A gyicle to the islands -'- - - Informative Islander supplement published Insert 18 new subscribers tills week Since. 1.961 Still first on Sanibel and Captive Islands VOL 34, NO. 6 TUESDAY, FEB. 7, 1995 2 SECTIONS, 36 PAGES 50 GENTS Show Biz As It Wuz By Frank Wagner May 24,1963-a night to remember! Both the New York company at Julius' Plaza 9- playing "Dime a Dozen" and the Chicago *.-* \ -•- 'u, .. company at Julius Monk's playing "Struts and Frets" were acutely aware of the invitation Julius had received. He has been asked by the White House correspondent's entertainment committee to perform for President John Kennedy at a din- ner on May 24, 1963. I have always felt that the final decision to Photo by Kathleen Qlase take the Chicago company was primarily for business reasons. Plaza 9- in New York was The road to the clubhouse doing sell-out business nightly for both shows. When their round Is done, many golfers at The Dunes Golf and Tennis Club on Sanibel use this cart path The Chicago club was playing to much lesser bridge to get back to the clubhouse. The well-groomed, colorfully landscaped area also enhances the view houses. It doesn't take an Einstein to figure out for the patrons of the club's restaurant and lounge. that the publicity surrounding this entertainment coup should do much to encourage the Windy City crowd to turn out to see what all the Board decides to use outside counsel brouhaha was about. It was well known that Julius had an immedi- ate love affair with any new group of musical mummers he worked with while assembling a CEPD hires Tampa lawyer show. The Chicago group was no exception. Therefore it could have been a combination of factors that swayed his decision to use the to answer Sanibel lawsuit Chicago company. By Steve Ruediger experience, she told the board at its Wednesday meet- To me it was quite obvious that the New York Islander staff writer ing. company would have been a far wiser choice. The Captiva Erosion Prevention District, at an However CEPD board member Nolan Murrah Why? "Barry's Boys," which one Chicago critic emergency meeting Friday, Feb. 3, agreed to hire (himself an attorney) said at the Friday meeting that described as "The best number in 'Struts and Charles W. Pittman of the Tampa law firm of he had looked into the credentials of the various peo- Frets' which could kill any candidacy given Macfarlane Ferguson to answer a suit by a Gulf ple it was possible to hire and he had found Pittman national exposure," was the primary reason for Shores resident. to be the best with 31 years experience in trial work, Monk's Merry Minstrels being asked to perform including handling a local land use case before the at the Washington function. The CEPD's long-time attorney Nancy Stroud had offered to handle the case with the assistance of judge who will be handling the CEPD case. The Please see MAY 24,1963, page 19 Edward F. Ryan, another attorney in her firm of Burke, Weaver and Prell. Ryan has extensive trial Please see CEPD, page 3 In or out? Arts & Leisure 16 Business 6 CROW board's future hinges on membership vote Calendar 12 By Anne Bellew The meeting was necessitated by membership and volun- Classifieds 25 Islander Staff Writer teer outrage at the board for not renewing Executive A special meeting of the membership of Care & Director Dr. John Kubisz' contract at the end of September Commentary 8 Rehabilitation of Wildlife will be held Wednesday, Feb. 8, and for dismissing his rehabilitator wife, Debbie. As a Crossword 26 at 1:30 p.m. at the CROW facility on Sanibel-Captiva Police Beat 2 Road. The meeting was demanded by over 30 percent of the result of these actions, two nationally-known board mem- membership (organization by-laws require 25 percent) and bers resigned in protest, following which Office Manager Recreation 20 the purpose of the meeting will be to vote whether or not to Trish Pombo was asked to leave and long-term rehabilitator What's Playing 10 recall the present board of the non-profit rehabilitation cen- Michael Weingart quit. What's Cooking? 17 ter. Please see CROW, page 5 •/**•• . 