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i UIM Sun-Sentinel, Wednesday, March 13, 1991 Section GARY STEIN Staff Columnist ELECTION '91 Tuesday's results. PLANTATION Abortion foes don't upset doctor By RENEE KRAUSE Staff Writer Frank. Veltri proved the naysayers wrong Tuesday night when he pulled out his fifth consecutive mayoral win by a substantial margin. Veltri, 78, beat ex-council president John Gibbs, 57, who lost in a five-way race to Veltri 16 years ago. Gibbs gave up his council seat to run for the mayor's spot.

Edward "Edd" T. Weiner won in a seven-way race the seat vacated by Gibbs. "I'm ecstatic," Weiner said. "I'm looking forward to good things to happen to this city." Veltri took his victory in stride, leaning against a wall in the council chambers as he learned of his landslide victory. "I'm quite elated.

I'm going to continue to do an even better job than I've been doing," said the beaming Veltri. "I wouldn't have run if I hadn't gone out to win. I'm always apprehensive but optimistic." A disappointed Gibbs said he'll start preparing for the next mayoral race four years from now. really appreciate the style of Dr. Ce-lina Poy-Wing.

I doubt there are many people who could be as sensible as Dr. Poy-Wing if they were being hassled by anti-abortion 26 ol 26 precincts reporting MAYOR John R. Gibbs 4,298 Frank 5,782 CITY COUNCIL Mark Allen Anthony 392 Frank Childers 454 Jerry Fadgen ..1,839 Janice 'Jan' D. Herard 2,186 James Hurley 131 Edward 'Edd' T. Weiner .......2.546 Bernard Weston 1,112 4 i "It's just a low turnout We were counting on a large turnout.

We had to have a large cross-section of the com- SEE PLANTATION 5B Staff photoCARL SEIBERT John Bracco, left, gives Mayor Frank Veltri some encouragement as early returns showed the mayor leading his challenger, John Gibbs. 1 1 t'. rJ.X New law regulates car repair Licensing required for auto body shops I- v. .1 if -I" rs i it-, I .1 ft r. I 1 I'M By BOB KNOTTS Start Writer It should soon be less risky to take your car into a shop for a paint job or body repairs.

Car owners in Broward County will get the extra protection from what is i apparently the nation's first law regu- i lating businesses that repair or paint automobile bodies. The ordinance, passed unanimously on Tuesday by the Broward County 1 Commission, sets licensing require- ments for body or paint shops. It also wJCWf- TV' CONSUMER LAW yokels, as the doctor was the other day in front of the Coral Springs office she shares with another doctor. Dr. Poy-Wing made her point, instead of letting the anti-abortionists make theirs.

You see, Dr. Poy-Wing has them figured out. Their big game, of course, is to be seen as martyrs. And anti-abortionists aim for that goal by being the mothers of all publicity hounds. So Dr.

Poy-Wing watched the anti-abortionists Saturday in front of her office. Nothing violent, but a definite intrusion, nonetheless. And when Dr. Poy-Wing, an obstetrician-gynecologist, got hassled, she talked with police and decided not to try and get any demonstrators arrested. She says she didn't want to give the anti-abortionists the satisfaction.

Always looking for publicity You may have heard about the latest Operation Rescue Publicity Caper. After a hiatus of almost a year haven't we missed them? the anti-abortionists decided they wanted publicity. So they started their typical media campaign early last week. They sent faxes, just to make sure the media was informed that Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry would be at the Broward County Courthouse, burning a court order telling protesters they must stay at least 15 feet away from clinics and patients. Yeah, nothing like a fax to promote a spontaneous, heartfelt act.

Then, the anti-abortionists faxed news releases to make sure the media would be aware of where the, ahem, rescue would occur. Dr. Poy-Wing came to her office Saturday, and found dozens of people blocking the entrance. "We have a private office that delivers babies, has gynecological exams, and does abortions and other services. I wanted to get in and get my appointment book, and tell patients we were going to reschedule them," she told me.

Dr. Poy-Wing found the locks on the office door jammed with plastic. Before long, she wound up on the ground, although she does not say she was pushed. "I was told I could have them arrested," said Dr. Poy-Wing.

"I'm not going to let the demonstrators use me to prove their point. I won't let them use me to reach their goals. "They want to get arrested. "They can be here every weekend. I will not do anything.

We'll just reschedule around them." Could they do it without faxes? The Rev. Pat Mahoney, a spokesman for Rescue South Florida, claims there have been previous "rescues" without notifying the media. At least two of 11 have been done that way, Mahoney said. "Every group wants publicity for what they do," Mahoney said. True.

Many groups let it be known if they are going to protest. But most groups don't send out press releases saying they are going to flout the law, or inform you how to see people getting harassed and intimidated. "I think I can say with a fair amount of certainty we're not doing it for the press," Mahoney said. "If you're doing it for publicity, then you're an opportunistic monster." I believe many anti-abortion demonstrators qualify. "The national anti-abortion leadership," Mahoney said, "could care less about press." I guess that's why the Center for Christian Activism in Delray Beach sent out faxes telling the media exactly when national anti-abortion hotshot Randall Terry would be burning that injunction.

