COMMUNITY CALENDAR: Ongoing and Upcoming Events, PAGE 4 Fairhope Arts & Crafts Festival PAGE 7-8 Shorinji Kempo The Islander PAGE 22 INSIDE MARCH 14, 2018 | GulfCoastNewsToday.com | 75¢ Police in Orange Beach urge Spring Hangout Festival Breakers to party responsibly permit SUBMITTED maintain order and continue to • Have a good time. comes before provide a safe, enjoyable experi- • Take your trash with you. Attention 2018 Spring Break ence for all visitors. • Remember to “Leave Only City Council Orange Beach guests: The Orange Beach Police If you are looking for a party Footprints.” Police promotions Department welcomes all guests town, the City of Orange Beach to the City of Orange Beach is not it. DO NOT: By CRYSTAL COLE Orange Beach Police Chief for Spring Break. Our city is a Underage drinking, illegal • Sleep in your car or on the [email protected] Joe Fierro announced beautiful, family-oriented beach drug use, disorderly conduct or beach. three promotions during resort community. Over the past any other breach of the peace • Have glass containers on the Going into its ninth the City Council meeting two years, we have experienced will not be tolerated. If you beach. year, the Hangout Music Tuesday, Feb. 20. He intro- increases in underage drinking, choose to violate the law, you • Dig large holes on the beach or Festival will look to incor- duced Cpl. Josh Watkins, disorderly conduct and illegal will go to jail. have steel shovels. porate changes made to Sgt. Rodney Kirchharr and drug use during Spring Break. THIS IS YOUR WARNING. • Have alcohol on State beaches. the Gulf Place area into Lt. John Simonson to the The Orange Beach Police • Climb or jump from balconies. its concert experience this Department will utilize all avail- DO: year. council. For more informa- able resources at our disposal to • Be respectful of other guests. SEE POLICE, PAGE 2 At a recent City Council tion on the promotions, see work session, the City of page 39. Gulf Shores considered the festival’s permit appli- cation for the 2018 event. Annual Art Festival in Orange Beach The dates this year will be May 17-25 with a maxi- mum asking capacity of 40,000 people. The organizers will be able to use the site for a couple of weeks prior to the festival for prepping and taking delivery of equipment, but they insist the beach will be usable Painting donation for most of the build and Susan N. McCollough, a that the setup will not Gulf Shores-based abstract interfere with the much anticipated NCAA volley- expressionist, has donated ball championship. Recre- a 9-foot-by-8-foot triptych ation and Cultural Affairs painting, “Gulf Ever- Director Grant Brown Changing,” to the Dauphin said the city was excited Island Sea Lab. The paint- for the festival. ing was unveiled Feb. 16. To “It gets better every sin- see more, jump to page 3. gle year,” Brown said. “We get more efficient as well, PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE CITY OF ORANGE BEACH so it’s better each time.” The 44th Annual Orange Beach Festival of Art this weekend at Waterfront Park and the neighboring Coastal Art Cen- Mayor Robert Craft said ter of Orange Beach was a smash, despite being rained out Sunday. For more than 40 years, the Festival of Art has he know there are seg- DEATHS PAGE 20 been our island’s first rite of spring. It is a celebration of visual, performing, musical and culinary arts. With more ments of the community than 100 artists working in a dazzling variety of medias, festival-goers always have plenty to see, hear, touch, taste who worry about this and experience. This fine arts festival is completely free with music and entertainment featured on two stages. Fred H. Kichler event. Steve Bohus Malec “People come down here and they’re in costume and you look at them and they’re having fun,” Craft said. “You don’t realize INDEX they’re young profes- BALDWIN LIVING, 7 sionals. These are not 15 or 18-year-olds. They’re CLASSIFIED, 5 college graduates; they’re HEALTH, 22 high-level degree folks, and they’re having a good LEGALS, 25 time. These are good qual- OPINION, 11 ity people.” Also discussed at the OUT & ABOUT, 23 meeting were: PUZZLES, 10 -Accepting a proposal from Volkert, Inc. to