. Myers 481-4333 • Donald. (Uppincott. $8.95.) Travis McGee on the of the current misunderstanding. MACKENZIE HALL trail of a.vanlshed tycoon. 224S Palm Rlda* Rood 7 PRELUDE TO TERROR, by Helen Machines. D«c*mber11,1978 (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 910.) An art con- Butler on SWFRPC sultant in the midst of an international conspira- cy. 9t00 a.m. Approval of the Minutes of the regular meeting of City council has appointed Councilman Zee Butler to November 27, 1978. ft THE SILMARIIXION, by J. R. R. Tolkien. w (Houghton Mifflin, $10.95:) Middle Earth in pre- serve as the Sanibel representative for the coming 9*05 ajm. Consideration of a General Amendment to the HobbTtdays. year on the Southwest Florida Regional Planning Comprehensive Land Use Plan, Sections 3.1.5: DEVELOPMENT, 3.1.23: RESORT HOUSING, and 3.3: GENERAL REQUIREMENTS, so as 9 BRIGHT FLOWS THE RIVER, by Taylor Cald- Cpuncfl. The municipal representative position rotates well. (Doubleday, $10.95.) The angsts of a man among the cities within the jurisdiction of the Council. to provide for time-sharing units and units of high impact; providing confined to a sanitarium. a recreational open-space requirement for developments contain- Councilman Porter Goss was Sambel's representative ing units of high impact; and providing requirements for the WIFEY, by Judy Blume. (Putnam's, $8.95.) A three years ago. conversion of existing dwelling units to time-sharing units. No. woman's search for emotional identity. ILLUSIONS, by Richard Bach. (Delacorte/ 78-128 G.A. (CONTINUED FROM 9-29-78 and 10-9-78.) Eleanor Friede, $6.95.) Messiah barnstorms Mid- 9 9r20a.ni. Consideration of the effects of a proposed U.S. Fish and dle America. Wo parking education Wildlife easement on the present use of properties at Woodring ^ 12 THURSDAY THE RABBI WALKED OUT, by Point (lying south of Woodring Road). ' • • • < " Harry Kemelman. (Morrow, $8.95.) David Small Report from pjrector^of Planning. uses Jewish wit and wisdom to solve another vio- The City of Sanibel has begun an "educational Report from Planning Commission members. True island living! lent crime. . - program" to make beachgoers aware that parking is Report from Planning Commission Chairman.' iS 13 EYE OF THE NEEDLE, by Ken Follett. (Arbor prohibited along Bowman's Beach Road. Over the ADJOURNMENT. House, $8.95.) Nazi spy vs. British professor in a Pine Island Village World War II thriller. Free yourself from the crowded kitchen syndrome! This full home- M*n Ladles Villa Cluster Homes C iS 14 SECOND GENERATION, by Howard Fast. SEE THE ISLAND ON A BIKE sized kitchen is only one significant feature of this fine property. ^ (Houghton Mifflin. $9.95.) The children of "The Our 45th year In bicycle* Immigrants" on the eve of World War II. 2 Bed. / 2 Bath /Pool NON-FICTION Formulated $45,OOO THE BIKE BARN DOC'S FOUNTAIN f MOMMJE DEAREST, by Christina Crawford. Styling 4 Barbur Shop Reservations now being taken a (Morrow. $0.95.) Ufe with Joan Crawford. Sales - Service Rentals for our 9 unit Village Home 2 A DISTANT MIRROR, by Barbara W. Tuchman. CONTEMPORARY HAIR STYLING (Knopf, $15^5.) The calamitous 14th century. day — week — month DOC RICHARDS, Owner Cluster. Send for brochure. 3 AMERICAN CAESAR, by William Manchester. LOWEST RATES ON THE ISLAND Kingston Square ** (Uttle, Brown. $15) The life of Douglas MacAr- McGregor Boulevard For Appointment Call Exclusive Broker: thur. ' Periwinkle Way & Main Street ft. 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Cypr«« Squar*. 6535 McGr*oor Blvd., Ft My»r«, 481-1469 v A Few Steps Toward the Beach. Phone 472-3318 : 472-1447 Open usie Hofly process into law. . Councilman Francis Bailey said he governor, to -consider, a Jaw which will- Recently, some questions have arisen thought the employment of a permanent provide^relief to the taxpayers who are An ordinance authorizing the issuance of concerning the role, of the vegetation "innocent victims of circumstance." The Sanibel-Captiva Kiwanis Club plans .Tarpon Bay access to work its way south, vegetation inspector would be a good idea. vegetation permits and requiring a vegeta- committee in the process. City Manager Mayor Duane White told council Tues^ to do some outdoor house-keeping this and another will start from Ponax and head . Mayor Duane White suggested that a tion inspection of development sites by a William Nungester had said that the system sentence be added to the vegetation day, however, that after talking to State weekend. ; •••'. :; '; •.: /. ' • "•'-; :•''•"•}•• to the Lighthouse. The City of Sanibel has member of the city's vegetation committee' was not working efficiently because the ordinance providing for official identifica- Representative Frank Mann, he believes, The dub has scheduled another of its given permission torsome vehicles to drive received a first reading from the Sanibel volunteer members of the committee were tion- badges for vegetation committee ^the chances of the legislature passing such a beach clean ups for Sunday December 10 to on the beach Sunday to collect litter. City Council Tuesday. ^ hot always available to make inspections members. Council voted to make White's law are very slim. _ .. pick up six months worth of litter left on the The garbage collected in the beach clean, and because their inspection methods suggestion a matter of policy rather than beach from the Tarpon Bay access to the which is held about every six months, The ordinance evolved from a recJommen- Also on Tuesday council approved a were not uniform. - . -• including it in the ordinance. . Lighthouse. ! usually fiHs a large dumpster and more. dation by the planning commission to amend request by Sanibel Disposal, Inc. for A the land use plan to include the requirement Nungester has suggested that a city commercial rate increase. Sanibel Disposal' Club members and volunteers are asked At the conclusion of the dean up a picnic A second reading of the ordinance was set of a vegetation inspection and permit. vegetation inspector be hired to take over president Joseph Hamstra requested an to gather at the end of Ponax Street near and cook out will be held at Sanibet Beach for January 2. Council decided an ordinance would be a that inspection function of the committee, s increase from $2.50 to $3 per yard per the Pelican's Roost condominium at 1:00 ClubH near the Lighthouse. The Kiwanians In other business Tuesday, council agreed better way of reaching the same goal. , Vegetation committee members objected pick-up for commercial containers; $3.50 to p.m. Sunday. Clean up crews will be have been challenged to a Nerf football to send a letter to Governor Reubin Askew to that proposal and now are working out a $4 per can for curb pick-up of can contain- organized and trash bags distributed. game at the picnic, and other activities are The purpose of the ordinance is to clarify concurring with a request by the Lee the vegetation committee's inspection func- uniform inspection system and are seeking County Commission to grant relief for Lee ers; $4.50 to $5 per can for backyard pick-up One group will be dispatched to the .planned: ./;'. ,: ,: .-'.••;"•' • • : • tion and to legitimize current city require- new members so that a member will always County taxpayers. - of can containers; and $4 per yard for ments for a vegetation permit. . ' , be available to make an inspection when Because of a delay by the Lee County construction material to be picked up on The city's policy now is to -have a 'needed.; •:• " :.'' ' '• '•" ' ' '•."'. • '• • '"'.:' property appraiser in submitting the county request. Women Voteii vegetation committee member conduct an ... Nungester told council Tuesday that if tax rolls, county taxpayers are unable to Hamstra was granted a residential rate inspection of a construction site and make these problems can be worked out, he pay their property taxes before December ' increase last April and a commercial rate The chairperson of the National Govern- meeting will be held at the Brown Derby recommendations about what vegetation believes the vegetation committee can 31. The Internal Revenue Service does not increase last November, the first in six ment Committee of the State Board of the Restaurant on College Parkway in Fort should be saved, removed or replaced. The continue performing the inspections. He allow deductions on federal income tax years. . . Florida League of Women Voters will speak Myers. ••••'.•• .' ' • '•'.'' city then issues a vegetation permit to the said, however, he intends to 'pursue the returns unless the property tax is paid Council commended Hamstra's company to the Lee County League of WomenVoters The session will begin with a social hour builder. A city inspector is to see that the employment of a city inspector to do before the end of the year. and agreed that his service was one of the Tuesday, December 12. at 11:30 a.m. followed by lunch. The cost is recommendations are followed. •;•' follow-up inspections and enforce the vege- Sanibel, along with the county, has least expensive on the island. They granted Ms. Ruth Ann Bramson, a past president $3.75. For reservations call Sue Johnson at The proposed ordinance would make that tation requirements. requested the legislature, through the his request unanimously. of the Hillsborough County League, will 4722279 or Mardi Carter at'481-3748. speak on "What's in it for Me" following a Carpools will leave the San-Cap Chamber of film titled "What's in Us for You." The Commerce at 10:45 aim. ' to the World's Largest Hotei You^n't beat it! ESIs Sanibel Island. Choose from 300 condominium and private The best 4 room furniture home rentals on Sanibei Island priced from S 150 to ' ^400 per week . . . for up to 6 people. 5 ' . ' - BySasteHoDy the map "or the text was the controlling guide.. JWA confidentof' meetii^ winter season tAxxter dernmid The Sanibel City Council Tuesday eve- Rogers said he especially was worried ning voted to continue public hearings on about possible conflicts between the new February, said Watson. The second tank is two general amendments — both of which eco-zones maps and the existing permitted By Mark Twombly Early last summer the Association was By then the IWA had convinced SFWMD expected to be in operation shortly after will mean major revisions to the'compre- uses maps. In some cases the .permitted dealt a major blow. A study of the Lower •to approve the increased withdrawals. The that. hensive land use plan. ;, ' uses maps could allow a certain type of use For the first time in several years Island Hawthorn aquifer, the source of untreated Association also had received a vote of The two tanks will bring the total storage Council first reviewed an amendment for a piece of property in a zone for which Water Association (IWA) officials are not water for the islands, concluded that the confidence from its membership to proceed capacity of the Association to over 16 which would adopt a remapping and refine- that use would not be permitted. wearing worried looks when they discuss IWA could rely on the aquifer for another with the expansion program, as well as a million gallons. ment of the island's ecological zones; The Mayor Duane White asked council to the skyrocketing demand for water that five to eight years before the supply; would new rate schedule that raised customers' Amendment The IWA has added another layer of new zone designations could lead to changes continue the hearing. "Too many questions accompanies the annual crush of winter become too brackish to treat- in the bills $4 during eight months of the year, but padding to the islands' potableWter supply in density, minimum lot sizes, permitted have been raised tonight," he said. Council season residents and tourists. electrodialysis plant. doubled them from February through May. by signing a contract to purchaseVie billion uses and other performance standards now voted unanimously to delay the hearing Increased storage capactiy and a new With the specter of a major .water supply The higher rates coupled with publicity gallons of potable water from the Greater set forth in the land use plan for each zone. -until January. 2. . awareness of the. need to conserve water, crisis looming, the five man Board of about the Association's problems, led to a Pine Island Water Association over the next Council also voted to continue its hearing prompted in part by a rate schedule that Directors of the IWA voted to undertake a drop in per unit consumption last season, Several unresolved questions' raised ten years. The water is transported through on an amendment which.would adopt the doubles customers bills in the winter, multi-million dollar expansion program that according to Ian Watson, chief engineer, for Tuesday about the possible ramifications of an underwater pipe that crosses the bottom federal regulatory flood elevations,, saying should provide the cushion needed to get called for construction of two new five IWA. In hearings before the Lee County A Choice Offering Of the new eco-zones caused council to hold off of Pine Island Sound. j. continued its approval of the amendment until the that the elevations still .required consider- through the winter season without experi- million gallon storage tanks and a new- Commission last year the IWA predicted a encing a water shortage, according to the The Association has completed a six Sanibel and Captiva Real Estate questions could be investigated further. able work and should be put off until after reverse osmosis treatment plant capable of 10 million gallon shortage of potable water the administration of the rate of growth law IWA. treating the poorer quality water the for the winter season, but the drop in months maintenance program on the Though the new eco-zone designations is worked out. Association officials are so confident of aquifer was expected to yeild. consumption enabled the IWA to make it ' electrodialysis plant that has improved the are more accurate and detailed than those Under federal law, the city must adopt meeting the expected demand for potable But the IWA was blocked in its efforts by through the season without experiencing plant's efficiency, according to IWA Presi- BEACHFRONT LIVING: Welcome to beachfront living water that they have adopted'"a new the South Florida Water Management the shortage. dent Joe Winterrowd. . on Sanibel Island! This comfortably furnished two now in the land use plan, Planning Director the flood elevations and regulations by bedroom, two bath, residence opens onto a large Bruce Rogers pointed out to council that April 14 to be eligible for federal flood "relaxed", schedule for replacing an aging District (SFWMD), a state regulatory Despite the addition of more than 600 screened porch overlooking the Gulf of Mexico. some inaccuracies still exist due to human insurance. The elevations dictate the height electrodialysis water treatment plant with a agency. Because of the concern over the units to the system since the moratorium The growth control ordinance approved Excellent tennis facilities, clubhouse, swimming pool, error and the method of mapping used. to .which a building must be constructed to technologically advanced reverse * osmosis aquifer SFWMD was reluctant to approve was lifted, the IWA does not anticipate any by Sanibel voters in November should help and a superb shelling beach provide a variety of Council members said they were concerned receive the insurance. The elevations on (RO) treatment plant. The original schedule the IWA's request to increase its annual shortages in the coming season. "Provided ease the burden on the Association, recreation activities. Your island lifestyle will be right about how those inaccuracies should be called for the plant to be in operation by" withdrawal from the Lower Hawthorn, all aspects of the system remain okay, we according to IWA General Manager Ralph at home at Sanibel Arms West, for $96,500. Sanibel range from 10 to 13 feet. dealt with in the event they raised a Councilman Goss suggested that a task February, 1979. Under the new timetable, despite arguments that IWA was operating won't have a problem," said Watson. Zeiss. The ordinance limits new develop- conflict. • force of city staff and knowledgeable the RO plant won't be supplying treated at peak capacity during the season and more Since last winter the IWA has put into ment on Sanibel to 180 dwelling units CounciTalso was concerned about possible citizens be appointed to look into some of water until the 1981season. water was needed to serve new develop- operation a new two million gallon storage annually. "It will make planning a great deal differences between the actual maps and the problems of the flood insurance ordi- In the past winter residents and visitors ment. ' tank on the Sanibel-Captiva Road near simpler," said Zeiss. "We will be able to the word descriptions accompanying the nance as it is written. City Manager William were greeted with fluctuations in water The mounting problems led the IWA Wulfert Road, increasing the total storage predict accurately what the demand will maps. "There may be room for maneuvera- Nungester said he already had assigned a pressure and warnings of shortages as the directors to declare a moratorium in June, capacity to 6.375 million gallons. The first of be." IWA struggled to keep pace with the 1977- on accepting new customers. Original- the two five million gallon tanks, now under 2'A ACRE ISLAND HOMESITE: An outstanding location bility," Councilman Porter Goss said. Coun- staff member to do the same thing. for a very private home, this large homesite. is cilman Zee Butler said the amendment The hearing was rescheduled for Feb- islands' rapid development and a raw water ly set for a few. weeks, the moratorium construction on the Sanibel-Captiva Road "Upto now we've been playing catch up," situated in a naturally wooded area near school, should include a statement about whether ruary 6. supply and treatment system that had lasted more than 10 months before it was west of Rabbit Road will be filled early next said Watson. "Hopefully, now well be recreation facilities churches, and nature conservan- passed their prime. • , lifted in April, 1978. , -year and should be in use sometime in ahead of the game - or at least even." cies. Encompassing 2V» acres on Sanibef Island, with paved road frontage, this exciting property- is now available to you for $50,000. The Island's Complete Ladies Shop SHELL , Sportswear, Baachwear, Lingerie. 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Fords; per day MINOLTA. AND OTHERS '• . . ' Sanibel Island (813) 472-5187 WEEKLY RATES Captiva Island (813) 472-2523 PHONE INFORMATION P.O. Box 168. Sanibel Island. Florida 33957 ou.no.ic. PICK-UP AND RETURN {CENTER - or SERVICE AVAILABLE information on any photo 936-4166 or visual aids . require- S^NfBEL SEAVIEW ASK FOR JUDY HARMON ments. V MAIN STORE MANCH LOCATIONS 737 East Gulf Drive Sanibel. Florida. 33957 FORT MYERS PHOTO SUPPLY EDISON MALL •36-4643 mBEAITOP' SANIBEL CAPE CORAL 942.3013 SEAVJEW 1 26 Crystai Drive 3134 Cleveland Ave. ' Knudseri Realty, Inc. REALTOR Next to Bornett Bonk FT. MYERS BEACH 4*3-334© exclusive sales dgertt 472-3737 d McDonald's on U.S. 4 1 • > Fort Myers PLUS STORES IN Ft. Myers Fie. 33907 • ' --. *3e-41*« - NAPLES AND PORT CHARLOTTE Island Reporter December 8,1978 A13 A12 December 8,1978 Island Reporter . \ • • • • ' • Contest addict bags car, trip from Lipton City faces CETA funding cutbach 4I like Lipton tea. • from I'A: .., ;;•;-'• • :•'•'"•••.-. V '•';.. slightly better chance than most of Meanwhile, the. Hodoskos have By Susie Holly that three of those positions can be administrative assistant in the CETA winning the contest. John enjoys decided to take the Bahamian absorbed into the city's regular budget. program, Nungester said. himself. The survey was to be The city manager also pointed out that leafing through his wife's maga- cruise,- and are awaiting a visit Always have. The City of Sanibel may. be able to work The eight CETA workers include four returned to the Lipton Tea Cdnv zines clipping contest coupons, from the Datsun representative to . around the probable 50 per cent cutback in police dispatchers, two public works depart- the city's recent proposal for a vegetation pany in New York City. the Comprehensive Employment and Train- ment employees, and administrative assis- inspector under the CETA program was solving contest puzzles and com- pick lip their car. They also are tant to the city manager, and a mail clerk. .probably "washed up" as a result of the Two weeks later he received a posing contest jingles. He entered prepared to pay several thousand ?..:••.••-,< ing Act (CETA) program without too much Hot, with sugar hardship. City Manager William Nungester Nungester proposed this week that one of cutback. The proposal had received tenta- telephone call from California that the Lipton contest by simply dollars in income tax on their said this week. the dispatchers, whose work performance tive approval from the Lee County CETA explained the reason for the clipping a coupon and attaching a winnings. "It's a lot," said Mrs. The Lee County CETA program, which was under scrutiny anyway, be let go. He program and was waiting for the funding to questionnaire: Hodosko had been Lipton tea bag label. "I like Lipton Hodosko, "but it's better than and no cream/ administers the federal CETA funds to said the police department could "get by" on come through. , named the Grand Prize winner in a tea," he said, "Always have. Hot, buying a new car." Sanibel, announced on Tuesday that a major three dispatchers. Lipton Tea sweepstakes. reduction in those federal funds has forced One other dispatcher could be moved into Nungester said the inspector position with sugar and no cream." The heavy tax bill hasn't deter- the county program to reduce its number of a vacant police aide position, and one of the could possibly be absorbed into the current John was tpld he had won a hew. Hodosko is a veteran contes- red John from perusing the per- employees by about one-half. County CETA two public works employees could be moved budget. He added that the city's vegetation Datsun Deluxe station wagon and tant. "IVe been doing this for iodicals, according to his wife: "He Director C.E. Thomas told representatives into an unfilled position in that department, committee also is working to improve its a week-long all expense paid years," he explained. "I've won just entered a contest sponsored from agencies employing CETA workers to Nungester explained. A position for the -methods of doing vegetation inspections so vacation for two to either London, televisions, pots and pans — you by a cigarette company. He can expect a loss of funding for half their CETA mail clerk could be written into the budget, that the staff inspector would not be Acapulco, Hawaii, Disney World, name it. But nothing this big. Now win 300 cartons of cigarettes, and employees by the end of this month. but. would need city, council approval, he necessary, to take over the committee's job. Disneyland, or the Bahamas. Nungester believes the inspector nonethe- I'm going, to win a hundred here I am trying to get him to stop For Sanibel, which currently has eight said. • The Hodoskos probably had a thousand dollar home." " CETA employees, that means a loss of four That would leave two dispatchers, one of less would be useful in doing follow-up smoking." positions. Nungester, however, believes the public works employees, and the inspections. STORAGE PROBLEM? COMING EVENTS •There is room lor your excess furniture,'suitcases, fishing tackle, boat engine or what-have-you at- • Sanibel-Captiva POOL OWNERS... MAKE TRITON YOUR PLEASURE CENTER! Lions Club FOR INFORMATION CALL 472-2741 (Weekdays) 2359 Periwinkle Way . ANNOUNCES • Maintenance & repair specialists RENT A STALL OR A LOCKER STARTING AT »5.00 PER MONTH. •Chemicals, Supplies & Equipment Christmas Tree Sale IN TAHFITAN GARDEN • Installersof automatic chemical dispensers • Installers of automatic pool cleaners - new December 9 to 23 or old pools. l V'f/A 'An Ocean Boutique" and now a whole lot more. •Pneauqua " Heat Pump" Pool Heaters -a/so Periwinkle and Tarpon Bay Roads gas, oil and solar units. CONTEMPORARY A complete line of Shells, Corals, Jewelry Great Selection of Sizes and all the findings to do your own J;hing. Visit our showroom for that special Christmas purchase. THIS WEIL'WEMLSS SPECIASPECIALL SHEEL NECKLACES 2 for $1.00 .