Attorney: County being a grinch - Receive the Entire Key West
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Attorney: County being a grinch - Receive the Entire Key West
The Florida Keys’ Only Daily Newspaper, Est. 1876 NFL conference championships set — Page 1B Monday January 17, 2011 ◆ Vol. 135 ◆ No. 17 ◆ 16 pages 50 Cents Attorney: County being a grinch WEATHER Banning small holiday gifts deemed unnecessary Robert Malcom, first grade Montessori Charter School Street office and dropping off cookies and candies to the Monroe County courthouse. This year, however, bailiffs and court staff told Horan they could not accept the treats because of the county’s new ordinance prohibiting BY TIMOTHY O’HARA Citizen Staff Sunrise: 7:13 a.m. Sunset: 6:01 p.m. Today: Sun, showers possible High 76 Tonight: Early showers, cloudy Low 70 Key West attorney David Paul Horan has played Santa Claus for the past two decades, passing out gifts to children near his Whitehead Complete forecast on Page 2A NATION gifts. Horan said efforts to curb influence-peddling have gone too far and he has Horan asked to speak on the subject at the Monroe County Commission meeting Wednesday. “This was something that I really looked forward to doing,” said Horan, who has been doing it so long he is on his third Santa suit. “I think it’s disparaging to the county employees that they are being told that they can be bribed by a cookie. This absolutely defies good sense.” Horan said he has asked Commissioner Kim Wigington to create a gift policy that would allow county employees to accept such small See GIFTS, page 3A KEY WEST KEY WEST Museum continues to broaden its horizons Gas moves school lockers Shootings underscore MLK Jr.’s message BY JOHN L. GUERRA ATLANTA: One of the sons of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. said Saturday evening that the Arizona shootings that claimed six lives and left a congresswoman critically wounded show his father’s work must continue. Page 5A Citizen Staff of the museum. Treasure hunter Mel Fisher and his “golden crew” found the treasure-laden wreck in 1985 and Fisher’s company, Mel Fisher’s Treasures, continues to excavate shipwrecks and search for remaining treasure from the Rusting engine blocks, car parts and automotive scrap metal buried on the construction site of a new school is leeching methane gas and other contaminants, the district’s head of facilities said Friday. A student locker room that was to be constructed on the spot for the new Horace O’Bryant Middle School must be relocated, said Fred Sims. “It’s not a high concentration of gas,” he said Friday, “but we had to relocate a building we were going to build. We can’t have a building where gas vapors can accumulate.” The locker room next to the new gymnasium was to be L-shaped, but has been redesigned to be rectangular and relocated about 30 feet from its planned location. “While it was not a heavy concentration, it was advised we move the building away from the dump site and try to prevent any possible collection of gas under the building,” district Chief Operating Officer Jesus Jara said. Finding old tires, washers, dryers, lumber and other buried debris at work sites is not unusual, Sims said, but the soil, water and air at such sites must See MUSEUM, page 3A See GAS, page 3A WTC health care act: Who is covered? NEW YORK: There is no doubt that Richard Volpe is sick, and no doubt that the former police detective spent 9/11 breathing in clouds of soot at the World Trade Center. Page 7A WORLD ROB O’NEAL/The Citizen Premier will not quit despite big debt crisis Linda Jones of Toronto, Canada, inspects a model Sunday depicting the famed shipwreck of the Nuestra Senora de Atocha at the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum on Greene Street. DUBLIN: Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen faced a fight for political survival Sunday as he rebuffed pressure to resign and a senior Cabinet colleague announced he would challenge him for the party leadership. Page 8A New directors guide exhibit on Cuba’s role in Atocha BY MANDY MILES Citizen Staff A local maritime museum is looking south while exploring a new direction for exhibits and areas of study. The Mel Fisher Maritime Museum has welcomed four new directors who will guide the museum’s ON THE RADIO Key West City Commissioner Clayton Lopez talks about Lopez the events and significance of Martin Luther King Day. upcoming Cuban initiative, which will highlight the ties between the neighboring islands, starting with the famed Spanish galleon that wrecked between them in 1622. The Nuestra Senora de Atocha sank in a hurricane after sailing from Havana Harbor in September 1622. The ship was loaded with gold, silver and emeralds for the Spanish government, which needed the valuables to fund its ongoing war. “Most people know the Atocha left from Havana, but what many don’t realize is that the galleon was also built in Cuba,” said Melissa Kendrick, executive director KEY LARGO Victims advocate counts Yellowstone wolves BY STEVE GIBBS Citizen Staff Also on today’s show: • Mike Davila, KWFD • Capt. Pat DeQuattro, Coast Guard • Wayne Miller, county judge • Roger Hernstadt, Marathon city manager • Bobby Dube, FWC • Jeanie Somma, A.H.E.C. How does a Key Largo native become infatuated with tracking gray wolves in knee-deep snow? For Debbie Shepherd, it may have started with a poster of wolves her mother gave her after a summer trip with her father. Her future was certainly set in snow in January 2003, when she saw her first wolves in the wild at Yellowstone National Park. “It was really cold,” the 49- LOCAL NEWS US1 Radio 104.1 FM: 7:30 and 8:30 a.m. Noon, 5 and 6 p.m. 98.7 FM Conch Country: 7, 8 and 9 a.m. 3, 4, 5 and 6 p.m. INDEX items. She agreed to consider such a policy, but reiterated her objection to county employees accepting expensive dinners, fishing trips or hotel stays. “I think our employees know right from wrong,” Wigington said. “However, we need to be more careful than lenient. Public opinion is that ◆ CLASSIFIED ADS – 5-8 B THE CITIZEN ONLINE ◆ keysnews.com year-old recalled from her cubicle at the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office’s Roth building, where she works as a victims’ advocate. “It was about 4 degrees out. I looked through the scope at the alpha pair, and the female looked right at me. It was almost a spiritual connection. I looked in her eyes and it was like looking into her soul.” In March 1995, the National Park Service and other federal agencies released 14 Canadian gray wolves in Yellowstone. The next year, 17 more were let go in the park. COMICS – 6 A CRIME REPORT – 2 A Because wolves had been hunted to near extinction by the mid-1900s, their main prey — elk — had proliferated to the point that they were changing the park’s ecosystem through overconsumption of native vegetation. The release of wolves was not only intended to help keep the elk population in check, but to keep them on the run so that they returned to browsing rather than grazing. Contributed photo Shepherd said the reintro- Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Victims Advocate Debbie CROSSWORD – 6 B Shepherd visits Soda Butte Creek on one of her missions to See WOLF, page 3A count wolves in Wyoming’s Yellowstone National Park. KEYS CALENDAR – 2 A OPINION – 4 A SPORTS/LOTTERY – 1 B FOR HOME DELIVERY ◆ (305) 292-7777 2A THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ◆ MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2011 PAGE 2 IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST • ‘Cookies from the Heart’ Curves of Key West, in the Kmart shopping center, is again sponsoring the “Cookies from the Heart” program, which supplies Girl Scout cookies to U.S. troops. For more information on how to participate, call 305-293-8777. • Sailing programs offered The Key West Community Sailing Citizens’ Voice Center in Garrison Bight, is offering two youth programs this year. Opti Only is for children aged 8 to 13 with prior experience, and begins Saturday. The program runs six Saturdays from 1 to 4 p.m. The second program is Youth Boat Handling and Racing, for children 10 to 16 with racing experience. That begins Sunday and runs for six Sundays, from 9 a.m. to noon. For more information, call 305-517-6213, or visit [email protected]. AROUND THE KEYS Editor’s note: To have your event listed in Around the Keys, e-mail the who, what, where and when to [email protected]. • Veterans transport The Monroe County Veterans Affairs Department runs a van five days a week from Key West to the Miami VA Medical Center for medical appointments for veterans. There is no fee; veterans must have a verifiable TODAY IN KEYS HISTORY “Citizens’ Voice’’ is a forum for you to tell us what’s on your mind. Call the “Voice’’ at (305) 293-7900 or e-mail to [email protected]. Some of the comments will be published daily. “Could you please tell my friend he is drinking way too much?” “Regarding North Roosevelt work postponed: Instead of the world ending in 2012, maybe it will just go down to one lane. Same thing.” “Wow, what a shocker that a survey said the community wants a market in the Waterfront Market building. The Bight Board and City Commission have allowed the gouging of the bight tenants, leading to empty buildings that generate no jobs or sales tax revenue and create a vacuum effect.” “Your bacon Key lime pie was delightful.” “The Keys Overnight Temporary Shelter needs to be closed.” “Why is the city planning on making it easier for cruise ship passengers to walk to Fort Zachary Taylor by opening Admiral’s Cut? If all the passengers are going to do is visit the free Eco-Discovery Center and go to Fort Zach, why do we need them here? The whole justification for putting up with all the negatives these ships bring is the money they supposedly spend in town.” “Why hasn’t Nick Wright been fired yet? What is taking so long with such a cut and dry case? It’s time to protect our students and show them that there are consequences to poor choices.” “Didn’t know that plastic grocery bags couldn’t be put in the recycling bins. It’s time to ban them in the city and county.” “Am I the only reader who misses the bridge column?” [Editor’s Note: Bridge Tips appear in the B-section with the Keyswide Classifieds.] “I also appreciate the beauty of coconut palms, but what grows up must come down. I’ve had heavy coconuts drop too close for comfort. Walking under loaded coconut trees is risky. A sabal palm is better than a lawsuit for a tourist killed by a coconut.” NS’ V IZE CIT 328015 Advertising Pays Put Your Ad Here! 305-292-7777 x 269 KEY WEST 5-DAY FORECAST TODAY TONIGHT TUESDAY WEDNESDAY Some sun with thunderstorms possible A shower early; otherwise, clouds breaking Humid with partial sunshine Partly sunny, a couple of showers possible Beautiful with intervals of clouds and sun 77/67 77/67 Key West highs Police were searching for the person who burglarized the Monroe County Library Bookmobile while it was parked behind the library for the weekend. “Fat Albert,” which normally flew at 10,000 feet above Cudjoe Key, broke its tether and was brought down over the Everglades. Four Key West Coast Guardsmen were heading to the Middle East to help enforce the blockade during Operation Desert Storm. 50 YEARS AGO All officials and personnel of the Florida Keys Aqueduct Commission were reappointed for another term in a stormy session, with member Joe Sirugo protesting he had been deprived of his right to express his opinion. The U.S. ban on travel to Cuba was beginning to put the economic squeeze on Key West. The loss of the ferry and the reduced number of flights to Cuba was hurting local business. Major Gen. Jose De Suza Prate, Brazilian Air Force, was on a tour of the Navy facilities in Key West. The wedding of Dr. William R. Warren and Miss Genevieve Allen at the Old Stone Church with the Rev. C.T. Stout of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church officiating was a social highlight. 1/17 8:43 a.m. 7:44 p.m. 1/18 9:21 a.m. 8:34 p.m. 1/19 9:58 a.m. 9:22 p.m. 1/20 10:34 a.m. 10:11 p.m. 1/21 11:10 a.m. 11:01 p.m. 1/22 11:46 a.m. 11:52 p.m. 1/23 12:25 p.m. none DAYTONA BEACH 71/58 ORLANDO 73/58 Marathon lows highs 1:57 a.m. 11:04 p.m. 12:49 p.m. none 2:39 a.m. 3:01 p.m. 1:40 p.m. none 3:19 a.m. 12:10 a.m. 2:31 p.m. 3:31 p.m. 3:57 a.m. 1:11 a.m. 3:22 p.m. 3:57 p.m. 4:35 a.m. 2:08 a.m. 4:16 p.m. 4:18 p.m. 5:13 a.m. 3:04 a.m. 5:12 p.m. 4:33 p.m. 5:51 a.m. 4:02 a.m. 6:12 p.m. 4:44 p.m. MARINE FORECAST Wind southeast 10-20 knots today. Waves 2-4 feet. Thunderstorms. Water Temp 74° KEY WEST 76/70 MARATHON 78/71 CRIME REPORT Argument over crack leads to break-up CITIZEN STAFF KEY WEST — A relationship ended on Jan. 11 when a Key West woman accused her boyfriend of throwing feces and urine on her during an argument about her alleged crack use. By the time Key West Police left the residence in the 1500 block of Seminary Street around 10 a.m., both parties had agreed to live separately and end their relationship, the report states. No arrests were made. The 40-year-old woman claimed her boyfriend threw the waste on her during a fight, but officers noted that her clothes were clean and untorn. As they were speaking with her, the boyfriend rode up on a bicycle and explained that he had been fighting with the woman in an effort to force her to quit smoking crack. He told the police that the cup of alleged human waste was actually coffee, reports say. The man also denied throwing the coffee on the woman during the argument. The woman told the officers she was moving back to Stock Island, gathered her things and left, the report states. Information in the Crime Report is obtained from reports provided by area law enforcement agencies. If you have information that could help solve a crime in the Keys, call Crime Stoppers, (800) 346-TIPS. CORRECTIONS The Key West Citizen corrects all errors of fact. If you find an error in fact in The Citizen call Tom Tuell at (305) 292-7777, ext. 205. He can also be reached at [email protected]. Visit The Citizen online at: www.keysnews.com High .............................................. 75° Low ............................................... 62° Mean Temperature .................... 68.5° Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 5 p.m. Sun. ........ Month to date ............................ Normal month to date ............... Year to date ............................... Normal year to date .................. 0.00” 0.25” 1.19” 0.25” 1.19” Sun and Moon: lows 7:56 a.m. none 5:25 a.m. 4:50 p.m. 6:08 a.m. 5:40 p.m. 6:50 a.m. 6:32 p.m. 7:32 a.m. 7:25 p.m. 8:13 a.m. 8:22 p.m. 8:55 a.m. 9:20 p.m. Sunrise today ..................... 7:13 a.m. Sunset today ....................... 6:01 p.m. Moonrise today ................... 3:58 p.m. Moonset today .................... 5:04 a.m. TAMPA 69/59 ST. PETERSBURG 72/59 Full Last New First Jan 19 Jan 26 Feb 2 Feb 11 WEST PALM BEACH 77/65 FT. MYERS 75/61 FT. LAUDERDALE 77/67 MIAMI 77/67 KEY LARGO 76/69 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2011 FLORIDA CITIES FORECAST City Daytona Beach Fort Lauderdale Fort Myers Gainesville Jacksonville Miami Orlando Pensacola St. Petersburg Sarasota Tallahassee Tampa West Palm Beach Tomorrow Wednesday Hi Lo W Hi Lo W 74 58 pc 73 50 c 80 63 pc 79 64 sh 77 62 pc 78 60 c 71 53 pc 70 41 pc 68 50 pc 63 35 pc 80 65 pc 80 66 sh 77 57 pc 76 53 c 67 48 pc 60 41 pc 76 60 pc 74 55 pc 72 60 pc 73 56 c 69 50 pc 66 34 pc 73 58 pc 71 53 pc 80 62 pc 79 62 sh Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice. NATIONAL CITIES FORECAST TODAY’S NATIONAL FORECAST City Atlanta Boston Chicago Denver Detroit Kansas City Los Angeles New Orleans New York San Francisco Washington Tomorrow Wednesday Hi Lo W Hi Lo W 54 38 c 49 30 s 39 36 sn 44 27 c 30 12 sn 16 6 pc 52 23 pc 43 11 sn 39 24 r 26 10 pc 24 6 pc 21 9 pc 78 52 s 74 52 s 68 47 sh 59 43 s 42 36 i 42 27 pc 61 45 pc 58 45 s 43 35 r 45 29 pc Seattle 51/38 Billings 46/30 City Berlin Buenos Aires Hong Kong London Mexico City New Delhi Paris Rome Sydney Tokyo Toronto Today Hi Lo W 48 37 pc 83 62 pc 61 55 s 48 39 sh 75 40 s 71 47 pc 52 38 sh 60 42 pc 86 68 pc 46 32 s 23 23 pc Minneapolis 28/4 Chicago 30/29 San Francisco 60/45 Atlanta 45/36 Houston 60/48 Alternating lanes on the Geiger Creek Bridge are closed. Spanish Harbor Bridge lane shifts are planned at Mile Marker 33.3 from Tuesday through Friday. Speed has been reduced to 35 mph. Miami showers 77/67 t-storms Cold Front rain flurries Warm Front Shown are noon positions of weather systems and snow precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for today. Forecast high/low temperatures are given for selected cities. Stationary ice Front ROADWORK • Geiger Key New York 25/24 Washington 32/31 Kansas City 38/20 Denver 61/33 El Paso 70/43 Tuesday Hi Lo W 40 28 c 86 66 s 64 53 pc 40 31 pc 77 40 s 73 46 pc 44 38 r 59 39 pc 77 69 pc 49 35 pc 42 12 i • Key West Work continues on the South Roosevelt Bridge over Riviera Canal at Mile Marker 2.5. Traffic lanes will be closed intermittently. Detroit 27/25 Los Angeles 82/52 WORLD CITIES FORECAST Photo and text compiled by Tom and Lynda Hambright, Monroe County Library. Visit www.keywestmaritime.org for more rich maritime history of Key West and the Keys. Through 5 p.m. Sunday. Temperature GAINESVILLE WEEKLY TIDES The Air Force’s ‘Fat Albert’ radar system on Cudjoe Key is seen here. Mostly cloudy, chance for rain 76/70 77/66 KEY WEST ALMANAC JACKSONVILLE 65/52 66/53 20 YEARS AGO Mathews has written six novels, several books of poetry, collections of short stories and essays, translations and other works. He’ll continue the current focus on food by reading his epic poem “Country Cooking from Central France: Roast Boned Rolled Stuffed Shoulder of Lamb (Farce Double),” a recipe with hilarious extended commentary. Call 305292-6420. AccuWeather.com THURSDAY FRIDAY PENSACOLA 60/50 SPONSOR THE VOICE E OIC • ‘Soup-Off’ The Great Grand Vin Soup-Off will take place at 7 tonight at Grand TALLAHASSEE 56/45 100 YEARS AGO “The massive homeless problem we have in this town is being amplified by the free ride offered by the Catholic church. Members of the church need to do something, because the homeless are destroying the quality of life for individuals and families in Key West. Where is the church leadership on this issue?” • Mathews to speak Author Harry Mathews will speak at 6 p.m. at The Studios of Key West, 600 White St. Friends of the Key West Library organized the lecture. TODAY’S PICKS Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. “I would like to thank Mr. Wright and all the other dedicated teachers in Monroe County who are working hard to educate our children. We have problems in our school system, not with our teachers.” “Kudos to the Friends of Higgs Beach. I can’t wait to use a real, well-designed, well-thought-out community park with my family.” appointment to ride. For more information, call 305-289-6009. 76 70 TODAY’S STATE FORECAST “The Literary Seminar left me hungry for more. Thanks, Key West.” “Thanks to new School Board Member Ron Martin for recognizing that vocational programs are critically needed in the high schools and that not all students are ‘college material.’ I appeal to you to pursue this until a strong program is implemented.” Vin, 1107 Duval St. Spectators can sample the soups for $5 and vote for their favorite. The best soup chef will win a 3-liter bottle of chardonnay. The event will be followed by a viewing party for “The Bachelor.” For more information, call 305-296-1020. will take place from at Mile Marker 61 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Friday. Speed has been reduced to 35 mph. • Indian Key Lane shifts will take place at Mile Marker 78, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Friday. Speed has been reduced to 35 mph. • Key Largo Lane closures are planned along the southbound lanes at Mile Marker 97 to 100, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. • Marathon Lane shifts will take place from Mile Monday through Friday. Speed has been reduced to 45 mph. Marker 49 to 54 Tuesday through One southbound lane from Mile Friday. Speed has been reduced to Marker 91.4 to 93.7 will be closed 35 mph. from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday One northbound and southbound lane between Mile Marker 54.3 and through Friday, through March 31. 57.5 will be closed at various loca• Information tions from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday For real-time traffic information, through Friday. consult 511 or 305-797-0962 or Tom’s Harbor Bridge lane shifts http://www.fl511.com. IN PORT TODAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY Poesia Pier B 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Majesty Pier B 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Fascination Outer Mole 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Ryndam Mallory Pier Noon to 6 p.m. SS Mariner Mallory Pier 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mercury Pier B 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Cruise ship information is provided by the city of Key West. For updated information, call 305-809-3790. DEPARTMENTS PAUL A. 