Photos from June 1, 2006

  • Nuvayoiyung Sekakuku is amazed to hear that his art — a picture of his tribe's traditional dance ritual — which was created in a second grade class 15 years ago, is on display at the von Liebig Art Center as part of a touring exhibition of artwork done by students on eight reservations around the country. 'All I remember is the big box of markers we got to use,' he says. 'Wow.'
  • Hopi dances take place from December through June or July, as part of a ritual for the crops to grow, for the skies to rain, for everyone in the tribe to live a good and humble life and for the world to keep rotating in its cycle, says Jarvis Namoki, a cook and janitor at the Hopi Mission School and a native of the tribe.
  • Although there are plenty of metal arts at Tin City, the area actually started as the Old Marine Marketplace.
  • Rows and rows of themed candles line the walls of Naples Candle Gallery at Tin City, home of more than 32 eclectic shops in Naples at U.S. 41 and Goodlette Road.
  • The Riverwalk Fish & Ale House and Pier 41 Restaurant offer waterside dining, seafood selections and good bars at Tin City, a shopping place on the corner of U.S. 41 and Goodlette Road.
  • Tin City's walls and walkways are lined with readable, laughable slogans that could brighten any beach cottage. The shops resemble an earlier era and were built on the site of an old clam and oyster processing plant.
  • Where's the beach? At Tin City in Naples it's easy to find signs and beach togs that make living near the beach fun.
  • Rookies Bar has been at Marco Walk since 1992 and is still a thriving eatery. A large gator skin decorates one wall.
  • Rookies has a sports bar theme. The Buffalo shrimp basket is always a good choice
  • A popular choice is the rib-eye steak platter with house salad, vegetable medley and fries.
  • Wally's Café follows three characters over a span of 35 years as they endure the highs and lows of the hash-slinging set and their exchanges with each other.
  • Wally's Café is a comedic character study with a nostalgic twist.
  • Cook Raphael Martines skins two pounds of freshly caught snapper and checks for bones as he brings the fish up to restaurant quality before preparing it.
  • Cook Raphael Martines places the fried snapper beside the pan-seared fillets to serve to the Wallises.
  • Fresh catch is served family style. Here the Wallises get a first look at the snapper prepared for them.
  • The Wallises ordered their snapper cook two different ways: pan seared and fried.
  • Leslie and Todd Wallis of Isles of Capri arrive at Captain Brien's Seafood & Raw Bar with two pounds of red snapper in the bag.
  • Attempting the diving play from second was Titan senior leaguer Mike Slabach, May 27, at Golden Gate Community Park.
  • Fullback Brian Provost of St. John Neumann going in for the score, May 26, at Bishop Verot.
  • Sophomore Titan running back Devid Dorvil.
  • St. John Neumann quarterback Bobby Davis leads the charge for the Celtics in their 24-21 defeat of the Bishop Verot Vikings, May 26.
  • St. John Neumann's Jared Giresi, Chris Boran and Jamal Hinds team up to drop the Viking ball carrier, May 26, at Bishop Verot.
  • Awards await the victor at the Southwest Florida Invitational for minor leaguers, May 17, at Golden Gate Community Park.
  • 2006 Winged Foot award recipient, Lee Campbell of Gulf Coast stands with Athletic Director Jose Arias to his right, head wrestling coach Mike Digrigoli to his immediate left and football defensive coordinator, Jason Tudryn.
  • Lely's Jameson Jean Giles on the winners platform at the Cougar Invitational last year, taking one of the many top honors earned throughout his time as a Trojan.
  • Bobby Davis, St. John Neumann sophomore, May 26, in the Celtics 24-21 victory at Bishop Verot.
  • Golden Gate National's Alex Vierra, on the mound for the Yankees in their 3-2 win over the Greater Naples Reds, May 30, at Gulf Coast Little League. Vierra pitched six innings, struck out 11 and gave up only four hits.
  • Brendan Long of the Greater Naples Reds, May 30 at Gulf Coast, in the Cope Tournament championship.
