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The latest U.S. record (2019) for the largest pumpkin ever grown weighed in at 2,518 pounds by Karl Haist of Clarence Center, New York.

ON THE COVER

Lilu Gadoy, 8, explores MARC’s pumpkin patch, open daily from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at 1401 Seminary St. MANDY MILES/ Keys Weekly

FLORIDA KEYS NEED FEMA SUPPORT

OFFICIALS AWAIT ELIGIBILITY FOR FEDERAL ASSISTANCE

The

storm surge and subse quent flooding caused by Hurricane Ian as it churned west of Key West took many Key Westers by surprise.

On every countywide emergency management call, from Sept. 23 to Sept. 28, Jon Rizzo, warning coordi nation meteorologist for the Na tional Weather Service in Key West, told Monroe County and Key West officials he was “very concerned” about a 2- to 4-foot storm surge that would be at its worst on Sept. 28, especially at high tide.

Still, the relentless rain, unusu ally high tides and winds that gusted occasionally to hurricane force made the storm surge flooding much worse than many expected. Key West Mayor Teri Johnston told the Oct. 3 audience at Hometown’s can didate forum that nearly 300 homes were unlivable or nearly so due to flooding from Ian.

Florida Keys officials as of Oct. 4 were still awaiting the official dec laration by FEMA that would make Monroe County eligible for federal damage reimbursement for both government and individuals. As of Oct. 4, Monroe County had not been listed in what’s known as Category

A, which makes a county eligible for public assistance and individual as sistance to help with storm-related damage and needs.

U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez, whose district includes the Keys, visited Key West on Sept. 30, when he assured city and county officials he had already sent a letter to the president and federal government asking that Monroe County be declared eligible for assistance. The meeting at city hall included assistant city manager Todd Stoughton, the city’s emergen cy management chief Greg Barroso, housing authority director Randy Sterling, City Commissioner Clayton Lopez, Police Chief Sean Branden burg, Monroe County Emergency

Management Director Shannon Weiner, county and city attorneys, and Coast Guard and Navy leaders. City Manager Patti McLauchlin was in Fort Myers throughout the storm. She owns a home there and had gone up beforehand to care for a friend who’d had surgery. Johnston was not at city hall on Sept. 30 as she had traveled after the storm to Charlotte County, where she and her wife, Dar Castillo, own property.

“You had damage, absolutely,” Gimenez said at city hall. “It’s not the same as the west coast of Florida, but there’s no doubt damage here.”

He pledged his support for the county’s classification. Gov. Ron DeSantis also sent a letter on behalf of Monroe County, Johnston told the Oct. 3 audience at Hometown’s can didates forum at Tropic Cinema.

Officials were still waiting as of the afternoon of Oct. 4.

“Our elected officials at all levels are aware and working on it with the FEDM and FEMA,” said county ad ministrator Roman Gastesi, accord ing to an Oct. 4 press release.

“At this time, Monroe County is collecting Hurricane Ian-related debris. Additionally, individual as sistance is available for Florida Keys residents through SBA loans.”

For more information, visit www. monroecounty-fl.gov.

LOCAL, STATE, NATIONALPOLITICS TAKE CENTER STAGE

HOMETOWN FORUM HOSTS CANDIDATES IN KEY WEST

Gun control. Immigration. Economics. Politics. And oh yes, abortion. All the offlimits topics at the dinner table were on the table at a candi date debate Oct. 3 in Key West .

Hosted by Hometown, a non partisan voter education group, the event took place in one of Tropic Cinema’s smaller theaters. The inti mate venue accommodated about 60 people.

Candidates for the Key West city commission District 4 seat, state representative and U.S. House an swered questions posed by panelists Joe Moore of US 1 Radio, business owner and attorney Jennifer Hulse and Key West Weekly editor Mandy Miles.

STATE REPRESENTATIVE

The state representative race pits Republican incumbent Jim Mooney against Democrat Adam Gentle.

Perhaps not surprisingly, a question for state House candidates about Florida’s new 15-week abor tion restriction drew the most ire from the largely left-of-center audi ence.

Answering first, Gentle received applause when he called the 15week abortion restriction “uncon stitutional” due to Florida’s privacy protections in its state constitution.

“The situation we have now is so repugnant that a victim of rape or incest would be forced to carry that fetus to term because representa tives like Mr. Mooney here think they know better than the mother. And that’s not how I feel,” Gentle said before passing the microphone to Mooney

“I did vote for the abortion bill, you’re correct,” Mooney said. “And I do not think that I know what a mother, or wife, or daughter knows. I struggled with that bill greatly — 18 weeks, 15 weeks. I started doing a God-awful amount of research and I can tell you that a woman’s right to privacy is absolutely the most important thing, as is anyone’s right to privacy.

“The reality is, if in fact … there are underlying issues, a woman can get an abortion. It’ll take two doctors. It’ll take a number of different sce narios, but that doesn’t make it right or wrong; it just makes it what it is today. This has been going on since I was in high school and it’s sort of repugnant that we’re even discussing it at this level in 2022.”

At that point, much of the audi ence erupted with incredulity that Mooney had voted in favor of the restriction.

“The fact that this is still an issue, the Supreme Court has obviously turned this thing upside down,” Mooney said after the outburst. “I voted the way I voted.”

Gentle and Mooney did agree, however, that Florida’s property insurance industry is “an absolute disaster,” to use Mooney’s words.

Gentle blamed corruption, law suits and the lack of a free market for insurance companies in Florida.

“We have no market for insurance any more,” Gentle said. “Citizens (the state-run insurer) … is undercutting the market by 50%. We need to cre ate competition. … Another prob lem is corruption in claims, rackets between builders and insurance companies,” Gentle said.

Mooney blamed lawyers, saying, “Every insurance bill we’ve passed has been brought into litigation. We stepped on the wrong toes. We stepped on the attorneys’ toes. Until we can figure out how to get past the lawsuits, there’s not gonna be a quick fix in Tallahassee. There’s not gonna be a quick fix in Washington.”

U.S. HOUSE Candidates for the U.S. House — incumbent Republican Carlos Gimenez and Democrat Robert Asen cio — disagreed when asked about federal student loan forgiveness, es pecially when compared to the cost of corporate and banking bailouts by the federal government. Neither candidate addressed the corporate bailouts in their responses.

Asencio called the college loan companies “predators,” adding, “Why would we not want our students and workforce an opportunity to contrib ute to the economy by buying homes instead of paying a loan for life?”

Gimenez said he had voted against the student debt relief bill “because it’ll add to the national debt. ... The Biden administration has already spent over $4 trillion, which puts our children and grand children in a mountain of debt. … What do you say to those who already paid off their student loan debt? What about the fact that 70% of loans forgiven are for people who make over $100K per year? We need to focus instead on the high cost of higher education,” Gimenez said.

Both men agreed that the country’s immigration policies need serious reform.

Gimenez said, “We have 2 million people crossing illegally. Another million cross and we don’t know who they are, where they’re going, or what they’re doing because the Biden administration changed the Trump administration’s policies, which had decreased those illegal crossings by 90%. … We want im migration, but legal immigration. The entire system is broken.”

Asencio concurred, and said he wants to find a way for immigrants to begin working in the U.S. as soon as possible rather than have to wait up to 10 months for a hearing.

KEY WEST CITY COMMISSION DISTRICT 4

The debate between Key West city commission District 4 candidates featured only Lissette Cuervo Carey. German told the audience that Kim Highsmith had called earlier that day to say she had COVID. Highsmith and her stepson were recently arrested for misdemeanor battery, but all charges were dismissed days later.

Carey, who works for the Key West Housing Authority, told the audience she’s been helping Bahama Village residents, especially those who live in housing authority apart ments, recover from Hurricane Ian’s flooding. She declined to name her top two campaign advisers, saying instead that she has a “team of 10 or so people helping me.”

She said she’s been listening to the people of her district, where she has lived her whole life, and is intent on representing their interests in city hall. She said she wants to see better water quality at beaches and incen tives for affordable housing, rather than penalties.

Thursday, Oct. 6

• College of the Florida Keys hosts CFK Poetics with featured poet Tom Hunley, 6 p.m. at the Tennessee Williams Theater on the Key West Campus.

Saturday, Oct. 8

• Womankind’s BraZaar decorated bra auction in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, 7 p.m. at Key West Theater, 512 Eaton St.

Wednesday, Oct. 12

• Tats for Tatas fundraiser for Breast Cancer Awareness, raises money for WomanKind and mammograms, featuring a silent auction and raffles, 7 to 10 p.m. at Tattoos & Scars, 512 Greene St., Key West.

Tuesday, Oct. 11

• Fundraiser for Hurricane Ian recovery, 5 p.m. at the Green Par rot Bar, 601 Whitehead St.

Oct. 12-27

• “Bum Farto - The Musical” is performed live at San Carlos Institute Theater, 516 Duval St., Key West. Visit bumfartothemusi cal.com.

Oct. 20-Nov. 12

• “Jimmy Buffett’s Escape to Margaritaville – The Musical” at the Waterfront Playhouse is a mad cap love story, with an erupting volcano, tap-dancing zombies and classic Buffett songs. Visit water frontplayhouse.org.

Oct. 21-30

• Key West celebrates Fantasy Fest with the theme “Cult Classics and Cartoon Chaos.” Visit fanta syfest.com for an event schedule and details.

Friday, Oct. 21

• The Royal Coronation Ball crowns Fantasy Fest’s 2022 King and Queen, 6 to 9:30 p.m. at the Coffee Butler Amphitheater. Ben efits AH Monroe.

Saturday, Oct. 22

• Smallest Parade in the Universe, an official Fantasy Fest event, benefits MARC, 7 p.m. at The Studios of Key West. All minia ture floats will be auctioned after the parade. The theme is “Cult Classics and Cartoon Chaos.”

KEY WEST COMES TOGETHER BE LIKE MIKE

STORM RECOVERY EFFORTS PROVIDE FOOD, DONATIONS, SUPPORT

• SOS Foundation is feeding those who have lost their kitchen appliances to Hur ricane Ian. The food pantry is serving 200 hot meals daily at Frederick Douglass Gym and is hoping to raise $60,000 to continue its efforts for the estimated eight weeks it will take to replace the majority of appliances. Residents George Cooper and Judy Blume kicked off the SOS Hurricane Ian Relief Fund with a $10,000 donation.

HONORING A COMMUNITY ICON BY PAYING IT FORWARD

Homes on Laird Street and in several other Key West neighborhoods look to have been turned inside out, as flooded furniture and appliances now line the curb following Hurricane Ian. MANDY MILES/Keys Weekly

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• SOS is also purchasing shelf-stable and easy-to-prepare foods for residents of the Bahama Village Housing Authority Complex, who were hit especially hard by storm floods last weekend. Visit sosfoundation.org to help.

• Big Brothers Big Sisters, which is returning to the Florida Keys after a 20-year absence, delivered a shipment of food and mattresses Tuesday to Bahama Village.

Forthe month of October, the Keys Weekly Newspa pers are partnering with United Way of Collier and the Keys to remember and honor the life of Mike Forster. A business owner and community advocate, Forster led the effort to feed the Florida Keys in the days following Hurri cane Irma and throughout the COVID pandemic. He served on various boards, including the United Way, and went on mission trips to Uganda to serve the hundreds of children living in or phanages.

The

floodwaters of Hurricane Ian receded nearly a week ago, but have now been replaced by everything those waters touched. Sofas, beds, chairs, appliances, books, artwork and soggy boxes now line the streets and sidewalks of several Key West neighborhoods, including Bahama Village and the New Town neighbor hoods around Laird and Rose streets.

Government officials as of Oct. 4 were still waiting for Monroe County to be added to the list of Florida counties that are eli gible for reimbursement for storm damages through the Federal Emergency Manage ment Agency (FEMA).

But Key West families didn’t have time to wait for the government. Several community groups, nonprofits, individuals and busi nesses quickly stepped up to start meeting people’s immediate needs:

• Local businessman Paul Menta cre ated the Conch Love organization and a corresponding GoFundMe page for Bahama Village & Key West Family Flood Relief. Glad Tidings Tabernacle is administering the donations to provide assistance. The page had raised nearly $13,000 by the afternoon of Oct. 4.

• Conch Town Records, the Green Parrot Bar, and We’ve Got the Keys will host a fund raiser for residents displaced by the Sept. 28 fire at 3201 Flagler Ave. The event is set for 5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11 at the Green Parrot Bar, 601 Whitehead St. Musicians and host Bill Hoebee are all donating their time and talent for the event. Those wishing to donate can do so at the event, or via a PayPal link set up at www.FantasyFest.com, or by deliver ing/mailing a check made out to “We’ve Got the Keys” to 922 Caroline St. 100% of proceeds will be distributed directly to the displaced residents. For more information, contact Nadene Grossman Orr at We’ve Got the Keys, 305-295-9112.