2 THE ISLANDER Tuesday. Feb. 7.1995 Tuesday. Feb. 7.1995 THE ISLANDER 3 All of the following information came directly from ed in a confrontation. Police were called. However, Sanibel Police Department reports. the problem had been settled by the man being paid POLICE before police arrived. Andy Paul Gunn of Captiva was charged Friday, Sanibei Elementary third graders Feb. 3, with DUI and with failure to stay in his lane. BEAT Thomas Paul Ridicoloso of North Fort Myers was He breathed .111 and .104 on a breath test. Anything charged Jan. 31 with following too closely after being organize annual Arbor Day program over .08 is considered too intoxicated to drive in involved in an accident. Florida. Police said he crossed the double yellow line An intoxicated person was transported by police on Periwinkle Way twice. Feb. 1 to the resort where that person was staying. A condominium owner called from the north Jan. 31 to tell police he was suspicious that the person A motorcycle was found in bushes beside Sanibel- Menes Delva of Fort Myers was charged Feb. 1 who was supposed to be cleaning his condo was liv- Captiva Road Thursday, Feb. 2. Its owner later told with improper passing on Periwinkle Way. ing there. Police and the condominium building man- police he had an accident but was not injured. ager checked the apartment and found it was not Gregory Mark Lindstrom of Cumming, Ga., was being used. Police received a complaint of a man cutting down charged Feb. 1 with violating the stop sign at Tarpon a pine tree on Poinciana Circle Feb. 2. The land on Bay Road and Pine Ridge Road. ! A Sanibel police parking enforcement vehicle had which the pine tree is located might be the common to be towed from mud beside the Nerita Street beach property of residents of the circle. The man was told Jeanne Butler Rice of Sanibel was charged Feb. 1 access Jan. 31. not to do any more cutting until he has the approval with failure to stop at a crosswalk. of the other residents. A woman drove into and broke an electric plastic Vern Willaford Johnson of Big Lake, Minn., was conduit pipe in the Sanibel Police Department park- William Anthony Dore HI of Kawkawlin, Mich., charged Feb. 1 with violation of right of way after ing lot at City Hall Jan. 31. The woman requested was charged with DUI at 3:25 a.m. Feb. 2. He was being involved in an accident at Causeway Road and that she be billed for the repair and that her insurance also charged with violation of the open container law Lindgren Boulevard. company not be notified. and with not using a single lane. Police said he pulled from Periwinkle Way onto Donax Street and, at first, Louis A. Marziliano of Fort Myers was charged Kyriacos Panayis Louca of Bloomfield Hills, was on the wrong side of the road and then pulled Feb. 1 with going 55 mph on Sanibel-Captiva Road. Mich., was charged Jan. 31 with going 67 mph on the over too far and drove partly on the correct side of the Sanibel Causeway. Sanibel Elementary School's third graders organized the 1995 road and partly beside the road. He blew .125 and Christopher B. Luckenbill of Sanibel was charged Arbor Day celebration recently at the school. The ceremony .110 on a breath test. Tuesday, Jan. 31, with DUI and with failure to drive John Thomas Segard of Grandville, Mich., was Included the annual planting of a tree on the school's grounds, in a single lane. Luckenbill refused to take breath charged Monday, Jan. 30, with going 54 mph on guest speakers and other activities. Sanibel Elementary students Carol Ann Cooper of Captiva was charged Feb. 2 tests. Police said he failed field tests including being Sanibel-Captiva Road. James Sprankle and Jenny Herrick, at the forefront in the photo at with going 52 mph on Sanibel-Captiva Road. unable to count to 20 and unable to recite the alpha- left above, present a mint-history lesson based on the time line bet. According to police, he drove off the roadway the children created charting the 1,200-year life span of the Seven Gregory Lee Thomas of Shelbyville, Mich., was Sisters tree from which the 1995 Arbor Day sapling came, Jessa Kenneth J. Reilly of Captiva was charged three times and when signaled to pull over, he put on charged Jan. 30 with going 54 mph on Sanibel- Wednesday, Feb. 1, with failure to maintain a single his left turn signal and pulled over to the right. Sigo, at the podium above, reads her essay to the crowd at the Captiva Road. Arbor Day assembly, Kristina Williams, at left, also reads from her lane on Sanibel-Captiva Road and with driving on a work at the Arbor Day celebration. suspended license. An employee was fired at a Sanibel restaurant Jan. David William Baker of Port St. Lucie was 31. He demanded his pay before leaving. This result- charged Jan. 30 with going 60 mph on the Sanibel Pictures by Robert Thompson Causeway. Fisherman apparently drowns following A wallet was lost on Sanibel Jan. 30. continued from page 1 A Sanibel man reported Jan.