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NEWS-PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1989 Contract negotiations delay study Dfllnh L. a I I upQ" icimunsnmeni analysis expected in June beach in the Hickory Pass area. tions to the county, he said, and that POLICE jTriRE Lee County officials previously had predicted the $126,000 study would be completed by March 30, The project was delayed because of time it took for Lee County and the firm to negotiate a contract, said Erik Olsen, president of the company. Most of the data for the study, Olsen said, has been gathered. His firm now needs to analyze the information and make its recommenda gaining control in Collier By DENES HUSTY News-Press Staff Writer Completion of a beach renourish-ment study for a section of Bonita Beach has been delayed about three months, an official for a Jacksonville firm that is doing the work said Thursday.

The study, being conducted by Olsen and Associates, is to provide recommendations for restoring the Firefighters By DENES HUSTY News-Press Staff WrlteP Firefighters grew hopeful Thursday they may be winning the battle against the brushfire that they have been fighting east of Naples since Sunday. "Friday (today) should be more of a mopping-up operation" as firefighters gain control of the situation, said Ken Pineau, Collier County Emergency Management director. And he said a cold front might bring much-needed rain to help extinguish the flames by this afternoon. was charged with sexual battery after allegedly attacking a young girl Sunday morning. Michael Mulvaney.

whose address wasn't available, allegedly attacked the 13-year-old girl in her home. No other information was available. Glades County sheriff's deputies said that when they arrested Mulvaney, he had a small amount of marijuana ou him, and was also charged with possession of marijuana. Thursday, Mulvaney remained in the Glades County Jail under a $101,000 bond. Security guard finds marijuana While on routine patrol Tuesday night, a Lykes Brothers Inc.

security guard discovered a 26-pound bale of marijuana on company property in Glades County, sheriff's deputies said. Glades sheriffs officials called in the U.S. Customs Service and conducted an air and ground search but found no more marijuana. No charges were filed and deputies declined to speculate how the marijuana got there. Heart attack may have caused wreck An 80-year-old Cape Coral woman, who might have suffered a heart attack, died after she veered into another car, sideswiped a cluster of Sentencing continues for drug smugglers OFF THE BLOTTER Police seek help in finding killer Lee sheriff's detectives are asking for the public's help in solving the murder of Jack Bernard Parker.

Parker was found dead Sunday floating in a North Fort Myers canal behind the Wal-Mart plaza. Parker had suffered a blow to the head, several stab wounds to the body and was found with a tire around his waist. PARKER A transient who once lived in North Fort Myers, Parker was 72 when he died. Anyone with information about Parker's death is asked to call detectives at 332-3456 or CrimeStop at 332-5555. Man charged with sexual assault A 21-year-old Glades County man MGPAinQ From know why, all of the sudden, a state representative is involving himself in council politics." One Mazurkiewicz supporter said one reason Ireland may have jumped on the water issue was that Ireland sees Mazurkiewicz as a future rival or that he was trying to defray criticism he has received recently for Jiis support of increased taxes and legislative pay increases.

"I would have thought that if Tim Ireland had felt this concern (over the water issue), he would have Io)fl in) JVI att 8tie page 1B picked up the phone and called the city about it," said E. Walter Barlet-ta, a close adviser during the mayor's last three political campaigns. "I suspect that Tim is playing politics, and this leaves me confused because Tim's seat isn't up for another year yet." Barletta questioned Ireland's motives, saying "Where's Tim been all these months? WICC has been in the headlines since April 1988, and we've never seen Tim's position until now. "Stow Friday 9 M.lil.-D By CHRIS BURBACH News-Press Staff Writer Sentencing continued Thursday in U.S. District Court in Fort Myers for drug smugglers nabbed in two Southwest Florida anti-drug operations.

As she has with the host of other defendants she sentenced in the cases this week, U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Kovachevich meted out punishment based largely on whether the defendants helped prosecu-' tors uncover the Everglades City-Pine Island smuggling rings. Chuck Demere of Everglades City, who didn't cooperate with government prosecutors, was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years without parole in a federal penitentiary. Demere pleaded guilty to marijuana Dunbar board will close Dunbar Middle. "It's important that they understand that this is the last school of normalcy in Dunbar a regular school with bands and choruses and debate teams and clubs.