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The Citizen reserves the right to correctly edit or delete any objectionable wording or reject the advertisement in its entirety at any time prior to scheduled publication in the event it is determined that the advertisement or any part thereof is contrary to its general standard of advertising acceptance. Phone: (305) 292-7777, Monday though Friday, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Classified Department open Saturday 9 a.m. to noon. 3A THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ◆ MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2011 MILE MARKERS MARATHON EVERGLADES KEY WEST FLORIDA KEYS Seafood festival needs volunteers Everglades offers missile tour Plant clinics available Non-profit organizations may be eligible for a $1,000 donation if they provide volunteers to clear tables during the 35th annual Marathon Seafood Festival March 12 and 13 at Marathon Community Park. Applications are due by 5 p.m. Jan. 28, and must be submitted to the Marathon Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center, 12222 Overseas Highway. There is also an opportunity for one local nonprofit to assemble its own food booth to raise money. The seafood festival is organized by the Marathon Chamber and the Monroe County Chapter of Organized Fishermen of Florida. It is the Middle Keys’ second-largest annual event, and has drawn up to 20,000 people over the two-day festival that celebrates the Keys’ native seafood. To volunteer or sponsor the event, call the chamber at 305-743-5407. Additional information is available at www. floridakeysmarathon.com. Everglades National Park rangers once again will offer tours of the Historic Nike Hercules Missile Base. The site remains virtually the same as it was when official use of it ended in 1979. The tour takes visitors to one of the best-preserved relics of the Cold War in Florida. The Army Corps of Engineers built the missile base in the Everglades, 160 miles from Cuba, in 1963 after the Cuban Missile Crisis during a tense time in America. It is one of four that were built in South Florida. Interpretive tours will run through April and are offered daily at 10 a.m. with a 2 p.m. tour available on Saturdays and Sundays. The tours are free with the price of park admission. Tickets are available at the Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center. For more information, call 305242-7015. Get insects identified and plant problems diagnosed before treating landscapes with chemicals, says the Monroe County Extension Service. Free plant clinics will be held in the following locations this month: Key Largo: Wednesday and Jan. 19; 9 a.m. to noon; Government Center, 102050 Overseas Highway, suite 244. Marathon: Jan. 15; 9 a.m. to noon; Garden Club, 5270 Overseas Highway Big Pine Key: Jan. 15; 9 a.m. to noon; Big Pine Academy, 30220 Overseas Highway Key West: Jan. 10 and 24; 1 to 4 p.m.; Gato Building, 1100 Simonton St., suite 2-260. Photo courtesy of Chris Tittel Interagency Council board members gathered Friday for their monthly meeting at Monroe County School District headquarters. The council represents more than 40 social service agencies. From left are: Derrick Traylor of AIDS Help, Inc., Stephanie Kaple of the Florida Keys Outreach Coalition, Lynn Wintermyer of Wesley House Family Services, Daria Lopez of Easter Seals, council President Pam Soucy of Hospice Care of Southeast Florida, and Susan Kunas (seated) of the Department of Juvenile Justice. FROM PAGE 1 Continued from page 1A duction piqued her interest. “Ever since they were reintroduced in 1995 I have wanted to see them, to hear them howl,” she said. “I never imagined the connection I would have with them. I thought I’d fly to Montana, see a wolf and fly back home. Then life would go on as usual. That’s not what happened.” Shepherd will make her ninth winter trip to Yellowstone on Jan. 24. She plans her trips well in advance and says despite the cold, it is the best time of the year for her. She will fly into Bozeman, where Dr. Nathan Varley and his wife, biologist Linda Thurston, will meet her. They work for Defenders of Wildlife Museum Continued from page 1A Atocha. The museum was initially started by Fisher, but now is an independent and fully accredited nonprofit museum with areas of study that encompass much more than the Atocha. The 112-foot galleon was built for the Spanish crown in Havana in 1620 and had made only one previous voyage from the New World to Spain and then back again. The ship’s main mast was destroyed on the maiden voyage and had to be replaced, according to the museum’s Gifts Continued from page 1A no one should be accepting gifts.” The county staff is researching gift rules and soon will bring a proposal to the County Commission, she said. “You have five people on the commission with different ideas on this,” Wigington said. “It will be a good discussion and debate.” Commissioners and Monroe County State Attorney Dennis Ward have been debating the acceptance of meals and other gifts, as well as a lobbyist registration. Ward and Wigington have pushed for stricter rules. In other business The commission on Wednesday will also: • Discuss a toll for motorists coming into the Florida Keys. Proceeds would help pay for and conduct a wolf census each year to determine their population. “We go out as a team and report our observations to Yellowstone Wolf Project’s chief biologist Doug Smith,” Shepherd said. “He helps keep track of the information, which is used by the feds to help determine their [endangered] status and for other scientific purposes.” The Yellowstone census recorded 124 wolves in 2008 and 96 to 98 in 2009, Shepherd said, adding that the numbers usually fluctuate from year to year. “I’ll meet with seven or eight other volunteers from around the country and we’ll stay in a cabin with only beds and heaters,” she said. “We’ll get up at dawn, have a hearty breakfast and go out to look for wolves.” When asked why a person from a subtropical climate would go to such a cold place in the dead of winter, Shepherd doesn’t flinch. “January is the best time to see them because you’re about the only fool out there,” she said. “There are no wolves anywhere else — if you want to see them. You can listen to them in Minnesota, but you have to go to Yellowstone if you want to see them.” A few summers ago, Shepherd spent five days as a wolf pup nanny at the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minn. She says she did what anyone would do while caring for puppies, like scratching their bellies and ears. “It was generally making them accustomed to being handled by humans,” she said. “I had been against having them in captivity, but after understanding that the center teaches the world about wolves so that there is better understanding, I was swayed.” Still, Yellowstone and its environs are more to Shepherd’s liking. “When I retire, I will move out there within a week and be one of those volunteers,” she said. “I’d go tomorrow if I could.” The first time she spots a wolf each year is still a big thrill, she said. “People start out in 35 degrees below zero to see a wolf. When you hear them howl in Yellowstone, with the sound bouncing off the mountains, it’s breathtaking,” she said. “You know you’ve hit the jackpot.” [email protected] website. Two years later, the entire ship was tossed into 55 feet of water, where she and her priceless cargo remained for more than 300 years. The museum’s new board members will set policy and guide the direction as the organization seeks to establish some ties with Cuba’s cultural institutions, and possibly lend some of the Atocha’s artifacts to the island nation, Kendrick said. The newest directors include local businessmen Michael Browning and Greg Sullivan, Lower Keys Medical Center CEO Nicki Will and Miami professor and artist Gene Tinnie, who designed the monument at the African Memorial at Higgs Beach. “We are thrilled to have so many prominent Key West business people as trustees,” Kendrick said. “This speaks volumes about their willingness to support today’s museum programs and about the value of its educational program in teaching skills for our next generation.” The museum board sets policy, develops long-term strategies and will monitor the new Cuban initiative, along with other programs, such as educational enrichment programs, public lectures and ongoing archaeological research. “The skills learned in our programs develop comparative analysis, critical thinking and creativity,” Kendrick said. “Everything our kids need to prepare them for a lifetime of success are in built in to every program.” Kendrick also expressed her gratitude to the outgoing board members, whose terms of service expired as part of the museum’s accreditation, which only allows directors to serve three, three-year terms. Outgoing directors are John Harrison, Don Kincaid, Taffi Fisher-Abt and John Browning. For more information, visit www.melfisher.org. [email protected] state-mandated wastewater and stormwater upgrades. Commissioners will vote on whether to send the Federal Highway Administration a letter expressing the “county’s interest in pursuing an agreement whereby a toll could be placed on U.S. 1 on Key Largo, and a portion of the toll proceeds could be used for wastewater and stormwater,” according to the meeting agenda. All Keys properties must have upgraded sewage systems by December 2015, but state and federal funding for such projects has all but dried up, leaving local governments to seek new sources. • Vote on a land use rule that would set a firm 35-foot cap on building heights. County officials thought they had a hard and fast rule that limits all buildings to 35 feet. However, a loophole makes an exception, allowing affordable housing projects and hotels that are used as emergency hurricane shelters to be as tall as 44 feet. Developers also have tried to get around the cap by measuring from the top of fill dirt placed on the property. The County Commission will meet at 9 a.m. Wednesday at the Harvey Government Center, 1200 Truman Ave., Key West. [email protected] Gas Continued from page 1A be tested. Environmental engineers typically sink pipes that allow gas vapor to move from below ground to the mouth of the pipe above ground, where the type of gas and its concentration can be determined. Engineers also test the soil and groundwater for toxic elements. The costs to the district won’t be known until the engineering firm hired to fix the problem — SCS Engineers — comes up with a solution, Sims said. “They can dig a trench and bury a pipe connected to the pit so the vapors are funneled off-site,” Sims said. “They can try different ways; we’re hoping to do it the most cost- effective way possible.” The pit is so deep — Sims said crews stopped digging after 22 feet — that it will not be cleaned up quickly and may simply be filled in. It won’t hold up the construction of the new middle school and elementary school classrooms that are slated for completion next year. The buried auto debris is on district property behind Duncan Auto Mall on North Roosevelt Boulevard, and has been there for decades, Sims said. The district also is in talks with the car dealership, which abuts the school’s northern property line, to resolve what Superintendent Joe Burke said was its “encroachment” on district property. Duncan’s two aging buildings are about 3 feet over the school’s property line, Burke said. [email protected] STATE Astronaut hurt in bike accident THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAPE CANAVERAL — NASA officials say an astronaut who had been slated for a spacewalk on the upcoming shuttle mission has been hurt in a bicycle accident. The space agency said in a release late Saturday that Tim Kopra will be OK, but officials are still evaluating if he’ll be able to perform his duties when the shuttle Discovery launches to the International Space Station on Feb. 24. NASA did not release more details about Kopra’s injury, citing privacy Kopra concerns. The 47-year-old Kopra lives in Houston and is a retired Army colonel. He was one of two astronauts scheduled to go on a spacewalk during Discovery’s mission to the space station. CITIZEN OF THE DAY KeyWestSmiles .com check it out! 328338 Wolf ROB O’NEAL/The Citizen ANTI-AGING CENTER 3428 N. Roosevelt Blvd., Key West 305-294-8284 Now available in Key West! 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Their plans to spend the first part of this congressional session trying to undo President Obama’s agenda suggest both a misreading of the public temperature and an unhealthy willingness to value politics over obvious national interest. They should take a deep breath before proceeding. Consider just two items from the Republicans’ suicide list: They say they want to repeal last year’s health reform plan and they want to block funding for a new food safety law. Either they aren’t paying attention or they aren’t serious. Both could be true. Consider health reform. No credible person denied in the years leading up to this bill that our health care system was broken. We pay more than any other Western country for health care — far more, in fact — for results that are only mediocre. Costs are rising so quickly that increasing numbers of employers are looking to eliminate the benefit, or pass along costs that gobble up pay raises. Millions of Americans lacked insurance, causing them to go without health care or, in many cases, to show up in hospital emergency rooms. It was a wreck of a system. It needed fixing. How well Obama and the Democratic Congress accomplished that is a matter of debate. We think that, in large measure, they missed the boat, because their approach did too little to control costs. Without that component, reform is liable to fail. But that doesn’t mean going back to a broken system, which is what the Republicans are proposing. They talk about “reform and replace,” but as was the case last year when they did nothing to improve this bill — wanting only to obstruct it — they have had nothing to say about fixing an urgent national problem. That’s leadership? Why aren’t they proposing a system to fix health care? Here’s why: That takes work. Not only is it much easier to bellow “Repeal!,” but it also plays well to the far- T Editorial right elements that wag the Republican dog. Fixing health care — which means acknowledging a legitimate government role — is much riskier. It’s also much more responsible, but never mind. As to food safety, only on [Jan.4] did Obama sign a $1.4 billion overhaul of the nation’s food safety system, but Republicans are already talking about withholding funding. The old system, such as it was, had been in place since the 1930s. Techniques have changed. Standards have risen. And, more to the point, people have fallen ill. Several deadly outbreaks of E. coli and salmonella poisoning have occurred in the past few years in peanuts, eggs and produce. The bill passed with overwhelming support in Congress and from the food industry, so the chances of starving it of funding seem unlikely. But the same forces are at work as in the health care bill: What is important is placating the far right, even if that means returning to a dysfunctional health care system or exposing Americans to tainted food. There is lots more, too. Republicans also want to undo the financial reforms that Congress approved in the aftermath of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression — a crisis that was brought on in large part by the lack of regulations to which many in the GOP would now like to return. Republicans may feel boxed in. The tea party-types who are the psychological rulers of the Republican roost care nothing for details; they want only to cut spending, and the party at least has to pretend to pay attention. But Americans didn’t vote last year for a return to the anti-regulatory recklessness of the Bush years. They want a government that deals with real problems in a responsible way. Congressional Republicans aren’t starting out on that foot. If they continue, they may live to regret the day they sat down to tea. — The Buffalo (N.Y.) News Letters to the editor Global warming not a matter of opinion I would like to congratulate Mr. Donald Huskey (“Manatee deaths show planet is cooling,” Letters to the editor, Jan. 12) for his serious thought on a very important matter, namely, global warming. He states that cold Florida winters, resulting in increased manatee deaths, are evidence that the world is cooling. I have heard a number of people make this same argument. This argument is mistaken. Here are a few facts to consider: 1. Ninety-seven percent of scientists who are active in climate research agree that global warming is a real phenomenon and that humans do play a role (2007 University of Illinois survey). 2. The loss of sea ice in the Arctic has raised ocean temperatures there. This has disrupted “normal” atmospheric pressure patterns and allows cold, Arctic air to dip down into the southern United States. This causes our cold snaps that have gotten more severe in recent years and is a direct effect of global warm- ing. (Scientific American, Jan. 5, 2011, Marshall & Stecker and Climatewire). 3. Weather is local. Climate change is global. Surveys by Gallup and the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion have shown that belief in global warming (by the public) increases after a hot summer and decreases after a cold winter. For anyone interested in reading the Scientific American article, here is the link: h t t p : / / w w w. s c i e n t i f i camerican.com/article. cfm?id=bulge-in-atmospheric-pressure. Global warming is not a matter of opinion or politics. It has, and will continue to have, a major impact on the world for generations to come. Opinions will not matter. What will matter is what people like you and I, regardless of our opinions, decide to do. Michael Larson Key West experiencing global cooling, I would cite information from a recent piece in the New York Times: “The new figures confirm that 2010 will go down as one of the more remarkable years in the annals of climatology. It featured prodigious snowstorms that broke seasonal records in the United States and Europe; a record-shattering summer heat wave that scorched Russia; strong floods that drove people from their homes in places like Pakistan, Australia, California and Tennessee; a severe die-off of coral reefs; and a continuation in the global trend of a warming climate.” Anyone who can’t see what is happening — floods in the southern hemisphere and unprecedented snowstorms in the northern — isn’t looking or is denying science in the name of politics. The Times article continues, “It was the 34th year running that global temperatures have been above the 20th-century Science, not politics, average; the last below-averprovides climate facts age year was 1976. The new To those who use anecdotal figures show that nine of the 10 information to claim that we’re warmest years on record have occurred since the beginning of 2001.” I’ll put my trust in science and not politics twisted by corporatism. And, I’ll continue to reduce my greenhouse gas emissions because it’s the right thing to do. Michael Welber Marathon Extreme weather is part of global warming Mr. Huskey just doesn’t get it, and reversed [what] scientists say — the vast [majority of] independent scientist say [global warming] is happening. What most don’t get is that global warming is a trend that leads to the world generally warming, but also leading to extremes of abnormal hot and cold. Cold [in the] temperate south and tropics, and at the same time warm in the Arctic and Antarctic. There is the problem. Global warming does not mean hot everywhere — just ever more extreme weather. 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Box 1800, Key West, FL 33041. • The publisher has final authority on publication of submitted material. Literacy Volunteers project uses outdoor experience to teach language skills technology side of Literacy Volunteers of America’s Guest Columnist National Oceanic and hen I asked 22-year- Atmospheric Administration pilot project grant, “The old Nicaraguan LVA Environmental Literacy student Jorge Luis Program.” The goal: Engage Alvarado how he felt about being on the ocean for an edu- English as a Second Language (ESL) adult and youth learners cational field trip, he replied, in technologically facilitated “I’m a-scared.” outdoor experiential learning He looked scared. to improve environmental, “He’s never been on a ocean, climate and English boat before,” said Literacy literacy. Volunteers of America tutor What does that mean? Marlynn Wolkoff as the ocean “You take your student out breeze blew back their hair. of the classroom and on a “He can’t swim.” boat trip,” said Wolkoff. “You I took the digital camera put a digital camera in one with GPS from around my hand, and a GPS in the other. neck and placed its lanyard But before the trip, you teach around Jorge’s neck. the Ocean Literacy curricu“Here,’ I said. “You be the lum so students learn ocean picture-taker. You have to vocabulary. The more English write a story, too, about the the better — and what better ocean when you get back to subject than the ocean? It’s all class. ... You’re in charge.” around us.” Jorge grinned, the first On the boat, students student empowered to remember what they learned touch our new camera and in class as they experience officially implement the BY MARY CASANOVA W the ocean, then create stories about their ocean adventure in English and their native language, notes volunteer tutor Gordon McIntosh. “Our students are learning Ocean Literacy and English literacy simultaneously.” Project goals include ESL students learning to use digital cameras, waterproof underwater high-definition cameras and Global Positioning System (GPS) technology to locate, explore, observe, record, display and tell stories both in words, photos and short video sequences. Peter Tuddenham, executive director of The College of Exploration, LVA’s project partner, oversees the technology piece. “LVA has used the language experience approach for the past 25 years to teach students, but now our new project adds another dimension to learning with cutting edge technology and an outdoor, experiential learning situation,” said Tuddenham. The language experience approach is based on activities and stories developed from the personal experiences of the learner. The student relates a story of personal significance to the teacher/ tutor; the teacher repeats the story back to the student; they discuss and elaborate and the student writes it down. The tutor gets the student to expand on the story; the teacher helps correct the story and the student then elaborates further. The new story is written, and re-read. Students learn and retain using authentic materials that have personal relevance in their lives. The use of the language experience approach dates back at least 40 years. It assists students with connecting their own life experiences to what they are learning about in and outside of a traditional classroom setting. The approach, first developed for Maori-speaking and nativeEnglish-speaking children, has been used successfully with learners of all ages. Harvard educational psychologist Howard Gardner found that outdoor education fosters “connected knowing,” where education is part of, rather than separate from, life. Unlike classroom learning, outdoor education uses the student’s whole environment as a source of knowledge. It includes more than studies of nature, although learning about the environment is certainly an important aspect of this educational tradition. It encompasses the use of the outdoor environment — whether natural or man-made — to promote learning from experience and enrichment of nearly any subject in the curriculum. LVA has three NOAA partners participating in this two-year pilot project: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory and Southeast Fisheries Science Center. An impressive partner list also includes the Reef Environmental Education Foundation, Pigeon Key Foundation and Marine Science Center, Volunteers in Adult Literacy Florida/Literacy Florida! Inc., Florida Literacy Coalition and Pro Literacy America. LVA serves the Lower, Middle and Upper Keys with one-to-one and small group literacy instruction free of charge. For information about LVA literacy programs, stop by its Monroe County headquarters at 1400 United St., Key West, call 305-294-4352 or email [email protected]. Mary Casanova is executive director of Literacy Volunteers of America-Monroe County, Inc. 5A THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ◆ MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2011 NATION TUCSON, ARIZ. BOSTON BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. NEWARK, N.J. Giffords condition improves Young victim’s organs go to girl Breach closes checkpoint Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ condition improved to serious on Sunday after procedures to remove a ventilator were successful. Doctors decided to upgrade her from critical because the tracheotomy done a day earlier went well, and Giffords was breathing on her own, hospital spokeswoman Katie Riley said. Giffords was one of 19 people shot at a Safeway store Jan. 8. Six people were killed. Meanwhile, a week after the Tucson supermarket massacre, a shooting victim became distraught during a televised town hall meeting and was arrested, authorities said. James Eric Fuller, a self-described liberal and military veteran, started ranting at the end of the program. The father of the youngest victim of the Arizona massacre says some of her organs have been donated to a young girl in the Boston area. John Green tells The Boston Globe in Sunday’s edition that he received a phone call about the transplant, but he doesn’t know any other details about the donation. He says the call “really lifted” his spirit, and he and his wife are proud parents once again of their daughter, “who has done another amazing thing.” Nine-year-old Christina Taylor Green was born Sept. 11, 2001. She had just been elected to her Tucson school’s student council, which is why she