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INSIDE
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Page 4
Cooking With Lee Shinners
(Paper
Edition)
Page 12
Arts and Culture
Page 18
Boca Recreation
Page 19
First Nests Spotted
Page 20
Boca Scrapbook
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Index...
Tim Seibert.............pg 5
Harm di Blij............pg 6
Amory Chapel.......pg 14 (Paper
Edition)
GIBA Report...........pg 3 (Paper
Edition)
Cookin’ with Lee.....pg 4 (Paper
Edition)
Art of Jack Dowd..pg
12
Dog Bite.............pg 16 (Paper
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Up and Running . . . Again
The
Boca Banner website is reconstructed and back on the internet.
There are new links to weather and tide charts. Current news and
photos. Links to Boca Grande's
Real Estate leaders.
Keep
watching the site grow. Its www.thebocabanner.com.
The redesigned site is maintained by JD
Web Design. of Port Charlotte Florida |
Gulf
Coast Preservation society
To preserve and protect the Gulf of Mexico by disseminating information
and providing vital research necessary to finding solutions to
environmental issues in order to maintain a healthy ecosystem in the
Gulf of Mexico.
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The Internet Edition
Vol. 1 Issue 19
May 20, 2005
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Passion for
Cars is in the Blood of Harry Jewett
Grandfather's Namesake Car is
in Sarasota Classic Car Museum
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| Harry Jewett
of Boca Grande has been a car buff since the 1940's. A great,
great uncle, Joe Boyer won the Indy 500 in 1924. |
H.M. Jewett
is pictured in front of his namesake car in the black and white
photo shot in the early 1920's. Furnished photo |
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By Linda Fudala-Tucker
In 1923, H.M.
Jewett was president of Paige-Detroit Motor Car Co. And so a car
built by the company was named the Jewett. Just over 40,000 of
the snazzy car were sold before they were then marketed as a
Paige.
Harry Jewett II of Boca Grande is the grandson
of H.M. and a 1923 Jewett known for its exceptionally fine and
sporty lines, has stayed in the family, but not until it changed
hands a few times.
" Father
got it in 1954 from Grandfather, and it was sold and someone
restored it. My brother
and I decided to buy it back and now it belongs to me,"
said Jewett, who started
coming to Boca Grande in the 1950’s by boat and docking at old
Miller's
Marina. He and wife, Susan, have lived here for the past two
years.
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A car buff since the 1940 's,
Jewett has relatives on both sides of the family who were race
car drivers including a great-great uncle, Joe Boyer who won the
Indy 500 in 1924 driving a Duesenberg. The uncle met a tragic
end only months later, said Jewett. "He
won
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Harry
Jewett will get to drive each of these 1925 models
during an exhibition event at the Milwaukee Mile track
in July. |
the race in May 1924 and died in September, ”
said Jewett.
Jewett will get to drive an exhibition lap
around the Milwaukee Mile track in both a 1925 Miller and a 1925
Duesenberg in the 11th Annual Millers at Milwaukee Vintage Indy
Car Event, July 9 and 10.
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Guides
Challenged by Ladies
Success in the Pass Puts
Women Ahead, Temporarily
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By
Jim Tucker
Tarpon is still the
Silver King and the Ladies Day Tarpon Tournament proved it last
week with a winning catch weighing in at about 115 pounds. The
Chamber of Commerce sponsored tournament came off without
a hitch and several tarpon were hooked. Most did what tarpon are
noted for and swam away leaving frustrated anglers in their
wake.
Now it's
the Boca Grande Fishing Guides Association's
turn with their tournament slated for fishing in the
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| Anglers
in the Pass hoping to catch the Silver King tarpon. |
tournament slated for fishing in the Pass Monday
and Tuesday.
" We’ve
got 32, possibly a 33rd, boats signed up,"
Cappy Joiner, president of
the association, said this week, "It
looks like a good turnout."
With a 50% payout for first place, that
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Community
Planning Panel Meets Today
Prepares for
LPA Hearing Monday in Fort Myers
| By Linda
Fudala-Tucker
The Community
Planning Panel meets today at 2 p.m. in the Boca Bay Power House
to go over recommendations in a Lee County Division of
Development staff report that was to be delivered to members on
Wednesday.
That report was delayed, said Lynne Seibert,
panel member who said Jim Mudd, Lee Planner, had informed panel
members via email that the report would be available on
Thursday. So, the report was not available by deadline.
The meeting on Monday, with the Lee County Local
Planning Agency determines if the Boca Grande Community Plan is
going to be transmitted to the |
state during the current amendment review cycle.
That meeting starts at 8:30 a.m. in commission chambers located
at 2120 Main St. at the corner of Main and Monroe St. in
downtown Fort Myers. It is open to the public.
The Panel has also scheduled a meeting on May
27, 2 to 5 p.m. at the Boca Bay Power House should there be
further work to be done on the plan before the June 1
transmittal meeting.
The May 27th meeting could be canceled if all
goes well on Monday.
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