WWW.KEYSNET.COM SATURDAY,JUNE 29, 2013 VOLUME 60, NO. 52 ● 25 CENTS KEY LARGO TRAGEDY ON THE HIGH SEAS Groups split on parks’ use Environmental Protection. Bike trail, More than two dozen peo- FIU facility ple spoke at the open meeting to offer suggestions for updat- are debated ing 10-year management plans at Dagny Johnson Key Largo By KEVIN WADLOW Hammock Botanical State Senior Staff Writer Park and John Pennekamp [email protected] Coral Reef State Park. Several residents endorsed Groups seeking moun- a proposal forwarded by the tain-biking trails and univer- Key Largo Bicycle Association sity research facilities within to allow more two-wheeled Key Largo’s state parks access deeper into the Dagny crossed paths and words with Johnson park. An expanded ardent park defenders at a trail system would provide a Tuesday workshop. healthy outdoor experience “State parks are not land while letting bicyclists escape banks for other state agencies the dangers of riding along or even private develop- U.S. 1, they said. Photo courtesy ASSOCIATED PRESS ment,” Michael Chenowith, “We want to clean up In this undated photo provided by Maritime New Zealand, the ‘Nina’ is tied at dock at an unidentified location. The president of the Keys chapter existing trails.... This is not an last known communication from those aboard was June 4. of the Izaak Walton League, extreme sport,” said Matthew said at the session hosted by the state Department of See Parks, 2A KEYS COMMUNITY COLLEGE Keys family on FKCC knew transfer banned missing schooner itation organization, put the By NICK PERRY 70-foot vessel caught in storm Kings Islands. Rescuers Action leads college on “warning” notice, Associated Press were looking for wreckage to ‘warning’ the first step toward possible between New Zealand and Australia or the life raft. probation and, beyond that, a Rescue crews searching Blakemore said plane for college possible tougher penalty. for a classic American board include captain David said it’s now logical to assume searches earlier this week In March, state auditors schooner carrying seven Dyche, 58, his wife, the 70-foot boat sank in a covered a wide band of ocean By SEAN KINNEY released a report citing the people — including, appar- Rosemary, 60, and their son storm but added that it’s possi- between New Zealand and [email protected] school for using the restricted ently, a Tavernier family — David, 17. Also aboard was ble some crew members sur- Australia. He said searchers money to pay expenses believe the boat sank their friend Evi Nemeth, 73, a vived either in a life raft that were considering their Staff at Florida Keys incurred by the Florida Keys between New Zealand and man aged 28, a woman aged was aboard or by making land. options for the weekend. Community College made College Campus Foundation Australia, although they 18, and a British man aged 35. The day the boat went He said the logical con- the concerted decision to direct-support organization, haven’t given up hope of CBS4 WFOR-Miami missing, a storm hit the area clusion is that the boat sank move $789,000 in restricted which runs the college’s 100- finding survivors. reported that the Dyches are with winds gusting up to 68 rapidly, preventing the crew money to a school foundation bed dorm. A third day of aerial from Tavernier. mph and waves of up to from activating the locator to support its new dorm even To cover $789,000 in col- searches Friday turned up no The state Division of 26 feet. beacon or using other though state regulations lege money sent to the foun- sign of the 85-year-old Corporations shows a David Blakemore said the devices aboard, including a don’t allow it. dation, the college improperly wooden sailboat or its crew. Dyche was president of a Southern Hemisphere winter satellite phone and a spot And that in large part is used state Public Education Named Nina, the boat left now-dissolved company, months tend to produce the beacon. He said that unlike the reason the Southern Capital Outlay funds to bal- New Zealand on May 29 Spartan Caribbean, on Ocala year’s worst storms, although many locator beacons, the Association of Colleges and bound for Australia. The last Drive in Tavernier. It also a he added that he wouldn’t one aboard the Nina is not shows David and Rosemary normally expect a sturdy and Schools, the school’s accred- See FKCC, 2A known contact with the crew activated by water pressure was on June 4. Rescuers were Dyche were officers in the for- well-maintained craft like the and wouldn’t start automati- alerted the boat was missing mer Spartan Underwater Nina to sink in a storm like cally if the boat sank. FATALITY on June 14, but weren’t undu- Technologies in Panama City. the one in