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' :\i:»h,;i «;.•:(/ I'bttltr.V . - ; Dave Horton i'.m inm-ui -if 7 IfUmJ :iui:u> .9 by Laura Xickeivt'n Arts & Leisure 12 Theutre lie.view 12 Vat I.atly Sings...Again ^F by Laura Xickersnn Center Stage /•/ Lee by Marsha Wagner Horton Island Scene 20 A season of hurricanes By Karen Nelson Periwinkle on my way to the Islander office, with the team have done a superlative job of guiding Sanibel Managing Editor angled shafts of light gilding the soft needles and along the road to recovery. thick, gnarled trunks of the sentinel pines. Yet... even as I write this, a new breed of monster It's Wednesday morning. Before leaving for work, I Now, with each foray down Periwinkle, the slashed machine (photo on page 19) is clamping, cutting and turned on the TV and the weather forecast showed red stumps catch the eye like sandpaper. The naysay- picking up the pines on Tarpon Bay Road, laying them Hurricane Ivan projected for a dead hit in this area, ers were proven right: the trees fell — following the aside like so much kindling. give or take 350 miles. Here we go, again. worst-case scenario — taking out power lines and ren- The enemy isn't Charley and it isn't the City of , Latest coordinates, forecast track and cone of dering roads impassable. Tangled webs of uprooted Sanibel, aggressively stepping in to eradicate "the opportunity... hurricane forecasting terminology has sand and pavement are testament to their tenuous hold Australian pine nemesis." The enemy is.our belief that become part of our daily lingo. I'm afraid to restock on these barrier islands. we can prevail against the hard-earned wisdom of the freezer and I've kept my stores of water, batteries Sanibel is defined by far more than pine trees, but in nature. and candles on (or near) the kitchen counter. this season of stress, I claim the right to mourn my In photos of the islands before the invasion of I'm tired of seeing tree-cutting trucks and tree-cart- loss. We are nest builders, at heart, carefully shaping Australian pines and pepperberry, the terrain is flat ing trucks. I'm tired of dismembered trees. The each part of our world to our own comfort level. and scrubby; old-timers say that you could see from destruction came from Charley, not from the hundreds Nature has shattered this sense of security, and each the Gulf to the bay. This lush tropical paradise that we of workers steadfastly working to clear the wounded drive down Periwinkle reaffirms this. Periwinkle Way have created in a harsh, barrier island environment is roadsides, and I am grateful that they are here. I know will again become a beautiful roadway, but it will be a an illusion, an achievement of will and the assump- it will look better when everything is cleared, and the different kind of beauty. The sentinels have fallen. tions that water is unlimited and the forces of nature replanting can begin. By then, storm-stripped palms, One of the businesses near the Islander office care- can be controlled. gumbo limbos, sea grapes and strangler figs will be fully boarded up the windows for Charley and Frances. As we have so humbly learned, water is precious sprouting new growth. After Frances, with Ivan looming, they only unboard- and hurricanes bow to no man. I will be so relieved The damage wrought by Charley to the north of us ed the door and one window and left the rest of the when this season of hurricanes ends. — and Frances to the east of us — is worthy of a feel- plywood in place. ing of doom. I feel guilty about being so saddened by Many of us are walking around in a daze, yet we downed trees, roof damage and missing pool cages. I have found a deeper strength. Neighbors have found feel that I need to qualify every moan about lost vege- neighbors. Crews from-around the country poured in • tation with the proviso that we were the lucky ones (as with ice, water, hot food, roof tarps, equipment, tools indeed we were). But one of the deep pleasures, for and skills to help with the clean-up. FEMA and SERT INTERNAL me, of being on Sanibel was that morning drive down set up operations quickly. Judie Zimomra and her able MEDICINE Pick Up L>[. 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Kiwanian Roger we hate to wish at her home on Gunnerfeldt's Tuesday morn- another group ill 01 Church Street in ing Bible study group has can- hypothesize thai Brownville, celled its meetings temporarily, Roger has given up Maine on August so he has been able to rejoin us on us, it sure is 29, 1929, a- a t good to have Roger daughter of the Kiwanis. back. Privately late Flora Ladd Roger had some offered a and Roland been the prayer for baAboved : Kiwanians had a good turnout at an undisclosed location to Stubbs, Sr. She club's weather. hear United Way president, Cliff Smith (right), who noted that graduated, from pastor and And speaking of storm hardships will be with us for months. Weymouth High prayer good works, our School in spinner complained that their lips were Czech — Juanita Platner speaker last week was Clifford so tired they couldn't finish, It who was Massachusetts in for years W. Smith, president of the until our was perfect for this group and recently 1947 and was employed for many years at United Way of Lee County. for the occasion. installed as the Granite Trust Bank in Quincy, The Rev. Roger change of Cliff, mercifully, broke with Gunnerfeldt meeting Cliff's real purpose in com- L t . Massachusetts. tradition and did not show his Governor generic video about the many ing was to be sure we knew to In 1963 she married Nelford J. Platner, as_^ an excellent cook. For years call 211 twenty-four hours a for the 15 Jr. who survives her. They have lived in strengths and needs of the clubs in she collected seashells on United Way — although day for information and refer- Kingfield and wintered on Sanibel since Sanibel beaches and arranged ral to health and social ser- L e e .that time. "Neet" was actively involved in Charley and Frances have County — them artistically into a variety magnified both.