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This date in the Boca Beacon

FIVE YEARS AGO

Boca Grande Health Clinic announced the appointment of Mark Driscoll as Chief Executive Officer.

TEN YEARS AGO

Full July 4th festivities were in the works with a golf cart and bicycle parade and fireworks at the Boca Grande Marina.

FIFTEEN YEARS AGO

GIBA voted to keep the speed limit for the two-mile long causeway to 35 mph.

TWENTY YEARS AGO

The Island Wachovia bank had been robbed with $44k missing from a safe.

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO 

Lee County drug enforcement task force raided a Boca Grande condo. Officers executed a search warrant at the three-story townhouse on Park Place.

THIRTY YEARS AGO

The old Punta Blanca Fish House just across from Useppa Island in Pine Island Sound burned to the water.

THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

Teddy Gentry, bass player of the Grammy-award winning band Alabama, gave an impromptu performance at the Boca Grande Club.

FORTY YEARS AGO

The State acquisition of the Cavanaugh tract on Don Pedro Island was moving forward as the governor and cabinet voted unanimously to release $1.5 million toward the eventual purchase of the 129 acre property.