Profiles
PROFILE: Ashley Scarpa
June 21, 2019
BY SUE ERWIN – Ashley Scarpa has been an entrepreneur in the restaurant business since 2006. Since April, she and her husband Glenn have been leasing the space that, until last summer, was home to PJ…
Profile: Ozzie Lessinger
June 14, 2019
■ BY SUE ERWIN Ozzie Lessinger learned to fish before he could walk. His father, an avid fisherman, put 6-month-old Ozzie in a backpack carrier and placed a fishing pole in his hand and taught him to…
Profile: Mimi Carvalho
May 31, 2019
■ BY SUE ERWIN South Beach Bar and Grille Executive Chef Mimi Carvalho caught and released her first tarpon at the 2019 Ladies Day Tarpon Tournament, and she said the experience was absolutely exhila…
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 firs…
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…
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. Both…
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 Gasparilla…
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 th…
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 winter…
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 event…