FALL BACK Daylight saving time ends Nov. 4 Thursday, November 1, 2012 WWW.APALACHTIMES.COM VOL. 127 ISSUE 27 50¢ xxxxxOut to see Island Lights benefi t Thursday At 6 p.m. today, Sometimes ELECTION 2012 Its Hotter, 112 E. Gulf Beach Drive, St. George Island will host a fundraiser for the annual Island Lights Early voting celebration. A $5 donation per plate is requested. Wine and beer available. Kids and strong as dogs on leashes welcome. For information, call 927-5039. Oyster roast election Friday night The eighth annual nears Downtown Oyster Roast on Water Street in Apalachicola By DAVID ADLERSTEIN will be 6-9 p.m. Friday, DAVID ADLERSTEIN | The Times 653-8894 | @ApalachTimes Nov. 2, sponsored by the King Retsyo Smokey Parrish and Miss Florida Seafood Christina Collins. Dadlerstein@starfl .com Apalachicola Bay Chamber of Commerce. Dinner features Franklin County has oysters, soup, shrimp, blue echoed the voting patterns of the rest of Florida with a crabs, salad and desserts. strong show of early voting. Joe Hutchinson will provide A queue of registered vot- live blues. For tickets, call ers greeted Supervisor of 653-9419 or email info@ ‘A WAY OF LIFE’ Elections Ida Elliott on Sat- apalachicolabay.org. urday at the Apalachicola of- 49th Florida fi ce as early voting began. A Big Lanark yard sale total of 289 voters cast their ballots that day, 150 in Apala- Saturday Seafood Festival chicola and 130 at the Carra- The Ladies Guild of Sacred belle annex. Heart Church, 2653 U.S. 98, this weekend On Sunday, the numbers Lanark Village, will have its declined to 76 in Apalachicola annual yard sale Saturday, By DAVID ADLERSTEIN and 40 in Carrabelle, but they Nov. 3, beginning at 8 a.m. 653-8894| @ApalachTimes picked right back up on Mon- with coffee and goodies. Brats dadlerstein@starfl .com day, when 134 cast ballots in and hot dogs served for lunch. Apalachicola and 105 in Car- Just one year shy of its golden Thousands of items for sale, rabelle. On Tuesday, 114 voted anniversary, this weekend’s 49th in Apalachicola and 61 in Car- and there will be a 50/50 annual Florida Seafood Festival is drawing. rabelle, bringing the total up going to light up Apalachicola like through Tuesday afternoon never before. to 818, 474 in Apalachicola Boston Butt “We expect it to be one of the and 344 in Carrabelle. best,” said John Solomon, presi- “Everything’s running sale Saturday dent of the nonprofi t that oversees ERIC WELCH | Special to the Times smoothly,” Elliott said. Thomas Lee and crew will the affair. “It’s shaping up to be Lee Brice will headline this weekend’s Seafood Festival with Early voting runs through cook Boston butts at C- a very good one. There’s a lot of Saturday, Nov. 3, in Apala- Quarters Marina in Carrabelle growth and interest this year in the a performance Saturday evening. chicola and in Carrabelle, on Saturday, Nov. 3. Sale festival.” with the choice of president starts at 8 a.m. A donation of As proof of his assertion, Solo- highlighting the ballot. Those $20 helps support the many mon cited Saturday evening’s who want to vote early can charities supported by the headline entertainment, country Brice’s music easy to love do so in Apalachicola or Car- American Legion. Come early star Lee Brice, whose hit song rabelle annex, from 8:30 a.m. before they’re all gone. “Hard to Love” has reached No. 1 By DAVID ADLERSTEIN to say I can get to the woods if I to 5:30 p.m. today and Friday, on Billboard’s country chart. 653-8894 | @ApalachTimes can fi nd time. Just being home, and 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Two days before he steps on dadlerstein@starfl .com just getting home and being Saturday. Trinity seafood stage, Brice will be at the Country there for a few days, and being Elliott said she doesn’t luncheon Saturday Music Awards, striding the red car- It’s going to be a busy week- at the house, my stress kind of expect Saturday to do much pet with his fi ancée as he waits to Trinity Episcopal Church will end for Lee Brice, starting to- decompresses.” business in Apalachicola, learn whether he will take home night with the Country Music Back home in Nashville, Lee with the parade fi lling up host a seafood luncheon from the honor of being selected Best 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Awards. has the chance to spend fam- downtown sidewalks. “We’ll New Artist of the Year. be here,” she said. “I think Nov. 3. For information, call Which is probably why he ily time with his fi ancée, Sara But more than even music, burnt off some steam last Thurs- Reeveley, and