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VOL. 11, NO. 3 From the Beaches to the River District downtown Fort Myers JANUARY 27, 2012 Davis Art Center Hosts Exhibit Kiwanis Taste Of Pine Island Returns Featuring Matsumotos And Sherry Rohl he Sidney & Berne Davis TArt Center will present the work of well-known artists Ikki and Polly Matsumoto, along with the eques- trian art of Sherry Rohl. The show opens for Art Walk on Friday, February 3 at 6 p.m. and continues through February 25. The Davis Art Center is located at 2301 First Kiwanis Taste of Pine Island crowds form to judge in the Southwest Florida Chowder Cook- Street in downtown off Contest Fort Myers. he Kiwanis Club of Greater Pine Island will hold the annual Taste of Pine Island Ikki Matsumoto on Saturday, January 28 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, January 29 from was born in 1935 in T11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event will take place at Phillips Park, 5675 Sesame Drive, Tokyo, Japan to a well- on Pine Island Road, behind the Pine Island Fire Station. Tickets are $5 and children 10 known cartoonist and and under are free. Two-day passes are available for $8. Event planners expect more children’s book illustra- than 3,000 to attend. tor. In 1955, he came The Taste of Pine Island will feature over 11 local restaurants including Waterfront to the United States Restaurant of St. James City, Mulletville Restaurant, Jack’s Famous Wood Fired Pizza, to study at the John Joe Almallah (Little Joe’s), Little Lilly’s Island Deli and Jonesez Bar-B-Q. The Taste of Herron School of Art 11th Hour by Sherry Rohl Pine Island will also feature more than 70 arts and crafts vendors. Live entertainment in Indianapolis, Indiana, throughout the two-day event will include the Gatormoon, Torched, Low Rent, The where his older brother was studying sculpture. Two years later he transferred to the Whole Tones, Strange Arrangement, Pine Island Dance, Hot Flash Dancers and Love Art Academy of Cincinnati, Ohio to study under the renowned humorous wildlife artist Notes Youth Strings Ensemble. A complete schedule of weekend activities can be found Charles Harper. After graduating from art school he married fellow student and fiber art- at www.TasteofPineIsland.com. ist Polly Adamson. continued on page 6 continued on page 17 Nature Walk With Bird Patrol Guide Arts For ACT oin the Lee County Opening For Bird Patrol, in coop- Mojo Hands Jeration with Lee County Parks & Recreation, for a oin Arts For ACT Gallery, 2265 Morning Meander at Lakes First Street in downtown Fort Myers, Park on Saturday, February Jon Friday, February 3 from 6 to 10 4 beginning at 8:30 a.m. p.m. for the opening reception and art Participants should meet walk for February 2012. This month, at Lakes Regional Park, ACT Gallery will feature Mojo Hands in 7330 Gladiolus Drive in the main gallery. It will be a visionary Fort Myers, at Shelter A7. celebration of America’s musical heritage Enter Lakes Park gate from featuring a special collaboration of new Gladiolus, turn right, drive photographs by pioneering blues histori- to end of road, continue an George Mitchell and the folk art blues through the parking lot. paintings of Florida Everglades artist Shelter A7 is located near Lennie Jones. These two artists became the train station. friends when Mitchell returned to Fort This easy walk along clear Myers, and Mitchell purchased one of paths offers an opportunity to Jones’ pieces of art. This exhibit will pair see birds in native vegetation Jones’ outsider blues painting with the with experienced bird patrol blues’ photography of Mitchell. Jones guides pointing out the many has painted his rendition of Mitchell’s species in Lakes Park, a Lee Great egret photographs on several pieces. County birding hot spot and Also exhibiting this month in the office crucial nesting area for many birds. Arrive a few minutes after 8 a.m. for a brief intro- gallery is artist, author, mythologist and duction and to sign waivers. Tours start promptly at 8:30 a.m. Wear comfortable shoes art historian Dr. Kyra Belán. She will be and dress to be outside. Bring water, sunscreen and binoculars. showing selected works from her Art, This tour is provided in cooperation with Lee County Parks & Recreation. Admission Myers and Rituals series. Kids With is free with paid parking ($1 per hour or $5 for all day). For more information, call 533- continued on page 17 7580 or 533-7576 or visit www.birdpatrol.org. House of Blues by Lennie Jones 2 THE RIVER - JANUARY 27, 2012 Historic Downtown Fort Myers, Then And Now Armeda House At Five Points by Gerri Reaves t’s difficult to believe that less than a century ago, this intersection and overpass once known as Five Points was a Iresidential area. Shown in the historic photo is the Nick and Josephine Armeda house on McGregor Boulevard at Cleveland Avenue. June Santini Johnson remembers the house well. Born in April 1914, she went to live there with her grandparents when she was only about five months old and lived there until she got married. The five-bedroom two-bath house, modern for its day, faced the river and was a dream house for a child. It had a cistern off the kitchen, where a porch led to a big backyard, complete with a stable for her Uncle Buck’s horse. At the Tootie McGregor memorial fountain in the middle of Five Points (left in photo), horses drank and children played hide-and-go-seek. Johnson went to “many a dance” at the nearby Pleasure Pier at the foot of Heitman Street in the city park. Johnson’s grandfather, Capt. Nick Armeda, figures significantly in early Fort Myers history. He was a 16-year- old cabin boy on the yacht Jeannette in 1885. Thomas A. Edison had chartered the vessel in Cedar Key for a sail down Florida’s west coast. Even at that early age, Armeda was extremely knowledgeable about local waters. He told Edison about George Shultz, the manager of the telegraph station at Punta Rassa. As a former telegraph operator, the inventor was especially interested, and Five Points has undergone radical changes since it was a family neighborhood the yacht reached the cable office and no-frills hotel on March 4. photo by Gerri Reaves Edison was intrigued by Shultz’s description of the settlement established up river on the site of the abandoned U.S. Army Fort Myers, so he ordered the Jeannette up the Caloosahatchee. Edison stayed at the Keystone Hotel, toured the town, met residents, inquired about land sales, and gained a favorable impression. Before he left, he had put in motion the pur- chase of the old Summerlin place that became his winter home and laboratory. As for Armeda, his mentioning Punta Rassa to the inventor was providential and helped to deter- mine his own future as a Fort Myers pioneer. In 1894, he married Josephine Yent. They settled in Fort Myers when the town’s population consisted of only a handful of families. They were married for over 60 years. Over the years, Armeda worked for Edison in several capacities, including bringing royal palms from the Caribbean. He evolved into a captain whose knowledge of the region’s waters was legendary. Among his sail- ing ventures was delivering cattle from Punta Rassa to Cuba during the heyday of the cattle industry. During World War II, he applied his expertise at age 72 as commander of a naval mine sweeper. The Armedas built a house south of downtown on McGregor in the 1920s, but after Capt. Nick The Nick and Josephine Armeda house stood on McGregor Boulevard just east of Cleveland Avenue. The Tootie McGregor continued on page 4 memorial fountain (left) marked the center of Five Points photo courtesy of Tena Jones

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The River Weekly News will correct factual errors or matters of emphasis and interpretation that appear in news stories. Readers with news, tips, comments or questions, please call (239) 415-7732 or write to: The River Weekly News, 1609 Hendry Street, Suite 15, Fort Myers, FL 33901. Fax number: (239) 415-7702. E-mail: [email protected]. The River Weekly News reserves the right to refuse, alter or edit any editorial or advertisement. PRINTED ON RECYCLED Independently Owned And Operated • COPYRIGHT 2012 The River Weekly News • LORKEN Publications, Inc. PAPER THE RIVER - JANUARY 27, 2012 3 of First Presbyterian Church. “We can’t Mrs. Edison’s allow our neighbors and friends to be hungry. Please – we need our commu- Hymn Sings nity to get together and help with all the canned goods they can.” Galloway, who originated the hymn sing in 1989, said he wanted to do some- thing to honor Mrs. Mina Edison during the Edison Festival celebration. “We hear a great deal about the won- derful work of Thomas Alva Edison, but we don’t do a lot to honor his wife who also volunteered a great deal of her time and talent to making Fort Myers what it is today,” said Galloway. “This hymn sing is a way to honor her good work, too.” This year’s event will feature the First Presbyterian Sanctuary Choir and many other singers, including members of the Mastersingers, guest soloists, along with a piano-organ combination. Mrs. Edison’s Hymn Sing is the first Mina Edison of three hymn sings sponsored annually planned at 1, 4 and 7 p.m. The doors by the Galloway Family of Dealerships. will open 30 minutes prior to each per- The other two are A Midsummer Night’s formance. Sing in July and the very popular Holiday Mrs. Mina Edison at the piano Admission is free, but because of the Carol Sing in December. All three events increased need for food for the hungry, benefit CCMI, which was started by First elebrate the Edison Festival of organizers are requesting that those who Light and help feed the hungry First Presbyterian Church stained glass Presbyterian Church in 1984 to help alle- attend bring cans of non-perishable food viate hunger and suffering in Lee County. Cby attending Mrs. Edison’s Hymn and a voluntary cash donation, if possible, would do and want you to do. Show me More than 3,500 pounds of canned Sing on Tuesday, February 7 at the First to benefit the Everyday Marketplace & Presbyterian Church in downtown Fort a man or woman who has not needed a goods were donated at last year’s Mrs. Café (also known as The Soup Kitchen) helping hand in his or her life!” said orga- Edison’s Hymn Sing to benefit CCMI. Myers (at the corner of Second Street of CCMI (Community Cooperative and Lee Street). It’s the 23rd year of nizer Sam Galloway, Jr. The food was immediately distributed to Ministries, Inc.) “Rising unemployment and the down- those in need. the hymn sing, which is organized and “Ladies and gentlemen, we desperate- sponsored by the Galloway Family of turn in our local economy have caused For more information or directions to ly need your help. The need for food is many of our neighbors to ask for food the church, call 334-2261 or visit www. Dealerships. absolutely critical this year and seems to Because of the overwhelming popular- to feed their families for the first time in fpcfortmyers.org. be ongoing for the near future. Love your their lives,” said Reverend Paul deJong ity of the event, three performances are fellow neighbor. 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Resttaua raantn : Sun.n – Thur.r 11 a.a m.m – 9 p.mm. FrF i.i – Satat. 111 a.m.m. – 100 p.m. . 177656 0 SSaan Carlos Blvvd.d , FtFt. Myyere s,s FL 33931 2339.9 484 2.67765 | SandyBy utlel r.r coc m 4 THE RIVER - JANUARY 27, 2012 From page 2 Sources: The archives of the Edison & Ford Annual February Southwest Florida Historical Society and Five Points The Story of Fort Myers by Karl H. Program And Class Calendar died in 1955, Josephine moved back to Grismer. he Edison and Ford Winter Estates February 11: Edison’s Birthday the Five Points house. She died there in is open year-round, seven days a Celebration and Downtown Tour 1958. Tweek, offering traditional tours and February 11: Floorcloth Painting Class Like many other historic houses in Visions Of The cre ative programs to expand the usage with artist Marie Dyer the neighborhood, the Armeda house by visitors and community members. The February 11: Edison Ford Garden Talk was destroyed by the Caloosahatchee Past Guided Walk interpretation of the site honors the lega- on “Rainbarrels” Bridge project in the early 1960s. isions of the Past, a guided walk cy of the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford February 11: Etiquette at the Edison Johnson says the demise of the through time, is a free family- families through science, history, arts Ford class house “hurt because I had so my memo- Voriented event for all ages held and education programs, lectures, special February 12: Edison Festival of Light ries of it. It hurt.” on Saturday, February 4 in Fort Myers events and activities. Edison and Ford Junior Parade Walk (carefully!) to Five Points, where Beach. changed the world with their inventions, February 13: 17: Edison Mucker Lab dogs and horses used to leisurely drink Enjoy the facts and folklore of years Show pioneering the automobile industry, mov- from a memorial fountain and children past as you stroll through Matanzas Pass ies and film, lighting and electricity, sound February 14: Volunteer program meet- played. Preserve while visiting the Calusa Indians, and communications. They were lovers of ing and new volunteer orientation Then walk a few blocks to the the arts, devoted naturalists and futurists February 14: Edison Ford Spaniards, Koreshans, pirates, early set- Southwest Florida Museum of History tlers and pioneers of Estero Island. Visit in their vision. Following the legacy of the Sweetheart’s Valentine Celebration at 2031 Jackson Street to learn more two world renowned entrepreneurs, there February 15: Opening ceremony for traditional craft vendors and a demonstra- about the transformation of a neighbor- tion area while enjoying some of the best are vast opportunities to explore their life completion of Edison Botanic Laboratory hood into a bridge overpass. interests and work. February 15 and 17: Homeschool jerk chicken and other food items the For information, call 321-7430 or go island has to offer. The following calendar of activities is class, grades 1 to 6 to swflmuseumofhistory.com. Museum also updated regularly on the website: February 18: Director’s Tour to St. This event takes place from 10 a.m. to hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday 2 p.m. and is open to all ages. It’s a great February 2012 Petersburg’s Dali Museum, Fine Arts and through Saturday. February 1: Thomas Edison Favorite Chihuly Museum hands-on learning experience for the Then follow-up with a trip to one whole family. Reservations are encour- Photo Exhibit and contest February 18: Edison Festival of Light of the area’s best research center, the Grand Parade: Edison Ford/High Tech aged but not required. To reserve a times- February 2 and 16: Emerging Southwest Florida Historical Society, Inventors Early Learning class Central Float lot, send an e-mail to [email protected]. where you can learn about the residents February 2 and 3: Strolling Flower February 19: Edison High School This free event is sponsored by the Show at Bell Tower Shops, Edison and Band and Show Choir from Milan, Ohio of Five Points way back when. Friends of Matanzas Pass Preserve, Ford Winter Estates/Periwinkle Garden performances The all-volunteer non-profit organi- Red Coconut RV Resort, Estero Island Club February 26: Art in Bloom: Edison zation is located at 10091 McGregor Historic Society, Calusa Ghost Tours/ February 4: Annual Edison Ford Ford and Fort Myers/Lee County Garden Boulevard on the campus of the Lee Paddlesports, Tranquility Cove Massage Antique Car Show Council County Alliance for the Arts. and Lee County Parks & Recreation. February 4: Etiquette at the Edison Contact the Edison and Ford Winter Contact the society at 939-4044, Matanzas Pass Preserve is located at Ford class Estates at 334-7419 to confirm schedules or drop by on Wednesday or Saturday 199 Bay Road in Fort Myers Beach. Visit February 10 and 11: Botanical or visit www.edisonfordwinterestates.org between 9 a.m. and noon. www.leeparks.org or call 533-7444 for Illustrations in the Gardens with Megan for the latest news and information. 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According to Galloway, those things included open- ing Southwest Florida’s second customer centered Choice Marketplace, establishing Baby U classes for expectant families, serving more schools last sum- mer with CCMI’s Mobile Food Pantry, converting the former Soup Kitchen into the Everyday Café and Marketplace and add- ing more schools and students to its weekend backpack program. “The latest astonishing sta- tistics we are seeing is that over Larry Lucchino, Len Jennings and Sam Galloway, Jr. 700 Lee County school chil- dren are considered homeless,” enu donors for this year’s annual Soup Kitchen Benefit have been Galloway said. “And if they are announced. homeless, I guarantee they are M Sam Galloway Jr. & Friends Ninth Annual Soup Kitchen Benefit will be also hungry.” held on Tuesday, January 31 at the Sam Galloway Ford dealership, located off Boy CCMI has been refocusing Scout Drive in Fort Myers. Cocktails will be served at 6 p.m. followed by dinner its hunger-fighting efforts toward implementing sustainable customer-choice centered at 7:30 p.m. Maestro Andrew Kurtz will be conducting the Gulf Coast Symphony models for long-term hunger elimination. This re-examination of the traditional soup Orchestra with pop inspired music ranging from The Beatles to Broadway. kitchen setting changes both the mindset of those who serve and those being served, This year’s menu, which is donated by local restaurants and individuals, includes as well as the physical spaces and delivery model created for the distribution of food. appetizers from South Seas Island Resort and Will and Andrea Prather of the CCMI’s Everyday Café and Marketplace concept makes food more easily available Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre; barbeque chicken, cole slaw and sauce from Bill and to everyone in the community who is hungry. The market model also decreases the Sally Davis of Hickory Bar-B-Que; fried shrimp and cheese grits from John and Paul stigma associated with standing in line for a hot meal or groceries and reduces signifi- Browning of Three Fisherman Seafood Restaurant; barbeque pork and swamp cab- cant waste in the preselected grocery bag model. bage from Wesley and Deanna Hansen; “We can and did make a difference,” said Galloway. “When hunger affects our gourmet meatloaf and mashed potatoes community, it impacts everyone of us in some way, and if everyone of us does a small from Jordan Webster of JG Webster’s part to impact change, change will happen.” Catering; fried chicken from Steve and “Two dollars can feed a family for a day,” Galloway concluded. “We are all feeling Jeanne Sexton of the Alva Diner; Sunshine the effects of this economy, but not doing anything for our local neighbors in need is Gumbo from Sandy Stilwell of Sunshine not an option for me, and I can guarantee anyone who donates to this event is truly Grille; peas and rice, corn bread and making a difference.” hot pepper sauce from Bill and Janice Tax-deductible sponsorship opportunities are available from $2,000 and tickets Barnwell of Farmer’s Market Restaurant; are $150 each. For more information or tickets, visit www.ccmileecounty.com or call collard greens from CCMI’s Everyday CCMI at 332-7687 ext. 100. Cafe; macaroni and cheese and green beans from Kim and Jack Avery of The Main Event Catering; penne pasta with items, jewelry, arts and crafts and fruits chicken and marinara sauce from Jerry Rotino Center and vegetables. Entry is free and the and Barbara Snyderman of Sasse’s; home- sale starts at 11 a.m. The Rotino Center made cookies from Uncle Charlie’s Cookie Garage Sale is located at 5817 Driftwood Pkwy Ministry; decadent chocolate courtesy of Cape Coral, Fl 33904. Norman and Mary Love of Norman Love he Rotino Center is hosting an indoor garage sale on Sunday, Call the Rotino Center at 574-0807 Confections; and water from the Mast for further information or vendor registra- Family and Culligan Water. TJanuary 29, selling household tion. Last year’s event sold out, with more than 600 guests attending to help raise over $700,000 for Community Cooperative Ministries Inc., the umbrella agency for the Everyday Café and Marketplace, Home Delivered Meals, Community Montessori Preschool and FIRST STREET Social and Homeless Services. The goal of this annual event is to raise as much money as possible for local resi- LIQUORS dents in need. Sam Galloway, Jr. “Our area was recently named one of 10% off on purchase over $30. the worst performing labor markets in the country, and we continue to see double- digit unemployment numbers,” said Sam Galloway Jr. “As we continue this trend for Any liquors & wines with this ad. the foreseeable future, more of our neighbors and their children are going to need our help, and I plan to help them.” Mon thru Thu 10am - 9pm Galloway wants to ensure that CCMI can continue helping Southwest Florida’s growing population of hungry find a nutritious meal. 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For reservations, call 432-9389 or e-mail [email protected].

