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Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission announced that Florida passed 1 million registered recreational vessels across the state. That’s in part due to more people calling Florida home and more vessels on the water. Miami-Dade leads the way in registered vessels with 74,622 followed by Pinellas County, 53,867.

As Key West marks 200 years as a U.S. territory, artist Mario Sanchez’s ‘Morning Gossip’ wood carving celebrates a bygone island era. See page 10. GALLERY ON GREENE/Contributed

CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL RETURNS TO KEY WEST THE BASILICA SCHOOL TO ADD 9TH & 10TH GRADES IN FALL 2023 MANDY MILES mandy@keysweekly.com

Catholic high school will return to Key West in 2023, answering the requests (and prayers) of several local parents and families who long have wanted their child’s Catholicschool education at The Basilica School of St. Mary Star of the Sea to continue beyond eighth grade. The Basilica High School will become a reality for the 2023-2024 school year, Principal Robert Wright announced on March 21. Currently offering pre-school (starting at age 3) through eighth grade, the Basilica School will add grades 9 and 10 in August 2023. “The last graduating class of Mary Immaculate High School was in 1986,” Wright told the Keys Weekly on March 22. “The school closed because of declining enrollment. Our enrollment increased 100% between 2013-2019. We have been at capacity with a waiting list since then.” The Basilica High School will be the only Catholic high school in Monroe County, and plans to offer enrollment to students in Key West and the Lower Keys, he said. Continuing the tradition of the current, fully accredited school, the new high school will offer students dual enrollment and advanced placement courses, the latest technology, and the most popular extracurricular activities, clubs and sports programs, Wright said. “With an anticipated/expected enrollment of approximately 180 students by year three, the vision is to keep classes small, and to do small well,” he said, adding that

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scholarship programs, available through Step Up for Students, will keep costs affordable for all families. “As valued in Catholic tradition, our new Basilica High School will continue to provide academic excellence to our community’s adolescents, while encouraging intellectual curiosity and the pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty,” Wright said. “People are hungry for purpose, for truth, for beauty in life. Whether you’re religious or not, our hearts desire this – and we want to nurture in our children a sense of purpose,” he added. “We want young people who are kind, compassionate, people of strong integrity. We want children who desire virtue over vice. A Catholic school must first be Catholic above all other things, including academics, athletics and such. When a Catholic school embraces this identity, the ethos of the school becomes one of peace and generosity. And from that, we have classrooms that are more conducive to learning, we have athletes that compete for a greater purpose than self-glory and we have a community that seeks the wellbeing of the other before self. Key West is a community that deeply cares about its neighbors.

Perhaps it’s in the water – either way, I believe at its core, we have a community that desires virtue and our school stands to offer this.” Local architect Bill Horn will redesign the Basilica School’s old auditorium into a 17,500-square-foot academic facility. The school will launch a capital campaign, called From Start to Finish, in the coming weeks. “St. John Paul II said that the mission of Catholic education is to preach Christ to the world. Our faith is the cornerstone of all that we do here,” said Wright. “Many parents, whether or not they deem themselves religious, want their children to possess faith-based values: charity, kindness, compassion and a solid work ethic. They want them to be persons of high integrity, and so do we. We work hard to plant seeds of virtue in our young people, and I am glad we’re taking the next step to continue nurturing the growth of those values through the critical teen years.” For more information or to support the capital campaign, contact Wright at principal@basilicaschool. com.

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TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME CONCHS HIT A WINNING WEEKEND

he Key West Conchs started their spring break with a pair of wins and a weekend sweep against a tough Bishop Verot Vikings team from Fort Myers. The wins lifted the Conchs to a 6-2 start on the young season. The Vikings came into Key West with only one loss, but left with two more. They headed home with a 7-3 record. The Conchs continued their spring break by traveling to Miami on March 21 to take on St. Thomas Aquinas. They’ll be home for the Key West Invitational Tournament Thursday through Saturday, March 24-26 at Rex Weech Field. FRIDAY NIGHT, MARCH 18 The Conchs came out on top with a 3-1 win against the Bishop Verot Vikings. Key West’s 3rd and 4th hitters led the way for the Conchs. To start things off, three-hole hitter Trevor Zuelch nailed a double to center field in the bottom of the first inning. He was knocked in by a line drive double from clean-up hitter Preston Herce, putting the Conchs on top 1-0 in the bottom of the first. Anthony Lariz, who walked in his earlier at-bat and advanced to third on a single to right field by Noah Burnham, scored on a balk by Vikings pitcher Aidan Knaak in the bottom of the third. Herce went 2-2 during the game, knocking in 2 of the 3 runs for the Conchs. He put the game out of reach by tripling in the bottom of the 5th inning on a beautiful line drive to deep right-center field that scored Zuelch again with the third and final run of the game for the Conchs. Zuelch went 2-3 with two doubles, touching home twice for the Conchs. Wyatt Kuhn also had a multi-hit game, hitting two singles, including an impressive bunt down the third base line. Sam Holland closed out the offense for the Conchs with a pinch-hit single in the bottom of the 6th inning.

The Key West Conchs had a winning weekend, defeating the Bishop Verot team from Fort Myers on March 18 and 19. CAROLINE SMITH/Keys Weekly

Key West played a solid and error-free defense while turning one double play in the top of the second inning. Catcher Noah Burnham also interrupted a steal in the first inning. The Conchs’ pitching was strong. Starting pitcher Andris Barroso took the win. He allowed 4 hits with one run, striking out two, and walking none in five innings of work. Jacob Burnham threw two innings of relief, earning the save. He struck out 3 and allowed 1 hit and 3 walks. SATURDAY NIGHT, MARCH 19 The Conchs capped off their winning weekend with a thrilling two-out, come-from-behind victory against the Vikings with a 4-3 win. Hits were tough to come by on Saturday night for the Conchs. The top three batters in Key West’s lineup accounted for four of the Conchs’ six hits. Kai Smith, Noah Burnham, and Zuelch

all singled, while Noah Burnham did it twice. Jack Haggard and Barroso also singled for the Conchs. Key West was down 3-1 heading into the bottom of the final inning. A leadoff walk to Noah Burnham set the tone as Viking pitchers would walk a total of six Conch hitters in the inning. With two outs and runners on first and second, the Vikings walked four straight Key West hitters. The winning run scored when Barroso took ball four on a 3-1 count, bringing Anden Rady home for the victory. Felix Ong was strong on the hill, getting the start for the Conchs. He scattered four hits over five frames while striking out nine Viking batters. Marlin Takovich got the win, tossing two innings in relief. He struck out four batters and yielded only one hit. Ong and Takovich combined to give up only one earned run in leading Key West to the winning result. “We took two games from a highly talented Bishop Verot team,” said Conch coach Ralph Henriquez. “Our pitching was outstanding and the team’s desire to win was very special.” Caroline Smith is a junior at Key West High School and a softball player for the Lady Conchs.

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By Mandy Miles and Alex Rickert

FLORIDA KEYS HOUSING CRISIS WHAT ARE OTHER CITIES DOING?

he Keys Weekly spent the past three weeks exploring the Florida Keys’ housing crisis, its causes, effects and continuing concerns. We quickly learned our island chain is by no means the only American community dealing with exorbitant housing costs, increasing vacation rentals and estates that sit empty for months.

Private property owners enter into an agreement with both their tenants and the Housing Authority, with rents dictated by federal guidelines for the county. Tenants pay a portion of the rent directly to the property owners determined by household income, while the balance is paid to the owners from the Housing Authority.

CURES ARE HARD TO COME BY “The Cape Cods and Vails of America are turning into hollow versions of their former selves. They’re losing the culture, vibrancy and authenticity that comes from real people living there — not just second-home owners commuting in from the cities on weekends and holidays,” states a report from the Institute on Policy Studies called The Housing Crisis Unfolding in America’s Destination Towns. “Addressing this problem is going to take action on two fronts: raising wages and cutting housing costs.” Unfortunately, no community has yet found a cure for the housing crisis. There are some ideas and initiatives being proposed and attempted, but often shot down by state legislatures.

“Fortunately, I think it’s an education of our community over the last 20 or 25 years. There are rooted people here that have homes and understand the crisis we’re in,” said administrator Terri Keech. “We’ve always touted this as a working person’s program. It’s not a free-rent ride. We do a very thorough screening of our tenants, and the landlords have always really liked that part of it.” Keech said the long-term stability of the Housing Authority’s program is an extreme draw. “(Renters) may come up with the initial cash, but are they going to be able to sustain that?” said Keech. “(The payments) run smooth like clockwork. Landlords never have to worry about it.” “Ultimately, the towns stepped up,” said executive director David Vigneault. “The phrase you hear over time is, ‘drive until it’s affordable.’ But we live on an island, and you can’t do that.” Sound familiar?

COMMUNITY LAND TRUSTS CAN HELP “Innovative solutions like community land trusts are gaining popularity,” the report states. “These trusts take land out of pricey real estate markets and often enforce yearround residency requirements. That creates a way for communities from Lake Champlain, Vermont to the San Juan Islands in Washington State to ensure housing for low- and moderate-income families.” CASE STUDY: MARTHA’S VINEYARD For the six island towns of Martha’s Vineyard, help comes in the form of the Dukes County Regional Housing Authority, publicly chartered in 1986. In addition to the Island Housing Trust, one of the aforementioned community land trusts, the housing authority works to provide year-round housing opportunities for low- and moderate-income residents. In addition to managing 101 year-round rental apartments and assisting with home ownership lotteries and affordability monitoring, the organization provides town-funded rental assistance to residents making less than 80% of the area median income who can pay a minimum of 50% of a year-round rental rate.

CASE STUDY: CRESTED BUTTE, COLO. The tiny town of Crested Butte, nestled in the Rocky Mountains south of Aspen and west of Buena Vista, declared in June 2021 an emergency for the housing situation to allow the town to bypass some zoning and government bureaucracy to get housing built more quickly. The first thing the town was able to do under the order was buy a bed-and-breakfast to be used for housing, states a 2021 Rocky Mountain PBS report, “More mountain towns taking drastic measures to address housing shortages,” which interviewed Crested Butte community development coordinator Troy Russ. Crested Butte’s town council on July 19, 2021 also took steps toward a ballot measure that would create a second-home tax … to provide money to the town if a home is bought but left empty for the majority of the year. “(Developers) won’t build (affordable housing) without government subsidies, period,” said Russ. “So, if we want to house our complete population, (the) government needs to reexamine its role related to housing and maybe formulate it very similarly to our interstate system.”

CASE STUDY: TELLURIDE, COLORADO Telluride, Colorado passed a ballot question last year that “increases the fees on business licenses for short-term rentals by about double what the current rates are. That extra money will go to the town’s affordable housing fund,” Rocky Mountain PBS reported. Telluride town councilwoman Geneva Shaunette in 2021 suggested canceling the town’s lodging tax — which state law says must be directed toward tourism promotion — and install an excise tax on rented homes and hotel rooms that can be used for building affordable housing, the Colorado Sun reported in July 2021. But in 2018, the report states, Colorado legislation that would have allowed county voters to allow lodging taxes for other uses did not pass. ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT In a January 2018 editorial for Outside Magazine, “How to Fix the Mountain-Town Housing Crisis, Auden Schendler writes about the “old school” environmental perspective. “Mountain communities are often run by environmentalists from 40 years ago whose thinking has not kept abreast of the development in their hometowns. They champion stasis over change, open space over density, and consider development evil. They hate crowds — even though crowds are the foundation of the entire resort economy. “So what’s the fix?” Schendler asks. “For one, we need to embrace density,” he writes. “Build infill housing in the urban core. … Make it dense, which means small units that go up instead of out … and enable mother-inlaw units with occupation requirements. “We should respect urban growth boundaries and oppose unmitigated sprawl. But we must also welcome changes to our towns. … We need a civics revolution, whereby younger citizens — the very ones who need housing — or enlightened elders either run for office or amp up pressure on those already in power. “We need … a commitment to the community over self interest. We need a new YIMBYism — Yes In My Backyard — versus the current NIMBYism. We need to learn again how to live together.”