I guess that's why Terry hosted a radio talk show while he was here. I guess he's just publicity-shy. So I wonder about the anti-abortionists. I wonder if they could survive without fax machines, film-at-11 crews or martyr-like arrests. Actually, I know the answer.

And I think Dr. Poy-Wing does, too. Staff photosLOU TOMAN Visitors observe the new foliage as they walk along the bank of a canal that runs through Fern Forest. JUST ADD WATER Man-made wetland revives Fern Forest Nature Center. Main elements of a county ordinance passed on Tuesday.

The regulation: REQUIRES licenses for every auto body repair or paint shop in Broward. REQUIRES all technicians to receive certification. SPECIFIES types of equipment that shops must have and the types of training technicians must receive to operate in Broward. ESTABLISHES fines for Wi By CINDY ELMORE Staff Writer It sounds too easy: Dig out the vegetation clogging an old network of waterways, add water, and nature makes a comeback. And it's not only mosquitoes and frogs and possums and other things that can live almost anyplace.

The comeback of Fern Forest Nature Center, an area first robbed of its water 75 years ago when canals were built to drain the Everglades, includes rare wading birds, endangered gopher tortoises, nearly extinct ferns. "The more I look, the more plants I find, the more animals I find every day. That's what's so exciting," said Jeff Weller, a park naturalist. "This is a definite success story, without a doubt." Fern Forest, just west of Florida's Turnpike south of Atlantic Boulevard, opened as a nature center and urban wilderness in 1985. Using $79,000 in grants from Broward County and the state's Department of Environmental Regulation, officials decided to restore portions of the 254-acre county park to their original character as a cypress swamp.

Draining the water for 75 years had taken its toll: exotic Brazilian pepper trees were choking out the native vegetation; ferns now extinct in Everglades National Park were being threatened; wading birds, with no place to wade, were long gone. The transformation from ancient forested wetland to just another dry hammock was almost complete. SEE FLOURISH 5B mandates that technicians receive training and certification, provides inspectors to check for compliance and establishes fines for violations. 1 "It's going to make sure people are not ripped off when it comes to auto body repairs" or auto painting, said County Commissioner John Hart, who proposed the ordinance. "The county Consumer Affairs Division is looking toward this as a means to really go after people that are ripping consumers off," he said.

Hart said the regulation should also be effective because the auto body and painting industry will use the law to police itself. There are between 800 and 1,000 businesses in Broward that repair or paint auto bodies, said the Florida Auto Body Association, a trade organization representing about 70 shops. Complaints about the work of some Broward shops are common. The ordinance grew out of talks with industry SEE AUTO 8B 'fi Park Naturalist Jeff Weller checks the water being pumped into the forest. Original 'Marlboro man' dies of stroke at 85 INSIDE LOCAL Murder victim's father asks state to review star witness link to killing.

2B "He tolerated it, but he thought it was a bit silly," Douglas Tramell said of his grandfather's work as the Marlboro man. "He said they'd spend three minutes doing makeup on his face, and then three hours painting an anchor tattoo on his hand." Herbert, a resident of Broward County since 1958, was born and raised in the Bronx, N.Y., and later moved to Greenwich, Conn. There he started his own business, custom building homes. And it was there that he was discovered in 1957 by an advertising agency. woods took a picture of him working on a scaffold," Tramell, a resident of Coral Springs, said.

"She came back two weeks later and asked him to do modeling." In addition to the Marlboro advertisements, which he did for eight years, Herbert appeared in various clothing advertisements and in ads for F.A.O. Schwaarz toy store in New York City. After Herbert moved to Broward, he commuted to New York City to do the modeling work. Over the years, he lived in Tamarac, Wilton Manors and was residing in Fort Lauderdale at the time of his death. In addition to his grandson, survivors include two daughters, Rhoda Lacey of Davenport and Corrine Herbert of Del-ray Beach; another grandson, Kenneth Tramell of Lancaster, two granddaughters, Pamela Strong and Dcbra Strong, both of Roswell, and nine great-grandchildren.

Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Kraeer Margate Funeral Home.l N. State Road 7, Margate. A graveside service is planned for 1:45 p.m. on Thursday at the Broward Memorial Gardens at Star of David By TOM LASSITER Staff Writer Charles Herbert didn't smoke cigarettes and he was more likely to be found on the golf course than on horseback.

He was a carpenter by trade. Still, millions knew him as the ruggedly handsome cowboy figure, pictured with his head bowed against the elements, a cigarette cupped in one hand. Charles Herbert, who died of a stroke on Tuesday at Broward General Medical Center at age 85, was the original Man found guilty of harassing a black woman trying to move next door. 3B Som lady walking through the, rr ifiui imwi 1 lui W- WJt HirTi -flit! "I.