-.;• — last minute gift idea 3051 HANSON STREET —We'll rnqji your purchas We're a licensed bonded fruit shipper MST FT. MYERS, FLA. 33901 (813) 334-8665 1303 SI «7th Terroc*. tmpm Coral Hours: Monday-Thursday 9-6 1983 Periwinkle Way Sanibel 472-3991 (Across from Big John's parking lot) Friday 9-9. Saturday 9-5 M tUTH/ YOUR EXTRA TOUCH FLORIST MEMBER F.TC 3364 CLEVELAND AVE. Ph. 936.2131 AND GARDEN MALL MVERLEE SQUART LANDLUBBER Ph. 481-2421 >•*' Shopping Center & Professional Offices NOW LEAS NG pbtteryshoppe FLORIDA'S LARGEST SELECTION OF POTTERY TO BRING YOU SHOPNOW FOR CHRISTMAS \O** ' Highest on Sanibel •Specialty, pottery for the Your new telephone director/ Is 'dosing* shortly. person who has everything If you wish to have an additional listing or to . .e Landlubber Restaurant * Enjoy your Christmas Shop- change your present listing, ping at Nancy's ... lots of tourists and residents please call the local United • Exquisite pottery for all At the hub of Ssnibel Telephone business office occasions without delay. ,, Located in the contemporary in the tradition of good taste ... the center of roads and people ObW Landscaping > Facilities Rt. 41 S. 1 mile S. of thayer Goggin •Founders • Dux • Directional Flair • and many more Gladiolus Rd. Ft. Myers Lease your business site Open 7:30-5:30 Mcm.-Sot. now with option to purchase later ' 482-1020 residential business 'INTERIORSI y Knudsen Realty, Inc. Realtor United Telephone Exclusive Agent 472-3737 of Florida 3324 Cleveland Avenue, Fort Myers, Florida, Bryan Mclnnis ASID After Hours Information Earl Fisher 472-3064 UNITED TELEPHONE SYSTEM I .. ._. _ ... -^ , .Island Reporter . December 8,1978 A15 A14 December 8,1978 " Island Reporter resents Enroll for gymnastics A registration session for gymnastics and Alleged construction violations at Blind ports now under construction were not ogram dance classes to be conducted on the islands HARDWARE STORE Pass condominium as of yet have gone included in the original plans and appear to has been set for Saturday, December 9 from unnoticed by Lee County despite several be encroaching on side and front yard 11:00 a.m. to noon at the Sanibel Com- attempts by the City of Sanibel to bring it to setback lines; and the driveway into the The Sanibel-Gaptiva Audubon Society begins its Winter licensed to remove so-called "problem" alligators. munity House. Series program with a presentation bjr Mark "Bird" Westall the county's attention, according to City condominium may be on adjacent property. He is currently offering canoe trips to Buck Key, the Anyone up to 18 years old can register for entitled. The Wetlands of Sanibel.'-The program will be Manager William Nungester. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge, and to the the classes. There is a $15 insurance fee for held at the Sanibel Community House at 8:00 p.m. Construction of the condominium was Nungester originally informed Don Mal- wetlands of the Sanibel River. the classes and each class session will cost Thursday, December 14. i^ ,; : . begun under county building permits prior loy, director of the Division of County ; Due to a number of conditions beyond control, the approximately $2- per hour. A dance class to Sanibel's incorporation. The county, Development, of some of the possible Westall is a director of the Sanibel-Captiva Audubon Audubon Society has had to cancel the proposed trip to the for teenagers is also being planned. For therefore, is responsible for seeing to it that violations last April, and has written the Society and has served as a naturalist fpr the Sanibel- Fakahatchee Strand scheduled for Sunday, December 17. more information attend the registration the project abides by those permits, county several times since then on the same Gaptiva Conservation Foundation where he taught basic Tripping Chairperson, Carolyn Russell, reports that a session. subject. Finally, on November 2, city and ecology to children and maintained the Conservation few spaces remain for the East Coast pelagic bird trip, Nungester explained. Gymnastics classes will begin Saturday. He said he believes that four violations; county representatives discussed the prob- Center's live exhibits. '• .."•. scheduled for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, January 6-8 lem in person, but Nungester said he has Westall holds a degree in Environmental Studies and at Cocoa, Florida. The trip includes a visit to Merritt Island Beginners class will meet from 9-10:00 a.m., exist at the site: the swimming pool was. intermediates from 10-11:00 a.m. and the not heard from the county since that Anthropology from Indiana University. He has an extensive National Wildlife Refuge and an ocean trip to the Gulf constructed although it was not included in advanced class and gymnastics team will meeting. He plans to write another letter background in birding, and is a member of the committee of •Stream looking for pelagic birds. For further information the original plans submitted to the county; meet from 11-noon. the tennis court may lie beyond the requesting some action on the part of the "Operation Osprey." He is one of four people on Sanibel call Virginia Loomis at 472-1288. condominium's property line; several car- '.county. •*."•• '.•;.; "'.'.. •"' • TRAW BIRDING TOURS from the lsland"s volume C*bjd merchant': OPEN GATE COLLECTION Varibut slyl«« of Chain*, chonrn, rings and aarrings RESORT FASHIONS Each priced by waight according to tfyla^ \ .'•' • •'.• ' • ••' " and gold marfcai ; '.;•;. :''•' '•''.. ' " •• Give a Birding Tour Mid-tour Skirts galore - HANDBAGS Quantities for Christmas coffee break ' MoondiHd Discownt Policy /; with coordinating tops straw Limited wicker 14K Gold 5% to 15% based on market Knits - Cottons - Blends fabric Sterling Silver 5% to 10% based on workmanship also carry-all :& binoculars see for year round wear totes and checklist 50-75 Gifts & Ornaments for Christinas furnished ' species Baskets-Furnishings-Wall Decor of birds Mon.-Sat. 10-5 1025 Periwinkle Way 4ft Sanibel Island 2244 Periwinkle Way behind Scotly's, 1223 Periwinkle JEWELRY CO. Next to Sanibel, Florida 33957 ' •'•" 472-2572 Call Baileys General Store Macintosh Bookshop Phone (813) 472-2154 Timothy Patrick Kelly. Prop. 472-1516 for reservations «llMK«mlth, Goldsmith now :. i 1 CLOSED MONDAY (Maybe Tuesday) HQURS; 3,to9:30 PM While Supplies Last Open Stock Value 15.15 it's not THREE STAR 6-Pc. Country Kitchen Set Old-fashioned hand-painted look of Homestead's pioneer blue pattern on homespun beige with modern oven-to-tableTto-refrigerator convenience 1 472-4( of Pyrex"Ware. Includes: 1 /2- and 2!/2-qt. bowls, AVIS IVi-qt. covered rectangular casserole and 21/ -qt. 2 '"» covered round casserole. CO-48 Priscilla Murphy Realty offers, a'complete- listing of real estate on Sanibel and Gaptiva -v Islands. But sometimes, the property you want isn't listed. That's when we begin to search. With our experience, size and reputation, we're interested in finding the Diesel Fuel exact property you're looking for. If helps when you've successfully sold island real estate as long as we have. Since 1950 we've been finding island properties for BAILEY'S people. If it's hot listed, we aim to find it for GENERAL STORE SsSr^e tSSi you. • WESTERN UNION • WINE & COLD BEER • Prtecllla Murphy, Realty. Inc. A COMPLETE BAKERY Sharing our knowledge of the Islands. A Special Christmas Price of $29.99 For free Information about Sanibel and Captiva LOCATED IN THE ISLAND SHOPPING CENTER Write or call: Priscilla Murphy Realty, Inc. Rattan Village is the only stop you need OUT OF TOWN NEWSPAPERS, HELD FOR to make on your way to beautiful Florida living. YOUR RESERVATION WE ARE OPEN PRI'SCI'IICI 52 WEEKS LARGE WINE SELECTION GROCERIES A YEAR TO Realty. Inc. MEAT MARKET SERVE YOU Send for free brochure, or send HAAGEN DAAS - THE FINEST ICE CREAM $2.00 for our'foil color 120 page HARDWARE SINCE 1899 Main Officer ^P.O.Box 57. Periwinkle Way. Sanibel Island. Fla. 3395?:: PRODUCE catalog. Serious inquiries only. Or FILM call collect 813-482-1444. J8J3J472-1511 FISHING DEVELOPING R.R.I 3. Box 685 RV Branch: Causeway Road. Sanibel Island. Fla. 33957 (813) 472-4121 A NICE PLACE TO SHOP TACKLE SERVICE . ; Captiva: Andy Rosse Une. Captiva Island. Fla. 33924 (813) .472-5154 Accomnibdatlotu: 9067 Causeway Road. Sanibel Island. Fta. 33957 EVERY DAY FROM 7 AM to 11 PM DRYGOODS (813)472-4113 '. r ; V; Intersection of Palm Ridge and Tarpon Bay Roads Monday thru Pr Way 9iOO-3 120OOt.Tamkm»ITr.39«W .Stanley E. Johnson Jr.. G.R.I.. President ^ Sheila B. Shell, G.R.I., Vice President Saro«ota: Mon.-Fr^. 9:30-5.6388 S. TamiomlTr. 992-0718 : ; ; Monday-Thursday 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. ••::•••'- y,.. ''^ ••'"•'-•• •'• .-• •••••.•..•.'.-•• and Associates- ' - • - •?;'•.:'•.:•• _ • -y-:-^:'^- 472-5400 ,v\ • A16 c December & 1978 Island Reporter Island Reporter December 8,1978 A17 Magazines. Out- IDLE HOURS of-TownNews- Needlecraft and Hobbies beMckBoolu. . Presents We've traveled to. Cards-Forget the People's Republic Me Not line, Beacit of China to bring Contemporary you rare art objects •J Cards. Wrapping The finest in swimsuits, of jade, ivory, children's carved ond inlaid patio dresses, furniture and wall.' OVER 50 YEARS y hangings all handmade Gum. Import ad Gifts and accessories by Chinese craftsmen. and Domestic Racquets Tobacco Accessories Elizabeth Stewart, and Cigars featuring: • Ladies' and Men's. Residential and Commercial. Copies of the world's ieb Fashions DeWesse Designs, great jewels — Ornaments, Stockings, Tree Interior Designing "Lilfy Pulitzer" Roxan n e, Got tex, There's only one "•/ ^kirts, and Gifts!. 30 Periwinkle Place and Furnishings WITH: Shakeys To Knit, crochet, needlepoint Catalina, Twins, Sanibel Island. Lifetime guarantee on the island. and embroider. Boutique Florida 33957 58 facets Infant to si e 14 All New For 1978 Bobbie Brooks (813) 472-2638 hand set atones 1601 Jackson St. sterling silver mounts TennisShop DOWNTOWN FORT MYERS 8.5 hardness 334-1348 Shells, hand-carved cypress, BONNE BELL No. 1 Periwinkle PI. ceramics, and much, Barbara Boulton Sundries for your Smoking Needs. BEAUTY BAR SANIBEL ISLAND much more. 31 Periwinkle Place. Sanibel, Florida 33957 •No. 4 Periwinkle Ploco 4721327 it looks so real, it's unreal (813)472-1039 472-2993 Mickie RAAC •••"••• Just Arrived New T-Shirts & T-Shirt Decals - Commercial Silkscreening Tiffany Parlor The [Suueat Shop| Gift and Decorator Boutique Beautiful Selection of Placemats and Napkins e> Carolyn Bllsh Seaicape Prints • Kftet and Toys # Exclusive Sanibel Patches • Animal Posters • Party Aprons Super savings now on Special Savings T-shirts! 472-1062 Shdron Kraft Dining and Cookware Royal Doulton Jewelry Kaisar Porcelain Limited The Home of Sanibel's famous A Shopping UniqueAsSanihel, Antique Ivory Figurines Shell Handbags and many more unusual Items for. the lemon pecten cake pan discriminating taste In gift giving "Insured Mailing Service" 472-24:13 on % westo^ causeway. Doreen and Bob Slitor . 472-1783 The ONLY All Men's Shop On The Island Fine Irish Fashion 100% Cotton Cross Creek irish look the sign of Sport Shirts relaxed shopping BtANOS Traditional Knitwear Monday through Saturday SIR Galway Crystal 10x00 aan. ~ 5:00p.m. men's fashions Summer Siesta Hours 10-1 and 4-8 Monday thru Saturday open 10:30 - 5:00 472-2515 TENNIS PLACE Sanibel's GULF PINES island Scandinavian irr»porx.s Meek Denim Emporium. PERIWINKLE PLACE MARINER POINTE SOUTH SEAS PLANTATION ! Corduroy by Sanibel Island's only SANIBEL MOORINGS rPRINTWORKS ! award-winning newspaper Wrangler, H.I.S., Imported Silk Screened DEDICATED TO blstln&ive and Robert Bruce MAINTAINING MBKICHM PAI1OR ;,-•'.'... Fabrics for your Ladies Sportswear N in the many shades THE QUALITY OF OUR Featuring decorating needs Serving Great American Sandwiches of autumn San ibel-Captiva and ISLAND ENVIRONMENT d Pants Suits - Cptton Tops Stretched Sandwich Plattm the islands from Doubl* DattdoM Dinnen or Unstretched • home of fine cheeses ' j andSaUd. , Skirts - Golf Skirts & Tops & gourmet foods Estero Bay W n' •.' tnd a hott of i to the Gasparillas IcaCreatnSpccialtin Slacks, qild Many Island Jewelry, Gifts & • imported & i{ Takf OOutt Service and Children's :doniestic wines Mariner Proportion. Inc. '« portions are also available ; Prints and Coordinates ' . . Accessories ;;•- No. 10 PwriwinM* Ploc* Open 11:00 A.M.-9:00 P.M. 2075 Periwinkle Way ; Closed Sundays for Gracious Living •specials everyday Sonibel island. Florida 33957 OAMES.KITESTOYS.OOIXS.PUZZLES, _• J. • : STUFFEOANIMALS,PUPPET$,BEA^H A Located In the Perlwtafcle PUce BATH THINGS .KIDS'JEWELRY, BOOKS A .. Shopping Center 472^4176 OOLOftlNO SUPPUE8 • GIFTS FOR ALL 2075 Periwinkle Way Sanibel Island, Fla 472-1171 28 PERIWINKLE PLACE 472-4800 (813)472-2525 20 Periwinkle Place Tel. 472-1587 Closed Tuesdays • • \ E L- •-"" -""• Island Eeporter ,, December #, 197$. ; A19 j.% A18 *r December 8,1378 Island Reporter" courses If • n UON-OF-THE-WONTH More than 300 courses are available to session beginning January 3, and a record V Noted island weavers Polly Matsumoto at 2:00 p.m. in Conservation Center on southwest ^Florida residents wishing to winter enrollment is expected. Fall credit and Evelyn Klein will demonstrate how to Sanibel-Captiva Road; Admission to the enrolT in credit courses at Edison Com- enrollment was 4009. . - ; make and use, "textile dyes from natural Center is free-to SCCF members; a nominal munity College, according to Dr. Dean O. Registration for the courses at the Fort materials" At the December 12 Tuesday s at fee is charged to all others. Clark, director of Admissions and Records. Myers, Naples and Port Charlotte campuses the Center program in Conservation Cen- is continuing daily at those three locations, ter. .''. •. ; -.".";_" ;';;••• • ' .: .': "'.\'': J- '•;'./. Registration is now open on the Fort and registration for the newspaper course The weavers will be "cooking up" pots of. Myers main campus, and at centers in may be completed by a coupon published in ' The American Legkm will be hosting dye made from plants, flowers, mosses and Sanibel resident Urban Palmer has been bands and orchestras in and around Chica- the News-Press. x < another of its Usty fish fry feasts Virgil A. Kraft, noted traveller and chosen by the Sanibel-Captiva Lions Club as go. It was in one of the Windy City's Naples and Port Charlotte for the winter leaves, and illustrate how to dye fabrics. Sunday, December 10 at the American Participants are welcome to bring swatches theologian will present bis travelogue on December's "Lion of the Month." prestigious night clubs that he met star Legion Ball on the Sanfltel-Captiva Russia and Siberia at the Community In honoring Palmer at a meeting Wednes- dancer Olga, who later became Mrs. of fabric for use during the demonstration. ;; Center, Captiva at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, The Fort Myers Symphony Orcheistra is Road. '•'••• ••;..•'.••, ••••...-• • --;-x.-. •-.- The following Tuesday, December 19i day night, fellow Lions told him "You were Palmer. presenting three performances of "Amahl A $3 ticket bays you • platter of December 14. introduced to Lionism. in 1975 and have Sanibel resident Sue Dugan wfll present a and the Night Visitors," performed by home style fried mullet, hushpuppies, program on "Holiday , Decoration with, His 50-minute sound film entitled "Siber- worked on many committees and projects Beginning with a poultry business in ian Odyessy" is sponsored by the Captiva Chicago, Pahner moved on to an executive members of the original TV cast, at the cole slaw and baked beans. Beverages natural plant materials." On December 26, Russia topic since," 0 including «p*yn>i pancake break- Arcade Theater in downtown Fort Myers on will be available also. The meal.begins Civic Association. The public is invited; fasts, turkey shoots, Christmas tree and status with John P. Harding Markets, Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation 'AmahV Saturday, December 16 at 2:30 p.m. and at noon and hurts until 4:30 pan. The director Dick Workman' wfll present a donations will benefit the Captiva Bike Path plant sales, "and your masterful-organiza- famous as a corned beef and fresh meat program. j business. He later formed a partnership in 8:00 p.m., and Monday, December 18 at pnbBc is invited. •,. . program on "Growing Native: plants for tion and hard work on the fourth of July 8:00 p.m. Reserved seats $7.50, General Kraft, who now lives in Palm Springs, dinner last summer." .•'•.. the Palmer-Oates Meat Company, supply- at Arcade landscaping." of travelogue admission $6.50. Half price for students. Tuesday's at the Center programs begin California will be at his home on Captiva for Palmer, who spent his childhood in ing commercial markets across the country. a short visit. He sold out to his partner in 1975 and Call the Symphony Office, 334-3256. Tickets Massachusetts and Chicago, developed his may also be purchased at the door. musical talents early in life and played in retired to Sanibel. YOU CAN THESTITCHERY TREE HO USE FIND HALL AT Macintosh Bookshop GARDEN' GIFT SHOP "THE ONE STOP BATH SHOP1 Agency, 9KC Especially Recommends 1223 Periwinkle behind Scotty's Pub Captivo Island. Florida' SANIBEL Santa emptied his Beach Bag Professional Insurance Service NORM/VN KJ Com* and amm th» beautiful AND CAPTIVA ... HIM of Stltdi & aQ|T Mllowi. right here I Beautiful gift Herns for life> home, Enchanting BATH AND GIFT cr«at*d by world famous n«*dUpolnt dvslgnar Alk* many Island made. We are auto, business ... call us Islands ... P«t*rsotu Complataly fahrk at«d • no additional sawing or happy to gift wrap & before you need us. By R.N. Campen •xpanslva finishing raaulrad. Look for us just a few feef past BOULEVARD PLAZA the South Seas entrance - toward the beach 472-1850 Master Charge & B.A.C. Suite 204 - Landlubber FORT MYERS. FLA. (start something and watch it grow) Newly published! A book which by word "7/- Shopping Center and photo -- many in full color -- captures 2254 MCGREGOR BLVD. 472^4716 AApn>Sat.lX) amto i Phone: 472-1571 the natural beauty and the delights of our 332-3630 islands. A book to savor and to give. For your convenience evening hours • $o.95-», (or even seriously consider) by appointment .Monday-Wednesday >• Dunham's... the "special gift" Stores. "A worid€frful book BUY1IG for anybhe who IITEBUL loves nature ... a must for those THE LOCHLANA SHIRT 0W1ERSHIP by Hathaway who love Sanibel." The comfort shirt for all occasions made from fine Peter Larson in the Island Reporter Lochlana fabric, an all-natural blend of wool and cotton. On Sanibel Island _ from $30 ...anda great Christmas gift. THE LUMBERJACK SHIRT UNTIL... by Countess Mara Wool and cotton blend in rich grey and beige tweed and in solids. YOU THE NATURE OF THINGS ON SANIBEL from $35 By George Campbell. Sanibel's outstanding naturalist with over 40 illustra- tions by artist Molly Eckler Brown. Have Visited ADD A TURTLENECK "THE NATURE OF THINGS ON SANIBEL is a handy inventory of this 7 in Interlock cotton by Alan Paine. . wildlife and there are useful checklists of our reptiles and mammals. And the Rich solid colors. $18 whole is enhanced by captivating drawings by the local wildlife artist Molly ; EcklerB." • .. " . . ..-. . : .'..- , •' ,..V;vv - : •• ' .-•V--..-. •• ••• •• • r "Griffing Bancroft in the Island Reporter PLACE YOUR ORDERS NOW! : soft c>\95 tiai-d cover ^..y cover 95 :! Dunham's of Maine !c- on the Gulf of Mexico add $1 for mailing and handling Merf&Mfomens Apparel Florida residents add 4% sales tax 2242 Periwinkle Way, SanibeLIsland - ... - . -' also at J -- Casa Ybel Road at Gulf Drive Macintosh Book '2146 McGregor Blvd. in the Boulevard • Shopping Center, Fort Myers 1021 Periwinkle Way (813)472-1531 Sanibel Florida 83957 :~ Island Reporter December 8,1978 A21 A20 December 8; 1978 Island Reporter praise carvings on new career: ^carving chance; I feel like it's all up to me now." By Peter Larson Weymouth has changed occupa- ment show judges. accepted both Working mainly in basswood tions several times since then but carvings and displayed the birds and white pine, Weymough plans - Fourteen years ago when he his focus is still directed on birds. prominently beside the work of to undertake one. piece and multi- first moved to Sanibel, George . Renowned as a birding1 guide and Elmer Crowell, the -father of ; piece carvings. Currently at work Weymouth worked at a filling self-taught painter of birds, Wey- modern bird carving. Weymputh on a galanule, Weymough also station. The story is told that mouth says he is now branching was, as they say in the art world, plans to carve life-size birds in when Weymouth pumped gas he out into a new birding field: bird discovered: flight and a pair of gopher tor- always wore binoculars to spot carving; . V"I figured my work would y toises fighting. : . passing birds. "I feel like I've found myself," be displayed with other unknown -He plans to execute all his says Weymouth. "Everything I've carvers," says Weymouth. "When carvings with the same eye for done until-now has prepared me they entered me as a major precision and detail- that have for this. I always wanted to be a carver, I wuldn't believe it." made him an expert birding guide. A sparrow-hawk and screech serious bird carver but I wasn't Whild on exhibit, Weymouth's "I've got a whole freezer full of owl carved by Weymouth won sure I had the ability." work attracted the attention of the bird specimens," says the sculp- prominent display at a recent Munson Gallery of Chatham, Cape tor, "So I shouldn't have any bird carving exhibit in Cape During a recent trip to Ne.wCod, ,one of the most exclusive trouble getting the details right." Cod. England Weymouth discovered he carving dealers in the nation. The Weymouth says his carvings Weymouth: "I feel like Fve found had more talent than he realized. Gallery owners asked if they could: may soon be sold through the myself." The artist whittles his latest At. the urging of friends he exhibit Weymouth's work and Rosendahl Gallery in Naples. creation, a Florida galanvle. sumbitted two carvings -- a spar- Weymout|i agreed^ Buyers' interested in his carvings row hawk and a screech owl - to a "Iplah to spend half of each day can also contact Weymouth at his juried woodcarving show at the •carving/' saysWeymbiith. "Even^ home. Cape Cod Museum of Natural tually maybe I can make a living History. To Weymouth's astonish- by carving. I've been given a big There is still tifme MARANTZ PUTS GREAT SOUND Announcing the heginnin; UNDER SMALL PRICE TAGS • let us ship an COMPLETE SYSTEM: $649.80! of the end of King's Crown original off to a friend Only 5 apartments left in the second and iast building., for Christnnds now under construction for January' 1979 occupancy. THef Pqwley's IslarYCl You wanted a Hammock shell lamp... •-*•• •-••?-•• HiloSteiner . • • Irbm •••••••!l^7 can ship you one for $25. 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Fl. 33940,1-2«2-0040 Write foraire* booklet: . • 12800 S. \JJS. 41. Ft. My«re, Fl. 4«1-2t00 Gall Collect 936-2595 ra Cbunel on Island Reporter December 8,1978 A23 no mw roar ram ndEBur. mnon m. tm A17 A22 Decembers, J97& IslandReporter PPVUTS AND DEEDS 936-OO34 Four boflding permits for construction valued at $52,250 were issued by the" city of Sanibel during the week ending December 6. Permits were issued to: . Judith Smith to construct decks at 836 Rabbit Road by fireal DECORAJiVE/ the owner for $2,500; SHADE FUNCTIONAL . Katherine Ley and Joanne Rosenberger for a house at &&£&*Coach, Eastem'sJ youj' Experienced in Decorating needs of Russell Totman for $113,600; its, resort environs were the forgotten stepchild of major air- Southwest Florida since 7960. A Beach Villas condominium to Loretta Neuharth from Floyd Lee for $127,000; lines. In this age of convenience have a total of 20 daily flights to Miami flight that provides A Beach Villas m condominium to Lewis Ball from South oriented travel, the "Atlanta con- connecting northern cities with international connections. Seas Plantation Ltd. for $109,900; nection" wore thin on executives Fort Myers'Page Field Airport. New flights and some of the Pelican's Roost Inc. sold 20 Pelican's Roost condominium and vacationers alike. Eastern Airlines, calling Fort schedules, provided by represen- units, for $100,000 each, to the following: Sharon Baird; But all that is changing now. Myers the "gateway to Southwest tatives from both airlines, follow: # continued on 24-A Several of'the major airlines, Florida," recently began an exten- Eastern's Fort Myers to Chica- aware that Lee County is the sive advertising campaign to pub- go flight departs at 6:20 p.m., fastest growing area in the United licize its new flights, especially out arrives OUare at 7:55 p.m.; : State and one that offers several of New York City. A New York Chicago to Fort Myers departs Money/Financing is NO elite resort spots, are clamoring Times full-page ad announces "the O'Hare at 10:00 a.m., arrives Fort | Tops & Bottoms § for permission from the federal Fort Myers Express," boasting Myers at 1:31 p.m. government to serve the growing the only daily nonstop flight to Eatern's daily flight from New problem for you when 1 JEANS & THINGS 1 market.' The two major airlines Page Field from Kennedy Inter- York City's Kennedy International . which do serve Fort Myers, Na- national, plus 12 other daily con- departs at 8:00 a.m., arrives Fort | FOR GUYS & GALS | tional and Eastern, have added necting departures from Kennedy, Myers at 10:45 a.m.; Fort Myers you select a homesite in I No. 3 Lime Tree Center • 472-37881 several new flights.