  • KIA of Naples General Manager Charles J. Arbour stands in the showroom at 1472 Airport Road.
  • Jon, Ben and Alison MacDonough and tutor Jennifer Shipman.
  • Eighth grader Ben MacDonough uses VTC technology to communicate with his classes from his home.
  • Director of the Bureau of Emergency Services Dan Summers stands outside the agency's mobile response center. Summers is asking all residents to prepare now for another busy hurricane season.
  • Jim and Pam Madore, of Team Vanderbilt, are congratulated by relay organizer Celia Curtis and Golden Gate Chairman Rosemary Dohan for attaining Platinum status by raising $25,000.
  • This satellite image provided by NOAA and taken at 3:15 p.m. EDT Thursday Oct. 20, 2005 shows Hurricane Wilma as it approaches the Mexican Yucatan peninsula. Wilma, a Category 4 storm with winds of 150 mph, churned toward the Yucatan peninsula and south Florida after its outer bands hit Haiti and Jamaica, where it killed at least 13 people. The storm was expected to strike Cancun and its surrounding resorts and sideswipe Cuba early Friday.
  • Everglades City mayor Sammy Hamilton, right, and Collier County Commissioner Jim Coletta head into the Everglades City Hall to see the renovation work on the building Tuesday afternoon, May 2. Hamilton said the city has received $3 million from FEMA and additional grant money to fix the historic building after it was damaged by Hurricane Wilma.
  • Carlos Gomez of EMJ Corporation lines a drainage pipe with pipe soap before being lowered into the ground at the new Gulf Coast Shopping Center off of Alico Road in Estero. The center has begun it's second phase of construction.
  • A storage shed outside of the National Hurricane Center and the Miami South Florida Weather Forecast office where weather balloons are released everyday at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. The balloons measure wind speed and atmospheric conditions in South Florida.
  • Rick Knabb, a hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami goes over the 2005 hurricane season Thursday. Knabb called it one of the most intense storm seasons in history.
  • National Hurricane Center spokesman Frank Lepore demonstrates how the facility collects and distributes information on hurricanes in the Atlantic ocean and the Gulf of Mexico during a tour of the center Thursday morning in Miami.
  • Almost too drained to even lay sheets down on her cot, Alejandra Garza, 10, raised her hands over her head as if to support the notion that she emotionally drained from the entire situation.
  • Daniel Samet, co-owner of TCB Farms in Immokalee, had 20 acres of greenhouses filled with peppers destroyed by Hurricane Wilma. While he had insurance, he could not get insurance covering hurricane damage.
  • Anthony Dubosiewicz, certified arborist and owner of Gator Tree Service of Gainesville, adjusts a rope around a palm tree in an attempt to straighten and save it on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2005. The tree was in the front yard of Kathy and Ali Moezz in the Coquina Sands neighborhood. They had already lost eight trees and were hoping to save at least one. 'Every hurricane creates a new challenge,' Dubosiewicz said, having just returned from working in Orange, Texas for 23 days. 'Palms are deceptively heavy because it's full of water,' he added.
  • Marcela Rice, a volunteer for the American Red Cross and a community coordinator for Farmworkers Village in Immoklaee, receives a hug from Melita Jean, right, a 20-year resident of Immokaleeafter water receded in the village Wednesday morning and food started to arrive from private organizations to feed residents in the area. 'I'm blessed to work in this village,' Rice said after reassuring Jean that the power would be back on soon.
  • Gene Wilber of Naples checks out the bottom of a Banyan tree along Crayton Road in Naples Wednesday afternoon that was ripped out of the ground by Hurricane Wilma in Naples.
  • Pool cages and boats seemed to show the brunt of the damage, despite Marco Island being in Hurricane Wilma's bullseye. A majority of the buildings showed little structural damage from the air.
  • Jack Fitzgerald rests for a moment after finding and turning a water valve in a flooded and partially collapsed laundry/storage room at a neighbor's home in Spring Creek Village in Bonita Springs. Fitzgerald moved fallen boxes out of the room and stopped the water leakage in his neighbor's home with a friend's help on October 25, 2005. Many of the neighbors in the mobile home park came together to clean up debris from the area around their homes.