• Sister Season Fund is offering financial assistance to those displaced by the Flagler Avenue fire. Visit sisterseason.com or call 305-304-9826

• The Key West Housing Authority is sur veying damage to its public housing apart ments. Call 305-809-1101 to report damage

• The Southernmost Moose Lodge is collecting and redistributing donated items, including clothing, furniture, food,l hygiene products, linens and towels. 700 Eisenhower Drive.

• United Way of Collier and the Keys is collecting money and providing a list of com munity resources at keyshelp.org.

• The Monroe County Community Or ganizations Active in Disaster (MCCOAD) is looking for donations to help locals. Some 220+ families and 70+ liveaboards were flooded and/or damaged by fire due to Hur ricane Ian and are in need of mold remedia tion, construction assistance, furniture, appli ances, food, transportation and other items and services. The best donation is cash. This enables the group to prioritize and distribute funds directly as needed to residents’ specific needs. For cash donations, please log on to uwcollierkeys.org/give. Please designate your donation to Monroe County Hurricane Ian Relief. This ensures that funds with this des ignation will benefit 100% Monroe County residents.

• The city of Key West is conducting a damage assessment of local residences. Key West residents who had significant damage should call 305-809-1101. This list will be used to help determine community resourc es needed.

• Key West is working to collect storm de bris from streets and sidewalks. Place debris in the city’s right-of-way, NOT on sidewalks or blocking the road. Keep debris clear of fire hydrants. Household garbage must be put in normal trash collection bins for regular pickup.

An Islamorada councilman and Monroe County com missioner, Forster passed away on Sept. 6, 2021 at the age of 61 following a battle with COVID. Forster’s goodwill and generosity has inspired many Keys residents to carry on the spirit of giving and kindness to the island chain and those in need. In continuing the legacy of Forster, United Way of Collier & the Keys and the Keys Weekly Newspa pers are highlighting some of the folks in the island chain that continue to pay it forward to help their neighbors. The community is invited to spend the week leading up to Forster’s birthday, Oct.17-21, to promote goodwill and generosity through random acts of kindness and sharing to social media and other channels as #BeLikeMike. Visit UWCollierKeys.org/BeLikeMike to learn more about the various ways to get involved.

THIS WEEK’S “BE LIKE MIKE” FEATURES MIRANDA HENDRIX

Publix manager in Key West first met Mike Forster in 2018 when she helped open the Publix in Islamorada. “He’d come in to shop, and we got to know each other. Then he went through me to order 1,000 turkeys to give away for Thanksgiving dinners. He was such a giver. I started going to his food giveaways and other events and we started working together.”

What inspires you to give back to the community?

Working for Publix the last 24 years has helped nurture my inspiration to give back. Our founder, Mr. George, be lieved we should lead with a servant’s heart. He was asked one time what he’d be worth had he not given so much away. His response was, “Nothing.” That has always stuck with me and inspires me to try to be the best human I can be in life.

What’s the most enjoyable part about helping your community and neighbors? The most enjoyable part for me is seeing the firsthand impact on the commu nity. The Keys are so unique in the amount of charitable work we do, and it’s rewarding to see the community come together from all walks of life.

What kind of impact did Mike Forster have on your life or your community? Mike helped inspire me to see that even a small gesture can have a much larger im pact on people. You don’t have to make grand gestures. It’s more impactful to give not only physical items, but your time. Being there is what truly matters

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are $75 for KWAHS members and $90 for non-members.

More information is available from Cori Convertito at 305-295-6616 x112 or cconvertito@kwahs.org.

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KEY WEST ASSESSES HOUSING DAMAGE

The City of Key West is assessing damage to local residences following Hur ricane Ian by establishing a hotline where the commu nity can report their hous ing needs: 305-809-1101.

In order to best serve the community, a group known as COAD — Com munity Organizations Ac tive in a Disaster — wants to hear from people with housing needs.

Fort Zachary Taylor park ranger Ed Cun ningham will discuss the history and leg acy of the state park during the Key West Art & Historical Society’s Historic Seaport Sail aboard the sailing yacht Argo Navis on Saturday, Oct. 8. CONTRIBUTED

Fromold maps to military forts, Key West Art & Historical So ciety explores local and state history with upcoming events on both land and water.

SAIL INTO HISTORY ON OCT. 8

Sail into history at 9 a.m. Satur day, Oct. 8 aboard sailing yacht Argo Navis. Fort Zachary Taylor park ranger and Key West Botanical Garden board president Ed Cunningham will lead the first in a series of monthly, histori cally informative two-hour seafaring excursions presented by Key West Art & Historical Society in partnership with S/V Argo Navis.

Passengers can enjoy bloody marys, mimosas or non-alcoholic beverages and pastries while Cunning ham shares the back story and insights on “The History and Significance of Fort Zachary Taylor.” A utility forestry specialist by trade, Cunningham has been a ranger at the state park and fort since 2016. His knowledge of the fortification and the surrounding expanse will give attendees a deeper understanding of one of the island’s most treasured historic structures.

(The next two tours on Argo Navis are “Captain Benjamin Baker & Florida Keys Pineapple Farming,” presented by Keys historian Brad Bertelli on Saturday, Nov. 12, and “Lighthouses of the Florida Keys,” presented by cura tor and historian Cori Convertito, on Thursday, Dec. 15.)

Historic Seaport Sails are limited to 50 attendees; reserve your spot at kwahs.org/upcoming-events. Tickets

Speaker Rodney Kite-Powell will discuss this 1820s map and others during a discussion of historic maps on Wednesday, Oct. 12 for the Key West Art & Historical Society. KEY WEST ART & HISTORICAL SOCI ETY/Contributed

500 YEARS OF FLORIDA MAPS ON OCT. 12

On Wednesday, Oct. 12, beginning at 5 p.m., Key West Art & Historical Society welcomes speaker Rodney Kite-Powell, who will discuss “Chart ing the Land of Flowers: 500 Years of Florida Maps.” This free virtual lecture delves into Kite-Powell’s research on views of Florida, from the earliest depiction on the 1511 Martyr Map to a 21st century view from space. The virtual presentation will emphasize the dramatic changes that have occurred in the Sunshine State over the past 500 years through historic maps.

Kite-Powell, author of “History of Davis Island: David P. Davis, and the Story of a Landmark Tampa Neighbor hood” and “Tampa Bay’s Waterfront: Its History and Development,” serves as the director of the Touchton Map Li brary at the Tampa Bay History Center.

Key West Art & Historical Society’s Virtual Distinguished Speaker Series is offered free to members and nonmembers, but registration is required. Reserve your spot at https://kwahs. clickmeeting.com/flmaps/register.

for most creative costume, best couple costume and best group costume.

Vendors, artists, crafters, photographers, costumers, non-profits, sponsors, food trucks and more are invited to set up in the grass at the Truman Waterfront Park.

If your home had significant damage due to Hurricane Ian, please call the needs assessment hotline: 305-809-1101. Please describe your cur rent situation (including if your home is inhabitable) and needs, both short and long-term. Once you’ve provided detailed informa tion regarding your needs, that information will be provided to COAD to get you the help you need.

The City of Key West and local community orga nizations need this damage and needs assessment to better advocate for and de termine resources to fulfill unmet needs.

If you want to donate to the people in need, United Way of Collier and the Keys can help you at KeysHelp.org.

FANTASY FEST MARKET HAS SPACE FOR VENDORS

The Fantasy Fest Street Fair is now the Fantasy Market, taking place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 28 at Truman Waterfront. The market will feature shopping, original local art, costumes and accessories, fun entertainment and food and drinks.

A pre-Masquerade March march will take place from 2 to 3 p.m. with a contest offering prizes

To learn more about having a booth, email Sean@dailyplan-it.net. Ven dors may also participate in the Thursday, Oct. 27 special Halloween edition of the Key West Truman Waterfront Farmers Mar ket.

HOW TO MAKE LAZY WAY LANE MORE USER-FRIENDLY?

Key West City Com missioner Jimmy Weekley is convening a workshop to gather input from the community regarding ways to make Lazy Way more user-friendly.

The workshop will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 11 on the second floor of the Schoo ner Wharf, located on Lazy Way. Lazy Way is the single lane street that connects William and Elizabeth streets.

This initiative is part of the city’s efforts to create more pedestrian-friendly streets throughout Key West. In January 2020, the city conducted a survey of close to 4,000 residents, the majority of whom live in Key West year round. Some of the biggest con cerns in the survey were traffic, parking and conges tion. One popular sugges tion was to create closed or shared streets, as many cit ies have done throughout the country and the world.

IN HER FLOW AND KEEPING TEMPO: ON STAGE WITH PAMELA STEPHENSON CONNOLLY

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Pamela Stephenson Connolly watches her dancers sway in an open embrace across the floor of her Southard Street dance studio with a focused intensity. The Latin ballroom dance is elegant, sophisticated and downright sultry. Bodies rock together in syncopated rhythm, hips tilted, rolling, the sensuality building. In a visceral in stant, there’s a whipping spin; hair flies and the woman drapes backward over the arm of her partner in a deep arch of ecstasy.

“I love Brazilian dance — all Brazilian dance,” Connolly says. “And this is the most beautiful, most connected Brazilian partner dance you’ve never heard of. It’s the partner form of samba, called samba de gafieira.”

Connelly calls herself a closet dance histo rian. She is, in fact, many things — a sexologist and clinical psychologist, bestselling author of her comedian husband Billy Connolly’s biogra phy and several other successful titles before it, the weekly “Sexual Healing” columnist for The Guardian, former star performer on BBC’s “Strictly Come Dancing,” and an actor and comedian with hundreds of creds that include “Saturday Night Live” and Mel Brooks’ “History of the World Part I.”

But her passion reigns in dance and is evident in the name of her Key West studio, Pasión Project (pasionproject.com). More than two dozen performers have gathered there over the last several weeks in preparation for the upcoming true-crime musical comedy, “Bum Farto – The Musical,” that Connolly wrote and is now producing and directing.

“In this show, we have all the Latin dances: salsa; cumbia, which was a precursor to lam bada; bachata; Argentine tango; merengue; Carolina shag; swing; jive; ’70s disco; tap; coun try line dance; and crazy druggie show dance — stuff I don’t even know where I got it.”

Connolly’s world of dance began with ballet when she was 5, a practical means to address her polio-stricken limbs that evolved into a lifelong exploration as a performer. She discov ered Brazilian dance accidentally during a book tour in her native New Zealand and afterward, went to Brazil to study it.

“I noticed there were a lot of street kids who didn’t have any prospects at all who have amazing dance ability,” she says. “I mean, in credible, including capoeira — they could do ev erything — high level, athletic dance, and very, very brave, with amazing lifts and tumbles,” she said. “They just pitch themselves into it and think nothing of it and just try anything.”

Connolly gives her creative visions an un equivocal forward momentum, likely powered by her ability to break limits and reinvent the rules to match her depth and fierce compas sion. Unlike many traditional companies that rely on dancers with decades of training, Con nolly formed a dance company with these nontraditional students, then put them into shows and festivals she created in Brazil, all of which have been met with great success for everyone involved.

“I’m very bloody minded. So I’ll just do it,” she laughs. “There have been elements of blind trust in it, but I have also been doing theater since I was 5 years old.”

These days, Connolly is happiest doing theater as a producer and director. “Bum Farto – The Musical” opens Thursday, Oct. 13 at San Carlos Institute and runs until Oct.27 (bum fartothemusical.com). The show is based on a bona fide infamous Key West character — the 1975 fire chief who went down in a federal

drug bust known as Operation Conch. Connolly saw a “Where’s Bum Farto?” T-shirt during the COVID shutdown and was compelled to dig in, using the story as a base and adding elements of fiction that revealed themselves as she wrote. From creation to performance took less than a year.

“It just seemed to write itself,” she says. “I think a lot of that was because we had no plan. That’s the beauty of it. There was no pressure, there was no thought that I would ever mount it. I said, ‘Why don’t we just do this for fun?’ which is how a lot of the best things happen.”

The show is a swift 90-minute production with acclaimed actors, dancers and musicians from around the globe and locally — includ ing Broadway’s Aaron LaVigne, the Jesus in “Jesus Christ Superstar,” who trades his crown of thorns for a tourniquet and needles to play Brutus, the heroin-addicted snitch. Dan Krysa — a true musical genius and award-winning producer — created a rollicking score of more than two dozen song-and-dance numbers. And vibrant lighting design coupled with historic images and news clippings projected against sparse but colorful sets put 1975 Key West and Bum Farto back in the spotlight.

“It’s a glorious celebration of an infamous but iconic man whose fate and place in history was linked to so many others,” she says.

The musical also pulls narration in as a key element, something that lends well to the true crime genre and was an ingenious solution to a potential problem.

“I didn’t write scenes at first because I wasn’t sure that my dancers would have the act ing background to be able to make that work,” she said. “People didn’t seem to mind that the fourth wall was broken, that performers are explaining things and introducing themselves as characters from that era, then walking back into the scene. They just bought it.”

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What’s something you’d like to learn? Patience.