KEY WEST WEEKLY / MARCH 24, 2022 MANDY MILES

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COMMITTEE PUSHES FOR DISTRICT-SPECIFIC ELECTIONS

WHO SHOULD CHOOSE OUR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS? S

hould Key Largo residents vote for Key West’s county commissioner? Should Big Pine voters have a say in Islamorada’s commission representa-

tive? They do now and always have under Monroe County’s at-large voting process, in which all county voters select all five county commissioners to represent the Keys’ five different voting districts. But a committee in the Florida Keys would prefer single-member district voting, meaning county commissioners would be elected only by voters in each of the five geographic districts. (Commissioners, as now, must live in the district they represent.) A political action committee known as Keys Regional Election Protection wants to ask Keys voters, on a 2022 ballot, if county commissioners should be elected via singlemember districts rather than at-large. The group is circulating a petition, hoping to gather the 6,000 or so signatures needed to place the question on a county ballot. “If everyone in the county votes for every commissioner, there’s a good chance that all five commissioners will be of the same mind. They’re also likely, as they are now, to all be members of the same political party,” said Chris Massicotte, who worked as a political consultant in Washington, D.C. before moving to Key West about five years ago. “We’re not trying to redraw the district boundaries, or change the number of commissioners or anything. We just want to change the way we elect our leaders to ensure that our county commissioners are directly account-

“County commissioners make decisions that affect everyone in the county, and when you’re making decisions that affect the whole county, you need to be elected by the whole county.” — Keith Douglass, former Monroe County commissioner

able to the constituents in their districts and are more connected with the local issues of those voters.” The committee’s website, keysrep.com, makes the argument for single-member voting by pointing out, “While county commissioners must LIVE in the district that they represent, the entire county votes on them.” The committee also points out that the Florida Keys’ geography makes it difficult — and very costly — to campaign countywide. Massicotte said all four seated county commissioners oppose the single-member measure. “No elected official is going to support a change that makes it easier for someone to defeat them,” he said.

“We just want to change the way we elect our leaders to ensure that our county commissioners are directly accountable to the constituents in their districts and are more connected with the local issues of those voters.” — Chris Massicotte, Keys Regional Election Protection

But that’s not why former county commissioner Keith Douglass doesn’t support the change, he told the Keys Weekly on March 22. Douglass was a county commissioner from 1994 to 1998. “We need to be more unified in the Keys, not more divided,” Douglass said. “County commissioners make decisions that affect everyone in the county, and when you’re making decisions that affect the whole county, you need to be elected by the whole county.” Seated county commissioners Michelle Coldiron and Craig Cates agreed. “At-large elections make commissioners accountable countywide,” Coldiron said. “Our county is so very diverse and by being at-large it requires the commissioners to be well educated and versed on all the issues they vote on. By being voted on at-large,

any constituent can call me and know I am available to not only hear their concerns but to advocate on their behalf. In the past 16 months we have unfortunately had various empty seats on the commission and yet because we are at-large the remaining four commissioners have picked up the slack and been available to the residents in the district without a commissioner.” Cates added that the current at-large voting process also benefits the voters, “Otherwise voters from one district may only have the vote of their own commissioner for an important issue, and in order to get anything passed, you need three out of five votes.” But, Massicotte said, single-member voting could make it possible for more potential candidates to enter the political arena. “It’s possible to knock on every door in Key Largo and really let people get to know you,” he said. “But to do that Keyswide takes more time and money than many would-be candidates have,” often limiting the political arena to candidates with the wealthiest supporters. Single-member voting would allow voters to know their county commissioner better, and require the commissioners to really know their constituents, the committee says. When asked what prompted the movement toward single-member voting, Massicotte said the 2020 election of Eddie Martinez over incumbent Democrat Heather Carruthers “was not the only reason” the petition was started. But, he added, it’s fair to say Martinez would not have been elected if the Keys had had single-member voting in 2020, as voters in that district supported Carruthers, not Martinez. Massicotte said 18 of Florida’s non-charter counties, of which Monroe is one, have switched to single-member voting in recent years. Sarasota County voters were the most recent to implement the change. Keys Regional Election Protection needs about 6,000 signatures by Aug. 23 to place the question on the general election ballot in November 2022. The League of Women Voters in the Lower Keys will host a discussion about single-member voting featuring Massicotte, who supports it, and another speaker, who opposes it. Petitions are available at keysrep.com. Read more at keysweekly.com.

League of Women Voters of the Lower Keys will host a discussion of single-member voting at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 29 at the Coral City Elks Lodge, 1107 Whitehead St., Key West.

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KEY WEST CELEBRATES 200 YEARS THIS WEEKEND

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City Manager Patti McLauchlin, center, spends Friday morning with the Key West Ploggers, volunteers who pick up trash, debris and cigarette butts from a designated area of town every Friday morning. CONTRIBUTED

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Key West’s acclaimed folk artist Mario Sanchez wasn’t born until 1908, and didn’t pursue art until 1930, but his woodcarvings depict the people, places and perspectives of a bygone Key West. As many of Sanchez’s works approach their centennial celebration, the past they depict is a perfect celebration of Key West history. For more information about Sanchez’s work, visit galleryongreene.com. GALLERY ON GREENE/Contributed

ey West is much, much older than 200, but Friday, March 25 marks the island’s 200th anniversary of becoming a U.S. settlement. On March 25, 1822, under orders from the U.S. Navy, Lt. Matthew Perry planted the American flag in Key West’s sandy soil and claimed the island. To celebrate its bicentennial, festivities include a Key West Heritage Festival at 4 p.m. Friday, March 25. The event will include a reenactment of Perry staking the claim as a U.S. territory. Organizers will also dedicate a “200th Celebration Time Capsule,” that will be opened during Key West’s 250th celebration in 2072. Four children, ages 9, 10, 11 and 12, will be named “Ambassadors for the City of Key West” and designated to reopen the time capsule in 50 years. With donations ranging from $100 to $1,500, donors can carve their names and seal letters addressed to the community into the granite capsule, according to the keywest200th. com website.

“Beginning Friday, March 25, stamp aficionados and collectors can get an addressed or unaddressed envelope, postcard or mail, with required first-class mail postage, stamped with a commemorative U.S. Postal Service pictorial Key West postmark (known as a cancel stamp). The stamp can be obtained for 30 days after its unveiling.” The Oldest House Museum and Garden will host a Key West Bicentennial Celebratory Gala from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday at 322 Duval St. The event, with 200 tickets priced at $200 each, will include period costumes, local food and attendance by local and Bahamian officials. On Saturday, March 26, “Heritage Day” celebrations at Truman Waterfront Park will include family-friendly festivities, local vendors, continuous stage performances with local music and historic talks, and eco-friendly drone fireworks that evening. — Contributed

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WATERFRONT’S ‘SOMETHING ROTTEN’ RETURNS TO THE RENAISSANCE COMEDY RUNS THROUGH APRIL 16

‘Something Rotten’ is now showing at Waterfront Playhouse, transporting the audience back to Shakespeare’s England, with a comedic twist. LARRY BLACKBURN/ Keys Weekly

he team that brought the artistic director; choreography by hit musical “Priscilla Queen Carolyn Cooper; design by Michael of the Desert” to the WaBoyer; musical direction by Michael terfront stage is back with Fauss; lighting design by Kim Hana new farce in the musical “Someson; costumes designed by Costhing Rotten,” which opens Thurstume World; and stage managed by day, March 26 and plays Tuesday Trish Manley, through Saturdays through April The cast includes Canter O’May 16. as Nostradamus; Alexandra Zeto The show is set in the Renaisas Bea; Sarah Thorn as Portia; Karl sance period in England, where WilStahl as Reverend Jeremiah; Xavier liam Shakespeare (Bruce Moore) is McKnight as the Minstrel; John Mca “rock star” whose works are loved Donald as Shylock; Ross Pipkin as by all except the Bottom brothers, Lord Clapham; and Chris Homberg, Nick (Brian Robinson, making his Mathais Maloff, J. Michael Wright, Key West debut) and Nigel (Arthur Andrew Theede, Carolyn CooCrocker) who must write a new play per, Jillian Todd, Belle Jampol and to stay ahead of the money lenders Barbara Mundy as the ensemble. they owe. The orchestra includes Mark Rose, Enter Nostradamus, who sees Donna DeForrest, Gary Rivenson, into the future and tells Nick they Roberta Jacyshyn, John Sausser and can beat Shakespeare to the punch Michael Fauss. by writing a musical. Filled with gor— Contributed geous costumes, engaging musical numbers (who doesn’t like a good “SOMETHING ROTTEN” tap dance) and a hilarious plot line, Waterfront Playhouse be prepared for a side-splitting Tuesdays through Saturdays evening in the theater. through April 16 “Something Rotten” is writFor tickets: ten by Karey Kirkpatrick and John waterfrontplayhouse.org O’Farrell with music and lyrics or 305-294-5015 by Karey and Wayne Kirkpatrick; MF_KWWeeklyAd_1.pdf 1 2/24/21 1:50 PM directed by Tom Thayer, Waterfront

TABLE OUTSIDE?

KEY WEST’S SIDEWALK CAFES ARE HERE TO STAY

Key West restaurants, including La Trattoria on Duval Street and Clemente’s on Fleming Street, have embraced the city’s new Sidewalk Cafe program, as have diners. MANDY MILES/Keys Weekly

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he foursome of visitors enjoying an al fresco meal at Clemente’s on Fleming Street on the evening of March 22 had no idea sidewalk cafe tables were relatively new in Key West. “You’re kidding. With the weather you guys have, we always ask to eat outside,” one woman said. “I can’t believe it took so long. I figured you’d always had sidewalk tables.” A pre-pandemic pilot project called Mall on Duval introduced the idea of sidewalk dining, but only on a few blocks of Duval Street and only on the weekend. Then came COVID, closures and capacity restrictions. Ccity officials allowed restaurants to move tables outside onto sidewalks, as long as there was ample room for pedestrians to pass. Their popularity was apparent, and City Manager Patti McLauchlin and Assistant City Manager Todd Stoughton started working to make the option permanent.

“We knew people liked it, and we wanted it to continue beyond the pandemic, so we started formalizing a process,” McLauchlin said. The first iteration of the city’s Sidewalk Cafe met with some resistance from business owners due to the high per-seat cost – $590. The fees are now billed over seven years. McLauchlin said the city is about to issue a Request for Proposals from companies interested in redesigning and renovating Duval Street. Those proposals “will be tailored to take those tables and that program into account.” Proposals will come back in about 90 days; a committee will review them and recommend their top picks to the city commission. Some suggestions have included additional landscaping, wider sidewalks or the elimination of curbs to make the street and sidewalks one level. Such a design would allow barricades to separate street from sidewalk except during special events, when certain blocks could become pedestrian-only.

