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The Modesto Bee Sunday September 23 1990 B-7 The State Humphreys College OF STOCKTON Delta island can be yours for $25 million could build yourself a place in here and never have to look at anything that Denny MacLean Paralegal Studies In Modesto FALL QUARTER BEGINS September 24 1990 Thefollowing evening classes will be offered: Intro to the Legal System Wednesdays Family Law Wednesdays Legal Bibliography Mondays Contracts Mondays Anyone interested in Paralegal studies is encouraged to call 478-0800 (some classes require prerequisites) own half shares and company now owns his share plus two others giving it control of the club The company is overseeing the sale a good said Smith were flooded during the storms in '8fi and since then rebuilt the levees so that be a problem" He noted that the trailers are nothing in the way of fancy accommodations and the docks are a lashed-together mess buys this will have to provide his own said Smith not selling luxury We're selling something a lot more special than tary world "General Omar Bradley was a frequent guest of out said Smith fact he suffered a heart attack on our island while pheasant hunting Now however the original members are down to Smith and Kealy the others having sold out There are two new members who ble men and what followed was years and years of the finest duck and pheasant shooting Among the members was John Kealy of Oakland whose company sells consumer goods to military post exchanges around the globe and whose friends include the rich and famous of the mili EYE PROS By WALT WILEY McClatchy News Service ANTIOCH If ever a Delta island came close to being in the league with the island where Gil-ligan was marooned in the popular television series it might be Little Mandeville out in the tules east of here Unlike Gilligan Island how-evei Little Mandeville Island exists and no' only that it is for sale 350 acres for $25 million Likf mos Sacramento-San Joaquu River Delta islands Little Mandeville is a broad tract of farmland reclaimed marsh ringed by a levee Unlike the other islands its levee is overgrown with willows and a good third of its interior has been allowed to revert to marsh and open water Sacramento real estate salesman Rick Sumners who has made something of a career of selling Delta island property is attempting to sell the island for its owners a group of prosperous businessmen who bought it 18 years ago as a duck club He said he has received about a dozen inquiries so far Sumners said such an offering is rare these days especially for a smaller tract The only other property he has listed now is 1228-acre Prospect Island for $7 million he said not the remote hideaway this Remote is a key word on Little Mandeville Although it has telephone and electrical service access is by water Mail delivery if any would have to come via the Stockton mail boat which makes a daily run through the area weather permitting The very idea of owning such a place is the stuff of dreams for Denny MacLean a longtime Delta waterman who piloted a speedboat the other day to ferry a group of visitors to the island the one island I know of that really like to said MacLean 47 a former Sacramento youth counselor who lives aboard his own paddle-wheel yacht and works out of Marina on Bethel Island could build yourself a place in here and never have to look at anything that yours never see a condo in this he said got trees all around it rare and there on the upper end is Skinnydip Cove where the rich guys in the oceangoing yachts come with their little honeys and hide out at On most maps Little Mandeville shows up if at all as an unnamed jigsaw-puzzle piece between Old River and Connection Slough just north of Bacon Island but to Bob Smith it has been a paradise on earth was 19 years ago that I first hunted this island and tell you it was wonderful still said Smith as he sat in the modest mobile home that serves as duck club for him and his partners Smith 77 a retired San Francisco furniture wholesaler who lives in Danville said he and a friend caught the former owner at a time when he was strapped for cash They made a deal to lease the island for a year for $5000 with an option to buy the next year if they could put together a group of fellow hunters with enough money to pull it off recall what the price was and I probably tell you if I did but it was a pittance compared to what asking said Smith we did it I got six compassionate compati- evv eOr 'o ti ns THANK YOU SALE! 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