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p icturesque shell-covered beaches, to the sparkling waters o f the G ulf of Mexico, The Beaches o f Fort Myers & Sanibel continues to excite and inspire vacationers. Fam ily Fun M agazine announced today that Sanibel Island was voted No. 1 overall family vacation destination. The destination has recently received a variety o f awards and accolades from som e o f the travel in d u stry ’s m ost notable publications, which showcase just how special visitors find the area. FamilyFun Magazine: Sanibel Island Tops M ultiple Lists for Fam ilies in Third Annual Travel Awards Sanibel Island was voted as one of the Top 10 Tourist Towns in the U.S., as
well as a Top 10 R egional Destination (the South), and a Top 10 O verall Vacation D estination in the m agazine’s third annual Travel Awards, which surveyed 2 ,0 0 0 parents about their all-tim e favorite U.S. vacation destinations. In the battle for the title o f Best Florida Beach, L over’s Key State Park came in at num ber 10, with the editors noting “the isolated cluster o f islands that make up the park holds unspoiled beaches that birds love as much as sun- w orshippers.” ■ Arthur From m er’s Budget Travel: Fort Myers Beach Voted as One of A m erica’s Coolest Small Towns. ■ Fort M yers Beach made the top 10 list in Arthur Frommer Budget T ravel’s annual “A m erica’s C oolest Sm all Towns” contest, which celebrates the culture, history, natural beauty and old fashioned charm o f sm all towns throughout the U.S. ■ B ow m an’s Beach Crowned Best Beach for Seashells in Florida Editors from the travel guide hub, F o d o r’s T ravel, nam ed B ow m an’s Beach on Sanibel Island the best for shelling in Florida. Letters to the Editor From page 22 immediate interventions for cardiac prob lems. Some of them may be friends. Next time - pray not it could be me. Lee Memorial Health System is the sole provider of cardiothoracic (CT) surgery in Lee County and its CT surgery division is one of the busiest in Florida. It has been a center of excellence for minimally invasive heart surgery and has comprehensive fol low-up programs. But Drs. Paul DiGiorgi and Brian Hummel think it could do better, and have a vision for a new cardiothoracic surgery center that will take the next leap forward in optimizing patient care. On March 13, Darryl Pottorf and Mark Pace of Captiva hosted a gathering at the Robert Rauschenberg house, brought together by their common interest in cardiac care. It included doctors and staff from Lee Memorial, former cardiac patients, philan thropists and community leaders. The goal was to start spreading a vision of the next level of cardiac care, including innovations in techniques and services that improve patient care. This includes increased focus on preoperative measures (“rehabilitation,” not just rehabilitation), and on the integra tion of multiple disciplines to evaluate and minimize risk. Kat Epple, a talented flautist and longtime friend of Bob Rauschenberg and the hosts, played wonderful flute music. The expanded CT Division, to be called the Center of Innovation, will be located in a 10,000+ square foot space at HealthPark and is intended to be the major center for advanced cardiac care in southwest Florida. To achieve the vision, advocates for the cen ter understand that financing must come from non-government sources such as research grants and philanthropy from pri vate investors, corporations and foundations. Our community has stepped up to chal lenges like this in the past. Everyone is invit ed to learn what part they might play in translating this vision to reality. Potential roles include philanthropic gifts and refer ring patents, clinicians and others interested in improving healthcare and surgical servic es. For more information please contact Dr. It's Our Annual Spring Fling Sale! Save An Additional 10 % Off
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The trail rules and common sense require that an audible warning is given before pass ing someone. (A startled trail user can result in an accident). Most trail users will announce “Passing on the Left” before passing. They announce their warning loud enough to be heard and acknowledged BEFORE passing. If there is a group of riders planning to pass, the warn ing should include the number planning to pass. Unfortunately a number of un informed riders believe that their handlebar bells (tinkerbells) provide a warning! The tinkerbell is a toy, not a warning. ■ The bell sound is easily drown out by wind or traffic noises. ■ The sound is non-directional. It could be from a bike in front or behind, or from an area along side the trail. ■ The sound is high pitched, which is difficult to hear for many older persons. ■ The ringing bell does not always indi cate someone plans to pass, nor does it tell you how many plan to pass. Some children enjoy ringing their bell just for fun. A warning must be heard, understood and acknowledged to be a meaningful warn ing. This is not possible with a tinkerbell. A simple verbal warning, before passing, is an appreciated courtesy which prevents acci dents and makes trail travel safe and enjoy able for all. “But I rang my bell” offers little consola tion when you are in a hospital bed recover ing from a crash you caused. Ray Chesner Sanibel Island Project
From page 30 forward in our efforts to restore the Everglades. Moving water south through the Everglades is critical for wildlife, and keeping it out o f the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie Estuaries is vital to protecting these important waterbodies.” The total cost of the 2.6 mile Bridge Phase of the project is estimated to be $144 million. Governor Scott has com mitted up to $30 million/year over three years or $90 million total for this project. In addition to long