Caloosahatchee Celtic Festival ort Myers Recreation Division and Celtic Heritage Productions invite Fyou to “don your tartan” and bring your family and friends to enjoy the Ninth Annual Caloosahatchee Celtic Festival, scheduled to take place on Saturday January 28. Beginning on Friday evening, January 27 at the Clarion Fort Myers Tiki Bar, enjoy performances by West of Galway, Marcille Wallis & Friends, Rathkeltair and Albannach. Celebrate Celtic culture along the banks of the Caloosahatchee River with music, food, beverage and craft vendors on Saturday, January 28. The gates at Centennial Park will open at 10:30 a.m. with seven hours of non-stop Celtic music. Featured musicians include Albannach, a high energy Celtic percus- sion band from Scotland; Rathkeltair, one of North America’s premier Celtic rock bands, Southwest Florida’s own West of Galway, Kellyn Celtic Arts Dancers and Marcille Wallis & Friends. The British Car Club of Southwest Florida will display members’ cars, and offer the public a chance to vote for Best of Show. To satisfy the appetite, there The Kiwanis Taste of Pine Island event goers enjoy live music and good food will be Celtic fare such as fish and chips photo provided by www.AdandPrintCraft.com. and meat pies, along with traditional American festival food. Domestic beers From page 1 The event is family-friendly event with A crane drops brightly-colored fish from and imports will be served. children’s activities including train rides, the sky for the Fish Drop Drawing at the Guest are invited to bring their blan- Taste Of Pine Island rock climbing and bounce houses. 2011 Taste of Pine Island kets and/or lawn chairs and plan to join The Taste of Pine Island is the primary a great Fort Myers tradition. Admission is In conjunction with the Kiwanis Adams & Brinson P.A., Pine Island fundraiser for the Kiwanis Pine Island just $5 and children under 12 are free. Taste of Pine Island, the ninth annual Water Assoc., CoveFarms.com, Nautical Youth Scholarship Fund. This year, the Continue the party at Ballyorney Irish Southwest Florida Chowder Cook-off Mile, Pine Island Chamber of Commerce, club hopes to raise over $20,000 at the Restaurant in South Fort Myers with Contest and the second annual Chili Pine Island Eagle, Pine Island News, event to assist Pine Island students with encore performances by Rathkeltair Cook-off Contest will also be held, which Ad&Craft Marketing, and Classic Rock their higher education costs. Since 1985, and Albannach at 8 p.m. on Saturday, the public can judge. The Fish Drop 94.5, Lite 93.7 and Fox News 92.5. the Kiwanis Club of Greater Pine Island January 28. Drawing will also take place at the event The Kiwanis Club of Greater Pine with a $1,000 grand prize, $500 second has provided over $200,000 in scholar- ships and has helped other island organi- Island is a community service organiza- place prize and $250 third place prize. tion that meets every Friday at Bert’s of Fish Drop raffle tickets and Taste of zations. The Taste of Pine Island is sponsored Matlacha. For more information on the Pine Island Tickets may be purchased at Kiwanis Club of Greater Pine Island and the event or in advance at Century 21 by Kiwanis Club of Greater Pine Island. Read us online at Event co-sponsors include SunTrust the Taste of Pine Island, e-mail chairman Realty in St. James City, Capital Bank, Pat Burman at info@PineIslandKiwanis. Stonegate Bank, Suntrust Bank and Bank, Pine Island Realty, Inc., Honc IslandSunNews.com Industries, Pine Island Realty, Budweiser, com, call 283-0777 or visit www. Ad&PrintCraft Marketing. Only 2,500 TasteofPineIsland.com. Fish Drop raffle tickets are to be sold. LCEC, Stonegate Bank, Capital Bank, THE RIVER - JANUARY 27, 2012 7 Gamma Rho Adds New Member

Welborn at the Junior League of Fort JLFM Offers Kids Myers office at 277-1197. In The Kitchen he Junior League of Fort Myers Alva Annual (JLFM) is happy to announce a Tsave the date for our upcoming Craft Show Kids In The Kitchen program. n Saturday, February 4, the The Kids In The Kitchen annual event Alva Annual Craft Show will be date is set for Saturday, March 24 from Oheld from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 11 a.m. until 2.p.m. The event will take the Alva Community Park, located at place at the Harlem Heights Community 21471 North River Road in Alva. The Jo Schweinfurth and Jan Waggoner Park and lunch will be provided to the show is free and open to the public. first 250 kids and their parents. The For further information on this event amma Rho chapter presented a new member Jan Waggoner with her Jewel Kids In The Kitchen committee will be or to become a vendor, contact Sandra Pin. The ceremony was conducted by president Jo Schweinfurth. accepting donations of sports equipment Bates at 728-2882 or BatesSW@leegov. G up until the event. If you have a dona- com. tion that you’d like to give, contact Kelly

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hether you watch the Super Bowl out of love for the game or simply as an excuse to have fun with family and friends, Super Bowl Sunday is Service with a smile at the Lazy Flamingo in Fort Myers. Pictured are Karin Emerick, Crissi Wunquestionably one of America’s favorite holidays. On February 5, the Berti and Kari Taylor New England Patriots face the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. Kickoff is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. and will be cials will be featured for the big day. broadcast nationally on NBC. Here are some options to ensure that you have a The Edison Restaurant & Bar is located at 3583 McGregor Boulevard, Fort Myers. fabulous time on game day: Call 936-9348 or go to www.edisonfl.com The Sandy Butler Gourmet Market is your headquarters for game day food If you prefer to catch some rays while waiting for kickoff, go to Nervous Nellie’s preparations. The culinary specialists will accommodate all of your party needs includ- Crazy Waterfront Eatery in Fort Myers Beach. The casual, family-fun restaurant ing wine, cheese or veggie platters and fresh gourmet meats. Receive a free six-pack boasts a large selection of appetizers, fresh seafood, sandwiches and entrées. While of Miller Lite or Coors Lite when you spend $40. relaxing on the outdoor patio, swing to the beats of live reggae, rock and island music. For a more sophisticated Super Bowl experience, go next door to Shoal’s Just upstairs from Nellie’s is Ugly’s Waterside Bar, which has multiple TVs for your Restaurant & Wine Bar and watch the big game on the restaurant’s new 70-inch viewing pleasure. Enjoy happy hour all day, every day at Ugly’s. TV. With access to fine foods from the region and from around the world – along with Nervous Nellie’s Crazy Waterfront Eatery is located at 1131 First Street, Fort the Scholl family’s own farm and grove – chef Michael Ragusa creates unique, deli- Myers Beach. Parking for your car or boat (at Nellie’s Snug Harbor Marina) is free for cious dishes inspired by the tropical Gulf region. Drink specials are also available. patrons. Call 463-8077 or go to www.nervousnellies.net. The Sandy Butler Market and Shoals Restaurant & Wine Bar are located at 17650 If you are hosting your own Super Bowl party, pick up the drinks and mixers on San Carlos Boulevard, Fort Myers. For more information, call 482-6765 or go to your list at First Street Liquors, down- www.sandybutler.com. town’s only full-service package store. With large screen TVs above the bar and in nearly every corner of the restaurant, During Super Bowl weekend, receive 10 Fort Myers’ Lazy Flamingo is a great place to celebrate with other hungry, thirsty percent off on any wines and spirits with a football fans. The nautical-themed restaurant serves everything from hot wings, giant purchase of over $50. burgers and grouper sandwiches to raw oysters on the half-shell, conch chowder and Plan on serving plenty of beverages... mussels marinara. Happy hour is served daily from 3 to 5 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. to mid- and don’t forget the beer. With so many night. beer commercials bombarding your guests, The Lazy Flamingo is located at 12951 McGregor Boulevard, Fort Myers. Call they will undoubtedly develop a strong Please visit our River Weekly News 476-9000 or go to www.lazyflamingo.com. thirst for the suds. online advertisers at At The Edison Restaurant & Bar, Super Bowl Sunday means food, fun and First Street Liquors is located at 2023 www.islandsunnews.com. football. The Chandelier Bar is a sport fan’s dream with numerous large plasma TVs. Altamont Avenue in the First Street Village You can click through to their Kick back inside the cool comfort of the bar or step outside and watch the game on shops, Fort Myers. It is open Monday Web sites for more information the Edison’s patio overlooking the Fort Myers golf course. Food and beer bucket spe- through Thursday 10 a.m. to 9 pm., about real estate, shopping, Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. restaurants and services. and Sunday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Call 332- Just click on the logos surrounding 3945. the front page.

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The Edison is a sport’s fan’s dream, with plasma TVs inside and outside 1520 Broadway For Takeout & Delivery Tel: 334-6991 THE RIVER - JANUARY 27, 2012 9 Featured soloists are Robert Beane, tenor, singing “If With All Your Hearts” from Mastersingers’ St. Peter Concert To Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Beth Wininger, soprano, singing “Times Like This” from Lucky Stiff and “Moonfall” from The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The Chamber Span Five Centuries Of Choral Music Chorus is a representative portion of the 70-member Mastersingers. The smaller ensemble performs in venues that are unable to accommodate the full membership. There is no admission charge for this concert. A free will offering will be requested. St. Peter Lutheran Church is located at 3751 Estero Blvd. in Fort Myers Beach.