What are you reading now? My Bum Farto script. Over and over and over…

What is your superpower? Only ONE superpower? I need THREE. My first superpower would be having the ability to breathe under the sea. Then I wouldn’t fear hurricanes, would I? I’d just dive into the Gulf of Mexico and hide in a sea-cave with the sharks.

Secondly, I’d like to be a creature that doesn’t need sleep. Imagine how much more could be accomplished. And finally, immortality. Is that too much to ask?

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Tua Tagovailoa being removed from play twice under the NFL’s concussion pro tocol, the league saw 12 more players, includ ing several quarterbacks, being set down on Oct. 2.

Something has to be done. Should all those injured players be dropped for their seasons, for their careers? Nope. Too drastic. But the current protocol clearly isn’t sufficient.

Tagovailoa has already been ruled out of the next game on Sun day, Oct. 9 against the New York Jets — 10 days after he last played, which is interesting because he has already been cleared of the concus sion protocol.

Miami coach Mike McDaniel made the announcement on Oct. 4, saying the quarterback would not play Sunday against the Jets. According to Sports Illustrated, McDaniel said it was “premature to decide whether Tagovailoa will be going on injured reserve, which would sideline him for at least four games.”

Tagovailoa is playing for the Dolphins under a four-year, guar anteed contract of $30.3 million and was drafted No. 5 in 2020.

The NFLPA (that’s the players’ union) exercised its rights and fired the unaffiliated neurotrauma con sultant who examined Tagovailoa during the Buffalo game on Sept. 25. In that game, he was noticeably wobbly on the field following a hit, but was examined and allowed to return to the game. Four days later, on Thursday, Sept. 29, in a game against Cincinnati, a vicious tackle took the starting quarterback out of the game. It was Tagovailoa’s sec ond concussion within four days. Teddy Bridgewater replaced him.

“Chris Nowinski, a leading ex pert on concussions, told The Palm Beach Post he fears Tagovailoa may have permanent brain damage,” The Palm Beach Post reported on Sept. 30.

Miami Dolphins Quarterback Tua Ta govailoa last season, in January 2022. WIKIPEDIA/Contributed

“Nowinski, a Boynton Beach resident, had warned that if the Dolphins allowed Tagovailoa to play against the Cincinnati Bengals, it would represent a ‘massive step back’ for concussion care in the NFL.”

His replacement, Bridgewater, graduated from Northwestern High School in Miami and attended the University of Louisville. Miami also has quarterback Skylar Thompson, a draft pick from Kansas State. The Dolphins also have added quarter back Reid Sinnett to their practice squad.

Bridgewater, who will turn 30 on Nov. 10, was drafted in the first round in 2014 by Seattle, but was soon traded to Minnesota, where he became the Vikings’ starter for all 16 games and was selected for the 2015 Pro Bowl. From there, he went to New Orleans, where he started 15 games in 2020. Bridge water was a backup quarterback in New Orleans and Carolina for two years before being signed by Miami.

While other teams are having to replace their quarterbacks with deep second and third stringers, I would think Miami stands tall with Bridgewater, who is signed for this season only.

Tagovailoa was described as “brittle” while at the University of Alabama and hasn’t indicated he’s any stronger as a pro. Miami may be looking for another quarterback by next season.

drops stuff, breaks things and falls down more than any adult should. She’s married to a saintly — and handy — fisher man, and has been stringing words together in Key West since 1998.

Television news teams around the world claimed Queen Elizabeth II’s recent death “shocked a nation.” Really? The woman was 96, for God’s sake. She was royal, not immortal.

I have to say, I don’t understand the fascination with the British royals. I’m neither disgusted by nor scornful of them; I’m just confounded by the public’s obsession over a bunch of people with unearned billions and no real jobs.

And frankly, through the lens of today’s angry extremism and quick ness to blame, I’m bewildered by the relative lack of resentment toward members of the royal family and the monarchy as a whole. I understand there are people who oppose the entire institution and question its continuing relevance. But those voices seemed nearly inaudible across the pond, where mobs of mourners waited in line for 12 hours to watch the old lady’s coffin pass by on the street.

No doubt my confusion comes from my own American, ethnocentric ways, and the lack of anything compa rable to British royalty in this country.

I just don’t get it. The inflexible traditions and expectations. The re lentless scrutiny and outrageous public criticism of the royals’ most private matters, the constant conspiracies and comparisons.

Perhaps the royal scrutiny and eagerness for scandal on the part of the British belies a yearning to connect with these people on a human level. Person to person, not monarch to subject.

I swear, it’s as if the commoners WANT the royals to screw up. They thrive on and devour every perceived or potential blunder. Remember Harry’s despicable Nazi costume and drunken antics? Everyone loved to hate him for it, and yet quickly forgave him, recalling a boy who had lost his mother.

Speaking of which, has no one learned anything since the death of Princess Diana? The press? The royal family itself? Does anyone worry that Princess Kate will endure the same? Apparently not. She seems above re

Enter Meghan Markle. Can any American blame this mixed-race wom an for not understanding or embracing a medieval monarchy and all that it represents? Let’s not forget, Meghan Markle is not only a commoner (a rather insulting term in and of itself), but also a working American woman. Yes, an affluent, celebrity American woman, but a working commoner nonetheless. Princess Diana was at least British. She wasn’t born royal, but was at least familiar with the intrica cies and idiosyncrasies of the monar chy. Markle must have been at times disgusted, disoriented, confused and of course bewitched by the pageantry, power and publicity.

Does the royal family have any true power in the British realms? Can it effect true change? Advance peaceful political progress? Other than through charitable donations and visits to chil dren’s hospitals?

How much does the royal fam ily pay in taxes? And is that consid ered income tax, considering they’re technically unemployed. Does no one in the UK question the obscene and unearned wealth afforded to these certain people who were somehow anointed by God eons ago to have dominion over others?

What makes them – or anyone –royal? They’re no better than anyone else. But don’t tell them that. What have any of them done to earn the crown, to deserve their wealth?

Not for 500 years has a king or queen truly ruled the kingdom. They don’t lead troops into battle. They don’t conquer lands or show benevo lence to peasants and subjects.

These people are billionaires by birth.

Again, there’s nothing comparable in American society, so the matter is inexplicable to me.

Royals aren’t elected. They’re not chosen by the public. They’re spec tacles, not people.

And yes, I understand, they have royal duties and make huge contri butions to thousands of charitable endeavors.

But would this country tolerate such illegitimate wealth and celebrity? Never mind. Forget I asked. People still follow the Kardashians, which con founds me just as much.

But we’ll save that rant for another day.

FANTASY FEST BEHIND THE SCENES

HURRICANE IAN COULDN’T DAMPEN FIFER’S FOLLIES FANTASY FEST TEAM

Christie

Fifer excels at rallying and gal vanizing teams. When Hurricane Irma wreaked havoc on Big Pine Key and surrounding areas in 2017, the profes sional artist and former high school teacher strapped on a tool belt, laced up some work boots and orchestrated a chainsaw-wielding, mud-slinging, earth-moving team of volunteers. Now, following Hurricane Ian, she’s simultane ously mucking out her sea-water wet Key West home and orchestrating a hot-glue wielding, float-building, costume-bedazzling team of creators for the “Cult Classics & Cartoon Chaos” themed 2022 Bud Light Fantasy Fest parade, set to march down Duval Street on Oct.29.

Keys Weekly recently caught up with the in trepid artist for some parade-prepping insights.

What was the first year your team entered the parade and how did it come about? We had actually been participating in the Friday Masquerade March “locals parade” for years, but hadn’t entered the official pa rade because it didn’t strike us as being very costume-driven, and we were more motivated as costumers – thinking of things that were big and ridiculous and different from everyone else. Our first year to enter the Fantasy Fest parade was 2017, after Hurricane Irma.

What was your entry that year and what followed in subsequent years? We were a walking group costumed as hot air balloons and our theme was “Around the World in 80 Days.” We started with a core group of about eight, and then picked up an additional posse bringing us up to maybe 20-22 people. Then, like Alice (in Wonderland, our theme for this year) we began to grow. In 2018, for the “Oh … the Games We Play” Fantasy Fest theme, we had about 40 people in our wildly colorful “Key West Kandyland” themed group and won the Best Costume category. In 2019, rather than compete, we were asked to appear at the front of the parade. That year we had about 35 people for our “Wizard of Oz”-themed Friday Masquerade March group, and 92 joined in for our “Mozart’s Symphony Comes to Life” for Sat urday’s Fantasy Fest parade entry, which made international news.

Do you have a set outline or plan of at tack that you follow each year? How about room for spontaneity? Our team has a very succinct plan each year. I typically come up

with the idea of how I think it should look as a whole. I also choose a color palette. That helps keep us all uniform with such a large group. Once costumes and roles are assigned, people have versatility and room for their own creativ ity, to make their costume outstanding. Our motto is “more is more.” And bigger is better.

What would you say are your top 5 must-have materials for float building? Our top five items are glitter, lights, glitter, lights and glitter. In no particular order. And I would be lying if I didn’t say we hot glue absolutely everything.

Will you share what you’re cooking up for 2022? We have always been walking entries, but this is our first year entering as a float — and we actually have three separate floats underway to create the world of “Alice’s Excellent Adventures.” I don’t claim to know anything about inverters, generators, electric ity or hydraulics, but I know in my head what I want it to look like, so I surround myself with people who are knowledgeable and way better at that sort of thing. This year we are fortunate to have a couple of guys on the team who have completely invented and manufactured a giant head-turning Cheshire cat. And that makes me very, very happy.

How many participants do you expect to have this year? Do you have many return ones? We currently have 90 people; about 75% of them are return participants, and we have several who come from out of town.

How does a person join your team? In order to participate with us it helps if someone can vouch that you’re not high-maintenance.

Any advice for anyone thinking about entering? Get organized and stay organized. It is far more difficult keeping 100 adults on track than it is 100 teenagers, and I say that from ex perience. We hang giant to-do lists on the walls all around our workspace, and things only get crossed off once they are completely, 100% fin ished. That way little things don’t get forgotten along the way. Fair warning too — we start in June. It takes endless time and plenty of money all for this great hurrah. And when building big,

workspace is the crippling equalizer. We were freakishly fortunate this year how we procured our warehouse space, and since I know it won’t be available next year, unless someone comes up with a replacement space for us, this could be our only “go big or go home” float building year — so we’re going to make it visible from space!

For full details and a parade application form, visit FantasyFest.com/Parade.

1. Christie Fifer, ringleader of the Fifer’s Follies parade group, marches in her 2019 Bud Light Fantasy Fest parade “Mozart’s Symphony Comes to Life” costume. CAROL TEDESCO/ FantasyFest.com

2. Christie Fifer, right, and Kristen Borowski glue lights onto a prop for their “Alice’s Excel lent Adventures” parade entry.

3. Paula Tishok adds glitter to larger-than-life playing cards.

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top 10 lists are typically concocted with a blend of humor and sar casm aimed at world events, leaders and the general absurdity of daily politics. However, in an attempt to avoid a weekly helping of hate mail, violent threats (true story) and 10-minute voicemails ranting about the latest conspiracies, we decided to pump the brakes this week and offer a positive twist to the Top 10. So in case you missed it, there were actually some optimistic stories reported around the globe this week and we have a list to prove not all news is, well, bad news. Always here to help, we present our...

POSITIVE HEADLINES IN THE NEWS THIS WEEK

10. “The Techno ‘Clean-Up Raves’ Restoring Ukraine” From tragedy and ashes come inspiration, typically in the form of art. And Ukrainians using raves in bombed-out buildings to build back cities and spirits is worth a read.

9. “Dolly Parton, Sissy Spacek and others Remember Loretta Lynn”

The passing of Loretta Lynn is not a positive story, but her greatness as an iconic female in a male-driven industry is worth celebrating. She changed the game, not just in country but all music, for so many women after her.

8. “SpaceX and NASA Set to Send Crew of International Astronauts to Space” Aside from an array of science experiments the astronauts will be conducting, the crew will include the first Native American woman, Nicole Mann, to ever travel into space.

7. “President BIden to Tour Hur ricane Ian Damage in Florida with Gov. Ron DeSantis” It’s difficult to believe a political headline could be deemed positive, particularly after a devastating hurricane. But there was a time when our nation’s top leaders could actually display signs of unity for a greater cause. Will this joint visit de frost the vast freeze between the two parties? No. But it is good to see that a huge priority is being placed before partisan politics.

6. “India Deploys Super-Sniffer Dogs to Protect Cheetahs from Poachers”

This story has it all, from dogs to pro tecting an endangered species from extinction. Google it and enjoy.

5. “Little Leaguer Hugs Distraught Pitcher Who Hit Him in the Head”

Two amazing things happened when a little leaguer was beaned in the head by a wild pitch. First, the pitcher was mortified by his mistake and reduced to tears. And then, the hitter consoled him with a hug. Talk about things you

would never see from professional players. We could all learn a thing or two from our children.

4. “107-Year-Old Vet Receives Silver Star” The headline is self-explanatory, but Sgt. 1st Class Harold Nelson’s honor was long overdue.