--two non-stop La Guardia and Newark airports. to Kennedy departs at 11:30 a.m., — to and from major cities around The airline also is offering daily arrives Kennedy 1:55 p.m. | 1640 Periwinkle Way, Sanibel f the country. non-stop service to and from Eastern also will offer eight The Dunes Su Beginning next Wednesday, Chicago. flights daily to Atlanta and points December 13, when all major National, which has upped its beyond and connecting flights, the airlines serving southern climes service to Fort Myers, offers two, spokesman said. Some continue to make major schedule changes to one-stop flights to Washington, St. Louis, Portland, Oregon, accommodate, the winter tourist D.C., six through flights to New Lots priced $17,500 to $24,000 with up market, National and Eastern will York airports, and one Fort Myers ® continued on 27-A to 80 Percent Financing is still available locally through the Lee County Bank • -,-••••• -*- Bargain-crazed customers The 36,000 square foot store to qualified purchasers. searched Jot specials. Bargain hungry throng sports ample selections. Treehouse fc^t^*^<^*WSJ*2?S«!: BUILD. THIS UNIQUE HOUSE IN A FEW WEEKS. FOR FREE BROCHURE CALL OR WRITE: greets Publix opening By Renee TwomMy Kosher, Mexican and Chinese favorites, Financing is getting harder and FRANK D. JOYCE, Vice President evaporated goat's milk, Pita bread, Anise, Shortly after the grand opening of it's cranberry beans and four different types of G S J INVESTMENTS OF SANIBEL, INC. electrified double doors. Thursday, Novem- squash. harder to get so why not get going P.O. Box 326, Sanibel, Fl. 33957 ber 30, the Gulf Points Square Publix When the customer prefers to take bis (813)472-1571 " quickly exhausted it's supply of 250 shop- meal home already cooked, the deli offers ping carts as bargain crazed customers, hot meats and vegetables for sale along with on your Sanibel Dream today? quickstepped about the floor searching for a large cold salad, meat and cheese "Obtain the HUD. Property Report from developer and read it before ' specials among the 4800 different items for selection. The international Danish Bakery signing anything. HUD neither approves the merits of the offering .sale.:' .' ;. . . -.:''' '•'-.. • "'""'. ' displays Kaiser Rolls, English tea cookies nor the value, i—f any••••. o» f th.i e property._i. <>' . Located at Miner's Cornel: at the juncture and Bavarian cream tartlets, along with Swtik£-Ca|itiwi Agency. 9KC. of McGregor Boulevard'and San Carlos other American goodies baked on the Island Fair Shopping Center . Boulevard, this Publix is the largest of six in premises. Visit our Sales office in The Dunes Clubhouse 23M Palm KMg* Road (aarow from tha fir* station) the Fort. Myer's area. The 86,000 square Groceries are carried to customer's cars foot store sports it's large selection down 11 by store employees. or drop by one of our other offices. aisles and special departments. AH that food . Manager Stephens said he was pleased home* business* auto* flood is needed, according to store' manager Bob with the opening day turnout and looks Dunes Sales Office • 472-3448 Open 10-4 Monday-Saturday IHe, hospHalizatlon t group Insurance, Stephens. This is just a tremendous forward to. a continued patronage. The now available : . growth area," he said, "with customers store, which employs 100 people, is open drawn from the islands and surrounding Monday through Saturday, 8:80 a.m. to 9:00 The : / i- locales.'" ' { '. • ;•'• ... ••'•'• ;; '•'•'••' p.m. Dunes /'$ EL Also open in the Gulf Points Square ' y • One of the store's unique drawing cards is r shopping center is Gray _ Drug with a 1 "• it's use of computerized scanners that complete prescription service and cosmetic INC. ' ir.it WAY "make light" of tl» Universal Product Code line. Sundries from socks to lawnmowers REALTOR 'We Cover Th» Island" i • -• those indecipherable line drawings found round out the store's inventory. Center Wand OfflcM just Eost of the bank, 1633 Periwinkle Way - 472-1549 on all product labels. Ten checkers are Other stores under construction at Gulf East Offlcas in the Huxter's Market Plaza, 1207 Periwinkle Way. 472-1566 CH. (Chrlt) Wollenberg, III "Serving all your Insurance needs" available to Up the customer's choices; over Points.: include Duffs Restaurant, a Hall- the pinpoint of scimdng; light. , mark Card shop, a fast food restaurant and ISLAND REPOftTER-RENEE TWOMBLY B2 The new PubUx offers the creative cooker' other shops. ; Islands' First Resident Insurance Agency" n Island Reporter December 8,1978 A25 i A24 December 8.1978 Island Reporter PERMITS AND DEEDS EVERYBODY'S i • from 22-A Walter-Klie says "hogwash. What we have Chesley "Chet" Perry, a pioneer Ameri- 1 Shearl Roberts and Eugene Jablinski and Thomas Folino; isihe lull before the storm, which will begin can newspaperman, will retire as president I Richard Amann; ValBorgert and Robert Riordan; John December 15 or thereabout." Klie also of the Fort Myers News-Press on December Peeler;7 James Mffler; Frederick Young; Robert Riordan; would remind those, who say that accom- 31. Perry began his career with the old Fort Rita Weigand; Lena Williams; Ralph Waldo; Thomas modations are not filling up as quickly as in Myers Press in 1930 as a bookkeeper. In Williams; Ronald Daley; Val Borgert; Ronald Dickerson; years past that "we have a lot more rental 1931 he was named business manager, the Charles Sims; Lucy Bruns; Oscar Romie; Louis Corsiglia; units, .especially in condominiums, this same year in which the Fort Myers Press and J.Robert Grotty;—, season than last:" ; ; / became the Fort Myers News Press. He A Sanibel Arms West condominium to Raymond Austin As for the weather, Kite says during last moved up through the ranks, becoming from South Seas Plantation Ltd. for $89,900; winter's cold snap some Visitors to the publisher two and one half years ago. A Beach Villas III condominium to Robert Burrows from Chamber asked "is it usually this cold?" but Perry also is widely known for his public South Seas Plantation Ltd. for $89,900; In addition to its breakfast and lunch Klie heard no complaints. "They came from service in Florida and Fort Myers. He A Captiva Hide-A-Way condominium to Keyso Properties hours, the Lighthouse Restaurant on the places wfiere the mean high temperature helped found Goodwill Industries in south- from Matthew Rabaner fdr $88,100; eastern end of Periwinkle Way this week was ^.degrees," he said. "Last year during west Florida, is a former district governor A Tennis Villas condominium to J.M.. Burgess from opened for its second season of dinner late December, January and part of of Rotary International, a former president Universal Development Inc. for $81,500; . dining, A new menu features omelets, February ottf mean high temperature on of the. United.Way, past commodore of the A Beach Villas III condominium to Whitney Powers from quiclie^ seafood, steak and a variety of Sanibelwas72 degrees." Royal Palm Yacht Club, and active in a South Seas Plantation Ltd. for $74*900; crepes at prices rangingfrom $3.50 to $7.&5. variety of community activities. Two Island Beach Club condominiums to Ernest Psarras Owner John Vroman again provides music, from Walter Condon, individually and as trustee, for and has switched from organ to his favorite $70,000 each; v instrument, the piano. Dinner hours are A Beach Villas in condominium to Peter Siddell from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday through Satur- 'Island Pizza," located in Sanibel Plaza day. ' Shopping Center behind Weeds 'n Things, Wrong shopowners South Seas Plantation Ltd. for $68,900;" hopes to open within the week, according to Some busy islanders, as well as visitors, Six Casa Ybel Beach and Sport Resort Cottage Colony Roger Osborn. He and Pat Cupo, both of will be happy to know that Island Wash A story titled "What's in a name? Plenty, West condominiums were sold by Mariner Properties Inc. whom work at South Seas Plantation, will House in the Island Shopping Center has say shopowners'' published in last week's for $65,900 each to the following: Donald Mayeron; G. own and operate the restaurant that seats extended its hours. New hours, according to ' ?• Robert Sumwalt; Steven Daw; Marjorie Anderson; Carl 20 and will offer take-out service. The menu owner Mary Aleck, are 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 Island Reporter incorrectly reported that Fredericks and Charles Randall; and Michael Peceri and Giralda Renzel and Jane Werner own the In contrast to a recent article in an area features pizzas, subs, soft drinks; wine and p.m. seven days a week. And for those with Freddie Hawkins; beer. "Well be open seven days, tentatively dirty laundry who'd rather be on the beach, Open Gate shop on Sanibel. Audrey A Beach Villas HI condominium to William Stoneberg newspaper which predicted a gloomy start Merklas and Doris Hidde are the present to the winter season on the islands and from 11 to 11, and we anticipate offering an attendant, who will do your wash load for owners. The Island Reporter regrets the from South Seas Plantation Ltd. for $63,900; pointed to bad weather, Sanibel-Captiva delivery service after we get rolling," a fee, is on duty from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. A Beach Villas in condominium to Stanley Johnson Jr. Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Osborn said. Monday through Saturday. error. and William Lucas from South Seas Plantation Ltd. for $63,900. DARE TO COMPARE, ISLAND - (L/utt and /undial of Sanibel MAN To Any Othevr vft- f j Gulv ; f Front Luxury Condominium Apartment. OF SANIBEL CAPTIVA, FLORIDA 33924 BARBER a< STYLIST TEL.: 472-4974 REDKEN Unique Gifts & 1630 Periwinkle Way. Sanibel Plaza Decorative Accessories hours: Tues.-Frl. 8:30-4:30 prop. 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We have sixteen glamour-packed show tour vacations with the best of Broadway - 2 Cypress Square 6535 McGregor Blvd. Fort Nfyers 482-1415 theatre, restaurants, supper clubs, museums, sight- seeing, shopping We have prices to match every- GULFSIDE NATURE SERIES body's vacation budget along with our lowest money-saving fare. Here are just two of the many Saturday, December 9 - 4-6 P.M. tours to choose from: Sanibel Lighthouse New York Special, 3 days/2 nights. (ITFWHNW02) "GATORS" Includes hotel accommodations; orchestra ticket to Life History and How To Live With Them your choice of musical, comedy or drama; admission by Lou Phillips PROGRAM SPEAKER. TOM CRUTCHFTELD, to the Guggenheim or Metropolitan museums; ' . .. One of Florida's Best Known Reptile Experts all taxes. From $66.50. Friday arrival. New York Unlimited, 3 days/2 nights. (ITSSANY2) The series wiD continue following the Christinas season with these fascinating programs Escorted tour features hotel accommodations; a Broadway matinee; sightseeing; shopping; all taxes January 13,1979 Dr. Glenn Woolfenden - Communal Living Habits of and gratuities. From $70.00. Arrive any day. Your choice of hotel determines the price per the Florida Scrub Jay . person, based on double occupancy. A few of the many fine hotels to choose from are the Waldorf January 20,1979 Tom Outchfield - Overcoming your Fear of Snakes Astoria, New York Hilton, St~Regis, St. Moritz, American City Squire. If you want to extend your A Low January 27,1979 Mario Hutton and Elaine Patton - Back by popular stay, special rates are available. -.** \< ' demand giving another presentation from their series of "Photo Verse" You'll love our Super Saver airfare. Cluster i February 3, 1979 Helen Allin - Techniques of making Island Jellies. National Airlines Super Saver Fare to New York gets Come - Watch & Taste you there for as little as $138 roundtrip Monday through Thursday. $161 Friday through Sunday Open to the public • No Charge • Sanibel Beach Club II Courtesy of the Environmental Gulf of fttecico & Conservation *••» > • •, Division $18.00 plus $2 postage Captran, Inc. A Division ol Caplran. Inc. 22 x 28" sepia and white print 7 / A Periwinkle Way u«twhoux Ro«4 CALL (813) 472-3171 Box 357 Sanibel Fid 33957 1618 Periwinkle Way . Sanibel, FL 33957 artTiac Toll Free: (800) 237-3104 Hours 10-5 Mqn.-Fri. 10-4 Sat. '; .-•'. '. In tho Heart of the Island Shopping Center Directions: Drive East on Periwinkle 'til it becomes •im 6tor*o**x 1628 Periwinkle Way 472-3307 Lighthouse Rd Proceed to sign and turn right to our - GALLERY reception center and you're home! •'.- \n Interval Ownciship : '>-y Condominium Resort l V. , Island Reporter December 8,1978 A29 •'.I A28 December 8,1978 Island Reporter By. Peter Larson criticism very well," notes Thatcher, editor for entire walls at Kroch's and Brentanos. With WORD Books, Inc. "The more professional the authors like Billy Graham selling hundreds of Woody Allen once quipped that when he author, the more professional they lore about thousands of hardcover books in' a single reads the Bible, he makes corrections. accepting criticism." month, multi-billion dollar conglomerates are Floyd Thatcher has a similar occupation. Thirty years ago when .Thatcher first now jockeying for a piece of the religious book Thatcher, an executive with one of the largest entered the. field, religious publishing was the action. Christian publishing firms in the United unprofitable and unprofessional venue of a few And for the first time in Thatcher's States, edits the writings of Billy Graham. He small companies. A religious book was memory; religious books are being reviewed in also edits the evangelical books of Ruth Carter considered successful if it sold a few thousand Publisher's Weekly and serialized in the Stapleton, sister to the President, and born copies, and even the most popular religious conservative columns of the New York Tunes. There are a lot of things that can and should be done islands that merit consideration for support; again Black Panther, Eldridge Cleaver. authors were ignored by the effete New York "New York is finally starting to take by the city of Sanibel to improve our community. But include the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation, Vacationing on Sanibel last week, Thatcher publishing establishment. notice," says Thatcher, adding that his own that's no excuse to sit back and say "let city hall do it." Care and Rehabilitation of Wildlife, and the Children's said his job as cannonizer of great evangelists Today the picture has changed, says company was acquired recently by the The islands have long taken pride in the voluntary - Center. • ' ..'•':• "•' • . •.'• .-'• .. , . •.,."•.;•:-.;. -•- ; ' couldn't be easier. "Billy Graham takes Thatcher. Religious books now command American Broadcasting Company (ABC). work undertaken by residents and visitors alike. The One particular project that now merits consideration "When an astute, billion-dollar conglomer- residents ~ and many island-lovers who are not is the Sanibel Gymnastics Program. This program— ate takes an interest in religious publishing, residents — have also demonstrated a heart-warming involving a girls' gymnastics team and classes for both you know something revolutionary is happen- generosity when it comes to voluntary financial contri- boys and girls - has been greeted with enthusiasm by Editor Floyd Thatcher ing," adds Thatcher. butions for worthwhile projects. many young people on the island over the past two Sales figures alone have made believers of This spirit of voluntary effort is reflected in the beach years. Now it has lost its YMCA sponsorship and its sole revises book the Wall Street tycoons, says Thatcher. cleanup for this coming Sunday, sponsored by the instructor, and ' the youngsters are struggling to manuscripts for During the past decade WORD'S annual Kiwanis Club. Historically, both the Kiwanians and the purchase the equipment necessary to continue the volume of book sales has jumped from $3.7 Lions have done more than their share of work on behalf program. Billy Graham, Ruth million to roughly $34 million, reflecting an of the community. industry-wide trend. A beach cleanup project might not be earth shaking in The funds needed to purchase this equipment are Carter Stapleton ; According to Thatcher, WORD authors significance, but quite apart from producing litter-free about $1,400. For the young gymnasts it is very and Eldridge Cleaver. consistently outsell secular authors on The beaches for awhile, it goes a long way toward important. \ New York Times bestseller list. Eldridge demonstrating community pride while saving the Contributions can be made to the Sanibel Gymnastics Cleaver's '-Soul on Fire" has sold close to taxpayers a little money. . Program, c/o Polly Matsumoto, 993 Sand Castle Road, 50,000 copies, hardcover, in four months. Ruth There are many other worthwhile organizations on the Sanibel, FL 33957, Carter Stapleton's two books on inner healing boast joint hardcover sales of 180,000 copies. And after six months of sales Keith Miller's, "Please Love Me" has topped the 110,000 Poll explained mark. , But WORD'S biggest seller is Billy Graham. By John E. Shepherd phone interview or by mail. The One of Graham's most recent books, "How to remaining 14 either had moved be Born Again," had a phenomenal advance Several people have asked me from the area, were away on . printing of 900,000 copies. The only book how did our poll taken last May on vacation, ill, deceased, or refused boasting a larger advance printing is the Bible, the rate of growth . ordinance to participate. Actually only three compare with the actual vote in fell into this last category. says Thatcher. the November election. : The results at that time showed Why are so many American buying religious • Well here it is: that had the election been, held books? Thatcher says the highly publicized The poll was taken between then, the following would have conversions of celebrities like Eldridge been the result: "Wouid you favor Cleaver, Charles Colson and President Jimmy or oppose an Ordinance that would Carter account for part of the vast new set a maximum number" of dwel- as others view it ling units to be built each year?" book-buying market. 63.75 percent said they were in Increased sales also reflect a new sophisti- favor; 23.75 percent -were op- cation in the packaging and marketing of April 24 and May 20. We obtained posed; 12.50 percent were unde- religious books. "Our product has to be every a sample of 100 names by taking : cided. ' bit as good as Harper and Row," says every twentieth name on the list of If you divide the undecided by Thatcher. "We can't get by anymore with registered voters as of April .14. the same ratio as those who were cheap paper, inept marketing and bland book Every person in our sample was in favor or opposed you would add jackets." accounted for but for three. Those eight to the 63.75 and come out three could not be found. with a71.75 "for" and a four to the But in a more profound sense Thatcher feels Eighty-three voters answered 23.75, one gets 27.75 "against." Americans are looking for books that give our questionnaire, either via The actual vote was 72 percent them direction. "Our lifestyles have become for, 28 percent against, v ISLAND REPORTER-PETER LARSON immeasurably more complex," says Thatcher. When a poll of this nature is "We're all trying to have our lives make sense. taken so far in advance of the I think Christian authors speak to this actual election you can only fore- spiritual unrest." cast how the people would vote at that time. Apparently in this case In addition to editing, Thatcher is author of all the ads and publicity, pro and a biography, "Gary Player, World Golfer." He . con, did little to change people also edited and compiled two books on Easter opinion or it caused thenrto switch and co-authored a how-to course for Christian in the same proportion. writers. - Thatcher and his wife are currently re- searching a book on marriage dynamics, based on interviews with 75 couples — divorced and married - nationwide. All the couples inter- viewed by the Thatchers were married for at least 20 years. —• I "After conducting so many interviews my wife and I have asked each other why our own GLIMPSE marriage survived," says Thatcher. "Neither of us have any answers yet." - ' Step in time Photograph by Renee Twombly ristmas bazaar attracts shoppers Organizers say that over $4500 was raised at the Sanibel Community Church 1 Christmas Bazaar held last Saturday at the Community Center. More than 500 shoppers attended the annual event, buying baked goods, plants, Christmas crafts, stocking stuffers, books, and stationery. A donation table was set up with the )*l proceeds going to the Harlem Heights Good Shepherd Mission. Perhaps the most popular concession was the raffle which drew 250 entrants competing for some 60 prizes. Two of the big winners were Catherine Boyle and Jeannie Holloway who went home with a sflver necklace and a large ceramic lamp, respectively. i f Island Reporter December 8,1978 ' A31 A30 December 8,1978 Island Reporter to By Mark Twombly People who decide to take up home gardening soon find -there By Richard Workman ©78 are a couple of directions you can take. A person can invest a lot of time/ effort and cash in a scien- tifically designed and constructed garden and be assured of happi- vine ness and success, or you can elect Wind, waves and shifting sand make the the year opening in the early "morning-and 'Her kitchen garden is L : gulf beach area one of the toughest zones for closing by noon. • i:* '--'-'\'-'- \ •'^•••^.-•''i /'••"V vegetation to establish itself. The lower' Seedpods are about half an inch long and a well planned, organically part of the beach is devoid of plant growth almost round. When ripe the fruit are, for this reason, but just above the normal brown and contain - four seeds about; a . balanced cornucopia influence of the tides begins a community of- quarter inch in length. Seeds are sometimes • interesting plants that thrive under these used for medicinal purposes. of fresh, vegetables conditions. The trailing and rooting habits of this , • • •, • .^ . • - • j ^ • • . . • • -••• •. One of the first plants to establish in the plant make it a great sandbmder and and herbs.9 sand and shell of the beach is the railroad ground cover for beach front locations. It vine, or beach morning-glory, known prop-, grows naturally on shores in both the New erly as Ipomoea pes-caprae.' Of the morn- and Old World Tropics and from Florida to ing-glory family, Chnvolrmlaceae, railroad -Texas and Georgia. - : , . vine is a creeping, vining plant that may The leaves reportedly have salt glands on to take the pot luck .approach and . extend to a hundred feet or more along the their surface that excrete.excess salts and let the seeds fall where they may. beach...' •.. •:•.• ' _>. I.'—' '•••?'.: enable the plant to occupy extremely salty Captiva resident Sarita Van Stems are herbaceous, quite flexible and soils. Because of this salt tolerance it can be Vleck chose the first option. After consistently about one half inch thick. The used as a salt barrier to protect more long stems root and branch at nodes where sensitive plants. Railroad vine isn't a nine years of experimentation her the leaves attach. S < natural climber but is easily trained over a kitchen garden is a well planned, Leaves are about four inches long and • fence or trellis. I once grew the vine up and organically balanced cornucopia of broad, held above the sand on petioles abbot all over a cabbage palm making an fresh vegetables and herbs. Raised garden boxes surround Allen Lloyd and friend at the Lloyd's bay six inches long. The leaves are thick and attractive if unusual landscape feature. . As she explained at Conserva- front home on Sanibel Lloyd invested about $90 in the unique garden. leathery with two lobes suggesting the Propagation is by seed or cutting. Seeds tion Center's "Tuesdays at the The trailing and rooting habit* ofthe raOrood vine make it a imprint of a split hoof, thus the specific are germinated without problem but cut- Center" program this -week, her great sandbmder and groundcoverfor'beachfront locations. name pes-caprae which is Latin for goat's tings root fast and easily. Stems cut in foot. The generic name Ipomoea means sections of desired length will root in a pot garden is covered by a screen to "worm-like" refering to the twining habit of or directly in the ground. 