went to see Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. A spokesman for the New England Organ Bank says he can’t comment on donations. A security checkpoint at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport has been briefly shut down because a prohibited item was found in a bag. Transportation Security Administration spokesman Nico Melendez says the item was found Sunday afternoon at a checkpoint in Terminal C, one of the airport’s three major terminals. He says he doesn’t know what the item was. But he says there didn’t appear to be any malicious intent by the person who had it. The checkpoint reopened 45 minutes later. Authorities say the closure didn’t cause any major delays or problems at the airport, one of the nation’s busiest. MATT SAYLES/The Associated Press Angelina Jolie and her husband Brad Pitt, left, arrive for the Golden Globe Awards Sunday in Beverly Hills, Calif. MLK III: Arizona shootings underscore father’s message BY RAY HENRY The Associated Press ATLANTA — One of the sons of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. said Saturday evening that the Arizona shootings that claimed six lives and left a congresswoman critically wounded show his father’s work must continue. “Ugliness rears its head,” Martin Luther King III told a dinner gathering hosted by the King Center. “And that tragic incident in a real sense should say to us all that the work of Martin Luther King Jr. is nowhere near finished because he tried to teach us how to live in a nation and world without destroying either person or property.” “And so the message of nonviolence resonates strongly, particularly this year after that great tragedy,” King said. King III spoke at a King Center tribute to the late Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, honoring his work on civil rights. A posthumous award was presented to the senator’s widow, Vicki Kennedy. The senator died at age 77 in 2009, after battling brain cancer. “Edward Kennedy’s maiden speech as a young United States senator was a demand to make real the ideal of America and secure the civil rights of every American,” his wife told the crowd. “And nearly a half-century later, the last speech of his life was the call to com- Giffords, who is recovering from a gunshot to the head. Both the Kennedy and King families have been seared by political violence. President John Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963, and King and Sen. Robert Kennedy were slain months apart in 1968. “We have always felt that we shared a sense of destiny,” said Andrew Young, a former Atlanta mayor who marched alongside King, speaking of the ties between King’s movement and the Kennedys. If they shared a destiny, it was sometimes tense. Civil rights leaders were frustrated that the Kennedy administration did not move faster on the issue, and as attorney general, Robert Kennedy authorized the wiretapping of King. Congress passed landmark civil rights legislation following President Kennedy’s assassination, and both Robert Kennedy and King championed liberal causes over the next four years. After King was shot dead on April 4, 1968, Robert Kennedy broke the news of his death to a mostly black crowd while campaigning for DAVID GOLDMAN/The Associated Press president in Indianapolis. He quoted the Greek Yolanda King, 2, left, in the arms of her mother tragedian Aeschylus. Andrea King, right, looks up Thursday at a portrait “Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forof her grandfather, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. get falls drop by drop upon the heart until,” Kennedy said, “in our own despair, against our plete the journey.” Although the dinner was a celebration, King’s will, comes wisdom through the awful grace children and sister were mindful of the Jan. 8 of God.” Edward and Robert Kennedy attended King’s assassination attempt on Arizona Rep. Gabrielle funeral in Atlanta. Two months later, Robert Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles after winning the California primary. King’s followers found in Edward Kennedy an ally. “My brother was the first president of the United States to state publicly that segregation was wrong,” a 32-year-old Edward Kennedy said on the Senate floor as the chamber considered the Civil Rights Act of 1964. “His heart and soul are in this bill. If his life and death had a meaning, it was that we should not hate but love one another; we should use our powers not to create conditions of oppression that lead to violence, but conditions of freedom that lead to peace.” A friend of Coretta Scott King, Edward Kennedy sponsored legislation that made King’s birthday a national holiday. He joined the King family in Atlanta for the first King Day celebration in 1986. Speakers on Saturday noted that Edward Kennedy supported sanctions against the apartheid regime in South Africa, backed expanding access to health care and endorsed Barack Obama, who became the first black man elected president. King was a hero to Kennedy, his wife said. “On this day, let us rededicate ourselves to what is best in our country,” she said. “Surely we know it when we live it, as these two men lived not just for themselves, but for others. One of them told us, ‘I have a dream.’ The other affirmed, ‘The dream shall never die.’” NC town to host 1st King Day tribute celebration School board member blasts MLK Day on radio THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BY P. SOLOMON BANDA The Associated Press GREELEY, Colo. — A local school board member and radio station owner has come under fire for airing an editorial denouncing the holiday honoring slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The broadcaster remains unrepentant and defiant in the wake of community outcry. Brett Reese is airing the editorial four times daily — up from two — on his station KELS-FM 104.7. He is unapologetic that portions of the editorial that call King a “plastic god,” a “sexual degenerate,” and “an Americahating communist” appear verbatim on a website with links to a white supremacist group. “Facts are facts, truth is truth,” he said, adding that he might pre-empt other programing to air the editorial round the clock. The 40-year-old former carpenter claims he helped build houses for Habitat for Humanity in the Mississippi Delta and once dated an African-American woman. He insists he’s not racist. The Mountain States AntiDefamation League has asked Reese to stop broadcasting the editorial. The school board passed a resolution last week supporting the holiday and calling the editorial “inflammatory and detrimental to our district and community.” The vote came after Reese walked out of the meeting. “Timed as they are, Mr. Reese’s words demean the existence of the Martin Luther King holiday and its honoring of not just Reverend King but of his messages of equal rights, peaceful demonstration, civility and respect,” the board said in its resolution. Mayor Tom Norton, a former state legislator, said Reese’s views don’t represent Greeley, which holds an annual MLK Day march and celebration. “I find it difficult to figure out where he’s coming from,” Norton said. Reese said some advertisers have departed the low-power FM station, which he has owned since 2000, over the editorial. But he said he is financially able to survive indefinitely without sponsors. He said he’s received death threats. He also said that he’s not trying to become a lightning rod for debate over the holiday, which was controversial in some states at its inception. “That’s not what my push is. I think it’s important for people to discuss any issue openly, freely NOTICE OF MEETING DEVELOPMENT REVIEW COMMITTEE MEETING Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. City Commission Chambers, Old City Hall, 510 Greene Street ADA Assistance: If you are a person with a disability who needs special accommodations in order to participate in this proceeding, including requesting materials in accessible format, a sign language interpreter or other assistance (5 days advance notice required), or information on access available to individuals with disabilities, please contact the ADA Coordinator at 305-809-3951 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. If you are hearing or voice impaired, please call 305-809-1000. January17, 2011 Key West Citizen 328263 ED ANDRIESKI/The Associated Press Brett Reese is at the controls Friday in the studio of his radio station in Greeley, Colo. and without being assassinated or bankrupted,” says Reese. He’s an elected member of the Greeley-Evans School District 6 board since 2009. The Greeley Tribune began writing about the radio editorial earlier this month. Reese had aired the editorial, which he said was sent to the station in an anonymous letter, in relative obscurity for the past three Januarys. Greeley, about 60 miles north of Denver, is nestled in the center of mostly agricultural Weld County and has a large meatpacking plant, JBS Swift & Co., which was hit in a 2006 federal raid targeting illegal immigrant workers. “It’s a very conservative town,” said Ceta Mercadal, 21, a sociology and Africana studies major at the University of Northern Colorado, who grew up in New Orleans and is African-American. “When I first got here, I felt like I was one of a kind.” Many of the claims in Reese’s editorial were spun out of FBI efforts in the 1960s to discredit King, including charges of marital infidelities. “It’s hurtful and totally unnecessary,” said Sabrina Harms, 17, a senior at Greeley West High School, one of four high schools in the district. “Thank you for sharing the information but I think that Martin Luther King’s accomplishments stand as they are.” Reese said he began carrying a .45 caliber semi-automatic handgun, including to school board meetings, because of the death threats. But that stopped Thursday after a judge issued a restraining order over alleged threats he made to a rival radio station about would-be advertisers. A court hearing is scheduled for Jan. 21. GARNER, N.C. — A Wake County town is holding its first tribute to slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King on Sunday. The celebration comes just three years after the mayor outraged black leaders by saying he didn’t want any more southeast Raleigh students at Garner schools. The News & Observer of Raleigh reports that Garner pastor David Forbes, who met King, will lead the celebration. He’ll talk about his own experience being arrested for ordering a Coke at a Raleigh Woolworth’s store. Forbes said the celebration shows the peace that has been found in the small town in the period since Mayor Ronnie Williams angered black leaders with his comments about students from southeast Raleigh. Williams insisted his remarks had nothing to do with race. He said his concerns were over busing in students from Raleigh who received free or reduced-priced lunches. In 2008, Forbes called Williams’ statement the latest insult from Garner directed toward black students. This week, though, his tone had changed. “Martin Luther King cannot be denied as a patriot whose work in civil rights has touched everyone. Certainly it has impacted Garner,” Forbes said, pointing out that he grew up in southeast Raleigh and now lives in Garner. Williams said there’s been no discussion of his earlier comments during planning for the Garner event. “That’s part of the past,” Williams said. “It’s not something we’ve dwelled on.” The mayor said he had been mulling the idea for Garner’s King Day event for four years. “It’s sort of come full circle,” said David Prince, a Garner resident who is helping to organize King events there and in Raleigh. “The mayor reached out. ... Now I’m beginning to know the mayor after working on the MLK committee in Garner.” NOTICE OF MEETING NOTICE OF REGULAR MEETING The District Board of Trustees of Florida Keys Community College will hold its Regular Monthly Meeting at 2:00 P.M., on Monday, January 24, 2011, in Key West, 5901 College Rd., on the William A. Seeker Campus, Board Room A-105. If a person decides to appeal any decision made by the District Board of Trustees with respect to any matter considered at that meeting, that person may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made which record includes the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based. A copy of the Agenda may be obtained by writing to the Office of the President, Florida Keys Community College. FLORIDA KEYS MOSQUITO CONTROL DISTRICT Executive Secretary District Board of Trustees BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2011 5:30 P.M. 503 107TH Street Marathon For those wanting to attend the meeting, but are physically challenged, please call 1-800-276-7493 and arrangements will be made. Florida Keys Community College. January 17, 2011 Key West Citizen 328190 January 17, 2011 Key West Citizen 328247 6A THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ◆ MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2011 COMICS ROSE IS ROSE PEANUTS DILBERT GARFIELD Pat Brady Charles M. Schulz Scott Adams MOTHER GOOSE AND GRIMM SHOE KIT & CARLYLE BORN LOSER Jeff MacNelly Larry Wright MODERATELY CONFUSED J. Stahler Jim Unger MARMADUKE Brad Anderson Jim Davis HERMAN BEETLE BAILEY Mike Peters Mort Walker Art & Chip Sanson ARLO & JANIS FRANK & ERNEST Jimmy Johnson Bob Thaves SUDOKU Complete the grid so that every row, column and 3x3 box contains every digit from 1 to 9 inclusively. THE GRIZZWELLS MONTY Bill Schorr Jim Meddick THE WORLD ALMANAC Monday, January 17, 2011 BIG NATE Lincoln Peirce Today is the 17th day of 2011 and the 28th day of winter. TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1773, Capt. James Cook, along with his shipmates, became the first to sail south of the Antarctic Circle. In 1819, Simon Bolivar proclaimed Colombia a republic. In 1991, a U.S.-led coalition’s planes struck targets in Kuwait and Iraq, launching the Persian Gulf War. TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Benjamin Franklin (17061790), statesman/inventor/ author; Al Capone (18991947), organized-crime boss; Betty White (1922-), actress; James Earl Jones (1931-), actor; Muhammad Ali (1942), boxer; Jim Carrey (1962-), actor; Michelle Obama (1964-), U.S. first lady; Zooey Deschanel (1980-), actress. TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1971, the Baltimore Colts defeated the Dallas Cowboys, 16-13, in Super Bowl V, a game so filled with errors it was nicknamed the “Blunder Bowl.” TODAY’S QUOTE: “A man who views the world at 50 the same way as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” -Muhammad Ali TODAY’S FACT: Though Benjamin Franklin’s accomplishments as an inventor, publisher and statesman are wellknown, his musicianship is not. A composer and viol player, he created a briefly popular new instrument known as the armonica (or glass armonica). TODAY’S NUMBER: 26 -- age at which gangster Al Capone became boss of the “Chicago Outfit.” TODAY’S MOON: Between first quarter (Jan. 12) and full moon (Jan.19). Find Today's Horoscope, Crossword Puzzle, Celebrity Cipher, Bridge Tips and Dear Abby in the Citizen Keyswide Classified Section. 7A THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ◆ MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2011 NATION WTC responders health act: Who is covered? BY DAVID B. CARUSO The Associated Press CRAIG RUTTLE/The Associated Press Retired New York City Detectives John Walcott, left, and Richard Volpe pose for a portrait Thursday in Tarrytown, N.Y. yet been linked to the dust. “I’m hoping that when they set up the parameters ... my most serious illness is going to be included,” said Volpe, who also suffers from mild respiratory problems. “I got diagnosed at 34 years old. I was as healthy as I have ever been. To me, it’s not a coincidence,” he said of his exposure to the ash and dust and the sudden onset of his symptoms. Volpe’s old partner in the detective bureau, John Walcott, is in a similar situation. He was diagnosed in 2003 with acute myelogenous leukemia. There has been tremendous pressure from first responders to add at least some types of cancer to the list of conditions presumed to be caused by trade center dust. Some of the police officers, firefighters and construction workers who campaigned hardest for the law suffer from some form of cancer. Yet, scientists say that so far they have been unable to link cancer to the dust, and although theories abound about how the soot might have triggered the disease in some people, there might not be solid evidence one way or another for many years. To Walcott, an omission of cancer from the program would be inconceivable. “They have to add it,” Walcott said. “If they don’t, they’re going to have another 5,000 lawsuits on their hands. Everybody I talk to says, ‘Don’t worry about it. It will be covered.’” The task of deciding who qualifies for compensation, and who doesn’t, will eventually fall to the program’s special master, who has yet to be appointed. U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer has already suggested the job should go to Kenneth Feinberg, the lawyer who oversaw the original compensation fund for 9/11 victims. This administrator will have discretion over the cash payments that are to be distributed to people sickened by the dust, but will probably be guided by rules created over the next few months by the Justice Department and Department of Health and Human Services. More than 55,000 people who either worked at the trade center site or were exposed to the dust in Lower Manhattan are enrolled in a medical monitoring program. Of those, about 17,000 received some type of medical treatment within the past year, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The people getting care have blamed hundreds of different ailments on trade center toxins, from heart attacks, to skin cancer, to chronic cough. A separate administrator overseeing a companion $1.5 billion health program for responders will also have the power to put additional diseases on the list of ailments for which the government shoulders treatment costs. Before shooting, suspect embarked on chaotic night BY JUSTIN PRITCHARD AND MICHAEL R. BLOOD The Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. — He wandered through the dark streets of his hometown, meandering from one store to another on a furious all-night excursion as he prepared what authorities say were the final steps in taking revenge on a world from which he’d become progressively alienated. Jared Loughner checked into a down-and-out motel. He picked up photos showing him holding a Glock 19 while wearing only a bright red G-string. He bought ammunition on one of three trips to two different Walmarts. He called a high-school pot-smoking Loughner buddy, ran away from his father into a cactusdotted desert and updated his MySpace profile to say, “Goodbye friends.” Michelle Martinez ran into Loughner during his rambling odyssey. She and some friends were hanging out in the neighborhood when a sullen figure emerged from the darkness in a black hooded sweatshirt and startled them. Loughner picked his way through the group rather than walk around them, offering a deep, distant “What’s up?” He then quickened his pace and disappeared into the darkness. “I had a feeling he was thinking about something,” said Martinez, who knew Loughner from their school days. “It was just kind of weird.” The encounter epitomizes Loughner’s final hours as he became increasingly unhinged, culminating, authorities say, with him opening fire on a crowd of people at an event for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Six people were killed and 13 were wounded amid a barrage of bullets from a Glock 19. Officials do not know what pushed the 22-year-old mentally disturbed loner over the edge, but interviews, records and a police chronology released Friday provide a fuller picture of his movements that in many ways reflect his scattered mind. It would all play out within a few miles from the modest, single-story home where he grew up and lived all his life — save for a brief attempt he made at living in an apartment by himself. Suspect arrested in fatal police shooting in NJ ✬✬✬✬✬ LONDON — British actress Susannah York, one of the leading stars of British and Hollywood films in the late 1960s and early 1970s, has died in London. She was 72. 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Just over 38 hours after Lakewood Patrolman Crockam ChristopherMatlosz was gunned down behind the wheel of his patrol car, a 15-member task force of State Police and U.S. Marshals officers surrounded an apartment where a tipster told police they could find the suspect, Jahmell W. Crockam. “We were able to get consent for entry, and it was over very quickly,” said State Police Major Edward Cetnar. “He was upstairs in the bedroom.” Ten of the officers raced into the apartment at about 6:30 a.m. and quickly arrested Crockam, who did not put up any resistance. He did not seem surprised that authorities had tracked him down, Cetnar said. State Police Superintendent Col. Rick Fuentes said all law enforcement officers were affected by the killing. before going on to play Christopher Reeve’s biological mother in the Superman series of movies. York She died of cancer Saturday at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London. Her son, the actor Orlando Wells, said York was an incredibly brave woman who did not complain about her illness and a “truly wonderful mother.” He said she went into the hospital on Jan. 6 after experiencing shoulder pain. York had a long, distinguished career on film, television and on stage, but she is best remembered for her early roles, when she had an immediate impact that started with her 1963 role as Albert Finney’s love interest in the memorable period piece romp “Tom Jones.” With its tongue-in-cheek sensuality and gentle sendup of the British aristocracy, the film is remembered as an early landmark in 1960s cinema, and York’s unmistakable presence added to its appeal. Her long blond hair, stunning blue eyes and quick-witted repartee brought her a string of excellent roles. York acted with major stars like Sean Connery, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and many others, stirring some controversy with her daring portrayal of a lesbian in the 1968 drama “The Killing of Sister George.” In 1972, York won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival. York was born in London and studied at the storied Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, which has tutored many of Britain’s top actors throughout the years. LAS VEGAS — A 17-yearold Nebraskan too young to cast a ballot has captured enough votes to win the Miss America crown, kickstarting her hopes of going to law school and eventually becoming a politician. “I want to be there makScanlan ing sure that I stand up for what’s right, stand up for integrity and honesty,” Teresa Scanlan told The Associated Press on Saturday night after becoming the first Miss America from the Cornhusker State. She won a $50,000 scholarship and a year’s reign in one of the most visible positions any young woman could seek. Scanlan captured the hearts of seven judges after a night of playing the piano, walking across a Las Vegas stage in a white gown and black bikini, and saying security trumps the public’s right to knowledge when it comes to government leaks. She said she’ll register to vote as an independent after turning 18 next month, and work toward her goals by going to law school and perhaps becoming a prosecutor, then judge. “At this point, attorneys and politicians are looked down on and have terrible reputations for being greedy and power hungry and I really think it’s important for people who have their heart and mind in the right place get into those powerful positions,” Scanlan told the AP. God made the Fis h... We just cook it rig LOCALS SPECIA L ½ O F F Appetizers • Be 272384 SPEC NEW YORK — There is no doubt that Richard Volpe is sick, and no doubt that the former police detective spent 9/11 breathing in clouds of soot at the World Trade Center. 