  • Neighbors at Spring Creek Village in Bonita Springs work together to clean up debris left in the water next to their homes as a result of Hurricane Wilma on Tuesday October 25, 2005.
  • Alejandro Milkes of Naples looks over the destruction left by Hurricane Wilma at a dock in Isle of Capri, Florida, Monday afternoon, October 24, 2005. Several yachts were damaged or destroyed at the dock by the hurricane.
  • The Everglades City Hall surrounded by water after Hurricane Wilma passed through Southwest Florida on October 24, 2005.
  • Nadine Anderson talks with her neighbor, Charline McIntire, after the two got settled in at Golden Gate High School, a Red Cross Shelter, in Naples, Florida, Sunday morning, October 23, 2005. The two both live in a mobile home park in Naples, and evacuated due to Hurricane Wilma.
  • Pilots Mark Finke, left, and Michele Finn walk back to Ratheon Aircraft at Tampa International Airport for a post flight meeting following a nearly eight-hour flight in the NOAA Gulfstream IV research jet.
  • Flight director and meteorologist Barry Damiano gives a pre-flight briefing to the crew shortly after midnight Friday explaining the details of the night's flight. The the crew plans to release 24 dropsondes during the nearly eight-hour flight to collect data around Hurricane Wilma.
  • Electronics engineers John Hill, left, and Jim Roles prepare dropsondes to be launched from the NOAA Gulfstream IV research jet Saturday morning. After the parachute-equipped dropsondes are released from the plane, data is transmitted back to the plane as it falls into the Gulf.
  • Meteorologist and flight director Barry Damiano, left, and the NOAA crew work through the night on an eight-hour research flight early Saturday morning. The crew, which departed just before 2 a.m., releases dropsondes around Hurricane Wilma to collect data on wind speed, direction, temperature, and humidity. The data gives hurricane researchers additional information to help determine the possible direction of Hurricane Wilma.
  • Research meterologist Stan Goldenberg boards the NOAA Gulfstream IV prior to a 2 a.m. take-off from Ratheon Aircraft at Tampa International Airport.
  • Emily Crosby watches Animal Control Officer Donna Williamson carry her Five-year-old Cocker Spaniel Fella during an animal evacuation effort on October 22, 2005 in Naples, Fla. Williamson picked up the pets of special needs patients who could not care for the animal themselves as Hurricane Wilma approaches.
  • Naples resident Rita Murphy hugs her 19-year-old cat, Buca, as she leaves the Naples Beach and Golf Resort on Friday, Oct. 21, 2005. Murphy has lived at the hotel for the past two months because her home in Naples caught fire. She and all other residents east and south of U.S. 41 were under mandatory evacuation Friday at noon due to Hurricane Wilma.
  • Naples resident Zachary Bragg, center, helped his dad Mark Bragg, left, as much as any one-year-old could in collecting and purchasing hurricane supplies Wednesday at Home Depot in Bonita Springs The Braggs were preparing for Hurricane Wilma which is expected to make landfall in Florida on Saturday.
  • Wife and husband DeNeice and Mark Guest, of Waveland, Miss., kiss on what is left of their home after Mark found two glass blown pieces of theirs around the corner that survived Hurricane Katrina on Wednesday September 7, 2005. While their home was completely destroyed, they were able to salvage a few of their belongings. 'It has never been easier to move,' said Mark, who plans to start life over again and travel around the world.
  • Many in Arcadia have been without power for over a week due to the hurricane. Several miles outside Arcadia on SR-17, line specialist Steve Bruno with Florida Power and Light, along with hundreds of other utility workers, are doing their best to return power as soon as possible.
  • The old Naples pier and the devastation of Hurricane Donna. Old Newspaper photo from June 18, 1967
  • Miami Heat coach Pat Riley, right, and players, from left, Wayne Simien, Alonzo Mourning, Shaquille O'Neal and Michael Doleac watch in the final minute of the Heat's 91-78 loss to the Detroit Pistons in Game 5 of the NBA basketball Eastern Conference finals at the Palace in Auburn Hills, Mich., Wednesday.