4t roots quickly keep out crawling, walking and the morning-glories. and will soon send new branches out. from flying offenders, her beds are : Students gather goodies for feast the nodes. "":.'•' ' ^:.y ...]/••' underlined with plastic to keep out Foliage of the beactfSmorning-glory is In addition to landscape use both leaves digging pests and raised to allow By Bruce Millar During their Sanibel stay, each assessments of low and high beach glossy green and very attractive consider- and root of the beach morning-glory are the ground to warm faster, and vegetation, and others are study- ing the harsh environment it occupies. As edible. I've not tried the roots but leaves her soil is a nutritious mixture of of the students completes a major an added bonus it produces beautiful are rather tasty. However, I don't suggest peat moss, dehydrated cow ma- For the past month a group of project which serves as the pri-ing the ecology of mangroves. lavender, funnel-shaped flowers.with making a meal of this plant. It is reportedly nure, her own custom made soil, nine students from the Tatnall mary basis for their evaluation in "If nothing else/ I learned how purple-red throats. They bloom throughout toxic when eaten in quantity. tipne meal and now clay that is School in Wilmington, Delaware the course. One student built a hard it is to keep a natural shipped from central Florida. have been on Sanibel as part of a salt water aquarium, another did a environment intact from crowds I She admits it's something of a course in Environmental Study study of the Indian shell mounds and growth," one student remark- "Cadillac garden," but it works and Marine Biology. on Buck Key, some are conducting ed. Our Ship — Cross The Moat — Walk Th« Gang Plank and works well. As a group, the students have Discover the tirue mean i ng of Allen Lloyd of Sanibel took a traveled to the Everglades, snbrk- different tack when he decided to eled in Key West, collected fossils • • • 3.L at LaBelle, and canoed through go .gardening. Lloyd, who also Buck Key. As part of their LaBelle appeared at "Tuesdays at the excursion, students were expect- Center," has confined his garden ed to label and identify 50 differ- Looking for TONNER to four, eight foot long wooden ent species of fossils. boxes that sit three and a half feet Perhaps the highlight of their something off the ground. stay on Sanibel occured last Sun- He got the idea to build the day when they dined on a meal for new - boxes in March of this year when which all the food was picked or he was trying to figure out how to caught on the island. The menu By Grace WWtehead Softy, because I want to please my For screen his work area from the road included hors d'oeuvres of roasted lover." Unfortunately, the whole behind his house on Pine Island coconut chips, fish chowder, baked Listening to television commer- thing still ended up a tragedy, but i Mk Sound on Sanibel. trout and redfish, kumquat bread, cials these days makes me wonder Old Softy didn't hurt. Lloyd invested $90 in enough stuffed avocado, coconut ice how the world survived before all I also had visions of Mr. and SELECTED wood and hardware to build four cream, coconut cookies, and key those products were discovered. Mrs. Khan strolling through Asia, 8x1x1 foot boxes. His soil is hislimeade. As one student wryly How did Caesar conquer Gaul arm in arm. Looking lovingly into V own.mixture of potting soil, ferti- pointed out, "We have been eating without his little liver pills? Would Mrs. Khan's eyes, Genghis says, GIFTS lizer and a compost made from very well." Napoleon have met his Waterloo if "My wife is as lovely and full-of life f yard clippings. Slats extend up- he'd had just a little more iron in as ever, after all these years, ward from the boxes to cradle a his blood? because she takes Hair-it-all every You're welcome branch that serves as a support for I can see Mr. and Mrs. Hunday." tomato and other tall plants. In making their way across the Surely Columbus must have to browse the. summer a palm frond is steppes of Europe. Surrounded by rubbed something under his arms secured to the branch to provide all those smelly troops, Mrs. Hun after that long voyage or the shade. •. - / \ • '•• • •i- \ V -\\ exclaims, "Attila, tell those bar- lovely Isabella wouldn't even have In our ship for the most complete His garden boxes are overflow- barians to get off the can and onto allowed him in the palace. finest & largest selection of ing with tomatos, dill weed, basil, the stick!" I can see Davy Crockett at the springeri, snapdragons, petunias, Mr. Juan was just an ordinary Alamo. A television huckster pansies, geraniums, lettuce and guy, trying to make out with loud tears his buckskin shirt in half, MEN'S AND LADIES' : borage. The boxes are arranged so ties and fancy suits, until one ofdumps both in the washer. One that the/ provide an effective and his buddies said, "Don, tryhalf comes out whiter and bright- attractive barrier between the Flouride." From then on he was a er, but to poor Davy's dismay he highly successful lover, and that's didn't have a spare buckskin shirt Qne of the pleasant fringe how Don Juan was born. to wear into battle. No wonder he NEW MODEL OPEN benefits of going up in the air with At first Juliet said it didn't lost hiss life. 10 A.M. -5 P.M. Weekdays your garden is the ease in tending make any difference to Romeo Yes, Til bet history would have 1 P,M. - 5 P.M. Sundays ft; Lloyd calls it "waist high what kind of toilet tissue she been different if Socrates had been weeding." bought. But when she saw Romea able to get hemlock with "twice (813) 463-5764 ; 'ftow here's a garden that's 32 choose the Old Softy brand, she the effectiveness and none of the ''Famous For Fine Apparel" - ' f 8401 Estero feet long and one foot wide, and it changed her mind. "Of course," harmful side effects." Poor Soc- Turn Right OK Cduseway - First Store on Right (Locatedon the Southern tip o££.stero.4slqnd) works,"hesmiled. ;v ;; ;" she said, "from now on Til buy Old rates. He died before his time. Section B Decemberg, 1978 A32 December 8,1978 Island Reporter t^ £*,r ,_t Experts convene to tackle Brazilian • from 1-A Current eradication methods are not only mended by Ernest Del Fosse of the Lee recognized the Brazilian pepper as a *• ineffective but costly, said experts. The cost County Hyacinth Control. Del Fosse said disruptive threat to the state's wetlands. ? s preserves, university professors, chemical of chemical herbicides and man hours the government should fund the search for a On filled property lor along canals and roads, i corporations, the U.S. Forest Service, the involved in killing and disposing of the dead an insect that consumes Schinus in its Schinus can spread within a few years to I ' } Environmental Protection Agency and a trees make large-scale eradication pro/ native Brazilian habitat. A similar control I* create monumeatal control problems. Ke- •3- host of Lee County organizations concerned grams almost impossible. teduiique has been used to rid Florida of search also indicates that Brazilian pepper; with the spread of the pepper blight. Conferees also reported "morale" prob- water hyacinths and alligat6r weed, he leeches water away from agricultural crops Conferees examined the biology of the lems when working with Schinus. "We've added. lv-:^V;7^-'^v:;;-£:'^•••'•; •'' and can cause an allergic reaction similar to plant and current control efforts, ranging: had our youth conservation corps workers Speeches and ipllow-up reports generat- poison ivy in some individuals. :, \ from bulldozing and burning to chemical pulling up peppers, along the Refuge drive;" ed by the conference wffl in Schinuswasmtroduced to Sanibel during control. On state and federal preserves said Del Pierce, manager of Satubel's Ding coming months by the Sanibel-Captiva the late 1940's and was regarded as "a where schinus has flourished beyond con- Darling Refuge. "They get discouraged Conservation Foundation. Foundation di- pleasant thing," by most islanders, accord- f trol, most attempts at eradication have when they discover schinus growing up rector Dick Workman said the publication-' ing to island^botanist George Cooley. Gooley v been unsuccessful. Even when the weed is again where they've just been working." would be the most timely, in-depth examin- says that by 1953 the plant had become a killed chemically, uprooted and burned, Phil Koepp of Everglades National Park ation of Schinus currently in print. frequent invader of wetland marshes and new seedlings appear almost immediately, said the spread of the Brazilian pepper could Variously known as "Florida holly" and low ridges skirting wetlands. germinating in the sunlight left by the be curbed by planting native trees and "Christmas'••.-terry," Brazilian pepper was Today it is difficult to find any wetland parent trees. shrubs immediately following pepper eradi- introduced to the United States during the area on Sahibel unaffected by Brazilian Some experts even suggest that "male" cation. Overshadowed by native species, late 1800's. Valued as an ornamental plant pepper. The weed has become an expensive pepper trees - those that don't produce peppier seedlings don't receive the sunlight because of its bright red berries, Schinus and time consuming control problem for seed-bearing fruit -- be left in place to they need to flourish, said Koepp. '•_•''• took root in Florida gardens and nurserys. both the Ding Darling Refuge and the prevent new plants from multiplying. Biological control of Schinus was recom- Only in recent decades have scientists Conservation Foundation nature tract. RECOVER WITH SHELLS IN ISLAND STYLE Hand Silk-Screened on Heavy Canvas Sturdy and Beautiful CHEST Two Styles and Two Sizes (specify on mail orders) - Off-White on Brown or Terra Cotta Sixes [Seat Dimensions] 18V*Mxl6" (with round dowels) 23Mxl6" (with straight slats) $15.00 Story by Peter Larson Photos by Ermil Fray (mail orders add $1.95) In Time for Christinas Giving Between late October and early local phenomenon. Each autumn, breeding white pelicans make Exquisite one of a kind coral necklaces. Each of these hand made designer Tiffany Parlor May nature stages one of its as temperatures drop in their their home in the freshwater lakes pieces has been tastefully combined with beautiful shades of coral, pearls, and grandest spectacles above the northern breeding grounds, white of British Columbia, Manitoba, semi precious stones. A gift she'll treasure for years to come. Gift and Decorator Boutique spoil islands and sandbars of Pine pelicans stretch, their immense Ontario, Utah, Montana, South 2075 Periwinkle Way wingsT often spanning eight to Dakota, Wyoming and southeast- Tahitian Garden free Christmas wrap John & Pat Zambuto Sanibel, Island, Florida 33957 By the dozens and often J>yj the ;-;.-mro^^et/-f?-- anA fly thousands of ern California, Despite some de- Hours 9:30-5:30 free jewelry cleaning service (813)472-2876 Check, VISA, or MasterCharge. #2-1062 - hundreds, wfiite pelicans wheel mfles to winter in Florida, Mexico, struction of habitat experts report Centr^ America and, infrequent- no decline in the species. snowstorm, descending in a bril- ly, the West Indies. Ornithological records indicate liant blizzard of beating wings. Weighing as much as 25 pounds the white pelican has been making "They used the sky as a big and measuring better than four its great diagonal migration to toboggan slide," wrote Oregon feet in length at maturity, the Florida for at least a century. naturalist William Finley, describ- white pelican is the jumbo jet of During those years Florida's pop- ing a flock of white pelicans in his migratory birds. Here in Florida, ulation of white pelicans has home state, "And dropped ltt:e the colossal white bird never fails remained suprisingly stable, with meteors leaving a trail of thund- to upstage its small relation, the large colonies' of birds migrating STOP Take care of everyone on your holiday shopping list with one er." brown pelican. regularly to Florida's Gulf coast, quick visit to Bank of the Islands. Your gifts of crisp new With an annual range extending But unlike the endangered the Everglades, Lake Okeechobee bills, C.D.s, savings bonds or coins are sure to please. And from Northwest Canada to Guate- brown pelican, white pelicans are and Lake Kissimee. Five hundred we gift wrap too in our special holiday envelopes. mala, the white pelican \pelecanus hot rare, endangered or even SHOP erythrorhyechos} is by no means a threatened. Tens of thousands of ' # continued on 2-B 11 i OPCIfc (lobby; Monday through Friday. 9-2, ond Friday 4-6 • (Drive-in-window) Monday through Thor»day, 8:30-4, and Friday 8:30-6 47M141 .'".•' . Member FDIC , M«mb«r FcoWal R«*«rv« System ^ Island Reporter December 8,1978 B3 B2 December 8,1978 Island Reporter and the coloration of a woodstork,> the white pelican: is -at shoiv-stdpper.,' :>: '-••'[S^- jumbo jet of nnigrafory Whatever physical y the birds may sKare; white and m from 1-B definitively catalogue the birds of this year in the upper portion of seen on the Bay in recent years. ^ ^rthej^ / ' ''•".'.-, tlJ '• Florida, reports that in 1910 only the Sound. Campbell says the White pelicans have also put in a cans' do not dive.- They refuse to white pelicans wintered last year 50 white pelicans wintered in the population has increased since he rare- appearance thisr year at the itest oi• even roost lit tree branch- at Meritt Island National Wildlife vicinity of northern Pine Island first visited the area during the Ding Darling Refuge. es, exhibiting a perverse" prefer- Refuge on Florida's east coast. ~~- Sound. ^ 1930's. . Endangered or not, the white ence for barren sandbars. ^4 Far from diminishing, the white Sanibel naturalist George An additional 150 white pelicans pelican remains a traditional T^oically, ^pwn yelicans mate pelican population in Pine Island Campbell, who conducts regular were sighted this month in Tarpon favorite of island birdwatchers. during winter, building their nests Sound appears to be on the rise. field strips to the area, reports Bay. Local experts say it is the Consolidating the wingspan of a eight to twenty feet from the Arthur H. Howell, the first man to more than 400 pelicans roosting largest colony of white pelicans condor, the girth of a prize turkey, ground. White pelicans nest in their northern habitat during the; summer, and build their nests on the ground using grasses, sticks, pebbles and reeds., - - >.: <: '^.; -v'^M Brown pelibans dive^ for "fish, often plummetting 60 feet to snatch their prey. But white pelicans do then: fishing ifi teams, herding fish against the shoreline in much the same way that sheep- dogs corraj sheep. The- feeding .-*'!• phenomenon was described a ceii- In 1910 only 50 white tiiry ago by Nathaniel Sjtickney pelicans were reported (Joss, a Kansas birdwatcher who wintering in northern Pine reported the technique after a Island Sound; today there visit to Florida in 1888. "Consolidating the ioingtpanqfa condor; the girth of a prize turkey and the coloration of a tooodstork, are hundreds. . "They quietly move into the the white peUcan is a surefire show-stopper." water," wrote Stickney, "and glide smoothly out, so as not to frighten the life "beneath, and, at a wrote Sprunt in his "Florida Bird at high altitudes in huge V-forma- Early in this century when the suitable distance from the shore, Life." • . tions. Though it was once believed government drained thousands of form into a line in accordance with : Floridians do not see the white the V-formation had an aerody- acres at Lake Klamath on the the sinuosities of the beach, each pelican at its magnificent best. namic function ' scientists^ now California-Oregon border to create facing shoreward and awaiting During, late spring and early suspect the V-shape merely allows arable land for homesteaders, their leader's signal to start. summer the bird's plummage birds to pool their navigational hundreds of white pelicans When this is given, all is com- assumes a yellow tinge and the experience and improve the ac- abandoned the breeding area. It motion; the birds, rapidly striking beak turns orange or salmon- curacy of their orientation. was discovered too late that the .,/•:-'.. "the water with their wings,thrpw- cplore4._The ;white :pelicanT also Forced to fly alone, the white reclaimed land was not suitable for ing it high above them and develops a fiberous plate or pelican sometimes goes astray. farming. ; plunging their heads in and out, "knob" on its upper mandible. Gaptiva birdwatcher Griffing Ban- In 1935 the U.S. Department of fairly make the water foam as they Sometimes called a "rudder," croft says he read recently of a the Interior restored 20,000 acres REDKEN move in an almost unbroken line, the plate serves a unique function solitary white pelican that touched of Lake Klamath's exposed bot- Products filling their pouches as they go." at mating time, when males de- down in Rhode Island. tomland. Miraculously, the great How could two /species make fend their mate and mating In an age when many species white flocks returned to their old CABLE VISION/ such divergent use of such similar territory by striking the.plates of are struggling for survival, the breeding ground and have remain- feeding equipment? The evolution- rival birds. Though the plate may white pelican is one example of a ed there ever since. .-••'• ary riddle puzded renowned bird- be damaged in combat, the bird bird that has been extremely SANIBEL ing authority Alexander Sprunt. suffers no injury. forgiving of man's encroachments. Island birding guide George Sanibel "It seems astonishing that two The white pelican's flight is an But like any other species there Weymouth takes a look at the Beauty Salon birds so closely related would have alternation of flapping and gliding. are limits to the white pelican's white pelican on page 32-B. such dissimilar _ feeding habits,*' Migrating by day, the birds travel tolerance. - With 12 channels 472-1111 ISLAND SHOPPING CENTRE [including 2 PBS (NEXTTOBAIEYS) stations, WEDU& ...*•• Salon WUSF] to choose de Belleza from for your 472^1112 PUNTAYBEL PLAZA viewing pleasure. (ACROSS FROM tHE SEA HORSE) f. CABLEVISION Us is more than just "White „ pelicans do not better reception. dive. They refute to nest or even \roost ' m tree: branches, exhibiting a pre-: Due to the growth of Coblevision on Sanibel. verse preference for, liar- p we are now required by the Federal Communi- BUY YOUR HOME A GIFT ren sandbars." - • . cations Commission, to comply with the Simul- taneous Network Non-duplication Rules. This \t We specialize in providing everything from means that when the distant network affiliates (Ch. 13. 8 and 40) are broadcasting the same draperies, carpet and furniture to accessories, -programs as the local affiliates (Ch. 26. 20 and 11) we. must give preference to the local linens and kitchen ware to make your home stations. During those times, Ch. 26 will be shown on Cable Ch. 4 and 9; Ch. 20 will be shown on Cable Ch. 8 and 5; and Ch. 11 will be ready for enjoyable living. shown on Cable'Ch. 13 and 10. This does not alter programming, but protects the interests Our design studio is located at of the local stations and their clients that have bought advertising time. 7540 S. Cleveland Ave.-, Ft. Myers, 939-2313 472-4787 Island Reporter December 8,1978 B5 B4 December 8,1978 Island Reporter Sailing safari converts former motor boater tides /charters/guides ''}.•;••"••:•"•'. ••'•*•• •• ' .'..' V/. "; • ••>•>• .;/• >' •-.' ^.- •....•-• .••,•'.•. " :-.'.•.-• • -.,". ... . ', • .: -v" .- . "-N; - '. • ' By Bradley Fray |- Until last weekend, s^iipg never \e\H much —-FISHING? SHELLING* GO - inagnic, adventure W intrigue for me. It all : Private chart**?. 4 or 8 hour*. Search beautiful beaches of POWER BOAT RENTALS looked like so much work, and danger, from . uninhabited; islands. Gulf, pass or bockbay fishing. Adjust- Shelling — Birding iay usual vantage point on the Gulf shore, able rates. $25 minimum 2. Will pick you up on Coptiva or : PineislandJCaptain Dawson. 283-0775. Sightseeing — Fishing where I often;' have witnessed sailors make 472-2531 Anytime near-contact with the sea as the wind whipped CAPT . CHIC KINNEDY their crafts from one side to another. ^ xr •i No siree, thought I ~ give me a good old "WET PANTS" CHARTERS Southwind, Inc all day — V% day reliable motor boat any day over that kind of Sanibel Marina 22' Aquasport 472-4087 ; My attitude toward the sj>ort has done an Distinctive seagoing nature about-face, or^ "come about" as the sailors adventures since 1970. might say. The change i^^^e result oi a fantastically exciting overnight adventure I Capt. Dick Frieman 472-1315 Fishing Half or Full Day have dubbed "The Naples Sailing Safari." Shelling AH Equipment Furnished Guides Available We were invited last weekend by islanders •WATERS Carolyn and Peter Smith to join them in an DEEP SEA FISHING 'Rental Boats'& Motors overnight sail from Sanibel to. Naples aboard MARINA Rental tackle: : - their 22-!foot sailboat, designed by a well- Fishing, Shelling & Sailing known naval architect and including a seven- Native Star Capt. Bill Gartrell foot - berth especially for Peter's six-foot, Residence - ; Sanibel Marina 10-inch frame. Peter himself built the boat Dally 8 AJA. larry Gill. Dodcmaster •Captiva Island 472-5161 ^813X472-3012 (813)472-2723 from scratch. Gulf Star Marino . . Look for the Big Red & White Building Emil and I spent hours preparing our Having anchored offshore 7iorthNc^>le8, toe toast the setting sun; three of us see the green North of the Bridge. supplies— sleeping bags, appropriate clothing, flash; and we prepare to wade ashore and haU a cab for our dinner destination. 463-4780 463-2219 FISH FINDER food, beer and other spirits - and hardly slept Capt. Bill Mazur - Capt. Dick Cain floating activities: CABBAGE KEY CB RADIO SHEUINO the- night before the voyage in anticipation of III Sailboat Rentah Giving rides on Hobies & Siinfishes - or V4 ENGINE SIGHTSEEING : pur first sail. captain them yourself. Located at Sanibel Beach Club, Nerita DIVITBIPS Peter had advised us the sail down likely Street. Call 472-3382. Charter th« Bareboats A 24-foot centerboard sloop, trailerable would be a long one as the winds usually are all anywhere you wont to go. Fort Myers Yacht Charter, 472-3530. . wrong. "It may take-45. mmutes by car to sports & outdoors Sailing aboard the PAPA NUI in the Gulf with Capt. Al Stresen- reach Naples, but it's; five to seven hours by Reuter aboard a 54-foot catamaran. For reservations call 332- •sailboat." -The -weather forecast sounded 1200^ •.,," '.•••• '• . •'•' .••-".••• -•".'".'• Shook - Tarpon -Redf isH - TroUt South Seas Sailing Ctubt Open to all sailboat owners. For promising, and we looked forward to a day at membership and meeting information contact Brian Webb at fsea. I wasn't even nervous as Captain Smith sounded impressive enout the lighthouse. "We are becalmed," says the 472-155). • , . . . .-'.'• : v &ad made the trip several times and Carolyn ; v. Come, Saturday , morning^ wi|Jh, aU. ^gea captain. •• .";;::;; ^;,...,.^^^..^• -• -,...... • Pin* Island Sound "Pirate Cruise*/' Charter wtth Capt-- Bud advised me he had impressive credentials from stowed below, the four of us got aboard at 8:30 " 1:12 — "There's no wind in sight but a lot of Outboard and Stern Drive D.awson, Bokeelia. 283-0775. Fly- Plug or Spin Casting Nature Adventure Afloat* ."Wet Pants," Capt. Dick Frieman, his Columbus, Ohio sailing days. There he was a.m. and prepared to sail. I kepttne following carnage," says Carolyn of the red-tide mullet 472-1315. Charter. SAILING FROM . P.O.Box47S. Commodore of the Bilge and Bulge Yacht log of our activities: v / victims being devoured by seagulls. Fair Rates ~ Dockside Service Back Bay Exploring aboard the "Chiclet" available for charter at Tween Waters Marina Captiva. Fl. 33924 Ciubi which sailed on the Hoover Reservoir, 8:45 - Push off from Sanibel Marinai at end 1:13 - "We're really in the doldrums. Maybe South Seas Marina. Chic Kennedy, 472-4087. •hone 472-54*2 481-6712 Fishing, shelling, blrdlng and outer island cruises: Private CaptivaIsland, H. and was fleet champion for three years of dock the Captain- discovers our 7V2Til start the motor," says the captain. charters with Capt. Bud Dawson, 283-0775. 