the day, each wish experience is tailor- CCYC To Host made to exceed all expectations. The Southern Florida chapter grants a wish Dinner For Dreams every 16 hours and has granted more ome to the Cape Coral Yacht Club than 8,000 wishes since its inception 28 on Friday, February 10 from 6:30 years ago. Cto 10 p.m. for a dinner and danc- With the average cost of a wish being ing fundraiser event, with 100 percent of $5,000, the Foundation relies on fund- the net proceeds benefiting the Make-A- raisers, corporate support and donations Wish Foundation of Southern Florida. from the public to bring sunshine into the The Dinner For Dreams fundraiser will lives of families when they need it most. include a full course dinner, live deejay, a To help share the power of a wish, Chinese auction, 50/50 raffle and much call the Make-A-Wish Foundation at 954- more. Donations are still being accepted 967-WISH or visit www.sfla.wish.org. for the Chinese auction. Tickets are just $20 per person and are Mastersingers Chamber Chorus The Make-A-Wish Foundation of available for purchase by cash or check made out to “Dinner For Dreams” by ome of the most celebrated choral music of the past five centuries will be pre- Southern Florida grants the wishes of calling 574-0806 or 898-7483. Cost is sented at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Fort Myers Beach on Tuesday, January children with life-threatening medical con- ditions to enrich the human experience $20 per person. S31. The Fort Myers Symphonic Mastersingers’ Chamber Chorus will sing it Cape Coral Yacht Club is located at with hope, strength and joy. Whether a starting at 7 p.m. 5819 Driftwood Parkway in Cape Coral. Masterworks by Mozart, Handel and Rutter will headline the program which will child chooses to go somewhere exotic, also include well-known American spirituals and other folk songs. The concert will be a meet an adored celebrity, have a trea- mixture of a capella and accompanied music. sured gift or be a dream occupation for In describing the program, Mastersingers art director Jeff Faux explained, “Great choral music tells a dramatic story and we will illustrate this as we introduce each work.” For instance, the program includes selections from Handel’s Coronation #4, one of four anthems by Handel that have been performed at every British coronation since SFCA Teacher 1727. Receives Scholarship list ranges from Coldplay to killer reels Barrage To Play – a musical theatrical extravaganza filled r. Douglas J. Roth from with dazzling choreography and blurring, Southeastern University vis- At Fort Myers HS fast fretwork. Dited the Southwest Florida The current incarnation of the group Christian Academy (SFCA) cam- arrage, a high-energy fiddle fest, pus to award Stephanie Laymon, weaving together extraordinary consists of Kristina Bauch (violin and tin whistle), Taylor Morris (violin), Kiana a sixth grade teacher, a $10,000 Bmusicianship and dance with trac- scholarship towards a Master’s Weber (violin), Daniel Pentecost (violin es of everything from country to heavy degree program. metal music, will bring its show to Fort and bagpipes), Lindy Donia (violin), Tim Harley (bass guitar), Charles Bullough The scholarship was presented Myers High School on Friday, February by Dr. Roth personally at SFCA’s 24 at 7 p.m. (drums) and Phil Smyth (guitar). Dean Marshall is the artistic director. chapel last week. From hundreds Five violinists are backed up with wild of applicants, Laymon was one of and interesting percussions, strong vocals, “Many bands in the past half century have chosen strange names that don’t three recipients for a scholarship in guitar, bagpipes and expertly executed this amount. choreography. The result is a show seem to mean anything,” wrote The St. that blows the doors off Stomp! and Petersburg Times. “The name chosen Stephanie Laymon and Dr. Douglas J. Roth Riverdance alike. for the musical group Barrage, on the Created in Calgary, Canada in 1997, other hand, is perfectly obvious: Eight this world-beat ensemble tours more than high-powered musicians present a bar- 40 weeks a year and has released seven rage of sound and sights when they take albums, four DVDs and five television the stage.” specials to date. Barrage recently cele- Tickets for the show at Fort Myers ISLAND brated its milestone 2,500th international High School are $15 for adults and $10 INSURANCE performance. Over the past 15 years, the for students and can be purchased by SERVICE group has entertained millions of concert- contacting Mark Dahlberg at Markld@ goers and performed to sold out houses leeschools.net or by sending payment to in more than 27 countries. Mark Dahlberg c/o FMHS, 2635 Cortez “Barrage … defies efforts to neatly cat- Blvd., Fort Myers, FL 33901 (include a Kathleen Papaleo Mark O’Brien Susan Barnes Gina Loeber self-addressed envelope and Mr. Dahlberg Call our office today President General Manager Personal Lines Agent egorize its style,” said Planet Rockwall. “The band seems to leave no musical will mail you your tickets). Make checks for a new Auto stone unturned.” payable to FMHS Band Boosters, Inc. Summer is over and it’s time to enjoy The concert is sponsored by the Fort quote. In 2012, Barrage will debut its new those beautiful “winter” days in album and touring spectacle called Myers High School Band Boosters. For “Soundtrack of the World.” Fresh mate- more information, call 334-2167 or visit Paradise. rial highlights the group’s virtuoso cast www.fmhsgreenwave.org. Have an insurance question? of young musicians performing a jaw- dropping mix of world music and dance 703 Tarpon Bay Rd, Sanibel, FL (239) 472-3022 with non-stop intensity. The show’s play 10 THE RIVER - JANUARY 27, 2012 6111 South Pointe Boulevard, Fort Myers, CATHOLIC CHURCH: 21580 River Ranch Rd, Estero Churches/Temples 278-3638. Sunday Worship, 10:30 a.m.; 881 Nuna Avenue, Fort Myers, 481-1143 239-495-0400 ALL FAITHS UNITARIAN Voice of Faith, WCRN 13.50 AM Radio, Masses Friday and Saturday, 7 p.m.; Senior Pastor: Todd Weston CONGREGATION Member of UUA Sunday, 1:30 p.m.; Thursday Service, 7:30 Sunday, 8 and 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. 8 and 9:45 a.m Services; 2756 McGregor Boulevard, Fort Myers p.m.; Friday Youth Service, 7:30 p.m. KINGDOM LIFE CHURCH 11:30 a.m. Legacy Service, multi-genera- Six blocks south of the Edison/Ford Winter Nursery care for pre-school children and 2154 McGregor Boulevard, tional Estates; 2 miles N of Colonial Boulevard Children’s Church for ages 5-12 available at Fort Myers, 218-8343 SAMUDRABADRA BUDDHIST CENTER Minister: Reverend Dr. Wayne Robinson each service. Pastor Randy and Anita Thurman Meditation classes. All are welcome. Sunday services: 9 and 11 a.m. FAITH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 10:30 a.m. Sunday Service Guided meditations offering many meth- Unitarian Summer 2011: 11 a.m. Tapestry 15690 McGregor Boulevard All are welcome. ods for relaxing the body and focusing of Faith Programs, child care provided Fort Myers, 482-2030 LAMB OF GOD the mind on virtuous objects to bring Adult workshops: 9:30 a.m. Faith Like a Pastor: David Stauffer. LUTHERAN/EPISCOPAL CHURCH increasing peace and happiness into River: Themes from UU History. Traditional services 8:45 a.m.; Corner Cypress View Drive and Koreshan daily activity. For information, class times 226-0900, Email: allfaithsuc@embarqmail. Contemporary, 10:30 a.m. Boulevard, Three Oaks area, and locations call 567-9739 or visit www. com, Website: www.allfaiths-uc.org Go south on McGregor Boulevard. The Fort Myers, 267-3525 MeditationInFortMyers.org. ANNUNCIATION GREEK church is ½ mile past the intersection of Walter Fohs, pastor; Becky Robbins- SOUTHWEST BAPTIST CHURCH ORTHODOX CHURCH Gladiolus and San Carlos Boulevard on the Penniman, associate pastor 16940 McGregor Boulevard, 8210 Cypress Lake Drive, Fort Myers way to Sanibel. Sunday worship services: Fort Myers, 454-3336 Reverend Fr. Athanasios Michalos FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST 8 a.m. Early Grace Traditional Robert G. Kasten, Pastor Orthros Service Sunday 9 a.m. 2390 West First Street, next door to Edison 9 a.m. Awesome Grace Contemporary Sunday Worship Service 11 a.m. Divine Liturgy Sunday 10 a.m. Estates. 10:30 a.m. Classic Grace Traditional Nursery available Fellowship Programs, Greek School, Sunday Morning Service and Sunday 8:45 & 10 a.m. Sunday School God’s 9:45 a.m. Sunday School for all ages Sunday School, Community Night School, 10:30 a.m.; Wednesday Evening Group Junior Church grades one to five 239-481-2099 Testimony Meeting, 7:30 p.m. Child care MESSIAH REFORMED CHURCH Wee Church Pre-K to K BETH SHILOH provided at all services. Worship Gathering - Sunday 10 a.m. Evening Service 6 p.m. MESSIANIC SYNAGOGUE Visit our Reading Room for quiet study at: Pastor Alan Bondar Wednsday Service 6 p.m. 15675 McGregor Boulevard, 437-3171 2281 W. First Street, River District Fort Myers Villas Civic Association Bldg. ST. COLUMBKILLE Rabbi: Judah Hungerman www.spirituality.com and www.christian- 2306 Sunrise Blvd. Fort Myers CATHOLIC CHURCH Friday Service, 8 p.m., Saturday Service, science.com 220-8519 12171 Iona Road, Fort Myers, off 11 a.m. Shabbat School Saturday Morning, FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE website: messiahreformed.com McGregor and north of Gladiolus. Adult Hebrew Classes. 13545 American Colony Boulevard 6:30 p.m Wednesday Bible Study 489-3973 Father Joseph Clifford. Call for information on full program. off Daniels Parkway in the Colony, noon Sunday Fellowship Lunch Weekly masses: BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES Fort Myers, 936-2511 Monthly Teen Events Monday through Saturday 8 a.m. CHURCH OF GOD Pastor: Reverend Joey Brummett see website for podcasts, special events, Weekend masses: Saturday 3 and 5 p.m.; 16581 McGregor Boulevard, 267-3166 Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.; Morning ministries, calendar, blogs, etc. Sunday: 7, 9,11, and 5:30 p.m. Just past the Tanger Outlet Mall Worship, 10:30 a.m.; Sunday Evening, 6 NEW BEGINNINGS CENTER Reconciliation is available at the church on Pastor: Barry Lentz, 281-3063 p.m.; Wednesday Family Night, 7 p.m. New Home Church, 8505 Jenny Cae Lane, Saturdays at noon and by appointment Sunday Worship, 10:30 a.m. FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH North Fort Myers, 239-656-0416 SAINT JOHN THE APOSTLE Wednesday Bible Study, 7 p.m. in the Downtown Fort Myers River District Weekly Friday Meeting Meet & Greet: 6:30 METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH CHAPEL OF CYPRESS COVE 2466 First Street, Fort Myers, FL 33901 p.m. Kingdom Teaching: 7 p.m. Fellowship 3049 Mcgregor Boulevard, Fort Myers, 344- 10200 Cypress Cove Circle Fort Myers 239-332-1152, www.fumcftmyers.org and refreshments after service. nbcmin- 0012 Pastor Reverend Steve Filizzi 239-850-3943, Located at Cypress Cove Sunday: 9 a.m. Contemporary Worship [email protected], www.facebook. An Affirming & Inclusive Congregation Retirement Center on HealthPark Campus 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. Sunday School com/nbcministry. Alex & Patricia Wiggins, Sunday Services, 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. An ecumenical non-denominational com- 9:45 a.m. Coffee Fellowship Ministers Mid-Week Service, Wednesday 6:30 p.m. munity of believers. 10:30 a.m. Traditional Worship NEW HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH ST. MICHAEL LUTHERAN Sunday Worship Service, 10 a.m. 5 p.m. Youth Program OF FORT MYERS CHURCH & SCHOOL (LCMS) Wednesday Bible Study, 7 p.m. 7 p.m. Spanish Worship 16120 San Carlos Boulevard, Unit 10 3595 Broadway, Fort Myers Reverendt Ted Althouse, Pastor FORT MYERS CHRISTIAN CHURCH 239-985-8503 239-939-4711, www.smlcs.org [email protected] (DISCIPLES OF CHRIST) A STEPHEN 9:45 a.m. Sunday School for all ages Wednesday Fellowship: 5:30 p.m. CHURCH OF THE CROSS: MINISTRIES CONGREGATION 11 a.m Sunday Morning Worship. Dinner $5, 6:15 p.m. bible studies 13500 Freshman Lane; 768-2188 5916 Winkler Road, Fort Myers, 437-4330 7 p.m. Wednesday Evening Bible Study Worship: Saturday, 5:30 p.m., Pastors: Jeff Moran and Michael Bulter; Reverend Mark Condrey, Pastor NEW HOPE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Sunday 8 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. with 9:15 A nondenominational church emphasizing Sunday Worship: 10:30 a.m. 3825 McGregor Boulevard. Fort Myers a.m. adult and children’s Bible Study, plus a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Church School: 9:15 a.m. Pastors: Bill Stephens, Stu Austin and marriage enrichment studies. Divorce Care Sunday Service: 9 a.m. Contemporary FORT MYERS CONGREGATIONAL Howard Biddulph, Associate Pastor on Thursdays from 7 to 8:30 p.m. 10:45 a.m. Traditional. UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: 8 & 9:30 a.m. Traditional Worship During Lent: Wednesday worship COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 8210 College Parkway, Fort Myers, 11 a.m. Contemporary Worship noon and 6:15 p.m. 2439 McGregor Boulevard, 334-8937 482-3133. Philip White, pastor 8, 9:30 & 11 a.m. Sunday School TEMPLE BETHEL SYNAGOGUE Rev. Dr. Kathleen Weller, Temporary Supply Morning Worship: 10 a.m. Youth and Children’s programming runs 16225 Winkler Rd. 433-0018. Pastor. Reverend David Dietzel, Pastor Church School: 10:15 a.m. concurrent to Sunday services. Rabbi Jeremy Barras Emeritus. Traditional Sunday service 10 Adult Forum: 11:30 a.m. Nursery care provided at all services E-mail: [email protected] a.m. Nursery available HOLY THEOTOKOS MONASTERY For more information visit: Cantorial soloist: Lawrence Dermer CYPRESS LAKE BAPTIST CHURCH 111 Evergreen Road, North Fort Myers, www.newhopefortmyers.org Temple educator: Dale Cohen, Ma.Ed., 8400 Cypress Lake Drive, Fort Myers, 997-2846 Eastern Orthodox men’s mon- PEACE COMMUNITY CHURCH R.J.E 481-5442 Randy A. Alston, Reverend. astery. Liturgical services conducted in the Meets at Ft. Myers Beach Masonic Lodge Shabbat Services, Friday, 7:30 p.m. Sunday Services: Bible study, 9:45 a.m. English, Greek and Church Slavonic lan- 17625 Pine Ridge Road, Torah Study, Saturday, 9:15 a.m. Morning Worship, 11 a.m., Evening guages, following the Julian (Old) Calendar. Fort Myers Beach 267-7400. Religious Education; Sunday School and Worship, 7 p.m., Wednesday Prayer Liturgical Services: Sundays and Holy Pastors Bruce Merton, Gail & RC Fleeman Midweek classes, Meeting, 6:30 p.m. Days: The Third and Sixth Hours at 8:30 9:45 a.m. Traditional Worship Preschool Classes, Monday through Friday CYPRESS LAKE a.m.; Divine Liturgy at 9 a.m. 11:15 a.m. Contemporary Worship Web site: www.templebethel.com PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IONA-HOPE EPISCOPAL Phone 267-7400 Fax 267-7407 Affiliated: Union for Reform Judaism 8260 Cypress Lake Drive, Fort Myers, CONGREGATION Web site: peacecommunitychurch.com TEMPLE JUDEA (CONSERVATIVE) 481-3233; Clint Cottrell, pastor 9650 Gladiolus Drive, Fort Myers 454-4778 e-mail: [email protected] 14486 A&W Bulb Road, Fort Myers, Sunday services: 8 and 11 a.m. Traditional; The Reverend Dr. John S. Adler, pastor. PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 433-0201, 9:30 a.m. Contemporary; 9:45 a.m. Weekly services: 15840 McGregor Boulevard, Fort Myers Rabbi: Rabbi Elyssa Auster Children’s Church K4J Kids for Jesus Saturday 5 p.m., Eucharist with Healing Walter Still, Senior Pastor, President: Keith Grossman CYPRESS LAKE UNITED Sunday 8 a.m., Holy Eucharist, Rite One; 8 and 9:30 a.m. Sunday Worship Minyan: Monday & Thursday at 9 a.m. METHODIST CHURCH 9:30 a.m., Family Eucharist with Healing ¾ mile south from the intersection of Services: Friday night at 7:30 p.m. and 8570 Cypress Lake Drive, Fort Myers, and Church School McGregor, San Carlos and Gladiolus. Saturday morning at 9 a.m. 482-1250 Tuesday 9:30 a.m., Morning Prayer (in A congregation of the ELCA. Religious School Sunday morning 8 and 11 a.m. Sunday Traditional Service Spanish); Wednesday 9:30 a.m., Eucharist REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH Web site: www.tjswfl.org 9:30 a.m. Praise Service with Healing. Child care available at 3950 Winkler Ext., Fort Myers, 274-0143 Preschool director: JoAnn Goldman Sunday School all times Saturday 5 p.m. and Sunday 9:30 a.m. 8:15 and 10:15 a.m. Sunday Services email [email protected] FAITH FELLOWSHIP WORLD services. Daily early learning center/day care 433-0201, Web site: www.tjswfl.org OUTREACH MINISTRIES JESUS THE WORKER RIVER OF LIFE ASSEMBLY OF GOD continued on page 11 THE RIVER - JANUARY 27, 2012 11 From page 10 mile west of I-75) Minister: The Reverend Allison Farnum Churches/Temples Sunday services and religious education at Affiliated: United Synagogue of 10:30 a.m. Conservative Judaism For information on all church events call THE CHABAD LUBAVITCH 561-2700 or visit www.uucfm.org. OF SW FLORIDA ORTHODOX UNITY OF BONITA SPRINGS 5620 Winkler Road, Fort Myers Family Service 10 to 11 a.m. Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Healing Circle 11 a.m. 433-7708, E-mail: [email protected] Hospitality and Fellowship, 11 a.m. Web site: www.chabadswf.org Inspiring lesson, uplifting and dynamic Services: Friday 6:30 p.m.; Saturday music, meditation in a loving environment. Kabbalah class 9 a.m.; Service held at 28285 Imperial Street, Shacharit 10 a.m.; Kiddush at noon Bonita Springs. Call 947-3100. Minyan: Monday and Thursday 7 a.m. WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN THE NEW CHURCH CHURCH The New Church of SWFL is located at 9065 Ligon Court, Fort Myers, across 10811 Sunset Plaza Circle, by Summerlin from HealthPark Hospital, 481-2125 and Pine Ridge Roads, behind Zoomers Senior Pastor: Robert Brunson and the ponds. Sunday Service: Reverend Nadine 9:30 a.m. Sunday School for all ages 11 a.m. Blended Worship Spiritual Recovery, Wednesdays 10 a.m. Char and Woody Stemple with Doug Quelch, president of the Lee Coast MOAA Chapter Healing Service, Wednesdays 11 a.m. and www.westminsterfortmyers.org Fridays 6:30 p.m. WORD OF LIFE CHURCH Sunday Worship Services, 11 a.m. 2120 Collier Ave, Fort Myers, 274-8881; American Missionaries Recount Call for information 481-5535. Services: Sunday 10 a.m.; THOMAS A. EDISON Wednesday 7 p.m. Memories Of Vietnam To MOAA CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Bishop Gaspar and Michele Anastasi 1619 Llewellyn Drive Fort Myers ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH n Monday, January 16, some 70 members of MOAA, their spouses and Just off McGregor across from the Edison/ 7401 Winkler Road, Fort Myers, guests sat in rapt attention as they listened to speakers Woody Stemple and Ford Winter Estates 334-4978 481-4040, Interim Pastor Jim Eggert Ohis wife, Char, recount their experiences of Vietnam. Both had a unique Senior Minister: Douglas Kelchner Pastor Peter Weeks view of the hostilities there from 1964 to 1973, when they served as missionar- Traditional Worship Sunday’s 10:15 a.m. Sunday Services: 8:30 a.m. Traditional; ies. They ran their mission in an area with Viet-Cong activity but were left alone Website: www.edisonchurch.org 10 a.m. Blended Traditional and because of their charitable work. They conducted bible classes for American troops UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST Contemporary; 11:30 a.m. Contemporary. and ran a wheelchair repair facility for local villagers with the help of servicemen. CHURCH FORT MYERS Children’s Sunday School, Adult /Teen They came under fire when there was fighting, but they endured and often return to 13411 Shire Lane (off Daniels Parkway one Bible Classes, 10 a.m. Vietnam to see the changes. Char is an author and has recently published book, My Vietnam.

opment. Character development activities utilize the research-based Positive Action Quality Life Center Provides Free curriculum to promote character development, empower youth, reduce disruptive and problem behavior and strengthen leadership skills. Performing arts activities include Quest For Success Teen Program music and dance. The program targets teens attending Title I schools. The award for the first year is $481,965 from the Department of Education, and continues for the next four years. For information or to sign up for Quest For Success, contact Dr. Charles Cunningham at 334-2797, visit the center at 3210 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in Fort Myers or visit www.qualitylifecenter.org.

by Sharon Harrington, Supervisor of Wednesday Elections for Lee County. Get the latest status of redistricting for Lee County. Morning Live! The one-hour lecture begins at 10 a.m., with coffee and snacks served at Lecture Series 9:30 a.m. Admission is free. t’s That Time Again,” the next Covenant Presbyterian Church is Wednesday Morning Live! located at 2439 McGregor Blvd. in Fort “ICommunity Lecture at Covenant Myers. Call 334-8937 or visit www.info- Presbyterian Church, will be presented covpcfm.com.

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Academics involve interactive projects to boost Call & Well Liquor, Draft Beer Selections, BBQ Beef Satays, student interest and performance by allowing students to explore, learn and create Select House Wine Snow Crab Legs, Chicken Wings in a non-traditional, textbook-style environment. This includes Odyssey of the Mind problems and a competitive robotics option. All lessons are tied to Florida’s State Standards, and are taught by certified teachers. Personal enrichment activities include 1223 PERIWINKLE WAY, SANIBEL 472-1771 mentoring, tutoring, computer technology, media arts instruction and character devel- 12 THE RIVER - JANUARY 27, 2012 grouper caught by a client while man- limit of trout comes pretty easily. Another Great grove fishing for redfish in less than three If you just want to target the big- feet of water. This gag grouper was quite ger trout, a small pinfish fished Week To Be Out the epic battle on the light spinning gear. under a popping cork does not At one point the fish even got hung up draw many strikes but when it On The Water in some bottom structure. After giving it does go down it’s usually an 18- slack line for about 30 seconds, the fish inch-plus trout. by Capt. relaxed and the angler reeled tight and The same numbers game Matt Mitchell pulled it free of the snag. continues with our redfish action ith the Although we currently have big num- too. The biggest redfish of the forecast of bers of gag grouper in the bay and pass- week was caught by Donna Black Wlight winds es, season remains closed on them until and measured 25 inches. The and highs in the low March 31. These grouper are a great light fish came after we caught several 80s, it’s going to be tackle, shallow water gamefish and can be other reds in the 16- to 20-inch another great week caught on a wide variety of baits and even range. Once located, hooking to be out on the plugs. I have lots of anglers tell me they 20-plus redfish on one little piece water. Our big low look a lot like fresh water bass. They may of deeper mangrove shoreline or tides will be early look like a bass but they fight like a bass out in a sand pothole was nor- morning and will on steroids and are about the hardest hit- mal. Live shrimp remains the bait offer some great fishing opportunities. Big ting fish that swims in our waters. of choice for redfish as it will all high tides are coming around midnight so With daily warming conditions, lots of winter long. it’s another week of fishing low incoming trout have moved out from the deeper Our deeper residential canals water. Above average temperatures by creeks and channels and back onto the continue to hold good numbers mid-week will warm the water up enough grass flats. Mixed in with the trout have of snook. One canal I often fish that the bite should really go off. also been a few pompano. Though most during cold water periods has a One thing that is constant about our of the trout remain on the small size it nine-foot channel then a little bay winter fishing is the wide variety of spe- seems to be a numbers game. Every with shallow dark bottom that cies you can catch. Some days you never dozen or so hook-ups bouncing a shrimp- the snook just love to lay up on know what the next cast will bring. One tipped jig or soft plastic jig along the bot- and sun themselves during the big surprise this week was a 26-inch gag tom you will get a slot-sized trout. If you’re warmest part of the day. The Longtime clients Donna and Paul Black from Sea Isle, willing to work at it for an hour or so, a bigger fish in here have been all New Jersey, with two keeper redfish caught while but impossible to get to eat a bait fishing with Capt. Matt Mitchell this week while the smaller models seem to start to feed. It’s just a matter of being eat more freely. there when they do. Send Us Your Fish Tales One morning this week we caught a Capt. Matt Mitchell has been fishing he River Weekly would like to hear from anglers about their catches. dozen or more of these snook without local waters since he moved to Sanibel Send us details including tackle, bait and weather conditions, date of one being over 20 inches. While riding in in 1980. He now lives in St. James City Tcatch, species and weight, and include photographs with identification. my tower it was awesome to see so many and works as a back country fishing Drop them at the River Weekly, 1609 Hendry Street, Suite 15, Fort Myers, big snook laid up in one little bay. As con- guide. If you have comments or ques- Florida 33901, or email to [email protected]. ditions warm, these bigger fish will slowly tions email [email protected].