It's the last school. That runs real heavily in our hearts and minds," said James Mathews, president of the Dunbar parents' group. 'Should it faiL. what, have we gained? It's back to the drawing board. Let's draw the picture right the first time," Mathews said.

Mathews said he sees the issue as an educational one, rather than a racial issue. The letters, mailed Wednesday, are addressed to Engel, board members and the Tampa federal judge who reviews Lee County's boundary plans each year as part of the federal desegregation order imposed on Lee Budget From 3B palm trees, and came to rest Thurs- day at the rear of a home on Southwest 47th Terrace. Witnesses said Margaret Rowdy- bush of 308 Eldorado Parkway W. veered into the right-hand lane Pelican Boulevard on Thursday af-7 ternoon and struck a car driven by a mail carrier deli vering mail. "She may have had a heart attacki or an aneurism," police spokesman Frank Rinella said.

"Witnesses saw. her head drop to her shoulder cho hit tho nthor Rowdybush's 1986 Mercury1 stopped after it hit the other car, witnesses said, but then it started to' rtnA hi Hn rnrr tfoflc no i uii auu mi nit paint ii anu to rest at the rear wall of a home at 222 S.W. 47th Terrace. The woman was pronounced dead at Cape Coral Hospital shortly after the accident. Police are investi-gating the accident, Rinella said.

i Blasts hit neighborhood Several booming jolts that report-, edly shook some south Fort Myers -homes Thursday were caused by-blasting at a nearby construction site, Lee sheriff 's deputies said. The shaking was caused by workers who were blasting rocks from the ground from a site off Winkler Road near Gladiolus Drive, sheriff's Rod Shoap said. several residents canea me sner-iff's department to complain, but' deputies said the construction workers were operating within their per-' mits. This has been an issue that Tim has been very quiet on until now." 2. Beattie said he believed thel statements came up during an inter- IV Jtl IVglJIULITV l.UUJ 111.

1IIH nno Am! naa'cnqnar Tha i 1 1 1 Breeze. But Beattie said he doubted that Ireland would offer an explanation of his actions. "In cnpakino with him (Irplanrfl' he really wasn't interest in pursuing tnis any runner, ueame saia. u-would just be rehashing it." Place PP and Saturday 'c mm r.lil. 3 1.1(1.-3 r.i.i.

Mon. Sat. 9-8 9-6 9-5 U.S. 41 North (Behind Wendy's) North Shore Shopping Center North Fort Myers, FL 33903 should be done by late June. Residents of 373 units in seven condominiums in the area formed a taxing district last year to pay for the study and beach renourishment.

They agreed to pay as much as $5,000 per apartment. Other residents may be asked to join the taxing district if the report recommends replenishing a larger area than that included in the present study area. from the Naples-side toll booth to State Road 29 at 11:30 a.m. Westbound traffic was rerouted north and south on SR 29 while eastbound traffic was directed south along County Road 95 1 to U.S. 4 1 authorities said.

Twice during the afternoon, sparks flew over the Alley to start new fires on the north side of the toll road, Pineau said. However, both times, firefighters were able to extinguish the newborn fires before they got out of control. The fire is now burning in the Fakahatchee Strand, a wildlife preserve area. Kovachevich, who delivered fire-and-brimstone speeches to the smugglers she sentenced Monday and Tuesday, had kinder words for Baker, who has a child who suffers from a disease similar to the illness that causes infant death syndrome. "Some of the people who have been involved in crimes this week have done it out of greed and laziness.

That wasn't the case with you," she said while sentencing Baker, indicating she gave weight to arguments that he needed money to care for his child. Yet she left Baker with an admonition similar to those she has delivered to other defendants to whom she gave relatively light sentences. Said Kovachevich, lowering her glasses and staring at Baker, "Never in front of me again. Understand?" oppose a magnet school for another school that is centrally located in the county. But by planning a magnet school for Dunbar Middle, the parents think the board is "sidestepping the issue of putting in the necessary number of kids to fill the school," Mathews said.