472-5161 472^1733 running, in Mirror Dinghy competition. I horsepower motor is frozen in neutral posi- 2:28 'r- Waking from a half-hour nap I notice Sailing: Individual or group charter. Lessons by appointment. Protected waters. Call Fred Com lossy, 5outhwind Inc. 472-2531. .wasn't too sure what all that meant, but it tion. Sanibel has disappeared beyond the horizon. Shelling, Cabbage Key trips. Sailing and Fishing with Capt. 10:30 - We're off! Buss Mattson has fixed The motor has been going since 1:13. School of Captain Mike on SongBay and Fishmonger. 472-1784. the motor, which is a must for maneuvering porpoise sighted off. starboard. "Butcli" Cottrill Natural History,Field Trips by water with naturalist George sailboats in and out of channels. We are 3:00 - Motor stops so Emil and Peter can Campbell. Breakfast at. Cabbage Key ..walk across Cayo Costa, visit Shelling and Fishing Guide to an embryonic barrier island. Call 472-2180 for information and headed for the Crayton Cove Marina in take a swim, hanging on to the knotted rope in Sanibel • Captiva • Cabbage Key • Upper Islands reservations. , . - .. Naples, connected to the Gulf by a mile-long case a wind should give us a lift. Cabbage Key cruises: Lunch or dinner, shelling, fishing, Docked at Twin Palms Marina channel. 3:10 -- We get wind from behind, but it's Half day or "Gotabigun." South Seas Marina, Capt. B.W. Holloway. 472-2802. Captiva full day. Charters: Day, week, overnight. Lunch or dinner at Cabbage Key. 10:40 ~ Peter says the wind's all wrong; Our short lived. We will wait 20 minutes, then Shelling, sightseeing^ etc., on the upper islands. Capt. Al Rogers, best bet is Boca Grande or Cuba, but the crew restart the motor. Tinrimy's Nook, Captiva. Box- 347, Captiva. Toll-free operator elects to persevere to Naples ... Peter says 3;30 "-- Motor was on for a few minutes, WX5SV1. _ it promises to be a long day. (Now Carolyn sputtered, smoked and died. "We are distress- Power Boat Rentals: Several sizes and types, with varying outboords. Southwind Inc. at Sanibel Marina, 472-2531. tells me this is her first trip to Naples and that ed/' says the captain. "In a real pickle." Phone 472-1727 (after 5 P.M. 472-2917) she always fears the boat will tip over.) 4:18 -- The wind has picked up and although Porpoises are spotted in San Carlos Bay. we can't reach the marina sans motor, we opt 11:00 - Still with the drawbridge to our to anchor off-shore at the next lovely stretch FISHING SIGHTSEEING SHELLING right and. the fishing pier to our left, Peter of beach that looks civilized. Captain says no A Public Service from cocktails 'til the sun is over the yardarm. Trips to Cabbage Kay informs us,we're heading to the farthest point •; . t. of land off Fort Myers Beach. 4:19--What's a yardarm? 11:10 -- With the flashing light inside the S:05 -- Having selected a lovely spot on the Ljotabigun island Sanibel lighthouse still clearly outlined, Peter beach off north Naples, we have anchored, says we won't really be underway until the trimmed the sails, and now prepare cocktails. landmark disappears from view. (Little wind) 5:25 — We toast the setting sun; three of us Captain Baughn Holloway GULF & BACK COUNTRY 11:20 — Having broken out the beer just see the green flash; and we prepare to wade Snook • Tarpon • Redfish outside thevmarina, we now decide the pink ashore and hail a cab for a dinner destination. South Seas Plantation U.S.C.G. Approved Light Tackle Specialist 5:45 - Under cover of darkness and clumps Captiva Island marbled bait bucket will substitute nicely for a Phone:472-2802 Shelling - Sight Seeing - Nature Tours port-a-potty. of sea oats we change into dry clothes and .'•'- december 11:25 -- We recall dirty jokes. saunter up to the fancy looking Horizon CAPT. DOUG FISCHER 11:30 — We gossip about islanders. House condominium. With determination and Fri. 8 2:27 AM I 7:16 AM H 1:39 PML 7:50 PMH SPORTFISHING ON THE a dollar, Peter requests and gets use of a Sot. •;•.. 9 3:37 AML 9:06 AM H 2:27 PM L 8:27 PMH 11:33 - We discuss lunch, but opt for more Sun. 10 4:32 AM L 10:34 AM H 3:10 PML •toanMH "Kingfisher beer and one very dry martini. telephone. _ Mon. 11 *21 AMI 11:46 AM M 3:50 PML 9S3SMKH 22 foot fully equipped Syncoast. All tackle provided. 11:45 -- The pink bucket is so popular we We taxied to Crayton Cove Dock Restau- 10*07 MM H Tues. 12 Ot02AML 12:46 PMH 4:24 PML Sailing from South Seas Plantation In Captiva. rant, a popular weekend spot where we ' 10O9IPMH begin round 2. (The Gulf is like glass.) Wed: .13 6*41 AMI 1:28 PMH 4:53 PML Early Reservations gorged ourselves with clam chowder, conch Thur. 14 7:16 AM t 2:07 PMH 5:22 PML 11:11 PMH Suggested . 1:10 p.m.— From my vantage point off the Copt. Doug Fischer starboard, looking directly west I still can see fritters* and selected entrees of fried grouper, Tides hove been computed at ihe Sanibel Lighthouse. For- South Seas Plantation frogs legs, stone crab claws and fried shark. upper Sanibel and Captiva subtract 30 minutes for high tide, Captiva, Florida 33924 10:40 >- Back on the beach, we wade to the I hour and 15 minutes for low tide.. ^ Tel: 813/472-1551 boatt and prepare for sleep. Bold face denotes strong tide* or - . ' • 813/472-2332 Carolyn Smith kept careful watch during our Sleep was fitful for all aboard. Carolyn kept sail, silently fighting beck h&r^continuing fear waking to see if we had drifted out to sea. Emil that the boat would tip over. ? ,C and I, from our sleeping bag berths on deck, • continued on:6-B B6 December S, J07S Island Reporter Island Reporter December 8,197$ B7 Perfect winds promise a fine sail homeward By Norms and Fritr Stoppelbem # from 5-J3 , ; BLUEFISH Still proving elusive aroxind here. Guides larger ones in the Refuge creeks and around docks in v get into them around Johnson Shoals one day, the took to star gazing. By early morning we were We had faith m our captain, Peter Smith, the Sound; but the largest ones came from around v, former commodore of the Columbus, Ohio BUge next day they seour the area and find nothing even Punta Rassa area and the islands at the mouth of the swathed in moisture from the dew. ,. . and Bulge Yacht dub and dinghy racing fleet resembling a blue. At the other and of the islands,' a river and in Matlacha Pass. Small bait and small hooks 7:50 a.m. -- We're off under near perfect champion, 7 guide returning with his party at the end of the day . for these nibblers. - * winds. Emil has learned much about sailing spotted some birds circling and feeding near the POMPANO An occasional one reported from the and steers a true course 3/4 mile offshore Causeway. He went over to investigate ?what they shallow waters. One angler casting a tout off from the under the watchful eyes of ^the captain. were up to and his party ended up boating17 blues in Causeway islands landed a nice one. A few smaller short order; Another boater, fishing near the ones have come from surf fishermen and those fishing (Carolyn worries that the boat; will tip over.) starboard, our bodies parallel to the water. Causeway, reeled in his fish to find aU he had was the near the fishing pier. Minimum legal length for lOish — We sight the Sanibel Lighthouse. "Now there was a lift!" says the captain as the front end of a small grouper. A few minutes later, he pompano is 9Vt inches. 11:00 — Brunch and cocktails are served; the color slowly returns to our faces. reeled in a Wuefish, which probably explained the wind has shifted and we have done something Emil has learned much about sailing. IK tailless grouper. Blues have razor sharp teeth and can GROUPER Charter boats fishing offshore reefs are called "jibbing and jibeing;'* seas are about 372 really just along for the ride, have added some easily tear up smaller fish, your finger or your tackle. bringing in some good size grouper. Captiva Pass and feet. new words to,my vocabulary — cleats, jibs, To be sure, it is best to use wire leaders. If you spot a Bunche Beach areas have also been producing some of 11:45 ~ A giant manta ray jumps in front of coming about, halyard, line (not rope), lift, school, troll around it with silver spoons or cast into the four to five pounders for the boaters who don't go us .-- Emil says it must have a nine-foot wing header, and tack. I'm not too sure what they the school. Minimum legal length for bluefish is 10 offshore. Many boaters have been fishing the artificial inches. •/••'••'•. :.}'- '"'.' ''•..,'• ..,'.::•''.''• reef out of Big Carlos Pass. Unfortunately, many span. Almost immediately a school of porpoise all mean, but I'd be willing to learn. Offshore undersize grouper are being taken from the reef. begin a ballet across the water, jumping high Sailing School, here I come . . . yesterday SEATROUT Lots of silver trout around, as well as Year-old grouper are usually only about nine inches into the air seemingly for the sheer delight Naples, tomorrow the world. the larger spotted ones. Anglers find them on the flats long. If left to grow, they will increase four, to five of it. A fine day for sailing! off the Causeway islands and up the Sound as well as inches per year. Since they do not spawn until they 12:30 p.m.:-- We elect to anchor in the bay . Hang on for just a little while, Bradley. in the Refuge creeks. They were hitting touts as well are four to six years old, a new community can be within walking distance of home. The wind Next week well carry a story on the Offshore as live shrimp under popping corks. Minimum legal seriously depleted when those under the legal 12 picks up suddenly and -in a moment we list to Sailing School • . length for spotted seatrout is 12 inches. inches are removed in quantity. Let them go and let them grow. Minimum legal length for grouper is 12 SHEEPSHEAD A few small ones at the fishing pier; inches. ' " . For young men and women Jensen's Twin Palm SAMUEL'S ONLY DEEP SEA FISHING OPEN French Jeans ' PARTY BOAT ; N Men's Swimwear N $20.00 per person full day. Cotton Tops FLORIDA Resort & Marina SAILS DAILY 7:30 AM Skirts O Dresses O CITRUS So. American Imports Reso rt Cottages f o r a SNAPPER w Furniture , W ! We're a licensed Leather Goods pleasant stay; o Gifts o bonded fruit shipper Marina with boat rentals, p p boat ramp, gas, bait, ice E E Out Of Stale and charters. • Landlubber Shopping Plaza CALL TOLL FREE (800) 874-9063 1619 Periwinkle Vtey The all fruit gift box is probably the most popular of , Capt. Arrel Doane, guide Copt. 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I 1470 Periwinkle Way, ^nibelr Jlorida qcro^ frpm MARINA B8 December 8,1978 Island Reporter Island Reporter December 8,1978 B9 TENNIS UDDER By Capt Duke Sells Reports also tell me that snook- sorrie hot bluefish action just off nothing to go out and beat the Only a few challenges were recorded on Tween Waters Marina, Cmptiva ers are doing well at night along the passes of Redfish and Gaptiva water for. - \.•••''';'•••': '" '- -.;:''; ; Women's open the causeway and fishing pier as plus; some nice:>mac^ral were . Fm sure these fish were migrat- the ladder this week. Ben Bjerke challenged 1. Lou Anne Parker 472-5111 ext. 4151 This winter we have certainly well as Punta Rassa dock with live strung up along the outer bar at Tom Jisher for the mens number one 2. Anne Costanzo 472-1206 Islanders in tourney 1 ing down to the Keys where they position and won 4-6, 7-5, 6-3. 3. Pam Thompson 472-1712 been blessed with some downright bait or large live shrimp. Boca Grande.^.l^IBi^^.was.. -']&*»• will take up winter residence and John Conway challenged Bob Sabatino 4. Sandy Conway 472-2593. : :; • • "-Marge Peck and Jo Ann Fisher of hot weather which just seems to A decent number of redfish are lazy way of doing it but the casters we wjouldirt have seen them at all and^ won;6-2, -jlnBi - Mi'^^Len-^CIwiients' Sanibel, members of the Dunes Racquet 'I go on and on. Even the mosquitos cruising the woods on the extra .were doing best with jigs cast lip if not for the hot weather. challenged Ben Bjerke, but Bjerfce won 7 6, Mea*s 55 and over Club, participated in the Flagship Life and and no-se-ums don't know it's high tides this week brought on by .en the sand bars and jerked back Black grouper are still here in 6-3. .•:•.•:. "•••.• - .•.•.,•..•••; •• . •; ..-^. 1. Stan Johnson 472-4239 -• Breath State Tennis Tournament in Or- winter yet and continue to bug uV the new moons but watch you with a swift retrieve. ;•' • ' great numbers for the bottom 2. Earl Fisher 472-3064 mond Beaeh this past weekend. all on the upper islands. don't get hung up back there on A little wire is in order here as fisherman who is willing to go and 1 Mensopeo - r; .;* :.'-: .. .•<. •-• ••• .,•• .,.••. '•• •• 3. Joe Searing 472-4594 . • Ms. Peck and Fisher won the regional Course with»all of the hotthe falling tide as it has been the . mono leaders tend to look - atest the vagaries of the gulf. Just 1. Ben Bjerke 472-2057 4. Jim Peck 472^4998 title, in their division earlier this fall at the exposing a lot of land. I can just little rugged after three or four 2. Tom Fisher 472^3064 5. Don Anderson 472-4866 Fort Myers'Racquet Club which qualified weather, the fish are lovin' it and bear in. mind that the open water 3. Bob Thompson 472-1712 them for the state playoff. some hpt climate snooks are still imagine the amount of flak a poor fish and there is always that one at this time of year is worse than a 4. Mike Blue 472-2555 Women's 45 anid over ' Ms. Peck, a semi-finalist in the Women's around to testify. - soul would incur from the missus if mackeral with the sharpest teeth woman's whims and if you mess up 5. John Conway 472-2593 / •vl. Marge Peck 472-4998 45 singles division, was defeated by Ruby While fishing the woods yester- she had to pull a skiff over her who will claim your lure. and call her bluff, they'll carry you 6. Bob Sabatino 472-1451 2. Jo Anne Fisher 472-3064 Crabtree of Smyrna. day, I jumped several snook in the shoulder across a mud flat and the Doug Fisher of South Seas tells out in a rubber bag with a KIA tag 7. Len Clements 3. Renee Wadkovsky 472-2580 Both were finalists in the Women's 45 two to five pound class and one of sand flies - great on the pedicure me he caught a few tarpon that on your toe, that is if they can find 4. Bert Anderson 472-4866 doubles division, but were defeated by Herd the Captiva guides reportedly also. were strolling up the Gaptiva it. -- which they jwon'ti Good and Wickman of Deland, 6-2, 6-3. hauled seven to the dock. The gulf has been producing coast but. this was a rarity, and Fishing, /s/ Gapt. Sells DUGGERS OF SANIBEL HSH QQSHata anna The exerting way to cruise from BIDE] QEH2BEH BBED DBBH HBD0 0OECIH BQBBDQQQ BOB MIAMI TO THE BAHAMAS BBB DBBBEIDD •HE0D DDDC OBDD GIFTS BDnBC OBQ E3BBDB •DQH EQBD BBECB 0QDQD0D] GHQ Ownm MARIONMELVIN HEED 0EIH0DHE0 s/sdolphin Oporatorsl Joanna MolvlnA Donna Cartor shell net •nunaQ QCIQID HBBB Ladies Hand •'• " - C3HED EDBODBBHEBC] Ph. 472-2591 : 4 QID00 DBHHHQ BBS Nassau and ISLAND ART T 3 8c 4 Treat yourself to one of the Embroidered * " * ; ••so QHmaoo aQH Freeport - Night Gruises newest looks for the holidays! Go SHELL CREATIONS FINE JEWELRY Shirts ,:;k-.;' LEGALS LEGALS LEGALS LEGALS LEGALS LEGALS short and sleek . . .or long and fluffy! We'll cut and style your IN THE CIRCUIT COtIRT OF THE TWENTIETH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR Place Mats, Napkins and &Tops ..;:•$#$ LEE COUNTY, FLORIDA : ' CIVIL ACTION hair any way you like! Come in or accessories; Screen Printed THE CITY OF SANIBEL, a make an appointment soon! Florida Shell Designs Florida municipal corporation. In Tho Island Fair Shopping Cantor SHELLS-CORALS-SHEU. CANDLES Plaintiff, Across from tha No*» Library .*••% -silt SANIML ISLAND j» vs. CASE NO. 78-3371 CA-JRS ISLAND SHOPPING CENTCS Cotton .*-**§&&> EVENINGS BY APPOINTMENT : STATE OF FLORIDA, and the 472-1702 •''.''•••' --::•••:'.'••- '•&'.•* ':'•'•:'•'•'.•'.'-:• taxpayers, property owners P.O. Box 92 Dresses - and citizens of the municipality, including nonresidents owning Skirts & Tops property or subject to taxation 241B Palm Hdg* Road. SanIM Island therein, and others. Monday-Friday 9-5. Saturday 10-1. in Red I waning* and Waakands by appolntaant. Defendants. 47X4117 or call Mauraaa Smltt 472-1 «56 & Green for the ^^m^ holidays ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE TO: The State of Florida through the State Attorney Country Casual for the Twentieth Judicial Circuit of Florida; the several property owners, taxpayers, citizens and by Ficks Reed others having or claiming any right, title or interest in property to be affected by-the issuance of the bonds, certificates of indebtedness or proceedings in connection therewith, or to be affected thereby in any way. . . YOU ARE REQUIRED to appear at 9:00 A.M. on the 22nd day of January, 1979, before the Honorable Jack R. Schoonover at the Lee County Court House at Fort Myers, Florida, pursuant to the Complaint for Bond Validation filed in this cause by the City of Sanibel, through its attorney, Neal D. Bowen, in regard to thfes validation of certain indebtedness of said City for the purpose of acquiring certain real properties within the City commonly known as the Causeway and Algiers properties, to show cause, if you have any, why the indebtedness /as set forth in the Complaint should not be validated and confirmed. The indebtedness is a loan from the United States Farmers Home Administration, secured by a mortgage on the property and a pledge of certain non ad valorem revenues. The purpose of the acquisition of the certain property described in Her* Is on Invitation to relax.. .a bit of outdoors brought indoors. Country Causual has the Complaint is the public and municipal purpose of providing a charm all its own. o styl* that is gay and fresh and carefree. In mansion or cottage, town house or vacation home Country Casual • is right wherever wellbred informality is sites for open space and low intensity use natural recreation desired. - ~ " ' \ - - • V'"' - ' ; .-.:•. areas and other public purposes. __lT- >• "Distinctive Casual Furnrtura" Model and Sales Office DOME AND ORDERED in Chambers, this 28thday of November 1151 Middle Gulf Drive NEW FROM SURETY CONSTRUCTION 1973." ; " • • • ' • ' : • ' " ' •••'•;'•-••'•: ^ ': BAILEY'S Sanibel Island, Florida Sales Agent: ' Jack R. Schoonover Phone (813) 472-3208 Priscllla Murphy Realty,Inc. Realtors CLOTHING CENTER Circuit Judge ~~ "~ ' ~~ 153 1 Oth Street South Naples, Florida 262-6751 (mrt to •» Orog Shop! I Island Reporter December 8,1978 Bll BIO December\8,1978 Island Reporter Glimpse of Old Russia seen in Irkutsk 5-7 Irene Seayer Current standings W L Em Muench 189 By Jean Campbell later arrived in Novosibirsk (New Siberia). a trans-Siberian Railway Station. We had an introduction to Dr. Galazy, 1. Loggerheads 39 9 Barb Schultz 178 5-7 Rhonda Wilson That Sunday morning we hurried through Chief of the Baikal Institute of Limnology, 5-6-10 Linda Home As Siberia's largest city of lVs million, 2. Ron's Trailer Supply 33 15 Judy Price 175 There were seven of us going to Siberia the frozen streets among people bundled in which is devoted exclusively to the study of 4-5 Arline Mercer people, Novosibirsk is a crossroad for both 3. Island Services 30 18 following the conference: an erudite Ameri- drab woolens and boots. We walked past this unique spot. Dr. Galazy, an immense 3-10 Debbie Way air flights and the trans-Siberian Railway. 4. Hie Housekeeping Co. 29 19 Split convenionB can physicist, a Dutch couple, a Belgian We saw literally thousands of Soviets dozens of weathered wooden houses, win- man both physically and intellecutally, 5. Crown Plumbing 26 22 couple, and my husband and me. We were sprawled quietly and patiently with their dows and eaves garnished with colored spent much of his afternoon telling us many 6. Beach Floor Covering 25 23 Dunes A team joined by our charming Turkmenian inter- myriad bundles in the airport's waiting wooden fret work. There were typical scientific facts about Baikal. Baikal is over a 7. Mom's Crackerbox 25 23 preter, who would remain with us until we room. Later we saw thousands more pre-revolutionary houses of Russia now mile deep, its waters filling a rift in Siberia, 8. Casa del Mama 22:26 Inspection stickers each left Moscow for home, 11 days later. passively awaiting their train in the trans- being replaced by cramped modular apart- an area still being formed by earthquakes. 9. Earth Care 17 31 Flying Aeroflot, Russia's only airline and Siberian Railway Station, transferring to A Coast Guard sticker stating the date on incident in which 14 of 25 passengers and 2 16. The Open Gate 17 31 in fourth place the largest carrier in the world, is an the next legof their journey. which.a vessel's Certificate of Inspection crewmembers drowned when a; charter 11. Century 21 15 33 We were greeted by a grey, greasy rain expires now must be prominently displayed fishing vessel sank. One of the drowned 12. Scotty'sPub 10 38 and taut, resentful faces. We actually were on certain excursion and party, fishing crewmembers was the owner. Unknown to The Dunes Racquet Club A team is in locked in the foreigners' waiting room while Results from November 29 boats. the passengers, the vessel's Certificate of fourth place in its first year of competition Inspection had been surrendered by the in the Lee County league. .'. Intourist arranged for our luggage and Beach Floor Covering 1, Casadel Mama 3 This new Coast Guard regulation became hotel. This was a new, raw, energized previous owner who was not willing to pay The A team recently defeated Lehigh 4 0. This week Jean CampbeD trips Ron's Trailer Supply 3, Mom's Crackerbox 1 effective on October 15. It applies to all Soviet city, monotonous with its hundreds for repairs to correct serious hull deteriora- The team trails the Fort Myers and winds up her two-part Earth Care 2, Island Services 2 vessels that carry seven or more passengers of streets and thousands of boxy apartment tion; The new owner knew that the boat had Landings Racquet Clubs, each with 22 account of her recent 10,000 Loggerheads 4, Scotty's Pub 0 for hire. - buildings side by side. "Fifty families a problems but took on passengers for hire: points, and the Rangoon Racquet Club with The Open Gate 1, The Housekeeping Co. 3 If the sticker shows that the vessel's mfle trek through Russia. week move to newly constructed apartment Crown Plumbing 2, Century 21 2 Certificate of Inspection.has expired or if anyway. 21 points. The Dunes has 19 points. Meanwhile Jean and hus- buildings." We were unimpressed by Nov- The frozen streets of Irkutsk were the sticker is missing, the Coast Guard The Dunes B team, tied the Fort Myers band George have embark- osibirsk. advises that it is a good idea to look Racquet Club 2-2 in a make up game fitted with people bundled tn drub Results of 9/13 Postponed match -- Island ed on another journey to an The Beriozka shop in our hotel was Services 3, Earth Care 1 elsewhere for your boat tide. November 21, and lost to the Cape Coral intriguing . country: Red woolens and boots. The sticker must be posted on the vessel Yacht Club 8-1 last week. closing when we arrived. One of our Gun Club open China. group was prepared to spend a considerable High series where it is readily visible to each boarding A team singles player Costanzo picked passenger and to patrolling Coast Guard : up a win in the Lehigh match, as did doubles sum on Baltic amber. "Sorry," snipped the Em Muench 503 There is a hew Fort Myers Gun Club girl behind the counter. 'Tve already Judy Hiers 503 law enforcement personnel; featuring skeet, trap, rifle and pistol players Parker and Thompson, Muench and It holds 20 percent of the world's fresh Greenburg, and Mather and Zeiss. worked 20 minutes overtime. Come back Barb Schultz 479 ^ This new regulation is an attempt to help shooting. The range, located on Arcadia Monday." "But we won't be here Monday," water, more than the total of our own great B team doubles partners Peck and Zeiss Peg Friar 475 people recognize those vessels thai have Street in Fort Myers, opens at 9:00a.m. on experience worth relating. Aeroflot carries we pleaded. "Sony, then find another Lakes, and that water is so clear one can see and Grinnell arid Wadkovsky scored wins Jeannette Case 467 been inspected by the Coast Guard and are Wednesdays, . Saturdays and Sundays. 