Swim with Local Waters/Local Charts Class the Fishes BOAT he San Carlos Bay Sail & Power Squadron, a unit of the United States Power Squadrons, will be offering the popular Local Waters/Local Charts class. The Tclass will be held on Saturday, February 4 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. RENTALS This class is directed towards new boaters and boaters new to the area, as well as those wishing to learn chart reading. It will provide the boater with some of the basics Fishing • Cabbage Key of navigation, oriented to the Fort Myers area. Students will be using chart 11427 and Dolphin Watching you must bring this chart to class. Optional On-The-Water training is also offered at a Captains Available later date. Please check with the class instructor for details. The cost of the class is $40. The class is being taught at the San Carlos Bay Sail & Power Squadron’s class- 472-5800 room, located at 16048 San Carlos Blvd. (at the corner of Kelly Road, across from 481-4733 ACE Hardware). Students can register online at www.scbps.com or call 466-4040. 12600 McGregor Blvd, Ft Myers Jensen’s Marina www.scubavicedivers.com Captiva Island

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Your Bottom CourteousCourteous ProProfessionalfessional Marine Repair SServiceervice • Dockside ServiceService Specialist ServingServing Sanibel & Captiva For LifLifee Call on Paint Prices 472-3380 • 466-3344 Dave Doane THE RIVER - JANUARY 27, 2012 13 CROW Case Of The Week: Artificial tears and an antibiotic ointment are often applied to treat eye irritation, Red Tide Crisis as some birds are so weak that they are unable to blink their eyes. Additionally, all by Patricia Molloy sea-living patients require daily “tub time” ed tide is to promote with hydration and physical back. exercise. R “We’re Once patients are well enough to eat swamped,” said Dr. fish on their own and have regained most Heather Barron, of their strength, they are moved outside clinic director. to special enclosures that mimic their nat- She reports that ural environments. Still, all patients must an average of six be fed and progress must be documented patients suffering on a consistent schedule. from toxicosis are The doctors and medical interns at being admitted daily CROW often work more than 12 hours to CROW. Dr. Heather further noted per day caring for over 4,000 sick, that while volunteers are quick to assist injured and orphaned wildlife patients CROW after hurricanes, people do realize each year. With such a drastic surge of how busy the clinic becomes during out- patient admissions, the staff is in desper- breaks of red tide. ate need of additional assistance dur- The clinic is so overwhelmed with ing this red tide crisis. While a medical toxicosis patients that the medical staff background is helpful, it is certainly not has implemented an “assembly line treat- required. ment” technique to cope with the case If you are a bird and/or animal lover, load. The majority of patients requiring show how much you care by giving a little immediate medical attention are birds; Just a handful of CROW’s patients from the last red tide outbreak in December of your time to CROW. Sanibel’s native CROW is currently is treating a large birds, tortoises and mammals need your number of brown pelicans, double crested humans, its has a more serious effect people so that they can successfully sur- help now more than ever. cormorants and herring gulls. on marine wildlife. Exposure to the algal vive upon return to their natural habitats. CROW (Clinic for the Rehabilitation Red tide is an ancient, natural phe- bloom can be dangerous, even fatal, to During the early stages of care, toxi- of Wildlife, Inc.) is a non-profit wildlife nomenon caused by tiny, single celled fish, sea turtles and birds. cosis patients require daily tube feeding hospital providing veterinary care for algae called Gymnodinium breve. There Caring for sick and injured wild birds of Piscivore Care, a formula designed native and migratory wildlife from the is an ongoing, heated debate among sci- is particularly challenging due to the high- to meet the metabolic needs of critically Gulf coast of Florida. The hospital entists about how much of an effect man- stress nature of avians. CROW is in the ill fish-eating seabirds. They also require accepts patients seven days a week made pollution has had on the severity precarious position of treating infirm wild- fluid injections under the skin to prevent from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mail donations and frequency of these algal outbreaks. life while limiting human contact as much dehydration and the administration of a to P.O. Box 150, Sanibel, FL 33957. While red tide causes little more than as possible. This is to ensure that the liver detox with milk thistle to stimulate Call 472-3644 or visit www.crowclinic. respiratory and eye discomfort for most patients do not become accustomed to the liver into filtering out the toxins. org.

OUR PATIENTS CAN’T PAY THEIR BILLS BUT YOU CAN HELP “INSURE” THE ANIMALS AT CROW Go to www.crowclinic.org Click on “Help Insure a CROW Patient” Choose your favorite patient Make your pledge with a credit card Receive a certifi cate with a photo of your chosen animal by reply e-mail For more information, phone 472-3644 ext. 231 Join CROW for a Smooth Jazz Cruise Party February 12, 2012 5pm For more information, visit www.crowclinic.org or phone 472-3644 ext. 227 Please thank our Case of the Week ad sponsor for supporting CROW: thanks

for helping insure the care and feeding of our patients 14 THE RIVER - JANUARY 27, 2012 Plant Smart Orchid Tree by Gerri Reaves he orchid tree (Bauhinia Tpurpurea) is a semi-deciduous native of eastern Asia. Because it is a beauti- ful fast-growing shade tree with a long and profuse flowering season, it’s easy to understand its popu- larity. The showy fra- grant flowers appear in autumn. Five- petaled and up to five inches across, they appear in clusters near the stem tips, with colors ranging The leaf shape gives this tree another common name, butterfly tree from magenta to pale pink. another name is poor-man’s orchid. They give off a A member of the bean family, this tree produces large flat seed pods of up to a foot delicate fragrance long. that can cause you The tree can be up to 40 feet tall and can be messy due to the many falling seed to turn around and pods and brittle branches. Some experts consider the tree noxious or weedy. search for the source. A similar tree, Hong Kong orchid, probably a hybrid of B. variegata and B. pur- Bipartite leaves purea, is sterile, and therefore doesn’t produce pods. have two rounded Be careful not to confuse this species with the very similar Bauhinia variegata, lobes with a deep which is listed as a category 1 invasive plant by the Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council. cleft at the apex, a Its flowers have overlapping petals and bloom after the leaves fall. shape that inspires Sources: fleppc.org, floridata.com, and plants.usda.gov. the common name The orchid tree is a native of eastern Asia Plant Smart explores sustainable gardening practices that will help you create butterfly tree. Yet photos by Gerri Reaves an environmentally responsible, low-maintenance South Florida landscape.

Caring For Your Plants No-Maintenance Plants: Truth Or Fiction? by Justen Dobbs echnology in horticulture is Timproving by leaps and bounds in the 21st century, providing newly discovered species, hybrids, and other plants and trees that can be uti- lized in almost any Florida landscape. Many of these new species are being grown for their visual appeal and low maintenance attributes. Bromeliads, cycads, and flax lilies can be a bit more expensive This colorful landscape on Fort Myers Beach has no irrigation and Some examples are hybrid plants and initially, but save thousands on landscape maintenance in the requires no maintenance except for lawn mowing trees, succulents, tropical air plants, and long run uncommon natives. In our current economic climate, most Most people believe that you have to wait for them to bloom. If planted in fall • The cordylines and crotons will shed homeowners are looking to cut monthly plant flowering bushes and annuals in or winter, they will need to be watered a handful of leaves pear year on their living expenses wherever possible. order to get a splash of color when they often for the first 45 to 60 days, then own. These fallen leaves can be left alone So, do no maintenance plants actually bloom. These typically require a lot of they’re ready to live off rain alone. If to turn into mulch, or you can go through exist? The answer is yes. Technically, bro- maintenance and only bloom part of the planted in May or June, these plants will once a month and collect them by hand, meliads (air-plants from South America) year. f you enjoy planting these types of not need any water and will depend on no equipment needed. and succulents require no irrigation, trim- bushes and live here year-round, that’s our rainy season to establish. Once estab- In addition, these plants require no ming, fertilizer, or pest control and pro- fine. But if you are interested in lower lished, they require almost zero mainte- fertilizer and only the crotons may require vide year-round color. And we can’t for- maintenance alternatives, there are many nance: some occasional pest control for scale or get Florida native plants and trees which available if you know what to ask for. • If the palms are self-cleaning, you sooty mold. You may want to ask your can live off our rain and don’t require any For the tropical look, I suggest only need to pick up a few dead fronds landscaping company about some of maintenance (in most cases). drought-tolerant exotic palms, bromeliads per year. these. If they can’t provide them, a sim- But, Florida native plants limit you to cordylines, and crotons. All have colorful • The bromeliads require zero mainte- ple Google search such as “buy bromeli- green and silver foliage. foliage year-round so you don’t have to nance. continued on page 16 THE RIVER - JANUARY 27, 2012 15 Parks & Rec Presents Being An Eco-Traveler oin Lee County Parks & Recreation for a free public program series that Jwill provide you with the inside tips and tricks of being a true eco-traveler here in Southwest Florida. Speakers and presentations are set for 7 p.m. on January 26, February 23 and March 29 at the Eco Living Center at Rutenberg Park, 6490 South Pointe Blvd. (between College Parkway and Cypress Lake Drive) in South Fort Myers. The programs include: • “Paddling The Blueway” on Thursday, January 26 – Betsy Clayton, Lee County Parks & Recreation water- ways coordinator for the Great Calusa White peacock butterfly Downy woodpecker Blueway Paddling Trail, and Terri Krass, acre Conservation 20/20 wilderness walk and trail while learning more about local paddling club member and volunteer Guided Nature oasis that includes nature trails, wildlife the birds, butterflies and plants that call guide, will share kayaking information observation areas, and equestrian trails. this home. Visit one small section of a and basic paddling gear and novice routes Walks At North Restrooms are available. 1,290-acre Conservation 20/20 wilder- through Lee County waterways. Prairie Pines Preserve is located at ness oasis that includes nature trails, sce- • “The Nature of Southwest Florida” Fort Myers Parks 18400 N. Tamiami Trail. Participants will nic observation areas and picnic pavilions. on Thursday, February 23 – Charles meet in the parking lot. Restroom are available. Sobczak, author of The Living Gulf n Saturday, February 4, take Coast: A Nature Guide to Southwest a guided nature walk along a More information is available by calling Caloosahatchee Creeks Preserve is 533-7455. located at 10130 Bayshore Road in Florida, will share a photo presenta- Othe boardwalk at Prairie Pines tion of his new book, which includes the Also, take a morning stroll in the North Fort Myers. Participants will meet Preserve in North Fort Myers from 9 to regional wildlife and 162 eco-destinations 10:30 a.m. Admission is free. woods at Caloosahatchee Creeks in the parking lot Preserve in North Fort Myers on For more information, call 533-7455. within the six counties of Southwest From an ADA-compliant boardwalk, Florida. Autograph copies of his books this hour-long stroll will traverse a sea- Saturday, February 11 from 9 to 10:30 These tours are provided in coop- a.m. Admission is free. eration with Lee County Parks & will be available. sonal marsh while learning more about • “A Time Gone By” on Thursday, the birds, butterflies, and plants that call it Traverse wetland, oak hammock and Recreation. pine flatwoods on ADA-compliant board- March 29 – Terry Cain, Lee County home. Visit one small section of a 2,654- Parks & Recreation land stewardship coordinator, and John Kiseda, Lee February 3 in the Education Center at Conrad – Alligators County Parks & Recreation environmen- Florida Panther the J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife • March 16 – Dr. Dale Gawlik – tal education coordinator, will share little- Refuge. Wading Birds known facts and folklore about the Lee NWR Biologist Richardson and his staff track and treat • March 23 – Roger L. Reep and County coastline. Florida panthers within the 26,400-acre Robert K. Bonde – The Florida Manatee* “As a premier destination for ecotour- Coming To ‘Ding’ Everglades-area refuge in an effort to help • March 30 – Live indigo snake pre- ism, Southwest Florida provides many the endangered species survive. He assists sentation by Dennis Giardina, Florida opportunities for residents and visitors with cat examinations and radio-collar tag- Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission to experiences unique ecosystems and ging, and will explain how new technol- biologist cultural awareness,” said Kiseda, who ogy is helping in the refuge’s mission. • April 6 – Just Ducky – Unveiling of planned the “Being An Eco-Traveler” This year for the first time, due to their new Duck Touch Screen computer with series. popularity, the free lectures will be held guest speakers decoy carver Jim Sprankle Although the programs are free, space twice each Friday, at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. and supervisory refuge ranger Toni is limited. An RSVP is suggested by call- Seating is limited and available on a first- Westland ing 432-2163. For more information, come basis. To support DDWS and the refuge with e-mail [email protected]. To learn Admission is free to the event, which a tax-deductible gift, visit www.dingdarling- about and visit Lee County Parks & is sponsored by The Sanctuary Golf Club society.org or contact Birgie Vertesch at Recreation’s preserves, parks and pad- and “Ding” Darling Wildlife Society- 292-0566, 472-1100 ext. 4 or dingdar- dling trail, visit www.leeparks.org. Friends of the Refuge. [email protected]. As usual, Wildlife Drive is closed on Friday, but visitors are welcome to enjoy the free Education Center and recreational opportunities at Tarpon Bay Explorers, the Refuge’s official concessionaire located THE BEST W AY T O SEE at its Tarpon Bay Recreation Area. The remaining 2012 “Ding” Darling THE ISLANDS IS FROM T HE W ATER Friday Afternoon Lecture Series includes: • February 10 – Charles LeBuff – • 10 a.m. Island Cruise to Images of America: J.N. “Ding” Darling Useppa Or Cabbage Key National Wildlife Refuge* Larry Richardson will address new science • February 17– Nationally famous • Adventure Sailing Cruises in tracking Florida’s panther population birders, authors Don & Lillian Stokes – Reservations Required • 4:00 p.m. Dolphin Watch Cruise Bird Identification* for All Cruises arry Richardson, biologist and • February 24 – No lecture (Volunteer • Beach & Shelling Cruise photographer at Florida Panther Award Luncheon) (239)472-5300 LNational Wildlife Refuge near • March 2 – Author Blair Witherington • Sunset Serenade Cruise Cruises depart from Naples, will make a special guest appear- – Florida’s Living Beaches* (part of the ance to speak about “Where Photography beautiful Captiva Island with Island Musicians 75th Shell Fair & Show Shellabration! www.captivacruises.com Meets Science: Using Remote Cameras to 2012) Call for departure time Capture the Florida Panther.” • March 9 – Refuge Biologist Jeremy His presentation takes place on Friday, 16 THE RIVER - JANUARY 27, 2012 USS Rehabilitator, where guests will Locals To Attempt Largest Sanibel Local Artists Team set sail into an evening of fun including games and jazz performance. Stoop For Book Of World Records Up To Help CROW All proceeds from the auctions will hellabration! 2012 not only “shellabrates” the 75th anniversary of the Sanibel ROW, the Clinic for the benefit CROW and support its efforts to Shell Fair & Show, but will also feature an attempt at breaking a world record. Rehabilitation of Wildlife, invites save wildlife through compassion, care, S Festivities kick off with a mass Sanibel Stoop event on Bowman’s Beach on Ceveryone to attend its Smooth and education. Friday, February 17 at 10 a.m. Designed to break a Guinness Book World Record in Jazz Cruise fundraising event to be A tasting of select wines will be held the largest treasure hunt category of 250 people, it urges islanders and visitors to show held at Traders Café and Store, 1551 separately and those sampled wines will up and sign their names to be sent to the Guinness Book of World Records to prove Periwinkle Way on Sunday, February be available for purchase by the case. the island has broken the record. 12, from 5 to 8 p.m. Tickets are $75 each. Guests may also Registration for this special event is $5, which includes a special T-shirt spon- Local artists have contributed over reserve seating for two at specially des- sored by Congress Jewelers. The Sanibel Bicycle Club will lead a ride to Bowman’s 30 original pieces that will be available ignated captain’s tables for $500, which Beach for those interested in participating in the Sanibel Stoop world record attempt. for both silent and live auction bidding. also includes reserved parking. Departure will be from Sanibel Community Park, next to The Community House. Among the contributing artists are Myra Sponsors include The Sanibel Captiva Trolley service will also be available. Roberts, Ikki Matsumoto, Dick Fortune, Trust Company, 50% Off Framing and “Because it’s the 75th anniversary, we wanted to do something special,” said Sarah Lopez, Adam Serra, Joan Roberts John Grey Painting. Marge Meek, Sanibel Community Association president, which hosts the event. “It and Marcus Thomas. There will also be a To purchase tickets, or for more infor- shows everyone this is a shell island.” special Painting Out Loud performance mation, call 472-3644 ext. 227 or e-mail For more details, visit www.Shellabration2012.com, call 472-2155 or visit The by Leoma Lovegrove. [email protected] Community House, 2173 Periwinkle Way, Sanibel. Traders will be transformed into the