early June. Dyche is a qualified cap- ly worried at first because the The leader of Friday’s Friday’s search focused tain, and he and his family emergency locator beacon search efforts, Neville on the coastline around are experienced sailors. had not been activated. Blakemore of New Zealand’s northern New Zealand, The six Americans on Rescue Coordination Centre, including the small Three See Missing, 2A KEYS ELECTIONS Court ruling ‘ripped heart’ out of the law Julie Ebenstein, an attorney covered by Section 5 of the because in the 1970s, ballots Experts say with the American Civil Voting Rights Act, and the were not printed in Spanish, Voting Rights Act Liberties Union in Miami elimination of Section 4 and the percentage of who helped represent then- results in the emasculation Hispanics in Monroe merit- isn’t all dead Monroe County Elections of Section 5. ed the ballots be printed in Supervisor Harry Sawyer in Under Section 5, desig- Spanish as well as English. By LARRY KAHN 2012 in Sawyer’s fight with nated states and local juris- For example, the city of [email protected] Gov. Rick Scott over early dictions have to secure Key West needed to get fed- voting days. Justice Department approval eral approval earlier this year Tuesday’s gutting of a key “People are pretty mad,” before they could change to change how the terms of portion of the Voting Rights said Myrna Perez, deputy any voting practice or proce- its City Commission are Act of 1965 isn’t necessarily director of the Democracy dure. Called preclearance, staggered. It also was needed undoable, experts say. Project at the Brennan that covers everything from when voters were asked if But they also say the U.S. Center for Justice at the New buying new voting machines they wanted a School Board- Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision York University School of and closing polling places to hired superintendent to that Section 4 of the historic Law. “It’s celebrated, it’s a requiring photo IDs and replace the elected superin- law is unconstitutional is one reflection of the promise that shifting district boundaries. tendent model. of the worst setbacks ever in when Americans step into Section 5 applies to juris- Section 4 was the formu- Photo from FACEBOOK/SQUARE GROUPER U.S. election-rights history. the ballot box, they’re free dictions where past voting la under which Section 5 “I think this court will go from discrimination.” practices were determined to jurisdictions were designat- This is the aftermath of a Thursday crash into the Square down in history as the one Section’s 4 strikedown be discriminatory. In the ed. So with a formula no Grouper restaurant on Cudjoe Key in which a 12-year-old that ripped the heart out of affects Keys elections Keys, with a large Hispanic boy died. Story, 2A the Voting Rights Act,” said because Monroe County is population, it was applied See Voting, 2A INDEX Printed on 100% Classifieds . .6B recycled Shade tree newsprint Living . .1B CONTENTS © 2013 In L’Attitudes down Business . .5A KEYNOTER PUBLISHING CO. The Fourth of July is next A massive West Indian Obituaries . .2A Thursday, and we’ve got mahogany is cut down Opinion . .4A all you need to plan your Thursday in the celebration. Story, 4B Upper Keys to make way Sports/Outdoors . .1B for a Dunkin’ Donuts Crossword . .2B 7786790 22222 drive-through. Story, 3A 2A Saturday, June 29, 2013 KeysNet.com Keynoter NEWS BRIEFS Money movement KEYS COMMUNITY COLLEGE So far, no ads within state parks was a choice FKKC only Florida A year ago, Florida law- From FKCC, 1A Atlanta-based entity will makers agreed to allow conduct an on-site compli- school on ‘warning’ advertising on state green- ance out the cost. ance evaluation. If things ways and trails. But some “We had no choice,” aren’t fixed, probation lems aren’t corrected. gressed from warning to pro- proponents of state parks college spokeswoman could come, although ‘It’s serious There are three Florida bation, ultimately having proclaimed Gov. Rick Scott Amber Ernst-Leonard “warning” status could last but fixable,’ schools currently on proba- accreditation revoked. was selling off public land to said. “The decision was for two years before proba- tion: Florida Agricultural and That’s the sad case of the highest bidder and that made consciously.” tion is imposed. Following official says Mechanical University in Morris Brown College in the legislation would dimin- Asked specifically who that can come the revoca- Tallahassee, Florida Christian Atlanta, which lost accredita- ish hiking in serene, unclut- authorized the accounting tion of accreditation. By SEAN KINNEY College in Kissimmee and St. tion in December 2002. It has tered natural habitats.