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NEW PROGRAM WANTS DIVERSITY AMONG TEACHERS PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION LAUNCHES BLACK EDUCATOR INITIATIVE

NEW HOME FOR FAMILY & CHILD SERVICES Wesley House acquires former Key Largo Lions building JIM McCARTHY

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onroe County’s 1,060 or so black students make up nearly 12% of the student population. The county school district includes only 12 black educators, or 2% of the overall faculty. Key West philanthropist John Padget has teamed up with Rev. Darryl Robinson, pastor of Trinity Wesleyan Methodist Church, to launch Monroe County’s Black Educator Initiative with the goal of making the local teachers’ demographics more closely match that of the students. The Black Educator Initiative will support new and prospective black resident educators who plan to study or teach in the Florida Keys, states a press release about the initiative. “The purpose of this initiative is to achieve educator demographic equality, more closely matching student demographics,” Padget said. Robinson is taking the lead among a small group of teachers and community activists to implement the initiative. “Extensive research has revealed that black students who have some exposure to black educators during their primary and secondary school years have better educational outcomes,” Robinson said. The Golden Fleece Foundation, which Padget started with his late partner Jacob Dekker, plans to offer fellowships, scholarships and housing grants to eligible black students and teachers who meet all the qualifications. Grant, scholarship and fellowship candidates “must be an

enrolled college student (majoring in education), or a new prospective educator in Monroe County schools, exhibit a strong desire to live and work in Monroe County, and build a teaching career in Monroe County,” states the program’s criteria. The Golden Fleece Foundation’s board of directors will make all grant decisions and will make awards on a rolling basis throughout the year. Potential grants include: 2022 Teacher Fellowships Purpose: To attract black newto-county teachers. Grant awards: $15,000 for year one, $10,000 for year two, and $5,000 for year three. Candidates must have accepted a teaching position in a Monroe County school. 2022 Study Scholarships Purpose: To encourage black residents to accumulate higher education credits, enabling them to qualify to teach in Monroe County. Grant awards: Up to $5,000 per year. 2022 Student Teaching Housing Grant Purpose: To enable black newto-county students to obtain teaching experience as part of their curriculum leading to a bachelor’s degree. Grant awards: Up to $5,000 per year. For more information or to apply for the Black Educator Initiative, contact Robinson at DrRobinson@ blackeducatorinitiative.com. — Contributed

mid growing service demands, a nonprofit dedicated to children and families in the Florida Keys is moving from its current Upper Keys location to a larger building across the street. Wesley House Family Services, located inside the First Horizon building at MM 99.4 in Key Largo, recently acquired the Key Largo Lions Club facility at 5 Homestead Ave. Wesley House CEO Aleida Jacobo said the building wasn’t on the market as she began the search for a bigger space with American Caribbean Broker Joy Martin and Realtor Lorie Leal. There was word, however, that the club would consider selling the building. Leal said it was the perfect location to fit Wesley House’s needs. “It was good timing,” Leal said. “When Wesley House inquired about looking for a bigger space, we happened to come across the information that the Lions Club would consider selling.” Programs for expectant families and newborns are increasing in the Upper Keys, as well as stable family intervention/prevention services to families at risk of abuse and neglect. Jacobo said the Healthy Families Program provides young families with tools to promote child health and development, provide nurturing homes and ensure medical and social needs of families are met. A free, voluntary program, it served 87 families and 144 children during the 2020-21 year. Needs for foster services also remain high. Jacobo said Wesley House cares for children who are either abandoned or neglected. While children are in foster care, Wesley House provides Independent Living courses in two stages, one for ages 13 through 15 and a second for ages 16 through 17. A crazy housing market is bringing some staff hiring challenges in Key West, Jacobo said. With a

majority of the staff members living in the Upper Keys or the mainland, Wesley House began to outgrow their current Key Largo office location. Alaina Jacobo is “We find chief executive most of our officer for Wesley staff living in House Family the Key Largo Services. or Homestead area, and we’re also using the Upper Keys office as a base to help with the Key West operation,” she said. Despite the challenges, Jacobo said Wesley House is maintaining a strong presence in the Lower Keys, with its office located at 1304 Truman Ave. in Key West. In addition, the Inez Martin Child Development Center, located on Varela Street in Key West, focuses on developing and enhancing age-appropriate skills for toddlers to 5-year-old children. Jacobo said she believes their new home in Key Largo will provide a “strong hub” for family and children's services with the new CHI facility two doors down. “I’d say we’re aiming for 12-18 months before we get in there. Right now it’s a blank canvas,” Jacobo said. “We want to build it out not only for office space, but we want to do parenting skills classes there, set up a little home to really teach parents how to cook and interact with kids.” Wesley House programs are made possible through various funding sources and donors. They include Florida Department of Children and Families, Citrus Family Care Network, Ounce of Prevention Healthy Families Florida and Early Learning Coalition of Miami-Dade/ Monroe to name a few. Jacobo said that $17 million in state funding for services in Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties wasn’t cut as originally designated earlier in the year. “We were relieved that the cut did not go through. That would have been very painful and devastating for our services,” she said.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

THE PARTY’S OVER — ALMOST Dear Editor, With the passage of the new cruise ship resolution at last week’s city commission meeting, we are at the beginning of the end regarding the long cruise ship debate in Key West. Or are we? It is clear from Arlo Haskell’s letter in last week’s Keys Weekly that the Safer Cleaner Ships (SCS) directors mean to continue inflicting pain on the community. Never in my experience in Key West has an issue resulted in such resentment, community division and economic suffering as the cruise ship referendums initiated by SCS. The referenda, founded in emotional falsehoods and deliberate misinformation, did indeed pass the Key West electorate. Voters in the Lower Keys, many employed in cruiserelated businesses, were not allowed a voice in that election. The referenda were deemed so damaging to the local and state economies, the state legislature passed a pre-emption bill that overturned them. Now, the city commission has finally found a path to mediating the controversy that will give a little victory to each side. As Mr. Haskell publicly said at last week’s meeting, “compromise is the name of the game.” However, Mr. Haskell’s recent letter outlined, in mindnumbing detail, SCS’s latest strategy for stretching out the anguish they have wrought on the community. His assertion that the city has the right to control all cruise ship activity in the port has been proven false. Last summer, City Attorney Shawn Smith advised the commission that the Pier B development agreement was inviolate and firm. SCS also said the agreement could not be amended unless both parties agreed. After the agreement was reviewed by Special Counsel Ed Pozzuoli, he concurred entirely with the city

attorney’s assessment. Here we have two well-regarded, astute lawyers saying the agreement is firm and inviolate. Even Joe Jacquot, SCS’s own attorney, now agrees with that opinion, after he finally was given access to the agreement. But SCS say they know better and are trying to derail the ongoing mediation process between the city and Pier B. Why would they do this? Perhaps they finally recognize the failure of all of SCS’s disinformation regarding cruise ships’ harm to the environment, the proliferation of small ships and their condescending advice for impacted family businesses to “get a new business plan.” Perhaps by trying to restart the controversy at the 11th hour, Safer Cleaner Ships is merely trying to avert their imminent irrelevancy. In truth, Mr. Haskell and I have a few things in common. We were both born in Key West and have a love for the marine environment. Like me, he sees how much Key West has changed in recent decades – for better or worse. Unlike me, he sees himself as the sole arbiter of truth and seer of the way forward. So, I propose that Mr. Haskell and I meet someday on Mallory Pier and shake hands over the establishment of the Mallory Cruiseport Corals Nursery and Sanctuary. It is now public record that Mallory Pier, after decades of cruise ship traffic in the harbor, is a resource for viable and healthy stony corals suitable for transplant onto stressed reef sites. We should all support the superb endeavors of Mote Marine Laboratory in those exact efforts. Pier B has proposed to donate substantial funds to Mote Marine for reef rehabilitation. Will SCS do the same? Reimagine that. Sincerely, John E. Wells, ships’ agent

n March 20, the Monroe County Library System accepted the donation of the 200-year-old original logbook of LCDR Matthew C. Perry’s voyage on the U.S. Schooner Shark, in which he documents the claiming of the Florida Keys for the United States. “This is the most complete account of the founding of Key West through the firsthand descriptions of the captain,” said Corey Malcom of the Key West Maritime Historical Society. “This is the one and only surviving relic of Key West’s start. The genesis of Key West is in this logbook.” While the logbook will not be available to check out from the library, a digitized version will be made available to the public at keyslibraries.org. Researchers at the Florida Keys’ only locally owned and operated news bureau, Keys Weekly, recently studied the book and identified...

REVELATIONS FROM MATTHEW C. PERRY’S LOGBOOK… 10. The Native Americans warmly welcomed Capt. Perry and his crew to the island, unaware of new settlers’ plan to “reimagine the island” with smallpox and T-shirt shops. 9. Perry’s recipe for sea turtle soup is the same one used by Commissioner Billy Wardlow’s mom today! 8. The logbook includes a coupon for Fausto’s Food Palace. 7. While coming ashore for the first time, Perry’s landing party was accosted by “smugglers, drifters and wealthy salvagers” protesting the arrival of a “very dirty ship that was too big for the island.” 6. The logbook contains an introduction by celebrated Key West author David Sloan.

5. Chapter 5, “The Summer of ’22,” details a steamy romance between Perry and Virginia Panico. 4. The last page of the book features a photo of the author standing next to the Southernmost Point in board shorts and a Sloppy Joe’s T-shirt. 3. In typical Key West fashion, there is no mention of Marathon — anywhere. 2. The book is written entirely in cursive, which means no one born after 1991 will be able to read it. 1. Upon closer inspection, the rights of the book are actually owned by Ed Swift.

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TAKE ME HOME? FIND A FRIEND AT THE FLORIDA KEYS SPCA

he Keys Weekly family loves animals as much as our friends at the Florida Keys SPCA do, and we’re honored each week to showcase some “furever” friends that are ready, waiting and available for adoption by loving families from the organization’s Key West campus. From cats and dogs to Guinea

pigs, hamsters, rabbits, reptiles and birds, the perfect addition to your family is waiting for you. The SPCA’s knowledgeable staff will help with advice and care tips while working to ensure a good fit between each pet and its people. The SPCA’s Golden Paw program also provides special assistance with vet bills and medications for special-needs and older animals that may require a little extra TLC. Check the Key West Weekly every week for just a few of the animals waiting for a home, and see them all at fkspca.org.

