INDEX What's Going On Around The Islands Page 8C Sft Mailbox art Play baU! Few islanders Ladies' softball $$•'.- •• '•.'',•,'''.-.'.;:£*• •'•.y::-i^.VJS&'Vfi?:^?!; utilize ordinary season begins •bill with tourney 9B 1961-1990 Still first on Sanibel and Captiva VOL. 29, NO. 10 TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1990 .THREE SECTIONS, 56 PAGES 50 CENTS 1990 Shell Fair called 'best ever* Thousands attend annual island event Ann Travelstead Islander staff writer Blessed by beautiful weather, aided by hard-working volunteers and with displays of thousands of shells in 88 categories, the 53rd annual Sanibel Shell Fair drew thousands of visitors, March 1 through 4. In addition to competitive categories, the Live Shell Tank, manned by 5th grade students from Sanibel Elementary School, and the Driftwood Shop, featuring hand-crafted shell items, helped swell shettfair income. , A^gyuat,.raffle a»4 ^busy ^refxeshojeat < $taad.A also,, contributed to profits, according to Margaret Thorsen. According to Thorsen, who served with Mili Backus, Dorothy Putnam and Jean Hallstead as the four directors of the 1990 Shell Fair, this year's event was the "best ever." Co-sponsors of the annual event were the Sanibel Community Association, with Doris Platt, president, and the Sanibel-Captiva Shell Club with Anne Joffe, president. Trophy and award winners learned of their success at a preview Wednesday evening, prior to the opening of the fair at 9 a.m., Thursday, March 1. (Island award winners are listed in bold face type.) Shell Fair goers check out the displays inside the Sanibel Community Association. Special Judges Awards went to Lucille Green, of Houston in Class 16, and Jean Highsmith in Class Strus. Commercial Division Trophies were awarded as 32. Shell Club Trophy, Vi Herweck. follows: Trpphy-winners in the Artistic Division were: Bettie McGowan Memorial Trophy, Viola Strus. Myrtle Williams Weinstein Perpetual Trophy, Viola Daniel F. Malone Memorial Trophy, Ian Jobe. Please see SHELL FAIR, page 8A City makes first bid for CARL funding By Frances Adams Wetlands Resource Conservation Sanctuary proposal in Erick Lindblad and Councilman Mark "Bird" Westall made Islands^ staff writer Tallahassee last Friday afternoon, March 2. the oral presentation to the Lands Acquisition Advisory Seq^K to receive state funds to acquire sensitive lands, Bill Mills, assistant to the city manager, Sanibel- Council of the Department of Natural Resources, the SanibeTmade the first public presentation of its Interior Captiva Conservation Foundation Executive Director agency responsible for selecting projects to receive funding from its Conservation and Recreation Lands (CARL) Acquisition Program. Kain announces Sanibel's trio had a lot ofjnformation to wedge into a short period, and the allotted 10-minute presentation time for each of the 56 applicants was strictly adhered to, according to Mills. The other presentations ranged from council candidacy basic, good-old-boys' small-scale projects to elaborate, By Frances Adams video-tapes of projects involving thousands of acres. Islander staff writer Mills said the board appeared to be familiar with Wallace M. Kain, president of Care and .Rehabilitation Sanibel's land acquisition program and Surface Water - of Wildlife, formally announced his intent to run for a seat Management Plan, and expressed interest in the .25 mill on the City Council in the November 1990 election. Kain tax the city has enacted for land acquisition. /- ' ' * filed his Declaration of Intent to Seek Office with Sanibel Mills said the selection committee will make its yi; \ '-• Finance Director Renee Lynch last Friday, March 2. y decision Monday, March 12, as to whether Sanibel's Kain, 61, has been an island activist since he took early project will be selected to receive the full CARL review > • ; retirement from his job as an AT&T intellectual property and assessment, which will be a year-long, ongoing attorney and settled here six years ago with his wife, Joan, evaluation and priority ranking process, which involves an C after having visited the islands since 1975. intensive analysis of the proposed projeet's natural 'if "We're boat people, very water-oriented," he said. That attributes, vulnerability and endangerment. To progress, a and his long standing interest in wildlife and photography project must receive the approval of four of the six proriipted him to join CROW as a volunteer. members of the committee. By the end of 1990, Sanibel will know whether it is on the final prioritized list of Wally Kain Please see KAIN, page 12A projects seriously under consideration for funds. All the following information was taken directly from Sanibel Police Department reports. DC POLICE Ui Last Tuesday, a Jeep caught fire on Periwinkle Way. A BEAT .« in Fort Myers and brought him back to their Sanibe Z fuel line had broken in the Jeep belonging to Ricke Allan apartment. The man, who was drunk, had become loud ant! < Goode of Fort Myers. The Sanibel Fire Department was abusive. The two women threw him out and he threatened called and put out the fire. to come back and damage their apartment. Police searched garage at Lindgren Boulevard and East Gulf Drive and the neighborhood of the apartment but could not find the I A 74-year-old Yarmouth, Maine, woman fell off her dragged .it from its parking space into the middle of the man. bicycle last Tuesday on West Gulf Drive and was garage. Somebody with bare feet then stood on the bumper to disengage it. There was a power outage Sunday in the area around discovered by a passerby lying on the ground. She was Sanibel-Captiva Drive and Pine Tree Drive. taken to Lee Memorial Hospital for treatment. An Indiana woman left her purse under the seat of her Police received complaints Sunday of a mullet ID A license tag was stolen last Tuesday from a vehicle car at the Sanibel Fishing Pier parking lot Thursday and discovered it was gone when she returned. The woman said fisherman blocking a waterway with his nets. He was told parked at the Casa Ybel resort. The car belonged to an by police to move his nets. f Ashville, N.C., man. the car had been locked when she left and was still locked when she returned. * A Periwinkle Way business had a car towed away Friday Jeffrey Lee Pendlebury, 18, of Fort Myers, was charged A 71-year-old man rode his bicycle to Bailey's General that was blocking his parking spaces. The car's owner with possession of alcohol by a person under 21 years of Store Thursday, went in to buy something, came back out later threatened to wrap the $45 towing bill around a brick age and with possession of marijuana last Thursday. and his bicycle was gone. and send it to the store owner in the middle of the night Police saw him parked near the weigh station on the through one of the windows of his store. Police checked Sanibel Causeway and, when they went to his car to check James OUie Byron, who works on Sanibel, was arrested the area during the night. on it, noticed an open bottle of beer. After he was arrested Thursday on a bench warrant for failure to pay fines. He on the under-age charge, police found several marijuana had been stopped on Sanibel-Captiva Road for having an A Sanibel resident trying to launch a Jet Ski at cigarette butts in his ashtray. expired tag and an altered tag decal. of Bailey Road Friday was told by police it was ^^ place to launch a boat. They also told the man he would A rented 1990 Chrysler was damaged Thursday when an A woman visiting Sanibel called police early Monday" need a Florida boat registration to operate the Jet Ski. unknown vehicle hooked bumpers with it in a parking to report that her roommate had picked up a man in a bar When the man put the Jet Ski back on his trailer, police told him to get a Florida tag for his trailer. A North Fort Myers woman was bitten Friday by a sheepdog tied to the railing in front of a store in Jerrys "Where all the good fish meat!' "Elaine f. Cherry, <Ph. <D. Shopping Center. 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