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Error With The Most Recent Water Utility BillingsFriday, February 05, 2010
Error with current water utility billing.Press release: Town of Fort Myers Beach
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The Town of Fort Myers Beach wants its residents and businesses to know that an error has occurred with the most recent water utility billings. There is a mistake on the water utility bills mailed on Tuesday of this week. While the charged dollar amount for the new block rate groupings was included, a written description of what the charges were for was not. Corrected replacement bills were mailed out this Friday morning, 02/05/2010.
 
The Town contracts with Beach Water to operate and maintain our potable water system and this includes the responsibility to read meters and generate billing data. Another company receives the billing data then prints and mails monthly bills. An error occurred in the printing. Read more...
FMB Fire District to Have Same Fee Schedule as CountyThursday, February 04, 2010
AmbulanceFMB Fire District to Have Same
Fee Schedule as County

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In an effort to make services more streamlined with Lee County's, the Fort Myers Beach Fire District will now charge for any calls resulting in medication being dispensed.

"We are going to start billing for Treat, No Transport calls,” said Chief Mike Becker. "For instance, if someone is a diabetic, and the paramedics give them dextrose and get their levels back to normal so they sign off on going to the hospital, we will bill them for the supplies and medication.” Read more...
Council Holds Two Day SessionWednesday, February 03, 2010
Stewart takes over as Interim Town Mgr.Response to modified beach renourishment
Council Holds Two Day Session on
Modified Beach Renourishment,
Stewart Takes Over as Interim Town Manager

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The Town council met for two days this week with the monumental task of hammering out a response to the modified beach renourishment plan that the Board of County Commissioners recently approved and submitted to the Town. During Monday's portion, council-members recognized Terry Stewart as our new Interim Town Manager, thanked retiring manager Jack Green for 5 years of service and, after listening to a lengthy public comment, began the renourishment debate. Read more...
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Issue 469Thursday, February 04, 2010
Honeyboy performs at the Chicago Blues Festival- Photographer: Gene Tomko2010 Grammy Winner to appear at Purple Heart
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David "Honeyboy" Edwards is a living legend of the Delta blues, and the Purple Heart Theater on Fort Myers Beach is honored to be among the first performance venues to welcome this ageless acoustic guitarist and singer since he received a Grammy for Lifetime Achievement on January 30, 2010 (announced during the live Grammy show on January 31). Mr. Edwards will perform at the Purple Heart on Sunday, February 21 from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Honeyboy Edwards, at age 94, and his close friend, bluesman and pianist Pinetop Perkins (age 96), are the last of the original Delta blues players still touring the United States. Honeyboy, as he is known, continues to perform up to 100 concerts a year, and undertook a tour of Europe in September and October 2009. His most recent album, released in 2008 by Earwig Records, is Roamin' and Ramblin'. Read more...
Preparation for the Shrimp Festival
Shrimp Festival ParadePreparation for the Shrimp Festival
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This year is the 52nd anniversary of the celebration of shrimping on Fort Myers Beach. In 1950, the first shrimp boat turned into the Back Bay and tied up at the Dixie Fish House. By that time the Kleen Fish Company on Fort Myers Beach had burned down and there was no place available for the shrimper to tie up on Estero Island.

We talked to Jo Hughes and she told us that she had just graduated from high school and gone to work for her Dad at the Dixie Fish House when the first shrimp boat showed up. She said they had to share a phone with the shrimpers and whenever a call came in for someone on the boats, she went out and yelled the name until the right person appeared. "We made it work,” she said. (For more on this story read The Island Sand Paper)
Colder, but still warmer?

Polar BearColder, but still warmer?
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Record-breaking cold and frost in Miami, sinkholes caused by farmers watering crops to protect them from freezing in Central Florida, and extensive flooding near Tallahassee. It's not a Florida winter wonderland, and a new report says it may be nature's wake-up call about the impacts of global warming.Report author Dr. Amanda Staudt, climate scientist with theNational Wildlife Federation, says oddball weather patterns are becoming the norm. "Even though parts of the southern United States have had pretty cold weather this winter, global warming is still happening. Sometimes it is hard to get beyond your immediate location and see the bigger picture, but in fact NASA just announced that 2009 ties for the hottest winter on record. "Staudt calls the uncontrolled carbon pollution that causes global warming an "unchecked experiment on people and wildlife.""This more variable winter weather will have all sorts of impacts on our communities, on wildlife and nature, and on various outdoor recreation activities that we enjoy. "Staudt says parts of the Snow Belt will see heavier snowstorms, although Floridians planning ski vacations later this winter may be disappointed. Unseasonably mild conditions could force ski resorts to close sooner, putting a dent in the $66 billion winter sports industry. She says global warming will also cause flooding in many parts of the nation, and she cautions everyone to "expect the unexpected" in weather patterns. (For more on this story subscribe to the Island Sand Paper)

 

 

 

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