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SPORTS & MORE UPSETS ABOUND IN MEN’S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

year, I’ve rooted where y friend, my fancies have taken Brad, and me. I often There have been exchange several upsets this texts offering our soluyear and, while St. tions to the world’s Peter’s is at the top of problems. So, natuthat list, close berally, we’ve been burnhind is No. 10 Miami, ing up the internet, which has upset No. 7 discussing the men’s RALPH Southern Cal and No. college basketball MORROW 2 Auburn. tournament. ... a veteran sports At 9:59 p.m. Friday Then, on March columnist, says (let’s call it 10 p.m.) on 17, just when the the only sport TBS, Miami is favored tournament had he doesn’t follow as it faces No. 11 hardly begun, came is cricket. That leaves plenty Iowa State, another his stunner: “I picked of others to fill underdog, which has Kentucky. My bracket his time. defeated No. 3 Wisis shot.” ralphmoro1936 consin and No. 6 LSU. I consoled him @gmail.com Of the 16 teams that one misstep still playing, No. 11 Michigan wouldn’t destroy him. That (vs. No. 2 Villanova, 7:30 p.m. most of the 20 million-plus people who submitted brackets Thursday on TBS) and No. 8 North Carolina (vs. No. 4 UCLA to ESPN, CBS and Yahoo had at 9:39 p.m. Friday on CBS) are taken No. 2 Kentucky over No. two of the four underdogs left. 15 St. Peter’s. I’ve been watching college “Yes,” he wrote, “but I basketball for a lot of years picked Kentucky to win the and I don’t believe there’s ever entire thing.” been this quality of teams. And I agreed. His bracket was I believe it’s because there are shot. so many quality players and St. Peter’s 85-79 overtime they’re so spread out. victory over Kentucky was a Of the 16 teams left, I bestunner. Maybe bigger than a lieve any of them could march 16 over 1 would be as there’s to “One Shining Moment,” only been one of those. including St. Peter’s. St. Peter’s continued its Speaking of commercials mastery of the bracket by (we were, weren’t we?), there beating No. 7 Murray State, 70-60, in the second round. The are several making their first appearances during March Peacocks will now face No. 3 Madness. My favorite is “Lily” of Purdue in the Sweet 16 at 7:09 AT&T 5G interviewing retiring p.m., Friday, March 25 on CBS. Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski If you can tell me where St. about a job opening. Coach Peter’s is located, I’ll give you a says he won’t be available in prize. OK, you give up. I’ll save March: “It’ll be a week-to-week you the Google search. thing,” he adds. “I’ll get back to Three years ago, St. Peter’s you,” says Lily. “You’re going of Jersey City, New Jersey, had to get back to me?” responds an enrollment of 2,316 underan incredulous Coach K. “You graduate students. The coach is Shaheen Holloway. St. Peter’s mean I don’t have the job?” I also enjoyed the “retired” has been to the NCAA tournababy who is coaxed into packment four times, but this is the ing his “onesies” for his return first time it has won a game. to investigative work. I like Somehow I ran out of time most of the mascot commeror something and did not fill cials, too. out a bracket as I have done Happy brackets! for many years. It has made my rooting easier, as in the past, I have rooted my bracket. This

KEY WEST WEEKLY / MARCH 24, 2022 A black-faced grassquit seen this week at Fort Zachary Taylor State Park. MARK HEDDEN/Keys Weekly

CAN’T QUIT THE GRASSQUIT

MARK HEDDEN ... is a photographer, writer, and semi-professional birdwatcher. He has lived in Key West for more than 25 years and may no longer be employable in the real world. He is also executive director of the Florida Keys Audubon Society.

was hanging around with Kevin Christman, trying and failing to pick a splinter out of my index finger. Finally I gave in and put on my reading glasses so I could actually see the damn thing, and managed to bite it between my two incisors and pull it out. I’m not sure why I had to see something I was trying to grab with my teeth, but somehow it made the difference. The splinter had come from the rough-hewn top rail of the fence around a section of native plants, which is currently thriving surrounded by the Casuarinas at Fort Zach. We were looking for the latest rare bird in the neighborhood, a black-faced grassquit. We’d been working our way slowly around the fence, keeping our eyes down low, listening for the soft clear notes of the grassquit’s song. Occasionally we’d hear something, but it would turn out to be a warbler or nothing at all. Christman is a tall dude, which the petty part of my brain thinks gives him an advantage in finding things. But in reality he’s just very keen-eyed and smart. He’s been here for four years, but already knows more about Keys’ flora and fauna, and especially its birds, than most people will know in their entire lifetime. Kevin had posted something on Facebook about seeing the grassquit, and I texted him to ask if it was still there. He said he’d heard it, and had brief looks at it, but offered to stick around to try for a better look if I was heading over. That’s how we ended up leaning on a splinter-ridden fence like a couple of farmers. Black-faced grassquits are a Caribbean species, with eight subspecies spread out over dozens and dozens of islands. A lot of the rarities that show up in the Keys are most likely from Cuba, but oddly enough, the black-faced grassquit is not found on the island, only in limited numbers on a couple of small islands off the big island’s north coast. The American Birding Association actually has a ranking for bird species and how common they are. A Code-1 bird is a widespread, everyday bird. Think northern mockingbird or laughing gull. A Code-6 bird is extinct. The black-faced grassquit is a Code-4 bird – rarer than rare, though not the rarest. The first black-faced grassquit seen in North America showed up in Miami in 1871. It took 89 years for the next one to be spotted, though they have since become more common, with about two dozen records in total. “Quit” is apparently an old Jamaican term for a small bird. Grassquits are known for their love of grasslands and other types of low-to-the-ground habitats. While originally thought to be a member of the finch family, recent DNA analysis shows they are most closely related to Darwin’s finches, which, just to keep

things confusing, are actually 18 species of tanagers. The National Audubon Society’s website describes the black-faced grassquit as a “stubby little finch,” which, besides being out of date, is also kind of ungenerous. One of the first birds I ever chased was a black-faced grassquit that showed up at Long Pine Key Campground in Everglades National Park in 2003. I’d had insomnia the night before, but got up before dawn and drove up with a friend to stare for five hours into the endless fronds of saw palmettos and not see it. That may have contributed to my reluctance to chase rarities. (I did see a flock of common nighthawks slow-flap through the slash pines that day, though. It’s an image that has stuck with me, so maybe it was kind of worth it.) Before the Fort Zach bird, the most recent black-faced grassquit was one that hung out at the Blue Hole on Big Pine from July 2019 to May 2021. That one was my lifer. But it stayed so long that people took it for granted. Until it moved on. Mark Songer had found the grassquit we were looking for at Fort Zach in mid-November, but it had disappeared right after he saw it. I thought this was the first re-sighting, but looking at the data on eBird, it had been seen regularly since Jan. 15. I just wasn’t paying attention. Fort Zach was crowded with the bathing suit-clad. I didn’t think Kevin and I particularly stood out – I wasn’t even wearing my zipper-legged adventure pants – but I guess our cameras and fancy binoculars caught people’s attention, because folks kept stopping to ask us what we were looking at. We kept having to say, nothing really, then tell them what we were trying to look at. I was considering heading home when this guy Rich, who can be found a lot of days at one of the picnic tables closer to the parking lot, usually surrounded by birds, came up behind us. “You looking for the grassquit?” he asked. We followed him to a Jamaica caper about 20 yards away. “It’s in there,” he said. It took about three minutes for him to be proven right. The grassquit flitted around less than a foot off the ground at first. Then it leapt up slightly higher and slightly more out in the open. Female black-faced grassquits and juvenile black-faced grassquits look pretty much alike. But this one’s face looked like it was starting to go dark, meaning it was probably a young male just maturing. We watched it for about five minutes before he receded deeper into the foliage. You never know how long a rarity is going to stay around. But I hope that guy continues to thrive.

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e have no shortage of colorful characters gracing this chain of islands, and when you factor in artists, the fascinating stories seem endless. I recently discovered a retired engineer and very talented watercolorist: Lawrence “Larry” Halstead. With his keen eye for detail and a superb handling of color, he is taking his art to new heights. Halstead was born and raised in Michigan where he graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in aerospace engineering. Immediately after finishing college, he entered the United States Air Force. Following his service to our country, Halstead launched a 32-year career as an engineer, during which time he designed and tested jet engines. He adds that he and his wife Carol raised three wonderful sons together.

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In 2008, Halstead retired and bought a home in Key West where he and Carol live today. In his youth, Halstead spent a great deal of time exploring lakes and venturing out into the woods, adventures that helped him develop a strong connection with nature. Moving to the Keys strengthened this connection and furthered his

love of the surrounding scenery. When asked what drives him as an artist, this bond shines through. “The inspiration for my art comes from the perpetual sunny days, the warm starry nights and the brilliant colors that I see in every direction,” he said. The bright and bold colors of the island soon led him to move from his former acrylic medium to a challenging new venture. “This colorful island inspired me to transition to the brilliant, transparent, stainedglass world of watercolor,” he said. Halstead prides himself on evolving as he continues to learn about what he calls “the evocative and complex medium” of watercolor paint. Halstead shows and sells his watercolors and finest quality giclee prints at Guild Hall Gallery in Old Town, Key West. His originals sell for up to $300, and his small to moderate-sized prints are the ideal takehome souvenirs, often priced at less than $50. Stop by Guild Hall Gallery at 614 Duval Street to see Halstead’s work and learn more.

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udience members filing into Red Barn Theatre over the next four weeks will be treated to a gender-playful, reality-bending comedy. “Hurricane Diane” follows a female incarnation of the Greek god Dionysus, who has come to Earth in contemporary times to gather a cult of followers with the intent of reshaping the future of the planet. A setup like that could play bleak or overly academic, but instead runs full-on comedy, as the title character decides the most efficient way to recruit devotees is to seduce a group of New Jersey housewives. Poised as a butch permaculture expert, Diane sets to work gathering suburban landscape design contracts, and hopefully, the bored women who sign them. The 90- minute play is a new work, penned by Madeleine George, a fresh voice in American theater. “Hurricane Diane” premiered offBroadway at New York Theatre Workshop in 2019, winning the Obie Award for Playwriting the same year. Dionysus was the Greek mythological equivalent of Bacchus, a god of wine and ecstasy, vegetation and fertility. A male god, he bent the rules of gender having been born from a man and raised, in some interpretations, as a woman. Basically Dionysus was the representative of all things sexy in ancient Greece. “Hurricane Diane” brings back this sensual deity in the form of Diane, the irresistible lesbian from Vermont. The first pool of light, expertly placed by Jack MacDonald, introduces Erin McKenna in the title role. Playing somewhat against type, McKenna locks into the audience with swagger and charisma. She is in control, telling the audience she knows that the soon-to-be-introduced housewives don’t stand a chance. After all, she’s got thousands of years of seduction on her side. McKenna continues to hold her dynamic ground for the full play, conveying volumes in just a lean, or a knowing eyebrow raise. Once Diane sets the stage, her suburban targets are introduced. Carol, played with perfectly simmering neuroses by Caroline Taylor, is the essential antagonist. A mid-level corporate player, Carol wants a lawn that will be aspirational to her neighbors. This is not a woman interested in permaculture, or flirtation for that matter. Taylor’s frantic pushback against McKenna’s slow and sultry advances gives the play a perfect push-pull. The rest of the cul-de-sac coffee klatch participants are played by three of Key West’s finest female leads. (You already met the other two.) Susannah Wells plays Renee, a top editor at HGTV, who secretly yearns to relive her lesbian glory days. Wells delivers a power boss persona who leans into whatever it is this new “permaculture expert” may be selling. Jessica Miano Kruel’s Pam brings the leopard print, the right stance and a killer accent, to the group. It might not be Jersey without Kruel’s version of the ultimate Italian Jersey housewife. She’s got Sopranos swagger, but her desire for an Italian garden to make up for the fact she’s never

‘Hurricane Diane’ features some of Key West’s most talented women in an updated comedy with roots that go back thousands of years. MARK HEDDEN/Keys Weekly

been able to visit the country in person tells the audience she secretly longs for something … more. Lauren Thompson rounds out the group as Beth, a woman recovering from the dissolution of her marriage. Thompson could allow the role to devolve into self-pity or caricature, but doesn’t. She carries the character through grief and uncertainty with humor and confidence. Overall, the play rolls along at a brisk clip. The scenes quickly fade into one another and the laughs come easily. The five actors hold court and hold character, playing off one another with expert timing and fluidity. Director Joy Hawkins manages her talent with expertise, reining them in where appropriate to the script and letting them run wild when the time calls for it. The sexuality in the piece feels a bit blunted, and one could make the argument that things could move just a bit beyond the point of chaste. After all, we’re looking at a lesbian god of ecstasy and four steamy, bored housewives here. The themes of the script are apparent, but not overbearing. It’s one of those great new short plays that will meet an audience member where they enter. Here for environmental and social commentary? Gotcha covered. Prefer instead to turn off your brain for an hour and half and enjoy five funny females? Not a problem. When the show opened three years ago, The New York Times appropriately referred to the play as an amalgam of “ancient myth, lesbian pulp, ecological thriller and Real Housewives.” Who knew that four such disparate genres could make for great theater? Well, Madeleine George for starters, and now Hawkins. In bringing the play to Key West, The Red Barn Theatre continues a commitment to finding new gems and staging them for a more intimate community. It’s a move that’s paying off, positioning the intimate space as a geographically (but not tonally) distanced Off-Broadway experience for locals and visitors.