on consecutive Saturdays. The second America’s session will be on Saturday, February 25, Cape Sunset Celebration also from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. here will be live music with Kraig Kenning on the Cape Coral Yacht Club pier Boating Course Topics covered include hull design, on Wednesday, February 1 from 4 to 7 p.m. The Cape Chorale will also be he San Carlos Bay Sail & Power docking, anchoring, handling boating Tperforming. Squadron, a unit of the United emergencies, reading channel markers Food and drink specials will be available at KC’s Riverstop. Over 55 vendors will TStates Power Squadrons, will be and many other topics to make each be selling their arts and crafts, jewelry and gift items. There will also be a Classic Car offering an America’s Boating Course on boating experience safer and more enjoy- Cruise-In with over 25 cars from the 30s to 80s. Saturday, February 18 from 8:30 a.m. to able. Successful completion of this course The celebration is free to the public. 12:30 p.m. This course is recognized by entitles the boater to six months free A free shuttle bus will run every 15 minutes from Club Square to the Yacht Club the National Association of State Boating membership in a United States Power from 3:45 to 7:15 p.m. Call 574-0806 for more information. Law Administrators. Squadron. The cost of the course is $40, with a The State of Florida recently passed give you insight about the inner-workings legislation requiring anyone born after $20 cost for a second person sharing the instruction materials. CROW Offers of CROW’s hospital that sees more than January 1, 1988 to have passed a safe 4,000 patients a year. boating course and obtain a Boating The course is being taught at the San Carlos Bay Sail & Power Squadron class- Series Of Public Friday, January 20: “Why Animals Safety Education ID card – which is valid Come To CROW” – Do you ever wonder for life – in order to operate a boat with room, located at 16048 San Carlos Blvd. (at the corner of Kelly Road, across from Presentations why animals wind up at CROW? Or what more than 10 HP. Each student will kinds of critters we receive in our clinic? receive a card/certificate from the Florida ACE Hardware) in Fort Myers. Students he Clinic for the Rehabilitation can register online at www.scbps.com or of Wildlife (CROW) will host pre- Find out the answers to these questions Fish & Wildlife Commission upon com- more from one of our seasoned volun- pletion of the class. call the office at 466-4040. Tsentations throughout January as teers. The course consists of two sessions part of its “Wonders of Wildlife” lecture series to educate the public on our Saturday, January 21: “Getting To native and migratory wildlife species, Know CROW” – Learn more about what makes them unique and how they CROW from one of our longtime volun- wind up at CROW. teers. Find out who we are, what we do and what you can do to help protect and From page 14 Presentations are held at 11 a.m., Tuesday through Saturday, at CROW’s save wildlife. Healing Winds Visitor Education Center, Tuesday, January 24: “Fresh Water Plant Care & Sea Turtles” – Our sea turtle patients -ads” or “low-maintenance plants” should point you in the right direction. 3883 Sanibel-Captiva Road on Sanibel. Each day will feature a different presenta- come from the coastal waters between Dobbs is a landscape architect in south Florida specializing in custom, Sarasota and Miami, and a variety of upscale landscapes. He has served on the board of the Palm Society of Southern tion given by CROW’s volunteers, staff or our wildlife partners. fresh water turtles are found throughout California and is a member the International Palm Society and the Florida Farm Southwest Florida. Learn the reasons Bureau. He can be reached at [email protected]. Please join us for these upcoming pre- sentations: these wild animals are admitted to Thursday, January 19: “Clinic CROW. Rounds” – Every week, meet our veteri- For more information, call 472-3644 narian, rehabbers or students, who will or visit www.crowclinic.org. Family Caregivers re you caring for a loved one? If you are, it is essential to care for yourself. It is not uncommon for caregivers to experience feelings of anxiety, guilt and -NO IRRIGATION Aexhaustion. The good news is you are not alone. -NO FERTILIZER 2 FREE plants with your The CARE Program (Caregiver Assistance and Regional Education) is offering a purchase of $50 or moore! monthly health and wellness group, where the focus is on you. -NO TRIMMING Come join our group – take a break, relax, learn, laugh... and enjoy a much We ship worldwide.. deserved break. -NO PEST CONTROL The Family Caregivers program is presented by Monica Dunkley, RN, BC, clinical Discover the next generation of money-saving plants & trees. educator for the Lee Memorial Health System. It is held on the second Tuesday of each month at Sterling House of Cape Coral, 1416 Country Club Blvd., from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Custom, upscale landscaping to fit any budget. To reserve your space, call Gerry Salvia at 573-7777 Family Caregivers is funded by the Florida Department of Elder Affairs and Senior www.SeabreezeNurseries.com (239) 560-1422 Choices of Southwest Florida in collaboration with Lee Memorial Health System – Older Adult Services. THE RIVER - JANUARY 27, 2012 17 the 1960s, but she has been working with fiber as long as she can remember. She recalls design- ing and sewing her own clothes as a young teen and making paper dolls before that. She learned to weave when her sister-in- law went to Japan for a few years and asked her to store her loom for her. Polly started work- ing with it and loved it. Now she spins and dyes as well. Polly’s works are Dolphins by Ikki Matsumoto mixed media pieces memory, the kids are grown, and life has which incorporate weavings, paintings, and led me back to drawing and painting... and found objects. They are filled with earthy the compelling horse.” English Pony by Sherry Rohl colors and rich textures. From page 1 Sherry studied at the College of Design, his love of wildlife illustrations led him to After a brief move back to Ohio in Sanibel Island, where he established a Art and Architecture at the University of 2006, the Matsumotos have returned to Cincinnati, Ohio. She has shown her work Davis Art Exhibit career as a painter and printmaker, and he Southwest Florida and are working hard to and Polly opened a gallery. On Sanibel, the in galleries throughout Florida, includ- Over the next 15 years, Ikki worked in complete enough pieces for the large space ing the Von Liebig Art Center in Naples, the advertising field and also finished several native birds became his subjects. at the Davis Art Center. Ikki Matsumoto was one of 50 artists the Florida Center for Contemporary Art important commissions, including publica- Sherry Rohl likes to draw and paint and in Tampa, the Boca Raton Museum of tions for Rand McNally and illustrations for chosen by first lady Nancy Reagan to paint says that it has been a compulsion since an Easter egg. It is now in the permanent Art, and the Society of Four Arts in Palm The Joy of Cooking. He and Polly moved she was four-ish. She also likes horses. She Beach. to a 50 acre farm in Loveland, Ohio, where collection of the Smithsonian Museum. The owned a pony and a horse when she was C&S National Bank on Sanibel commis- Volunteers are needed for the Sidney at one time the household consisted of a teenager, and her first drawings were of & Berne Davis Art Center, to assist in the “two sons, one daughter, five horses, one sioned 30 original paintings which were put horses. on public display throughout their building. office and with regularly scheduled seasonal donkey, three dogs, a lot of cats, four goats, “Art school, children and life led me events. Contact Sally Joslyn at 333-1933 a dozen or so chickens, a few ducks, one It is the largest corporate collection of his to explore other visual modalities,” Rohl work. or [email protected] for more informa- monkey and a skunk.” He has never been explains, “but now art school is a dim tion. at a loss for subjects. In the mid-1970s, Polly Matsumoto has been weaving since

From page 1 Mojo Hands Cancer will exhibit in the middle gal- lery room as a fundraiser for The Young Artists Awards. Lennie Jones, an outsider artist, primi- tive self-taught painter of the holistic blues experience, grew up in south Louisiana. His father instilled in him a deep love of blues music, drawing pictures and endless swampy wilderness. His mother also gave Lennie talented artistic influence. These positive connections luckily cradled him through a very troubled youth and have remained the most powerful motivations in his adulthood. Lennie’s father left early in his life, so the bulk of his youthful years were heavily influenced by a vibrant, one- eyed, Southern African-American woman named “Tex.” She raised Lennie, whose mother was constantly away pursuing other ventures. Tex had a boisterous and Lonzie by George Mitchell Belan’s Spirit Shield Blues Blind by Lennie Jones soulful love of the blues, God, booze and of playing, hearing and living the blues. were paraded barefoot through several blessed with a timeless source of spiritual fishing, all of which became very impor- Unfortunately, years of continued profes- blocks of a small town and presented to inspiration to his art, heart and soul. tant to Lennie as well. sional playing resulted mostly in a habitual a hard time judge. This was Jones’ cross- Upon retirement, Jones picked up a Upon finishing high school, Jones wrestling match with his alcohol demons roads, and he never drank alcohol again. paintbrush, started painting his first love, became a traveling blues musician, gig- and repeated brushes with the law. As Only a few years later, miraculously over- his rendition of the blues experience, the ging in New York City in March 1968, often lamented by bluesmen, “When you looking his “shady” past and welcoming Louisiana Bayou and whatever else that where he met and heard the incredible let the Devil ride, he wanna drive,” states his unique wilderness skills, Jones was moves him. Albert King. King’s unique combination Jones. hired by the federal government as a For more information on Lennie, send of incomparable power, heartfelt pain, This struggle culminated with his final ranger in the remote Florida Everglades, an e-mail to bluescop49@embarqmail. passionate subtlety and compelling musi- arrest following a late night gig in a rural where he wandered for over 20 years, com. cianship moved his soul like no music southern enclave in March 1980. Police working alone and chasing poachers, ever had before. Soon, Jones was open- roughed him up and threw him into a renegade “gators,” smugglers and other ing for the original Canned Heat, shaking tiny, dark jail, and chained to another wonderful characters in his very own hands with Muddy Waters, Bill Monroe, unfortunate convict who had murdered American paradise. For many years, he Bill Graham, seeing the immortal Jimmy his wife that very night with a knife. Early had thrived in the mysterious and primi- Reed and Zappa. This solidified his love the following morning, the two of them tive wilderness, very happy, healthy and 18 THE RIVER - JANUARY 27, 2012 Calendar Girls To Honor Veterans Mixed Media Artist Opens Exhibition At Alliance

Evidence 1 by Michelle Sales

llinois-based mixed media artist Michelle Sales opens her next solo exhibition, Observations, in the main gallery at the Alliance for the Arts on Friday, February I10 with a reception from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra violinist Rachel Cox will perform during the opening reception. While she began her artistic career as a painter, the Illinois-based artist shifted her focus to mixed media sculpture. She says her work is about the accumulation and preservation of memories. “These memories, represented by constructed and found materials, are stitched together to create two- and three-dimensional artwork. Each piece is built up with various layers Front row is Frances Kirkbride and Linda Floyd. Second row is Barbie Graff, Deb Watch, denoting passage of time and erosion.” Lyn Carlson, Fran Thomas, Cara O’Keefe and Jaye Dobson. Third row is Luda Goldenberg, Sales has won awards and recognition in national and international exhibitions, JJ Jones, Joanne Young, Katherine Shortlidge, Debbie Frazier, Tina Pegler and Rita Doyle. Fourth row is Lynne Hudson, Pat Benner, Kathy Della Bella, Rita Farley, Joy Baker, Aileen including being featured at the 2004 Busan International Art Exhibition in South Smith, Marianne McSweeney, Pat Webber and Barb Peck Korea. Her exhibition runs through February 25. The public can meet her and get insight into her work and process during a gallery walk and talk on Saturday, February he Calendar Girls Florida dance team is honored to perform on Friday, 11 from 10 to 11 a.m. January 27 during an event to honor veterans at the Lee County Sports Fort Myers painter Annie St. Martin is the featured artist in the Alliance Member TComplex, located at 14100 Six Mile Cypress in Fort Myers. Gallery in February. A collection of work by Charles Vavrina will be on display in the American Veteran’s Traveling Tribute (AVTT) will be bringing their Cost of Freedom Theater Lobby. Tribute to the area. The AVTT exhibit includes a September 11 tribute, a Cost Contact Exhibition Coordinator Krista Johnson, at 939-2787 or exhibitions@artin- of Freedom display of gold dog tags (identifying each service member killed since lee.org for more information. Vietnam) and the emotional centerpiece of the exhibit: an exact replica of the Vietnam The Alliance campus and galleries are open to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Veterans Memorial Wall (80 percent scale) displaying all 58,253 names of the men Monday through Friday and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays, located at 10091 and women killed in the Vietnam War McGregor Boulevard just south of Colonial Boulevard in Fort Myers. The Calendar Girls support Paws For Patriots to provide guide and service dogs to veterans and dance at many such events throughout the year. For more information about the Calendar Girls, call 850-6010. Craft Guild Exhibit Opens he Southwest Florida Craft Guild presents T“Color My World,” an all-member juried fine craft show featuring work by Guild artisans in clay, glass, mixed media, jew- elry, wood, stone and fiber. The exhibition will run from February 3 to 24 at Cape Coral Arts Studio, located at 4533 Coronado Parkway in Cape Coral. The opening reception will be held on Friday, February 10 from 5 to 7 p.m., with awards presented at 6 p.m. Lic No. MV 81675 The exhibit is free and Randy’s Auto Repair, LLC BUMPER open to the public. For www.RandysAutoRepairLLC.com TO more information and 16191 San Carlos Blvd, Ste 1 BUMPER show hours, call the Cape Fort Myers, FL 33908 Coral Arts Studio at 574- &HUWL¿HG6HUYLFH&HQWHUV 0802. Tel. 267-2556 OIL CHANGE “Ich spreche Deutsch” HOURS: SPECIAL M-F: 9am - 5:30pm $17.99 Sat & Sun: By Appt. (up to 5 qts.) FOREIGN & DOMESTIC Old Weavers Never Die by Rose Young THE RIVER - JANUARY 27, 2012 19 Upcoming events include: Pauline Healey On January 25, 26, 31 and February 1, Patty O’Kane will teach Drawing and Wins First Place In Dry Media 6 to 9 p.m. in the gallery. On February 2 and 3, Sue Pink will Beach Art Show teach a collage class. auline Healey won first place On February 12, the Fort Myers in the Fort Myers Beach Art Beach Art Association Spring Show PAssociation Winter Juried Show. opens with demonstration by Carol Frye Judge Rose Edin expressed great admi- from 4 to 6 p.m. There is a $10. admis- ration for the high quality of the artwork sion fee for the demonstration. Show displayed to her for judging last Sunday. runs until March 15. The artwork hanging is all original On February 12, the association’s work created by local artists not only from Art on the Boulevard, sponsored by the beach art association, but also mem- Century 21 Tri-Power, is at 2001 Estero bers from surrounding art groups who are Boulevard (across from Diamond Head). members of the Art Council of Southwest Pauline Healey, left, with her winning painting titled Jill Meet 12 local artists; all original art work. Florida. Each member group of the coun- photo by Bruno Notari February 13 to 17, Carol Frye NWS cil hosts an art show open to the other ISEA teaches her workshop, Precious member groups once a year. This show Winners Stones, for the week. Her work is multi- will hang until February 9. 1st place: Pauline Healey Jill, watercolor media and inspirational. The sponsor is the Red Coconut RV 2nd place: Dannica J. Walker Reflections, watercolor On February 19, Fort Myers Beach Resort. 3rd place: Sherry Collier River Fol Estuary, oil Art Association Gallery talk for the Spring On February 9 at 5:30 the association Merit: Gretchen Johnson Sunset With Pines, acrylic Juried Show is from 1 to 2:30 p.m. with will host its annual potluck at the gallery Merit: Craig Peterson When Coffee was Cheap, watercolor a reception from 2:30 to 4 p.m. The during which there will be an election of Merit; Sue Pink No. 8”, Watermedia public is welcome. new officers for 2012/13. Anyone inter- Honorable: Maggie Rapp Silver and Citrus, watercolor February 23 to 25, Neil Walling will ested in becoming a part of the art orga- Honorable: Terry Shattuck Evening- Dixie Fish House, watercolor teach Plein Air Painting each morning at nization is welcome to attend as a guest Honorable: Barb Valentine Emulsions, acrylic various sites. and learn more. There will be a small fee For more information about any of for dinner with appetizers, salad and des- these classes, call the gallery at 463-3909 The working gallery on Donora and 10 a,m. to 3 p.m. Monday to Saturday or go to www.fortmyersbeachart.com. serts provided by members. Call the gal- Shellmound, Fort Myers Beach, is open and noon to 3 p.m. on Sundays. lery for more information at 463-3909.

Symphony Local Student Share your community news with us. Call 415-7732, Fax: 415-7702 Competition Takes Part In or email [email protected] For Young Artists Chidlren’s Opera he 46th annual Competition For auren Pratt from Fort Myers Young Artists, The Jillian Prescott participated in Belhaven’s Little TMusic Awards and The Joseph and LOperas for Children: Little Red Marilyn Van Sickle Vocal Competition, Riding Hood and The Toy Shop. Pratt sponsored by The Southwest Florida is a senior pursuing a bachelor of arts in Symphony and Society Scholarship, music from Belhaven University. will take place on Saturday and Sunday, The Belhaven University Music February 4 and 5 at FGCU’s Bower Department and the Mississippi Opera School of Music, 10501 FGCU Blvd. present the children’s operas at the South in Fort Myers. Hours on Saturday Belhaven Center for the Arts. These fun- are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday filled operas by composer Seymour Barab from 1 to 4 p.m. were staged day and night, January 20 Disciplines include keyboard, strings, and 21. woodwinds/brass, percussion and voice. Brarab received a Lifetime Van Sickle – For senior high school Achievement Award from the National and college students and legal residents of Opera Association. Lee, Charlotte, Collier, Glades or Hendry Barab’s Little Red Riding Hood was counties in Florida. A $2,000 per year the first American opera ever performed college scholarship will be rewarded. in China and The Toy Shop, commis- Jillian Prescott – Winners will receive sioned by the New York City Opera, was prize money. The competition is two- performed at the Kennedy Center in tiered: Washington, D.C. • Youth: high school and younger (age Belhaven is a Christian univer- 12 to 17) sity founded in 1883 that serves over • Young Adult (age 17 to 22) 3,000 students from campuses in Prize money of $200 (Youth) and Jackson, Memphis, Orlando, Houston, $400 (Young Adult) will be awarded for Chattanooga, Atlanta and online. future musical study. An overall winner in each age category will win $500. One of the first place winners, will be awarded Voted Specials $1,000 and perform with the Southwest BEST OF THE Florida Symphony Orchestra during the Every Day 2012-13 season, with music to be mutu- ISLANDS ally agreed by the conductor and winner. Read us online at Additional awards will be given to “up and coming” young stars IslandSunNews.com For more information, contact Pamela Simon in the Southwest Florida Symphony office at 418-0996. 20 THE RIVER - JANUARY 27, 2012 Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center February Events he Sidney & Berne Davis TArt Center announces the fiollow- ing schedule of events during the month of $33 each or $15 for students. February: Sunday, February 12 – Famous M-pact James Rollins Friday, Febrary 3 Author Lecture with Brad Meltzer, New Monday, February 20 – Fort Myers David Hull. Tickets are $40 in advance or – Art Walk with The York Times bestselling author of The Film Festival Mixer Intellectualization. $50 at the door. Art of Ikki & Polly Tenth Justice, Dead Even and many Come watch and discuss short films that Monday, February 27 – Fort Myers Matsumoto and Sherry other works. Event is from 11 a.m. to are in consideration for the Fort Myers Film Festival Mixer Intellectualization. Rohl. Events is from 6 2 p.m. Tickets (Individual author, lecture Film Festival. From 6 to 7 p.m., enjoy a Come watch and discuss short films that to 10 p.m. Admission only) $75 members/$125 non-members; Happy Hour Mixer with 2-for-1 drinks at are in consideration for the Fort Myers is free. (lecture and lunch) $100 members/$150 the bar. Films start at 7 p.m. Tickets are Film Festival. From 6 to 7 p.m., enjoy a Monday, February non-members; (Gold Circle with VIP $5 per person, or $2 for Founding Fans Happy Hour Mixer with 2-for-1 drinks at 6 – Fort Myers reception) $125 members/$175 non- and fans on Facebook. the bar. Films start at 7 p.m. Tickets are Film Festival Mixer, members. (Series of three authors, Tuesday, February 21 – Famous $5 per person, or $2 for Founding Fans Intellectualization: Cormorant by lecture only) $200 members/$350 non- Author Lecture with James Rollins, best- and fans on Facebook. Come watch and dis- Ikki Matsumoto members; (lectures and lunches) $275 selling author of the Sigma Force series, Mondays and Wednesdays (ongoing) cuss short films that members/$425 non-members; (Gold the blockbuster movie novelization of – Yoga & Tai Chi at 9:30 a.m. Cost is are in consideration for the Fort Myers Circle with VIP receptions) $350 mem- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the $12 per class for members, $15 per class Film Festival. From 6 to 7 p.m., enjoy a bers/$500 non-members. Crystal Skull and many other works. for non-members; $100 for 10 classes Happy Hour Mixer with 2-for-1 drinks at Monday, February 13 – Fort Myers Event is from noon to 2 p.m. Tickets (members) or $120 for 10 classes (non- the bar. Films start at 7 p.m. Tickets are Film Festival Mixer Intellectualization. (Individual author, lecture only) $75 mem- members). $5 per person, or $2 for Founding Fans Come watch and discuss short films that bers/$125 non-members; (lecture and Tuesdays and Wednesdays (ongoing) and fans on Facebook. are in consideration for the Fort Myers lunch) $100 members/$150 non-mem- – The Conservatory Art Class with Janie Friday, February 10 – M-pact: Film Festival. From 6 to 7 p.m., enjoy a bers; (Gold Circle with VIP reception) Hemenway from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Experience The Voice. The smooth soul Happy Hour Mixer with 2-for-1 drinks at $125 members/$175 non-members. Open Classes of Stevie Wonder, the percussive power the bar. Films start at 7 p.m. Tickets are (Series of three authors, lecture only) • 3 to 4:30 p.m. – After School Youth of Stomp!, the funk and drive of Earth, $5 per person, or $2 for Founding Fans $200 members/$350 non-members; (lec- Arts Wind & Fire, the hip licks of Take 6 and and fans on Facebook. tures and lunches) $275 members/$425 • 5 to 7 p.m. – Art Together (for fami- the brass bite of the Harry Connick Jr. Tuesday, February 14 – An Evening in non-members; (Gold Circle with VIP lies or individuals) Big Band... all created by the human Japan: Dinner with Berne Series. Event is receptions) $350 members/$500 non- Five Tuesday/Wednesday Sessions for voice alone. Hailed “one of the best pop- from 6 to 9 p.m. Tickets are $175 each. members. $90; 10 Tuesday/Wednesday Sessions jazz vocal groups in the world” by the Friday, February 17 – “SMOKIN’ Saturday, February 25 – Art Center for $150. Hourly rates available, $15 San Francisco Chronicle, M-pact singer BRASS” Naples Philharmonic Chamber All-Star Jam. Artists scheduled to appear material cost. Jarrett Johnson won a Grammy for his Concert, held from 8 to 10 p.m. Tickets include Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, formerly of For more information, contact Janie contributions to Michael Buble’s album are $33 each or $15 for students. The Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan; Hemenway at 464-1408 or jljourney@ Crazy Love. Concert is from 8 to 10 Saturday, February 18 – Edison Barry Goudreau and Fran Sheehan of juno.com. p.m. Tickets are $33 each or $15 for Festival Parade Tailight Party with The Boston; Kenny Aronoff of the Smashing The Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center students. Derek Trenholm Band. Event is from 9 to Pumpkins; James Montgomery, Rick is located at 2301 First Street in Fort Saturday and Sunday, February 11 11 p.m. Admission is free. Derringer and Mousey Thompson of the Myers. Call 333-1933 or visit www. and 12 – Moving Ethos Dance Company. Sunday, February 19 – Cotillion James Brown Experience; Leroy Romans sbdac.com for more details. Show is from 8 to 10 p.m. Tickets are Valentines Dance, held from 2 to 8 p.m. from the Wailers; Steve Luongo and

