To the Editor:

With the neighbor’s Gilchrist Avenue parking plan, arriving from either the north or south will require parallel parking on the LEFT hand side of the street. Difficult and not very possible for most of us. Making room for this plan calls for taking eight feet away from each side of the median. That means the removal of the tall palms that currently hide the very ugly power poles running down the middle of the median. Let’s do better.

Crinny Niles,

Boca Grande

To the Editor,

As a year-round resident of Boca Grande I am aware that the parking problem on Gilchrist has only recently become a major issue due to the numerous activities at the Methodist Church in season. Trying to turn south on to Gilchrist from 3rd or 4th streets has become a major hazard because parked cars obscure visibility. Please, whatever plan is chosen, make sure that there are plantings (like raised beds) on the corners of the central reservation that preclude anyone parking close to the corner and allow traffic on Gilchrist to be seen.

John Holyland,

Boca Grande

After a multi-year drought, 21 tarpon were caught last year in an exciting Boca Grande Area Chamber of Commerce Ladies Day Tarpon Tournament.

First place in the 2012 Ladies Day Tarpon Tournament went to Team Hudson’s. The team, with Capt. Charlie Coleman manning the Casuarina, managed to bring in and release four of the silver kings. Emily Wise had a series of firsts that day – her first time tarpon fishing, her first tournament and, with the fourth catch, her first tarpon.

BY MARCY SHORTUSE – On Saturday, May 25, the biggest and best kids’ fishing tournament will be held in Boca Grande Pass, and this year it will be bigger than ever.

Filmed for the World Fishing Network, the boats that take the field this year will go nation-wide, beginning on Thanksgiving Day, when it will initially be aired. It will also be simulcast on WENG 107.5 FM, for those who wish to hear the tarpon fishing action live.