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■ SUBMITTED BY GIWA April is Water Conservation Month, and Gasparilla Island is in desperate need of water conservation. Gasparilla Island Water Association, Inc.’s current ten-year water withdrawal permit from the Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD) includes a condition requiring GIWA to reduce our daily average water use to 150 gallons per person per […]
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■ 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 eventually they discovered Boca Grande. “I loved Boca Grande as soon as I got here,” Mark said. “The other guys on […]
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To the Editor: Barrier Island Parks Society (BIPS) extends a heartfelt thank you for helping to make our 2019 Green Gala “Call of the Islands” a great success! We raised over $84,000 dollars, thanks to the generous support of our kind-hearted community. Our appreciation goes out to our many sponsors, auction donors/buyers, in-kind gift givers […]
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To the Editor: On behalf of the Hope for Haitian Committee of Boca Grande, we want to thank all our donors for their support in this year’s campaign. Our goal is to build 50 houses for those poverty-stricken Haitian families living in mud huts with dirt floors, no sanitation and little or no fresh water. […]
Written by Marcy Shortuse on . Posted in Editorial, Letters to the Editor, News, Opinion.
To the Editor: My personal experience at the Boca Grande Health Clinic regarding efforts to detect existing medical disorders such as depression, imbalance, memory loss, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, smoking and alcohol abuse, as mentioned by Dr. Walker in his update of BGHC future services, is that this is being done quite well. These […]
Written by Marcy Shortuse on . Posted in Obituaries.
On the afternoon of Monday, April 8, 2019 our island lost one of the people who loved it the very most. Victoria Anne Kittredge may be out of our sight, but she will live on every time a glass is raised at The Temp, every time a joke or story in poor taste is told at just the wrong time, every time an engine in a choice sports car revs up to about 4,000 rpm and in every sunset from the sea wall.
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■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE While the ground that was once home to the Fishery Restaurant, Albritton’s Gallery and several other shops is now bare, the new owners of the property found homes for two of the old homes that were once there. They are also planning to refurbish a third cottage on the property, which […]
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■ BY DALY WALKER, MD, BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC The Boca Grande Health Clinic’s mission is to meet the primary healthcare needs of the residents, workers and visitors in the Gasparilla Island community. Contemporary primary care practices such as ours no longer confine their activities to the management of chronic diseases and the treatment of acute […]
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■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE In a continuing effort to attempt to resolve our confusion and conflict with the Boca Grande Post Office, a meeting was initiated recently between our post office administrator and her direct manager. The topic of conversation regarded the proper addressing of mail and packages, and specifically how it is being handled […]
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■ Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno and other sheriff’s office administrators visited Boca Grande on Thursday, April 4 to visit with residents and business owners, and to sample some of the delicious food at the Lighthouse Methodist Church pancake breakfast. Shown here is Sheriff Marceno with Beacon mascot Archie. Marceno is an animal lover and […]