  • Henry Mancha
  • Roberto Carlos Argueta
  • Melinda Gonzales, 30, and one of her four children, Gisila, 3. At the time the photo was taken, the child was 1.
  • Margaret Williams, center, an eighth-grader at Lehigh Acres Middle school, was eliminated after round two at the Scripps National Spelling Bee for misspelling oxyblepsia.
  • Liam Aaron Bressler, of Naples, made it to the fourth round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., but foundered on the word “nacre.”
  • Helen Guerrero, left, the grandmother of Melinda Gonzales, and other family members hold vigil in Guerrero’s living room Wednesday afternoon in memory of Gonzales, who was shot in a drive-by shooting Tuesday night in front of her home on Peach Street in Immokalee. Gonzales, 30, the mother of four children, was sitting on her front porch with friends and family when witnesses say three men in a blue Cadillac shot and fled the scene.
  • George Malicoate, left, packs belongings from his kitchen as his friend, Ismael Santiago, carries more items to his truck to take to a storage unit Wednesday afternoon at Diamond Shores mobile home park in East Naples. Malicoate has lived in the park for six years and Santiago for five. Because of increasing fines from code violations, park owners are evicting residents, giving them until Wednesday to vacate the property. Many have yet to leave. “I’ll move whenever the law comes to get me,” said Malicoate, who is packing his belongings “to get ready for when they do come.” Both Malicoate and Santiago say they don’t know where they will end up because of high rent in the Naples area.
  • Patsy Hildebrand, right, of Estero, follows her friends off the 18th hole on the Bonita Springs Golf and Country Club on Wednesday afternoon. The course will close for renovations over the next six months.
  • Courtlon Cochran, the Percussion Caption Head for the Estero High School Marching Band, takes his students through a series of rhythm drills during the second day of band camp at Estero High School on Wednesday afternoon. After Wednesday’s camp, students will have five weeks to relax before summer practice sessions begin.
  • Bill Shelburne, owner of the Parkway Motel and Marina in Chokoloskee, gave people shelter last year during Hurricane Wilma and is currently preparing for this year’s hurricane season, which begins today.
  • Handyman Dwain Petty of Chokoloskee, left, helper Pepi Chirino of Everglades City, middle, and homeowner Tom Myers of Chokoloskee install sheetrock in Myers’ mobile home in Chokoloskee on May 25. Myers’ has been redoing his home, which was destroyed in Hurricane Wilma. He is currently living in a camper with his wife next to the mobile home until the home is ready.
  • Florida Gov. Jeb Bush consoles Michele Sobczak of Grand Rapids, Mich., in this file photo taken at Palmetto Ridge High School that was serving as a shelter for people seeking shelter from Hurricane Wilma in October 2005.
  • Golden Gate High School valedictorian Jeffrey Many makes the march from the auditorium to the gymnasium alongside salutatorian Heather Benton prior to Friday night’s commencement exercises. The two have gone to high school together — first at Naples High and then at Golden Gate — and for all those years, Benton has always had the higher grade point average. Until this spring when Many surpassed her.
  • Jeffrey Many, Golden Gate High School's valedictorian this year, does the 'Cha Cha Slide' with his fellow graduates during Project Graduation at the Collier County YMCA on Friday night.
  • Jeffrey Many, Golden Gate High School's Valedictorian this year, dances to 'Cotton Eye Joe' with his friends during Project Graduation at the Collier County YMCA on Friday night.
  • Jeffrey Many, 18, laughs with classmate Heather Benton, also 18, during graduation practice at the school. Many is the valedictorian of his class and Benton is the salutatorian.
  • In this June 2006 file photo, Jenny Branston, of Naples, chips her golf ball out of a sand trap at Bonita Springs Golf and Country Club on a Wednesday afternoon. Branston and her husband, Chris, spent the day on the fairways to soak up the last few hours of fun before the club closed to undergo a conversion to an “executive” golf course.

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