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SAVE THE DATE Through March 30 • The Key West Art Center & Gallery is accepting applications through March 30 for local artists to become juried exhibiting members at Key West’s oldest art gallery, 301 Front St. Visit keywestartcenter.com for an application. Through March 31 • “A Wood Show Like No Other” on display at Collections, Key West Gallery on Stock Island, behind the Hogfish Bar & Grill, open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. • The Studios of Key West presents “Play Ball!” a multi-artist tribute to baseball featuring more than 100 baseball bats that are painted or sculpted into original artworks. Thursday, March 24 • Cayo Hueso 200, a celebration of Florida’s first Cuban-American community with a film, Cuban music and panel discussion, 7 p.m. at San Carlos Institute, 516 Duval St. Saturday, March 26 • South Florida Symphony Orchestra performs at Tennessee Williams Theatre in Key West, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 29 • League of Women Voters of the Lower Keys meets at 5:30 p.m., at The Coral City Elks Lodge, 1107 Whitehead St., Key West. Discussion topic is single-member district voting for Monroe County commissioners. Free and open to the public. Wednesday, March 30 • Singer Kim Gordon presents “Together Again,” a benefit concert for the Boys & Girls Club. Tickets are $45 to $90, 8 p.m. at Key West Theater. Thursday, March 31 • Deadline to apply for the Key West Chamber of Commerce’s three scholarships for Key West high school graduates. Apply at keywestchamber. org/scholarships. • The Southernmost Chamber Music Society presents a concert featuring a world premier of songs by Key West composer Seth Grosshandler, 7 p.m. at St. Paul’s Eposcopal Church, 401 Duval St. Saturday, April 16 • Best Cuban Sandwich Throwdown, 1 to 3 p.m. at The Green Parrot Bar. Tickets are $15, which includes sandwich tastings. All proceeds benefit The Key West Learning Center.

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ARIES March 21 - April 19 You’re in the spotlight, Aries! It is a phenomenal time to focus on yourself and any deep personal healing you’ve probably been experiencing over the past few years. Are there disharmonies taking place in your community of friends, possibly creating some disruptions with your personal finances? Assert yourself. And when you’re done, spend some time alone in retreat to enjoy the peaceful dreamy solitude and self-satisfaction. TAURUS April 20 - May 20 Work-life continues to get more and more constricting for you, Taurus. You may feel like you’re in a bit of a pickle about what to do. Rest assured that this pressure will lighten up early

HAPPY ASTROLOGICAL NEW YEAR! next week, and right now you just need to stay grounded in yourself. In the meantime, continue to play in the dreamland of imagining your ideal life and to surround yourself with your buddies. These are your sources of buoyancy. GEMINI May 21 - June 21 Gemini, you’re feeling pressure to get the hell out of Dodge! You’re being called to go, to expand, to see what else is out there. Honestly, if (like the majority of us) you can’t just pick up and go to lands beyond, the best way to deal with this pressure is to focus on your work in the public sphere because you will find great escape here. Dream the big dream and do the work to make other people see it. CANCER June 22 - July 22 Dear Cancer, are you feeling deflated, defeated, listless? Do you poop out at parties? Vitameatavegamin notwithstanding, the planets are showing an increased pressure on the consequences of your selfreliance. Remember to feel your humility and to connect to the shared experiences we’re all going through. It’s hard out here for everybody. My recommendation: step away somehow – take a trip, read a book, watch a movie about faraway lands. There is respite in the distant for you. LEO July 23 - Aug. 22 This Aries season invites you to broaden your perspective, like rising up in a hot air balloon and seeing the expanse that surrounds you. It is easy to put blinders on and focus on what is right in front of us, but this is the time to seek the novelty surrounding your familiar world.

There is probably difficulty in your partnerships now, but stay modest and you’ll do well. VIRGO Aug. 23 - Sept. 22 It appears that you are simultaneously feeling confused and complete, Virgo, as if you’ve landed on the tarmac and you’re not quite sure how your autopilot got you there. But, hey, brush off the dust and appreciate your survival. Hold on a little longer, though, because over the next few days it might feel as though you’re buried under too many chores, but it’s gonna lighten up after the weekend. Think of it as setting up camp after your landing – don’t shirk on the campfire. LIBRA Sept. 23 - Oct. 23 The things and activities that are usually pleasurable are probably feeling a bit constricting, e.g. if you’re a musician, your music might be your straitjacket. Apply this metaphor to your own creative outlets, and let the contraction birth a new relationship to your creative practice over the weekend. Find healing in the labor and remember to breathe. SCORPIO Oct. 24 - Nov. 21 Take a minute and ask yourself, “Am I the one causing friction at home?” If you are not the cause, per se, perhaps there is something you can do to ease the pressure and let some steam escape, even if it means stepping back a bit. Help create space for the beauty that is present in your home and family to exhale. Sometimes, the best way to assert your needs is to relax. SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22 - Dec. 21 You’re approaching a great hope associated with your home and

family, Sag! Is that aspiration you are moving toward a true oasis or a beguiling mirage? If mirage, what can you do to ensure that it materializes? I encourage you to tap into your existential core to ensure that the dream matches what is really possible. CAPRICORN Dec. 22 - Jan. 19 You’ve been establishing your material and financial foundations, Capricorn, and you’ve got some serious beauty coming at you in this realm. Maintain your course, let the love come through as it will without trying to make it conform, and don’t get seduced by the perfume. It’s like you have a beautiful artifact to sell, but you should doublecheck its authenticity first. AQUARIUS Jan. 20 - Feb. 18 You are getting more and more alluring by the moment, Aquarius! What is that? A new exercise regimen? A new face cream? New clothes? Whatever it is, it’s working for you and you should keep it up. A note of caution: this beautiful presentation you’re experiencing will be followed by some intense energy. It’s up to you whether that energy is aggression or courage. PISCES Feb. 19 - March 20 Even though Pisces season is over, the Pisces party continues because Jupiter, Neptune and Mercury are all still hanging out in your sign. Are you being gluttonous or appreciative of the finer things? Are you feeling particularly poetic or at a loss for words? This highest vibration of this Pisces pileup is really keen and lyrical metaphysical philosophy – can you bring it to us?

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ARE YOU 45? GET A COLORECTAL EXAM ‘WE WERE PUTTING A BAND-AID ON AN OPEN WOUND, AND WE COULDN’T SAVE HIM’

Joe Catarineau, seen here with his dog after a medical treatment, credits his wife and daughters, friends, doctors and nurses, prayers and his puppy caretakers for his recovery.

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arry Gibson of Key West is no longer with us. The former Key West city commissioner, sunglasses-store owner and beloved family man died at age 61 on Feb. 22, 2022. Yet he is still sharing a message. He implored his widow, Trish Gibson, to give his deathbed advice—even within his obituary—to men and women ages 45 and older: Please get a colorectal exam. “Barry’s final wishes are that you get a colonoscopy. Even women,” Trish told Keys Weekly, noting that women often overlook taking care of this part of their physical health — and are frequently not advised to get colonoscopies. Just a few weeks after her husband’s passing, Trish is still in disbelief and grieves what could have been. In spring 2019, Barry hadn’t been feeling well. “He was breathy,” said Trish. Even brushing his teeth fatigued him. Barry decided to go for a round of health examinations. His heart was fine. Then came his colonoscopy. It was his first one. “He was told he had stage 4 colon cancer. He was 58,” she said, her voice trailing off in emotion. “We were in shock. Disbelief. He never had a sick day in his life. We just started fighting and did everything possible to keep him alive. … But we were putting a Band-Aid on an open, gaping wound and we couldn’t save him.” March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. According to the American Cancer Society’s website cancer.org, “In the United States,

When Tavernier’s Joe Catarineau was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer at age 46 after a colorectal exam, doctors immediately removed the tumor and started him on chemo in January 2021.

colorectal cancer is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in men and in women. … Although the overall death rate has continued to drop, deaths from colorectal cancer among people younger than 55 have increased 1% per year from 2008 to 2017.” But, the website said, regular colorectal cancer screening is a “powerful” tool: “The ACS recommends that people at average risk of colorectal cancer start regular screening at age 45… through the age of 75.” When he was 44, Tavernier CPA and attorney Joe Catarineau promised a family friend who was fighting stage 4 colon cancer that he would get a colonoscopy at age 45. Catarineau ate well, worked out a lot, and enjoyed a loving family life and a prosperous business. “I turned 45, and I thought, ‘I promised him that,’” remembered Catarineau, now 47. “At age 46 I did it, because of my promise to him. And lo and behold, I had stage 3 colorectal cancer. I was totally caught off-guard. Shocking news.” Upon recommendation of friends, Catarineau went for treatment at Baptist MD Anderson in Jacksonville, one of the leading cancer care providers in the nation. Doctors surgically removed the tumor and started him on chemo right away, followed by radiation.

His medical team informed him that the chances were high that he would probably have to have his rectum removed, then wear a colostomy bag. But, Catarineau said, a miracle happened. “Last November, I went back up to Jacksonville to meet with the surgeon for a pre-op (for the rectum-removal) surgery,” he said. “We did blood work, an MRI and a CT scan. And we found out the chemo and radiation treatments had eliminated the cancer. The doctors explained to me that I am one of the 3 percent of patients that this happens to. I go every three months to watch it closely. So far I’m clear.” Catarineau credits his recovery to his wife, Missy; his daughters Kyla, Keeley and Kinsley; friends Cliff Glade and Bob Diloreto, both doctors, who helped him get into Baptist MD Anderson; his hospital nurses; prayer warriors; his dogs; and eating well, exercising and a positive mental state. And, perhaps most crucially, his colon cancer screening at age 46. However, Key West’s Barry Gibson, who did not have colorectal cancer screenings starting in his 40s like Catarineau did, had a different outcome. He put up a good fight for almost three years after his April 19, 2019, colon cancer diagnosis, said Trish. But still, he ended up entering hospice care. He went downhill fairly quickly after that. Yet Trish and their 14-yearold daughter, Taylor, count their blessings. They feel that, ironically, the pandemic was a gift to their family. They boated, fished and stone crabbed and enjoyed dinners together. “All this happened during COVID,” Trish said. “For the three of us, in a strange way, it was good for us.” A celebration of Barry’s life will be held on Saturday, April 2 at 6 p.m. at the pavilion on Higgs Beach. For more information about colorectal cancer screening tests, go to cancer.org or call 800-227-2345.