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Parking in rear 328453 8A THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ◆ MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2011 WORLD TOURS, FRANCE BUDAPEST, HUNGARY KOBE, JAPAN CARACAS, VENEZUELA Daughter succeeds father 3 young women die in stampede Foes wary of reconciliation France’s far-right National Front party elected the daughter of its founder, Jean-Marie Le Pen, as its new leader Sunday, who says she wants to broaden the appeal of a party known best for its anti-immigration, antiIslam platform. Le Pen, who has been convicted for minimizing the Holocaust, left the leadership of the party he created 38 years ago by dropping an anti-Semitic reference about a journalist at a weekend party gathering. Marine Le Pen, 42, won slightly more than two-thirds of the vote in an election at a National Front convention in the central city of Tours — easily beating the other candidate, longtime party No. 2 Bruno Gollnisch. Three young women died in a stampede at a Hungarian nightclub, police said Sunday. Five people, including the organizers of the event, were taken into custody. Thousands of people were caught up in the stampede late Saturday and the victims may have been trampled by the rushing crowd, Budapest police spokeswoman Katalin Fanni Horvath said. Police and medical investigators were working to determine the cause of the deaths. Police have denied reports that the victims were stabbed. “Human irresponsibility caused the deaths of the three victims,” Interior Minister Sandor Pinter told reporters late Sunday, adding that drugs had been detected in one of the young women. Venezuela’s opposition reacted warily to a call for conciliation from President Hugo Chavez, saying the socialist leader has spent years in office disparaging them as “bandits” and repeatedly stating that reconciliation was impossible. Chavez made the call for mutual respect Saturday during a marathon address to the new National Assembly, which includes a strong opposition presence for the first time in years. “We have a president who spends 365 days a year lashing out at the media, the church, NGOs, fighting with everyone and then he tells us one day that he wants dialogue,” said Julio Borges, an opposition lawmaker who sat through the president’s 7-hour state-of-thenation speech. The Associated Press Residents light candles to form the date when a powerful earthquake that struck this western port city of Kobe on Jan. 17, 1995, at a park in Kobe, Japan, on Monday as they pray for the victims of the quake. In 1995, the magnitude-7.2 quake jolted areas in Kobe, claiming 6,400 lives. Premier won’t quit over debt crisis BY SHAWN POGATCHNIK The Associated Press DUBLIN — Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen faced a fight for political survival Sunday as he rebuffed pressure to resign and a senior Cabinet colleague announced he would challenge him for the party leadership. Foreign Minister Micheal Martin said he had “reluctantly concluded” that Cowen would have to be forced from office since he refused to go voluntarily. The two face a showdown Tuesday when lawmakers of the long-ruling Fianna Fail party gather to vote whether to keep Cowen or promote Martin. At stake is the course of Ireland’s fightback from a European-record deficit amid a euro67.5 billion ($90 billion) international bailout. The leadership tussle within Fianna Fail — “Soldiers of Destiny” in Gaelic — raised new doubt over whether lawmakers would be able to pass a deficit-slashing bill without a national election first. For the second time in four days, Cowen defied expectations and refused to quit in the face of mounting opposition within Fianna Fail to his leadership. Instead, Cowen announCowen ced he would ask his party’s legislators to take a vote of confidence in him Tuesday. Cowen said he was assured of winning the secret-ballot vote and lead Fianna Fail to a seventh straight election victory. Hours later Martin — one of three Cabinet ministers who have signaled their desire to succeed Cowen — became the first to declare a challenge. Martin said he had tendered his resignation as foreign minister because he no longer supported Cowen and would ask lawmakers to back him instead Tuesday. Many lawmakers want Cowen to quit immediately in hopes that their party might fare better with a new leader in place for an election expected to take place sometime this spring. Cowen, who was finance minister before gaining the top post in 2008, is closely associated with the property-pushing tax policies that have brought Ireland to financial ruin. Fianna Fail has governed Ireland almost continuously since 1987, but has plummeted to historic lows in recent opinion polls. Opposition leaders, meanwhile, still intend to pursue their own no-confidence motion in parliament against Cowen — and pleaded for Fianna Fail to declare an election date. Fianna Fail has sought to delay that vote as long as possible. “The longer (the Irish government) stays in power, the greater the damage that is being done to the economy and to our international reputation. This government should go,” said Gerry Adams, leader of the Irish nationalist Sinn Fein party. Cowen rose to power as Ireland’s 13-year Celtic Tiger economic boom was giving way to a property-market implosion and banking crisis. He has faced rising accusations in recent weeks of making decisions that benefited corrupt bankers far more than taxpayers, who have been burdened with a bank-rescue bill expected to top $65 billion. 1st US ambassador in 5 years arrives in Syria BY ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY The Associated Press BEIRUT — The first American ambassador to Syria since 2005 arrived in Damascus on Sunday at a time of regional turmoil and with SyrianU.S. relations still mired in mutual distrust. Few expect immediate changes, but having career diplomat Robert Ford in Damascus offers Washington a better glimpse into Syria at a time of rising tensions — particularly in neighboring Lebanon, where the Western-backed government collapsed last week. “Intelligence sharing is the most promising overlap in U.S.-Syrian relations,” said Joshua Landis, an American professor and Syria expert. He noted that like Washington, Syria’s secular regime is against al-Qaida and “takfiri” Islamists, referring to an ideology that urges Sunni Muslims to kill anyone they consider an infidel. President Barack Obama’s administration has argued that returning an ambassador to Damascus would help persuade Syria to change its policies regarding Lebanon, Israel and Iraq and end its support for extremist groups. Syria is designated a “state sponsor of terrorism” by the State Department. Ford takes up his post just days after the government in Lebanon collapsed when Hezbollah, which gets key support from Syria and Iran, walked out of the Cabinet on Wednesday. The government fell after months of tensions stemming from a U.N.-backed investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime TUNIS, Tunisia — Major gunbattles erupted outside the palace of Tunisia’s deposed president, in the center of the capital, in front of the main opposition party headquarters and elsewhere on Sunday as authorities struggled to restore order and the world waited to see if the North African nation Rural towns brace for high river peaks THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MELBOURNE, Australia — Record floods were predicted in several rural Australian communities Monday as rivers swollen from upstream rain flowed heavily into southern states. Officials expected floodwaters to drown out highways and isolate dozens of towns in northeastern Victoria state in some of the worst flooding in a century. State Emergency Services spokeswoman Natasha Duckett warned that the town of Horsham could face a major flood during Monday’s expected peak of the Wimmera River, and electricity supplier Powercor was sandbagging its substation there to ensure it remained dry. “The Wimmera River is higher than the levels seen in September 2010 and it’s still rising,” Duckett said. “The township could be bisected with a waterway right through the middle of town and the (Western) Highway cut.” Up to 500 properties in the town of about 14,000 people could be affected. More than 3,500 people have evacuated their homes in north-central Victoria state, with 43 towns and 1,500 properties already affected by rising waters. People were watching warily after witnessing the devastation floods have wreaked in Queensland state. Three weeks of flooding in the northeastern state left a vast territory underwater and caused 28 deaths, most of them from a flash flood that hit towns west of Brisbane on Jan. 10. Fourteen people are still missing. Flooding has also spread from Queensland into New South Wales, where nearly 7,000 people are reliant on airdrops of food and other supplies after being isolated by floodwaters. ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier back in Haiti after long exile BY JACOB KUSHNER The Associated Press BASSEM TELLAWI/The Associated Press The U.S. embassy building is seen Wednesday in Damascus, Syria. Minister Rafik Hariri. Many have blamed the killing on Syria and Hezbollah. President George W. Bush’s administration withdrew a full-time ambassador from Syria in 2005 in part to protest Hariri’s assassination. Both Syria and Hezbollah deny any links to the assassination, which galvanized opposition to Damascus in 2005 and sparked huge street demonstrations that helped end Syria’s 29-year military presence in Lebanon and paved the way for pro-Western parties — led by Saad Hariri, the slain man’s son — to head the government in subsequent elections. The tribunal is expected to issue indictments soon, and many expect the Shiite militant group Hezbollah to be named. The indictments could rekindle violence in Lebanon, which has been plagued for decades by war and civil strife. With Syria’s backing, Hezbollah has demanded Saad Hariri break off Lebanon’s ties with the tribunal, but he has refused. Gunbattles, food shortages temper celebration THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TERTIUS PICKARD/The Associated Press Residents in New Farm clear away mud and debris in Brisbane, Australia, Friday. Parts of Brisbane reopened as deadly floodwaters that had swamped entire neighborhoods recede, revealing streets and thousands of homes covered in a thick layer of sludge. would continue its first steps away from autocratic rule. Police arrested dozens of people, including the top presidential security chief, as tensions appeared to mount between Tunisians buoyant over Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s departure and loyalists in danger of losing major perks. There were cheers and smiles in much of Tunis, the capital, as residents tore down the massive portraits of Ben Ali, some of them several stories high, that hung from lampposts and billboards and were omnipresent during his 23-year reign. Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi said that a new national unity government will “most certainly” be announced Monday “to open a new page in the history of Tunisia.” PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Former Haitian dictator JeanClaude “Baby Doc” Duvalier returned Sunday to Haiti after Duvalier nearly 25 years in exile, a surprising and perplexing move that comes as his country struggles with a political crisis and the stalled effort to recover from last year’s devastating earthquake. Duvalier, wearing a dark suit and tie, arrived on an Air France jet to hugs from supporters at the Port-au-Prince airport. He was calm as he was led into the immigra- tion office. He left the airport without making a statement to journalists, waving to a crowd of more than 200 supporters as he got into an SUV. “He is happy to be back in this country, back in his home,” said Mona Beruaveau, a candidate for Senate in a Duvalierist party who spoke to the former dictator inside the immigration office. “He is tired after a long trip.” Beruaveau said he would give a news conference on Monday. In the fall of 2007, President Rene Preval told reporters that Duvalier could return to Haiti but would face justice for the deaths of thousands of people and the theft of millions of dollars. US pomp hopefully lightens tone of China relations BY CHRISTOPHER BODEEN The Associated Press BEIJING — Chinese leader Hu Jintao is being feted in Washington this week with a lavish state banquet at the White House and other pomp usually reserved for close friends and allies — all intended to improve the tone of relations between a risen, more assertive and prosperous China and the U.S. superpower in a tenuous economic recovery. The shaky trust between the United States and China has been eroding recently because of an array of issues — currency policies and trade barriers, nuclear proliferation and North Korea, and both sides seem to recognize the need to recalibrate relations. The U.S. is one of China’s biggest markets, with $380 billion in annual trade largely in Beijing’s favor. Washington increasingly needs Beijing’s help in managing world troubles, from piracy off Africa to Iran’s nuclear program and reinvigorating the world economy. Hu sounded a conciliatory tone in a rare interview with U.S. newspapers ahead of his visit, saying the two countries could mutually benefit by finding “common ground” on issues ranging from combatting terrorism and nuclear proliferation to clean energy and infrastructure initiatives. “There is no denying that there are some differences and sensitive issues between us,” Hu said in written answers to questions submitted by The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal which were published over the weekend. “We both stand to gain from a sound China-U.S. relationship, and lose from confrontation.” Hu called for more dialogues and exchanges to enhance “practical cooperation,” stressing the need to “abandon the zero-sum Cold War mentality” in U.S.-China relations. Center for Strategic and International Studies scholar Charles Freeman, a former trade negotiator in the George W. Bush administration, said, “It is absolutely critical for the two sides to be setting a tone that says ‘hang on a second, we are committed to an effective, positive relationship.’” Maria Sharapova SPORTS THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ◆ MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2011 1B THROWING KISSES SHARAPOVA OPENS AUSTRALIAN OPEN, 3B SPORTS SHORTS SAILING: KEY WEST 2011 RACE WEEK NEW CLASS, NEW EXCITEMENT RC 44 fleet brings top-notch racing to Key West this week BY J.W. COOKE Citizen Staff Writer JOHN BAZEMORE /The Associated Press North Carolina forward Tyler Zeller, left, is fouled by Georgia Tech’s Glen Rice Jr. as he drives to the basket in the first half on Sunday in Atlanta. Georgia Tech won, 78-58. Long day for Wilson ends in victory HONOLULU — Mark Wilson made it through a marathon Sunday at the Sony Open without a bogey and held on for a two-shot victory that earns him his first trip to the Masters. Wilson shot a 5-under 65 in the morning to take a one-shot lead into the afternoon round. He built a four-shot lead at the turn, then had to hang on when Tim Clark and Steve Marino made late runs on different sides of Waialae. Clark birdied three of his last four holes, and narrowly missed an eagle putt on the ninth hole for a 64. Marino made two late birdies, then hit a fairway metal with his feet in the bunker and the ball on the side of a hill about chest-high. He managed to reach the green, but his eagle putt turned away for a 66. Wilson made one last birdie for a 67 to earn his third career victory. AL MVP Hamilton out of hospital ARLINGTON, Texas — American League MVP Josh Hamilton is out of the hospital. The Texas Rangers said in a statement that their slugging outfielder was discharged Sunday afternoon from the Medical Center of Arlington, five days after he was admitted for treatment of an early case of pneumonia. The team statement says Hamilton should be able to resume his conditioning and baseball activities within a few days. Hamilton was diagnosed Monday with an early case of pneumonia and was hospitalized Tuesday morning. The Rangers said Sunday that he remained hospitalized for the rest of the week “to receive complete rest and accelerate his full recovery.” Hamilton hit a majors-leading .359 with 32 homers and 100 RBIs last season for the AL champion Rangers. KEY WEST – Roughly four years ago, after Russell Coutts, skipper of reigning America’s Cup champion Oracle Racing, conceived the new one-hull design vessel, the RC 44 class started racing in Dubai, Saudi Arabia. “I think the concept really is that it’s a miniature America’s Cup boat,” said Larry Leonard, a crew member aboard the Ironbound, one of only two U.S. teams entered in the class this week.” This year, during the 24th edition of the Key West race week, the hot, new class will make its first trip to the renowned mid-winter regatta, which is only its second competitive outing in North American waters. “The main reason is to have fun,” Coutts said about bringing the class to Key West. “The whole atmosphere is very laid back, and it is a great regatta to show the boat. BY HOWARD ULMAN The Associated Press FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — So the Jets weren’t all talk — trash talk — after all. Now Rex Ryan’s rowdy bunch is headed to its second straight AFC championship game after New York backed up its coach’s boasts with a 28-21 win Sunday over the New England Patriots — the team with the best record in the NFL. Mark Sanchez threw three touchdown passes and and the ESPN — Chicago at Memphis, 1 p.m. TNT — Orlando at Boston, 8 p.m. TNT — Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m. NHL VERSUS — Los Angeles at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. FSN — Atlanta at Florida, 7:30 p.m. TENNIS ESPN2 — Australian Open, early round, at Melbourne, Australia, 9 p.m. ESPN2 — Australian Open, early round, at Melbourne, Australia, 3 a.m. WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL ESPN2 — Connecticut at North Carolina, 7 p.m. FLORIDA LOTTERY Cash 3: Afternoon drawing: 8-3-2 Evening drawing: 4-1-8 Play 4: Afternoon drawing: 9-0-4-0 Evening drawing: 5-0-0-7 Fantasy 5: 10--19-21-28-30 the boat takes a good look at it,” said Leonard. “That’s because they are cool boats. The boat is really lightweight and has a lot of stability. It also has a lot of sail area for its weight so it is very fast in light air. Downwind it can match the speed of the wind.” Racing in Division 1, five teams will make up the RC 44 fleet this year and the high-performance potential will make for exciting sailing. Leonard said the crew will make all the difference in the race. See SAIL, page 3B JEFF ROBERSON/The Associated Press Jets sacked Tom Brady five times in the most-hyped of the weekend’s four postseason games following a week of verbal potshots from both teams. New York led Bears cornerback Charles Tillman breaks up a pass intended for the Seahawks’ Mike Williams during the second half on Sunday in Chicago. Defense chips in as Bears beat Seahawks BY ANDREW SELIGMAN The Associated Press CHICAGO — Julius Peppers, Brian Urlacher and the rest of the Bears defense are looking a little more like the Monsters of the Midway. Now, they’re one win from the Super Bowl. Back in the playoffs for the first time since the 2006 team won See JETS, page 4B See BEARS, page 4B PREP NOTEBOOK Keys soccer teams preparing for postseason runs BY WILLIS JACOBSON AND J.W. COOKE W J.W. COOKE/ The Citizen PLAYER OF THE WEEK Citizen Staff NBA The racing is always great, and very challenging.” Leonard said the RC 44 is the top class of boats in this year’s event and a majority of the crew members are Jets shocker: Ryan’s boys back up talk, win 28-21 TODAY ON TV ESPN — Villanova at Connecticut, 3:30 p.m. ESPN — Kansas St. at Missouri, 5:30 p.m. ESPN — Syracuse at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m. ESPN — Kansas at Baylor, 9:30 p.m. J.W. COOKE/The Citizen Crew members aboard the Synergy boat help prepare the vessel after the final day of practice for Key West 2011. made up of to- notch professionals, who will be sailing today through Friday. “I think Russell’s reputation and credibility have helped bring in the top level guys,” said Leonard. “A lot of these guys are either America’s Cup groups or top level, so it’s very high-caliber sailing.” The Ironbound crewman said the boat is an attention grabber, which should help not only promote the class but also the Key West regatta. “I think over the few days we’ve sailed the boat here, in and around the fleet, everybody that goes by NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE KEYS CALENDAR MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL J.W. COOKE/The Citizen The sleak black hull of the Ironbound in th RC 44 class sits in harbor waiting for the start of this week’s Key West 2011. The action begins today. Key West guard Ryan Wagner pushed the ball up court on a fast break on Friday night at Bobby Menendez Gymnasium. The Conchs lost 5345 to Miami Norland. MAX LLAMA ith the prep soccer postseason beginning next week, most of the Keys teams will be making the trip to the district tournament to begin the playoffs. In the Keys, the only No. 1 seed will be the Key West High girls, while the team with the biggest aspirations will be the Coral Shores girls. On the boys’ side, the Conchs are the lone team that did not qualify for their district tournament. Despite the Key West girls earn- Junior, KW, Wrestling Llama fought through the Conchs’ tough home meet with a 4-0 record by pinning Llama all four of his opponent. The Conchs 140-pounder even wrestled up in one meet. Honorable Mention: Keith Valdez (KW, Boys Basketball, Sr.) — Valdez led the Conchs with a game high 18 point in a loss to unbeaten District 16-4A rival Norland. Caila DeAbreu (KW, Girls Soccer, Fr.) — DeAbreu score a pair of the Conchs goals in Key West’s 3-2 victory over Marathon. ing the top spot in District 16-4A, the Lady Conchs did receive upsetting news this week when they were notified they would not be hosting the opening postseason tournament. Instead, Key West will KEYSNEWS.COM — AND SPORTS TOO have to travel to Westland-Hialeah for the second straight year on Wednesday to play Miami Jackson, a team the Conchs defeated by the See NOTEBOOK, page 3B 2B THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ◆ MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2011 SPORTS: Scoreboard North Carolina 30, Tennessee 27, 2OT Holiday Bowl at San Diego Washington 19, Nebraska SPREADS GLANTZ-CULVER LINE NFL Playoffs Saturday FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U Green Bay 3 3 (4312⁄ ) at Pittsburgh 4 3 (3812⁄ ) NCAA Basketball FAVORITE at Connecticut at Missouri at Pittsburgh Kansas at Fresno St. at Manhattan at St. Peter’s at Siena at Rider at Appalachian St. Coll. of Charleston Davidson at Samford UAB Jackson St. Norfolk St. NBA FAVORITE Utah at New York at Memphis at Philadelphia at New Orleans at Houston at L.A. Clippers Dallas at Atlanta at Golden State at Boston at Portland at L.A. Lakers UNDERDOG at Chicago N.Y. Jets LINE UNDERDOG 112⁄ Villanova 5 Kansas St. 7 Syracuse 3 at Baylor 5 Idaho 1 Niagara 2 2⁄ 1 Loyola, Md. 2 2⁄ 7 Canisius