the audience, “That may seem a while chocolate pudding. With commonplace Memoir Comes To ago, but it won’t when it happens to you. human details, the play finds poignancy And it will happen to you.” She talks in Didion’s memory of the pleasure she Life At Florida Rep about how life changes in an instant. It’s received brushing her daughter’s hair and by Di Saggau the day her husband, writer John Gregory the lively arguments where her husband Dunne, died suddenly. She reflects back repeatedly said, “Must you always have he Year of Magical Thinking is on his death and their daughter Quintana, the last word?” playing in Florida Rep’s intimate with a whirlwind of emotions that no wife A recurring line is what she has told T90-seat Studio Theatre, located or mother ever wants to experience. her daughter from infancy, “You’re safe, just down the hall from the main stage. She talks about the “sub-teen,” who I’m here.” There is a guilt she feels for It is a powerful portrait of Joan Didion’s is her husband’s doctor, and about the not being able to keep her safe, but who real-life struggle with loss. many antibiotics used to treat her daugh- can guarantee another’s safety? The Sara Morsey excels in her role, deliv- ter in the ICU. Only days before her script also incorporates pleasant memo- ering non-stop dialogue for 95 minutes. husband’s death, Quintana was hospital- ries of world travels, including a humor- The set is interesting, cozy and yet there ized with septic shock and needed ongo- ous emergency plane refueling that took is an intentional incompleteness in some ing care. As she describes in detail the place in the corn fields of Kansas. of the appointments. Frames have no events that define her life, a bond is made She remembers the time her husband pictures, a window dressing is fractured, with the audience. Morsey delivers the warned that working for Life magazine and even the wall has a large black monologue matter-of-factly, as if offering would be like being nibbled to death by sprawling space. I felt it represented loss, the audience a crash course for the inevi- ducks. This line and a few others add a which is so heart-felt in this play. table time when we might need it (if we bit of humor but overall the play packs a Didion’s memoir was published haven’t already). punch. It forces one to consider the fragil- Sara Morsey in 2005, and The Year of Magical The play is about Didion’s struggle and ity of human existence and our smallness Thinking was adapted for the stage in her redemptive journey. She reflects back in the universe. matter with the utmost care and respect. 2007 starring Vanessa Redgrave. on the day she painstakingly made two The Year of Magical Thinking, The show plays in Florida Rep’s Studio It’s 2007, in New York City as the dozen chocolate souffles for her daugh- directed by Maureen Heffernan and star- Theatre through February 4. Tickets are play begins. The first words uttered are ter’s birthday party and then watched ring Sara Morsey, combines artists of the available online at www.floridarep.org “December 30, 2003,” as Morsey tells two dozen 6-year-olds mash them into highest caliber who treat delicate subject and by calling 332-4488. THE RIVER - JANUARY 27, 2012 21 $ Squabbling In-Laws At 75 per person VIP all Off Broadway Palm Weekend!

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Having children move back in with their parents is one thing, it’s totally another when parents move back in with their Sponsored by: children, especially when the parents can’t stand one another. Raymond James & Associates, Inc, member NYSE/SIPC. From the get-go we learn that Abe (Robert Summers) is a caustic tongued retired taxi driver, especially when speaking about his daughter’s mother-in- law. festival weekend When Mildred Sloan’s (Kay Francis) house burns down, she decides to move in with her son and daughter-in-law, and that includes her arch enemy Abe. Throwing these two under the same roof results in plenty of squabbles. I especially enjoyed the con- February 4 & 5, 10am-5pm frontations between Summers and Francis; their facial expressions are priceless. They Downtown Fort Myers Riverfront truly know how to work off one another. Jerry Sloan (Craig Smith) is a jingle-writer and as the play opens he is working on 215 Fabulous Artists a new jingle for Plotkins Tuna. Smith can play the piano and also take on the accent Kids Activities of several famous actors of the golden years of Hollywood. He gives a strong perfor- mance. So does Amy Marie McCleary, as Alice Sloan, Abe’s daughter. She’s an attor- Entertainment ney who soon finds out she is pregnant with their first child. At this point, the newly- Food weds try to work out a compromise for Abe and Mildred. Lot’s of luck on that one. Then there is Hector Lopez (Jayar Garcia) as the Puerto Rican gardener who is constantly taking advantage of bathroom privileges. Garcia is one of my favorite actors Also includes: and he gives a wonderful performance. When the reason for his many visits to the loo ■ Reserved FREE Parking close to the festival are revealed, it’s one of the funniest lines in the show. Last but not least, in a small but memorable role is Mrs. Fisher, the severe, German- ■ Entry to VIP Terrace for Complimentary accented seemingly personality-free hired nanny. This role is shared by two actors, Lunch, Beer & Wine Kathryn Cintron and Nancy Antonio. Cintron played the role the night I was there, ■ Commemorative Poster and she was great. I’m sure the same is true of Antonio. Squabbles is directed by Paul Bernier, and the cast is a veritable who’s who of local talents who deliver consistently strong performances. If laughter is indeed the best medicine, Off Broadway Palm audiences will be in tip-top health throughout the run of this very funny play. $75 To Buy Tickets: Squabbles runs through March 3 at The Off Broadway Palm Theatre, 1380 per person call 239.768.3602 or Colonial Boulevard in Fort Myers. It’s the little black box theatre inside Broadway Everythingʼs Included! visit ArtFestFortMyers.com click on VIP Palm. For tickets, go to www.BroadwayPalm.com or call 278-4422. 22 THE RIVER - JANUARY 27, 2012 Part II few remaining kamikaze pilots. At one A War Odyssey point a communication post was appar- ently overtaken somewhere along the Greatest beach and Japanese voices came boom- ing over the ship-to-shore radio for about Generation fifteen minutes. submitted by For the next several months we Charles Kelleher engaged in supply runs throughout the island chain touching at most of the e didn’t major ports including, Cebu City and know until Zamboanga, the capital of Mindinao, the Wlater that southernmost and largest of the islands. a pivotal naval We didn’t stay long enough to battle of the war determine if it was true that “the mon- was developing fifty keys have no tails in Zamboanga.” The miles out in the alternative to this kind of activity would gulf as a Japanese probably have been participation in the armada was amphibious landings at Iwo Jima and attempting to deci- Okinawa. I think we got the better deal. mate the toehold We were anchored in Manila Bay achieved in the recent Leyte landing. when news came of the war’s end. There Our first clue was seeing light and heavy was a stupendous fireworks display when cruisers steaming into the harbor with thousands of multi-colored flares were their decks piled high with empty shell sent skyward. Several weeks later we casings. sailed into Tokyo Bay very cautiously as Sometime earlier our ship had been floating mines (tethered and free) were oufitted with an emergency operating everywhere. After one or two liberty days room and sick bay, staffed by one doc- in Yokohama we sailed back to Manila tor. As smaller ships straggled in from encountering a fierce typhoon en route. the battle we took aboard many naval Leyte Gulf Landing, Philippines, October 20, 1944, D-Day +3 An LST was not designed to endure pilots who suffered various injuries as a heavy seas being flat-bottomed and snub result of ditching their planes in the sea. aircraaft guns were firing away the rest Palawan was a sort of backwater island nosed. The greatest stress point always Their flight squadron was attached to the of us at our battle stations watched the which intelligence told us was sparsely appeared to be somewhere amidships. I mini-carrier, Princeton and returning from bomb being released as the plane began defended and occupied. It turned out to remember sitting topside the evening of their mission, they found that their ship to come in over the bow. However, have been the sight of a large prisoner of the storm and watching the steam fitters had been sunk. the bomb only partially released and war camp where hundreds of Corregidor on the adjacent ship in the convoy try- Leyte and the adjacent island, Samar, remained dangling under the fuselage as survivors were interned. We came upon ing to weld some steel plates together. quickly evolved into a staging area for the plane flew overhead. I never noticed a grisly scene. When the Japanese saw Apparently they were successful. After further campaigns in the Philippines. what happened to the plane. our invasion armada approaching they a little R.&R. in Manila we sailed for Before the fighting began, however, the The sea around us was filed with bod- assumed we were heading for Palawan San Francisco by way of the Hawaiian Japanese tried a second time to dislodge ies and others still alive who had either to free the prisoners. They made a hasty Islands. At a speed of nine knots it took our growing position on Leyte. This time jumped or were blown off the two ships. attempt at destroying the evidence (mal- us about thirty five days. We crossed the they came down the Surabei Straits, Since we were equipped with the emer- treated and emaciated US. personnel) by international date line early on December which effectively divide the Philippines gency operating room small boats began herding them into small ravines, shooting 25th so we actually celebrated two midway, east to west. The U.S. naval picking up survivors and bringing them to them, setting the site ablaze and then bull- Christmases. While anchored in San forces blocked the eastern end and as the our gangway. Our surgeon, responding dozing over the entire area. We could see Francisco Bay we all sat around count- heavy Japanese ships came down the to the emergency, began recruiting peo- parts of limbs protruding from the earth. ing up our eligibility points and I soon strait, each in turn was exposed broad- ple to assist in getting the wounded to The area around the destroyed prison realized I had enough points to fly home. sides as it turned to reverse course. That his sick bay. He gave me a pad of forms barracks was strewn with bits of personal Many stayed aboard for the trip through battle ended the Japanese naval threat for and a pencil and told me to stand at the effects, keepsakes, letters, etc. Everything the Panama Canal and up the East coast. remainder of the war. top of the gangway to get identifying about the place suggested a hasty retreat. I landed at La Guardia Field at 8 We then became part of an assault information from each patient as he was A small landing strip still had zeros lined A.M. on February 11th, 1946. The tem- force to invade Mindoro Island on the brought aboard. In a moment he took up on the runway. Several of us climbed perature seemed to be in the teens as I western side of the archipelago which back the pad and pencil and gave them over the planes and into the cockpits. A stepped onto the concrete runway. After would effectively cut the Philippines in to someone standing near me. I can foolhardy move, in retrospect. two days of mustering out activities at the half. Our convoy sailed down the same only guess that he looked at the expres- The final major assault landing of the old Lido Beach Hotel in Long Beach, Surabei Strait which had now been sion on my face and decided I wasn’t a Philippines campaign was at Linguian I was enroute to Mineola.– Charles renamed ‘the iron-bottomed sea” because good candidate. I will always remember Gulf on the island of Luzon, the most Kelleher LST 746 RM 2/C. of all the sunken Japanese ships. the voice of the skipper of one of the important island in the chain, with the Charles Kelleher, 87, a retired bank- The landing at Mindoro immediately two fiercely burning ships close by us, capital city of Manila, Clark Field, Subic er, has lived on Sanibel with his wife turned into a nightmare. The Japanese when he asked over the voice radio for Bay Naval Station, etc. Linguian Gulf Phyllis since 1988. He hopes others of sent waves of fighters and bombers down permission to abandon ship. He calmly was on the west coast above Subic Bay what Tom Brokaw calls “the greatest from Luzon (Clark Field complex) to inter- recited his ship’s condition; dead in the which had been and would once again generation” will also relate their stories cept the landing attempt. We were pre- water, ammunition magazines exploding become (until recently) the Navy’s Pacific of combat. paring to beach when the planes came on the deck; all personnel either dead or headquarters. in. At least our flotilla of LSTs presented overboard. It almost sounded like he was The landing involved a gigantic force a scattered target rather than being all asking his teacher permission to leave including carriers, battleships, cruisers and in a row on the beach. One zero (fighter the room. the entire landing flotilla. Since enemy plane) went after each ship. Two LSTs On our way back to our home port ships and aircraft were now a minimal several hundred yards on our port and of Leyte the doctor lost several of his threat, the entire force sailed into the starboard sides seemed to be hit almost patients and we had burial-at-sea ceremo- gulf during the night for a landing at Share your community simultaneously. Both ships immediately nies, with the sealed and weighted body daybreak, We were anchored about four news with us. became flaming infernos from bow to bags slipping over the side from beneath or five miles offshore and “slept” at our stern as shells stacked near all the deck the Union Jack. All available crew were battle stations on deck for the rest of the Call 415-7732, guns began to ignite. Exploding shells lined at attention as taps were played. night. Before dawn the battleships and Fax: 415-7702 were flying in all directions. The next mission was to secure the cruisers began shelling and this continued I watched from the wheelhouse as island of Palawan which was also located for about an hour. Our ship beached in or email our zero banked and turned to make its on the western side of the archipelago in about the third or fourth wave so that the [email protected] strafing run on us. In addition to wing the South China Sea. beach area and well inland was relatively cannon, each zero plane also carried In fact, we passed Palawan on the pre- secure when we arrived. Several of the one 500 pound bomb. As our anti- vious invasion flotilla to Mindoro Island. major ships sustained direct hits from the THE RIVER - JANUARY 27, 2012 23