3. “Aaron Judge Hits Home Run No. 62 to Pass Roger Maris’s American League Record” If Aaron Judge’s blood is devoid of any performanceenhancing substances (we can only assume he is clean), he is the greatest single-season home run king in the history of baseball. Had it not been for baseball’s steroid era, Judge’s feat would have played out in packed bars across America and would have inter rupted every major network’s feed this past Tuesday evening.

2. “Shohei Ohtani Deserves to Win AL MVP Over Aaron Judge” Wow, we are actually debating an MVP race where one of the candidates just hit 62 home runs while chasing potential triple crown numbers. But outside of the New York media frenzy exists a 24-year-old Japanese native playing ball for the lowly Angels and doing what no other MLB player has done –ever. Only the great Babe Ruth, who pitched and slugged his way into base ball folklore, can be compared to the rarity of Ohtani’s pitching and hitting abilities. And even then, there is no comparison. Ohtani currently has 34 homers as a hitter and over 200 Ks as a pitcher. No true fan could proclaim this would occur in our lifetime.

1. “Man Saves Mother From Flooding Water During Hurricane Ian” If you watch the news, you probably saw the images or heard this story along the way. But in the midst of tragedy, it was an uplifting story of bravery, love of family and determination. The story of Johnny Lauder saving his 84-year-old mother is inspiring.

‘BUM FARTOTHE MUSICAL’ OPENS OCT. 13

5 REASONS TO GO TO THE SHOW Bum

Farto is on his way to Key West. “Bum Farto — The Musi cal,” that is, taking the stage at the San Carlos Institute in Key West Oct. 13 through 27.

The true-crime musical tells the tale of a ring, a sting and an infamous Key West fire chief who tempted fate and federal agents in a 1975 drug raid known as Opera tion Conch. The smokin’ hot show created and directed by actor, comedian and bestsell ing author Pamela Stephenson Connolly opens with a sizzling ’70s opening night gala featur ing pre-show cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and groovy tunes to benefit the Key West Firehouse Museum. If that’s not enough to make you want to get your hot little hands on tickets right now, here are five reasons you just might want to:

1. Another reason to wear a costume. Break out your bell bottoms, pull on some platforms, and dust off your boogie-woogie — the Oct. 13 opening night party pays tribute to the island’s firefight ing heritage by benefitting the Key West Firehouse Museum with groovy tunes, pre-show cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and square grouper (joke!) that precede the show.

2. Meet “El Jefe,” the man in red. Get a glimpse of the flam boyant, drug-pushing, scarletclad fire chief (played by Tybalt Ulrich) who had a weakness for gold bling in this swift 90-min ute production that’s raucous, sensual and, at times, tender. Then decide for yourself if he was the criminal they made him out to be … and where he might have disappeared to.

3. Can you say tango, samba, merengue, bachata?

Connolly runs a Key West dance studio (pasionproject. com) that specializes in Latin partner dance and features

Pasión Project’s “Bum Farto — The Musical,” a hilarious true-crime musical, shows at the San Carlos Institute Theater in Key West Oct. 13-27. Visit bumfartothemusical. com for information and tickets.

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workshops with master Braz dos Santos, the world’s most celebrated lambada dancer, and part of the show’s cast. Connolly is also a sexologist and clinical psychologist who writes a weekly “Sexual Heal ing” column for The Guardian, which should assure you these aren’t your great-grandmother Blanche’s ballroom moves. Watch athletic, exquisite danc ers with moves so steamy you’ll feel like a voyeur.

4. The music score includes “Bum Was Pinched,” “I Need More Blow” and “Smoke Your Tuna Here.” In case it isn’t obvious, “Bum Farto — The Musical” is not a tale of woe or finger-wagging morality, but rather a cheeky take on an infamous, iconic man and the people around him.

5. Get ghosted and like it. Brutus, the heroin-addicted Vietnam vet snitch who gets clipped, has a role revival and returns to the stage. Broad way’s Aaron LaVigne, who played Jesus in “Jesus Christ Superstar,” trades his crown of thorns for a tourniquet and needles to deliver us into our humanity and compassion with an unearthly, haunting voice.

Tickets start at $35 up to $235 for top-tier balcony seats featuring a private VIP bar. Tickets at bumfar tothemusical.com.

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Gabby Thomas has established herself as the leader of the pack in the Keys girls golf scene. MAGGIE COLEMAN-SAY ER/Keys Weekly

Sophomore, Coral Shores High School Golf

Coral Shores golfer Gabby Thomas has played in six matches this season, winning five of them. Her game im proves weekly, and she often outscores the gentlemen as well as the ladies. Recently, she shot a 45 at Florida Keys Country Club as she edged closer to a 40, her goal this season. Gabby does not settle for being a great ath lete. She is constantly working harder to improve.

“Gabby is a very teachable player; she takes what she is told and practices it until she has perfected it,” said Coral Shores golf coach Danielle Thomas. “She always tries to better herself by practicing and watching videos of other golfers.”

Thomas does not hesitate to share her knowledge and skills. She is both a leader and teacher for her team and those she plays against, offering helpful advice to her competitors on swings, stances and any other aspect of the game. Most admirably, Gabby is a role model to others, exhibiting sportsmanship on and off the course. For her high level of play, leadership role and constant positive interactions with those around her, even during competition, Gabby Thomas is the Keys Weekly Athlete of the Week.

Like many kids his age, 4-year-old Carter Steele made his football debut this August playing in the Key West Junior Football League in Key West. While this is unexceptional at face value, it is notable that he made his athletic debut on George Mira Sr. Field. Little Carter just hap pens to be the great-great-grand-nephew of Key West’s own George Mira Sr., University of Miami’s fabled quarterback who went on to win three Super Bowls in his eight seasons in the NFL. While he does not yet know it, Carter belongs to Key West royalty, a member of a family with a deep athletic history that spans much farther than the bridges of the Keys. The name Mira is synonymous with South Florida football greats, particularly quarter backs, which is why I did a double-take when Key West High School football coach Johnny Hughes first sent me the Conchs’ ’22-’23 football roster.

Number 8, listed at QB, was junior Adrian Mira. I knew instantly that Key West was in for some big home gates this season.

Key West is a town steeped in pride, tradition and community. Conch Pride is something that cannot be explained; it must be experienced. If you have ever been in the stands during a home football game in Key West while the band is playing the Alma Ma ter, you likely felt it. The entire island embrac es its teams to create an atmosphere that is indescribable. The pride displayed by Key West fans is palpable, and regardless of wins or losses, they remain steadfast in support of their own. And even if every fan packed into the stadium is not directly related to the Miras, though a fairly large number are, they still claim George Mira as theirs.

A Key West native, born to a stay-athome mother and a foreman at the local plant that provided Key West’s fishing and shrimping fleets with ice, George grew up in the Southernmost City playing baseball, basketball and football. He excelled in all three and also, I am told, plays a decent round of golf. Mira led the Conchs to state championships in baseball in 1958 and 1959 as their star pitcher. His deadly accuracy and zip earned him an incredible 31-2 record as a starter, first-team state honors and a major league offer with the Orioles, but it was the gridiron where Mira made himself a legend.

How did an unassuming kid from tiny Key West become larger than life? The answer is woven into the fabric of multigen erational Conch families, including the Miras. It is not elusive or magical in any way. It is work – lots of hard, focused, purpose-driven work. It was that work which led not only Mira to his storied fame, but a disproportion ate multitude of Conch athletes who have represented Key West in college and major league sports. Mira played on the same base ball team as John “Boog” Powell, who played

FOOTBALL CORAL SHORES MARATHON

KEY WEST FAMILY ROYALTY REACHES BACK THROUGH DECADES OF ISLAND LEGACY

Excited by the Mira connection on this year’s roster, I contacted a few of the many notable Miras in Key West, all of whom directed me to their unofficial spokesper son, Yvette Mira Talbott. Ironically, I first met Talbott, George Sr.’s niece, at George Mira Sr. Field.

Obviously, the family is thrilled to have another Mira taking snaps for the Conchs. Adrian is the fourth Mira to play the position, following behind George Sr. himself; George’s older brother James “Jimmy” Mira, Yvette’s fa ther and long-time Key West Commissioner; and George’s younger brother Joe, who still coaches in Miami. George Mira Jr. was also a standout linebacker at University of Miami during its fabled “bad-boy” years. Key West has waited more than half a century for an other great quarterback, and junior Adrian is on his way to making history of his own with Key West.

Carter Steele, George Mira Sr.'s great-great-grandnephew, poses with a September 1963 Sports Illus trated featuring Mira on the cover. In a moment of true history for University of Miami fans, Carter plays on George Mira Field in the Key West Junior Football League for the Gators. YVETTE MIRA TALBOTT/Con tributed.

in Major League Baseball for 17 years, winning the American League MVP award in 1970; and Richie Garcia, arguably one of the greatest MLB umpires in the history of the game with 24 years and four World Series under his belt. Three ath letes starring in the pros hailing from the same little island a hundred miles from anywhere with about 6,000 telephones and no social media or internet is incredible.

In his first start for the Conchs, there were flashes of the quick feet synonymous with a Mira QB. Built sturdier and more com pact than his great-uncle, Adrian Mira runs the ball more like a bull than a matador, the moniker given to George Sr. for his capac ity to scramble and his striking appearance. Coach Hughes describes him as a “tough kid with a good football IQ” and says that given more experience, he could be something special. Currently sidelined with an injury, Conch fans are going to have to wait to see just how special he can be, and whether he can fill the enormous shoes of his famous relatives.

I asked Talbott if she remembered any thing special about her uncle. Aside from his feet – which, even as a grandfather, were fast and showed glimpses of The Matador – she explained that it was more than talent that drove the brothers, George Jr. and now the next generation of Miras to the top in foot ball. Without hesitation, she offered the Mira family secret: “Hard work. No matter what you do, work hard. We always believed that was most important.”

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STORM DOESN’T DAMPEN 100-MILE RIDE PICK OUT YOUR PUMPKINS

The Remarkable Pumpkin Patch on 1401 Seminary St. is open daily from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. through Halloween, or until all pumpkins are sold.

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KEY WEST’S MARC HOUSE FALLS INTO THE SEASON

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Forty-four cyclists tackled the aftermath of Ian and embarked on a 100mile ride down the Florida Keys to raise money for the Monroe Associa tion of Remarkable Citizens (MARC). CONTRIBUTED

TheRemarkable Pumpkin Patch has returned to Seminary Street, featur ing thousands of pump kins and gourds of all shapes and sizes. The festive fall sale is open daily from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. through Oct. 31 — or until all the pumpkins are sold.

For more than 20 years, ev ery October, the Monroe Associa

tion for Remarkable Citizens (MARC) has created a pumpkin patch at its plant store, 1401 Seminary St.

The patch, like MARC’s legendary Christmas tree sale, raises money for the voca tional and life-skills training that the nonprofit provides to developmentally disabled adults.

More information is at facebook.com/MarcKeyWest.

TOUR DE KEYS RAISES MONEY FOR MARC

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storm named Ian didn’t stop the 44 cy clists who pedaled their way from the top of the Florida Keys to the bottom on Oct. 2.

The annual ReMARCable Tour de Keys starts in Key Largo and heads south until the riders run out of road in Key West.

The event initially had 76 riders registered, but Hurricane Ian hampered some people’s plans — and flooded some of their homes.

Each rider raises a mini mum of $100 for MARC, which helps the nonprofit provide life services for developmen tally and intellectually disabled adults throughout the Florida Keys.

Peter L. Vey – Summoning the Light

Opening February 18th, 2023

Peter Vey is establishing his place as a Regionalist painter with thick palette strokes and Abstract Expressionist & Impressionist techniques. Joining the historic American Scene painters like Winslow Homer, Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry, Reginald Marsh, and Thomas Hart Benton, Vey strikes a fresh approach to tropics.

After a classical education in art history at Duke University, he returned his parents and grandparents Florida where he now lives and paints. A love of the landscape and foliage in and around the tropicsespecially, The Florida Keys & Key West has inspired a poetic journal of canvases of Peter’s vision ever since. His unique view, fresh colors, and mastery of painting technique result in works remarkable for their sense of place. The ambiance in Peter’s paintings is like the atmosphere in which he creates them, echoing the vibrant light of the sun drenched tropics. Vey’s palette knife technique is unusual in that he sculpts in a painterly manner rather than decorating with the thick lush colors of the southern latitudes. His works exude lush oral details, formal architectural patterns, and intricate almost abstract owery geometric forms. Peter has created what is simply a satisfying visual statement.

Under the Mangrove, 20 x 16, Oil on Linen

CALL TO ARTISTS

TREACHEROUS TRAVELS AT CARYSFORT REEF

British ship among the casualties

Anatural-born adventurer, Kirk Munroe traveled extensively. One of those adventures led him to South Florida, where, in 1886, he moved into the growing mainland community of Coconut Grove. He was 36 years old.

Munroe might best be remembered as a writer who authored 40 books. A few of his books were novels, but mostly he wrote travelogues detailing his adventures. His works included stories about his experiences in South Florida and the Keys. Living in Coconut Grove and an excellent sailor, Munroe readily ex plored Biscayne Bay, the Florida Reef and the Keys.