Pk Fairfield 7 Elon 1 at Chattanooga 7 2⁄ 10 at UNC Greensboro 1 The Citadel 7 2⁄ 1 at East Carolina 3 2⁄ 7 at Prairie View 9 at Howard U. LINE 4 6 1/2 3 1/2 5 8 5 4 3 10 1/2 7 3 8 1/2 5 NHL FAVORITE LINE at N.Y. Islanders -135 at Boston -155 at Phoenix -125 at Montreal -160 at Florida -135 at Dallas -140 UNDERDOG at Washington Phoenix Chicago Charlotte Toronto Milwaukee Indiana at Detroit Sacramento New Jersey Orlando Minnesota Oklahoma City UNDERDOG New Jersey Carolina San Jose Calgary Atlanta Los Angeles LINE +115 +135 +105 +140 +115 +120 COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWL GLANCE Saturday, Dec. 18 New Mexico Bowl, at Albuquerque BYU 52, UTEP 24 Humanitarian Bowl, at Boise, Idaho Northern Illinois 40, Fresno State 17 New Orleans Bowl Troy 48, Ohio 21 Friday, Dec. 31 Meineke Bowl, at Charlotte, N.C. South Florida 31, Clemson 26 Sun Bowl at El Paso, Texas Notre Dame 33, Miami 17 Liberty Bowl at Memphis, Tenn. UCF 10, Georgia 6 Chick-fil-A Bowl, at Atlanta Florida State 26, South Carolina 17 Saturday, Jan. 1 TicketCity Bowl, at Dallas Texas Tech 45, Northwestern 38 Capital One Bowl at Orlando Alabama 49, Michigan State 7 Outback Bowl at Tampa Florida 37, Penn State 24 Gator Bowl at Jacksonville Mississippi State 52, Michigan 14 Rose Bowl at Pasadena, Calif. TCU 21, Wisconsin 19 Fiesta Bowl at Glendale, Ariz. Oklahoma 48, Connecticut 20 Wednesday, Dec. 22 MAACO Bowl, at Las Vegas Boise State 26, Utah 3 Thursday, Dec. 23 Poinsettia Bowl, at San Diego San Diego State 35, Navy 14 Friday, Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl, at Honolulu Tulsa 62, Hawaii 35 Sunday, Dec. 26 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl, at Detroit Florida International 34, Toledo 32 Monday, Dec. 27 Independence Bowl, at Shreveport, La. Air Force 14, Georgia Tech 7 Tuesday, Dec. 28 Champs Sports Bowl, at Orlando N.C. State 23, West Virginia 7 Insight Bowl, at Tempe, Ariz. Iowa 27, Missouri 24 Wednesday, Dec. 29 Military Bowl, at Washington Maryland 51, E. Carolina 20 Texas Bowl, at Houston Illinois 38, Baylor 14 Alamo Bowl, at San Antonio Oklahoma St. 43, Arizona 22 Thursday, Dec. 30 Armed Forces Bowl at Dallas Army 16, SMU 14 Pinstripe Bowl at New York Syracuse 36, Kansas State 34 Music City Bowl at Nashville, Tenn. Saturday’s Games Calgary 2, Toronto 1, SO Nashville 3, Chicago 2, SO Pittsburgh 3, Boston 2 Montreal 3, N.Y. Rangers 2 N.Y. Islanders 5, Buffalo 3 Carolina 6, Tampa Bay 4 Florida 3, New Jersey 2, OT Detroit 6, Columbus 5, OT Dallas 6, Atlanta 1 Phoenix 6, Anaheim 2 Los Angeles 5, Edmonton 2 San Jose 4, St. Louis 2 Monday, Jan. 3 Orange Bowl at Miami Stanford 40, Virginia Tech 12 Sunday’s Games Washington 3, Ottawa 1 Minnesota 4, Vancouver 0 Philadelphia 3, N.Y. Rangers 2 Chicago 6, Nashville 3 Anaheim 3, Edmonton 2 Tuesday, Jan. 4 Sugar Bowl at New Orleans Ohio State 31, Arkansas 26 Thursday, Jan. 6 GoDaddy.com Bowl at Mobile, Ala. Miami (Ohio) 35, Middle Tennessee 21 Friday, Jan. 7 Cotton Bowl at Arlington, Texas LSU 41, Texas A&M 24 Saturday, Jan. 8 BBVA Compass Bowl at Birmingham, Ala. Pittsburgh 27, Kentucky 10 Sunday, Jan. 9 Fight Hunger Bowl at San Francisco Nevada 20, Boston College 13 Monday, Jan. 10 BCS National Championshipa at Glendale, Ariz. Auburn 22, Oregon 19 Saturday, Jan. 22 At Orlando, Fla. East-West Shrine Classic, 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 5 At San Antonio Texas vs. The Nation All-Star Challenge, 2 p.m. NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W Philadelphia 45 29 Pittsburgh 46 28 N.Y. Rangers 47 26 N.Y. Islanders 43 14 New Jersey 44 12 Northeast Division GP W Boston 44 24 Montreal 45 25 Buffalo 44 19 Toronto 44 18 Ottawa 46 17 Southeast Division GP W Tampa Bay 46 26 Washington 46 25 Atlanta 47 22 Carolina 44 22 Florida 43 21 L 11 14 18 22 29 OT 5 4 3 7 3 Pts GF GA 63 155120 60 146109 55 132115 35 106143 27 85 138 L 13 17 20 21 23 OT 7 3 5 5 6 Pts GF GA 55 132101 53 112107 43 121131 41 114132 40 102142 L 15 14 18 16 20 OT 5 7 7 6 2 Pts GF GA 57 137148 57 131121 51 143151 50 135135 44 119113 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W Detroit 45 28 Nashville 45 24 Chicago 47 25 St. Louis 44 21 Columbus 45 21 Northwest Division GP W Vancouver 45 29 Colorado 45 23 Minnesota 45 22 L 11 15 18 17 20 L 10 16 18 Today’s Games Carolina at Boston, 1 p.m. New Jersey at N.Y. Islanders, 1 p.m. San Jose at Phoenix, 4 p.m. Calgary at Montreal, 7:30 p.m. Atlanta at Florida, 7:30 p.m. Los Angeles at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Washington at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Detroit at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. Boston at Carolina, 7 p.m. Montreal at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m. Anaheim at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m. Columbus at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m. Los Angeles at St. Louis, 8 p.m. Vancouver at Colorado, 9 p.m. Nashville at Phoenix, 9 p.m. Minnesota at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m. OT 6 6 4 6 4 OT 6 6 5 Pts GF GA 62 157131 54 119109 54 150130 48 119128 46 118142 Pts GF GA 64 149109 52 148143 49 113127 GP 41 46 44 46 44 45 45 47 45 44 44 45 45 45 44 Sidney Crosby, Pit Steven Stamkos, TB Daniel Sedin, Van Martin St. Louis, TB Henrik Sedin, Van Brad Richards, Dal Henrik Zetterberg, Det Corey Perry, Anh Loui Eriksson, Dal Eric Staal, Car Anze Kopitar, LA Alex Ovechkin, Was Patrick Sharp, Chi Matt Duchene, Col Ryan Kesler, Van PACKERS 21, EAGLES 16 Seattle 0 0 3 21 — 24 Chicago 14 7 7 7 — 35 First Quarter Chi—Olsen 58 pass from Cutler (Gould kick), 12:08. Chi—Taylor 1 run (Gould kick), 1:19. Second Quarter Chi—Cutler 6 run (Gould kick), 10:01. Third Quarter Chi—Cutler 9 run (Gould kick), 4:12. Sea—FG Mare 30, 1:52. Fourth Quarter Sea—Williams 2 pass from Hasselbeck (Mare kick), 11:21. Chi—K.Davis 39 pass from Cutler (Gould kick), 4:40. Sea—Williams 3 pass from Hasselbeck (Mare kick), 2:16. Sea—Stokley 9 pass from Hasselbeck (Mare kick), 1:24. A—62,265. Sea Chi First downs 18 21 Total Net Yards 276 437 Rushes-yards 12-34 45-176 Passing 242 261 Punt Returns 1-11 2-30 Kickoff Returns 5-143 3-24 Interceptions Ret. 1-23 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 26-46-0 15-29-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-16 3-13 Punts 9-35.0 5-39.0 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 2-0 Penalties-Yards 3-20 8-71 Time of Possession 22:50 37:10 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Seattle, Tate 1-13, Forsett 4-9, Washington 1-9, Lynch 4-2, M.Robinson 1-1, Hasselbeck 1-0. Chicago, Forte 25-80, Taylor 1144, Cutler 8-43, Bennett 1-9. PASSING—Seattle, Hasselbeck 26-46-0-258. Chicago, Cutler 15-28-0-274, Forte 0-1-1-0. RECEIVING—Seattle, Stokley 8-85, Obomanu 4-68, Williams 4-15, Forsett 3-25, Morrah 3-25, Carlson 1-14, Martin 1-13, Washington 1-10, M.Robinson 1-3. Chicago, Knox 4-48, Olsen 3-113, Forte 3-54, K.Davis 2-42, Hester 2-4, Bennett 1-13. MISSED FIELD GOALS—None. JETS 28, PATRIOTS 21 SCORING LEADERS Through Jan. 8 Saturday, Jan. 29 At Mobile, Ala. Senior Bowl, 4 p.m. (NFLN) Tuesday, Dec. 21 Beef ’O’ Brady’s Bowl, at St. Petersburg Louisville 31, Southern Mississippi 28 Calgary 45 20 20 5 45 122132 Edmonton 44 14 23 7 35 112151 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Dallas 45 27 13 5 59 133119 Phoenix 45 23 13 9 55 132126 Anaheim 48 25 19 4 54 129135 Los Angeles 44 24 19 1 49 132113 San Jose 46 22 19 5 49 127129 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for OT loss. G 32 33 27 19 9 18 16 23 16 22 16 15 25 18 24 NFL PLAYOFF GLANCE Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 8 Seattle 41, New Orleans 36 N.Y. Jets 17, Indianapolis 16 Sunday, Jan. 9 Baltimore 30, Kansas City 7 Green Bay 21, Philadelphia 16 Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 15 Pittsburgh 31, Baltimore 24 Green Bay 48, Atlanta 21 Sunday, Jan. 16 Chicago 35, Seattle 24 N.Y. Jets 28, New England 21 Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 23 Green Bay at Chicago, 3 p.m. (FOX) N.Y. Jets at Pittsburgh, 6:30 p.m. (CBS) Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 30 at Honolulu Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 6 at Arlington, Texas ON THE WATER A PTS 34 66 28 61 30 57 37 56 46 55 34 52 34 50 26 49 32 48 24 46 30 46 30 45 19 44 25 43 18 42 N.Y. Jets 0 14 0 14 — 28 New England 3 0 8 10 — 21 First Quarter NE—FG Graham 34, 1:12. Second Quarter NYJ—Tomlinson 7 pass from Sanchez (Folk kick), 10:24. NYJ—Edwards 15 pass from Sanchez (Folk kick), :33. Third Quarter NE—Crumpler 2 pass from Brady (Morris run), :13. Fourth Quarter NYJ—Holmes 7 pass from Sanchez (Folk kick), 13:00. NE—FG Graham 35, 1:57. NYJ—Greene 16 run (Folk kick), 1:41. NE—Branch 13 pass from Brady (Graham kick), :24. A—68,756. NYJ NE First downs 14 26 Total Net Yards 314 372 Rushes-yards 29-120 28-113 Passing 194 259 Punt Returns 2-4 2-42 Kickoff Returns 5-103 5-108 Interceptions Ret. 1-58 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 16-25-0 29-45-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 0-0 5-40 Punts 6-36.0 4-47.0 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 3-0 Penalties-Yards 3-35 6-44 Time of Possession 25:04 34:56 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—N.Y. Jets, Greene 17-76, Tomlinson 10-43, McKnight 1-2, Sanchez 1-(minus 1). New England, Woodhead 14-46, Green-Ellis 9-43, Edelman 1-11, Tate 1-11, Brady 2-2, Chung 1-0. PASSING—N.Y. Jets, Sanchez 16-25-0-194. New England, Brady 29-45-1-299. RECEIVING—N.Y. Jets, Cotchery 5-96, Holmes 3-20, Keller 3-15, Edwards 2-52, Tomlinson 2-2, Greene 1-9. New England, Welker 7-57, Woodhead 6-52, Branch 5-59, Gronkowski 4-65, Crumpler 3-39, Green-Ellis 2-11, Edelman 1-12, Hernandez 1-4. MISSED FIELD GOALS—N.Y. Jets, Folk 30 (WL). NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W Boston 30 New York 22 Philadelphia 16 Toronto 13 New Jersey 10 Southeast Division W Miami 30 Orlando 26 Atlanta 26 Charlotte 15 Washington 11 Central Division W Chicago 27 Indiana 16 Milwaukee 14 Detroit 14 Cleveland 8 L 9 17 23 27 30 Pct .769 .564 .410 .325 .250 GB — 8 14 1712⁄ 2012⁄ L 12 14 15 23 27 Pct .714 .650 .634 .395 .289 GB — 3 312⁄ 13 17 L 13 21 23 26 32 Pct .675 .432 .378 .350 .200 GB — 912⁄ 1 11 2⁄ 13 19 L 6 13 16 21 23 Pct .850 .667 .610 .475 .439 GB — 712⁄ 912⁄ 15 1612⁄ L 13 13 16 20 31 Pct .675 .675 .590 .512 .244 GB — — 312⁄ 612⁄ 1712⁄ L 12 21 23 25 29 Pct .714 .447 .410 .359 .237 GB — 11 1212⁄ 1412⁄ 19 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W San Antonio 34 Dallas 26 New Orleans 25 Memphis 19 Houston 18 Northwest Division W Oklahoma City 27 Utah 27 Denver 23 Portland 21 Minnesota 10 Pacific Division W L.A. Lakers 30 Phoenix 17 Golden State 16 L.A. Clippers 14 Sacramento 9 Weekly Tides: See the weather map, Page 2A Saturday’s Games Houston 112, Atlanta 106 New Orleans 88, Charlotte 81 Washington 98, Toronto 95 Detroit 110, Sacramento 106 Chicago 99, Miami 96 Memphis 89, Dallas 70 Orlando 108, Minnesota 99 Denver 127, Cleveland 99 Portland 96, New Jersey 89 Send us your news If you have an outstanding catch or fishing news to report: Sunday’s Games L.A. Clippers 99, L.A. Lakers 92 Denver at San Antonio, late • Fax: 305-295-8016 Write: Daily Fishing Report, 3420 Northside Drive, Key West, FL 33040 • • Drop it off 24 hours a day through the slot in the front of The Key West Citizen building E-mail: wjacobson@keysnews. com CONTRIBUTED PHOTO A member of the Simon family, from Ann Arbor, Mich., poses with a hogfish caught recently with Capt. Jim Griffith and Angler Management Charters out of Marathon. They worked the reefs for dinner and wound up with some nice hogfish and snapper for their plates. Today’s Games Chicago at Memphis, 1 p.m. Phoenix at New York, 1 p.m. Utah at Washington, 1 p.m. Charlotte at Philadelphia, 2 p.m. Milwaukee at Houston, 3 p.m. Toronto at New Orleans, 3 p.m. Indiana at L.A. Clippers, 3:30 p.m. Dallas at Detroit, 3:30 p.m. New Jersey at Golden State, 4 p.m. Sacramento at Atlanta, 4 p.m. Orlando at Boston, 8 p.m. Minnesota at Portland, 10 p.m. Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Atlanta at Miami, 7:30 p.m. Charlotte at Chicago, 8 p.m. LEAGUE LEADERS THROUGH JAN. 15 Scoring Durant, OKC Stoudemire, NYK Ellis, GOL James, MIA Bryant, LAL Wade, MIA Rose, CHI Gordon, LAC Nowitzki, DAL Anthony, DEN Martin, HOU Westbrook, OKC Bargnani, TOR Williams, UTA Griffin, LAC Howard, ORL Love, MIN Gay, MEM Granger, IND Beasley, MIN G 36 39 39 40 41 40 39 36 30 32 39 40 34 40 38 38 41 38 36 37 FG 341 376 372 347 363 349 352 285 262 262 260 301 286 279 320 288 292 307 263 310 FT PTS 281 1026 255 1015 188 1001 266 1015 254 1036 268 1003 189 956 222 854 155 707 209 751 290 895 273 886 135 749 252 880 192 836 249 825 227 870 136 798 150 752 118 772 FG 190 179 288 256 290 162 207 275 191 262 FGA 297 302 507 451 511 286 370 503 352 484 PCT .640 .593 .568 .568 .568 .566 .559 .547 .543 .541 G 41 38 36 38 38 41 41 41 41 40 OFF 197 140 163 147 130 148 119 103 97 109 DEF 445 365 308 335 309 297 299 296 300 264 G 28 36 41 40 26 39 39 34 40 39 AST 375 389 394 376 231 344 326 282 331 312 AVG 13.4 10.8 9.6 9.4 8.9 8.8 8.4 8.3 8.3 8.0 AVG 28.5 26.0 25.7 25.4 25.3 25.1 24.5 23.7 23.6 23.5 22.9 22.2 22.0 22.0 22.0 21.7 21.2 21.0 20.9 20.9 FG Percentage Hilario, DEN Okafor, NOR Howard, ORL Odom, LAL Horford, ATL Ibaka, OKC Boozer, CHI Millsap, UTA Young, PHL Nowitzki, DAL Rebounds Love, MIN Howard, ORL Randolph, MEM Griffin, LAC Camby, POR Gasol, LAL Okafor, NOR Horford, ATL Odom, LAL Duncan, SAN TOT 642 505 471 482 439 445 418 399 397 373 AVG 15.7 13.3 13.1 12.7 11.6 10.9 10.2 9.7 9.7 9.3 Assists Rondo, BOS Nash, PHX Paul, NOR Williams, UTA Wall, WAS Felton, NYK Kidd, DAL Calderon, TOR Westbrook, OKC Rose, CHI W. Kentucky 73, Florida Atlantic 46 MIDWEST Iowa 71, Indiana 51 Michigan 75, Wisconsin 59 Missouri St. 65, Indiana St. 54 Nebraska 75, Kansas 61, OT Ohio St. 67, Michigan St. 53 Purdue 54, Northwestern 43 Wichita St. 59, Illinois St. 56 SOUTHWEST Houston 70, UTEP 62 Middle Tennessee 57, Arkansas St. 52 Oklahoma 71, Texas 67, OT SMU 70, UCF 63 FAR WEST Arizona St. 75, Arizona 43 Stanford 94, Washington St. 50 Washington 57, California 48 TENNIS AUSTRALIAN OPEN SEEDS At Melbourne Park Melbourne, Australia Jan. 17-30 Men 1. Rafael Nadal, Spain, 2. Roger Federer, Switzerland, 3. Novak Djokovic, Serbia, 4. Robin Soderling, Sweden, 5. Andy Murray, Britain, 6. Thomas Berdych, Czech Republic, 7. David Ferrer, Spain, 8. Andy Roddick, United States, 9. Fernando Verdasco, Spain, 10. Mikhail Youzhny, Russia, 11. Jurgen Melzer, Austria, 12. Gael Monfils, France, 13. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, France, 14. Nicolas Almagro, Spain, 15. Marin Cilic, Croatia, 16. Mardy Fish, United States, 17. Ivan Ljubicic, Croatia, 18. Sam Querrey, United States, 19. Stanislas Wawrinka, Switzerland, 20. John Isner, United States, 21. Marcos Baghdatis, Cyrus, 22. Michael Llodra, France, 23. Nikolay Davydenko, Russia, 24. Ernests Gulbis, Latvia, 25. Albert Montanes, Spain, 26. Juan Monaco, Argentina, 27. David Nalbandian, Argentina, 28. Richard Gasquet, France, 29. Viktor Troicki, Serbia, 30. Thomaz Bellucci, Brazil, 31. Feliciano Lopez, Spain, 32. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, Spain Women 1. Caroline Wozniacki, Denmark, 2. Vera Zvonareva, Russia, 3. Kim Clijsters, Belgium, 4. Venus Williams, United States, 5. Sam Stosur, Australia, 6. Francesca Schiavone, Italy, 7. Jelena Jankovic, Serbia, 8. Victoria Azarenka, Belarus, 9. Li Na, China, 10. Shahar Peer, Israel, 11. Justine Henin, Belgium, 12. Agnieszka Radwanska, Poland, 13. Nadia Petrova, Russia, 14. Maria Sharapova, Russia, 15. Marion Bartoli, France, 16. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russia, 17. Aravane Rezai, France, 18. Maria Kirilenko, Russia, 19. Ana Ivanovic, Serbia, 20. Kaia Kanepi, Estonia, 21. Yanina Wickmayer, Belgium, 22. Flavia Pennetta, Italy, 23. Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russia, 24. Alisa Kleybanova, Russia, 25. Petra Kvitova, Czech Republic, 26. Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez, Spain, 27. Alexandra Dulgheru, Romania, 28. Daniela Hantuchova, Slovakia, 29. Dominika Cibulkova, Slovakia, 30. Andrea Petkovic, Germany, 31. Lucie Safarova, Czech Republic, 32. Tsvetana Pironkova, Bulgaria COLLEGE BASKETBALL SUNDAY’S MEN’S SCORES EAST Bucknell 74, Holy Cross 72 Buffalo 73, Akron 70 Iona 79, Marist 41 Rhode Island 56, St. Bonaventure 55 St. John’s 72, Notre Dame 54 West Virginia 68, Purdue 64 SOUTH Georgia Tech 78, North Carolina 58 Kennesaw St. 63, Stetson 62 Mercer 50, Florida Gulf Coast 47 Mississippi St. 85, Auburn 66 South Florida 79, Providence 72 MIDWEST Bowling Green 62, Miami (Ohio) 53 Indiana St. 61, Creighton 59 Minnesota 69, Iowa 59 Missouri St. 78, Bradley 67 Valparaiso 78, Detroit 68 W. Michigan 65, E. Michigan 48 Wright St. 69, Butler 64 FAR WEST Montana St. 71, E. Washington 59 THIS WEEK’S WOMEN’S TOP 25 1. Baylor (16-1) beat Texas 87-72; beat Oklahoma State 70-39. 2. Connecticut (16-1) beat St. John’s 84-52; beat Louisville 78-55. 3. Duke (17-0) beat No. 21 Florida State 87-70; beat Virginia Tech 57-43. 4. Stanford (14-2) beat Washington 80-51; beat Washington State 94-50. 5. Tennessee (17-2) beat Florida 83-40; beat Vanderbilt 68-56. 6. West Virginia (17-1) lost to Marquette 69-54; beat No. 25 Syracuse 70-61. 7. Texas A&M (15-1) beat Oklahoma State 82-57; beat Missouri 85-40. 8. Xavier (14-2) beat Saint Joseph’s 75-54; beat Massachusetts 81-55. 9. Michigan State (16-2) beat No. 16 Iowa 63-60; lost to No. 24 Ohio State 67-53. 10. UCLA (15-1) beat Oregon State 58-46; beat Oregon 87-57. 11. North Carolina (16-1) beat N.C. State 83-76. 12. Notre Dame (15-4) beat Louisville 80-60; beat Pittsburgh 82-50. 13. Maryland (14-3) lost to Boston College 78-69; beat Clemson 80-59. 14. DePaul (17-2) beat South Florida 77-61; beat Villanova 64-45. 15. Oklahoma (13-3) beat Kansas State 52-45; beat Texas 71-67, OT. 16. Iowa (15-4) lost to No. 9 Michigan State 6360; beat Indiana 71-51. 17. Iowa State (13-4) beat Nebraska 64-43; lost to Colorado 66-60, OT. 18. Georgetown (14-4) beat Providence 49-45. 19. Kentucky (13-4) beat South Carolina 66-48; beat Mississippi State 72-60. 20. Arkansas (15-2) lost to Georgia 59-56; beat Alabama 57-53. 21. Florida State (14-4) lost to No. 3 Duke 87-70. 22. Miami (18-1) beat Clemson 77-48; beat Boston College 65-53. 23. Wisconsin-Green Bay (17-1) beat Loyola of Chicago 72-51; beat Illinois-Chicago 60-51. 24. Ohio State (11-6) lost to Northwestern 64-53; beat No. 9 Michigan State 67-53. 25. Syracuse (13-4) lost to Rutgers 78-67; lost to No. 6 West Virginia 70-61. SUNDAY’S WOMEN’S SCORES EAST Army 54, Lehigh 52 Canisius 60, Siena 48 DePaul 64, Villanova 45 Georgia St. 58, Towson 53 Loyola, Md. 57, Iona 46 Manhattan 52, Fairfield 44 Marist 95, Niagara 48 Old Dominion 62, Delaware 59 Penn St. 83, Illinois 62 Richmond 66, Rhode Island 53 UNC Wilmington 70, Hofstra 66 Xavier 81, Massachusetts 55 SOUTH Appalachian St. 70, Chattanooga 54 Arkansas 57, Alabama 53 Auburn 65, LSU 53 Davidson 71, Samford 62 Drexel 59, William & Mary 58 Duke 57, Virginia Tech 43 East Carolina 66, Rice 55 Elon 64, Wofford 47 Georgia 70, Florida 64 James Madison 83, George Mason 54 Kentucky 72, Mississippi St. 60 Marquette 61, South Florida 55 Maryland 80, Clemson 59 Miami 65, Boston College 53 South Carolina 63, Mississippi 58, OT Tulane 68, Marshall 38 Tulsa 74, Southern Miss. 71 UAB 65, Memphis 58 Va. Commonwealth 79, Northeastern 58 Virginia 54, Penn 45 W. Carolina 75, Furman 66 AUSTRALIAN OPEN RESULTS Monday At Melbourne Park Melbourne, Australia Purse: $24.7 million (Grand Slam) Surface: Hard-Outdoor Singles Men First Round Sergiy Stakhovsky, Ukraine, def. Daniel Brands, Germany, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4. Robin Haase, Netherlands, def. Carlos Berlocq, Argentina, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (5). Women First Round Maria Sharapova (14), Russia, def. Tamarine Tanasugarn, Thailand, 6-1, 6-3. Evgeniya Rodina, Russia, def. Olivia Rogowska, Australia, 6-3, 6-1. Alberta Brianti, Italy, def. Lucie Hradecka, Czech Republic, 6-4, 7-5. Monica Niculescu, Romania, def. Timea Bacsinszky, Switzerland, 6-0, 6-3. Julia Goerges, Germany, def. Edina Gallovits-Hall, Romania, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. Francesca Schiavone (6), Italy, def. Arantxa Parra Santonja, Spain, 6-7 (4), 6-2, 6-4. Kaia Kanepi (20), Estonia, def. Magdalena Rybarikova, Slovakia, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3. Dominika Cibulkova (29), Slovakia, def. Angelique Kerber, Germany, 6-2, 6-7 (4), 6-4. GOLF SONY OPEN SCORES Sunday At Waialae Country Club Honolulu Purse: $5.5 million Yardage: 7,044; Par 70 Third Round Mark Wilson Steve Marino Jimmy Walker Matt Kuchar Stuart Appleby Shigeki Maruyama Roland Thatcher 65-67-65 —197 65-67-66 —198 68-65-66 —199 65-68-66 —199 64-66-69 —199 65-65-70 —200 67-65-68 —200 TRANSACTIONS SUNDAY’S BASEBALL American League MINNESOTA TWINS—Agreed to terms with INF Alexi Casilla on a one-year contract. TORONTO BLUE JAYS—Agreed to terms with RHP Carlos Villanueva on a one-year contract. HOCKEY National Hockey League ATLANTA THRASHERS—Reassigned G Edward Pasquale from Gwinnett (ECHL) to Chicago (AHL). NASHVILLE PREDATORS—Recalled F Matt Halischuk from Milwaukee (AHL). Assigned F Andreas Thuresson to Milwaukee. OTTAWA SENATORS—Recalled G Mike Brodeur from Binghamton (AHL) on an emergency basis. PHOENIX COYOTES—Recalled RW Brett MacLean from San Antonio (AHL). ST. LOUIS BLUES—Assigned D Ian Cole to Peoria (AHL). ECHL ELMIRA JACKALS—Signed D Tristin Llewellyn. COLLEGE WASHINGTON STATE—Suspended G Reggie Moore indefinitely from the men’s basketball team for incidents involving marijuana and drug paraphernalia. KEY WEST GOLF CLUB Memberships Available As low as $155 per month Call For Details 294-5233 328545 3B THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ◆ MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2011 SPORTS SOCCER COLLEGE BASKETBALL MAMAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALLX CONCACAF will lobby for 4th spot in World Cup Williams helps Miami to 17th straight win Twins, Alexi Casilla agree on 1-year deal Reds reach 3-year deal with 1B Votto PANAMA CITY — CONCACAF will lobby for a guaranteed fourth spot in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. The soccer organization’s executive committee said Sunday that CONCACAF — the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football — has earned the right to increase its allotment of World Cup slots from 31⁄2. A decision is expected at a meeting of the FIFA executive committee in March. CORAL GABLES — Riquna Williams scored a seasonhigh 33 points to help No. 22 Miami win its 17th straight game with a 65-53 victory over Boston College. Miami (18-1, 4-0 ACC), with its smaller and quicker players, used pressure defense to rally from a seven-point deficit against Atlantic Coast Conference rival Boston College (14-4, 1-2). The Hurricanes came up with 19 steals and had a 3111 turnover advantage. MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Twins and middle infielder Alexi Casilla have agreed to a one-year, $865,000 contract, avoiding salary arbitration. Casilla was in his first year of arbitration eligibility. He took over as the regular second baseman in the 2008 season, hitting .281 with seven homers and 50 RBIs, but he has been hindered by injuries and inconsistency over the last two years. CINCINNATI — A person familiar with negotiations tells The Associated Press that the Cincinnati Reds and NL MVP Joey Votto have agreed to a $38 million, three-year contract. The person spoke Sunday on condition of anonymity because deal has not yet been announced. Votto powered the