This date in the Boca Beacon: BIPs acquires Range Light

FIVE YEARS AGO

Lee County announced that the Wheeler Road Dog Park would be completed by Spring 2022.

TEN YEARS AGO

Barrier Island Parks Society announced the signing of the final license to acquire the Gasparilla Island Light was on track for April 1. 

FIFTEEN YEARS AGO

Lee County Parks & Recreation Department met their monetary goal for purchasing the final two pieces of equipment for the community center auditorium.

TWENTY YEARS AGO

Barnichol Hardware was doing a brisk business of selling animal traps, particularly traps to accommodate most iguanas.

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO 

A significant number of electrical outages was blamed on lack of rainfall in the area as salt spray sitting on the insulators over a long period of time caused shorts.

THIRTY YEARS AGO

Captains Steve Futch, Don Starner, Zeke Sieglaff and Frank Davis, along with Beth Shell of Crimestop and Lee County Sheriff’s Department filmed and dramatized a rash of boat thefts that had plagued the area for two years.

THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

The Department of Urban and Regional Planning of the University of Florida predicted that 85 percent of the island’s residents would be from someplace other than Florida by 2010.

FORTY YEARS AGO

The Boca Grande Clinic signed an agreement with Venice Hospital to provide support for clinic operation.

FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

Rotonda Air Service offered twenty-four hour jet service with Lloyd Shoemaker and Mark Futch as pilots.