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THE ROAD TO DISPATCH CREEK A fish camp and a burned-down bridge

ruising up the Overseas Highway and out of the Florida Keys, there are two ways to drive over Key Largo. Just after Mile Marker 106, the usual option is to follow the highway’s gentle curve, go over the Jewfish Creek Bridge, and up the 18-Mile Stretch. The other option is to keep driving straight and take the slightly longer route. The slightly longer route is just as scenic. It travels along County Road 905, over Monroe County’s only “rolling hills,” BRAD and through an interior more representative of how the islands looked before they were cleared of their natural BERTELLI hammocks. Several miles up the road, County Road 905 is is an author, interrupted by a three-way stop. Proceeding through the speaker, and Florstop sign and turning left, the route travels up and over the ida Keys historian. Card Sound Bridge before passing the legendary landmark His latest book, and home to some of the best conch fritters in the world, “The Florida Keys Skunk Ape Files,” Alabama Jacks. is a fun blend of Back at the three-way stop, instead of turning left and two of his favorite exiting Key Largo, it is possible to proceed straight and subjects — Florida continue driving north until encountering the security gate Keys history and at the private Ocean Reef Club. The road heading north and the Skunk Ape. farther into Key Largo was provided compliments of the Island Holding Company, Richter Clyde Perky, managing director. Beginning in 1914, the Island Holding Company started buying up Florida Keys real estate until, by 1924, they had accumulated 25,000 acres that included 50 islands. On Key Largo, the company owned 10,000 acres of North Key Largo known as Perkyland, and it included Perky’s grapefruit and lime groves. Carved from Perkyland, on Nov. 29, 1924, the Island Holding Company conveyed a strip of land measuring 66 feet wide to Monroe County. The land was used to build a hard-surfaced road that began at what is today the three-way stop where C.R. 905 and Card Sound Road intersect, travels north up through

Ocean Reef, and ended just short of Dispatch Creek. On the 1924 map created by the Island Holding Company, the road extension is identified as Dixie Highway. At Dispatch Creek, a small fishing camp was established. It was sold in 1945 to Seaboard Properties Inc. of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Morris Baker, president. In nearly every history associated with North Key Largo, what Baker purchased, sight unseen, was a 40-acre property containing the Dispatch Creek Fishing Camp – including some I have written. As it turns out, the same old story repeated over and over again about how Morris Baker purchased the Dispatch Creek Fish Camp and the 40 acres surrounding it, sight unseen, is not entirely accurate. He did buy it without having first seen the property. However, contemporary documents do not identify a fish camp called Dispatch Creek or substantiate the 40-acre claim. They reveal that the Tropical Isles Club Inc. sold the original Ocean Reef property to Seaboard Properties Inc. on Sept. 25, 1945. The price was $20,000 and included the acreage and the buildings and inventory of the fishing camp. As for the size of the property identified in the transaction, the legal description had two separate lots, one of 80 acres and one of 33.76 acres for a total of 113.76 acres – a far cry from 40 acres. Also complicating the generally accepted history of the property is the name of the fishing camp. It was not, apparently, called the Dispatch Creek Fishing Camp. Early 1940s newspaper accounts identify it as the Ocean Reef Fishing Camp. Also, it is listed in the deed of sale as the Ocean Reef Camp. Among the assets listed were a primary twostory structure with a galley, four-burner bottle gas stove, a downstairs dining room, and an open second floor with two single beds, one double bed, four pillows, a grass rug and an electric floor lamp. Two smaller cabins are also listed, each containing two single beds, a grass rug, and an electric lamp. Additionally, there is a boathouse containing miscellaneous skiffs in “as is” condition and a Nassau sailing dinghy. According to several contemporary newspaper articles, Rex Pollard operated or managed the Ocean Reef Fishing Camp before its sale to Morris Baker and Seaboard Properties. After the sale, Pollard is reported to have been a charter boat owner who also rented landing barges. In 1948, Rex Pollard was identified as a deputy sheriff in Key Largo with a problem. Two months prior, the wooden Steamboat Creek Bridge had burned down. When leaving Key Largo and turning left at the three-way stop and rolling down Card Sound Road, Steamboat Creek is the first body of water a car drives over. According to Pollard, since June, when the bridge burned down, “three automobiles have plunged over the steep grade. Some of the occupants have been hospitalized.” He wanted to erect some kind of barricade to stop the crashes, so he reached out to the State Road Department. They told him to contact the Monroe County Commission, so he reached out to them. They told him to contact the State Road Department. Fortunately, the communication lines operating between local and state government entities are always wide open and crystal clear these days, so that sort of nonsense would never happen.

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ending our 18-year-olds out of Monroe County and off on their own when they were on the right track, it's just something that didn't sit well with any of us,” said Brad Copeland, chair of the executive board for the Florida Keys Children’s Shelter. “We're very proud to now have a program starting in Key West." The Florida Keys Children's Shelter has served Monroe County for 35 years. Based in Tavernier, the nonprofit changes the lives of more than 500 youths annually with its free programs, including an emergency shelter, transitional living homes, community-based counseling and drop-in center for homeless and runaway youth. Recently, the children’s shelter was awarded a $600,000 federal grant for three years to start its first Transitional Living Program (TLP) in Monroe County. On the day the Keys Weekly spoke with the Florida Keys Children's Shelter (FKCS) team, they were additionally excited as the furniture was just delivered to the new 10-room TLP in Key West. Marie Jacobs, FKCS executive board member, donated the funds, and FKCS worked with Royal Furniture. “It was ‘pie in the sky’ in the beginning,” Copeland said. “Ben Kemmer and Alvin Bentley have done an outstanding job of making the shelter very financially stable while also meeting all of the head standards of the audit programs that they have to go through between the county, state, federal government and our accounting auditors." Alvin Bentley, COO, worked on the grant submission and Baldwin Davis. Bentley said it's a super competitive national grant. “Each region has so many dollars and grants that can be awarded. There is a vast need in our region, hence the competition,” he said. “There are many 100 pages in total, and you have to hit every single point from counseling, the property, sustainability plan for the program and more. It's not set up for a new organization; you need to have a lot of structure in place already." Ben Kemmer has been with FKCS for almost 22 years. "Even 20 years ago, we would get kids or even families who spent a long period of time in-and-out of the shelter and then they turned 18, and there was no place in Monroe County for them to go. Even the kids that did have somewhere to go, often, were going right back into

Jai Somers, the head of the street outreach program in Key West and Ben Kemmer, CEO for the Florida Keys Children’s Shelter, inside a room.

the abusive home or atmosphere that they were removed from. That's just a terrible scenario for them. Through a lot of hard work and support from the community, we rallied around the idea and made it happen." Bentley added, "In the last three years, we've The Florida Keys Children’s Shelter’s transihad at least 10 kids that tional living complex in Key West. could have used this program." The TLP has a coordinator already in place, Jai Somers. Somers is the head of the street outreach program in Key West, Project Lighthouse, and has been with FKCS for almost 15 years. She has been instrumental in putting together a database, referral and waitlist for outreach. The nearest federally funded TLP is in Miami, but they visited one in Jacksonville that is not federally funded. It can be common for a TLP to have a 50-person wait list and take at least a month for the screening too. This essential funding for the TLP means that it's 100% free to young adults. The assistance needed varies with each young adult. However, the primary focus is independent living skills, i.e., getting them stabilized, having a job and some education. It's also important to acquire transportation to get to their job. Once they are in the TLP, how long they stay can vary, but they're expected to be able to reenter at least by the age of 22. Within the TLP case and outreach, managers help them get jobs, complete applications and get to the job initially. Food, however, is an independent responsibility from the start versus being supplied by the TLP; however, there is assistance and resources. If someone struggles with anxiety or is overwhelmed by work, education or life, there are live-in counselors and other licensed therapists available who can assist so they are not alone. In general, there are many in-house services based in Tavernier to assist throughout the county. Lynda Weinstein, development director, said, "We started to work on some other partnerships too, such as the College of the Florida Keys and Monroe County Schools. We are working on developing some type of work situation. It's the early phases, but we have had positive response and support." Kemmer added, "We've also been working really hard on trying to replicate the program in the Upper Keys. And the goal is to get FKCS TLP self-sufficient and privately funded." More information is at www.FKCS.org or 305-852-4246.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Notice is hereby given that on dates below these vehicles will be sold at public sale for monies owed on vehicle repair and storage cost pursuant to subsection 713.78 of the Florida Statutes. 05/09/22 at 10:00am Yacht Club Drive Marine, 107500 Overseas Hwy, Key Largo, FL 33037. Yacht Club Drive Marine reserves the right to accept or reject any and/ all bids. 2016 JETSKI USYAMA0133B919 JULIA PERELMAN. Publish: March 17 & 24, 2022 The Weekly Newspapers

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FICTITIOUS NAME NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned, desiring to engage in business under the fictitious name of Beachside Gift Shop located at 3841 N. Roosevelt Blvd., Key West, FL 33040 intends to register said name with the Florida Department of State, Tallahassee, Florida. By: Erica H. Sterling, on behalf of Spottswood Management Inc., a Florida corporation. Publish: March 24 & 31, 2022. The Weekly Newspapers FICTITIOUS NAME NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned, desiring to engage in business under the fictitious name of One of One located at 506 Fleming Street, Key West, FL 33040 intends to register said name with the Florida Department of State, Tallahassee, Florida. By: Robert A. Spottswood, Jr., on behalf of One of One Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation. Publish: March 24 & 31, 2022. The Weekly Newspapers FICTITIOUS NAME NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned, desiring to engage in business under the fictitious name of One of One Hospitality located at 506 Fleming Street, Key West, FL 33040 intends to register said name with the Florida Department of State, Tallahassee, Florida. By: Robert A. Spottswood, Jr., on behalf of One of One Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation. Publish: March 24 & 31, 2022. The Weekly Newspapers FICTITIOUS NAME NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned, desiring to engage in business under the fictitious name of One of One Stays located at 506 Fleming Street, Key West, FL 33040 intends to register said name with the Florida Department of State, Tallahassee, Florida. By: Robert A. Spottswood, Jr., on behalf of One of One Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation. Publish: March 24 & 31, 2022. The Weekly Newspapers

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE U-HAUL COMPANY OF MIAMI Notice is here by given that on April 11th, 2022, Leonard Richford Jr. Storage Auctioneer, Executive Administrator for U-Haul Company of Miami, Will be offering for sale under the Judicial Lien Process, By Public Auction, the following storage units. The Terms of the sale will be cash only. U-Haul Company does reserve the right to refuse any bids. The sales will Begin at 8:00 a.m. and continue day by day until all units are sold. The names of whose units will be sold are as follows: 103530 Overseas Highway, Key Largo, FL. 33037. Names And Last Known Addresses are as Follows: Thomas Flynn Unit 1636 $1,035.25 Christopher Richert Unit 1028 $886.52 The Estate of Ronald Stern Unit 1191 $507.80 Publish: March 24 & 31, 2022 The Weekly Newspapers PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE The District I Advisory Committee (DAC I) of the Monroe County Tourist Development Council will hold a regular scheduled meeting and workshop for Destination and Turnkey Event Funding on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. via Communications Media Technology using a Zoom webinar platform. Pursuant to Executive Order No. 20-69, Monroe County Emergency Directive 20-06, and the Center for Disease Control (“CDC”) social-distancing guidelines established to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the April 13, 2022 regular meeting of the District I Advisory Committee will be conducted via CMT, using a Zoom Webinar platform. If the Governor issues a subsequent order changing directives for Local Government Public Meetings, the Monroe County Tourist Development Council will provide updates on the County Website at MonroeCounty-FL.Gov. The access points to view the

PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE The District II Advisory Committee (DAC II) of the Monroe County Tourist Development Council will hold a regular meeting and workshop for Destination and Turnkey Event Funding on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. via Communications Media Technology using a Zoom webinar platform. Pursuant to Executive Order No. 20-69, Monroe County Emergency Directive 20-06, and the Center for Disease Control (“CDC”) social-distancing guidelines established to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the April 12, 2022 regular meeting of the District II Advisory Committee will be conducted via CMT, using a Zoom Webinar platform. If the Governor issues a subsequent order changing directives for Local Government Public Meetings, the Monroe County Tourist Development Council will provide updates on the County Website at MonroeCounty-FL.Gov. The access points to view the meeting or for members of the public to provide public

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PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE The District III Advisory Committee (DAC III) of the Monroe County Tourist Development Council will hold a regular meeting and workshop for Destination and Turnkey Event Funding on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 9:30 a.m. via Communications Media Technology using a Zoom webinar platform. Pursuant to Executive Order No. 20-69, Monroe County Emergency Directive 20-06, and the Center for Disease Control (“CDC”) social-distancing guidelines established to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the April 13, 2022 meeting of the District III Advisory Committee will be conducted via CMT, using a Zoom Webinar platform. If the Governor issues a subsequent order changing directives for Local Government Public Meetings, the Monroe County Tourist Development Council will provide updates on the County Website at MonroeCounty-FL. Gov. The access points to view the meeting or for members of the public to provide public comment will be: District III Advisory Council

PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE The District IV Advisory Committee (DAC IV) of the Monroe County Tourist Development Council will hold a regular meeting and workshop for Destination and Turnkey Event Funding on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. via Communications Media Technology using a Zoom webinar platform. Pursuant to Executive Order No. 20-69, Monroe County Emergency Directive 20-06, and the Center for Disease Control (“CDC”) social-distancing guidelines established to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the April 12, 2022 meeting of the District IV Advisory Committee will be conducted via CMT, using a Zoom Webinar platform. If the Governor issues a subsequent order changing directives for Local Government Public Meetings, the Monroe County Tourist Development Council will provide updates on the County Website at MonroeCounty-FL. Gov. The access points to view the meeting or for members of the public to provide public comment will be: District IV Advisory Council Meeting Time: April 12, 2022 02:00 PM

PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE The District V Advisory Committee (DAC V) of the Monroe County Tourist Development Council will hold a regular meeting and workshop for Destination and Turnkey Event Funding on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. via Communications Media Technology using a Zoom webinar platform. Pursuant to Executive Order No. 20-69, Monroe County Emergency Directive 20-06, and the Center for Disease Control (“CDC”) social-distancing guidelines established to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the April 12, 2022 meeting of the District V Advisory Committee will be conducted via CMT, using a Zoom Webinar platform. If the Governor issues a subsequent order changing directives for Local Government Public Meetings, the Monroe County Tourist Development Council will provide updates on the County Website at MonroeCounty-FL. Gov. The access points to view the meeting or for members of the public to provide public comment will be: District V Advisory Council Meeting Time: April 12, 2022 10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION CASE NO. 2022-CP-26-M IN RE: ESTATE OF LOUISE ESTHER PRESSLEY, Deceased. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The administration of the Estate of Louise Esther Pressley, deceased, whose date of death was January 29, 2022, is pending in the Circuit Court for Monroe County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is 3117 Overseas Highway, Marathon, FL 33050. The names and addresses of the personal representative and the personal representative’s attorney are set forth below. All creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate on whom a copy of this notice is required to be served must file their claims with the court ON OR BEFORE THE LATER OF 3 MONTHS AFTER THE TIME OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE OR 30 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE ON THEM. All other creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate must file their claims with this court WITHIN 3 MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE. ALL CLAIMS NOT FILED WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH IN FLORIDA STATUTES SECTION 733.702 WILL BE FOREVER BARRED. NOTWITHSTANDING THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH ABOVE, ANY CLAIM FILED TWO (2) YEARS OR MORE AFTER THE DECEDENT’S DATE OF DEATH IS BARRED. The date of the first publication of this notice is March 17, 2022. Personal Representative: Michelle O’Neil 126 Windy Way Reedsville, PA 17084 Attorney for Personal Representative: BLAIR D. SCHEMER, ESQUIRE Fla. Bar No. 60598 BERNARD & SCHEMER, P.A. 480 Busch Drive Jacksonville, FL 32218 (904) 751-6980 Email: blair@bernardlaw.net Publish: March 17 & 24, 2022 The Weekly Newspapers

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IN THE SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF FLORIDA IN AND FOR MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION CASE NO. 2022-CP-78-K IN RE: ESTATE OF BEVERLY J. AVANT, Deceased. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The formal probate administration of the estate of BEVERLY J. AVANT, deceased, whose date of death was January 20, 2022 and whose Social Security Number is XXX-XX-3038, is pending in the Circuit Court for Monroe County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is 500 Whitehead St., Key West, FL 33040. All creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate, on whom a copy of this notice is required to be served, must file their claims with the court WITHIN THE LATER OF 3 MONTHS AFTER THE TIME OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE OR 30 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE ON THEM. All other creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate must file their claims with this court WITHIN 3 MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE. ALL CLAIMS NOT SO FILED WILL BE FOREVER BARRED. NOTWITHSTANDING THE TIME PERIOD SET FORTH ABOVE, ANY CLAIM FILED TWO (2) YEARS OR MORE AFTER THE DECEDENT’S DATE OF DEATH IS BARRED. The date of the first publication of this notice is March 24, 2022. Personal Representative: OMIS HUGE AVANT, JR. Attorney for Personal Representative: MONICA S. SANTANA, ESQ. Florida Bar Number: 956805 Monica Matthews Santana Law Office 20030 Bluff Oak Boulevard Tampa, FL 33547-2975 813-407-3453 monicasantanalaw@yahoo.com Publish: March 24 & 31, 2022 The Weekly Newspapers

addresses of the personal representative and the personal representative’s attorney are set forth below. All creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate on whom a copy of this notice is required to be served must file their claims with this court ON OR BEFORE THE LATER OF 3 MONTHS AFTER THE TIME OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE OR 30 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE ON THEM. All other creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate must file their claims with this court WITHIN 3 MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE. ALL CLAIMS NOT FILED WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH IN FLORIDA STATUTES SECTION 733.702 WILL BE FOREVER BARRED. NOTWITHSTANDING THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH ABOVE, ANY CLAIM FILED TWO (2) YEARS OR MORE AFTER THE DECEDENT’S DATE OF DEATH IS BARRED. The date of first publication of this notice is: March 24, 2022. Personal Representative: Elizabeth P. Montgomery 420 10th Street Key Colony Beach, Florida 33051 Attorney for Personal Representative: Richard E. Warner Attorney Florida Bar Number: 283134 RICHARD E. WARNER, P.A. 12221 Overseas Highway MARATHON, FL 33050 Telephone: (305) 743-6022 Fax: (305) 743-6216 E-mail: richard@rewarnerlaw.com Secondary E-Mail: pamela2@ rewarnerlaw.com Publish: March 24 & 31, 2022 The Weekly Newspapers

court WITHIN THE LATER OF 3 MONTHS AFTER THE TIME OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE OR 30 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE ON THEM. All other creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate must file their claims with this court WITHIN 3 MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE. ALL CLAIMS NOT FILED WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH IN SECTION 733.702 OF THE FLORIDA PROBATE CODE WILL BE FOREVER BARRED. NOTWITHSTANDING THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH ABOVE, ANY CLAIM FILED TWO (2) YEARS OR MORE AFTER THE DECEDENT’S DATE OF DEATH IS BARRED. The date of first publication of this notice is: March 24, 2022. Personal Representative: Steven K. Schwartz 20801 Biscayne Blvd, Suite 506 Aventura, FL 33180-1400 Attorney for Personal Representative: Steven K. Schwartz, Esq. Florida Bar Number: 187976 STEVEN K. SCHWARTZ, P.A. 20801 Biscayne Blvd, Suite 506 Aventura, FL 33180-1400 Telephone: 305-936-8844 Ext 106 Telefax: 305-936-1804 E-mail: Steve@ stevenkschwartzpa.com Publish: March 24 & 31, 2022 The Weekly Newspapers

review these documents upon request. You must keep the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office notified of your current address. (You may file Designation of Current Mailing and E-Mail Address, Florida Supreme Court Approved Family Law Form 12.915.) Future papers in this lawsuit will be mailed or e-mailed to the addresses on record at the clerk’s office. WARNING: Rule 12.285, Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure, requires certain automatic disclosure of documents and information. Failure to comply can result in sanctions, including dismissal or striking of pleadings. Dated this 7TH day of March 2022 Kevin Madok, CPA Clerk of the Circuit Court Monroe County, Florida By: Riza Hall Deputy Clerk Publish: March 10, 17, 24 & 31, 2022 The Weekly Newspapers

CENTENNIAL BANK IS HIRING! TELLER II MARATHON/KEY WEST. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF POSITION: Conduct transactions with speed, accuracy and efficiency while meeting or exceeding service quality standards. Safeguard bank assets assigned to them. Contribute to the growth of the bank by promoting and cross selling bank products and services. EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: Equivalent to four years high school or GED, with particular emphasis during high school in office skills, shop skills, or others, plus 12 to 18 months related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience. To apply, please visit our careers page: www. my100bank.com/careers

Serve/Bartend on the ocean! FT/PT Ocean front private swim club is seeking customer service oriented server/ bartender. Serve on pool deck, beach and/ or bar lounge. Open year round, 10am-7pm daily. Full time/Part time. Small friendly staff. Above average hourly wage plus tips. Apply in person at 425 E. Ocean Dr. Key Colony Beach or call April (305) 393-0631.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA Case No.: 22-DR-000035-K Division: Family YENI A. MENDOZA RIVAS, Petitioner, and DOROTHY M. BESWICK, Respondent. NOTICE OF ACTION FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE TO: DOROTHY M. BESWICK Last Known Address: 4 BETTY ROSE DRIVE, APT. 421, KEY WEST, FL 33040 YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action for dissolution of marriage has been filed against you and that you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to it on YENI A. MENDOZA RIVAS, whose address is 4 BETTY ROSE DRIVE, APT. 421, KEY WEST, FL 33040, on or before April 11, 2022, and file the original with the clerk of this Court at 500 Whitehead Street, Key West, FL 33040, before service on Petitioner or immediately thereafter. If you fail to do so, a default may be entered against you for the relief demanded in the petition. Copies of all court documents in this case, including orders, are available at the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office. You may