100 million passengers a year and millions of store." The advantages of captialism were a white sheet at a depth of 80 feet. against Fort Myers. Peck and Zeiss suffered in full compliance with the laws and Phone 332-0827 or 5494773 for more tons of freight, as distances are great and unknown here. There are 1800 living organisms within High game regulations written to protect passengers information and directions to the range. their first loss against Cape Coral. Pfahler there are few roads beyond the large cities. the lake, three-fourths of them unique to on vessels of this type. and Ireland had the only win for the Dunes We drowsed through an endless tour of Baikal, including the world's only fresh Judy Hiers 204 Foreigners enter the plane first with city squares, war memorials, busts of The regulation is an outgrowth of an in that match. water seal. No more industrial develop- Peg Friar 190 their . Intourist representative .. arid are revolutionaries, and by seas of grim, careful . seated together. The reek of garlic and last ments will be built on or near these waters city faces as we listened to our interpreter and those which exist are being phased out. night's stale vodka fumes, toilets and other drone on. unidentifiable odors, smack the face upon We were spellbound by this spot of natural beauty. . entry. The air vents are inoperative until That afternoon we drove 50 kilometers to the all new the flight is aloft. Akademgbrodok, or "Science City," where On our drive back to Irkutsk through the take a moment to consider your Next the Russians board, clothed in the cream of Russian scientific thinkers live taiga, yellow-hot pokers of larch trees little heavy wraps, boots and fur hats. Russians and work with thousands of technicians in glowed within the forest of dark conifers. survive the cold, I believe, by remaining in hundreds of laboratories. Here studies of We passed wooden villages mired in social life on the islands, their clothes for long periods of time. They parapsychology, chemistry, nuclear physics freezing mud, their occupants trudging up Sweet Sea Horse . seem to avoid the frigid, invigorating air. biology, mathematics, etc. are all pursued the sticky roads with water buckets, to the of more precisely, to consider enhancing your social life here on the islands. Never is there an empty seat on Aeroflot, as as an intregal whole in this ideal environ- community faucet. Long pencils of shadows Consider South Seas Plantation, an exclusive resort residential community is open passengers stream in with string bags of ment. ."'•'.. -' .j_ stretched across our road in the autumn for members, guests, and property owners. It features a variety of rental produce, loaded burlap sacks, bouquets of We found the surronnding forested hills twilight. It seemed we were witnessing the accommodations, three restaurants, shops, tennis, a deep water yacht flowers and ancient suitcases bulging with alive with golden beech and birch trees, ment buildings. We were told that in this old Russia of Tolstoi and Rasputin. basin, and extensive recreational facilities. - ' featuring: Bigelow tea & coffee who knows what, which are tucked onto lovely and bright. Except for a few duplexes dty a few of these small houses are being The seven were becoming weary of the racks above the seats. scattered in the forest, the sterile stacks of preserved as reminders of 19th Century pace of this long journey in this immense They board with babies swaddled tightly apartment houses for these esteemed Russian architecture. Their occupants were land and were ready to return to Moscow Florida Honey in blankets, the parents often carrying a scientists seemed tacky and dreary. still filling buckets with water from outside for a few days' rest before heading for children's potty which is put to use on the Irkutsk, our last stop in Siberia, was our faucets. To me they looked warm and cozy. home. Our flight refueled in Omsk, another Jams & Jellies floor when necessary. Seat belts are never farthest point north and east, only a ride of Our small party came upon a gold leaf, Siberian city with as many smoke stacks onion bulbed church with a service in belching forth as Gary, Indiana. Candy- progress. It was packed with local people of In Moscow we had leisure time. We found all ages this Sunday morning, chanting in a restaurant vibrating with "rock" and the soft morning light. Later I rushed back young Russians in a frenzy of gyration. social membership program Ice Cream with my camera only to find the church Some wore blue jeans. Western levis can doors locked and two orthodox priests cost a Russian $70 (U.S. money) a pair and a To accommodate island residents, and periodic visitors Yogurt pacing the court yard. youth who dares to wear such coveted attire to the islands who wish to avail themselves of certain Our interpreter was unaware of our among his peers may be asking for trouble. Plantation facilities, an annual Social Membership -.- Sunday morning escape and took us to In another Moscow night spot on another Program is available. The Program features: another church later that week. Inside an evening a Russian girl asked our Belgium old; bell ringer, busy at her task, and friend to dance and he obliged. Her Russian • Access to the South Seas Plantation property parties, food and wine tastings, celebrity tennis Open 10:00 to 5:30 boyfriend, well primed with vodka, became and the King's Crown Dining Room. Since the and golf exhibitions, art shows, theater, and wrapped in musty old woolens and felt slippers, halted her duties long enough to so enraged that our party beat a hasty resort property is not open to the general public, more. In addition, special beverage discounts and retreat to the street. this program entitles the member to visit other promotions will be offered on a regular basis. on the boardwalk at the sea horse try to forbid our entrance. A dozen old Plantation shops, restaurants, and certain re- Our Member Newsletter will announce these women and a man, faces creased with toil, We were bedazzled by the art treasures creational facilities. It also includes reservation various programs. . were chanting and praying. The incense of the Kremlin, mesmerized by the Bolshoi privileges in the award-winning King's Crown wafted upward in the waterly light of early Ballet and that strange. Oriental multi- Dining Room and Ship's Lantern Lounge. morning and the walls were luminescent domed cathedral, St. Basils. It is said that The cost of a Social Membership is $20.00 per i Ctwphsll with frescos of ikons which flowed upward Ivan the Terrible thought this creation so • Special discounts at. Chadwick's Restaurant. year. A discount of 25 percent is offered to over the walls and onto the ceilings. beautiful that he had the eyes of the This award winning restaurant features casual property owners on Sahibel and Captiva Islands. We watched in silence this rite within an architect gouged out to prevent him from dining, nightly entertainment, and dancing in an Memberships are sold on an individual basis and ancient church. "It's only a pompous designing another such masterpiece. exotic island atmosphere. Social members will be are not transferable. Each membership is accom- ceremony," our guide spoke up, intruding There is no doubt about it, Russia is entitled, to periodic special discount privileges not panied by an identification card for use at the upon our thoughts. "Only the curious come fascinating, her magnificent treasures of extended to the general public. entrance gate and on the property. The member- l» Novotibirtk, Siberia we drove by tea* of grim, careful city face*. here. Ther wfll be no more next Sunday the past, her dull, depressing utilitarian ship card cannot be used as a credit card. than there are now." present of endless colorless apartment • Participation in Special Events. A series of American Express, Master Charge and Visa credit Field Trips This, to us, was the most appealing dty buildings and huge public worksv more dear special member events is planned, including cards are accepted at South Seas Plantation. we had seen. With its old wooden houses, to their government than the creature to Sanibel's Wildlife Habitats checked; the seats often are frozen into a two days and nights on the trans-Siberian comforts of her citizens. Such contrasts! Please inquire at the South Seas Plantation Railway to the Pacific coast, but six days its ancient churches and its undulating backward or forward position. We are forests which stretched from the rim of the We are still curiosities to the Russians and Welcome Center or call (813) 472-5111, ext. 3348 literally packed into the plane like sardines and nights back to Moscow. As we they to us. - if you have any questions. The application form Visits to Ihr— Ptfferont Habitats with no leg room at aU. On a steep take-off descended we saw that the long prongs of city to the horizon, it smelted of Old Russia, below is offered for your convenience. srvV Thursday mnd Saturaay not yet contaminated by progress. But for me, the best was that brief •y.——rwlloiuOitfy lunch trays that have not been secured winter had daubed the taiga eider white glimpse of Old Russia in Irkutsk with its clatter to the floor. By this time, when air with stow. The taiga is that endless forest We were driven to Lake Baikal one day, Wsanasaays - Opaa trip that fabled honeymoon spot of Christine gold cupoloed churches, their tired worship- Special Trips By Appointment vents are opened, we are almost comatose. of conifers, birches and beech trees which pers and smoking incense, the unpainted Once, while poised for takeoff in Siberia, I extends hundreds of mfles north to the Onassis and her new Russian husband. "Has Christine 0 made it here for her honeys wooden houses, aromatic smoke from FORINfOWKATION glanced out-the window to observe what tundra. The sun was rising in a crystal clear chimneys announcing that winter was NAMK seemed to be another jet descending for a sky and upon landing we were jotted awake moon?" we asked, There was a brief CALU-47a-21tX> discussion between the two interpreters approaching, and the thick forests aflame ADDRESS' landing directly on top of us. I almost by the freesinfc air skirting over ice puddles with autumn. fainted from fright. In fact, it landed on this early October morning, v ' with us that day. "Christine who?" Of Of course there was the sincerity of our TKU-PHOXE ISLAND PROPERTY OWNER? parallel to us on the same runway, its wing There are only 82 frost-free days a yea* in course they didn't, know who she was. Truly tips only a few feet from ours. I then' Baikal is Russian's most lovely spot -. a scientific friends and those in Askhabad Iriratsk where winter temperatures often who seem less burdened by dogma than the I.CX.AJ ADDRESS *>*—• reasoned *hrt Soviet sir controllers are well drop to 50 degrees below aero P. Irkutsk deep, dear body of water surrounded by awareof eyei^ sp^kin the »ky, and in spite forested hills and snow capped mountains - ordinary man. We were receptive because hasuinore sunny days than Nice. France. we knew that we were returning to the .\1;iil \\iili yi.ur femiuujiu' for mionhmhip to: S*uti Membership'Program..'' of all that gperon inthe main cabin, Russian. During Gsarisi times Iitottak was renowned still pristine in its natural state. There was South Seas Plantation planes aro excellent, as are their pilots. a bitter wind that day which whipped the U.SJV. We were interested enough to for' its - brutish cold and poverty, just the stretch a hand across the abyss of misunder- ."P.O.'Box- 191 place for exiled revolutionaries: Now it u lakeV surface into lacy white caps. Winter iiva. Island. Florida 33924 i. We skirted the snow-encrusted moun- standing to these people and most respond- tains of the Hindu Rush and seven hours known primarily for nearby Lake Baikal and would soon lock this part of the world in its SoOoEconomic Environmtntol Impotl icy grip'. T ^ •..-,'":"•./ ; ' "•'• ."'"•.•• ed. '"•"••••.• •.•.•••'••.•'• ' -'•• '.""• "'• '-" Island Reporter December 8, 1978 B13 B12 December 8t 1978 Island Reporter S omewhere on Sanibel there By Renee Twombly performed with those from the Is a gourmet Kitchen which Lee County Dance Council. Sanibel's The rhythmic tap of toe shoes on Admired by the audience was the wooden slat stage floor afe^ the .modern dance 'TJntitled." rings the best in continental cuisine companied the dancers' floating Vivaldi's drive was matched by ; : : pirouettes and light arabesques as that of the Ballet Royal perform- .. 'and' .'•. •'••" '^, ."': •' •'•• '". : ;;.'•;... r. "V-.".'- . .;•••;;'.'• v.;v strains of classical music followed ers under the direction of chore- O ppulent dining to your table every fluid movementi ographer Choo San Gqh. All the discipline and training , The next two selections on the necessary for the presentation of program were • excerpts from the otable foods at a reasonable price ballet was evidently^ appreciated '•Nutcracker Suite."•: This well as guests applauded: the five known-ballet depicts the Christ- A modern dance selection different dances perfbrineoVin "A mastime tale of a little sleeping called "Unfitted" tods a Since 1957 Celebration of th£ -IJaiice TIT' girl who dreams of the folklore favorite of the audience atthe Fort Myei?sE^ibitiph;fiall during Saturday's "A Cele- Dave and Chris Wackerman found in the larger world beyond bration of the Dance III" last Saturday night; V • her bed: Tschaikoysky provided invite you to the Nutmeg for The classical balletv "Les the melodyv to "Danse Arabian" i Sylphides," choreographed by and ''Danse Trepak," both choreo- A FRESH NEW IDEA IN DINING Fokine to Chopin's music, opened graphed by Edith Royal and the evening's: entertainment.^It is danced by the Ballet Royal. Well ed by Meyerbeer's light and bright the performance they gave are CHOOSE FROM OUR SELECTION OF FRESH VEAL a series of set pieces that tells the received was the sparkling and music. Costumes and lighting indeed to be celebrated. Highly DISHES INCLUDING story of a young poet who, whitei powerful three man Russian Cos- were excellent in this production, attended at its two. previous standing in the^inoonlight, be- sack dance of the "Danse Trepak." VeoJ Nutmeg: Breast of Chicken and Escalope of Veal stuffed with imported Ham and r as they were in all of the annual performances, the Lee routing rinmes*. dipped in our o**t hotter of egg and fresh Pormtson cheese. lieves he sees mystical creatures Continued in the final dance of selections: The combination of the County Dance Council can be OPEN 7 DAYS or fairies. the celebration was this flow of Lee County Dance Council and regarded as an instrument that CHOOSE FROM OUR NEW SEAFOOD MENU - 11:30 A.M.-7:30 P.M. .Difficult to perform even for the. energy, streamlined in movement guest artists from the, Dance keeps dance as an art form alive ' Si Bon is at 2^4 Periwinkle Way , professional, the work was danced as the dancers glided their way Company of Sarasota effectively and healthy in the area; Members INCLUDING between Dunham's qf Maine and Tuesday's Child across stage. "Les Patineurs" YOU MAY ORDER AHEAD well, even though a common link and delightfully ^Iritrpduced the of the Dance Council will be dams Cosmo. Oysters on the V4 shell. Clams on the % shell between the individual sets was (The Dancers) choreographed by -season with their performance. auditioning for, an "Evening of Try us for lunch from 12-2 for Chicken crepes florentine, or our 3 varities of' fresh country OUR PHONE NUMBER IS: 47Z-3888 not apparent. Guest artists from Russell Fratto was a fanciful taste . Representing an average age Dance" to be presented May 12, quiche. ' ' • . BON APFETIT! the Ballet Royal of Winter of winter and romance, highlight- of 17, the Companys' dancers and 1979/ Join us on Sunday for our Champagne Brunch served from 12-2. . Dinner 5:45 - 9:00 Closed Mondays Serving SanibeFs Finest Seafood Reservations Accepted 472-JJ41 Since THE Breakfast Place 2761 W«st Gulf Driv«.Santb*l Continental £/ Cuisine : Specializing in Northern Italian-Wrench Dishes ..- (hrerlooldiig the Golf onBewntttolSuiibellsUitd CUTLET ALLA MILANCSE : • SHRIMP SCAMPI ALLA NEAPOLITAN VtAiCUTLCT ALLA PARMIOIANA "'; ' ' ' • BAKED tOO SNAPPf R AUA NIAJPOLfTAN Someofourfine dishes: AUTHENTIC VEAL SCALOPPINE • MANICOTTI - A DELICATE CHEESE SOUFFLE BRAOUOLINI (STUFFED TOP ROUND STEAK) • SPAGHETTINI SERVED WITH A VARIETY SHRIMP NEWBURG STUFFED CANNELIONI OF SAUCES BAKED LASAGNA ALLA NEAPOLITAN • IAKED BREAST OF CHICKEN (SAUTEED IN LOUISVILLE HOT BROWNS RED SNAPPER EN PAPILLOTE WHITE WINE & MUSHROOMS) Fresh Stone Crab Dinners - • AUBERGINE ROULTtNE FILET STEAK AU BEURRE #Sw*«t Succulent South African Lobstar Tails 708 TARPON 47JM8W ALL DINNERS INCLUDE OUR SPECIAL CREPES & OMELETTES MONDAY NIGHT. NEAPOLITAN STYLE ANTIPASTO 25* DRAFT WITH LUNCH Breakfast £ Lunch as usual Fine Food, Drink and Conversation Your Hosts: Margie Ann and Louis Letizia CLOSED MONDAY 472-9976 3313 West Gulf Drive, Sanibel, Florida 472-2177 Whole Maine 362PeriWinkle Way.Sanibel Island, Florida Sorry, reservations not accepted Open 5:00-930 p.m. Closed Sunday & Monday H| LOBSTER $6.95 'Home of the Sanibel Sauce" VISION? NO! You really did see the gang from . The Mucky Duck at The Castaways. LUNCH 12:002:30 MONDAY-FRIDAY We operate that restaurant (Closed Saturday-Lunch only) as well. ^ ••- DINNER 6:00-9:30 MONDAY-SATURDAY directly on die Gulf Closed all day Sunday Lunch 11:30-2:00 Dinner 6;00-9:30 In the Heart of Downtown Captiva 472-3434 COME AND SEE US! •••;••. closed Sunday At BUnd Pass on Sanibel 472-4244 Island Reporter . December 8^1978 B15 BI4 December g, i&te Island Reporter "sparkles with an idea. It holds work, York adds, "My work is' "Artists - are always dreaming goat, a stuffed chicken," a tennis together and has something to looser arid, more subjective than up • jnew ideas. These are not;shoe, a bed* a$fd pictures of John say. Good art has a structural something you would expect from always in. the realm of readily F. Kennedy. "Through his choice quality that makes it whole . . . Joseph Albers, for example. I like decipherable contexts by the lay- of images," York explains, makes it organic. Bad art simply water, seashells, and biomorphic man. They have to be learned. Art "Rauschenberg communicates in a doesn't communicate." forms as opposed to strict geomet- is freedom on the one hand to do subtle way. Who else can put By Bruce Millar >v include studio ; art, art -history, ric shapes. My works are. in a whatever you want but there are those kinds of images together and York's intricate pen and ink surreahst vein and, as far as certain structural contexts that make them work? It has some- A deep admirer of the work of drawing, painting, sculpture and basic design.. A part time staff, drawings reflect the fine techni- images are concerned, they are we all relate to. There are'ways thing to/do with the way he com- Robert Rauschenberg, Robert In- que and craftsmanship developed intuitively based rather than that we see things biologically and municates." diana, .Jim Dine, Ellen Franken- offers classes c1n_ photography, etching,:silk screen,:and jeyrefry. in his .earlier days.as a commercial worked oujt intellectually." psychologically. Artists look York's most recent one man thaller, and-Max Ernst, artist artist. "I think my commercial^rt Non-objective art involves the around and filter what they see show was at ElC.CL last January. Robert York is a recent arrival on Rather than devote a lot of class tiine lecturing on; the theory of art background makes me conscious of single interplay of color and into their work. They clarify these He has previously exhibited his Sanibel. > ^ ; ; technique and materials. I was in shapes to the exclusion of image. ideas in terms of color, shape; and work in Danville, Virginia; High For the past seven years* York and oni ti^vwjrjk: oil other artists, Yor^^piits his students; to work school at the tail end of the Many viewers, accustomed to the comparisons of qualities in tex- Point, North Carolina; Greens- has been head of the art depart- Bauhaus period when you studied recognizable images of conven- ture." boro, North Carolina and Muncie, ment at Edison Community Colt doing art and creating art projects themselves. ^'1 try -to encourage the relationship of material to the tional art, are often puzzled by, He cites Robert Rauschenberg, Indiana. There are no immediate lege where he teaches about 150 idea. You also asked yourself a lot and even resentful of the work of internationally known artist and plans for anotherlocalshow. "You students a semester. His courses them and tell them they are on the iig i tk"h^^y I ^ of questions about form and func- York and painters like him. York Captiva resident, as one who can't exhibit unless you produce," "My works are m o surrealist vein ;' leave them with an understanding tion. My drawings, therefore, are accounts for some of this confusion involves everyday objects and York points out, "and I hope my and, as Jar as mages are concerned, of the difference; between > good exacting and complicated." by outlining what he sees as the artifacts in works of art. Previous new environment will give me they are'intuitively based rather In further description of his own role of the artist. Rauschenberg pieces have used a further impetus to paint." than worked out intellectually,"- . and bad art," he adds: ,-•- -•'• says ~ " "Good ' arti" YorWv explains, DINING! CHRISTMAS MEAT MARKET Dinner 5:00- 9:30 An Old Time Butcher Shop Everyday CARDS where we serve to serve again Over-the-counter service, afid specializing in BROWSE IN OUt BEAUTIFUL BATH SHOf From scratch fresh seafood, 2400 Palm Mdg* Bd. albums and cards in stock meats for your freezer. •••.• •:= '.'• •- •- >.-•: .-:• Gifts Galor* ^...-:•;.:•; -. Mon.-Wed, 8-5:30; Thurs.-Sat. 8-6 • Show«r Carfaias .:.'-'' -•;*.: Pillows ..:.•• . . 829 SE 47*.h Terrace, Cape Coral • BoHrtaasIc Towels . * loach Towel* Aged Western Beef, cocktails. 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Sun. 12noon-6:00p.m. Luncheon Specials served from 11 a.m. in limited quantity : Dinner Specials served from 5 p.rn.-9 p.m. ISLAND SHOPPING CENTER (NEXT TO BAILEY'S) Closed Sunday--472-2525 .: Island Reporter December 8,1978 B17 B16 December 8,1978 Island Reporter WHATCOOKS Air pollution subject of Lung Association report a ers Even healthy lungs may be damaged by animal experiments, experimental human as specific pollutants such as the sulfur Single copies of the report are available By Twink Underbill EggsALaNeige egg whites and gradually add theuntil light and beat in V2 cup exposure to a single air pollutant, according exposures and epidemiological studies of Oxide/particulate complex; photochemical as a Christmas Seal service from the % cup sugar until egg whites are sugar, another pinch, of salt and to a new report issued by the American exposed human populations. Converging oxidants, nitrogen oxide and carbon American. Lung Association of Southwest Lung Association, the Christmas Seal lines of evidence from all three areas are monoxide are examined. Health damage by Florida, 2300 Euclid Avenue, Fort Myers When large numbers of women 4 cups milk * stiff. the flour. Beat in a little of the hot people. went to work outside the home analyzed in detail. Effects on both adults occupational air pollutants such as cadmium 33901 and 3400 S. Tamiami Trail, Suite 6, 6 Egg whites . . • • Drop 3 large mounds of this cream mixture to warm the yolk A comprehensive overview of scientific and children of general air pollution, as well and' asbestos also is described. • . Sarasota, Florida 33579. and so called modern technological IV* cups granulated sugar meringue one inch apart into the mixture, and then stir the yolk data on air pollution and health, "The progress brought us into the Fast Dash of salt hot milk and cook for five minutes, mixture into the cream-milk Health Effects of Air Pollution" evaluates Food Age, some pleasant things the results and methods of more than 400 IV* cups heavy cream turning once. Milk should .' be mixture in the double boiler. Place Tom Crutchfield, a Fort Myers herpetolo- eggs. Since this species is an endangered fell by the wayside, homemade 3 studies. One cited study indicated lung A tsp. vanilla barely simmering: Remove with over simmering water and cook gist, will be the speaker for the fifth one, he is hoping to obtain a male to fertilize function of some apparently healthy people desserts among them.. That, 6eggyolks slotted spoon and drain on paper and stir until mixture thickens and program in Nora and Don Dietlein's any eggs his female may lay this year. is markedly decreased with exposure to low coupled with an ever-increasing l%Tbsp. flour towels. Repeat until- all of merin- coats the spoon, 5 to 10 minutes. "Gulfside Nature Series," Saturday, De- He is also very active in the school system doses of sulfur dioxide. In such hyper- concern about calories, has put gue is cooked and refrigerate Pour into a bowl and refrigerate. cember 9. around southwest Florida, teaching in Lee, 1 square unsweetened chocolate reactive individuals, continuing low-level dessert in limbo. them. Twenty or so minutes before Charlotte and other counties. exposure may lead to permanent lung Nature series Crutchfield, an authority on husbandry of The "Gulfside Nature Series" programs' serving, heap: the chilled merin- damage, the report suggests. crocodilians, will talk about the life history The day before or early in the Make the custard sauce in a gues into a deep serving bowl of alligators and how to live with them. He are held Saturday afternoons from 4:00 For those who dare to indulge, day you plan to serve this, scald double boiler by scalding the (glass is nice) arid j)our the chilled Prepared by an expert committee of the features alligators is well qualified to speak on this subject, p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at Sanibel Beach Club II, here is a recipe which will remind the milk in a large skillet. Beat the cream and adding the vanilla and custard sauce over them. Quickly American Thoracic Society, medical section since he runs the reptile display at Waltzing Lighthouse Road on Sanibel. The public.is you of Floating Island, but the egg whites until frothy and add IV2 cups of the milk used to cook shave the chocolate over the whole of the nationwide lung association, the. Waters. Crutchfield owns a rare female invited to attend and there is no admission meringue is on theTbottom and the the pinch of salt. Measure out 3A the meringues. thing and serve to eight apprecia- report examines three' areas of research: American Crocodile, which last year laid charge. custard on top in this one. cup sugar. Continue beating the In a bowl, beat the egg yolks tive people. . F Island Shopping Center- Next to Bailey's UNIQUE GIFTS \ (813)472-5151 •• ' ' & .