per- SPORTS, 13 TV LISTINGS, 16 SEE HANGOUT, PAGE 2 Gulf Coast Media VOLUME 42 • ISSUE 12 1 SECTION • 40 PAGES 2• The Islander • March 14, 2018 • Gulf Coast Media Coast Guard Auxiliary boating safely course April 14 The gateway to a boating license SUBMITTED rules, chart reading and navigation, docking tech- Flotilla 3-10 (Ala- niques, and knot tying. bama South Coast) of The minimum age for the United States Coast enrollment is 12 years. Guard Auxiliary will The course will be from conduct a class on safe 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The fee boating Saturday, April is $35 per individual or 14, at the Orange Beach $50 for two family mem- Community Center. Suc- bers sharing a book. The cessful completion of fee provides a textbook, this course meets the ed- instructional materials, ucational requirement to lunch and refreshments. obtain a boating license Registration is required. in Alabama and other Contact Malcolm states. Chase at malinmo@ Course content in- yahoo.com or (251) 284- cludes boating terminol- 1461 to register. Informa- ogy, safe and practical tion is also available on boating procedures, the Coast Guard Auxil- safety equipment, boat- iary website www.cgaux. ing laws, navigation org. SUBMITTED PHOTO Who’s in town? Pictured are students becoming better and safer boaters at one of the recent classes. A look at what schools are on spring break this week: HANGOUT awarded a grant through for local wildlife. The City of a comprehensive habi- MARCH 12-16: University of Mississippi The National Fish and will manage the property tat management plan. CONTINUED FROM 1 State of Iowa (K-12) University of North Texas Wildlife Foundation’s for passive recreational • Annexation of a lot State of Texas (K-12) University of South Carolina (NFWF) for the acquisi- opportunities for the owned by Amy Faulken- Tuscaloosa City Schools University of Southern form habitat mapping and tion and conservation public, and will support berry and Kerry & Bev- (Alabama) (K-12) Mississippi functional assessments in of 836 acres of natural environmental education erly Hicks in Martyn Montgomery County University of Tennessee an amount not to exceed wetlands around the con- programs in the area. Woods Phase II. Upon Schools (Alabama) (K-12) University of Texas $72,000.00 on 836 acres fluence of the Bon Secour This proposal will con- annexation of lot 92 State of Mississippi (K-12) University of West Florida of property acquired as River and Oyster Bay. Pro- duct baseline surveys and all properties within State of Missouri (K-12) Auburn University part of the NFWF-funded tection and preservation functional assessments to Martyn Woods Phase 2 State of Tennessee (K-12) Troy University Bon Secour/Oyster Bay of this property will have map the various habitat will be annexed and the Indiana State University University of Alabama Wetland Acquisition Proj- significant impacts on types on the property as home owners associa- Mississippi State University University of Alabama at ect. The City has been water quality and habitat part of the development tion will have the ability Texas A&M Birmingham to petition the City to Southern Methodist accept the streets for University MARCH 19-23: maintenance. Texas Christian University State of Missouri (K-12) • Rezoning 82 acres from Texas Southern University State of Arkansas (K-12) General Business (BG) Florida State University State of Wisconsin (K-12) zoning to Single Family University of Louisville Arkansas State University Residential (R-1-5) in Texas State University Georgia Tech order to develop a 194 Texas Tech University University of Arkansas lot single family subdi- University of Georgia Faulkner University vision. The property is University of Houston Coastal Alabama located at 20876 County University of Kentucky Community College Road 8 and is immedi- ately east of Crimson Ridge Subdivision. The traffic study indicates The Islander no significant impacts are expected to the ex- 901 N. McKenzie St., Foley, AL 36535-3546 isting roadways and in- tersections as a result of PHONE: (251) 943-2151 | FAX: (251) 943-3441 the buildout of this sub- [email protected] division. 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