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The 16th Judicial Circuit is seeking applicants for a Full-time Probation Officer in Marathon. This is responsible and professional work that ensures the effective supervision of defendants placed on misdemeanor probation and Back on Track supervision. Salary is $37,500 annually, plus Monroe County benefit package. See complete job description at www. Keyscourts.net. Interested applicants should submit a resume, cover letter and State of Florida Application to Personnel@Keyscourts. net or Personnel, 302 Fleming Street, Key West, Florida 33040. State of Florida applications and complete job description can be found at www. Keyscourts.net. The successful applicant will be required to pass a complete background check. Applications are being accepted until position is filled. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex, age, disability or sexual orientation. EOE. If you need an accommodation to participate in the application/selec tion process, please notify us in at advance at 305-2923423; to make call through the Florida Relay Center, you can dial 7-1-1.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION FILE NO.: 22-CP-25-M DIVISION: MIDDLE KEYS IN RE: ESTATE OF ROBERT E. MONTGOMERY Deceased. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The administration of the estate of Robert E. Montgomery, deceased, whose date of death was January 20, 2022, is pending in the Circuit Court for MONROE County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is 3117 Overseas Highway, Marathon, Florida 33050. The names and

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION FILE NO.: 21-CP-000090-K JUDGE KOENIG IN RE: ESTATE OF MAGALY X. CRUZADO BATISTA, Deceased. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The administration of the estate of MAGALY X. CRUZADO BATISTA, deceased, whose date of death was December 20, 2020, and whose Social Security Number is ***-**-6247, is pending in the Circuit Court for Monroe County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is 302 Fleming Street, Key West, FL 33040. The names and addresses of the personal representative and the personal representative’s attorney are set forth below. All creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate on whom a copy of this notice is required to be served must file their claims with this

Dr. Nikole Czapp is relocating and will no longer be practicing at Islamorada Medical Center effective April 22nd, 2022. The current providers at Islamorada Medical Center will still be available for patient care. Patient medical records will remain available at Islamorada Medical Center should patients need a copy of their records. 90130 Old Hwy, Suite 1, Tavernier, FL 33070, 305-852-9300 Publish: March 24 & 31, April 7 & 14, 2022 The Weekly Newspapers

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1999 Mercedes Benz 500 SL Convertible White w/blue leather interior. 31,000 miles. Located in Marathon. $21,900 781-422-1131 Place your Auto For Sale ad here for only $25.00/ week for up to five lines of copy. Call 305-743-0844 today and sell your car!

Computer Programmer /Coding. Need an individual experienced in basic computer languages and AWS platform. Please send resume and contact information to: twmcfo@gmail.com.

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Boat slip available oceanside in Marathon. Self contained incl. one parking space. $20.00 per foot/month plus water. F/L/S No pets. 305-6108002 EMPLOYMENT

Groundskeeper/ Maintenance person, KCB, Sea Isle Condominium, 20-25 hrs. per week, $20 per hr., apply by e-mail to HardingThomasL@aol. com, or call 734-476-0531. Boat rental company in Marathon needs mechanic. Boat experience a plus. Call 305-481-7006

Marathon Auto Air looking for technician. Pay based on experience and how often you show up to work! Apply in person at 2525 Overseas Highway, Marathon. 305-289-9884 The Cabana Club, an ocean front private swim club, is seeking a part time line cook. Perfect second job. Club is open 10am - 7pm daily. Located in Key Colony Beach. Hourly pay commensurate with experience. Beautiful environment, small friendly staff, open year round. Apply in person, email resume to atpor call 305 393-0631 ask for April. City of Marathon Current Job Openings: Recreation Specialist/ General Maintenance Tech, Engineering Intern, and Marina Customer Service Rep. Full Benefits. EOE Please see City website for details www.ci.marathon.fl.us

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Immediate openings for experienced plumbers and helpers (with or without experience - we will train the right person). Must have a valid driver's license & clean driving record. Please apply in person at 10700 5th Avenue Gulf, Marathon or email resume to: eerpinc@gmail.com The Housing Authority of the City of Key West is hiring a Human Resources & Risk Manager. This full-time position is a highly responsible position that handles all the daily functions or the Human Resources department. This position is al responsible for maintaining all insurance policies for the Housing Authority. A minimum of 2 years in a HR position and SHRM certification is preferred. Salary Commensurate with Experience. KWHA provides health, retirement, and leave benefits for permanent full-time employees. To apply, please contact Human Resources at: wrightk@kwha. org or (305)296-5621. Applications are available on our website www. kwha.org or at our Administrative Office located at 1400 Kennedy Dr., Key West, FL 33040. EOE & Drug Free Work Place. This opportunity is covered under Section 3 of the HUD Act of 1968. Part Time Supervisor/ Housekeeper Position Available Immediately in Key Colony Beach. Hours may vary depending on need including weekends. Responsibilities include oversee housekeeping staff, inspecting rooms prior to guest occupancy, making up laundry bags, cleaning rooms, etc. Physical demands: ability to lift and carry laundry bags ~ 35 lb. **Must have reliable transportation** Please call/text or email to discuss pay and to request application. Michelle - 952-208-2850 Cheryl - 305-505-8747 info@continental innbeachside.com

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Charter Captain /Mate - Busy fishing charter business in Marathon looking for experienced fishing Captain/Mate. Busy boats and location. Offshore, Inshore, Reef/ Wreck. Also part-time Boat Cleaner needed for afternoons. Send text or call 305-481-3259

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clerical, scanning, word processing, entry level bookkeeping, data entry, mail, filing and customer service. Must have strong computer skills, Microsoft Office. Exp with QuickBooks a plus. We are looking for a friendly, reliable teamplayer. Must be able to pass background check. Health insurance benefits after introductory period. Bishop, Rosasco & Co. Email resume to tara@keyscpa.com. EOE HIRED IN LESS THAN ONE WEEK!!

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NOW HIRING: Sweet Savannah's is now hiring for multiple positions: Cashier - must be 16 yrs or older, Full-time Baker & Part-time Baker's Assistant. Stop by for an application at 8919 Overseas Highway, Marathon or email: info@ s we e t s a v a n n a h s. c o m Marathon FT Admin Assistant for busy CPA Firm. Duties incl

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LOT FOR SALE Lot For Sale By Owner on Duck Key - Trade RV or BOAT or CASH. Call 305-481-1316 OFFICE/COMMERC.

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Dynasty Marine Associates, Inc. www.dynastymarine.net Located in the Florida Keys, is a highly-respected supplier of Caribbean marine life to public aquariums and zoos throughout the world.

LOGISTICS COORDINATOR Duties to include invoice and inventory entry, booking airline shipments, creating and filing paperwork for international shipments, scheduling inspections needed for international shipments. Must be proficient in Microsoft word, outlook and excel. This position requires high attention to detail and the ability to multitask. Compensation will be dependent on experience with performance-based incentive program. Benefits package including vacation, sick days, holidays and 401K PSP retirement plan. Please send cover letter and resume to sales@dynastymarine.net for consideration. No phone calls please.

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LOCATION: BIG COPPITT KEY AND DUCK KEY The Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority’s WASTEWATER DIVISION IS GROWING, and we need (2) WWTP OPERATORS WITH A FLORIDA “C” LICENSE OR HIGHER. You will perform skilled/technical work involving the operation and maintenance of a wastewater treatment plant. This requires technical knowledge and independent judgment to make treatment process adjustments and perform maintenance on plant equipment, machinery, and related control apparatus in accordance with established standards and procedures. Benefit package is extremely competitive! Location: Big Coppitt Key and Duck Key. Salary Range: $52,645.98 - $84,011.20. Apply online at www.fkaa.com

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Diesel Mechanic Truck Helpers CDL Drivers Applicants must apply in person to be considered. 4290 Overseas Hwy, Marathon

OCEANFRONT PRIVATE SWIM CLUB IN KEY COLONY BEACH IS SEEKING A KITCHEN MANAGER/COOK FOR OUR BUSY SNACK BAR. The Cabana Club is open 10 am - 7 pm daily. Must have experience. Responsibilities include but not limited to: ordering, cooking, menu design, good organizational skills and maintain a clean kitchen. Our small efficient kitchen mainly serves lunch items. Pay commensurate with experience plus benefits. Beautiful environment, small friendly staff, open year round. TheCabanaClubKeyColonyBeach.com Apply in person, email resume atpCabanaClub@aol.com or call 305-393-0631 and ask for April.

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The Turtle Hospital in Marathon Join our team! Full and part-time Educational Program Guides/Gift Shop Sales. Public speaking & retail sales experience helpful. $15.00/hour to start. Send resume to: TurtleHospitalMarathon@gmail.com

DUI Evaluator Part-time – Marathon

The Advocate DUI Program is hiring for a part time position. DUI evaluator - 2 days a week, Bachelors or Masters degree with experience in substance abuse field required. Bilingual preferred, not required. Office located in Marathon. Contact Marcia at (305) 704-0117.

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TO THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR JOB SUMMARY: Providing support for the City Administrator by performing clerical tasks such as but limited to; project oversight, management analysis. Candidate requires initiative, independent judgement and discretion. Must be able to lead by example and demonstrate the highest level of ethics. RESPONSIBILITIES • Working with the City Administrator in developing approaches and solutions to City needs. • Conduct complex and sensitive administrative, operational and management analysis. • Monitor pending projects. Supports the Administrator and Clerk with the commission, employee and citizen group meetings. • Understands and complies with Federal, State and Local Law governing City business. Must be versed in the Florida Sunshine Law, Open Records Law and Right to Know Laws. • Serve as project lead for special projects. • Manage multiple grants and projects. Provide effective research. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS • Possession of a valid Florida driver’s license or within 30 days if moving from out of state. • Must be able to pass a drug screening, criminal background check and FDMV record review. EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE: Bachelor’s degree in public administration, business administration or related government field. SKILLS: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, QuickBooks and social media. Please see full job description at keycolonybeach.net Send all resume’s to: cityadministrator@keycolonybeach.net, or City of Key Colony Beach City Hall, Attn: City Administrator, 600 West Ocean Drive, PO Box 510141, Key Colony Beach, FL 33051. DEADLINE TO APPLY: April 5th, 2022 – 4:00 pm Equal Opportunity Employer

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Sweet Savannah’s is now hiring for multiple positions: Cashier - must be 16 yrs or older Fulltime Baker Part-time Baker’s Assistant Email info@sweetsavannahs.com Or apply in person at 8919 Overseas Hwy, Marathon, FL

Department of Environmental Protection

John Pennekamp State Park is hiring for a seasonal OPS Senior Clerk Position for our Entrance Station. This position’s primary function is to provide excellent customer service, give information about the park and collect tolls. $18.50/hour

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The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace. The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace.

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Salary $18.00 - $25.80/hour Key West, Sugarloaf, Marathon and Upper Keys (4 work locations) No Experience Required, Benefits, CDL Training Provided – work as a Bus Aide while training, Full Time or Flexible, Part Time Hours - 6 to 9 am or 1 or 2 to 5 pm Apply online: www.keysschools.com

JOB TITLE: ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT REPORTS TO CITY CLERK The City of Key Colony Beach is accepting applications for Administrative Assistant. Position includes but is not limited to, front desk, answering multi-line phones, processing mail, administrative support to all Staff, ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with Commission, staff, and public, providing exceptional customer service. Minimum High School graduate with two years of work experience in customer service and administrative support. Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite. Applicants must possess strong communication skills, both written and verbal. Competitive salary based on experience. Full benefits provided. Contact City Hall for an application at 305-289-1212, opt. 2. Applications are also available at www.keycolonybeach.net; see “City Government” then “Forms”. Submit applications in person, via email, or by mail to: cityadministrator@colonybeach.net or City of Key Colony Beach City Hall Attn: City Administrator 600 West Ocean Drive PO Box 510141 Key Colony Beach, FL 33051 Equal Opportunity Employer Open until filled

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