Because board members and the superintendent say Dunbar Middle is such a good school, they should be willing to do whatever is necessary to fill the school this fall, parents said. Meanwhile, a 7 p.m. meeting has been scheduled Monday by the Magnet School Steering Committee. The meeting at Dunbar Middle, 3800 East Edison is the first for the 28-member committee, which has the task of looking into the issue of magnet schools and determining what type of school would best suit Lee County. OF FILE many tourists on one county during the course of one year, you're going to see a stress put on water, sewage, fire and police.

We need the improvements to help us keep up." Another of McDougall's goals is for the department to achieve national accreditation for law enforcement. To reach that point, the department must satisfy 900 separate requirements. "Meeting those standards can only help in the long run," he said. "It helps us become a better department serving the public in a better and more efficient capacity. We're all after the same thing keeping the quality of life in Lee County.

That's ourjob." scholarships and admission to colleges of their choice at a disadvantage, some parents said, because often material on them wasn't covered in class. A student maintaining an A average throughout the first quarter of a semester sometimes drops to C's and D's because of the standardized tests, parents said. The test had already been removed the week before the March 21 board meeting, because parents had voiced their concerns. NOTICE Annual Meeting SOUTHWEST FLORIDA SYMPHONY Tuesday, April 11th 7 P.M. Place: The Helm Club at The Landings Purpose: Election of Board Members and Officers However, firefighters spent another busy day Thursday trying to tame the flames that so far have blackened 8,500 acres of brush since the fire began.

State forest rangers from around Florida and personnel from several local fire departments have been fighting the fire since Sunday. For the third straight day Thursday, Alligator Alley was closed to traffic due to thick clouds of smoke from the fire. While firefighters kept busy battling the flames, the Florida Highway Patrol shut down Alligator Alley smuggling charges, as did more than 40 other Pine Island and Everglades City residents arrested in the antidrug sweeps by local and federal agencies. And on Thursday, she sentenced James Wheeler of Everglades City to 15 years imprisonment, which will be added to a 15-year sentence he already is serving for other charges. However, Kovachevich handed down much lighter penalties to those who aided the government's investigations.

She sentenced James Collins, address unavailable, to five years of probation. She gaVe Barry Waite of Everglades City a five-year penitentiary sentence. And she ordered Bruce Baker of Everglades City to be imprisoned for six months and placed on probation for 4 2 years. County in 1969. Mathews said the group expects written responses to the letters and wants board members to raise the issue at their meeting Tuesday.

The group also plans to send copies of the letters to other local government officials and to state and national legislators who represent Southwest Florida. The letters request that board members: Let Dunbar Middle School remain a regular middle school, not a magnet school. Find enough students to fill the school this fall. If enough students cannot be located to fill the school this fall, to place a full-time gifted program and its students at the school for one year only 1989-90. Mathews said the group doesn't The department's plans to provide a uniform 9mm handgun, the Austrian-made Glock 17, will take a $100,000 bite out of the budget increase.

The numbers may-seem big, but one strategy McDougall will employ when facing the commission is comparing departments. He said that the Collier County Sheriff's Department has a $26 million budget. That's $1 milliom more than McDougall is asking for, and Lee County has three times Collier's population. "We've got 325,000 residents, 70,000 to 90,000 winter residents and 1.6 million tourists in a year," McDougall said. "When you dump that until May 1 to contact the school.

Principals would contact students whose grades might have been negatively affected by the tests, also. The grade would be corrected and rounded up to the higher letter, according to a memorandum to Engel from Mary Nell Gunter, assistant superintendent foradministration. The five-member board plans to discuss at its Tuesday meeting whether to accept the recommendation. Board member Barbara Wallace was absent on Thursday. At the board's last meeting March 21, more than 80 parents concerned about the fairness and validity of the testing program asked board members to get rid of it.

The tests put students trying for 2 iays Clearance of Many of our Showroom Models from our Must Make Room For Our Hew Spring Arrivals All Items Subject To Prior Sale page 1B capital acquisitions $1.4 million. operating costs reserve and contingency funds $3.1 million. The primary purchases to come from the capital acquisition funds would benefit road deputies, McDou-gall said. After adding up small items that each deputy must be equipped with such as guns, radios, cars and uniforms the bill can become pretty bulky. If all his personnel plans are funded, McDougall's additions will include three school resource officers, seven people to the communications division and 27 support rad as page 2 PC.

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