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The “KEEP FLORIDA W ORKING” budget also creates a dedicated source o f revenue for Everglades restoration that provides more than $670 million for ecosystem restoration over the next four years and more than $5 billion over the next 20 years. This means that during the Governor’s second term alone, South Florida’s fam ilies will know the state has the ability to fund its share o f the restoration of the Kissimmee River and the construction of the C-43 and C-44 reservoirs - proj ects
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This play is destined for soldout houses the way their “Cabaret” was. “Same Time Next Year” by Bernard Slade is one of my longtime favorites. It was a Tony Award nominee in 1975, and it did win the Drama Desk Award for outstanding new play. I suspect many of you will rem em ber the movie with Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn. What a gem that is.
This feel-good play starts with a delightful, almost whimsical idea. A man and a woman,
strangers, meet
somewhere near
San Francisco, and end up in a one-night stand that will impact their lives forever. What fun it is hear them try to figure out what happened. They are not serial adulterers. And with the joys of live theater, you become very attached to the mess and the delights they get themselves into. Well, the first time was so agreeable, they decide to meet again next year for a romantic time away from their spouses and their children. Both of them really doubting the other one will show up. But show up they do, and the playfulness between them just gets richer and richer. You’ll probably think, as I did, this is Neil Simon at his best. So what happens is that for 24 years they continue to meet. When they do, they always start with two stories each must tell. The stories are about their real wife and real husband. One story is always something mean and ugly their official mate did in the previous year, and one about something particularly sweet, kind and good the mate did. Oh, 1 could feel people in the audience thinking what sto ries would they tell if asked. How truthful can they be? Now the genius of the play is that from year to year the society changes and they change, too. A clever device is that the scene for the next year is introduced by some radio news current to that year. It starts with F.D.R. at the end of World War II. Another year we hear Kennedy. Another time we’re into the Vietnam War, then Nixon resigning, and Gerald Ford assuming the presidency. There’s one about one of the Bushes and Iraq. These audio flashes were done so skillfully they advanced the story, giving it an extra edge of surprise, delight and truth. Those production values stem clearly from the team director Scott Carpenter built. Annette Trossbach, artistic director at The Laboratory Theater of Florida, sur rounds herself with genuine talent, loyal to the mission of what community theater can do. Carpenter really delivered. Hats off, too, to Lois Kuehne who was respon sible for the fully detailed set of the seedy hotel, and also for her superb vintage cos tumes that really painted what was going on in each of the ensuing years the couple comes back to the hotel. The playbill cred its
Rosie DeLeon
and Matthew
DeNoncour for what they brought to the excellent light and sound tech. The cast was perfectly picked. James Recca as George, tall and lanky awk ward and decent, hardly your everyday seducer, wore his role like it was written for him. And the very talented Tammy Richardson who plays Doris had this smile that killed you, and made her Catholic background fit like badly taught Baltimore cate chism. You will see all of that. The two of them together were so good they charmed that audience into one of the loudest standing ovations of the season. Brace yourself for sur prise after surprise. Quit try ing to guess how it’s going to turn out, and get into the shoes o f each of them as they face the guilt and duplicity back home. And the chemistry in that hotel room. There are many touching moments. It’s wrapped in laughter, but it is all real. I ’ll tell you just one of the great moments. It won’t ruin it for you. One year things are bad with both marriages, and Doris gives her best friend the hotel room phone number. George picks up the phone and it’s D oris’s husband. Very aggressively the husband asks, “Who are you?” The tension mounts. George, half pro tecting Doris, honestly explains “I ’ve been Doris’s friend for twenty years.” Trapped in a new commitment to be total ly honest, he adds. “W e’ve met each year at this time.” Those of us in the audience know that Doris has used as an excuse to meet George each year that she was going to a Catholic retreat north of San Francisco. When Doris’s husband yells, “W hat’s your name?” What did George say? You’ll have to go find out for yourself. I urge you to get yourself to the box office as fast as you can, because this is one of the best examples I know of a play that brings a lovely “Feel Good” evening to its audience, but at the same time raises some really important issues to confront that audience. Let’s start with adultery. Or issues about getting old without ever finding yourself or topics about fighting for what you really, really want from a marriage. The talk home in the car was certainly lively.
