Tennis winners
Winners of the men’s Seed and Draw tennis tournament at the Key Biscayne Yacht Club were Paul Zuccarini and Eddie Easton, who beat Robbie Jacocks and Lou Owen. They won 4-6, 6-4 and 7-5.
Editorial
Commissioners Ruvin and Calhoun and Mayor Orr are sponsoring a bill to prohibit the sale of beverages in throw-away containers in Dade County.
Residents of Key Biscayne should be strongly in favor of this ordinance because of our geographic location. Possibly more than anyone else in the county, we are surrounded by evidence of people’s litter. With the causeway and its incomparable view of bay and skyline, the drive through the park, the two parks themselves and the water which surrounds us we live in the middle of either a beautiful scene or some one’s garbage dump. Too often it is the latter. Instead of lovely natural scenes we are too often forced to look at the beaches, parks and roadways sprinkled with discards.
Anyone who travels to the mainland becomes aware of the quantity of cans and bottles thrown from passing cars. It becomes even more obvious after the county crews have gathered the litter into plastic bags to be picked up by trucks. Lumped into the bags, the volume of trash becomes truly disgusting. Skin divers in local waters can testify to the large amount of foreign items littering the once clean water.
We are against unneeded regulations but since people have shown their lack of interest in helping keep our county clean, it is time the government takes further steps.
Cape Florida traffic
Traffic for Cape Florida State Park has backed up to Galen Drive by 9:30 Sunday. The new opening hour of 10 has changed the plans of many picnickers, swimmers and fishermen as they sit in the sun instead of enjoying their day.
Residents plan to save trees
A badly diseased tree.
A massive inoculation program on Key Biscayne that would use the manpower or perhaps hundreds of volunteers has been suggested by Robert Bobinchuck of Redwood Lane.
Bobinchuck believes that with the proper supervision Island volunteers could fan out in well-organized squads to inject trees in median strips, parks and other public areas, to inoculate thousands of trees in only a few weeks.
“If homeowners can inject their own trees,” reasons Bobinchuck, “why can’t we inject trees that aren’t on our own properties but are enjoyed by us all just the same?”
It would be an ambitious undertaking, requiring, no doubt, approval from the proper authorities, an escrow account for fund-raising for purchase of the drug, equipment and supplies, and donations of time and money from many Island residents.
“Developers spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to create the tropical effect the palms provide us naturally here,” Bobinchuck said. “It’s well worth our trouble to save them.”
In the running
Two Key Biscayne developers were among the top 10 in Dade County during the first five months of 1974 according to reports from City Mortgage Corp. The figures show Jerome Fischer’s Commodore Club West ranked fifth with 72 closings and a dollar volume of $4,903,400. Donald Berg’s Palms of Key Biscayne ranked 10th with 40 closings and a dollar volume of $2,162,500.
Calusa Sportsmanship
Calusa Park recreation Boy and Girl of the Summer and Sportsmanship award winners were recognized. First row left to right; Melanie Whittle, Evan Whittle, Johathan Klion, Micky Flynn, Tracey Hamlett: Second row; Julie Cheatham, Paul Noonan, Chuck Duncan and Donna Naylor. Andre Chanes, Cliff Mobley and Marianna Toriano were not present.
Miami Marine Stadium concert
Miami Marine Stadium, 8 p.m. Free admission “Free Love”, rock group. Seating is on a first come first served basis.
Plans for golf course property disclosed
Picture from the architect’s model of the project.
Details of the new home community to be constructed on the Key Colony Golf course were discussed last week in a series of meetings between the Greater York Florida Group and Key Biscayne civic, church and taxpayer groups.
An open house was held at Sonesta Beach Hotel through most of last week and model displays, architects’ renderings and other material was explained by officials of the Toronto-Miami organization who recently purchased the golf course property for a sum in excess of $13 million. Several hundred members of Island organizations, merchants and members of the Greater Miami press were shown plans for the new colony to be built on a 41.3-acre tract running east from Crandon Boulevard to the ocean and bounded on the north by Island House and on the south by Silver Sands motel.
A model of the new colony shows that the community condominiums will be set back a distance from the ocean, farther west than ocean, the Island House and the Sandbar section of Silver Sands. The line of the deep setback is approximately the same as that of the Sonesta Beach Hotel. The new community planned is said to conform with PUD specifications and no variances of the existing building code have been requested. The type of construction will range from two stories near the Crandon Boulevard entrance to 12 stories on the beach setback. The condominium and town house structures are to be of poured and precast concrete and finished in soft off-white coloring. The design throughout the community follows a building motif of modified Mayan architecture.
Key Biscayne Still A Nesting Beach For Sea Turtles
Last Spring, as part of a project of the Florida Department of Natural Resources, more than 200 baby green sea turtles, 8 months old, were released at Cape Florida State Park.
Ice cream
The new addition to the Beach House Restaurant is a take-out ice cream shop which is attracting residents and tourists in large quantities.
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