• '.- '" Come down and,: join us during this CHRISTMAS SHOP the quietest time of the year. Peaceful relaxation and the gentle CALENDARS of Sanibel Island Gnome sound of the surf are all you'll isla d Audubon . experience* . And, our Summer Watership Down Rates are still in effect. Hand blown Oil Lamps uni®n Tutan Khamun WRITE: P.O. DRAWER A, lastoftheWildlands was ouse SANIBEL. Star Wars - three-sizes available. GAS STATION Birds in the Wild Star Trek An Unusual Christmas Gift FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE open daily 8:30 - 5:30 Grease - Close Encounters completely refurbished, with new machines Cousteau Society- and under new management closed Wednesday Lord of the Rings Open 9:30-5:30, Mon. thru Sat. Silmarillion Desk Diary 472-2767 Shell Desk Diary . Open Every Day - 7:00 A.M. - 8:00 P.M. 472-5111 also business diaries and calendars by Eaton Sanibel Center Building (corner of Casa Ybel Rd. & Periwinkle W ay) Ext. 3384 Macintosh Book Shop Yesr attendant on duty to assist you. 1 Sanibel-«72-1447 '•:-.. I 1 MEL KERN PRESENTS SANTIVA TWO FINE RESTAURANTS ON SANIBEL ISLAND EACH WITH IT'S OWN DISTINCTIVE DECOR AND EACH WITH IT'S OWN FINE MENU FOR YOUR DINING PLEASURE MART F&B OYSTER CO. Dec. 3-15 at Edison Community College . r " College Pkwy, ?t. Myers * FOR CONVENIENT DISTINCTIVE GROUP SHOWING; SELECTED AMERICAN ARTISTS Jan. 8-20 at Schoolhouse Gallery . DINING HARVE BRADLEY; ORIGINAL PAINTINGS Feb. 12-24 at Schoolhouse Gallery Open 7 Days ON SANIBEL ALEXANDER BEATTIE; IMPRESSIONIST PAINTINGS A Week Feb. 26-Mar. 10 at Schoolhouse Gallery MAC SQUIRES; ACRYLIC PAINTINGS A delicious Mar. 12-24 at Schoolhouse Gallery adventure in dining IKKIMATSUMOTO; ORIGINALS & PRINTS with a wide and varied A FISH HOUSE Apr. 7-15 at Canterbury School Groceries-Meats College Pkwy.,Ft. Myers menu featuring everything Featuring GROUP SHOWCMG; SELECTED FINE ART Gold Beer &vyine from ship to shore, Santbel's newest purely seafood restaurant destined to become one of the islands finest. To assure receiving invitations to featured Magazines-Post Cards great salads, and FRESH SEAFOOD show openings, kindly contact The Gallery, 472-1193 Hats-Health & Beauty Aids hot pop-overs. Serving Breakfast, Lunch Fresh seafood dinners served daily CHOICE STEAKS Fishing Tackle and Dinner Daily. PRIME RIBS Entertainment 5:00pm to 10:00pm and a delightful array in our Featuring Sanibel's of Soups on/y Raw Oyster Bar Appetizers And Salads Fo'C'Sle Lounge open 7 days 5-1030 1231 Tullpa Way (Gulff end off Donax Street), Sanibel 2163 Periwinkle Way, Sanibel Full-Liquor License Tarpon Bay Road • Daily 10-5 / except Sunday •'P-.: 472-3275 472-3128 • Comer Rabbit Road & Sanibel-Captiva Road I Island Reporter December 8; 1978 B19 B18 ; December 8,1978 Island Reporter - bridge team at a very serious game 11:1 Pi Oscar bid 2 spades, Rosabel passed, as did , "This should be a< pushover," sneered Con passed, Cindy bid 2 hearts, - (silence!)— Fran seated southwest Duplicate Bridge tonight at 7:30 North [Peter] Peter and Ellie. Hoping to geti ruff, Rosabel Criane;^w]h6 arihbrred woinen players and had woke up just in time and squeaked, "Alert!" at Community Association building S-A9 Jed the heart 10. It didn't matter what was^ been heard to comment, as he voted against Con thundered, "What does that mean?" Fran H-KJ9 played from dummy. Ellie Ayon the trick, their being admitted to the club "just a lot of quavered, "We've just learned Jacoby trans-' By Norma Loos DA 10 5 3 cashed her second heart and )^ve Rosie a twittering and chirping.** fer bids, and I guess it means I have to bid 2 G-A106 4 heart ruff;' Then with .'a- patient smile she sat • Wise ol* Owl, ;the unofficial referee of the spades," which she did. Con passed, and Cindy With due apologies to Victor Mollo, whose back and waited for her own trump triek as: Eagles'Nest games, leisurely sauntered over. thankfully passed. Con was up a tree for a "Bridge in the Menagerie" depicts the amusing West [Rosabel] East [Ellie] well as one m each minor suit, r - Hethoujgjhthe^ be needed. lead, so he led the Jack of spades. Fran took it side of a serious game, and to Sam Stayman S-Q2 S-J10 4 "Too bad," said Peter, *'but we may still get IF'ran as they sat with the Ace, led another spade to the King, and Oswald Jacoby, whose names are not used H-10 6 HA Q 54 3 a good board. The girls may play it at 1 NT and and when the Queen dropped she was home D-Q9 7 64 D-KJ I- :ii6:Wltf " ; ' ' V ' " v/: "We've just, begun advanced bridge lessons safe. Leading a small heart, she finessed the in vain, this hand was played in the Eagles' 1 C-KJ8 5 South [Oscar] C-Q7 3 •i Crazy Old Crow, who by virtuevof his age vHth Joe," (The bridge authority on the island, nine, which Con took with the Queen. The Nest clubroom at the Sanctuary. It was ladies S-K8 76 5 3 opposition could take one trump trick, two teams against men's teams and Peter Pelican H-8 7 2^ and beingvtfejoi^ in the who also directs the duplicate games at the and Oscar Osprey drew Rosabel Spoonbill and club, had been allowed to kibitz. ; Community Center on Friday nights), "and heart tricks, and one in each minor suit. D-8 2 Wise ol' Owl, a ladies' man if ever there was Ellie Egret. Their partners were defending C-9 2 ^UhlrVtffii^jijhl.-^hrihe^w^' but nobody we might get our signals mixed," said Fran champions Sam Spoonbill and Con Crane, who paid any attention to him. Little did they; apologetically. Sam, always a gentleman, said one, knowing from experience you never know ; : ; what to expect from a woman, just said, played Fran Flamingo and Cindy Sandpiper. know! -' ' - "N-.-.'-- ' /• ...•/. -.•'••• • ;.• '"- • - ' - ' nothing, but thought, "Typical L.O.L. (little At the first table, where, the boys were Vulnerable: East-West. Dealer; North. At the other table there were fireworks old lady>, watch out!" "Who-o-o! Who-o-d!" playing Stayman, the bidding went like this: Peter bid 1 NT, Ellie sighed and passed, from the start. ' Fran bid 1 NT, Con's eyes glistened as he Con Crane was speechless. Get Ready For Christmas! RESIN SUPPLIES ENAMEL on COPPER JEWELRY FINDINGS Sanibel's first and Finest Seafood Re^taur^nt SHELL DISPLAY BOXES - PLAQUES The Roving Stockings for your mantel, SPRAYS. GLUES, ADHESIVES , including Christmas theme transfers, CRAFTS & SHELL SUPPLIES CRAFT SHELLS SHELL & CRAFT BOOKS Reporter just $5.00 DeBIJOUTERI JEWELRY Nightshirts, with transfer, to stuff catches - into that stocking, just $350 *W Ruth & Phillip Hunter We'll be open 'til 9 p.m. Dec. 18-23 to help enjoying lunch at with your last minute selections. "Best Restaurants; Florida1' by Robert Tolf, noted restaurant critic, lists only HANDCRAFTED GIFTS AND CRAFT SUPPLIES the Harbor House front SanibeL. .-.,__•'.._• Sweat Shcp * HOURS: 10 TO 3 Monday-Saturday 2365 PERIWINKLE WAY SANIBEL Try us, and you'll see why. #18 Periwinkle Place Shopping Center Open Monday through Saturday Dinner 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p:m. serving daily from 11:30 till 2:00 (or even seriously consider) 1244 Periwinkle Way. Sanibel Island Dinner from 5 till 10 472-1242 Sundown Special from 4 till 6 in Tahitian Garden - BOTI1G coconut restaurant & IITERUL cocktail lounge OWIERSHIP © 21 years of fine food & fine service © On Sanibel Island SEAFOOD UNTIL... The Islands Italian-American Fam i I v •' Rest a u rant SPECIALISTS "Don't let your coffee cup ice up Local & International Dishes YOU again this year!" "It won't, if you BREAKFAST, & DINNER Have Visited live in the new SPAGHETTI & SPECIAL Luncheon & Dinner Specials I! Salad Bar & Dunes ""'.• '.'-.-'• • • • • '. ' ' * " • " S - . ' ALSO FULL MENU •'••','"'•;• .*'•"••• Located in The Dunes Subdivision, Plus, private balconies overlooking the Dunes Cottage Condominiums the Golf Course, providing beautiful Sunday Smorgasbord offer year 'roundSanibel living at it's views of the Sanibel Sunsets, add to Also a wonderful selection of best. Tennis, fishing, golf and.a great the enjoyment and the relaxing^ at- club house are all within walking mosphere of the Dunes. Move quickly Domestic and Imported to get the view you tvant distance. Wines & Beer ^ Full menu and cocktails available Located in the Island Shopping Center on the Gulf of Mexico SiiiNMl Today For Your S«ntb«l Tomorrows "••"Lunch 11 "a.'fn^lb 2 p.m. " Dinner 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Corner of Periwinkle Way & Tarpon Bay Road Casa Ybel Road at Gulf Drivivee \ "W» ComrTiM HUmA" Sunday BreakiFasV8a.rn. to 2p.fn. I* 473444a Cantor tat'ond OffflcM |u«t East of il» bank. 1633 PwfcMifcto Way - 47«.lS«t Located at 1625 Peri winkle Way 472-103 3 open every day \ \ am'-: :10 pm (813)472-1531 REALTOR East Office In tho Huxt*r's Marftot Plaza. 1207 Poriwlnkl* Way.- 472-1M* IslandReporter December 8,1978 B21 B2D December 8,1978 IslandReporter AT THE SANIBEL LIBRARY SUDDENLY AT THE CAPWVA LIBRARY THERE'S SUNFLOWER: »••!: which good men rise from humble toil, By Freda Iurka . By Mary R. Kelsey from modern times along with amusing bad men are bankers and women are personal anecdotes. For cat lovers, to better understand lovely. For an undemanding evening is the "Second Generation" by Howard The time has come to put this book up for the common signs of illness or injury. A circulation... : : Cops) Castle; by Juliet Astley. Writing as quick reference to information as to Fast.:' ; ;•' •..:•:•• . "., ':- ;"• " ••;.. Juliet Astley, Nora Lofts, captures all the We Do It. whether house treatment or a veteri- Old Christmas, by Washington Irving. A quirks and eccentricities of her characters. "La Belle Edmee," at fourteen nary is the answer. "The Well Cat i facsimile of the first edition originally Copsi Castle, a force in itself, dominated by River Rock is your best solution to Book" by Terri McGinnis DVM. already seductive, sets out "to de- molish morality, good behavior, what- published in 1875. Old Christmas stories its malign and murderous heir apparent, is those patio covering problems. We wul-people-say standards" shocking first published as part of the famous Sketch the unforgettable scene of dynastic mayhem Marian Chaplin, Sanibel poet has Book, are among the earliest popular in this sweeping novel of twisted passions presented a new; copy oi her "Shells her provincial* friend by using weekly spread a high quality Epoxy Bonded church services.to screen her. rendez-, accounts of nineteenth-century English and unchecked ambitions. and Clams andI Sandygrams" 0 the Christmas customs, many of which were River Rock on your pool or patio Sanibel Library [her third printing]. vous: A stylishly atmospheric treat by Suzanne Prou. adopted in the United States. Irving writes The Stand, by Stephen King. Another deck.... .PERMANENTLY! We can also of misletoe and evergreen wreaths, Christ- novel by the author of The Shining. The Steve and Helen Anderson move into mas candles and the blazing Yule' log, Stand is a story of dark wonders and -. "More Money for your Retirement:" an isolated old house neartheriver Lod singing and dancing, carolers at the door irresistible terror, an epic of final confronta- do your concrete under that River John Barnes presents a valuable and and both are strangely drawn: to the and the preacher at the church and of course tion between Good and Evil. Rock, too. So get it done right the river through circulating stories about informative work on the complexities the festive Christmas dinner. The book is its weak banks and dangerous tinder- of estate planning as well as the fiscal : illustrated by Caldecott with charm and first time ... as it is the only way ybu tow. Rarely has a mystery been «o realities of retirement \ • -:;'..• .•. . compatibility. OBITUARY Introdu gloriously overwhehned by atmos- will be happy with River Rock. Call phere. A tautty sustained composition new Sumiower Faeries, by Brian Froud and Alan Lee. ia "The Qufct Riyer" by P.M. Hubbard. "X Marks the Spot:" One-handed for a free estimate. The two gifted artists who created this book Kristin Marie Asp adult ; pickpocket meets American ex-med (ji have made a study of the history of Faerie. "Hie Duchess of VidaT by Dawn student in London. Together they Going, to old sources they examined the Kristin Marie Asp, 16, of Fort Myers, condominiums. LJndsey is another Regency romance conspire to dig up the bones of Karl $ myths and legends, sorted fact from fancy, died Sunday in the Fort Myers Community bait with more pixazz than some better Man [buried in a cemetery m the Fn>monlV 44,990 and, finally, illuminated their findings with Hospital as the result of heart failure. She known runners. ../.;•••• - .••.-. . northern suburbs] and hold them for. over two hundred extraordinary drawings was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John \ye not oily ransom. Hundreds of ieon-hungry and full-color paintings. Both artists live in Roger Asp of Fort Myers, both of whom "TTie Heart Attack Book" by Joseph mnnist partfoarespond and ao develops Devon, England, working together dose work with Priscilla Murphy Realty, Inc. on give you the sun, S. Alpert MD: A neai intelligent and this whimsical caper by Michael But- by the brooding woods and high, windy tors Sanibel. , .•-••• reassuring book wefl suited/ to anyone wegivejpu ••terwortn.:;,";:^:,;^^ ,;'..•;;••. _ .--, • of a land that seems perpetually steeped in Miss Asp was a junior at Bishop Verot who has had or is at rlak of havmg a the faerie spirit. High School and a member of St. Hilary's the moon. heart attack. ; • •'- : .:.;. .. 332-0361 •936-3331 3205 Hanson St. :; A reminder: At Hie desk" in the Episcopal Church. Ft. Myers, Fla. Building since 1952 Sanibel library is a Bat «f books which Living with the Bible, by Moshe Dayan. Other survivors include her. paternal 1. here's a fresh, Part H ("TTie Irami - war*pa>t yp A very special recreation of some of the grandfather, Julian Asp of St. Paul, Min- 1] about a San Fn family in bright, colorful new the Ubrary if one so desires. most dramatic events of the Old Testament nesota; her maternal grandmother, Mrs. apartment condo- as well as portraits of many of the Bible's Bernice Johnston of Perrysburg, Ohio; and most fascinating characters. Dayan brings one brother, Kirk Asp of Fort Myers. minium concept under alive the' life, mood and world of those A memorial mass was held Tuesday in the sunny blue skies Southwest Florida's Newest and Greatest Entertainment Centers : ancient times and also depicts the great Fort Myers. . . •'..•..'.. of Leisure Village at Tigures of the Bible as they must have been Memorial contributions may be made to SUPF. RR BUFF f Seven LakeL in real life. While he recounts the history of the Heart Fund, care of St. Hilary's IF JADE IS DISCARDED AND PEARLS ->the past,' he also includes parallel stories Episcopal Church in Fort Myers. Sunflowel| DESTROYID;PCTTY THIEVES Will : . A new expting way DISAPPEAR, THERE BEING NO of living thepctive talre VALUABLES LEFT TO STEAL. adult lifestyj|. With great new flfbr plans It's Great Fun after a Gourmet Feast...] from a dictionary publlsrMd during the r»lgn OnCaptiva of th.fmp«x>r KanglUl (A.D. 1662-1722) and deluxe features since 1927 at an astonishing value. buffet on stage] But we givewou so SALADES Winter Salade Mold much more |han just Mixed Green Salade Garnie spectacular Kew apart- Assorted Salade Pierre ment homes; A fabu- Caesar Salade Cottage Cheese Supreme lous "Millicfn Dollar" ENTREES 1711 Perlwlnkl* Way. noxt to Dbttl's recreation pavilion. Roast Beef au jus Chicken Susan A golf cour ie, of Seafood au Gratin course. Ten rtis courts, Specialty du jour Gerlinger OpeBt For Breakfast, LEGUMES shuffleboarai courts, Parsley Potatoes swimming pool, 24- Rice aux Champignons Lunch and D hour securiiy and Vegetable du jour jfeof House carefree maintenance. DESSERTS Bavarian Cream w/Strawberry Flambe Come see Siinflower Fruit Delia Robia • Homebaked Cake starring JIM FARGO as TEVYE Breakfast- Lunch: 8:00 -1:30 today. We riot only Here's what the critics say: give you thp]sun,we "Never has any other musical so magical- 'This is the musical that makes its !BMM$L$$l)Ml ly woven music, dance, poignancy, humor audiences feel like dancing in the aisles Dinnen 6:00 - 9:00 give you the! moon. and a rendition of a certain time and with its songs and excitement, yet its place, into such an electrifying and emotion has put permanent lumps in unforgettable experience . . . filled with mass, throats .. . One of the great works laughter and tenderness, it catches the of the American musical theatre. It is Featuring essence of a moment in history with darling, touching beautiful, warm, funny sentiment and radiance." and inspiring." John Chapman, N. Y. Daily News Howard Taubman, N. Y. Times MATINEES - THURSDAY K SUNDAY EVENINGS 1U '.'.•ED . THUHS . SUr Seafood Buffet 6:00 - 9:00 BUFFET 11 45 AM • CUHTAIM ' .',() i";l BUFF I T h i)0 C CURTAIN I-; ~\':> P'.'l TOTAL PKICE $13 l'~> \.i,. n..i IOTAI S'KI .Si') 1)0 1,i>. :iu: MCI' SI / DU :,!•. :rn.! FRI ry SAT BUFFET 6 Oi) Pi.i < J i;! T Al N •-: HiPM IOTA! Prime Rib %eeialSatarday 6:00 -9:00 'Hf A 1 i'[ BO.'- of ( ic f i 0 L U t Sunday BriMch 10:00 r 2:00 Art C! 11: A L cocktails, beer and wine available for your dining pleasure. PLAN A TREAT FOR YOURSELF AND THE ENTIRE FAMILY THIS YULETIDE SEASON!! Seven miles Sot wi of Fort \ • Above Dinner* Include Above Dinner* Include Myers on Rout t&JJusi South VlrfUToOurSatadBa« Towed Salad, Bliiid Pass c^ C d of College Parlay. MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS NOW FOR OUR Chowder, Cndlce Of French FrieiA. For informatioVfall .'.\ Matinee or Xmas Eve Performances on Potato * Our Our Homemade Loaves (813) 481-1211 \i >; SUNDAY DECEMBER 24th Prices subject t rizvai/abiltty :^ • .•.•• -. -;.. and may c/iaitg * kc/t/iouf '•'-•• Plan a Get-Together with our Closed Tuesday r- Casual Attiie »otke. , M ; \@ SPECIAL MATINEE SATURDAY DEC. 30th 1978 Leisure T^ilmoldgy Corp. - I...: ._. Island Reporter December 8,1978 B23 B22 ' December 8,1978 Island Reporter LEGALS LEGALS LEGALS LEGALS i.-3 Island Reporter December 8,1978 B27 B26 December 8,1978 Island Reporter .... advertising •m WRITE P.a; DRAWER R, SANIBEL. ISLANtD, FLORIDA 33957 472-1587 ** WRITE P.O. DRAWER R, SANIBEL ISLAND, FLDRIDA 33957 472-1587 ••/••i.^-.••»••• FOR SALE - Walk to the beach > By Owner SUNDIAL RENTAL SAVE THE RENTAL from "this 3 bedro.om, canal GUMBO LIMBO OuH View Condominium MARINER POINTE TENNISPLACE front home with pool in ex- ESTATES clusive Shell Harbor subdivi- New fisting, beautiful one Completely furnished 2 bedroom condominium lo- For Rent Large 3 BD, 2 B Home. sion. Never' occupied. Write bedroom, one'bath condo- cated at Sanibel's Tennhipiace condominium. Heated VILLA SANIBEL AGENT'S COMMISSION! Bricked screened .Florida OutcffyonrfieGutf CONDOMINIUM Bayshore Homes, ?43o Sage Condominium *« M I: Island Reporter December 8,1978 B29 v B28 December 8, 1978 Island Reporter advertising WRITE P,0. DRAWER R, SANIBEL ISLAND, FLORIDA 33957 472-1587 WRITE Pib.DRAWEti R.: SANIBEL: "ISLAND,FLORIDA 33957 472-iS§7^ lX Prime Gulf . »d BEACH FRONTAGE ' "hi*- •••' PRISCIIIO 10 unite. Need ideal JOHN NAUhMNN & ASSCK^ATES. INC Realty. Int developer for joint venfure, THOMAS H. BROWN REALTOR \ttmg. Real fstato Broker . , Specializing In condomliWum sale on.irade Please call: .' . satms. resales, and rental REALTOR '• •. • ; ;•, ••/••..!' management ' "/••'• (419) 531-7127 or (419) 382-5354 2410 Palm Ridge Road CB DEPEND ON US P.O. Box 142 Sanibel. Fl. 33957 Executive Services, Inc 12-29 472-4138 .to find you a home, condominium, homesite or busi- BAYFRONT MARINER POINTE ness to fit your needs. Listed below is a sampling of our Inventory: San ibel's Com plete $$ DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR $$ Choose from four gorgeous apartments available in the beautifully appointed Mariner Pointe Complex. First, we -HOME- ONE OF THE BEST homes we've had to offer you in Real Estate Company have, at $87,500 a fully furnished 2 bedroom, 2 bath, ground many a day. Well kept MICHIGAN built home on a floor apartment with a spectacular view of the Bay and good size lot right on a canal leading to San Carlos causeway by day and city lights by night. Next we have a SHELL HARBOR Bay. Big, breeze-capturing windows in the two corner second story, corner apartment which features a superb bay bedrooms; spacious living room with sliding glass canal and courtyard view. Completely furnished, this apart- HOMES doors opening onto the screened porch. There's a Spacious home, Michigan Bristol model, 4 bedroom, 2V4 ment is priced to sell at $93,500. Also, for only $83)000 you separate- dining room and cozy family room also bath, living room, dining room, and garden room overlook- can own a fully furnished ground floor, 2 bedroom, 2 bath 666 Beach Road THIS IS IT! opening onto the porch. Desirable location on Angel ing beautiful pool area and boat dock. Double garage, pro- apartment complete with all the extras that are ydurs at Unit No. 424 CHECK THE EXTRAS Wing Drive amid other fine homes and neighbors. fessionally landscaped. Available Furnished or Unfurnished A most beautiful 3 bedroom, 2 bath condominium for the Mariner Pointe. Finally, if you are looking for a 1 bedroom Under $90,000 Priced at $125,000. family who is seeking a Sanibel condominium to be proud of. floorplan, we have one fully furnished on the second floor COURTYARD ENTRY WITH WATERFALL. MODIFIED This Kings Crown 1st floor unit offers so much it is difficult to ready for your inspection at only $68,000. CATHEDRAL CEILING, 2 BEDROOMS PLUS FAMILY ENJOY SPACIOUS COMFORTABLE LIVING IN A FULLY- describe it in just a few lines. If quality, spaciousness, beauty, EQUIPPED PRESTIGE CONDOMINIUM APARTMENT. ROOM (OR 3rd BEDROOM), EFFICIENT KITCHEN 2 full Gulf view plus the amenities of tennis and pool interest TIME FOR A CHANGE? RECREATION BUILDING, TENNIS, SHUFFLEBOARD, HOMES ITES BATHS AND AN EASY TO CARE FOR YARD. $63,500 you - then please call us today to see this fantastic apart- UNFURNISHED. ment. You will be pleasantly surprised at the price too. LIVE IN A CONDOMINIUM! BONITA BEACH CLUB PUTTING GREEN AND MILES OF WHITE SAND BEACH ON THE GULF OF MEXICO ENJOY THE LEISURE, care-free living in this small Choose from our various Gulf front listings in the beautiful SANIBEL ISLAND WAS CREATED FOR IMPORTANT LEISURE CLAM BAYOU complex with only 37 families to share the pool and Bonlta Beach Club, which features amenities from tennis to HOURS. AN EXTRA BUILDABLE SITE two tennis courts. You can't imagine more CON- billiards.' Available now for 'your inspection are fully EASY FINANCING WITH ASSUMABLE MORTGAGE SPACIOUS AND ELEGANT VENIENCE than this kitchen offers, plus the informal furnished, 2 bedroom, 2 bath apartments located directly on Good fishing with your own sanctuary $33,500 COMES WITH THE PURCHASE OF THIS 3 BEDROOM dining area thats convenient and cheerful making the Gulf, for as little as $123,000. HOME. A FIREPLACE, FAMILY ROOM AND HEATED For the discriminating ... a perfect 3 bedroom, completely meals extra pleasant. IF THIS MEETS YOUR NEEDS we POOL ARE ALSO INCLUDED FOR $144,000 furnished apartment is now available in prestigious Kings Exclusive Agent Call or write: Crown Condominium, with 1933 sq. ft. of living area and a recommend QUICK ACTION; Stop at 610 Dpnax Street, BLUEBILL PROPERTIES. INC. GULF PINES I fantastic view of the Gulf and private .beach. Enjoy the Sanibel Surf side condominium or call 472-4883. Strike SAN CARLOS PARK HOME while the iron is hot - right how you can choose from relaxing Island atmosphere, or for the- sport enthusiast .