He penned the following description of the water surrounding the Florida Keys: “The terrible Florida reef, with its bewildering maze of shoals, tortuous channels, fierce currents and coral heads lifted almost to the surface, is an ever present menace to the mariners of the waters. Since the date of its discovery it has probably been the cause of more disasters than any other region of similar extent in the world.”

One of the reefs that he would have been familiar with, which may have inspired the quote, was Carysfort Reef. It is one of the old est, most mature reefs in the chain and the result of thousands of years of tedious work by reef-building coral polyps. The extensive reef system stretches for four miles in the shallow Atlantic waters, about six miles off the coast of North Key Largo. Not only massive in size, it is also a shallow reef with depths ranging from 5 to 25 feet. Corals grow so near the surface that a frothy meringue is left behind when the Atlantic washes over some of the shallower reef heads.

Carysfort, too, is one of the most danger ous tracts of coral making up the Florida Reef.

According to the historical record, about one-quarter of all the ships wrecked along the

reef line in the early to mid-1800s succumbed to Carysfort Reef. One reason for the high wreck count was that Carysfort was used as an umbrella term for many reefs growing off of the coast of Key Largo.

One of the ships to meet its end at Carys fort was the H.M.S. Winchester. The 60-gun British warship was built in Bursledon, England, in 1693. At just over 146 feet long and 38 feet wide, the square-rigged vessel maintained a crew of 285 sailors and soldiers. The captain was a man named Edward Bibb.

The Winchester was given orders to sail to the Caribbean and disrupt French business interests. Captain Bibb, with the support of the 60-gun warship Dunkirk, made a successful raid against the French colony at St. Dominique (now known as Haiti) in January 1695. After the attack, the Winchester and the Dunkirk, along with a captured French brigantine, sailed to the temporary home port of Kingston. Jamaica’s in famous Port Royal had fallen into the Caribbean two years prior after a devastating earthquake.

In Kingston, however, all was not well aboard the Winchester. Men were dying as quickly as one every day. Some accounts at tribute scurvy as the source of the sickness, and others to yellow fever. Scurvy seems to make less sense as there would have been loads of citrus available while in port. One hundred forty members of the Winchester’s crew died. Among the dead was Captain Bibb. John Soule was given command of the ship.

In September, Captain Soule sailed out of Kingston Harbor and joined the Dunkirk and the captured French brigantine. The death toll aboard the Winchester continued to rise as they sailed for the Straits of Florida. Soule, too, fell ill and, no longer able to perform his duties as captain, relegated his command to the next in line, Master Andrew Mallard.

Only 60 men were still alive on the Win

chester; of those survivors, only 10 were deemed healthy enough to work. As if things were not go ing poorly enough, the Winchester struck a large, shallow reef hard and fast.

BRAD BERTELLI

is an author, speaker, Florida Keys historian and Honorary Conch. His latest book, “Florida Keys History with Brad Bertelli, Volume 1,” shares fasci nating glimpses into the rich and sometimes sur prising histories of the Florida Keys.

It was just after midnight on Sept. 24, 1695. Seeing the Winchester in peril, the captain of the Dunkirk or dered the French brigantine to approach the wreck and rescue the surviving crew. Captain Soule sustained in juries in the impact and was transferred to the brigan tine, where he later died. The Winchester was left on the reef, where it splin tered apart and spilled its cannons along the ocean floor. However, the Win chester was not the ship to leave the most indel ible mark on the reef. That honor went to the H.M.S. Carysfort, a 118-foot- long British frigate armed with 24 9-pound cannons, four 3-pound cannons, and several guns on swivels. She hit the reef on Oct. 23, 1770. The good news about the Carysfort was that no one lost their lives, the ship was ultimately refloated, and it sailed away.

More than 200 years after the Winchester hit the reef that would become Carysfort, remains of the ship were discovered by two Miami fishermen, Sam Lynch and Jacob Mun roe. In 1938, six cannons from the wreck of the Winchester were salvaged and brought to Lig numvitae Key. Those cannons can still be seen on the gently sloping lawn leading away from the island’s coral rock house.

BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH

EARLY DETECTION & TREATMENT STARTS WITH SCREENINGS

Breast cancer remains a top risk for women, making up 30% of all new female cancer cases in the U.S. annually. Fortunately, a screening mam mogram can help detect breast cancer in its earliest and most treatable stages. Lower Keys Medical Center is encourag ing women to schedule their screening now, because when breast cancer is detected early, life-saving treatment can begin right away.

“The best chance for sur vival of any cancer is early diag nosis and treatment,” said Dr. Stanley Santiago, Keys Medical Group Obstetrics and Gynecol ogy. “Mammograms can detect cancer before any symptoms, such as a lump, or spreading of the disease occurs, which can increase the likelihood of recovery.”

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Lower Keys Medical Center’s Women’s Im aging Center is open Monday through Friday, from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with expanded hours on Oct. 7, 12, and 18, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sat urday, Oct. 22, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. A discounted self-pay rate is available through October. Call 305-294-5535, ext. 3308,

for more information. A physi cian’s order is required.

Early detection saves lives

Nearly all breast cancers can be treated successfully if found early. The most effective way to detect breast cancer at an early, treatable stage is to have yearly mammograms. Since mammography became widely used in the 1980s, the U.S. breast cancer death rate in women has dropped 43%.

The American College of Radiology (ACR) and Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) recom mend annual mammograms starting at age 40 for women of average risk. Different guide lines apply to women at higher risk.

African Americans and those of Ashkenazi Jewish descent should have a risk as sessment at age 30 to see if a screening earlier than age 40 is needed. Women who were pre viously diagnosed with breast cancer are recommended to be screened with magnetic resonance imaging.

Lower Keys Medical Cen ter’s mammography service at the Women’s Imaging Center is accredited by the American College of Radiology.

TAKE ME HOME?

FIND A FRIEND AT THE FLORIDA KEYS SPCA

TheKeys Weekly family loves animals as much as our friends at the Florida Keys SPCA do, and we’re hon ored each week to showcase some “furever” friends that are ready, waiting and available for adop tion at the organization’s Key West campus.

From cats and dogs to Guinea

pigs, hamsters, rabbits, reptiles and birds, the perfect addition to your family is waiting for you. The SPCA’s knowledgeable staff will help with advice and care tips while working to ensure a good fit between each pet and its people.

The SPCA’s Golden Paw pro gram also provides special assis tance with vet bills and medications for special-needs and older animals that require a little extra TLC.

Check these pages each week for just a few of the animals wait ing for a home and see them all at fkspca.org.

Tiny Tina is a 1-year old female domestic shorthair. Sweet and friendly, she’s not the most outgoing cat in the bunch, but she is a total lovebug with anyone who spends some time with her.

Lilo is a 1-year-old female terrier mix. She’s friendly and playful and would love to have a doggy friend in the house.

Midnight is a 10-month-old female American rabbit. She’s confident, outgo ing and loves to explore, and meet new people, especially if they bring treats.

Gelato is a 1-year-old male domestic shorthair. He’s shy and reserved, but could warm up to a patient adopter. He is very playful and gets along great with other cats.

Winnie is a 1-year-old, male hound mix. He’s a very friendly, overgrown puppy. He loves people, other dogs and treats.

KEY WEST NOW AWARDS SCHOLARSHIPS

4 KEYS WOMEN GET HELP WITH COLLEGE TUITION

TheKey West Chapter of the National Orga nization for Women (KWNOW) announced four recipients of the 2022 Con nie Gilbert Scholarships. The awards are open to any female identifying resident of Monroe County who is seeking to fur ther education or professional career.

Karla L. Quintana moved to Key West when she was a week old and is currently work ing full-time in Key West at The Mount Sinai Cardiology office and attending the College of the Florida Keys full-time. She is pursuing her first educational goal to become a nurse and ultimately a nurse anesthetist. She lives on Big Pine Key with her husband and daughter and enjoys the outdoors.

Amanda Costantino has lived in the Florida Keys for 10 years and became a registered nurse in 2021. She facilitates outreach into community care and resources for new nurses at Baptist Health of South Florida’s Fishermen’s Commu nity Hospital. She is working toward her bachelor’s degree in nursing from the College of the Florida Keys.

Key West native Da’Janeira Williams is working on her prerequisites for nursing. Currently an aspiring make-up artist and business owner, she is an advocate for Queer Keys LGBTQIA+ Youth Program and volunteers in her Key West community whenever possible,

Amber Cabrera has entered her second year as a nursing student at the College of the Florida Keys. During COVID she gave vaccinations through the college and has volunteered at trash clean ups, her church’s food pantry and donation collections for hurricane victims. She and her husband and two teens live in Marathon and enjoy anything water-related.

KWNOW established the Connie Gilbert Scholar ship Awards to celebrate the legacy of Connie Gilbert, former KWNOW president and human-rights activist. Gilbert was a co-founder of many Key West organizations including KWNOW, the ACLU, League of Women Voters and the Keys Coalition Again Child Sex Traf ficking. She was also a member of Equality Florida, the Botani cal Garden Society and an ac complished poet.

More information about KWNOW meetings, member ship and future scholarships is available from kwnowinfo@ gmail.com or from Darlene Lovell Thomas at 305-304-1043.

VOTE REPUBLICAN!

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ULTIMATE FALL READING

TIME TRAVEL, MYSTERY AND ROMANCE –DON’T MISS THESE FABULOUS NEW RELEASES!

MAD HONEY

WRONG PLACE WRONG TIME

It’s almost Halloween with a pumpkin beautiful ly carved and lit on the porch. Jen anx iously waits by the window in their quiet Liverpool neighborhood for her teenage son Todd. She glimpses Todd as he walks toward their front path, but then Jen sees another man approaching, an older man she does not recognize. Todd pulls out a weapon and stabs the man. Jen runs out side and as she tries to stem the bleeding she notices Todd’s withdrawn, pale face. He is as unrecognizable as their futures are the moment the police take him into custody. Horrified and distraught, Jen and her husband Kelly barely get any sleep that night. Things only get worse when she gets up in the morning and it is the day before. Through days, months and even years, Jen finds herself going back in time. With each awakening she discovers more lies and clues about what led their little family to this bone-chilling conclu sion. For the love of her son, Jen must figure out why this is happening, and she will stop at nothing to change their des tiny. This fast-paced psychological thriller is wholly original as the mystery is solved backwards.

Two single moms. Two highschool students. One charming New Hampshire town trying to solve a murder. Olivia McAfee grew up in Adams, but dreaming of a career as a zoologist, she couldn’t get away quick enough. She never imagined she would someday take over her family’s beekeeping business and raise her son Asher on the very same farm she fled. Ava Campanello is another single mom who drove across the country to start over with her daughter Lily. Asher and Lily become inseparable. With holiday cheer in the air, college applications in the mail and hockey practice at un godly hours, Olivia is shocked to receive a phone call from Asher – coming from the local police station. Lily is dead, and Asher is the one who found her. Heartbroken and terrified, Asher is questioned and released. Days later, the pieces begin to fall into a devastating picture and Asher is arrested. As the mystery unfolds, unex pected twists and turns keep you on the edge of your seat.

WHEREVER THE WIND TAKES US

When Becca was barely an adult she married Alistair Larkin. He was older, a suc cessful lawyer from a prominent, wealthy family. She was smitten and was soon pregnant with their daughter Olivia. Becca was mostly content as a stay-at-home mom raising her child and managing the family’s growing social calendar. Twentytwo years later, she can no longer ignore that her marriage is a sham and she has not been happy for a long time. As the divorce is finalized, Becca declines to contest the prenuptial agreement, and she walks away with little more than her dignity and her namesake – a mag nificent 40-foot sailboat. For all practical purposes, she must sell the boat. When the trip to deliver the boat from Maine to Miami – initially meant to be a cathartic, relationship-building experience with her daughter – turns into catastrophe, the hottest Irishman Becca has ever seen climbs aboard: Grant Murphy. Grant of fers to help sail the boat to Miami, and in the process Becca finds herself facing her fears of the ocean and her future at the same time. Enjoy this sailing adventure as a woman deemed past her prime learns how to navigate life on her own terms.

BOOK TO SCREEN

“Luckiest Girl Alive” tells the story of a New York writer whose perfectly-curated life unravels when the dark past comes back to haunt her. Coming to Netflix on Friday, Oct. 7

LEGAL NOTICES

FICTITIOUS NAME NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned, desiring to engage in business under the fictitious name of SOUTHERNMOST LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE located at 32 Merganser Lane, Monroe County in the City of Key West, Florida 33040-4372, intends to register the said name with the Division of Corporations of the Florida Department of State, Tallahassee, Florida. Dated at Key West, Florida this 3rd day of October, 2022.

By: Natalino Trey Scappaticci

Publish: October 6, 2022

The Weekly Newspapers

FICTITIOUS NAME

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned, desiring to engage in business under the fictitious name of ONGOING WEALTH MANAGEMENT located at 70 Bahama Avenue, Key Largo, FL 33037 intends to register said name with the Florida Department of State, Tallahassee, Florida.