Reds to the NL Central title last season as Cincinnati reached the postseason for the first time in 15 years. NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION GUS RUELAS/The Associated Press The Clippers guard Eric Gordon passes the ball after being stopped by Lakers forward Pau Gasol, left, and center Andrew Bynum on Sunday in Los Angeles. The Clippers won, 99-92. TENNIS: AUSTRALIAN OPEN Sharapova gets things started with win BY JOHN PYE The Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — Maria Sharapova won for the first time at Melbourne Park since taking the 2008 Australian Open title, beating Thai veteran Tamarine Tanasugarn, 6-1, 6-3, today in the opening match on center court. Sharapova, the former top-ranked player who missed the 2009 Australian Open because of a shoulder injury and was ousted in the first round last year by fellow Russian Maria Kirilenko, struggled with her serve and was inconsistent in the second set. After losing the opening service game at love, Sharapova won seven straight games to take a 6-1, 1-0 lead. The 33-year-old Tamarine, clearly not in peak physical condition, rallied and had a game point on serve for a 4-1 lead, but Sharapova broke back and regained momentum, winning the last five games. Even when she was winning, though, Sharapova had trouble finding range with her serve. She had 10 double-faults and five aces. Nerves had a role in that. “I definitely felt that in the beginning. I knew I had an early exit last year and didn’t want that to happen this year,” said Sharapova, who has the goal in Australia of “staying aggressive and little by little trying to get my game better, maybe to where it was a few years ago and maybe better than that.” In other women’s first-round matches, Russia’s Evgeniya Rodina ousted Australian wild-card entry Olivia Rogowska, 6-3, 6-1. Julien Benneteau of France withdrew before his first-round match because of an infected finger on his right hand. The 29-year-old Benneteau, a right-hander, was scheduled to play 26th-seeded Juan Monaco of Argentina. Benneteau’s spot in the draw was given to lucky loser Simon Greul of Germany. Defending champion Roger Federer was to play Lukas Lacko of Slovakia in the third match on Rod Laver Arena, where he has won four previous Australian titles. Federer and top-ranked Rafael Nadal were behaving like best mates at Rod Laver Arena — high-fiving, hugging, shaking hands and laughing at each other’s jokes on Sunday night in the exhibition “Rally for Relief” fundraiser for victims of the fatal floods in Australia’s northeastern Queensland state. It’ll be a completely different story if they’re back on the same court in two weeks. Nadal has won the three Grand Slam titles since Federer won here in Australia and is aiming to become the first man since Laver in 1969 to win four straight majors. It’s being dubbed the “Rafa Slam.” The pair played on opposite sides of the net, and then played together against Kim Clijsters and Sam Stosur in front of a capacity crowd of 15,000 that paid to watch a host of tennis stars in the fundraiser. Novak Djokovic and Andy Roddick wore microphones and joked with the crowd, playing alongside and against the likes of Caroline Wozniacki and Victoria Azarenka in the celebrity hit-and-giggle exhibition. Neither Federer nor Nadal wore microphones when they played a little later. It was mostly smiles, but there were glimpses of competitive intensity when they faced each other in mixed doubles. At their exhibition Sunday, Federer said Nadal has “been playing incredible.” “An incredible run through the French, Wimbledon, U.S. Open — it was incredible to see. Then obviously it’s hard to maintain. But he’s going to be for sure ready for this,” Federer said. “I’ll follow it very closely. If I get a chance, I hope I can stop him.” Also on the first day, No. 1-ranked Caroline Wozniacki takes on Gisela Dulko of Argentina and Federer . Third-seeded Djokovic, the 2008 champion, plays Spaniard Marcel Granollers in the main night match today. Andy Roddick plays Jan Hajek of the Czech Republic on the second showcourt. Following MARK BAKER/The Associated Press Maria Sharapova celebrates a point during her first round match against Tamarine Tanasugarn on Monday at the Australian Open in Melbourne, Australia. Roddick on Hisense Arena will be fourth-seeded Venus Williams against Italy’s Sara Errani, and seven-time Grand Slam winner Justine Henin against Indian qualifier Sania Mirza. With Serena Williams unable to defend her title because of her injured foot, Clijsters is considered a favorite for the women’s title at Melbourne Park. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Cardinals’ Albert Pujols sheds no light on contract talks BY R.B. FALLSTROM The Associated Press ST. LOUIS — Albert Pujols repeatedly has said he wants to spend his entire career with the St. Louis Cardinals. Staring at a spring training deadline for contract negotiations, the team chairman remains hopeful the three-time NL MVP will get his wish. Pujols declined Sunday to provide any kind of update on negotiations. His agent has said he will cut off talks at the start of spring training if an agreement is not in place, and general manager John Mozeliak confirmed the deadline on Saturday. A representative of Pujols’ agent stood to the slugger’s left and deflected questions on the topic at Sunday’s news conference before the first baseman held a two-hour, sold-out autograph session at the team’s Winter Warmup. “Do you want to bring all that into the clubhouse all year, like you guys have been doing the last couple of years?” Pujols said. “No. I respect my teammates more than this contract. “That’s why you have to set some deadline on this, and that’s it.” Neither side would offer a sense of how the talks are going. At one point, Cardinals Sail Continued from page 1B “They put a premium on crew work because there are only eight guys total,” said Leonard. “In comparison the Farr 40 would have 10 guys. So there’s a lot to do because the boats are very physical.” Albert Pujols Pujols Cardinals First baseman media relations director Brian Bartow stepped in and said Pujols’ agent had set ground rules for the news conference. Chairman Bill DeWitt said the Cardinals’ payroll for next season projects to “well above $100 million,” which is the highest ever for the franchise Without the typical lifelines that are on many of the competing boats this week, the RC 44 class vessels make it possible for crew members to hike out during racing. “That’s kind of happened as the class has developed,” said Leonard. “They are doing something called droop hiking, which is when you see the whole crew hiked out sitting on by freshmen Selyne Casas, Adriana Garcia, Libby Isherwood and junior Rachel Continued from page 1B Quad. The coach also said he thinks his young players are mercy rule twice this season. starting to ease into their roles “We were hosting up until seven days ago,” said Key West on the field. “We have to go back to havcoach Scott Paul. “Now we ing her in the back because go on the road and nobody can explain it. Everybody was she’s our best sweeper,” Paul under agreement the Norland said of Schoneck, who over the last few weeks was moved forboys and the Key West girls would get (to host districts). So ward to create more play with the attack. “The way we played it’s very disappointing.” (late in the season) is the way With many of the Lady Conchs’ underclassmen step- we need to play going into the playoffs. They stayed calm and ping up over the past few are starting to learn a trust weeks, the Key West coach with each other.” said Raquel Schoneck will Coral Shores enters the return to the sweeper posipostseason with the No. 2 tion for the playoffs and the seed, once again looking up defense will be anchored Notebook “You guys have the opportunity to be writing about this over the last two years. So what else is there to say? I think everybody knows I want to be a Cardinals and what else is there to say?” and includes $16 million for Pujols’ option year. DeWitt said Pujols was irreplaceable, both as a talent and as the face of the franchise. “That’s all wrapped into one. He’s an iconic player because he’s such a great player,” DeWitt said. “He’s proven year the side of the boat.” One of the top entries is likely to be Team Aqua, which is led by highly regarded tactician Cameron Appleton. Team Aqua is racing a 2007 boat, the oldest RC 44 in the fleet. “We felt it was important to bring the class to Key West. This is a major regatta that has always been at Gulliver. The Raiders have defeated the Lady ’Canes six straight times, dating back to two losses in the last regular season, and Gulliver ended the Hurricanes run in the regional tournament last year after winning the District 16-3A title over Coral Shores. Injuries have plagued the Marathon girls squad this season, however the Lady ’Fins are starting to get healthy as they enter the District 16-2A tournament as the No. 3 seed. Despite Marathon finding a late-season groove, coach Lynn Landry said he has concerns about his team’s conditioning. “Fitness has been a little bit of an issue for us,” said Landry. in and year out that he’s one of the greatest players to play the game. “He’s never had a bad year and has lifetime totals that are incredible. You can’t go out and find an Albert Pujols.” DeWitt said the best word to characterize the Cardinals’ stance was hopeful. “We want him to be with us,” DeWitt said. “Until something happens one way or another, there’s not a lot to say beyond that.” Manager Tony La Russa said he’d stay out of the talks. “I’m not going to say a word,” La Russa said. “Let them work it out.” a proving ground for new designs,” Appleton said. “We wanted to use this venue to show everyone that these boats are a lot of fun and a real pleasure to sail.” The introduction of this new top-flight class of boats this season should add a new element to the Key West 2011 race week. “I really think this class targets the “With all the injuries we’ve been dealing with, a lot of the girls haven’t been able to run much. But we are coming back and should be ready for the playoffs.” While the Key West boys team will not be making a trip to the District 16-4A tournament — the Conchs finished fifth and only the top four teams earn a spot — Marathon and Coral Shores will both have postseason opportunities. Coral Shores does not have big postseason goals this year, looking more forward to next season, but the Marathon squad, which enters the District 16-2A tourney as the No. 3 seed, is Signing free agent Lance Berkman to a $8 million contract signaled a willingness to spend after the Cardinals missed the postseason three of the last four years. “Sometimes you have to seize the moment, and we did,” DeWitt said. “You go for it.” Pujols led the National League with 42 homers last season and won his first league RBIs title with 118. He also tied Matt Holliday for the team batting lead at .312. No deal by the start of spring training would not necessarily mean Pujols will be moving on. The Cardinals could sign him after next season. top end of the sport,” said Leonard. “It’s like having an Indy Car and everybody else is racing Fords. I think this is going to be great for the class because it will give it a lot of visibility. It’s what the class needs to build in the U.S. That way people can see how much fun they are to sail and how cool they are.” [email protected] starting to gel. “Marathon, from where we first saw them has grown leaps and bounds,” Coral Shores coach Jorge Bosque said following a 1-0 loss at Marathon on Tuesday. “We are starting five freshmen this year. This team is knocking at the door, but next year is our goal and where we’ll make a run.” • • • Key West High boys basketball coach Paul Davis said he has begun to establish a new defense, and on Friday night the Conchs saw the newfound strategy come to life in a 53-45 loss to District 16-4A rival and powerhouse Miami Norland. “We’ve been working on this defense for two weeks and for them to come out and play the way they did is a step in the process,” said Davis. “I keep telling them this is a process and if they keep working and continue to learn, it will be clicking.” Davis said he hopes to make the eight-point loss a rallying point for the rest of the season and hopes his team can build off the confidence they gained in the game against the Vikings, who have gone unbeaten in district play over the last two seasons. “They get it and they are starting to understand,” Davis said of his players. “Now they just have to take it into practice and keep working.” 4B THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ◆ MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2011 SPORTS: National Football League NFL backs state regulations for youth concussions BY ERIC OLSON The Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. — The NFL is helping craft legislation in states around the country that would protect young athletes from the longterm effects of concussions. Sen. Steve Lathrop of Omaha last week introduced a bill in Nebraska that aims to raise coaches’ awareness of symptoms and prevent athletes from returning to practice or competition too soon. Prevention of head trauma has been a major issue in the NFL the past year. The league has implemented new standards for the management of concussions and has cracked down on hits to the head. “We felt a responsibility, with our platform, to advocate for better treatment of kids, who have more risk than adults do,” said Jeff Miller, NFL senior vice president for government affairs. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates about 135,000 children ages 5 to 18 are treated in emergency rooms each year for sports- or recreation-related concussions and other head trauma. Symptoms can include headache, nausea, dizziness and trouble concentrating, and may last about a week. Sometimes it can take months to recover. Research indicates repeat concussions can lead to brain damage, depression and memory problems including Alzheimer’s disease. Young athletes are believed to be more vulnerable than adults to lasting damage because their brains are still developing. The Nebraska bill, like others, would require public and private high schools, as well as other youth sports organizations, to provide coaches with training on how to recognize symptoms of concussions. Athletes and their parents or guardians would be given information each year on the symptoms and risks associated with head trauma. The bill also would require a licensed healthcare professional to evaluate an athlete and provide written clearance before the athlete is allowed to resume participation. The NFL worked with the Nebraska State Athletic Trainers’ Association and the Brain Injury Association of Nebraska to produce the bill. The template is the “Zackery Lystedt Law” passed in Washington in May 2009. Lystedt must use a wheelchair after sustaining a catastrophic brain injury in a middle-school football game in 2006. Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island and Virginia also have adopted concussion legislation governing youth concussions in recent years. “We have made a commitment to assist in the passage of 10 more similar bills in the next year and continue our advocacy around the country until every state has a concussion law,” Miller said. The laws do not mandate punishment for failure to follow the guidelines. Miller said a coach would be open to a civil lawsuit if an athlete under his or her watch were injured because the injured athlete was allowed to participate too soon. Rusty McKune, president of the state athletic trainers’ association, said the intent of the bill is to create awareness, not punish. He said he doubts a coach would intentionally hurt an athlete. “We’re hoping that by providing people with all the up-to-date facts out there on concussions that they’ll be able to make the right choice rather than doing it out of fear of repercussions,” McKune said. RITE OF WINTER Steelers get to host AFC title game the total Baltimore had yielded in its previous three games. The Associated Press Ben Roethlisberger threw for two touchdowns and orchestrated a 65PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Steelers know better than to make yard drive in the closing minutes that vacation plans for the latter part of included a 58-yard pass to rookie January, because they fully expect to Antonio Brown on third-and-19. That be playing football through the end of set up a 2-yard touchdown run by Rashard Mendenhall with 1:33 left for the month. With their 31-24 comeback vic- the winning points. Soon thereafter, the Steelers and a tory over Baltimore on Saturday, the Steelers earned a 15th trip to the AFC delirious crowd at Heinz Field began title game. Given what Pittsburgh had gearing up for their fourth appearto overcome this season, this appear- ance in the AFC title game over the last seven years. ance will be more “That’s great. satisfying than “We are extremely humbled To be down like most. and honored to move on that and come “We don’t take to the AFC championship out at halftime, this for grantI know a lot of ed,” coach Mike game, and to be recognized people probably Tomlin said. “We as the true champions of were counting us are extremely the AFC North. We respect out,” linebacker humbled and the heck out of the Ravens.” LaMarr Woodley honored to move Mike Tomlin said. “We came on to the AFC Steelers coach back and we championship fought. That game, and to be shows what kind recognized as the true champions of the AFC North. We of team we are. When the offense is down, the defense is going to pick respect the heck out of the Ravens.” The Steelers beat the heck out of them up. And when the defense is the Ravens, too. After trailing 21-7 at down, the offense is going to pick up. halftime, Pittsburgh scored 17 straight That’s the thing about being teampoints, then mounted a classic drive mates.” For the first 30 minutes, both units at the finish to move within a victory could share the blame for the 14-point of a return trip to the Super Bowl. The Steelers will face the Jets, who deficit. The defense gave up a 68-yard topped New England 28-21, in the AFC drive and permitted two third-down championship game next Sunday night. conversions during another touchAlthough the Ravens committed down march, and the offense comthree turnovers in the third quarter, mitted two turnovers, including a the Steelers (13-4) deserve credit for fumble by Roethlisberger that Ravens forcing those miscues and scoring 24 defensive end Cory Redding turned points in the second half — matching into a score. BY DAVID GINSBURG Jets Continued from page 1B its fierce rival 14-3 at halftime before Brady’s 2-yard touchdown pass to Alge Crumpler and Sammy Morris’ run for a 2-point conversion made it 14-11 late in the third quarter. But Sanchez came right back with a 7-yard scoring pass to Santonio Holmes and New York finished the upset with Shonn Greene’s 16-yard touchdown run. The Jets (13-5) kept Ryan’s prediction of a Super Bowl appearance alive. The Patriots (14-3) lost their third straight postseason game. “Maybe everybody else never believed, but we believed,” Ryan said. “We’re moving on. Same old Jets, back to the AFC championship. The only difference is this time we plan on winning.” They lost last season to Indianapolis 30-17, but now have another chance for their first Super Bowl berth since 1969 when another loudmouth, “Broadway Joe” Namath, backed up his guarantee with a 16-9 win over the Baltimore Colts. Ryan has said many times that the Jets are a Super Bowl-caliber team, and has irritated fans, opposing players and media with his bold remarks. Last week he said the game was a contest between him and Patriots coach Bill Belichick. Then, after Antonio Cromartie called Brady an expletive on Tuesday, Ryan said he wouldn’t punish his cornerback. The ultra-serious Belichick wasn’t as kind to Wes Welker. The wide receiver was benched for the Patriots first series for subtle remarks apparently directed at Ryan. Welker made several references to feet in his news conference Thursday, interpreted by some as a dig at recent foot-fetish reports involving Ryan. When the game ended, Belichick walked slowly to midfield where he met Ryan, patted MATT SLOCUM/The Associated Press Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown beats Ravens cornerback Lardarius Webb on a long pass during the second half thier divisional football game on Saturday in Pittsburgh. The play set up Rashard Mendenhall’s touchdown to give the Steelers the 31-24 win. “It wasn’t our best day today,” said wide receiver Hines Ward, who scored a touchdown. “But anytime we have Ben on the field, he is a winner. He may not be (Tom) Brady or all the other guys, but you can’t knock the guy for what he has done. History shows he is a proven winner against Baltimore. He is a proven winner in the playoffs.” Roethlisberger has won his last seven starts against the Ravens since 2006. He began the season serving a four-game suspension and expects to finish it hoisting high the Vince Lombardi Trophy at the Super Bowl. To get there, he will have to beat a team that defeated Pittsburgh earlier. The New York Jets edged the Steelers 22-17 in December. On Saturday night, Roethlisberger didn’t care to think about a rematch. his conqueror on the back with his left hand and shared some words. “We just didn’t do enough things well today,” Belichick said. “It’s obvious.” Sanchez completed 16 of 25 passes for 194 yards and touchdowns to LaDainian Tomlinson, Braylon Edwards and Holmes. Brady, who played poorly for his second straight postseason game, was 29-for-45 for 299 yards, two touchdowns and one interception. “I don’t even know what to say right now,” Tomlinson said. “What an unbelievable win for our team.” After Greene scored the Jets last touchdown, he put the ball on the ground like a pillow and rested his head on it. A quiet climax to a loud week. Now Sanchez gets a chance to beat one of the NFL’s best quarterbacks for the third straight week when he faces Ben Roethslisberger after knocking off Peyton Manning, who won the NFL’s last two MVP awards and Brady, who is a favorite to win his second in four years. “He’s just now getting better and better and better,” Ryan said. The Steelers have been installed as 3-point favorites. In one of their worst halves of the season, the Patriots looked more like the ragged group that went 5-11 in Belichick’s first season in 2000 than the steamrolling machine that led the NFL this season with a 14-2 record and 32.4 points per game. In the first two quarters, Brady absorbed three sacks and was sent scrambling at least that many times. He misfired on an interception on his first series after finishing the season with a league-record streak of 335 passes without a pick. Then on the Patriots fifth possession, trailing just 7-3, they botched a fake punt attempt. Patrick Chung took the short snap and fumbled. He got the ball back but all escape routes closed quickly. He was tackled at the Patriots 37 with 1:06 remaining. Plenty of time for Sanchez. “You like to play teams that you lose to. Right now that is not on my mind,” he said. “I’m going to enjoy this win and see what happens.” Roethlisberger knows all about playing in the AFC championship game and Super Bowl, but there are others on this team preparing for their first such foray this deep into the postseason. Safety Ryan Clark said: “What’s funny is coach Tomlin, at the beginning of the playoffs, put names on the board of all the guys who were playing big roles for us right now who weren’t here for the last Super Bowl run: Antonio Brown, Emmanuel Sanders, Rashard