“Same Time Next Year” runs only until March 28. Tickets will be hard to find. Call the box office, the sooner the better, at (239) 218-0481. Or order on the w ebsite at laboratorytheaterflorida.com. You will be so glad you saw this play. The next attraction at Lab Theater will be “The Diary o f Anne Frank” April 10- May 2. I’m told that some performances of it are already sold out. No wonder. They do exceptionally good work down there at Woodford Avenue where it meets Second Avenue in Ft. Myers. I might see you there. I liked it so much, I'm going try and catch it again!! S id n e y B. S im o n T h e a te r N o te s Keep Sanibel beautiful... Please recycle! Affordable C re m a tio n Options
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■ Panel discussion on issues and action surrounding the South Seas master plan amendment. ■ Review of proposed amendments to the panel bylaws. ■ Discussion of panel priorities. ■ A Captiva Erosion Prevention District update. ■ A Captiva Fire District update. ■ A Hurricane Preparedness and Response Committee update. ■ Other business as necessary. In addition, the panel will hold a public workshop on the Captiva Plan right after the panel meeting, in the same room. This will be an opportunity to review the initial draft language for the plan, which is post ed online at: http://www.captivacommuni- typanel.com/pdfs/021115capPlanUpdate. pdf.
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s T r u l i t e Captiva man to be awarded European country’s highest civilian honor Karel Aster survived WWII horrors, promoted international goodwill By CRAIG GARRETT cgarrett@breezenewspapers.com A Captiva man who survived the horrors of captivity will be honored by a European nation in April for his citizen con duct after time as a prisoner of war, for his contributions to society and the promotion of goodwill. Karel Aster will receive the Gratias Agit award from the Czech Republic April 23 at the Captiva Civic Center. The central European country’s ambassador to the US, Petr Gandalovic, is expected to present the award at a 5 p.m. cer emony. Mr. Aster is from a small village in the former Czechoslovakia but has lived in Illinois and Florida since 1945. He was a Czech national with the US War Department in the 1940s. Mr. Aster’s immediate family will be in Captiva April 23. Two family members on his behalf received the award in the Czech Republic last June. At age 95, Karel Aster wasn’t up for the long trip. Czech authorities, however, “rolled out the red carpet, made is feel like the heroes,” said Michael Murray, whose wife Jenny is Mr. Aster’s grand-daughter. The
Murrays, islanders and others will help honor Karel Aster in Captiva. Karel Aster was a successful shoe wholesaler retired full time to Captiva in the 1990s. As a youth he was sent by a Czechoslovakian shoe company to the US in the 1930s. The award he receives in April is bestowed to those “working for the benefit of the whole society, for the promotion of friend ship among nations and for the promotion of the good name of the Czech Republic in the world,” paperwork released by the Czech Republic states. The award is similar to the US Medal of Freedom. “It’s very nice,” Aster said of the award. Karel Aster came to the world’s attention much like mil lions of others in war. At his release from a Japanese prison er camp near Nagasaki in 1945, at 6 feet tall he weighed 90 pounds, had lost his teeth and the sight in his left eye, all due to malnutrition, beatings and slave labor. Harsh memories, lost comrades and nightmares haunted him for decades, as well.