By: OWM, LLC Publish: October 6, 2022

The Weekly Newspapers

FICTITIOUS NAME

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned, desiring to engage in business under the fictitious name of SHIVER ME FINGERS located at 82889 Overseas Highway, Islamorada, FL 33036 intends to register said name with the Florida Department of State, Tallahassee, Florida.

By: OT Collab, Inc.

Publish: October 6, 2022

The Weekly Newspapers

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

Pursuant F.S. 328.17, United American Lien & Recovery as agent w/ power of attorney will

LEGAL NOTICES

sell the following vessel(s) to the highest bidder. Inspect 1 week prior @ marina; cash or cashier check; all auctions are held w/ reserve; any persons interested ph 954-563-1999

Sale Date October 28, 2022 @ 10:00 am 3411 NW 9th Ave #707

Ft Lauderdale FL 33309

V12941 1976 Morgan FL0047RR

Hull ID#: MRY10127M76A

inboard pleasure diesel fiberglass 41ft R/O Erine Edward Harbour & Cynthia Marie Taylor Lienor: Pilot House Marina/Restaurant 13 Seagate Blvd Key Largo Licensed Auctioneers FLAB422 FLAU765 & 1911

Publish: September 29 & October 6, 2022

The Weekly Newspapers

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF DARLINGTON IN THE MATTER OF: THE INTERVIVOS TRUST OF HELEN M. STABA (NOW DECEASED)

TO: MARGARET AILEEN STABA, Beneficiary and Daughter of Helen M. Staba

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED of the death of Helen M. Staba and that your claim as beneficiary should be presented in writing, along with proof of identification, to The Conner Law Firm, ATTN: Michelle Greenawalt, 906 W. Carolina Avenue, Hartsville, SC 29550, by April 6, 2023.

The Conner Law Firm, P.C. 906 W. Carolina Avenue Hartsville, SC 29550

Phone: (843) 332-1678

Fax: (843) 332-1904

Publish: October 6, 13 & 20, 2022

The Weekly Newspapers

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA

LEGAL NOTICES

PROBATE DIVISION

FILE NO.: 2022-CP-000267-K

IN RE: ESTATE OF ARTHUR VINTON MYERS, JR., Deceased.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

The administration of the estate of Arthur Vinton Myers, Jr., deceased, whose date of death was July 7, 2021, File Number 2022-CP-000267-K, is pending in the Circuit Court for Monroe County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is 500 Whitehead Street, Key West, Florida 33040. The estate is testate. The names and addresses of the personal representative and the personal representative’s attorney are set forth below.

ALL INTERESTED PERSONS ARE NOTIFIED THAT:

All persons on whom this notice is served who have objections that challenge the validity of the will, the qualifications of the personal representative, venue, or jurisdiction of this Court are required to file their objections with this Court WITHIN THE LATER OF THREE MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE OR THIRTY DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE ON THEM.

All creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate on whom a copy of this notice is served within three months after the date of the first publication of this notice must file their claims with this Court WITHIN THE LATER OF THREE MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE OR THIRTY DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE ON THEM.

All other creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against the decedent’s estate must file their claims with this court WITHIN THREE MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE.

NOTICE OF KEY LARGO FIRE RESCUE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES DISTRICT MILLAGE ELECTION ON NOVEMBER 8, 2022

On November 8, 2022, the Key Largo Fire Rescue and Emergency Medical Services District will issue a referendum to the voters seeking approval to increase the maximum millage rate in order to cover future costs of provid ing high-quality fire-rescue and emergency medical services to the residents of Key Largo.

The District Board of Commissioners wishes to make clear to Key Largo voters that the Board does not intend to levy annual millage at the maximum rate permitted under the proposed increase and remains committed to its longstanding policy of providing high quality firefight ing, rescue, and emergency medical services in the most cost-effective manner. The District has adopted a five-year operating plan that contem plates a millage rate less than the proposed maximum of 2.00 mills, however also understands the importance of long term planning. The following is the official ballot:

INCREASED MAXIMUM MILLAGE RATE FOR KEY LARGO FIRE RESCUE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES:

The Key Largo Fire & EMS District may not levy ad valorem taxes exceeding 1.00 mill without voter approval. The District seeks to increase its maximum millage rate to cover future costs of providing high-quality fire-rescue and emergency medical services to the residents of Key Largo.

Shall the maximum millage rate of the District be revised to 2.00 mills, to fund the continued provision of fire rescue and emergency medical services to Key Largo residents?

YES

LEGAL NOTICES

ALL CLAIMS, DEMANDS AND OBJECTIONS NOT FILED WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH IN SECTION 733.702 OF THE FLORIDA PROBATE CODE WILL BE FOREVER BARRED.

NOTWITHSTANDING THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH ABOVE, ANY CLAIM FILED TWO (2) YEARS OR MORE AFTER THE DECEDENT’S DATE OF DEATH IS BARRED.

The date of first publication of this notice is: September 29, 2022.

Personal Representative: Arthur Vinton Myers, III, a/k/a Vinton Myers, III 29 Dahlgren Road Richmond, VA 23238

Attorney for Personal Representative: Gina Martinez Nyugen

Florida Bar No. 0256780

Gina Nyugen, P.A. 7300 North Kendall Drive, Suite 540

Miami, Florida 33156

Telephone: (305) 670-9400

Publish:

September 29 & October 6, 2022

The Weekly Newspapers

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA

PROBATE DIVISION FILE NO.: 2022-CP-000110-P IN RE: ESTATE OF MARY EDNA SMITH A/K/A EDNA M. SMITH Deceased.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

The administration of the estate of Mary Edna Smith, also known as Edna M. Smith, deceased, whose date of death was May 29, 2022, is pending in the Circuit Court for Monroe County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is 88820 Overseas Highway, Tavernier, FL 33070.

The names and addresses of the personal representative and the personal representative’s attorney are set forth below.

All creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate on whom a copy of this notice is required to be served must file their claims with this court ON OR BEFORE THE LATER OF 3 MONTHS AFTER THE TIME OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE OR 30 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE ON THEM.

All other creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate must file their claims with this court WITHIN 3 MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE.

ALL CLAIMS NOT FILED WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH IN FLORIDA STATUTES SECTION 733.702 WILL BE FOREVER BARRED.

NOTWITHSTANDING THE TIME PERIOD SET FORTH ABOVE, ANY CLAIM FILED TWO (2) YEARS OR MORE AFTER THE DECEDENT’S DATE OF DEATH IS BARRED. The date of first publication of this notice is: September 29, 2022.

Personal Representative: Melissa B. Hemmert 5633 Strand Blvd.

Suite 306

Naples, Florida 34110

Attorney for Personal Representative: Jeffrey R. Grant Attorney

Florida Bar Number: 63918 Grant, Cottrell & Miller-Meyers, PLLC 5147 Castello Drive Naples, FL 34103

Telephone: (239) 649-4848

Fax: (239) 643-9810 E-Mail: jeff@grantcottrell.com

Seconday E-Mail: jennifer@ grantcottrell.com Publish: September 29 & October 6, 2022 The Weekly Newspapers

LEGAL NOTICES

DIVISION: FAMILY IN RE: THE MARRIAGE OF: SLAVENA MOMCHILOVA, Petitioner, and, BRYAN KELEMEN, Respondent.

NOTICE OF ACTION FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE (NO CHILD OR FINANCIAL SUPPORT)

LAST KNOWN ADDRESS: Unknown

YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action for dissolution of marriage has been filed against you and that you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to it on Slavena Momchilova, whose address is 607 Eaton Street, Key West, FL 33040 on or before October 31, 2022, and file the original with the clerk of this Court at 500 Whitehead Street, Key West, FL 33040, before service on Petitioner or immediately thereafter. If you fail to do so, a default may be entered against you for the relief demanded in the petition.

The action is asking the court to decide how the following real or personal property should be divided: NONE

Copies of all court documents in this case, including orders, are available at the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office. You may review these documents upon request.

You must keep the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office notified of your current address. (You may file Designation of Current Mailing and E-Mail Address, Florida Supreme Court Approved Family Law Form 12.915.)

Future papers in this lawsuit will be mailed or e-mailed to the address(es) on record at the clerk’s office.

WARNING: Rule 12.285, Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure, requires certain automatic disclosure of documents and information. Failure to comply can result in sanctions, including dismissal or striking of pleadings.

Dated: September 22, 2022

Kevin Madok, CPA Clerk of the Circuit Court Monroe County, Florida

By: Marissa Lockwood Deputy Clerk Publish: September 29, October 6, 13 & 20, 2022

The Weekly Newspapers

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA IN AND FOR MONROE COUNTY

CASE NO. 20-CA-000044-K

THE BANYAN TREE OF KEY WEST CONDOMINIUM AND OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., a Florida CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. WILLIAM STAFFORD, JEFFREY CAMPBELL, JACK A JENSEN AND RUTH L JENSEN, ANN LOUISE MINI, CHARLOTTE PIRNIA, ANN F MACGOWEN AND SUSAN A MACGOWEN, BARBARA D COMPSON, AMIR ESFANDYARI, JOAN C MANTAS, AND ALL OTHER UNKNOWN PARTIES CLAIMING INTERESTS BY, THROUGH, UNDER, AND AGAINST THE PARTIES HEREIN NAMED, WHETHER SAID UNKNOWN PARTIES MAY CLAIM AN INTEREST AS SPOUSES, HEIRS, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, TRUSTEES, OR OTHER CLAIMANTS Defendant(s).

AMENDED NOTICE OF ACTION

LEGAL NOTICES

grantees, assignees, lienors, creditors, trustees or other persons claiming by, through, under or against any unknown person who is known to be dead or otherwise claim to have any right title, or interest in any of the properties described below.

YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action to foreclose liens on the following properties in Monroe County, Florida more particularly described as follows: An undivided 1/260th interest as a tenant in common with other owners in the Resort Facility (1 Time Share Interest), according to the Time-Sharing Plan thereof, recorded in the Official Records Book 942, Page 653 through 723, of the Public Records of Monroe County, Florida (Plan).

Together with the right to occupy, pursuant to Plan, Unit 401, during Unit Week 21. has been filed against you and you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to it on Jonathan J. Coto, the plaintiff’s attorney whose address is Coto Law Firm, P.A. 1390 S. Dixie Highway, Suite 1108, Coral Gables, Florida 33146, on or before November 7, 2022, and file the original with the clerk of this court either before service on the plaintiff’s attorney or immediately thereafter; otherwise a default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint or petition.

DATED on September 26, 2022 KEVIN MADOK, CPA As Clerk of the Court By: Shonta McLeod As Deputy Clerk Publish: October 6 & 13, 2022

The

amended from time to time, of the Public Records on Monroe County, Florida

An undivided 1/260th interest as a tenant in common with other owners in the Resort Facility (1 Time Share Interest), according to the Time-Sharing Plan thereof, recorded in the Official Records Book 942, Page 653, of the Public Records of Monroe County, Florida (Plan). Together with the right to occupy, pursuant to the Plan, Unit 405, during Unit Week 35.

An Undivided 1/416th interest as a tenant in common with other owners in the Resort Facility (1 Time Share Interest), according to the Time-Sharing Plan thereof, recorded in Official Records Book 988, Pages 1510 through 1580, of the Public records of Monroe County, Florida (Plan). Together with the right to occupy, pursuant to the Plan, Unit 503, during Unit Week 35.

2022

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2022-DR-626-K

TO: Joan C Mantas & Nicolas T. Mantas, the unknown spouses, heirs, devisees, grantees, assignees, lienors, creditors, trustees of Joan C Mantas & Nicolas T. Mantas, and all persons claiming by, through, under or against Joan C Mantas & Nicolas T. Mantas or otherwise claim to have any right title, or interest in any of the properties described in COUNT XIV of the Complaint, and all unknown persons, if alive, and if dead, and if not known to be dead or alive, their unknown spouses, heirs, devisees,

Newspapers

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA IN AND FOR MONROE COUNTY CASE NO. 20-CA-000044-K THE BANYAN TREE OF KEY WEST CONDOMINIUM AND OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., a Florida CORPORATION, Plaintiff,

v. WILLIAM STAFFORD, JEFFREY CAMPBELL, JACK A JENSEN AND RUTH L JENSEN, ANN LOUISE MINI, CHARLOTTE PIRNIA, ANN F MACGOWEN AND SUSAN A MACGOWEN, BARBARA D COMPSON, AMIR ESFANDYARI, JOAN C MANTAS, AND ALL OTHER UNKNOWN PARTIES CLAIMING INTERESTS BY, THROUGH, UNDER, AND AGAINST THE PARTIES HEREIN NAMED, WHETHER SAID UNKNOWN PARTIES

MAY CLAIM AN INTEREST AS SPOUSES, HEIRS, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, TRUSTEES, OR OTHER CLAIMANTS Defendant(s).