•••.••.,•••• * .•' . • ' • • • two units. (813) 472-1528 Community planned subdivision with private beach ease- amenities include tennis court and large heated pool. Other $8000 down and approximately $270, per month will move ment, tennis courts, and swimming pool: extras include covered parking and plenty of storage space. you Into this three bedroom 2 bath home in San Carlos Park. 2422 Periwinkle Way. Sanibel Island, Fl. 33957 m CONDOMINIUM HOMES Priced at only $150,000. WANT LUXURY Be a home owner today! 9 Large elevated lot on fresh water lagoon • $30,000 ON THE • Beautiful lot, one block from beach easement. $29,500 6LIND PASS CONDOS •) Lot near Green Way and Recreation Area. $28,500 THERE'S NOTHING MISSING GULF OF MEXICO? located In the Blind Pass complex; choose from two finely IN THIS BEACH FRONT 3 BEDROOM 2 BATH APART- >. ENJOY THE v C THIS LIGHT AND CHEERFUL three bedroom, two bath , appointed apartments situated next to the most beautiful MENT - INTERCOM, CENTRAL VACUUM, MICROWAVE apartment overlooks the Gulf of Mexico. Plenty of beach on Sanibel. First, priced at $85,000, we have a 2nd OVEN. NUTONE FOOD CENTER, TRASH COMPACTOR, room for furniture in the delightful rooms. The LEISURELY ISLAND STYLE ... floor 2 bedroom, 2 V4 bath townhouse ready for your POOL, TENNIS COURT - WE COULD GO ON, BUT CALL spacious MASTER BEDROOM, that deserves the name, GUMBO LIMBO inspection. Next we have a 2 bedroom, 2 bath apartment, FOR AN INSPECTION. $175,000 FURNISHED. is YOUR OWN PRIVATE SANCTUM; luxurious and of living year round, or take advantage, of-an already also located on the second floor and priced to sell at $79,000. 2 Beautiful lakefront lots. Both for $28,000. established rental record in this beautifully furnished, 2 beautiful private bath with a splashproof shower stall - bedroom, 2 bath condominium home in popular Loggerhead tiled all the way. Go into your unit under cover from PROFESSIONALLY DECORATED Cay. This -4th floor apartment has a lovely view of the the oversize carport with lots of storage room. If DEEP WATER ACCESS landscaped courtyard, large heated pool and putting green. you've waited for an exceptional value this is it. Call PENTHOUSE Other amenities include a recreation building, tennis "courts, RIGHT NOW 472-3636 for details on price or stop at (Registered Real Estate Broker) H you desire on easily affordable condominium with direct ROCKS and a wide expanse of private Gulf beach. Priced at only Surfside 12. 585 East Gulf Drive. WITH A FANTASTIC VIEW AND LARGE SUNDECK. TWO deep water access, then we have what you're looking for. $90,000. : 1630 Periwinkle Way Large waterway lot overlooking conservation area. $28,500 ROOMY BEDROOMS, BRIGHT KITCHEN) NEW WHITE Located at Tennis Place, this handsome. 2 bedroom, 1'/» bath CARPETING. SHOWN BY APPOINTMENT. $185,000 QUIET CHARM AND PRIVACY! apartment comes fuljy furnished for $58,500. Opposite Bank of the Islands FURNISHED. YET ONLY A SHORT RIDE down the elevator to the pool IF YOU HAVE IT side, tennis court or white sandy beoch. When you in Sanibel Plaza have had enough rest and sun retire to the den thats' SANIBEL HARBOURS perfect lor those quiet hours. Meal preparing is a UNCOMPROMISING LUXURY Sanibel, Florida 33957 WHY NOT FLAUNT IT ... breeze in this ultra modern kitchen. You will want to Deep canal lot, seawalled, with direct access to bay For those with discriminating taste, we have the apartment serye every meal- In this pleasant dining room of your wildest dreams! This third floor, 3 bedroom Gulf Sanibel Arms West $45,000 Everyone else does. Consider the most exclusive subdivision listening to the waves of,the Gulf and enjoying the Gulf front, 2 bedroom, 2 bath, with 2 screened decks; on Sanibel, Gulf Pines^We offer-a,-.large lot complete with front apartment, located at the Atrium, is one of a kind. Florida Sunsets. Their for a restful night's sleep retire Featuring the.largest floor plan on Sanibel and the ultimate completely furnished, including carpet drapes and appli- underground utilities, pool, tennis courts,- recreation center to the MASTER BEDROOM with the gracious touch and ances. A good buy at $96,000. and gulf access. Gulf Pines is one of the most exclusive interior furnishings this apartment must be seen to be private bath. DONT BE SORRY - call today. 472-1528. appreciated. We're sure you'll agree. WEST GULF DRIVE addresses on Sanibel. Why not add yours? $25,000 Loggerhead Cay Corner ground floor, 2 bedroom, 2 bath apartment with Across from Rocks, Beach Easement - 100 x 150' Includes DESIRABLE LOGGERHEAD CAY exceptionally attractive furnishings and Gulf View in one of Water Permit $30,000 BEAUTIFUL POINTE SANTO Expertly planned kitchen for efficiency and easy care. GULF FRONT the best-proven projects on Sanibel. $85,000 We have a lovely third floor, 2 bedroom, 2 bath apartment Enjoy the feeling of uncluttered spaciousness In the sweeping living room - a cheerful center for everyday Waterfront condominiums are becoming scarce so don't wait ~ Point*Santo**' Sanibel available. This beautifully decorated and furnished apart- 4 family living. Never easier to buy than NOW. Stop at long to see this completely furnished Gulf front apartment. Ground floor corner un' ^^ -ivate garden patio; 2 VACATION ACCOMMODATIONS ment has o beautiful view of the Gulf and the sunset .from Sporting 2 bedrooms, 2 baths and a convertible den ma bedroom, 2 bath, v ^O\*^ excellent view of Gulf. your screened porch. The amenities of the pool, tennis courts 2422 Periwinkle Way for details, of the liberal INCOME PROPERTY resort setting complete with pool, 13 tennis courts, rental Nicely furnished in ^^ •>» and white. All appliances and the loveliness of Pointe Santo make this a very attractive financing terms. ' . program and a clubhouse under construction, this property is included. Has excelle .«ntal record. $130,000'. investment.-Fly in with your plane to the nearby airstrip. Condominiums & Homes sure to sell fast. Priced at $135,000 furnished. Point* Santo a* Sanibel LIVE IN ONE APARTMENT, U.S.4T SOUTH WILL TAKI YOU TO New listing • Directly on the Gulf. Ground floor, luxury 3 Winter Season Rates: December 15 to May 1 < OUR VANDimiLT OFNCIS bedroom, 2 bath apartment with private enclosed patio for RENT THE OTHER THREE. EACH APARTMENT HAS 2 THIS SANIBEL SURFSIDE HAS CLASS ' and GULF PINES II LOT sunbathing or relaxing. Garage available also. Owner will 2 BEDROOM APARTMENTS: BEDROOMS AND A SCREENED PORCH. EASY WALK TO THIMAUTIFUL MODUS consider partial • financing. $249,500 furnished., Gulf-front, Loggerhead $500.00 per week THE BEACH. $167,000 FURNISHED. Some apartments ore homey, some ore ultra sophisticated. Located in the Gulf Pines II subdivision we. have, for your Gulf-view, Loggerhead $425.00 per week This unit has class. In other words when you step into this inspection, an oversized cul-de-sac lot priced to sell at Point* Santo de Sanibel Vanderbitt Surf Colony, 25 Blueblll Avenue Canal townhouse, Seawinds $325.00 per week apartment it makes you-feel comfortable. Located right on $17,900. Penthouse with own private roof solarium, 2 bedroom. 2 bath Vanderbilt GuH Side. 10851 Gulf Shore Drive the Gulf with o spectacular view the apartment also features with view of Gulf and Lagoon, Attractively furnished and Bay Shores of Vanderbilt Beach, 10475 Gulf Shore Off-season rates 40 percent 2 bedroom, 2 baths, arid outstanding furniture. Excellent ready to move in. $145,000 less until December 15 "o generation plus of islands experience" rental potential. A solid value at $125,000. Sales representatives CAYO COSTA LOT Point* Santo a* Sanlbel Gulf front - 3 bedroom, 2 bath outside corner unit with Dorothy E. Curran Barbara S.Schaai Priced at $35,000 we have a Gulf front lot on Cayo Costa with spectacular view of Gulf from every room.' Completely HOMES: Robert Stephenson Beverly Henry 75 feet of Gulf frontage. Reasonable offers entertained. furnished, and equipped for immediate occupancy. Amenities Gulf-front South Seas Plantation. Captivo m'scilla HonryP. Kallta Geraldine Moore include tennis, pool, Jacuzzi and shuff leboard. Owners will 3-bedroom, 2-bath, Executive Services, Inc. Virginia M. Stephenson ' Charles G. Bennett consider financing for qualified buyer. $219,000 Available for seasonal rental Realty. Inc Frances J. Kinzle Mary P. Stephenson Prlnclpla Garden Villas December 15 to March 15,1979 $2,500.00 per month Martin F. Sullivan Robert L. Stephenson Ground floor, 2 bedroom, 1 bath. Assumable mortgage, 8% SANIBEL BAYOUS Registered Real Estate Broker Gary G. Trautman, Sr. percent. Near McGregor on Cypress Lake Dr. Easy Stanley E. Johnson, Jr. GRI President JOHN NAUMANN & ASSOCI ATI*. INC Piling home. Overlooking sanctuary. commuting to Sanibel. $27,500 $250 per week (or) .Sheilo B. Snell. GRI Vice President Main Office: 455 Periwinkle Way Gladys S.Curtright. 472-3121 2-bedroom, 2-bath, Dunes Lot $900.00 per month and associates (At the Lighthouse end of the Island) Broker / Beoch access View of water and golf links. Water permit and connection DUNES SUBDIVISION Main Office! P.O. Box 57 Main Office* 242* Periwinkle Way. included. $27,500 . . Periwinkle Way, Sanibel Island, Florida 472-1511 New, completely furnished home. 3 bedroom, 2 bath. Sanibel Island, f lor Wo 33957 Buying or selling? Oet an opinion from the exports. Branch Offlcet Causeway Road 472-4121 Available for seasonal rental: December 16, 1978 to May 1, Branch Office: 2427 Periwinkle Way 2019 Periwinkle Way Captlva Off Ice: Andy Rosse Ln. 472-5154. 4/2-1149 1979" ' $350 per week (or) $1400 per month (Just before Bailey's Shopping Center) Sanibel, Fl. 33957 Island Accommodations! Causeway Rood 472-4113 813-472-5173 472-3133 : > Island Reporter December 8,1978 B31 B30 December 8,1978 Island Reporter WRITE P.O. DRAWER R, SANIBEL ISLAND, FLORIDA 33957 WRITE P.O. DRAWER R, SANIBEL ISLAND; RORID*33957 472-^1587 Wm. "Mac" McArthur ISLAND . For Sale BUND PASS DEB'S and Sons Tree Trimming Baadivlew Country Oub 3 Bedroom Homes ,. Island Resort LOCKSMITH SEASCAPE CERAMIC Dunes Golf Course Painting S Paper hanging By Owner .- BYOWNEK •/'•'•' Cloanlng- Hauling & Furniture Moving Starting at $78,900 HUNTER? ''•:-. ''. FOR SAURY OWNER " 472-2979 UcrniseaVBonded LAWN CARE TILE Waterfront-Golf Course • CeMtit^Bki iifiiM*i •*. MAGMinCtNTI . . . Houses & Condos •-• 472-2902 DON HUMPHREYS For sale or lease with option Rare opportunity. Prime so-' .'•••••.'• lot 68 •••^-' •' • 3 bed. 2 bath, and floor Out-of-state condo owners, Coll before 7:30 a.m. . .• •-..''.:•'••••••'.•• TFN Phone 472-2394 Complete lawn care service 481-2512 eluded ;homefife^:250 ft. New - Repairs - Renovations 472-3826 • or • ' •' - Large Tropical Hdmeslt* • to buy, new furnisKed condo. let us clean & care for your or after 7:30 p.m. . for residential and small TVN from; Gu|f.: Unsjpoiled: lus- Edward T. Forrest M-29 2 bed. 2 both, 2nd floor With over 20 Palm Trees,' 2 bedroomT 2 bath; - ptjoK condo. Island resident avail- 601 Los Colony Road commercial properties.. Situated on the most beauti- Sea Grape, Gumbo Limbo. tennlv beach; -•'- '• •'"•: • able, 7 days. Sanibel, Fl. 33957 Sanibel-Captiva Bus.-542-0990 ful beach on Sanibel. Tennis, Gudva, Hybiscus and otherv 472-5483 P.O. Box 293 Mike Tipson Hse. - 542-2277 pool, sauna, etc. . . • • -. ~ exotic Native Plants. Seclud- 482-1219 TFN SOON COME 472-3822 TFN WOOSTER 9-29 3-aMCOKATO* ed but- convenient, near "YOUR HOME Landscape TFN FURNISHED Casa Ybel and Periwinkle. - IS OUR CASTLE" TV& APPLIANCES Chain Link Fence Along Rear $89,000 * Sales and Service Maintenance 915.900 Cash or Terms M DECORATOR •-• "'-••'• •' TFN 24 Hour Emergency Service FURNISHED Write Onwer: El* Boiey.% 472-1133 or 472-2244 472-4439 BONHEUR 3023 E. Cheryl, Phx, AZ • • • - - - .V /.•, > . . - (305) 722-7700.10 to 4 AIR PAINT & ROOF COMPANY (305) 752-8686. eves. 85028. •••-'.•' There Is No Better Buy! 12-29 - 1-5 CONDITIONING Reroof ing - Repairs 1 bedroom • condo - completely quality furnished, NAVE COMPLETE PAINTING Vaulted t /.! f. i, » ^>ia^^ Y\ B32 December 8, 1978 Island Reporter pelicans go area By George Weymouth Bond, the past refuge manager, conduct a One of 15 custom made caution signs placed along island By Peter Larson Martz, an Eyanston resident and bird census up in CharlotteHarbor. We roads two years ago has teen mysteriously appearing and frequent Sanibel visitor, realized disappearing in Rfoerw^ The words graceful, striking and big were just north of Pine Island Sound near ;:&•••• Thanks to a stolen Sanibel road- the sign had been/stolen from might begin to describe these magnificent Captiva and recorded 30 of these sub- have disappeared'since they were first posted. sfgn, wildlife in a small Chicago Sanibel and that the "anonymous birds photographed by Emil Fray. Their , adults. We knew: they weren't adults (it suburb is apparently getting a Samaritan" was, in fact, a thief. takes three years for the white pelican to break from speeding motorists. "If my memory serves . me," mature sexually) because they didn't have a / .According to a recent article in wrote Mrs. Martz in a letter to the peculiar "horny" growth on the top of their * the Eyanston Reviewin Eyanston, Island Reporter, "This was a sanibel sightings upper beaks. The growth is used for. sparring and drops off about the time the Illinois, a. "bright yellow, diamond- uniquely Sanibel sign that we have eggs hatchl The bird's Latin name, Pefecan- shaped sign" warning motorists to seen, enjoyed and respected for us erythrorhynchos, refers to the bill which watch out for animals has myster- several years." grace, especially when seen for the first attains a-red color during breeding season.' iously appeared at various loca- Mrs. Martz was correct. Posted tune, is really a moving experience. The eggs, by the. 'way, are a dull whiter tions along a roadside in neighbor- two years ago by the City of For instance: you're strolling down the and have a very peculiar shell which flakes ing Riverwoods, Illinois. Sanibel, 15 such signs were origin- beach on one of those exhilarating days off in places giving it a rather rough surfaces The sign sported an illustration ally displayed along Sanibel roads. we've been having every day for weeks. as though frost was chipping away the outer of a racoon and the warning, Custom built by a local craftsman, One-third of a mile down the beach and layer ofthe egg.: \» "Slow, Save Our Friends." The the signs cost $45 each and are about 1,000 feet up you see a string of about Upon hatching the one,to four eggs newspaper added that local offi- unique to the island. 150 or more very large white birds with produce a feeble, naked, ugly reptile-like cials were puzzled by the origin of Hoping to recover the purloined black wing linings heading straight for you White peUcans recently have been sighted in numbers throughout the Sanibel area.: The chick which is cold blooded for hours,: as~are the sign arid the identity of the sign, Mrs. Martz began a one- in a huge V-formation. As the formation large birds are seen on the islands much less frequently than their cousin broton pelicans. many of the more primitive birds upon "anonymous Samaritan" who post- presses closer you are deeply moved by the hatching. The hatchlings then become the woman investigation of the theft. grace of the two fines strung out from the perhaps even to a beautiful fireworks water (and occasionally catching a fish) they controversial "hot blooded dinosaur/' and ed it. But after numerous phone calls to leading bird, for they seem to undulate like display. • > literally herd their prey into a smaller and finally feather out. The origin of the sign did not an extremely long kite tail. Truely, they are graceful, striking and smaller area, each bird dosing the gap E^very fall they begin passing through the puzzle Helen J. Martz. , Mrs. # continued on 19-A You are not aware of it but they have big. Stretching from bill tip to tail top they between its partners and finally trapping this area around mid-October as this been riding the updraft created by the trees reach around 60 inches. Their wing span the fish in a net of plunging pouches. magnificent species head to the southern bordering the beach. Now they come upon a may be close to 10 feet and they weigh 15 to Unlike our brown, the white pelican coastal areas to winter. This last monthTve small thermal air current and begin to rise. 25 pounds (almost twice the size of our doesn't roost in trees, nor do they nest in recorded almost daily flocks of 100 or more Suddenly they stop flapping, break their native brown pelicans). trees either. They nest instead on the slowly drifting south. Fd venture to say that V-formation, and begin to soar. For the first The white pelican may have been around ground, usually on an island near shallow on certain days there may be as many as time their immense size and contrasting for 20 to 30 million years. Fossil bones found water, where they use their specialized eight to ten flocks passing within sight of black and white plumage can be seen as in the lower Miocene deposits are so much fishing method. the Sanibel Lighthouse. . they group together and start wheeling like today's pelicans that they've been put in Their nesting range is from the southern During the last two waiters the weather around the closer side of this unseen the same genus, Pelecanus, ^.as today's part of the Northwest Territories ' of has been so severe due to all the cold fronts updraft. birds. Canada, around Great Slave Lake, down to sweeping down Pine Island Sound that 200 As they wheel around to the far side of Worldwide there are six species of central North Dakota and then in a line over white pelicans normally staying in that area pelicans but only two species, the brown to southern California, and back north again the column their wing tips toward the have been forced to take refuge in the Ding NO. * SIRV1NO SAHIBCI^CAPTIVA AND THt IStAWM ritOM tSTtHO BAT TO THE QASPAK1U.AS 2 SECTIONS 6* PAGES DECEMBER IS. 1978 20c center are slightly lower. As they reach the and white, are native to the New World. to British Columbia. They also nest on the Darling National Wildlife Refuge here on far side, instead of seeing their shaded Our native brown pelican has air pockets coast of southern Texas, and in Alexander Sanibel: Refuge visitors were delighted to underside, a sudden flash appears as the under its skin to cushion it when diving, but Sprunt's book, "Florida Bird Life," the see this impressive bird. sun reflects off the pure white back the white pelican's air pockets are much, author mentions they may have nested here I guess the; pelicans enjoyed the Refuge plumage. reduced for they don't dive. Instead, they in South Florida before the 1880's. because this fall, even though they haven't This sudden flash of white is as breath- form a line and gradually shoo or flush fish Nearly every year a few non-breeders are been pressured by cold winds, they've taking as any visual experience I can recall toward the shore by plunging their bills and recorded staying here in Florida right already stopped by the Refuge a number of seeing in nature. It is comparable, I open pouches (which can hold up to three through the summer (usually in Central times and at present, many are often seen in Unknown malady strikes comwranM suppose, to a large school of flat sided gallons) into the water. Florida). I recall a day in June of 1976 when Tarpon Bay. Won't it be great if they decide As they work along sort of biting at the silvery fislt turning-side ways to a diver, or Richard Beebe and I were .helping Glen to roost on our islands aU winter? They are coming to us in a weal^, thin and vety fcliaky condition;' S^unifoel scores ByMarkTwomMy A state biologist plans to perform tests he legal victory Meet The hopes will pinpoint "the cause,x>f a Wide- spread malady that has afflicted stores of By Susie Holly double crested cormorants on Sanibel and Captiva. .••.'•'•'; . ,''•.•••. '•''::-,•'•:-' w-v;.'^, Sanibel city officials were smiling this Island Rental Steve Nesbitt, a research biologist with ^ week after learning the city had won a the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish major legal challenge to its land use plan. ASK FOR Commission in Gainesville, said he soon will - Circuit Court Judge Jack Schoonover examine frozen cormorants sent to him by delivered a favorable opinion in a suit filed QUALITY CROW (Care and Rehabilitation- of Wild- in September, 1976, by Nationwide Realty life). Corporation. People COLOR CROW has taken in about 60 cormorants Nationwide claimed a vested right to this month -- 13 in one day alone. Over a develop the more than 200-acre Sanibel three day period, from December 9-}l, 28 Bayous subdivision as it had intended prior Priscilki Murphy's PROCESSING cormorants were brought to the Captiva to the adoption of the city's plan. The based wildlife clinic by people who found the corporation had planned 279 single-family birds wobbling along the roadside or ~ homes and 133 condominium units for the Island Accornmodcifions KODAK standing motionless on the beach. area located east of Bowman's Beach Road Island Accommodations represents Let us introduce you to our "They are coming to us in a weak, thin on both sides of Sanibel-Captiva Road. The a select group of the finest vacation beautiful islands and their and very shaky condition," reported CROW land use plan would allow 37 units. accommodations on the islands'. As accommodations. Write or call us staffer Vicci Dwyer. Twelve of the birds The court- decision means that the a no-cost service to our visi.jrs, we for reservations or additional have died, ^aid Ms. Dwyer, and twelve developers, now will have to abide by the offer a wide variety of vacation information. more remain at CROW. The rest recovered restrictions of the plan in-developing the lodgings from private homes and and have been released, she said. subdivision, according to City Attorney rental condominiums to full-service 813-472-4113 Speculation about the cause, of the Neal Bowen. motels and resorts. Short and long 9067 Causeway Road mysterious ailment has ranged from red "This is a major breakthrough in the term rentals are available during P.O. Box 57 city's legal history," Bowen said. He called all seasons. tide poisoning to pesticides to the effects of Sanibel Island, Florida 33957 Bring us your KODA^ Slide, Movie, cooler weather; it a significant case because of the "sheer For property owners we offer a Nesbitt said similar but less extensive massiveness of the development they full rental management service or and Print Film for prompt, quality "mid winter die offs" have occurred 1n the proposed/' He pointed to the 133-unit we can act as a referral agent. past. "We've experienced this before with - condominium planned for Clam Bayou, an processing by Kodak: ~: loons, pelicans and other seabirds," lie said. ecologically fragile area which the plan had. We also offer KODAK Color Reprint, Unee ease near Sarasota that involved. zoned for one single-family unit. "Right^ PRISCI'DCI cormorants was traced to abnormally high )thjere is a dramatic difference," he saidl.^••: Vfluuphy Prints-from-Slides, iCopyprint, and level* of pertktfea in the water. Connor- ... j^owen said the case also was significant \ Realty. Inc. ffl Enlargement services; ant» feed almost exclusively on fish by b^use it was tto first to deal witti the divinginW open water and swimming alter 'on RENTAL OFFICE *» orrtn their prey- .,.' ?" j. x *<*. Causeway Road COLOR * NesbiU»p««ulateJ*nat a drop in temper- 472-4113 PROCESSING ature could have added that extra bit of MAIN OFFICE P.O.Box 57, Periwinkle Way. Sanibet Island, Florida ..Kodak stress that pushed the birds over the edge**, 472-1511 to exhaustion. Cormorants have a high Cormorant concern. BRANCH OFFICE metabolism rate and, according to Msr Causeway Road • 472-4121 Dwyer, a healthy cormorant that stops, CROW staffer Vied Dwyer reported this week 1 CAPTIVA OFFICE eating can die of starvation in just three that the wdalife rehabilitatefacMyhaa taken 'Andy Rosse Lane days*. * ' in about 60 cormorants m the last month. 472-1149,472-5154 157.1 Periwinkle Way at intersection At CROW the birds are force fed twice a with Dixie Beach Boulevard day "with a mixture of vitamins and fish. For Phone 472 1086 many the treatment is all that is required. • continued on 18'A €M11F*AY