But in another sense Karel Aster was different. He was n’t a soldier, wasn’t persecuted for race or faith. He was sim ply a young man in the wrong place in the worst time in modem history. He was a Czechoslovakian in the Philippines helping to begin production on behalf of the Bata Shoe Co. The European firm had sent Aster to the US in 1939 after training in shoe manufacturing. His job was to assist in World’s Fair shoe exhibits. Things in the meantime were dissolving with the Nazi government rolling over its neighbors, bullying the world, conjuring new ways to horri fy- Bata in 1940 elected to set up production of leather and canvas shoes in Manila. Aster and other staff shipped over to the Philippines in 1941. In a memoir of his ordeal compiled into “Recollections of My War Years,” Aster wrote: “None of us had any worries or concerns that the war (in Europe) would affect us there. We had full faith that the company management knew what they were doing.” The Czech shoe company, of course, had no clue the Japanese would violate Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, much of the eastern world late 1941. In short order Aster and his shoe company comrades as civilians inducted into the US Department of War were in the custody of Japanese troops, in the small Bataan Peninsula province. He was paraded in CRAIG GARRETT Karel Aster on April 23 will receive the Czech Republic’s highest civilian honor. the so-called Death March, or what the Japanese termed the Victory March. “The first Japanese soldier whom I encountered the next day,” Aster wrote of the May 1942 introduction to an entire ly new and cruel life, “set a bayonet against my chest and yelled ‘PESO. PESO!” probably the only non-Japanese words he knew,” noting the soldiers were pilfering the dead and robbing the living. And that was a high point. From there. Aster’s life devolved into an even darker hole. Over the next three years, he and thousands of others were starved, beaten, left to forage as slave laborers building rail lines, runways or in coal mines, stooping to haul 200- pound beams in 4-foot tunnels. Thousands in custody died from disease, malnutrition, shot for escaping, even murder. Some gave up and succumbed, he wrote in his memoir. Others endured but died aboard transport ships heading to Japan at the war’s end. The ships were torpedoed or bombed by American troops. One of the most striking of Aster’s memories is of the war’s final days. Having survived a 1944 ordeal in the belly of Japanese transport ship with some 700 others, “where we no longer behaved as human beings,” he and his comrades were assembled in the camp just outside Nagasaki. The Japanese commander stepped up to his platform and spoke through a translator to the ragged and starving men. His tone was subdued. “He said that the fighting had stopped, the war was over and that we were all friends again,” Aster wrote. “We returned in silence and relatively good order to our quarters, but we were no longer saluting and bowing to the guards. The war was finally over and ended.” Aster’s memoirs of his captivity were written first in a let ter to his parents in October 1945. He wouldn’t see his Czech family until December 1959. The Russians con trolled the country until 1989. Over the balance of his life. Aster founded and was successful with Karel Aster Shoes, a wholesaler in Chicago. He married in 1961. He retired to See HONOR, page 60 Karel Aster at age 20. Reading their writes There is much left to be read at the Captiva Memorial Library
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‘The Sisters Weiss” by Naomi Regen “In 1950s Brooklyn, sisters Rose and Pearl Weiss grow up in a loving but strict ultra-Orthodox Jewish fam ily, never dreaming of defying their parents or their com munity’s unbending and intrusive demands. Then, a chance meeting with a young French immigrant turns Rose’s world upside down, its once bearable strictures suddenly tightening like a noose around her neck. Defiantly, she begins to live a secret life that shocks her family when it is discovered. Out of guilt and an over whelming desire to be reconciled with those she loves, she finally bows to her parents’ demands that she agree to an arranged marriage. But the night before her wed ding, she commits an act of defiance so unforgivable it will exile her forever from her innocent young sister, her family, and all she has ever known. Forty years later, pious Pearl’s sheltered young daughter Rivka suddenly discovers the truth about the family outcast, her Aunt Rose, now a successful photographer. Inspired, but naive and reckless, she sets off on a dangerous adventure that will stir up the ghosts of the past and alter the future in unimaginable ways for all involved.” * “Death of the Black Yüklə 22,43 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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