AMENDED NOTICE OF ACTION

TO: William Stafford, the unknown spouses, heirs, devisees, grantees, assignees, lienors, creditors, trustees of William Stafford, and all persons claiming by, through, under or against William Stafford or otherwise claim to have any right title, or interest in any of the properties described in COUNT I, II, III & IV of the Complaint, and all unknown persons, if alive, and if dead, and if not known to be dead or alive, their unknown spouses, heirs, devisees, grantees, assignees, lienors, creditors, trustees or other persons claiming by, through, under or against any unknown person who is known to be dead or otherwise claim to have any right title, or interest in any of the properties described below.

YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action to foreclose liens on the following properties in Monroe County, Florida more particularly described as follows: Condominium Unit 105, Unit Weeks 36 and 37, of THE BANYAN TREE OF KEY WEST, together with an undivided interest in the common elements, according to the Declaration of Condominium thereof, recorded in Official Records Book 872, Page 1654, as

Unit 38 in Condominium Parcel Number 105, of the BANYAN TREE OF KEY WEST CONDOMINIUM, together with an undivided interest in the common elements appurtenant thereto, according the Declaration of Condominium thereof recorded in Official Record Book 872 at page 1654 Public Records of Monroe County, FL, together with any amendments thereto. has been filed against you and you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to it on Jonathan J. Coto, the plaintiff’s attorney whose address is Coto Law Firm, P.A. 1390 S. Dixie Highway, Suite 1108, Coral Gables, Florida 33146, on or before November 7, 2022, and file the original with the clerk of this court either before service on the plaintiff’s attorney or immediately thereafter; otherwise a default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint or petition.

DATED on September 26, 2022 KEVIN MADOK, CPA As Clerk of the Court

By: Shonta McLeod

As Deputy Clerk

Publish: October 6 & 13, 2022

The Weekly Newspapers

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA IN AND FOR MONROE COUNTY

CASE NO. 20-CA-000045-K THE BANYAN TREE OF KEY WEST CONDOMINIUM AND OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., a Florida CORPORATION, Plaintiff,

v. WARFIELD M LEWIS, GARY MONTGOMERY AND DR. L. FOLGER WHICKER, BENJAMIN D BARNETT AND JOHN D BARNETT, SUSAN MACGOWEN AND PAULA T. DOWNS, RUSSELL L KERNS AND SHARON E KERNS, STEVEN C HINTON, DAVID HOPS AND CHRISTINE HOPS, TIMESHARE TRADE INS, LLC C/O SPENCE WILLIS, RORY N HORTON, JUDITH A BEETERIDGE, MELANIE SCHELL, MEREDITH PEACE, JAMES E BRADY AND JANET T MAASBRADY, KENNETH R GILBERT AND RITA G GORMAN, AMIR ESFANDYARI, AND ALL OTHER UNKNOWN PARTIES CLAIMING INTERESTS BY, THROUGH, UNDER, AND AGAINST THE PARTIES HEREIN NAMED, WHETHER SAID UNKNOWN PARTIES MAY CLAIM AN INTEREST AS SPOUSES, HEIRS, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS,TRUSTEES, OR OTHER CLAIMANTS Defendant(s).

NOTICE OF ACTION

TO: Judith A. Betteridge, the unknown spouses, heirs, devisees, grantees, assignees, lienors, creditors, trustees of Judith A. Betteridge, and all persons claiming by, through, under or against Judith A. Betteridge or otherwise claim to have any right title, or interest in any of the properties described in COUNT X of the Complaint, and all unknown persons, if alive, and if dead, and if not known to

be dead or alive, their unknown spouses, heirs, devisees, grantees, assignees, lienors, creditors, trustees or other persons claiming by, through, under or against any unknown person who is known to be dead or otherwise claim to have any right title, or interest in any of the properties described below.

YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action to foreclose liens on the following properties in Monroe County, Florida more particularly described as follows:

An Undivided 1/416th interest of

THE BANYAN TREE OF KEY WEST CONDOMINIUMS as a tenant in common with other owners in the Resort Facility (1 Time Share Interest), according to the Time Sharing Plan thereof, recorded in Official Records Book 988, Pages 1510 through 1580, of the Public records of Monroe County, Florida (Plan). Together with the right to occupy, pursuant to the plan, Unit 507, during week 33. has been filed against you and you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to it on Jonathan J. Coto, the plaintiff’s attorney whose address is Coto Law Firm, P.A. 1390 S. Dixie Highway, Suite 1108, Coral Gables, Florida 33146, on or before November 7, 2022, and file the original with the clerk of this court either before service on the plaintiff’s attorney or immediately thereafter; otherwise a default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint or petition.

DATED on September 26, 2022 KEVIN MADOK, CPA

As Clerk of the Court

By: Shonta McLeod

As Deputy Clerk

Publish: October 6 & 13, 2022

The Weekly Newspapers

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA

IN AND FOR MONROE COUNTY

CASE NO. 20-CA-000045-K

THE BANYAN TREE OF KEY WEST CONDOMINIUM AND OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., a Florida CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. WARFIELD M LEWIS, GARY MONTGOMERY AND DR. L. FOLGER WHICKER, BENJAMIN D BARNETT AND JOHN D BARNETT, SUSAN MACGOWEN AND PAULA T. DOWNS, RUSSELL L KERNS AND SHARON E KERNS, STEVEN C HINTON, DAVID HOPS AND CHRISTINE HOPS, TIMESHARE TRADE INS, LLC C/O SPENCE WILLIS, RORY N HORTON, JUDITH A BEETERIDGE, MELANIE SCHELL, MEREDITH PEACE, JAMES E BRADY AND JANET T MAASBRADY, KENNETH R GILBERT AND RITA G GORMAN, AMIR ESFANDYARI, AND ALL OTHER UNKNOWN PARTIES CLAIMING INTERESTS BY, THROUGH, UNDER, AND AGAINST THE PARTIES

HEREIN NAMED, WHETHER SAID UNKNOWN PARTIES

MAY CLAIM AN INTEREST AS SPOUSES, HEIRS, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS,TRUSTEES, OR OTHER CLAIMANTS Defendant(s).

NOTICE OF ACTION

TO: Meredith Peace, the unknown spouses, heirs, devisees, grantees, assignees, lienors, creditors, trustees of Meredith Peace, and all persons claiming by, through, under or against Meredith Peace or otherwise claim to have any right title, or interest in any of the properties described in COUNT XII of the Complaint, and all unknown persons, if alive, and if dead, and if not known to be dead or alive, their unknown spouses, heirs, devisees, grantees, assignees, lienors, creditors, trustees or other persons claiming by, through, under or against any unknown person who is known to be dead or otherwise claim to have any right title, or interest in any of the properties described below.

YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action to foreclose liens on the

following properties in Monroe County, Florida more particularly described as follows:

An Undivided 1/416th interest as a tenant in common with other owners in the Resort Facility (1 Time Share Interest), according to the Time-Sharing Plan thereof, recorded in Official Records Book 988, Pages 1510 through 1580, of the Public records of Monroe County, Florida (Plan). Together with the right to occupy, pursuant to the plan, Unit 503, during week 41. has been filed against you and you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to it on Jonathan J. Coto, the plaintiff’s attorney whose address is Coto Law Firm, P.A. 1390 S. Dixie Highway, Suite 1108, Coral Gables, Florida 33146, on or before November 7, 2022, and file the original with the clerk of this court either before service on the plaintiff’s attorney or immediately thereafter; otherwise a default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint or petition.

DATED on September 26, 2022 KEVIN MADOK, CPA

As Clerk of the Court

By: Shonta McLeod

As Deputy Clerk Publish: October 6 & 13, 2022 The Weekly Newspapers

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA IN AND FOR MONROE COUNTY

CASE NO. 20-CA-000045-K

THE BANYAN TREE OF KEY WEST CONDOMINIUM AND OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., a Florida CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. WARFIELD M LEWIS, GARY MONTGOMERY AND DR. L. FOLGER WHICKER, BENJAMIN D BARNETT AND JOHN D BARNETT, SUSAN MACGOWEN AND PAULA T. DOWNS, RUSSELL L KERNS AND SHARON E KERNS, STEVEN C HINTON, DAVID HOPS AND CHRISTINE HOPS, TIMESHARE TRADE INS, LLC C/O SPENCE WILLIS, RORY N HORTON, JUDITH A BEETERIDGE, MELANIE SCHELL, MEREDITH PEACE, JAMES E BRADY AND JANET T MAASBRADY, KENNETH R GILBERT AND RITA G GORMAN, AMIR ESFANDYARI, AND ALL OTHER UNKNOWN PARTIES CLAIMING INTERESTS BY, THROUGH, UNDER, AND AGAINST THE PARTIES HEREIN NAMED, WHETHER SAID UNKNOWN PARTIES MAY CLAIM AN INTEREST AS SPOUSES, HEIRS, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS,TRUSTEES, OR OTHER CLAIMANTS Defendant(s).

NOTICE OF ACTION

TO: Melanie Schell, the unknown spouses, heirs, devisees, grantees, assignees, lienors, creditors, trustees of Melanie Schell, and all persons claiming by, through, under or against Melanie Schell or otherwise claim to have any right title, or interest in any of the properties described in COUNT XI of the Complaint, and all unknown persons, if alive, and if dead, and if not known to be dead or alive, their unknown spouses, heirs, devisees, grantees, assignees, lienors, creditors, trustees or other persons claiming by, through, under or against any unknown person who is known to be dead or otherwise claim to have any right title, or interest in any of the properties described below.

YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action to foreclose liens on the following properties in Monroe County, Florida more particularly described as follows: An undivided 1/104th interest as a tenant in common with other owners in the Resort Facility (1 Time Share Interest), according to the Time-Sharing Plan thereof, recorded in Official Records Book 1047, Pages 1785 through 1856, of the Public Records of Monroe County, Florida (Plan). Together with the right to occupy,

LEGAL NOTICES

pursuant to the Plan, Unit 701, during Unit Week 50. has been filed against you and you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to it on Jonathan J. Coto, the plaintiff’s attorney whose address is Coto Law Firm, P.A. 1390 S. Dixie Highway, Suite 1108, Coral Gables, Florida 33146, on or before November 7, 2022, and file the original with the clerk of this court either before service on the plaintiff’s attorney or immediately thereafter; otherwise a default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint or petition.

DATED on September 26, 2022 KEVIN MADOK, CPA As Clerk of the Court By: Shonta McLeod As Deputy Clerk Publish: October 6 & 13, 2022

The Weekly Newspapers

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA IN AND FOR MONROE COUNTY CASE NO. 20-CA-000045-K THE BANYAN TREE OF KEY WEST CONDOMINIUM AND OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., a Florida CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. WARFIELD M LEWIS, GARY MONTGOMERY AND DR. L. FOLGER WHICKER, BENJAMIN D BARNETT AND JOHN D BARNETT, SUSAN MACGOWEN AND PAULA T. DOWNS, RUSSELL L KERNS AND SHARON E KERNS, STEVEN C HINTON, DAVID HOPS AND CHRISTINE HOPS, TIMESHARE TRADE INS, LLC C/O SPENCE WILLIS, RORY N HORTON, JUDITH A BEETERIDGE, MELANIE SCHELL, MEREDITH PEACE, JAMES E BRADY AND JANET T MAASBRADY, KENNETH R GILBERT AND RITA G GORMAN, AMIR ESFANDYARI, AND ALL OTHER UNKNOWN PARTIES CLAIMING INTERESTS BY, THROUGH, UNDER, AND AGAINST THE PARTIES HEREIN NAMED, WHETHER SAID UNKNOWN PARTIES MAY CLAIM AN INTEREST AS SPOUSES, HEIRS, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS,TRUSTEES, OR OTHER CLAIMANTS Defendant(s).

AMENDED NOTICE OF ACTION

TO: Rory N Horton, the unknown spouses, heirs, devisees, grantees, assignees, lienors, creditors, trustees of Rory N Horton, and all persons claiming by, through, under or against Rory N Horton or otherwise claim to have any right title, or interest in any of the properties described in COUNT IX of the Complaint, and all unknown persons, if alive, and if dead, and if not known to be dead or alive, their unknown spouses, heirs, devisees, grantees, assignees, lienors, creditors, trustees or other persons claiming by, through, under or against any unknown person who is known to be dead or otherwise claim to have any right title, or interest in any of the properties described below.

YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action to foreclose liens on the following properties in Monroe County, Florida more particularly described as follows:

An Undivided 1/416th interest as a tenant in common with other owners in the Resort Facility (1 Time Share Interest), according to the Time-Sharing Plan thereof, recorded in Official Records Book 988, Pages 1510 through 1580, of the Public records of Monroe County, Florida (Plan). Together with the right to occupy, pursuant to the plan, Unit 506, during week 34. has been filed against you and you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to it on Jonathan J. Coto, the plaintiff’s attorney whose address is Coto Law Firm, P.A. 1390 S. Dixie Highway, Suite 1108, Coral Gables, Florida 33146, on or before November 7, 2022, and file the original with the clerk of this court either

LEGAL NOTICES

before service on the plaintiff’s attorney or immediately thereafter; otherwise a default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint or petition.