Florida Snapper And Shrimp Scampi 3 tablespoons olive oil 3 tablespoons butter 4 cloves garlic, minced 3 shallots, minced 1 tablespoon capers 1 tablespoon pimento, diced 1/2 cup white wine 1/2 cup bottled clam juice 1/2 teaspoon coarse ground black pepper 4 6-ounce snapper fillets 1/2 pound medium shrimp, peeled and deveined 1/2 cup fresh parsley, minced Sea salt to taste 12 ounces vermicelli or angel hair pasta, cooked Heat the oil and butter in a large sauté pan. Add garlic and shallots and sauté for two minutes over low heat, stirring often. Raise heat to medium, add capers, pimento, wine, clam juice and pepper; simmer for two minutes. Add filets and simmer over medium-low heat for about five minutes. Add shrimp, spreading them Florida Snapper And Shrimp Scampi evenly over the skillet; simmer for three minutes until filets and shrimp are cooked vidual plates. Spoon scampi sauce over Calories 502, Calories From Fat 139, 3 Fatty Acid 0.00g through. Stir in parsley; add salt to taste. all and serve. Total Fat 16g, Saturated Fat 5g, Trans Look for “Fresh from Florida” ingre- Place fillets and shrimp on pasta on indi- Yields six servings Fatty Acid 0, Cholesterol 115mg, Total dients at your grocery store. Nutritional Value Per Serving Carbohydrates 47g, Protein 40g, Omega SWFL Craft Guild Bash he Southwest Florida Craft Bash and Cape Excellence in Real Estate TCoral Arts Studio will offer fine craft workshops on Sunday, February 5 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Cape Coral Arts Studio, located at 4533 Coronado Parkway in Cape A step above! Coral. Craft Bash is a day of fine craft workshops given by the artisans of the Southwest Florida ‡International Client Base Craft Guild. Workshops are offered in jewelry making, mosa- ics, wire wrapping, raku clay, ‡600 Shops Worldwide chain maille jewelry, polymer Fused glass workshop clay, fused glass, weaving and ‡Multi-Lingual Staff precious metal clay. Workshops are $35 each, or two for $60. Materials are additional. A free demonstration of pine needle Your success is my aim. basket making will be given by award-winning fiber artist Kathy Erickson, during the lunch hour. Lunch will be available for pur- List Local. chase with all proceeds going Sell Global. to the Scholarship Fund of the Southwest Florida Craft Guild. This yearly event if also a fun- draiser for the Cape Coral Arts ENGEL & VÖLKERS Studio, home to the Guild. For registration or more infor- Isabella Rasi mation, call the Cape Coral Arts Studio at 574-0802. 239-246-4716 1101 Periwinkle Way #105, Sanibel, FL 239-472-0044 Weaving workshop project 24 THE RIVER - JANUARY 27, 2012 teams and fans alike. Here in Florida, the 15 teams are scattered coast-to-coast and Despite The Recent Exodus Of Teams do not all play each other. 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Ron Davis Ron Mohl Presenters include Rhiannon Silvashy Nationally certified school psycholo- to help prevent obesity in children. His register in person or by mail by sending and Stephanie Peters, who specialize in gist Ron Davis will explain the difference hands-on activities are infused with music payment and a completed registration placing administrative professionals in between teaching discipline and manag- to help promote healthy nutrition and form to Child Care of Southwest Florida, Southwest Florida. ing it in his keynote address. physical activity. 6831 Palisades Park Court, Suite 6, Fort Silvashy is a staffing manager with Davis is an associate lecturer at the Hands-on workshops are planned Myers, FL 33912. Online registration is Office Team. Raised in Fort Myers, she University of Toledo teaching early child- throughout the day to interest teach- available at www.ccswfl.org for an addi- prides herself in working hard and main- hood and special education courses. He ers working with all ages, from infants tional $3 service fee. taining a positive and motivated lifestyle will show attendees a fun way to look through school-age children. More than 600 people are expected in her professional and personal life. at behavior and what teachers can do The 17th Annual Circles of Care to attend the popular conference for early Silvashy currently holds the Sponsorship to help children learn more appropriate Conference is presented by Child Care childhood educators, administrators, fam- Chair for Human Resource Management behaviors through positive techniques. of Southwest Florida, Inc. in partnership ily child care providers and parents. Association of Southwest Florida and is a Professional Development Trainer with Edison State College. For more information, visit www. member of the International Association Ron Mohl will be a special guest during Pre-registration is $37 and increases ccswfl.org. of Administrative Personnel. the day and will focus on healthy habits to $45 at the door. Participants may Peters is the branch manager of Robert Half International and also works as the division director of Office Team. Peters earned her MBA at Florida Gulf the Galapagos Islands led by a National prizes at the Google Science Fair were Coast University and has staffed more School Smart Geographic Explorer, a hands-on intern- awarded to girls. administrative professionals than anyone else in the area. by Shelley M. ship at Google, CERN or LEGO, access Google doesn’t ask for gender as part This social media presentation will take Greggs, NCSP to the Scientific American archives for of the submission process. It’s not looking their school and a personalized LEGO to highlight girls’ scientific achievements place at Edison State College’s Taeni Hall ello trophy. Two other finalists will each but Google has added a new prize this (S117), 8099 College Parkway in Fort Readers, receive $25,000 scholarships, access to year – a “Science in Action” award spon- Myers. RSVP to [email protected] or H I want the Scientific American archives, and a sored by Scientific American, that will call 489-9394. Seating is limited. to alert you to a LEGO trophy. go to a project that addresses “a social, wonderful online Maggie Johnson, Google director of environmental or health issue to make a opportunity for your education and a Google Science Fair practical difference in the lives of a group children ages 13 to judge, addressed the company’s motiva- or community,” with the thinking that a 18 that might be tion behind the fair by pointing out that practical, community-oriented focus may Book Signing With interested in partici- “scientific experimentation is a crucial attract girls to STEM projects. pating in a Science part of Google’s corporate DNA.” If you are interested in this opportu- Dennis A. Martin Fair. As some of you may have expe- Google wants to help encourage this nity, I encourage you and your student to book signing with author Dennis rienced, Science Fairs are being elimi- same sort of curiosity in the next genera- look at www.google.com/events/science- A. Martin will be held on nated more frequently as schools have tion. She says that scientific exploration fair to get more information on how to ASaturday, January 28 from 9 a.m. re-allocated instructional time to increased and experimentation remain important to participate. to 2 p.m. at the Raintree Mobile Home academic instruction directed to the vari- the company’s existence to this day as it Ms. Greggs is adjunct faculty at Park Craft Fair, 19250 N. Tamiami Trail ous tests that students are now required was when the company was founded in Edison State College where she teaches in North Fort Myers. to take. So here is a great opportunity 1996, by two young computer science psychology and education courses. Martin, a resident of Canfield, Ohio, will to participate in this well-established, students. She is also Nationally Certified School be available to sign copies of his self-help educational activity outside of a student’s One hypothesis suggested by the Psychologist and consultant for School book, Celubrious: A Celebration of Life. school. Google online Science Fair is that there’s Consultation Services, a private educa- Are you one of the untold millions of Last week, Google announced its an element about the accessibility of the tional consulting company. Questions people searching for a little happiness 2012 Global Science Fair, a follow-up to Web that makes it easier for students to for publication may be addressed to in each day despite its ups and downs? last year’s inaugural event. The Science present their work. They believe that to [email protected]. Not all questions Celebrate another day of living with Fair is open to any student (age 13 to present in an online forum may actually submitted can be addressed through Martin’s Celubrious messages. These 18) from anywhere who has access encourage those who might otherwise this publication. messages will provide that daily motiva- to the Internet and to a web browser. find the process intimidating to partici- tion and inspiration that will help you to Submissions will be accepted through pate in science fairs. Many students are learn from past and present experiences April 1. intimidated with the idea of standing next and recognize that every day can be the Similar to last year’s fair, Google has to their project all day in the school audi- Share your community best day of your life. These simple yet put together a celebrated judging panel torium. Submitting it online may reduce news with us. powerful two-minute doses of inspiration that includes Google Internet Evangelist that intimidation factor. There is also the Call 415-7732, convey the power of living, loving and Vint Cerf and particle physicist and suggestion that this type of submission positive thinking. 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www.EyelidsOnly.com 30 THE RIVER - JANUARY 27, 2012 From page 27 was over $1.8 million.” officer for Lee Memorial Health System. of Autism Spectrum Disorder, making it Dawn Russell, the CredAbility staff “We are confident in her continuing suc- more common than childhood cancer, Income Tax person responsible for VITA, said, “A cess as she moves into her new role.” juvenile diabetes and pediatric AIDS com- prime goal of the free service is to help McMillan holds a master’s degree in bined. Assistance tax payers who qualify for the Earned business administration from Florida Gulf Medical consultants for the project Why would a family not file their Income Tax Credit (EITC) and other simi- Coast University and a bachelor’s degree stress that an early diagnosis can make a income taxes for three years? Not having lar credits to receive them. A large num- in general business administration from vast difference for toddlers and their fami- money to pay taxes, being unemployed, a ber of taxpayers who could qualify for the Michigan State University. She holds lies. They say early intensive behavioral person feeling unable to file on his own, EITC do not claim the credit because they six Sigma Black Belt certifications and a intervention can make an immense differ- not having money to pay for a tax filing don’t know about it.” strong skill set in lean process improve- ence not just in the development of the service are some of the basic reasons. For more information about VITA ment. child, but in their families as well. One family that included three children such as times and locations, call United “I am excited for the opportunities The ASD screening is conducted came to a United Way House last year Way 211 by dialing 2-1-1 or 433-3900 that stepping into this position brings,” by the Neurosciences Center at The for VITA services. They had not filed or visit www.unitedwaylee.org. McMillan said. “I am looking forward Children’s Hospital, under the guidance their income taxes for three years. They to broadening my experience at Lee of pediatric neurologist Jose Colon. couldn’t afford a tax service and were Memorial Health System and also be able The screenings are administered by an afraid that they owed money to the IRS. to continue to have a positive impact on Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner, The mother was self-employed, and the the organization in a different capacity.” who has extensive training and experi- father had been unemployed for a period LMHS Names Visit www.leememorial.org for more ence in typical child development and of time. information. developmental disorders. “The mother really wanted to get New Director A physician referral is not required. To schedule a screening, call 343-6838. their tax situation straightened out,” ast week, Lee Memorial Health said Nancy Martin, United Way House System announced the advance- coordinator. “I sent her home to get Lment of Kristi McMillan to the her mileage and other records from her position of system director of resource Free Autism self-employment. When I figured their management. McMillan has been with taxes, they were owed $3,775 for 2008, Lee Memorial Health System since Screening For $7,327 for 2009 and $4,513 for 2010. 2005 as an operations improvement That’s a total of $15,615 that the IRS coach. Young Children refunded to them. That refund made a The system director of resource man- he Children’s Hospital of Share your community huge difference to this family.” agement is responsible for supporting the Southwest Florida, in partnership “We are beginning our fourth year of patient care services division’s productiv- Twith the Ronald McDonald House news with us. VITA service through the CredAbility and ity and overall financial management. Charities of Southwest Florida, offers a Call 415-7732, United Way partnership. Taxes are e-filed The system director also works with the free monthly autism spectrum disorder and returns arrive quickly,” added Roger staffing resource center’s department, screening for toddlers 18 months to five Fax: 415-7702 Mercado, director of allocations and com- working to ensure that the division has years of age. or email munity planning for the United Way. adequate resources in place to support The next screening will be held Friday, “Last year, the average refund to VITA the patient’s experience. January 27 from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. [email protected] participants was over $2,000 which may “Kristi’s dedication and strong leader- at McDonald’s located at 12990 South have prevented the foreclosure of some- ship skills will bring many great things Cleveland Avenue, Fort Myers. one’s home, or purchased groceries for a for Lee Memorial Health System,” said It is estimated that one in every 150 family for several months. The total VITA Donna Giannuzzi, chief patient care children is diagnosed with some form returns for our area for the 2009 tax-year

Jim Nathan, LMHS president, noted that LMHS is the largest community-owned LMHS Board Of Directors Elects 2012 health system in Southwest Florida and is the sixth largest public health system in the United States. Officers, Adds New Board Member “The responsibility these board officers bear is testament to their commitment to ee Memorial Health System announced the 2012 officers of its board of direc- the well-being of our community,” said Nathan. “Each director is dedicated to the tors elected in this year’s annual organizational business meeting. provision of safe and efficient delivery of care to the people of Southwest Florida and L Richard Akin, District 2, will continue as board chairman. Akin has over 35 keeps the patient as the center of our efforts to improve quality and operations. We years of health care management experience and has served for the past 26 years as cherish and appreciate the involvement of each one.” the president and CEO of Collier Health Services, Inc., a not-for-profit primary health The citizens of Lee County own and operate LMHS through a publicly elected care provider in Collier County. board of directors. the board holds regularly scheduled monthly meetings to hear goals, Steve Brown, M.D., District 1, will serve as the vice chairman. Dr. Brown has over objectives and recommendations from the system’s administrative and medical staffs. 50 years of experience in medicine. He also serves as quality and education board The public is encouraged to attend. chairman. Dr. Brown served as chief of staff and chief of radiology while sitting on the board of trustees at Anne Arundel General Hospital in Annapolis, Maryland. Dr. Brown is a former Sanibel City Council member, mayor of Sanibel, and board member “The community support we have of the Sanibel Captiva Trust Company. He previously sat as a board member of the Gulf Coast received over the past two years has Lee Memorial Health System Foundation and currently serves as the liaison for the been both humbling and gratifying,” said Children’s Hospital. Humane Society GCHS executive director David Stroud. Marilyn Stout, District 1, remains as this year’s treasurer. Stout is a former Lee “Our goal at the Gulf Coast Humane County Republican state committeewoman, former Cape Coral City Council member, Has Record Year Society is to rescue, provide safe sanctu- and has served as Chamber of Commerce director, chair of membership develop- ontinuing a two-year trend, the ary, and find forever homes for every ment and government affairs. She has served as chairman of the Cape Coral Charter Gulf Coast Humane Society animal entrusted to our care at our no-kill School governing board, liaison to the Metropolitan Planning Organization and Tourist C(GCHS) enjoyed another record shelter. Because of the generous compas- Development Council, and as chair of the Lee County Transportation Disadvantaged year of adoptions and revenue in 2011. sion of our adopters, donors and spon- Commission. Stout served as LMHS board treasurer last year. A total of 1,051 GCHS shelter pets sors in 2011, we saved more animals Nancy McGovern, RN, MSN, District 2, will once again serve as board secretary found a forever home in 2011, a 16 and found more forever homes than ever in 2012. McGovern has been a registered nurse for over 30 years and has worked in percent increase over 2010 and a 31 before.” a hospital and home health agency as a clinical researcher and has been involved in percent increase over 2009. Total rev- The Gulf Coast Humane Society many area charity fundraisers including the American Cancer Society, American Heart enue – including donations, fundraising main adoption center is located at 2010 Association and the Muscular Dystrophy Association. events and clinic proceeds – neared Arcadia Street in Fort Myers. GCHS also Also at the annual organizational meeting, Mitchell L. Cordova, Ph.D. was appoint- the $2 million mark ($1.97 million) in has four off-site adoption locations at Pet ed as community member to the board of directors for quality and education. Dr. 2011, a 37 percent increase over 2010 Supermarkets in Cape Coral, North Fort Cordova is the dean and professor of the College of Health Professions at Florida Gulf and a 79 percent increase compared to Myers, Bonita Springs and Naples. For Coast University. two years ago. more information, call 332-0364 or visit www.gulfcoasthumanesociety.org. THE RIVER - JANUARY 27, 2012 31 Gala Celebration At Shell Point

Shell Point president Peter Dys The Lennon Sisters perform at Shell Point’s 2012 Gala

The Lennon Sisters Shell Point residents Robert and Barbara Phillips ecently, Shell Point Retirement & Trust. This annual event celebrates Sisters were considered the “girls next Community hosted their 2012 the generous spirit of Shell Point door,” and for years they charmed the RGala Celebration, which featured residents, and the theme this year was nation with their sweet-voiced harmo- FineMark chef Mike Gavala prepared the entertainment by The Lennon Sisters “Tapestry,” to focus on the celebra- nies on The Lawrence Welk Show. delicious desserts and desserts by FineMark National Bank tion of life at Shell Point. The Lennon

Timothy Stephenson, executive director of Shell Point residents Bill and Pauline Staples, Thomas and Phyllis Lasier, John and Anne Shell Point residents Thomas and Linda The Legacy Foundation at Shell Point Burden, and John and Janet Bendall Wilhelm 32 THE RIVER - JANUARY DID27, 2012 YOU KNOW TRIVIA TEST SPORTS QUIZ 1. SPACE: What did the Apollo 11 mission accomplish? 1. Who holds the Giants’ record for most career RBIs? 2. MOVIES: What literary character is featured in the movies “Casino Royale” and “Live 2. The Houston Astros had four different managers during the 1980s. Name two of them. and Let Die”? 3. When was the last time before 2010 that Army’s football team played in a bowl game? 3. HISTORY: In what year was the Magna Carta signed? 4. In the 2009-10 season, the New Jersey Nets became the fi fth team in NBA history to 4. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Which president instituted the Good Neighbor policy toward lose at least 70 games in a season. Name two of the other four. Latin America? 5. Chris Osgood is one of six NHL goaltenders to have won 400-plus games and three 5. PSYCHOLOGY: What abnormal fear is represented by “odontophobia”? Stanley Cups during their careers. Name three of the other fi ve. 6. TELEVISION: Who played the part of Trapper John McIntyre on “MASH”? 6. How many times has Jamaican runner Usain Bolt won Athlete of the Year from the 7. LITERATURE: What was the original title of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “This Side of Para- International Association of Athletics Federation? dise”? 7. In 2011, the LPGA’s Yani Tseng, at 22, became the youngest golfer to win fi ve career 8. ENTERTAINERS: How old was actress/singer Marilyn Monroe when she died? 9. U.S. STATES: Which state’s nickname is the Mountain State? major titles. Who had been the youngest? 10. FAMOUS QUOTES: What 20th-century leader once said, “Satisfaction lies in the ef-

fort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory”? ANSWERS

Roy, Terry Sawchuk, Jacques Plante and Grant Fuhr. 6. Three times, including 2011. 7. Tiger Woods, at age 24. age at Woods, Tiger 7. 2011. including times, Three 6. Fuhr. Grant and Plante Jacques Sawchuk, Terry Roy,

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Wayne Rogers 7. “The Romantic Egotist” 8. 36 9. West Virginia 10. Mohandas Gandhi. Mohandas 10. Virginia West 9. 36 8. Egotist” Romantic “The 7. Rogers Wayne

1. Mel Ott, with 1,860 RBIs. 2. Bill Virdon (1980-82), Bob Lillis (1982-85), Hal Lanier (1986-88) and Art Art and (1986-88) Lanier Hal (1982-85), Lillis Bob (1980-82), Virdon Bill 2. RBIs. 1,860 with Ott, Mel 1.

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You value truth and have STRANGE BUT TRUE TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) You little patience with those who lie to you for should be feeling very proud of the fine effort their own purposes. • It was noted 20th-century poet T.S. Eliot you’ve made to get that important project who made the following sage observation: done. Now take some time out to celebrate THIS WEEK IN HISTORY “Some editors are failed writers, but so are with family and friends. You’ve earned it. most writers.” GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You’re • On Feb. 3, 1780, in one of the most • The United States’ first railroad was built close to reaching your objectives. That’s the famous crimes of post-Revolution America, in 1809 in Crown Creek, Pa., by a man named good news. But be careful: Your aspects show 20-year-old boarder Barnett Davenport com- Thomas Leiper. It had wooden tracks. lots of potential distractions looming. Stay mits a mass murder, killing a family of five • When the now-classic television show focused and keep your eyes fixed on your at their home in rural Connecticut. Until then, “Gilligan’s Island” first aired in 1964, critics goals. crime was viewed as sinners losing their way. were not impressed. The review published in CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Be care- But Davenport’s crime caused people to per- the San Francisco Chronicle said, “It is dif- ful not to let that suspicious Cancerian mind ceive criminals as evil and alien to the rest of ficult to believe that this show was written, create a problem where none exists. What you society. directed and produced by adults. It marks a might believe is an act of betrayal could be • On Feb. 2, 1812, Russians establish Fort new low in the networks’ estimation of public nothing more than a misunderstanding. Ross on the coast north of San Francisco as intelligence.” The show went on to air for LEO (July 23 to August 22) Your Lion’s a source of growing food. The effort was not three seasons and spurred three TV movie heart overflows with self-confidence. All you successful. American John Sutter bought Fort sequels. need to do is tap into it, and you’ll be able to Ross in 1841 with an unsecured $30,000 note • Believing that beards and long hair were handle any change that must be made regard- that he never paid. too easy for enemies to grab, Alexander the ing that recent surprise development. • On Feb. 1, 1917, Germany returns to the Great ordered his soldiers to shave their faces VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) The policy of unrestricted submarine warfare in and heads before going into battle. need to watch what you say becomes increas- the Atlantic as it prepares to attack any and • You hear a lot about the isolationism ingly crucial this week. Be as temperate as all ships. Two days later, the United States of Switzerland -- the country that’s always you can with your comments and avoid argu- broke off diplomatic relations with Germany. neutral in any conflict -- but you might be ments for the sake of controversy. Just hours after that, the American liner surprised to learn how serious they are about LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Housatonic was sunk by a German U-boat. it. The country’s system of roads is mined in A longtime family problem presents new • On Feb. 4, 1922, the Ford Motor 2,000 places and can be demolished in the demands. But this time, you won’t have to go Company acquires the failing luxury auto- space of 10 minutes. it alone: Someone else is asking to help share maker Lincoln Motor Company for $8 mil- • Are you doing your share? If you’ve your responsibilities. Let it happen. lion. Ford’s son Edsel eventually helped to had a beer today, you’ve contributed to the SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) convince his father to drop his famous rule: approximately 90 million cans of the brew A period of feeling vulnerable is about to give “You can have any color, as long as it’s that are consumed by Americans every day. way to a stronger, more self-confident aspect. black.” • When the territory that later became the Use this new strength to reaffirm promises • On Feb. 5, 1937, President Franklin state of Alaska was purchased from Russia in you’ve made to others and yourself. Roosevelt announces a controversial plan to 1867, the cost came out to about 2 cents per SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 acre. December 21) A creative dilemma stalls your judges. Critics charged that Roosevelt was • It’s not clear why, but it seems that fine progress. Instead of letting it raise your ire, trying to neutralize Supreme Court justices hair grows faster than coarse hair. use the time to re-examine your aims and, hostile to his New Deal. By 1942, all but two perhaps, come up with a new target. of the justices were his appointees. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY CAPRICORN (December 22 to January • On Jan. 30, 1948, Mohandas 19) Your nimble will finds a way for you Karamchand Gandhi, the political and “My father taught me to work, but not to to work out those newly emerged problems spiritual leader of the Indian independence love it. I never did like to work, and I don’t plaguing your new project. Stay with it. The movement, is assassinated in New Delhi by a deny it. I’d rather read, tell stories, crack results will be well worth your efforts. Hindu fanatic. 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[email protected] or 472-1618 Sanibel-Captiva Care and Companion Service, Super, well maintained house, great ☼NR 1/27 NC 2/17 neighbors, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, ☼ LLC Medical appointments, general transportation, Hourly, Daily, Weekly NR 1/27 BM 2/10 shopping, light meal preparations, and light adjacent tennis courts and pool, near cleaning. Our services are customized to meet and Monthly. beach. Negotiable. 239-482-0997 our clients needs. Call 239-395-3591, or ☼RS 1/6 CC 1/27 for an emergency call 239-472-0556. Captiva Island 472-5800 SR 10/3 B TFN SR 1/30 B TFN

