News-Press from Fort Myers, Florida • Page 59

GET TRUCKING Help, fill an 18-wheef semi-trailer with non-perishables to aid our fellow Floridians. The truck will be at the Big John's parking lot on 47th Terrace from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today. The truck will head to Baptist Hospital in Kendall, where more than 1,000 employees have been left homeless.

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This Labor Day weekend, seven is your lucky number. Seven Cape Coral organizations are combining their efforts for the All American Family Labor Day celebration which will run from noon to 10 p.m. today through Monday in the parking lot at S.E. 1 0th Place, behind the American Legion, the Power Squadron, the Elks, the Eagles and the Knights of Columbus. Those clubs plus the Italian-American Club and Veterans of Foreign Wars are hosts for the extravaganza.

Music, dancing, puppets, a K-9 demonstration and bingo will keep residents hopping over the holiday weekend. See story page 2. SATURDAY HAWAII HO! Say goodbye to tropical Florida and aloha to the tropics on the other side of the world during the Sportsman Yacht Club Hawaiian Dance at 7:30 p.m. at the clubhouse, 1 40 1 S.E. 47th St.

The BYOB party will feature music by Ray Schoonover and plenty of door prizes. The cost is $5 per person. Call Dick and Elaine Dickey at 542-293 1 Earl and Priscilla Bendroth at 542-3469 or Flo Cambino at 549-7697. STEER CLEAR of boredom and motor down to Sun Splash Family Waterpark, 400 Santa, Barbara for Family Carload Night. For just 1 4.97, the park will admit an entire carload up to seven people during the 5 to 9 p.m.

weekly special. WFTX, FOX trot to TV success- nnn? LUJU By CYNTHIA JORDAN' Sun-Press Staff Writer Ex-Marine takes on troublemakers By CYNTHIA JORDAN Sun-Press Staff Writer PETE Scovill hates bullies. Even as a boy, the investigative reporter for WFTX-TVs "Troubleshooter" was on hand to stand up for people in potentially tough situations. Scovill, 46, grew up in Gary, where his mother started a Headstart program for inner-city youth in 1961. "I remember going to summer camps and being assigned to cabins the black children were in to defend them," Scovill recalled.

That was 1 961, but even, now, the Troubleshooter is moved to intervene when he thinks someone may unrightfully get the bad end of the stick. "I just sort of have a gregarious, outgoing personality," Scovill described himself. "One of the things I've always been able to do is work with other people. I don't like to see people being See TROUBLE 2 produces "Troubleshooter," a 30-minute consumer-affairs program airing at 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, with investigative reporter Pete Scovill.

Changing channels Ken Smith leaned back in his chair and watched the afternoon production of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" on multiple TV screens at the WFTX studio. Interesting episode, but when it was time for a commercial break, he turned his attention to the keyboard in the control room. Smith is the operator at WFTX who ensures viewers don't get a blank screen silence between segments. So if your screen ever goes blank for long periods while viewing FOX shows or commercials, you can be sure that there is yelling, screaming and gnashing of teeth. "We're running back and forth pulling our hair out," Andrews laughed.

Workers like Smith and the other 45 employees at WFTX have been vital to the station's See FOX 2 FTX-TV Channel 36, the FOX affiliate basedln Cape Coral, will produce a news now that it is profitable the next logical step is to be in the news business." FOX, established in 1987, is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year. WFTX became a FOX affiliate in October 1987. Andrews said the network has encouraged all its affiliates to produce local news coverage, but it's unlikely WFTX will begin a news program before January. "When we do it, we're going to make sure that it's right," Andrews said. "It's a big responsibility.

We want to get the right program and get the right people in place." The station already SUNDAY broadcast beginning sometime in 1993, said station vice president and general manager Chris Andrews. Andrews' boss confirms the news on the news. "No question about it," WFTX president and chief executive officer Chris Duffy said Tuesday. "I cannot give you a date, but in order for the station to continue to grow AT SIX BY SIX. The Cape Coral Art League presents the "Six by Six" show from 2 to 4 p.m.

at 516 Cultural Park Blvd. The show highlights six works by each of six artists. Artists are Jack Gaughan, Genie Nelson, Marie Miller, Dorothy Riolo, Marie Bodman-Purvis and Ruth-Ellen Shorkley. Many of the artworks are for sale. Call Shorkley at 549-5422.

ART CLASS ADDS FASHION TO A TEE By LARA GOLD Sun-Press Staff Writer 3 mm the paint very gently," she said. This type of art is very addicting, Blais said, because you keep wanting to design more styles. One of Blais' students, Doris Samp, has been taking her classes for almost a year. "There is always something new I want to make," Samp said. "The opportunities are endless." Samp has decorated old T- shirts, sweatshirts, tote bags and table runners.

Her favorite creation is a table runner that she painted poinsettias on for a Christmas decoration. She also enjoys decorating clothing for her grandchildren. "It's an opportunity to work with your hands," she said. "It's a hobby. It's creative." Samp said she would continue to decorate items until she has no more room in her Cape Coral home to keep them.

wardrobe. Blais supplies the paint, the fabrics to make the appliques, rhinestones and other accessories to make a plain T-shirt or sweatshirt sizzle. Dressing up your own clothes instead of buying them in a store saves a lot of money, she said. Walk around some of the stores at the Bell Tower Shops or Edison Mall in Fort Myers and you probably will see clothing similar to what Blais is teaching her class to make. Two years ago, a friend decorated a shirt for Blais, using paints and appliques.

"She gave me the shirt, and I thought, 'I could do Blais said. Her hobby was born. Blais, who has always loved arts and crafts, said she taught herself how to make the appliques and use the paints. "You have to be able to handle NEXT WEEKEND HEAD TO THE CO AST for "Pine Island Style," a one-day i journey into island life, at 9 a.m. I Sept.

1 2. You'll travel via bus from the Cape Coral Arts Studio, 4533 Coronado Parkway, and i travel to sites such as the historical museum, i archaeological digs, Trader's Hitching Post, Mel Meo's Art Shop, Charlotte Harbor, Pine Island Gem Crafts, Pine Island Antiques and Sunburst Tropical I Fruit Co. Cost is $22, not i including lunch. The trip is i sponsored by the Cape Coral Arts Studio and reservations are due by today. Call 574-0802.

Please send your news for I Bright Spots to Sun-Press of Cape Coral, News-Press, 2323 Del Prado Cape Coral 33990. The deadline for each Friday's issue is noon Friday one week before publication. DIANE Blais could be called a clothing renovator. She takes old and new T-shirts, sweatshirts, pants, and skirts and spruces them up with paints, rhinestones and fabric appliques. "It's learning how to decorate using your own fashion ideas," Blais said.

Blais teaches classes in T-shirt art with paints and appliques year-round at the Tony Rotino Senior Center and Lake Kennedy Senior Center. She tries to make sure people's fashion ideas don't turn into fashion faux pas. "It's not hard at all," Blais said. "It's knowing how to color coordinate. There is so much you can do with T-shirts and sweatshirts." It's like plastic surgery for a 1 'MS' a BRUCE FINESun-Press Diane Blais teaches a class in T-shirt art at Lake Kennedy Senior Center.

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