their 4-year-old everybody’s going to have 617-899-4457. the festival is about the rich, and day before his concert at Cain’s son, Takoda. “I want him to have one thing on their mind, and stressed, bounty from the sea Ballroom, a classic cowboy club a stable thing at home; stabil- that’s the festival. There’s go- Plein air painting that has made Franklin County in Tulsa, Okla. He had dragged ity is a big thing for kids,” Lee ing to be a lot of traffi c. They workshop Nov 8-10 renowned. some mats in from his tour bus said. “My little boy requires a lot, may do well in Carrabelle, I Selected as King Retsyo this to do a little jiu-jitsu and boxing so when I’m there, I have to be don’t know.” Plein Air artist Bill year is County Commissioner exercise. there. Elliott said she expects Farnsworth will hold a Smokey Parrish, and he’ll be es- “My stresses have to be pri- “Luckily this thing doesn’t the county to see an 80 to 85 three-day painting workshop corting his queen, Franklin County oritized,” said Lee, a 33-year-old happen overnight. I’ve been able percent turnout, bettering Nov. 8-10 at Apalachicola’s High School senior Christina Col- country singer-songwriter on to slowly adjust to this,” said Lee, the 79.3 percent turnout four History, Culture and Arts lins, the student-athlete selected course for a remarkable break- whose second album “Hard 2 years ago. The county has Center. For information, call from among robust competition at out year, playing more than 200 Love” was released in April and 7,451 registered voters, of 617-899-4457. an August pageant for the honor of tour dates across the country, already has spawned the plati- these 4,986 Democrats, 1,753 Miss Florida Seafood. including an 8 p.m. concert Sat- num hit “A Woman Like You” and Republicans and 712 either xxxxx Index Collins, daughter of Cindy Col- urday night in Apalachicola to the gold “Hard To Love.” unaffi liated or with other lins and Johnny Collins, has plans to highlight the 49th annual Florida “I’ve done a lot of things, been parties, according to the su- Opinion . .A4 study mathematics at Florida State Seafood festival. on the road for seven years,” he pervisor of elections website, Society . A12 “I try to separate music from home,” he said. “I’m always one Faith . A13 See FESTIVAL A10 See BRICE A11 See VOTING A8 Outdoors . A14 Tide Chart . A14 Sports . A15 Classifi eds . A17-A19 Former Apalachicola sailor missing at sea xxxxxContact Us By LOIS SWOBODA of “Treasure Island” and “Pi- the ship were aware of,” Simo- 653-1819 | @ApalachTimes rates of the Caribbean: Dead nin said. Phone: 850-653-8868 lswoboda@starfl .com Man’s Chest.” The vessel left Connecticut Web: apalachtimes.com The Bounty, which since has on Thursday with a crew of 11 E-mail: dadlerstein@starfl .com The Coast Guard is search- acted as a training vessel and men and fi ve women, ranging Fax: 850-653-8036 ing off the Carolinas for a for- museum, is owned by New York in age from 20 to 66. Everyone Circulation: 800-345-8688 mer Apalachicola sea captain businessman Robert Hansen. aboard knew the journey could who was swept off the deck of a According to a Facebook page be treacherous. tall ship by Hurricane Sandy. for the ship, Walbridge was try- “This will be a tough voy- Robin Walbridge, 63, is the ing to skirt the outer edge of age for Bounty,” read a posting captain of the 180-foot, three- Hurricane Sandy to safe har- on the ship’s Facebook page masted schooner HMS Bounty, bor in St. Petersburg. showing satellite images of the DEADLINES FOR NEXT WEEK: a replica built from the plans of In a press conference Mon- storm. School News & Society: 11 a.m. Friday the original 18th century wood- day, Tracie Simonin, director of She began to sink at around JERRY PARISI | Special to the Times Real Estate Ads: 11 a.m. Thursday en ship in Nova Scotia to use in the HMS Bounty Organization, 6:30 p.m. Sunday, about 90 miles Legal Ads: 11 a.m. Friday Robin Walbridge was swept fi lming “Mutiny on the Bounty” said the ship tried to stay clear southeast of Cape Hatteras. Classifi ed Display Ads: 11 a.m. Friday overboard the HMS Bounty by with Marlon Brando in 1962. It of Sandy’s power. “It was some- Classifi ed Line Ads: 5 p.m. Monday Hurricane Sandy and remains missing. later also appeared in a version thing that we and the captain of See MISSING A8 A2 | The Times Local Thursday, November 1, 2012 LOIS SWOBODA | The Times MUSEUM OF FLORIDA HISTORY LOIS SWOBODA | The Times Above, according to Don Ashley, this open area was once fi lled with cypress markers now just a dim memory.