Profiles
Profile: Richard Gordon
May 24, 2019
■ BY SUE ERWIN Chef Richard Gordon has been cooking up delectable dishes at Fusion for the past two years, and that’s a result of decades of experience dating back to when he was a teenager. “My fi…
Profile: Parker O’Bannon
May 17, 2019
■ BY SUE ERWIN Persistent and adventurous is a perfect description for Capt. Parker O’Bannon. He is a sixth-generation Floridian born in Fort Myers and raised in Boca Grande. He is an only child, a…
Profile: Tricia Heaton
May 10, 2019
■ BY SUE ERWIN Tricia Heaton describes herself as a needlepointing, party throwing, traveling bookworm. An eternal optimist who sees beauty in everything, she almost always has a camera in hand. Bo…
Profile: Janet Johnson
May 3, 2019
Janet Johnson has one of the most scenic views she has ever had from a desk job. Her current position with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection as administrative assistant at Gasparil…
PROFILE: Becky Hunt
April 26, 2019
BY SUSAN ERWIN – Becky Hunt is passionate about pursuing her goals in life, and that diligent trait has clearly been passed along to her daughter, Evie, who has been The Island School reporter for …
Profile: Lindsey Allen
April 19, 2019
■ BY SUE ERWIN Lindsey Allen and his wife Ellen discovered Boca Grande about 14 years ago. After a successful career and raising two sons in Chicago, they decided that they wanted to spend the wint…
Profile: Mark Masselink
April 12, 2019
■ BY SUE ERWIN Mark Masselink has visited Boca Grande every year since the late 1990s. He’d travel here annually with a group of friends to go tarpon fishing in Captiva and Sanibel islands, and eve…
Profile: Dr. Richard Lockey
April 5, 2019
■ BY SUE ERWIN Dr. Richard Lockey has been a professor of medicine at the University of South Florida since the early 1970s. He is the only remaining founding faculty member of the Morsani School o…
Profile: Kathy Berry
March 29, 2019
■ BY SUE ERWIN Kathy Berry has been working hard for the past several months to make sure that the annual Boca Grande Bike Parade & Woman’s Club Spring Fair taking place this Saturday, March 30…
PROFILE: John Mitchell
March 22, 2019
BY SUE IRWIN – Beautiful pieces of handcrafted art decorate the walls of John Mitchell’s home at the north end of the island. There are colorful images of the sea that he has painted with oils, and…