DATED on September 26, 2022 KEVIN MADOK, CPA As Clerk of the Court By: Shonta McLeod

As Deputy Clerk

Publish: October 6 & 13, 2022

The Weekly Newspapers

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA IN AND FOR MONROE COUNTY CASE NO. 20-CA-000045-K THE BANYAN TREE OF KEY WEST CONDOMINIUM AND OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., a Florida CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v.

WARFIELD M LEWIS, GARY MONTGOMERY AND DR. L. FOLGER WHICKER, BENJAMIN D BARNETT AND JOHN D BARNETT, SUSAN MACGOWEN AND PAULA T. DOWNS, RUSSELL L KERNS AND SHARON E KERNS, STEVEN C HINTON, DAVID HOPS AND CHRISTINE HOPS, TIMESHARE TRADE INS, LLC C/O SPENCE WILLIS, RORY N HORTON, JUDITH A BEETERIDGE, MELANIE SCHELL, MEREDITH PEACE, JAMES E BRADY AND JANET T MAASBRADY, KENNETH R GILBERT AND RITA G GORMAN, AMIR ESFANDYARI, AND ALL OTHER UNKNOWN PARTIES CLAIMING INTERESTS BY, THROUGH, UNDER, AND AGAINST THE PARTIES HEREIN NAMED, WHETHER SAID UNKNOWN PARTIES MAY CLAIM AN INTEREST AS SPOUSES, HEIRS, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS,TRUSTEES, OR OTHER CLAIMANTS

Defendant(s).

AMENDED NOTICE OF ACTION TO: Paula T Downs, the unknown spouses, heirs, devisees, grantees, assignees, lienors, creditors, trustees of Paula T Downs, and all persons claiming by, through, under or against Paula T Downs or otherwise claim to have any right title, or interest in any of the properties described in COUNT IV of the Complaint, and all unknown persons, if alive, and if dead, and if not known to be dead or alive, their unknown spouses, heirs, devisees, grantees, assignees, lienors, creditors, trustees or other persons claiming by, through, under or against any unknown person who is known to be dead or otherwise claim to have any right title, or interest in any of the properties described below.

YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action to foreclose liens on the following properties in Monroe County, Florida more particularly described as follows: Condominium Unit No. 508 of Unit Week 24, of BANYAN TREE OF KEY WEST, CONDOMINIUM, together with an undivided interest in common elements, according to the Declaration thereof, as recorded in Official Records Book 988, at Page 1510, of the Public Records of MONROE County, Florida. has been filed against you and you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to it on Jonathan J. Coto, the plaintiff’s attorney whose address is Coto Law Firm, P.A. 1390 S. Dixie Highway, Suite 1108, Coral Gables, Florida 33146, on or before November 7, 2022, and file the original with the clerk of this court either before service on the plaintiff’s attorney or immediately thereafter; otherwise a default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint or petition.

DATED on September 26, 2022 KEVIN MADOK, CPA As Clerk of the Court

By: Shonta McLeod

As Deputy Clerk

THEME: GREEK MYTHOLOGY

AUTOS WANTED HOBBIES/COLLECT.

ALL YEARS! Junk or Used.

Cars - Vans - TrucksRunning or Not. $CASH$ 305-332-0483

BOATS FOR SALE

FOR SALE: 2007 Cobia - 19 ft, with T-top, 115hp Yamaha. No trailer. Located in Marathon. $9,900 Text 305-743-6098

SPACE FOR RENT

BoatTrailer Spaces Available. $100 per week. Boat dockage available $100 per week. Easy access to the Atlantic and lighthouse. Boat length 32’ or less! Dockage is eighty feet long with good depth for boats. Phone 336-408-8140 or 336-287-3345.

EMPLOYMENT

Dolphins Plus Marine Mammal Responder is hiring an overnight Security Guard- responsibilities include but are not limited to observing marine mammals to ensure quality care, the ability to follow written instructions, and follow protocol and procedures as directed. Candidates must be able to lift 50 lbs and must be able to stay awake and alert for a 13 and a 1/2 hour shift (5:30pm7am). DPMMR is a drug-free workplace. To apply, please send your resume to nancyc@dpmmr.org.

Marathon Yacht Club is hiring a part-time bartender/ server. $12/hr + Guaranteed tip pool, employee meals, private club & friendly atmosphere. Saturday evenings required, some weekdays. Call 305-7436739 to schedule an interview.

Marathon Yacht Club is hiring a part-time dishwasher. $14/hr, Private Club & Friendly Atmosphere, Varying Hours Tuesday –Saturday. Call 305-743-6739 to schedule an interview.

Pancho's Fuel Dock in Marathon is looking for a part-time cashier Thu/Fri/Sat. Please call 305-743-2281.

NOW HIRING - Full Time Seafood Packers/Graders. Competitive Wage. Apply in person at Keys Fisheries Fish House, 3390 Gulfview Ave, Marathon. EOE DFWP

CDL Drivers needed.

Must have a clean record & drug free. We are offering competitive wages. Please apply in person at Discount Rock & Sand, 10500 Aviation Blvd, Unit 2, Marathon

City of Marathon Current Job Openings: Utilities Maintenance, Recreation Specialist, Right of Way Technician, Parttime Marina Custodian/ Maintenance and Marina Tech/Pump Out Captain. Full Benefits. EOE Please see City website for details www.ci.marathon.fl.us

Come Join Our Family and Have Fun At Work! Hiring: Host, Hostess & Servers - Full &/or parttime. AM & PM Shifts. Apply in person at Castaway Restaurant, end of 15th Street, Oceanside, Marathon or email: lobstercrawl@gmail.com

Immediate openings for experienced plumbers and helpers (with or without experience - we will train the right person). Must have a valid driver's license & clean driving record. Please apply in person at 10700 5th Avenue Gulf, Marathon or email resume to: eerpinc@gmail.com

NOW HIRING: Sweet Savannah's is now hiring for multiple positions: Cashiermust be 16 yrs or older, Fulltime Baker & Part-time Baker's Assistant. Stop by for an application at 8919 Overseas Highway, Marathon or email: info@sweetsavannahs.com

Serve/Bartend on the ocean! FT/PT Ocean front private swim club is seeking customer service oriented server/bartender. Serve on pool deck, beach and/or bar lounge. Open year round, 10am-7pm daily. Full time/Part time. Small friendly staff. Above average hourly wage plus tips. Apply in person at 425 E. Ocean Dr. Key Colony Beach or call 404219-3359 and ask for Dave.

The Housing Authority of the City of Key West now hiring the following positions: Maintenance Mechanic (Maintenance Worker), Med Tech, Protective Service Aide, Resident Activities Coordinator. To apply, please contact Human Resources at: martinezm@ kwha.org or 305-296-5621. Applications are available at the Administrative Office located at 1400 Kennedy Dr., Key West, FL 33040 or online at www.kwha.orgEOE & Drug Free Work Place. This opportunity is covered under Section 3 of the HUD Act of 1968.

PRIVATE COLLECTOR

WANTS Rolex, Dive Watches and Pilot Watches. Old Model Military Clocks & Watches. Call 305-743-4578

HOUSING FOR RENT LONG TERM

For Rent in Marathon. Room with balcony, private entrance, and bathroom. Kitchen and laundry privileges. Utilities included. Ask for Dianna at 305-9239181. $1,200 monthly. First and last req. No pets.

HOUSING FOR RENT

Las Brisa - 2BR/2BA

Unfurnished, great view, W/D, covered parking. Tennis, Swimming Pool & BBQ on property. Across from Smather’s Beach, Key West. $3,900/month + util. F/L/S Owner/Agent Douglas Miller 305-747-1700

STUDIO APT FOR RENT - Furnished Studio Apt w/ patio, like new, W/D, off street parking. Key West. $2,300/month including util. F/L/S Owner/Agent Douglas Miller 305-747-1700

YARD SALES

SALES

Yard Sale to benefit Immanuel Lutheran Church, Tavernier. Friday, Oct. 7 and Saturday, Oct. 8. from 8 a.m. to noon on both days. 144 Key Heights Drive, Tavernier - turn right onto Key Heights Drive just after the new Government Center. Dishes, pots and pans, clothing, shoes, books, knic-knacs, bait buckets, miter boxes, folding lawn chairs, etc.

PLACE YOUR YARD SALE AD here for only $25.00/week for up to five lines of copy. Call 305-743-0844 TODAY!

NOW

SUDOKU

NOW HIRING OUTDOOR PRIVATE ESTATE HOUSEMAN

Islamorada | Full Time | $25.00 +/hr

have previous houseman or related experience, valid US DL and SSN.

be able

ESTAMOS CONTRATANDO

Tiempo completo, mantenimiento de exterior en casa privada. Localizada en Islamorada, a $25.00+/hr. experiencia previa requerida o similar. Licencia valida en EE.UU. y numero de Seguro social. Capaz de pasar verificacion de antecedents y prueba de droga. Emprendedor motivado capaz de seguir instruciones.

Email resume & references to Lnz777@aol.com or mail to: Resume, c/o Post Net, 88005 Overseas Hwy, Suite 10, Box #162, Islamorada, FL 33036

PROFESSIONALS NEEDED!

NURSE PRACTITIONER/PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT

Keys AHEC Health Centers is seeking a Full Time APRN or PA to join its team. Position follows the Teacher’s School Schedule during the year and has limited Summer Hours. Position o ers a competitive wage, great schedule, Health Insurance and other benefits. Duties will be to provide primary care medical services in a school based se ing for students and sta .

FRONT DESK DENTAL/DRIVER

The Keys AHEC Health Center is looking for a FRONT DESK PROFESSIONAL AND MOBILE UNIT DRIVER to join our oral health care team. This position will work with students who normally do not have access to oral health care and need basic dental treatment and prevention services.

Position is 3 days per week (Tues-Thurs), equaling 24-35 hours per week with occasional Friday opportunities. Position will also work the front desk which will require receiving patients, phone calls, patient scheduling, reporting and general administrative duties. Training is provided for the driving, vehicle upkeep and front desk duties on site. Travel is required as we serve all schools countywide which has some longer days for sites at each end of the county.

Position o ers a competitive salary, mileage reimbursement, travel pay and a limited benefit package. EOE

For more information or to submit your CV, contact Michael Cunningham, CEO at 305 743-7111 ext. 202 or email

DUI

INSTRUCTOR

The Advocate DUI Program is hiring for part time positions. DUI instructors and evaluators - 2 days a week, Bachelors or Masters degree in substance abuse eld required. Bilingual preferred, not required. Of ce located in Marathon. Contact Marcia at 305-704-0117.

OPEN POSITIONS

TAVERNIER MARINERS HOSPITAL

- Cook, $5,000 Bonus

- Environmental Tech, $5,000 Bonus

- Manager Medical Staff

- Medical Technologist, $15,000 Bonus

- Hyperbaric Tech

- Nurse Supervisor

- Monitor Technician, Cardiac Telemetry

- Multi-Modality Imag Tech, $9,000 Bonus

- Patient Experience Advocate, Patient Experience

- Pool Physical Therapist

- Registered Nurse, Emergency Department, $20,000 Bonus

- Registered Nurse, Multispecialty Acute Care Ctr, $20,000 Bonus

- Registered Nurse, Surgery, $20,000 Bonus

- Registered Respiratory Therapist, $15,000 Bonus

MARATHON FISHERMEN’S

COMMUNITY HOSPITAL

- Cook $5,000 Bonus

- Dietitian $5,000 Bonus

- ED Team Coordinator

- Floor Technician $5,000 Bonus

- Medical Technologist, $15,000 Bonus

- Nurse Supervisor - Multi-Modality Imag Tech, $9,000 Bonus

- Patient Experience Advocate

- Phlebotomist, $10,000 Bonus

- Pool Physical Therapist

- Registered Nurse, Emergency Department, $20,000 Bonus

- Registered Nurse, Multispecialty Acute Care, $20,000 Bonus - Registered Nurse, $20,000 Bonus - Security Of cer - Supervisor Laboratory, $15,000 Bonus - Surgical Technologist

PHYSICIAN PRACTICE - TAVERNIER

- Advance Practice Provider (Physician Assistant) - Nurse Practitioner

- Physician Practice Patient Rep, $1,000 Bonus

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Pigeon Key is seeking dedicated professionals seeking to make a positive impact in their community. Those individuals who wish to work on a uniquely beautiful island , while promoting our cultural history and preserving the natural Keys environment are encouraged to apply. Competitive wages based on ability and experience. Applicants will be subject to criminal background check and drug screening.

Positions include: Trolley Operator (CDL licensing course provided for qualified applicant) Tour Guides, Sales Associates, Customer Relations Reps, Maintenance, Rental Associates and more.

Application online at pigeonkey.net - under the Staff icon. Or apply in person at the Pigeon Key Gift Shop, 2010 Overseas Hwy, Marathon, FL. Questions and completed applications can be emailed to pigeonkey@aol.com

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