Index...
Special Delivery Baby......................pg 3
Cookin’ with Lee....pg 8
Phosphate Mining...pg 6
Publisher’s Corner...................pg 7
Tea Party.............pg 12
National Day of Prayer..................pg 14 |
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The Internet Edition
Vol. 1 Issue 18
May 13, 2005
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Ladies Day
"Curse" is Broken With Catch of 115-Pound Tarpon
Joyce Anderson
aboard the 'Moonraker' brings in the winner
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The Pass was boiling with tarpon
rolling, Saturday, but fishing was slow until the last
45 minutes of the Chamber of Commerce Ladies Day Tarpon
Tournament. Then only one tarpon was caught and
released, although two others had taken the bait but got
a way for an exciting and fun day of fishing. |
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Joyce Anderson took the top prize for
the 2005 Chamber of Commerce Ladies Day Tarpon
Tournament with the first release of the day Saturday
which weighed an estimated 115 lbs. |
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| Moonraker,
with Capt. Rich Caccavale and daughter, first mate,
Theresa, was the winning boat Saturday, making it two
years in a row for Caccavale. |
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Joyce and husband, Dennis were
originally going to go away to celebrate their 34th
wedding anniversary, but Joyce prevailed when she was
asked to fish for a team member. |
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By Linda Fudala-Tucker
Tarpon rolling in the Pass seemed to be teasing
the anglers of the 2005 Ladies Day Tarpon Tournament,
Saturday. Silver tails flashed and gleaming fins waved at the
anglers in 46 boats as the anglers completed drift after drift
of fishing without one of the Silver Kings taking the bait.
But it was the team aboard the 'Moonraker'
who had the last laugh,
when Joyce Anderson pulled in the winning TARPON, which Capt.
Rich Caccavale estimated to weigh about 115 lbs. It was the
first catch of the day with about 45 minutes left in the Boca
Grande Chamber of Commerce annual tourney.
Last year, a grouper caught by Joni Witt also on
the 'Moonraker'
took the prize in sudden
death overtime and the 2003 winner was a snapper, hence the
notion of a "curse"
ran rampant among
contestants this year.
The curse is now reversed. Avid angler,
Anderson, employed by Wachovia Bank in Boca Grande was a late
addition to the team when team-member Barbara Meeker decided to
make a trip up north to be with her expectant daughter. (The
baby still hasn 't
been born as of press date.)
" Her
wedding anniversary always falls about this time, so she has
been our backup. This year, we really needed her and she
convinced her hubby to let her fish,"
said Sandy Burkhardt, team
leader. "And
I'm
just so happy for her. It was a terrific tournament."
Joyce and husband Dennis, will now be
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Community
Planning Panel to Meet May 20
Three days
before LPA hearing
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By
Linda Fudala-Tucker
With hopes of being able to go over a staff
report from Lee County, the Boca Grande Community Planning Panel
has slated a meeting for next Friday - just three days before
the community plan is slated for review before the Local
Planning Agency.
The LPA makes its recommendations on the plan
and then it is brought before the Lee County Commission for a
transmittal hearing to the state around June 1st. It then goes
through another round of review by the state before it can be
formally adopted as an amendment to the Lee County Comprehensive
Land Use Plan. |
Lee County individual
staff comments have been addressed during April Panel meetings
with revisions made in language in several issues, including the
FP&L land policy. The issue still in contention is the
establishment of an island Historic Preservation Board. Panel
Chairman Bayne Stevenson has said during the last meeting that
that would be an item worth defending. Other issues involve
re-development of properties and staying in
compliance with the Gasparilla Island District Act of 1980 which
established stringent density parameters.
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