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Main house is www.1314isabeldr.com 55 and over. No pets. 1800 sq. feet with a separate building McGREGOR WOODS Glenn Carretta $600 per month or $3,000 for 6 months in the backyard for offi ce/studio. Broker Associate Tel. 239-489-2360 Call 239-410-4111 ☼ John R. Wood Island Real Estate Inc. ☼RR 1/20 CC 1/27 NS 1/20 BM 2/3 FOR A FREE LIST 239-850-9296 OF ALL www.TeamSanibel.com ☼RR 1/27 BM 1/27 LIGHTHOUSE REALTY SANIBEL HOME FOR RENT ISLAND PROPERTIES Paul J. Morris, Broker VACATION RENTALS Annual lease in the Dunes. 3/2 piling home PROPERTY MANAGEMENT & SALES bright and clean. Enclosed garage, nice FREE yard. Asking $1,850 a month plus utilities. GREAT FAMILY HOME IN FOR SALE 359 Periwinkle Way, Sanibel Island VISIT 239-579-0511 Call Charlie at 239-850-0710. McGREGOR WOODS! ☼ REAL ESTATE RR 1/27 CC 2/17 ☼NR 1/27 CC 2/17 3/3/2...make an offer! www.FreeSanibelList.com SANIBEL EAST END Pfeifer Realty Group Seminar ANNUAL RENTAL Sanibel Island, FL 239-472-0004 PROPERTIES AVAILABLE ☼ Thinking of buying on RS 6/17 BM TFN For a complete list visit our Website Sanibel or Captiva? www.remax-oftheislands.com CAUTION Learn about the market, Call Dustyn Corace, RE/MAX of the Islands 239-472-2311 SANIBEL neighborhoods, condos, RS 10/9 B TFN Elegant, Sanibel East End OPEN HOUSES regulations, zoning, costs, Canal Front Home with Boat MARINER POINTE TOWNHOUSE Dock. Like New! POSTED DAILY rentals, contingencies, GARAGE • ASKING $1,795,000 Unfurnished-ground level; 2 BR 2-1/2 BA; inspections, disclosures, 2 encl porches; Bay/Canal views; fi shing pier; MOVING • YARD MATLACHA WATERFRONT Lease includes Cable TV, water, pest control, contracts, clauses, etc. refuse collection. Boat dock lease available. No pets. Rate negotiable. 239-395-1786 SALES No Obligation ☼RR 1/13 CC 2/3 No Sales Pitch Just Information SANIBEL EAST END GARAGE SALE VISIT: 2 BR 1 BA, 1/2 duplex piling home. Saturday, January 28 from 9 am - 1 pm SanibelOpenHouses.com Monday 4 PM New A/C, Tile fl oors, Washer & dryer in 1615 Sand Castle Road in the Dunes, Unique artist’s home in midst Pfeifer Realty Group Bank of the Islands unit. Updated appliances. Dishwasher, Sanibel. Clothing, furniture, some antiques. of art galleries, restaurants & deck & storage under house. Everything MUST go! 1699 Periwinkle Way, Sanibel Walk to beach, Clean & Bright. fi shing community. $550,000 Sanibel Island, FL ☼NR 1/27 CC 1/27 $1,250 + utilities. 239-472-0004 Yard service and pest control included. EAST END RETAIL CENTER Robyn & Robb Moran ☼ REALTORS© Call Bob 410-913-2234. NS 10/28 BM TFN COMMUNITY YARD SALE ☼NR 1/13 CC 2/3 (239) 443-0110 to confi rm Saturday, February 25th John Gee & Company 7:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. CONDO TRADE ☼NR 1/20 BM 2/10 SANIBEL EAST END Vendor spots only $5 – FREE admission 2BR, 1 BA, 1/2 Duplex, near beach. Estero Recreation Center, 9200 Corkscrew Are you looking for a larger condo but haven't Palms Blvd, Estero. 239-498-0415 sold or listed yours? Owners of Luxury Private laundry, dishwasher, unfurnished. ☼RR 1/20 NC 2/24 Sanibel Condo may entertain a trade. $1,200 mo. No pets, non-smoker. Newly renovated retail Contact G.G. Robideau, PH 708-557-1083 The River www.SeaCoastSanibel.com center with high visability Broker Associate, ☼RR 1/27 CC 1/27 on Periwinkle toward John R Wood Island Real Estate, Lighthouse beach. Great 239-940-7878 or [email protected] EMAIL: business opportunity. ☼NR 1/6 BM 1/27 $1,399,000 [email protected] TO PLACE AN AD Isabella Rasi LONG CANAL VIEWS LOG ON: (239) 246-4716 2BD/1BA Tennis Place Condo. VACATION RENTAL Email Just steps to the Bay and seconds to the [email protected] Gulf. Dockage, Tennis, Pool and more. IslandSunNews.com Small and quiet complex with low fees. WALK TO BEACH Owners asking $245,000. Adorable 2 bedroom 1 bath Phone 239-395-2919 for appt. 1/2 of duplex & click on Open house every Tuesday 10-noon. East End of Sanibel ☼RS 1/20 CC 2/10 Great Monthly rates! ☼RS 12/30 NC 1/20 Call Bob 410-913-2234 ☼RR 9/16 CC TFN — Place Classified — 38 THE RIVER - JANUARY 27, 2012 ★ ★ ★ Read us online at islandsunnews.com ★ ★ ★

Emergency...... 911 Lee County Sheriff’s Offi ce...... 477-1200 SUDOKU Florida Marine Patrol...... 332-6966 Florida Highway Patrol...... 278-7100 Poison Control...... 1-800-282-3171 To play Sudoku: HealthPark Medical Center...... 1-800-936-5321 Ft. Myers Chamber of Commerce...... 332-3624 Complete the grid so Foundation for Quality Childcare...... 425-2685 Ft. Myers Beach Chamber of Commerce...... 454-7500 that every row, column Fort Myers Beach Library...... 463-9691 Lakes Regional Library...... 533-4000 and every 3x3 box Lee County Chamber of Commerce...... 931-0931 Post Offi ce...... 1-800-275-8777 contains the numbers Visitor & Convention Bureau...... 338-3500 ARTS 1 through 9 (the same Alliance for the Arts...... 939-2787 number cannot appear Arts For ACT Gallery & Studio...... 337-5050 Art League Of Fort Myers...... 275-3970 more than once in a Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall...... 481-4849 BIG ARTS...... 395-0900 row, column or 3x3 box.) Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre...... 278-4422 Cultural Park Theatre...... 772-5862 There is no guessing Edison Festival of Light...... 334-2999 Florida Repertory Theatre at the Arcade...... 332-4488 and no math involved, Florida West Arts...... 948-4427 Fort Myers Symphonic Mastersingers...... 472-0168 just logic. Gulf Coast Symphony...... 489-1800 Harmony Chorus, Charles Sutter, Pres...... 481-8059 Naples Philharmonic...... 239-597-1111 answer on page 35 The Schoolhouse Theater...... 472-6862 S.W. Florida Symphony...... 418-0996 Theatre Conspiracy...... 936-3239 Young Artists Awards...... 574-9321 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Angel Flight...... 1-877-4AN-ANGEL Animal Refuge Center...... 731-3535 American Business Women Association...... 357-6755 Audubon of SWFL...... 339-8046 Audubon Society...... 472-3156 Caloosahatchee Folk Society...... 321-4620 Cape Coral Stamp Club...... 542-9153 duPont Company Retirees ...... 454-1083 Edison Porcelain Artists...... 415-2484 Ft Myers UDC Chapter 2614 (United Daughters of the Confederacy ®)....728-3743 Friendship Force Of SW FL...... 561-9164 The Horticulture and Tea Society...... 472-8334 Horticultural Society...... 472-6940 Lee County Genealogical Society...... 549-9625 Lee Trust for Historic Preservation ...... 939-7278 NARFE(National Active & Retired Federal Employ- ees)...... 482-6713 Navy Seabees Veterans of America...... 731-1901 Paradise Iowa Club of SWFL...... 667-1354 Southwest Florida Fencing Academy...... 939-1338 Southwest Florida Music Association...... 561-2118 Kiwanis Clubs: Fort Myers Beach...... 765-4254 or 454-8090 Fort Myers Edison...... 694-1056 Fort Myers South...... 691-1405 Gateway to the Islands...... 415-3100 Iona-McGregor...... 482-0869 Lions Clubs: Fort Myers Beach...... 463-9738 Fort Myers High Noon...... 466-4228 Estero/South Fort Myers...... 898-1921 Notre Dame Club of Lee County...... 768-0417 POLO Club of Lee County...... 477-4906 Rotary Club of Fort Myers...... 332-8158 Sanibel-Captiva Orchid Society...... 472-6940 United Way of Lee County...... 433-2000 United Way 211 Helpline (24 hour)...... 211 or 433-3900 AREA ATTRACTIONS Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum...... 395-2233 Burrough’s Home...... 337-9505 Calusa Nature Center & Planetarium...... 275-3435 Edison & Ford Winter Estates...... 334-3614 Fort Myers Skate Park...... 321-7558 Imaginarium Hands-On Museum & Aquarium...... 321-7420 JN “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge...... 472-1100 Koreshan State Historic Site...... 239-992-0311 answer on page 35 Ostego Bay Foundation Marine Science Center...... 765-8101 Skatium...... 321-7510 Southwest Florida Museum of History...... 321-7430 True Tours...... 945-0405 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Read us online at islandsunnews.com If you would like your club/organization listed in The River Calling Card, phone 415-7732 THE RIVER - JANUARY 27, 2012 39 BEACH CHAIR PASTIME Answers on page 32 40 THE RIVER - JANUARY 27, 2012

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New Listing: Tidewater Island Punta Rassa #302 2 Great Units at Loggerhead Cay Beautiful old Florida This elegantly appointed Amenities Galore!!! Loggerhead style home in the private, home has been completely Cay is one of the most popular secluded, gated, community renovated. Top of the line condominium complexes on the of Tidewater Island. Etched granite in kitchen and highly desirable East End. Tennis glass front door, crown baths. Unique master bath courts, shuffleboard, sparkling molding in kitchen and & dressing area, design pool, deeded beach access, on site great room, thirteen foot award, wood floors, dry bar, stainless steel appliances. management, bbq grills -- these ceilings, Chippendale style Sun drenched with magnificent sunsets and views of are just a few of the many amenities available at Loggerhead woodwork on lanai and front entry, rosette and fluted trim Sanibel Island enhanced by hurricane glass enclosed Cay. This 2/2 ground level unit was recently remodeled and in great room around triple sliding glass doors to lanai. lanai, hurricane glass on all windows. Social membership offers tile floors throughout and gorgeous gulf views. This unit Seeing is believing, be sure to see this home. Furnishings to Sanibel Harbour included. Turnkey and ready! Offered is perfect for an investor or someone looking for a vacation negotiable. Offered for $408,000 Contact Bob Berning for $399,990. Contact Marianne Stewart 239/56-6420. home as it boasts an impressive rental history. 239/699-9597 or Ken Colter 239/851-1357 Look no further for the perfect vacation home or investment Coco Bay property! This ground level condo is located in the popular 3 Bedroom, 2 Bath, Loggerhead Cay complex and is only ONE UNIT back from Punta Rassa #404 2,153 sq. ft. home in the beach! Enjoy amazing sunsets and breathtaking views of WOW! End Unit with balcony Coco Bay. Huge outdoor the ocean. This 2/2 is tiled throughout and features updated off the dining area. Pure lanai and pool area bathrooms. Easy access to the pool and beach through silk breezes capturing the allows you to make the the screened in lanai helps keep the sand and mess to a aura of not only the sunsets most of the Southwest minimum! Offered for $519,000 and $615,000. Contact but also the panoramic Florida lifestyle. Tracy Walters “Mr. Listr” 239/994-7975 or Connie Walters views of Sanibel Harbour Open floor plan featuring tropical design. Great private “Ms Listr” 239/841-4540 Resort. Recently remodeled community close to Sanibel & Fort Myers Beach. Kitchen kitchen with granite counters, stainless steel sink tiled features granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances, floor. Other features include, tray ceilings, tiled lanai, sun wood cabinets and a wine cooler. Off-Season reciprocal 17170 Harbour Pointe Dr shutters, and oversized affinity washer and dryer. Social with Kelly Greens grants owner use of golf course and #1232 - Sanibel Harbour Membership to Sanibel Harbour Yacht Club. This sun dining facilities. Offered for $389,000. Contact Bob Towers South splashed home is worth visiting to absorb the portrait of Berning 239-699-9597 or Ken Colter 239/851-1357. This Penthouse must be seen “Paradise by the Sea”. Offered for $339,900. Contact to be appreciated. Sweeping Marianne Stewart 239/560-6420. YOU MUST SEE IT TO BELIEVE IT! 180 degree views of the bay, This elegantly appointed the gulf, the river, small islands 3/4 pool home in Sanibel in the bay and Sanibel Island Exceptional Home on Almost 1 Acre! offer serene surroundings from This 4 BR (could be 5 or 6), 4 Estates was extensively remodeled in 2002 by the interior or your own private sun deck. The interior 1/2 bath home has too many was totally re-done by an interior designer in 2005, new upgrades to mention Benchmark and no detail was spared! Home with nothing but the best in appliances, cabinets and all. 1st floor master has new amenities. This stunning penthouse is a one of a kind Master Bath ‘10. Custom features Brazilian cherry wood floors, top floor that should satisfy the most discriminating buyer. Beach Vanities, Kohler Jacuzzi, walk- access, pool, fishing pier, restaurant, bike path. Offered in Rain Shower, closet built-ins. master suite, 2 complete guest suites, rooftop sundeck with Bay views, coffer and tray ceilings, granite stone and for $2,800,000 Contact Sharon Wise 239/849-9121 or 3 new A/C’s ‘10. New Roof ‘04. Ray Ochester 239/410-9725 Many new Hurr. rated windows. Custom wood and marble marble surfaces, 3 floor elevator, media room, library, floors, Spanish tile. The yard is big (almost an acre) and chef’s kitchen with Crystal cabinetry and MUCH more. beautiful! The back is completely fenced, and the property The elevated pool is light w fiber optics and overlooks Jonathan Harbour extends approx 20-30’ beyond the back fence and was the gardens and canal. Accommodate your boat at this This 2 bedroom, 2 bath end left natural for a very private setting. Garage has extra 65’ dock with 2-50 amp shore power available. Home has unit town home is in excellent storage rm/workshop. Pinehurst is a great community, been meticulously landscaped and features brick paver condition, 10,000 boat lift, plenty all larger homesites, tucked off of the popular Daniels walkways. This home is truly one of a kind! Contact Tracy of storage, open floor plan with Rd. corridor - convenient to shops, restaurants, hospital/ Walters 239/994-7975 or Connie Walters 239/841-4540 high ceilings, new kitchen with medical, SWFL Reg Airport, Twins training stadium. granite pretty view over looking Offered for $699,000. Contact Nancy Finch at 239/822- Bank Approved Short Sale Mac Bay. 2 car garage can tandem 4 cars or store your 7825. Bank Approved price of flats boat! Community pool, tennis and clubhouse all on $160,000. Enjoy beautiful lake a private island. Direct access to the Gulf (approx. 10 views from this 3 bedroom 2 min). Beautiful landscaping add to this property’s appeal. Lowest Priced Home In Crown Colony bath coach home. 3rd bedroom Contact Ralph or Cathy Galietti 239/826-5897. This very rare 4 has an open loft feel with pocket bedroom, 2 bath sliders and closet, ideal room model has lake LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION for a den as well. This bright Well maintained home in a great exposure from and open space with vaulted ceilings is the perfect full the private heated location. 3 blocks from San Carlos time residence or winter retreat. Spacious lanai with Elementary, 5 minutes to Three pool and spa with built in cabinets and outdoor grill. Separated laundry Aqualink Control. Oaks Middle, 10 minutes to airport, room and a large 2 car garage attached to your unit. 10 minutes to FGCU, 5 minutes to Membership in the Many amenities to include a beautiful clubhouse, pool Golf and country Gulf Coast Shopping Center. Oversized corner lot in quiet and tennis courts. This is a short sale subject to existing neighborhood. Attached garage has been converted to a Club is optional, but lender’s approval which could result in delays. Contact available. Offered for $379,000. Contact Larry family room. Offered for $114,900 Contact Bob Berning the Walters Team: Tracy “Mr. Listr” 239/994-7975 or 239/699-9597 or Ken Colter - 239-851-1357. Hahn 239/898-8789 Connie “Ms Listr” 239/841-4540 1149 Periwinkle Way Sanibel, FL 33957 239/472-0176 fax 239/472-0350 www.jnaislandrealestate.com