Mendenhall, Ziggy Hood. “He said what guys like James Farrior and Troy Polamalu would do. But the difference was going to be what those young guys do,” Clark said. “You look Bears Continued from page 1B the NFC, Chicago harassed Matt Hasselbeck and held Seattle to 276 yards Sunday. The 35-24 win in the divisional round avenged an earlier loss to the Seahawks at home, and it was a blowout from the opening minutes. Jay Cutler threw for two touchdowns and ran for two more in his first playoff appearance, but he had plenty of help from the guys on the other side. The Bears got seven tackles from Urlacher, six from Lance Briggs and two sacks from Tommie Harris. It was a big contrast from the first meeting in October, when Seattle racked up 353 yards without a turnover in a 23-20 victory over the Bears. “We just played our game,” Peppers said. “We executed. And really that’s it. We executed today better than we did in the previous meeting. Everybody was sound. We had Lance back, which was a big help. For the most part, everybody was taking care of their own jobs.” This was what Chicago had in mind when it signed Peppers in the offseason. He’s paid off in a big way, and it helped, too, that Urlacher was healthy after missing most of last season with a wrist injury. A defense that had struggled at times in recent years ranked among the stingiest all season, at the contributions made by Ziggy (four tackles and a sack), the big catch made by Antonio. Those guys really came through for us, and, at this time, that’s what you need. We know that Ray Lewis and Ed Reed are going to do their thing for Baltimore. But what are their young guys going to do? I believe we won that battle.” And now the Steelers are poised for another trip to the AFC championship. “It starts with the top. It starts with the Rooneys — awesome people, awesome family, awesome owners,” Roethlisberger said. “I think all the players really respect the coaches, from the head guy all the way down to our position guy. We are a family, we have since I’ve been here and we’ll fight and do anything for each other.” and the Bears didn’t give up much when it counted Sunday. “Coaches kept staying on us,” Urlacher said. “We got some good players. We got some good trades, good free agents. Now, we’re back and we’re playing together. Hopefully, we’re peaking at the right time.” The Bears kept Hasselbeck off balance for most of the game after he threw for four touchdowns last week in the stunning win over defending champion New Orleans, and they shut down the run. Chicago’s defense again looked more like the dominant unit that led the way to that 2006 Super Bowl, right from the start when it forced Seattle to go three-and-out on the game’s first drive. There were no highlight reel interceptions, no bone-crushing hits. The Bears were plenty good enough. They were quick to the ball, tackled well and didn’t give up big plays. That’s how they were in 2005 and 2006, when they won backto-back NFC North championships. They didn’t rely on big hits then, either. They were more about speed, finesse and stripping the ball. They still are, but getting back to this level was a long, difficult process. Coach Lovie Smith asked fans to trust him when he let Ron Rivera go after the Super Bowl season and replaced him with linebackers coach Bob Babich. That rubbed many the wrong way. Smith wound up assuming the play-calling duties from Babich last season before promoting Rod Marinelli to defensive coordinator last February. Beside the coaching shuffle, injuries continued to rob Harris of his Pro Bowl abilities. Urlacher was limited by neck and back problems in recent years, and that was before he injured his wrist in the opener at Green Bay last year, setting the tone for a 7-9 season and third straight playoff miss. That left many calling for Smith and general manager Jerry Angelo to be fired. Instead, they got another chance and made some big moves — none bigger than signing Peppers. The Bears lured him with a six-year deal potentially worth $91.5 million, hoping he would provide a spark up front for a defense that ranked 17th overall last season. This year, the defense ranked ninth, and the Pro Bowl defensive end was a big reason why, drawing attention and giving teammates a chance to make plays. But he had help from Urlacher. From Briggs, too. And on Sunday, it was more of the same for the defense. “We stopped the run early, the whole game, actually,” Urlacher said. “The whole game we played good. We got off the field on third down. We got pressure on the quarterback. We didn’t get any takeaways, but did exactly what we wanted to do the whole game until the last couple drives there.” THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ◆ MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2011 HOROSCOPES for today BRIDGE TIPS don’t limit yourself to the available answers. Keep probing until you’re sure. ARIES (March 21-April 19) - You might be able to be somewhat laid back about frivolous matters, but not so when it comes to your business dealings. Be careful that you don’t treat serious matters indifferently. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - Allowing another to make a decision for you about a matter that you regard as unimportant is likely to end up resulting in some unexpected expenditure on your part. Call your own shots. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Make sure that you don’t underestimate your competition. What you think is your ace in the hole might be something they can easily trump. CANCER (June 21-July 22) - Avoid having anything important to do with a person or organization that you know for a fact has a hard time keeping a promise. Nothing is likely to have changed. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Mindlessly spending a little too Monday, Jan. 17, 2011 Although material gratification might come much easier for you in the next year, guard against taking anything for granted and complacency. You could lose out just as quickly as you lucked out, and end up right back where you started. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - There are only so many hours in a day, and if you hope to take care of several critical tasks, it is important that you don’t waste any of them on frivolous activities. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) - When involved in an amicable competitive game with friends, keep wagering out of the picture. Money could suddenly become a huge issue and alter the complexion of the game. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) - Welcome all friendly suggestions made by others concerning a problem that you’re having, but 5B KEYSWIDE CLASSIFIED much here and there will quickly get you into hot water. Be mindful of your purchases, or you could brutally batter your wallet. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Unless you are cognizant of your every move, a goal of major significance could easily wriggle away. Should you slip back a step or two, be prepared to put on the brakes and get back on course. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) When in conversations with persons of importance, limit your palaver to topics that you’re thoroughly familiar with. If that’s impossible, don’t pretend to possess knowledge that you don’t have. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) A failure to see and acknowledge your financial expectations could prove to be an extremely costly mistake. Don’t pin your hopes on unrealistic, rose-colored projections. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) - Avoid associating with individuals who don’t operate on your wavelength, either business-wise or socially. Being around them could invite discomfort. To finesse or not to finesse By Phillip Alder Alexandre Dumas senior -pere, if you prefer -- said, “All human wisdom is summed up in two words -- wait and hope.” At the bridge table you often have two choices: wait or hope (don’t wait). Which you choose is critical in this deal. How would you play in five diamonds after West leads the club two? In the auction, you correctly rebid two diamonds, repeating your excellent suit rather than introducing those weak clubs. Since North’s two-spade rebid would have been natural and game-forcing, his three spades was a splinter showing a good diamond fit, the values for at least game, and a singleton (or void) in spades. You temporized with four diamonds, and North settled for game. You have one heart loser, so can afford one club loser but not two. Should you take the club finesse immediately? If the finesse wins, you are home with an overtrick. You can draw trumps, drive out the heart ace, and discard your last two clubs on those established heart winners. However, what happens if the finesse loses? Presumably a club will come back and you might lose two clubs and one heart. Suppose you play dummy’s low club at trick one -- what happens then? Yes, East wins the trick with his 10, but he cannot profitably return a club into the ace-queen. He will shift to a spade. Win with your ace, draw trumps, and dislodge the heart ace. You will take one spade, two hearts, six diamonds, one club and one spade ruff in the dummy. 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Immediate opening, so e-mail your resume to: [email protected] or fax to 305-294-1699 328457 FloridaKeys.com is owned and operated by Cooke Communications, LLC EOE YOUR GUARANTEE… KEYSWIDE GUARANTEED CLASSIFIEDS Free Reruns On Guaranteed Seller Ads YOUR ITEM DOESN’T SELL AFTER A WEEK, LOWER YOUR PRICE OF THE ITEM BY 5% AND THE CITIZEN WILL RERUN YOUR AD ANOTHER WEEK - AT NO CHARGE!* AND WE WILL DO THIS WEEK AFTER WEEK UNTIL YOUR ITEM IS SOLD FOR UP TO 1 MONTH! CANCELLATIONS All word ad rates are placement fees and non-refundable (for frequency days canceled). Ads may be removed from publication with placement fee remaining. CHANGES Once an ad has been placed only acceptable minor changes can be made to the ad. IF *All guaranteed seller ads must be pre-paid. GUARANTEED! This guarantee is for private individuals selling personal household goods and ads containing items with one price. This offer good on guaranteed seller ads only. NEED A CAR? Bad Credit, Repossession, Foreclosures. Don’t Worry, CALL THE DOCTOR. Duncan Used Cars 296-6002 040 Personals SEARCHING FOR Jeff Knote. Please call your friends, the Gauthiers. We miss you! 296-1229. Warehouse Help Shipping, Receiving, Delivery Benefits include Health Insurance, Vacation & Profit Sharing. APPLY IN PERSON 500 DUVAL STREET 328607 ANNOUNCEMENTS 010....................................Public Notices 020............................Volunteers Wanted 030...............................................Travel 040.........................................Personals 050....................................Lost & Found 060..........................................Pets Found 400 ****SOUS CHEF**** Commodore Restaurant Great pay, Great kitchen Apply in person 700 Front St. Between 2:00 - 5:30pm Acct / Bookkeeper AP, AR, payroll. Exp. with QuickBooks req. P/T possible F/T. Start immediately. Contact Mama’s Garden Center, Rockland Key. (305)296-1617 Assistant Sous Chef Conch Republic Seafood Company High volume, minimum 2 yrs restaurant experience. Apply in person with current resume & references. 631 Green St BUSY ORTHOPEDIC PRACTICE seeking RN for Lower Keys locations. Must be detail oriented, flexible, and have clinic experience. Apply on-line to www.fishermenshospital.com Fax resume or application to: (305) 289-6459. Phone: (305) 745-1770. E.O.E./Drug Free Workplace. 442...........Unfurn. Houses Middle Keys 444.............Unfurn. Houses Upper Keys 446..............Wanted To Rent Lower Keys 448............Wanted To Rent Middle Keys 450..............Wanted To Rent Upper Keys 451.....................Mobile Home/RV Sites 452............Vacation Rentals Lower Keys 454..........Vacation Rentals Middle Keys 456............Vacation Rentals Upper Keys 458..............Vacation Rentals Elsewhere 460..........................Commercial Rentals 462.......................................Office Space 464...............................................Storage 513........................................Timeshares 514..........................Condos Lower Keys 516.........................Condos Middle Keys 518..........................Condos Upper Keys 520...........................Homes Lower Keys 522..........................Homes Middle Keys 524...........................Homes Upper Keys Commercial 526......................Business Opportunity 528...............................Business Wanted 530.......................................Investments 532................................Income Property 534.......................Commercial Property Other Real Estate 536...............Lots & Acreage Lower Keys 538.............Lots & Acreage Middle Keys REAL ESTATE 540...............Lots & Acreage Upper Keys 542...............................Realty Elsewhere Mobile Homes 502........................................ Lower Keys 544...................................Realty Wanted 504.......................................Middle Keys 506........................................Upper Keys AUTOS/ 508................................ Lots Lower Keys 510............................... Lots Middle Keys TRANSPORTATION 512................................ Lots Upper Keys Autos/Trucks 610................................................Trucks Homes For Sale 500 600 DEADLINES WORD ADS DISPLAY ADS 1:00PM Sunday Edition..............Wednesday, 5PM for the next day’s edition Monday Edition.................Friday, 12Noon Tuesday Edition......................Friday, 3PM 11:00AM Friday Wednesday Edition.............Monday, 3PM for Saturday Edition Thursday Edition................Tuesday, 3PM 1:00PM Friday Friday Edition................Wednesday, 3PM for Sunday Edition Saturday Edition...........Wednesday, 5PM NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS In case of errors, please check your ad the first day it appears. In the event of an error, we are responsible for the first incorrect insertion of an ad. The Citizen does not assume responsibility for any reason beyond the cost of the ad itself. CANCELLATIONS 220 HELP WANTED LOWER KEYS 220 HELP WANTED LOWER KEYS CIRCLE K Now Hiring Key West looking for 3pm to 11pm & 3 positions available for 11pm to 7am. Please apply at 1890 N. Roosevelt Blvd. Key Colony Beach, Marathon. Full time 11pm to 7am & part time 11pm to 7am. Please apply at 13100 Overseas Hwy. Please call 305-849-2609 Drug Free Workplace EOE MEDICAL BILLING TRAINEES NEEDED! Hospitals, Doctors & Insurance hiring now! No experience? Local training & Job Placement available. HS Diploma or GED to qualify for Program. 1-888-778-0456 IMMEDIATE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Front Desk Clerk * 1st Shift- Saturday and Sunday * 2nd Shift- 2-weekdays, 1-week night & Sunday RETAIL SALES Positions available in women’s & men’s department. P/T-F/T. Apply in person at The Saltwater Angler at The Westin Hotel. Previous applicants need not apply. Great Money and Perks for the right person! Sales exp. and vehicle a must. Local knowledge preferred. Bi-lingual a plus (especially German). Stop in w/resume & fill out an application: 31281 Overseas Hwy. KEY WEST ORTHOPEDICS Is looking for a medical records clerk. 2yrs Exp. Billing background helpful. $12 - $13 per hr. depending on exp. Please call 877-233-3450. LOVE RETAIL? Looking for FT & PT Sales Associates and & a F/T Assistant Manager in the Lower Keys that are friendly & responsible. Fax resume to 305-453-9604 or call 305-453-9194 Monroe Association for ReMARCable Citizens Maintenance & Landscaping- Off site (30 - 40 approx. hrs) Some requirements: Comfortable working w/ the disabled, min. age 18, HS Diploma/GED, bkground ck clearance, good English, valid Fl. DL w/clean record. This is a physically demanding position. Fax, 305-292-0078, Visit 1401 Seminary St., 10am-2pm, Marchouse.org. EOE • Assist local businesses with their advertising needs in our 7 publications. • Create relationships with new advertisers through promotions and networking. • Submit ad specifications to creative department & collaborate with client during proofing and revisions. enthusiastic, professional, and reliable. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Excellent organizational and communication Monroe County requires that Contractors who advertise must include their permanent certificate of competency number. If you have questions concerning requirements, please call the Monroe County Building Department at (305) 292-4491. skills, attention to detail, the ability to multitask and meet deadlines, and a positive, attitude are the keys to success. 292-7777 Interested applicants should forward resume to: [email protected] Mon. - Fri. 8AM - 5:00PM • Sat. 9AM - 12Noon Proven To Work For Over 125 Years The Key West Citizen is seeking an Advertising Sales Representative for our Marathon office. Ideal candidates will be motivated, All word ad rates are placement fees and non-refundable (for frequency days cancelled). Ads may be removed from publication with placement fee remaining. EOE LEGALS 220 HELP WANTED LOWER KEYS Primary responsibilities: Part / Full Time 900 220 HELP WANTED LOWER KEYS Advertiser must call The Citizen to lower price and renew advertisement prior to expiration. ad sales representative 615..................................Auto Financing 620....................................Autos For Sale 622.....................................SUVs For Sale 625.....................................Classic Autos 630....................................Autos Wanted 640..........................................Auto Parts 645.............................Heavy Equipment Recreation 650.............................................Scooters 652.......................................Motorcycles 654....................................Travel Trailers 656............................................Campers 658...........................RVs/Motor Homes 660....................................Marine Needs 661....................................Marine Parts 662.......................................Powerboats 664............................................Sailboats 665.......................................Houseboats 667.........................................Misc. Boats 669.............................Dockage/Storage 670.............................................Aviation 328501 NOW HIRING A KM & Experience Kitchen Staff. Apply in person only 5110 Oversea Hwy, Hurricane Hole. OPERATIONS RESEARCH ANALYST sought by Auto detailing co. w/exp in working w/auto cleansing, buffing, & polishing chemicals & machinery to improve co. shop dsgn efficiency & workflow. Comp sal. Mail resume to: Komol Yadgarkhodjaev, Keys Auto Spa Inc., 2328 N. Roosevelt Blvd., Key West, FL 33040 POSITIONS AVAILABLE at WESTIN KEY WEST, SUNSET KEY, WEATHER STATION AND BANANA BAY Westin * Night Audit *Line Cook * Front Desk Clerk * Accounting Staff Sunset Key *Nail Technician *Bell Person/Night House Person *Overnight Cleaner Part-time *Concierge + Previous applicants need not apply again. + Application hours are from 9am to 3:30pm. +Can also apply on-line to: [email protected] Drug Free Work Place An Equal Opportunity Employer Apply in Person 245 Front Street, Key West, FL 33040 Tel: 305-294-4000 Fax: 305-292-4348 To schedule an interview please call 305-296-6661 TECHNICIAN P/T for company offering carF/T Accounts Payable pet cleaning and emergency services. BackSpecialist Position ground screening reAt Florida Keys quired. Application by Community College. Responsible for ad- app’t only. Call Tammy, vanced accounting work; (305) 296-8083 which includes processVICE PRESIDENT ing invoices, check re- BUSINESS SERVICES quests and various exAt Florida Keys penditures. Also, handles Community College cash and processes stu- Executive position acdent transactions. Asso- countable for supervision ciate’s degree and three and coordination of the years related work expe- Business Office, Institurience. Generous bene- tional Research, Informafits package. Close date: tion Technology ServFriday, January 21, 2011 ices, Purchasing, Plant 4pm. and Facilities operations Applications and informa- and planning and Auxiltion available online iary Services. Responsiwww.fkcc.edu or contact ble for all budget develHuman Resources, opment and manage305-809-3118 EOE ment activities including M/F/D/V state and federal reporting. Serves as the ColleRetail Sales Position ge’s Chief Business OffiExperienced retail sales cer. Generous benefit person needed, hourly package. Close date: Friwage plus commission, day, April 29, 2011 4pm. apply in person. Key Applications and informaWest Hammocks, 719 tion available online Duval Street. www.fkcc.edu or contact Human Resources, SALES PERSON 305-809-3118 EOE with experience commerM/F/D/V cial fishing boat. Commission Sales 325 Miscellaneous 813-220-7289. Handicap Electric Chair new $2,229 SALUTE RESTAURANT Brand 305-797-2395, 294-3240 is looking for an experienced, PLANTS SALE conscientious Cook. Plants! Plants! Plants! Please apply in person. Bleeding hearts, vines, SOUTHERNMOST HOTEL COLLECTION Has the following positions available due to expansion: * PM Front Desk Clerk *Painter Applicants must have desire to provide exceptional customer service to our guests. Employee housing available. Please apply at 1319 Duval St. IMMEDIATE OPENING Hodges University – Learning Site At Florida Keys Community College Teaching Opportunity Full Time Management Professor Due to our continued growth and success Hodges University has an immediate opportunity for a full time Management Professor at our learning site on the campus of Florida Keys Community College. The position requires a DBA or Ph.D in business or management. We offer a highly competitive compensation and benefits package. Phone calls welcome. [email protected] / Fax: 239-598-6263 / Phone: 239-598-6139 “We value and support diversity in the workplace” EOE 328316 plus pots, window boxes., statues and patio furniture. Moving, must sell. Located: Old Town 732 Love Lane. Call 727-667-6258. 327 Jewelry NEED CASH? Buying gold, silver, diamonds, Rolexes, Estate items. Miami prices, we pay cash. 7 days/week. 305-304-1805 402 Roommates **PROFESSIONAL** REDUCED!!! Large Old Town brand new 4BR superlux house. Own queen size bed, flat screen TV. Pvt swimming pool. $300/wk. minimum 6-12 mo. lease. 305-896-4004 404 ROOMS LOWER KEYS 716 DUVAL ST. HEARTBREAK HOTEL Stay in the heart of Old Town. Beautifully furnished, immaculately clean, full kitchens, tile baths, cable TV & cold A/C. Starting at $499/week + tax or 2 nite min@ $99/nite 305-296-5558 www.heartbreakhotel.org 6B 1 KEYSWIDE CLASSIFIED 2 3 4 11 5 6 7 12 14 17 18 20 23 21 24 25 29 30 32 33 35 36 37 38 39 41 42 40 43 44 48 49 51 52 54 55 F A C T A R L O N E O N F E A T U L N A R I G S M G M T P O O H G L U E 9 50 G O A R A AWE T F A L E R K I D E P E N P A N E D E D E L S K C H I E P A U L OR D D D U S T E S OU N ON T ANSWER GRID FOR 01/15/2011 CROSSWORD AM F M R A R E L F L A T T A Y E D S Y E L P U N D U E T E I N S T T A O E T R I F L E P L A Y P E R E Y A K S 10 Stray dog Sci-fi Doctor More scarce 16 Florida crop 19 Bullring cheers 30 Ms. Hagen 26 27 28 of films 31 Make — — 31 double 34 32 Hero sandwich 33 Bottle edge 34 River in 45 46 47 England 35 Warrior women 53 38 Change 56 39 Toothpuller’s org ACROSS 40 Corp. 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THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ◆ MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2011 HAPPILY UNATTACHED WOMAN ENJOYS FEELING OF FREEDOM DEAR ABBY: I was married at 17 and ran away at 37 when I finally admitted to myself that my husband did not love me. After that, I went through a deep depression that took years to recover from. I have been divorced for 13 years and am happy being unencumbered. I choose to live alone. I enjoy companionship and am seeing not one, but two, men. They both want a commitment, and I do not. One knows about the other; the other doesn’t. They know I have had relationships in the past. I have already had family, kids and grandkids. I see no reason to marry again or have a serious commitment to anyone. What is your advice? -- CONTENT IN IOWA DEAR CONTENT: My advice is to let the gentleman who doesn’t know you are seeing someone else in on the secret. Other than that, because you are happy with the status quo, I have no other advice to offer. DEAR ABBY: Before my mother died a year ago, she told me a secret. She said my middle-aged brother “Donnie” was conceived with a sperm donation rather than my father (also deceased), whose sperm count was low. My brother doesn’t know this, and Mom didn’t tell him before she died. Donnie has had numerous emotionalproblemsandhasunresolved issues with our parents. Do you think it’s important that he know of his “origin,” or is this a secret I should take with me to the grave? I don’t want to hurt him with this information, only to help him resolve some of his negative feelings toward our parents. I hate keeping family secrets, but I will remain silent if telling him would do more harm than good. -- HALF-SISTER IN NEW JERSEY DEAR HALF-SISTER: Your halfbrother should be told the truth. It may be difficult for him to hear, but on the other hand, it could explain some of the unspoken family dynamics that may have led to his unresolved issues with your parents. It might also help him understand why he felt “different,” or may have felt he was treated differently than you were. DEAR ABBY: I have a grandchild whose parents are strict, which I don’t mind, but when Mom loses her cool, she starts name-calling. She’ll say things like, “You’re a brat!” etc. in front of whomever, wherever we happen to be. It goes against my grain to call anyone names. Should I talk to the parents about this or stay out of their business? I don’t interfere with the way any of my children raise their kids, but I’m very concerned over this. What do I do or say? Should I speak up, or hold my peace? I hurt for the grandkids when this happens. It isn’t good for their self-esteem. -- UNSURE IN RED WING, MINN. DEAR UNSURE: I know very few perfect parents, but if your family member does this on a regular basis, you should say something. The problem with labeling a child is that if an adult does it often enough, the child can grow up thinking the label is accurate. A better way to handle the situation would be for Mom to say firmly: “Stop that! When you do that it makes me angry, and if it happens again, you’ll: (1) get a time out; (2) we’re going outside until you can behave; or (3) I won’t bring you here again!” DEAR READERS: Today we remember the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who in 1968 was martyred in the cause of civil rights. He was an eloquent man who preached that “love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” His was a voice of reason in a time of insanity, silenced too soon. -- ABBY There’s always somethin’ cookin’ in the Keys! Look for the “What’s Cookin’?” Restaurant Guide in the Key West Citizen for Menu Specials, Brunch, Breakfast, Dinner, Tapas, Bar Food... Whatever whets your appetite! 404 ROOMS LOWER KEYS 417 UNFURN.CONDOS LOWER KEYS ROOM FOR RENT Single Professional, nonsmoker, furn. room, balc, large bath & dressing area, walk-in closet, parking, shared kit., W/D, $900/mo. 305-296-4087. Old Town Efficiency 1 with double bed $270; 1 week deposit. 4 week min. Seas. pref. Priv. entrance, own bath, own A/C, satellite, W/D, WIFI. No drugs, alcohol. Sorry no pets. 305-292-1551 410 MOBILE HOMES LOWER KEYS WATERFRONT R.V. Lots for Lease 15 minutes to Key West One Month Free Rent With annual lease Call Dave (305) 304-7579 422 FURNISHED APTS. LOWER KEYS OCEAN VIEW La Brisa Large 2/2! Beach, all new kitchen. Huge! covered balcony & parking, W/D, EFFICIENCY no stairs, pool, tennis. 300 FRONT ST. AMERIREALTY CORP. 2nd Floor totally renoCall 305-296-7706 vated, Outdoor patio, private bath, C A/C, ce3/2 LAS SALINAS ramic tile throughout, Appliances, W/D. from $900/mo & up incl. 6 month or year lease. all utils. F/L/S, no pets $1,700/mo + utils, F/S. Ricardo 305-896-2468. No pets. Ref. required 305-849-0261 or PRIME OLD TOWN 305-294-6020 1BR/1BA, w/covered bal420 CONDOS cony overlooking courtUPPER KEYS yard in quiet tropical ISLAMORADA compound. Small but reCharming 2/2 unfurn ocean view apartment in cently updated & nicely a gated community with furnished. Easy walk to pool and fishing pier. Duval or Seaport District. $1400/mo. requested but $1,175 includes loaded negotiable. Available TV, Internet, immediately. Please call cable Monday through Friday, sewer/garbage & water. 9-1pm only F/L/S. Leave message @ (305)852-5097. 305-923-5130. Visit OurWebsite at www.keysnews.com 422 FURNISHED APTS. LOWER KEYS 428 UNFURNISHED APTS. LOWER KEYS 428 UNFURNISHED APTS. LOWER KEYS NOW AVAILABLE Old Town apartment. Furnished or unfurnished. $800 and up. No pets. Soni 292-9596, 393-9764. AVAILABLE FEB 2nd 2512 Harris Ave. 2BR/1BA, central A/C, W/D, OSP, no smoking or pets. Credit check. $1,600/mo. + utilities. 305-296-5720 OLD TOWN 1BR/1BA, OSP, pristine central A/C, W/D, private entrance, tile flrs $1,285 per mo. 615-975-0455. BIG COPPITT Efficiency, tile throughout, coin W/D. $700/mo. F/L/S. (305)797-1416 ***Old Town Classic*** 2 Big Bedrooms, $1,795 TV, W/D, Parking, D/W. Porch, Pool, Pets Ok. ***Tom 607-342-0626*** www.keywestrealty.com 2BR/1BA Atlantic Blvd. 2nd floor, stackable W/D hook-up, D/W, window A/C's, bamboo floors, $1,400/mo. F/S/S Margaret Street Furnished 2BR/1BA $1,475/mo. F/S/S OLD TOWN 1BR Cozy 1/1, 616 Elizabeth. $1,275/mo. plus dep. plus util. Mark Molback Reality Exec. 923-8924. ON THE WATER $1000/MONTH NEWLY RENOVATED 1 bedroom/1bath apt., with central A/C, New Appliances, sliding glass doors out to seawall on the water, Big Coppitt Key, plus utilities/sec. No dogs. Cabana Realty Inc. 294-6259 Charles Lee. 3/2 OLD TOWN Quiet Lane, garden/patio, lg. liv. rm, hardware flrs, new appl, W/D, A/C. 2 blks from Duval. $2,250/mo. F/L/S. 305-509-7194, 410-562-4040 428 UNFURNISHED APTS. LOWER KEYS 2/2.5 LUXURY APT Dey St, 2000sq ft Gourmet kitchen, 3 balconies, a must see. 1 parking space provided $2750/mo $3000/mo F/S 1 BR IN KEY WEST Location 3 Real Estate w/private backyard. Avail. 305.292.8982 now. New kitchen & appliances, W/D, marble floors. A perfect oasis! No pets. $1,300/mo. 434 FURNISHED HOUSES F/L/S 305-731-9990 LOWER KEYS 428 UNFURNISHED APTS. LOWER KEYS KEY WEST REALTY Management Group 305-294-RENT (7368) 305-292-7777 x203 2BR/1BA MEADOWS 1401 Petronia St. Key West. High & dry. 950 s.f. lg fenced brick backyard. Yes, dogs allowed. Near Bayview Park. Avail. Now. $1,640 F/L, no security. 305-766-0344 or 386-454-2947. 2 BEDROOM, 1 BATH Tile throughout, central AC, cathedral ceilings, porch terrace, laundry room, non-smoking. No pets. Preferred family oriented. No deposit needed for water, electric, $1500 mo. F/L/S lease, plus utilities 305-896-6124. OLD TOWN BEAUTY 626 Olivia St. Conch house. furn. 3BR/2BA W/D, No pets $2,500, F/L/S, lease 305-669-4590, Mon-Fri. after 5pm leave message FAMILY HOUSE Room for rent on Cudjoe Key. No smoking, or drunks, $750 mo. F/L/S. Apartment for rent Cudjoe Key. 2 Rooms, 1BA $1,200 F/L/S. Beautiful House For rent on the canal. 4BR, 3BA. no smoking, no pets, $2,900. Call for appt. 305-393-7437, 305-735-4245. 440 UNFURN. HOUSES LOWER KEYS 2BR/1.5BA Newly refurbished, new carpet, W/D, large yard, porch, $1,800 mo. plus util. 305-304-5570. COMPASS REALTY 305-292-1480 Unfurnished Homes Across from the beach Condo 3b/2b $1950 + utils available 1/1/11 - long term The Meadows-private home 3b/2.5b-including a separate unit in the back. $2500+utils available 1/10/11-long term Furnished Homes: Golf Club-Bungalow townhome. 2b/1.5b NO PETS. $38000+partial utilities. Short term only. Boat slips for rent Call for details Call Compass Realty for an appt. 292-1480 or 888-884-7368 www.compass-realty.com ve i ch s! r A he e e arc r F Se ELECTRONIC EDITION You CAN take it with you! ✓ More News ✓ Free Archive Searches ✓ On Time Daily ✓ Added Features ✓ Save Money! ✓ Stay In Touch Daily ✓ Free to Current Subscribers Log on to www.keysnews.com today for your electronic subscription. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ◆ MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2011 7B KEYSWIDE CLASSIFIED Keeping the Tradition Alive for over 125 years. Be Informed. Subscribe. The Key West Citizen 305-292-7777 440 UNFURN. HOUSES LOWER KEYS BIG PINE KEY Small 2bd/1ba house $1,000 moves you in Call Dave 305-304-7579 Key Haven Canal Front Immediate occupancy on this spacious 3-4 bdrm, 3 full bath home. Large open kitchen, multiple decks and widows walk. With appliances. Located on quiet cul-de-sac. Includes landscape service. $3,000/mo. F/L/S. 305-304-1459 AT HOME KEY WEST 305-296-7975 Pictures and more properties at 440 UNFURN. HOUSES LOWER KEYS All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin, or an intention to make any such preference limitation or discrimination.” This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation or the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. 328029 www.athomekeywest.com OLD TOWN 1/1 apartment Conveniently located Available Now. $1,075/mo plus utilities 2/1 sunny apt. Large private deck Pets considered Available Now $1,375/ mo plus utilities 2/1 completely renovated w/upgraded kitchen & wood floors. Back deck & Shared pool. Cats considered. Avail. March. $1,750/mo. plus utilities 3/1 - 1426 Flagler Ave. New paint & carpet, fenced yard, w/d, C/A/C. No pets. $1,800/mo. C-21 All Keys. Rob Rey. 305-294-4200 Why Rent? Happy New Year! No Closing Cost Government loan program up to 100% financing. Payments starting at $1600.00 per month. Brand New 3/2 Available in Key West, Stock Island Or Big Coppitt. (Move in Now) Call Joe Cleghorn (305) 304-6627 NEW TOWN Large 1/1 cottage w/Plenty of storage. Pets considered. Avail. Now. $1,850/mo. utilities included. A GREAT HOUSE Military discount. $2,250 per mo., year lease. 3/2 Cudjoe Key waterfront home. MM23 Oceanside. Close to Key West and 3/3 large home with pri- Reef Fishing. Visit http:\\www.varrieur.com/ vate spa, parking & doug/coates.htm plenty of Closets. Pets considered. Avail. Febru- for pictures. Contractors, Military, roommates and ary. $2,200/mo plus utils. family welcome. Call 305-619-0088 or KEY WEST GOLF CLUB 305-872-0969 2/2.5 townhouse. Large private decks, Tile throughout. Situated near 3/2 Waterfront home pool. Pets considered. Available Immediately. Available mid-January. Key Cove neighborhood $1,800/mo. plus utilities. of Summerland Key. MM24. $1950 per month See pictures & more Central air, tile through properties @ out. Pets OK. Deepwater www.athomekeywest.com canal. 60 feet of seawall for boating. Call Wendy, AT HOME IN 305-304-4762 KEY WEST 296-7975 440 UNFURN. HOUSES LOWER KEYS 460 COMMERCIAL RENTALS 520 HOMES LOWER KEYS FLEMING STREET Large 3/2 , 2 decks, W/D, OSP, $2,500/mo. + util. F/S. Sewer/garbage incl. No pets. 321-298-7667 cated on busy Flagler Ave. w/ ample front & rear parking. Waterfront Community 2/1 mobile with 50’ x 85’ buildable lot. New roof, 10’ x 20’ screened porch. Dockage and boat ramp avail. $149,000 OBO. Realtors Welcome! Owner Lic. RE Agent 305-849-3061 452 VACATION RENTALS LOWER KEYS PLANNING YOUR TRIP TO KEY WEST? Historic Hideaways has been providing customers with Vacation Rentals for over 20 years. Rent a private home or condo w/ pool for the same price as a hotel. Weekly, Monthly or longer. Visit us in person at: 1109 Duval Street or www.HistoricHideaways.com or call at 800-654-5131. Full service property management. 460 COMMERCIAL RENTALS Contact Claude J. Gardner, Jr. 305-766-3133, Prudential Knight & Gardner Realty OFFICE/WORKSHOP 2000 sq.ft. $1,200 mo. OFFICE/APT. 1000 sq.ft. Carpeted, wet bar, A/C, cable TV, $1,200 mo. Call 305-360-2137. 464 Storage Downtown Commercial Storage Large fenced in open space with open shed, with or without mobile office. Also, 21’x 41’ warehouse with high ceiling and roll up doors. Call Steve at 304-5043 Commercial For Lease Search All Key West and Storage Space - Flood Free FL Keys Office or Retail Caroline St. - Old Town Space For Lease at 90 SF - 350 SF Call www.KeysRealEstate.com Grace for details. 305-923-6199 Oceanfront Restaurant STORAGE Formerly Martha's, over 6,000 SF of restaurant w/ Industrial Warehouses Sizes vary. 150 seats for SRX + an Storage Containers additional 8,000 SF On our site or yours. warehouse in the rear. Call (305)294-0277 Breathtaking Ocean views. 502 MOBILE HOMES LOWER KEYS Restaurant on Duval St QUAINT, QUIET, Formerly Opera & Taku CAREFREE LIVING Restaurant. In almost Rentals available. turn-key condition, equip- 2 ment in place. Licensed (305)296-5013. for 54 seats. 520 HOMES LOWER KEYS Office Space 3426 Duck Ave, over 1,100 SF of space very clean & neat w/ ample parking & mezz storage. 2 entrances perfect medical or professional space. Office Suites in Sugarloaf The Alamo, affordable small office suites available from 450 to 788 SQFT w/ rent starting at $750 per month. HAPPY NEW YEAR! No Closing Cost Government loan program up to 100% financing. Payments starting at $1,600 per month. Brand New 3/2 Available in Key West Stock Island Or Big Coppitt. (Move in Now) Call Joe Cleghorn (305) 304-6627 VILLA ADRIANA 5BR/4BA CORNER DOUBLE LOT Pool, privacy wall. 1526 Florida St. corner of Large Retail Bldg. Former Budde's Office Laird. $875,000. 305-292-2747, Supply/ Ashley Furniture. 305-744-7268. 11,000 SF of space lo- 526 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY KEY WEST 79 SEAT RESTAURANT/BAR High traffic location, w/ beer & wine license. For sale @ $647k or rent for $3,600 mo. Owner is a licensed real estate agent. 1500BerthaStreet.com Vic Musmanno, P.A. Coldwell Banker Schmitt 305-294-0123 532 Income Property Mixed Use! 2 Commercial 1 Residential Location! Location! Location! On Truman near White Under appraised value! Owner is FL. Lic. RE Broker Only $779K! Transient Licensed! SF home w/dip pool Owner is FL. Lic. RE Broker Reduced to $699K! Old Town Triplex Only $325K! Grand Old Town Home and adjacent commercial lot! $695K each Restaurant in Prime 200 Block Duval Street Location! SRX licensed. Only $600K! 17 Acres on Out Island $799K! Kathleen P Hancock PA Broker Associate Property Management of Key West, Inc. 305-304-4034 See these listings @ 620 Autos For Sale 2007 TOYOTA YARIS Black, 2 dr. hatchback, Commercial For Sale Search All Key West and 38K mi., auto, perfect 40 mpg. FL Keys Commercial RE condition, and Businesses For Sale $8,300. 305-304-9298 at www.KeysRealEstate.com 98’ Chevy S-10 Blazer 4-Door, P/S, P/W, runs Mixed Use Property good asking $1,800 OBO BPK 305-896-7976 Front bldg contains dental office & upstairs apt. 625 Classic Autos Rear bldg. also contains 1979 ROLLS ROYCE apt. overlooking the pool. SILVER WRAITH II Parking lot w/ lush land- Silver ext w/black panels scaping. & top. Tan int w/English oxblood hides. “A chance Office Condo to own a powerful Over 1,000 SF of 2nd graceful classic”. All floor office space at 3154 original total restoration. Northside Dr. Ample $43,000. Will consider parking & excellent contrade for heavy dition w/signage. Bank equipment, i.e. backhoe. owned & priced for a Call 727-667-6258. quick sale. 650 Scooters Courthouse Deli 2005 YAMAHA Steps from the CourtSCOOTER house this grocery store Like new, 2,100 miles, offers lotto, beer, wine, 49cc, $1,000 OBO. sodas, deli sandwiches & 413-522-7727. delivery. 652 Motorcycles 2006 YAMAHA 250CC Just over 2,000 SF Morpheus excellent building mechanical condition. With just under 100 FT of $19,500 miles, Body US Hwy 1 footage on corner lot in Big Coppitt has scratches, no dents. $2,400 OBO. Key. Perfect for a variety 305-923-4265. of uses. 660 Marine Needs 1200 White Street FISH & RACE Mixed use building w/ 3 ENGINES IN STOCK commercial units & 2 Mercury residential units & an ad300XS OPTI $15,000 jacent parking lot. Per250HP OPTI $13,500 fect for user or investor, 175 PRO OPTI $11,747 w/ 16 lic. restaurant 60HP 4 Stroke $5,735 seats. 50HP 2 Stroke $4,297 15HP 4 Stroke $1,995 Contact Claude J. 8HP 4 Stroke $1,582 Gardner, Jr. 6HP 4 Stroke $1,495 305-766-3133 5HP 4 Stroke $1,289 Prudential Knight & 3.5HP 4 Stroke $950 Gardner Realty Honda 20HP 4 Stroke $2,995 5HP 4 Stroke $1,489 610 Trucks Used Engines 200HP OPTI SET ‘95 Chevy K1500 190K $14,500 mi, 4 wd. $4,999. (305) 21’Triad Race Boat 747-8735 w/Dual Axle Trailer $8,900 620 Autos For Sale 20’ BC Flats Skiff 2003 BMW 325 IC Conv No Power $8,900 Red, tan leather inter. w/250 Yamaha $17,500 28K miles. Garage kept. w/175 PRO OPTI New tires. $23,900 $45,000 new. $15,000 305- 292-2291 Tom (305)942-8350 534 COMMERCIAL PROPERTY 660 Marine Needs ‘03 Twin Yamaha 200’s w/SS props, great shape, all records of service. Both power heads rebuilt in ‘07, on boat can run. $6,800 obo 305-509-1521 662 Power Boats 28’ Alden Cabin Cruiser engines NG. $1200 obo 294-0437 6633 Maloney CAROLINA SKIFF V-19 Yamaha 90HP, 4 stroke, continental trailer, rig new in 2008. Used less than 50 hours. Asking $12K. (305)745-8810. 17’ Jet Boat, needs 350 Chevy eng, 85 mph, $1200. 305-294-0437 1970 38’ ALGLASS/ PACEMAKER Twin diesel, fully loaded, lost dock, must go! $12,000 OBO. 745-2637. 664 Sailboats 23’ Double Ender, w/2 Marconi masts. $1200 294-0437 6633 Maloney 669 DOCKAGE/ STORAGE Coconut Grove 30’ Slip No liveaboards, electric/water included. $300/mo, 6 mo. minimum (305)394-7316 Kings Point 50’ Slip liveaboards welcome. $900/mo. includes utilities. Call Jim 305587-5411 SUNSET MARINA 50’ Slip $1200/mo includes all utilities. 305-304-6631 CLASSIFIED CUSTOMERS: Don’t deal with traffic or severe weather, just pick up the phone! Most classified advertising can be placed over the phone. Call today. 292-7777 Ext. 3 www.Keywesthomes.org LEGAL NOTICES FICTITIOUS NAMES FICTITIOUS NAME NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned, desiring to engage in a business under the fictitious name, Key Lime Taxi located at 617 Grinnell Street, Key West FL 33040 intends to register the said name with the Florida Department of State, Tallahassee, Florida. Dated this 14th day of January, 2011. Sole Owner Keys Transportation Management, LLC January 17, 2011 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 16TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA CIVIL DIVISION CASE NO.: 44-2009-CA-000205 CITIMORTGAGE, INC., Plaintiff, vs. RAYMOND BRITO, Et al Defendant, NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment Foreclosure dated the ___ day _______, 201_, and entered Case No. 44-2009-CA-000205, the Circuit Court of the 16TH of of in of NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE Judicial Circuit in and for Monroe County, Florida, wherein CITIMORTGAGE, INC. is the Plaintiff and RAYMOND BRITO; MANHATTAN ENTERPRISES GROUP, INC.; JEANNETTE GONZALEZ A/K/A JEANNETTE BRITO; UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF RAYMOND BRITO; UNKNOWN TENANT (S) IN POSSESSION O F THE SUBJECT PROPERTY are defendants. I will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash at the KEY WEST COURTHOUSE (ALL SALES) at the Monroe County Courthouse in Key West, Florida, at 11:00 a.m. on the 17th day of Febuary, 2011, the following described property as s e t forth in said Final Judgment, to wit: LOT 4, BLOCK 14, LAKE SURPRISE ESTATES, ACCORDING TO THE MAP OR PLAT THEREOF, AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 4, PAGE 162, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA. ANY PERSON CLAIMING AN INTEREST IN THE SURPLUS FROM THE SALE, IF ANY, OTHER THAN THE PROPERTY OWNER AS OF THE DATE OF THE LIS PENDENS MUST FILE A CLAIM WITHIN 60 DAYS AFTER THE SALE. In accordance with the Americans Let our Paper sell your boat. NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), disabled persons who, because of their disabilities, need special accommodation to participate in this proceeding should contact the ADA Coordinator at 500 WHITEHEAD STREET, KEY WEST, FL 33040 or Telephone Voice/TDD (305) 294-4641 not later than five business days prior to such proceeding. Dated this 11th day of January, 2011. Danny L. Kolhage Clerk Of The Circuit Court By: SHONTA MC LEOD Deputy Clerk Law Office of Marshall C. Watson 1800 NW 49th Street, Suite 120 Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33309 Telephone:(954) 453-0365 Facsimile:(954) 771-6052 Toll Free: 1-800-441-2438 January 17 & 24, 2011 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA CIVIL ACTION CASE NO.: 44 2008 CA 000436-P DIVISION: AMERICAN HOME MORTGAGE SERVICING, INC., A DELAWARE CORPORATION, F/K/A AH NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE MORTGAGE ACQUISITION CO., INC., Plaintiff, vs. DEBORAH ANN SAYLOR, et al, Defendant(s). NOTICE OF RESCHEDULED SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Pursuant to an Order Rescheduling Foreclosure Sale dated December 23rd, 2010, and entered in Case No. 44 2008 CA 000436-P of the Circuit Court of the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit in and for Monroe County, Florida in which American Home Mortgage Servicing, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, f/k/a AH Mortgage Acquisition Co., Inc., is the Plaintiff and Deborah Ann Saylor a/k/a Deborah Saylor, Dave Lewis, Gregory Leon Dowell, Jane Doe n/k/a Deborah Locklear, John Doe n/k/a Phil Locklear, are defendants, I will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash in/on front of the Monroe County Courthouse, 500 Whitehead Street, Key West, FL 33040, Monroe County, Florida at 11:00AM on the 4th day of February, 2011, the following described property as set forth in said Final Judgment of Foreclosure: LOT 9, BLOCK 2, OF BUTTONWOOD SHORES, NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF, AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 3, PAGE 3, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA. A/K/A 239 BUTTONWOOD SHORES, KEY LARGO, FL 33037 Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from the sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the Lis Pendens must file a claim within 60 days after the sale. Dated in Monroe County, Florida this 4th day of January, 2011. ® Mai Vu, Esq. FL Bar#: 71030 Albertelli Law Attorney for Plaintiff P.O. Box 23028 Tampa, FL 33623 (813) 221-4743 09-22880 If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the Monroe County ADA Coordinator at 502 Whitehead Street, Key West, FL 33040, telephone numbers (305) 292-3423 as soon as possible after your receipt of this document. TDD users may also call 1-800-955-8771 for the Florida Relay Service. To file response NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE please contact Monroe County Clerk of Court, 500 Whitehead Street, Key West, FL 33040, Tel: (305) 292-3540; Fax: (305) 295-3970. January 17 & 24 2011 PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Pursuant to the Self-Storage Facility Act, Florida Statute 83.801-83.809, personal property in the form of household, general business goods and other personal items shall be sold at public auction at: Suncrest Mini-Self Storage 5100 Suncrest Road, Stock Island Key West, Florida, 33040 On January 31, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. Seller reserves the right to reject bids. 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