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Post Comments, share Views, read Blogs on CaPe-Coral-daily-Breeze.Com Wipeout Cape High CAPE CORAL loses to Jacobs 16-5 DAILY BREEZE — SPORTS cape-coral-daily-breeze.com WEATHER: Partly Cloudy • Tonight: Partly Cloudy • Friday: Partly Cloudy — 2A Vol. 48, No. 70 Thursday, March 26, 2009 50 cents Official: Utility rate hike would prevent bond default “Our advice to the city council is if we don’t do this Cape defaults if bond rating reduced (raise the rates), the potential is that our bonds are ity rate study, Mason said that junk status and we default on our downgraded to junk status and we default on our By GRAY ROHRER bonds.” [email protected] without the proposed increase in bonds,” he said. the study, the city’s bond rating Under the study, conducted Cape Coral could default on — Mark Mason, financial services director its bonds if a utility rate increase could be reduced to “junk” sta- by Burton & Associates, com- is not approved by city council tus, which could lead to the city bined water, sewer and irrigation members, Financial Services defaulting on its bonds. bills will rise from the current from the current average. stop the utility expansion for Director Mark Mason said “Our advice to the city coun- average of $81.97 to $103.70 The projected increases in potable water in the area north of Wednesday. cil is if we don’t do this (raise per month in fiscal year 2010. utility rates are the result of the Pine Island Road. During a press conference to the rates), the potential is that The bills would rise to $157.79 global credit crunch and the city The council reversed its deci- our bonds are downgraded to by 2014, a 92.5 percent increase discuss the release of a new util- council’s decision in February to See STUDY, page 2A Early morning fire destroys home Resident organizes Authorities: tea party to protest $200,000 possible service tax in damages City eyeing revenue loss By DREW WINCHESTER By CONNOR HOLMES [email protected] To go [email protected] Like the forefathers of the Blackened rafters jutting like What American Revolution at Boston Tea party rib bones from a mostly-collapsed Harbor, one Cape Coral resident roof, an ash-smothered pickup When plans to show her dissatisfaction April 1 at 5 p.m. truck and a “For Sale” sign are all with the government by using tea. that remained of a Cape Coral Outraged by the city’s pro- Where home after it was destroyed in a posed public service tax, Lynn Jaycee Park house fire early Wednesday morn- Rosko is organizing a Boston Tea Why ing. Party on Wednesday at Jaycee Protest city’s proposed The home at 1113 N.E. 10th Park. public service tax Terrace was completely engulfed There have been similar events in a blaze that took firefighters across the nation. dents, letting them know the issues more than to two hours to extin- “We have to stop this taxation and how they can impact them.” guish at about 1:34 a.m. that’s been going on,” she said. “I Rosko does not know how According to officials, no one look at this as a gathering of resi- was home at the time of the blaze See PROTEST, page 3A and no one was injured as a result of the fire. According to Lee County prop- Drug House Odyssey erty records, the home belongs to Remigious Ssekiranda. Ssekiranda could not be reached for comment Wednesday, finally draws to close but neighbors said he is a nice man who has been trying to sell the home for some time. 3-day program attended “He’s a super nice guy,” said CONNOR HOLMES neighbor Karen Major, who believed he had not been staying in An early morning house fire caused more than $200,000 the home recently. in damages to a home at 1113 N.E. 10th Terrace. by thousands of students Major has lived in her home for By MCKENZIE CASSIDY first year attending the odyssey. nearly five years. She said she “They really did enjoy it,” said knows Ssekiranda only as “Remi.” [email protected] The Drug House Odyssey ends Edwards. “It had a powerful impact, “When he was here he always and the students took it very serious- took good care of the house,” today after illustrating to thousands of Lee County students the devastat- ly.” Major added. She commended the Lee County Police documents state that the ing consequences of drugs and alco- A truck hol. Coalition for a Drug-Free Southwest fire cost more than $200,000 in Florida for organizing the event. damages. parked The odyssey is a three-day inter- outside the active walk-through drama where Students toured the odyssey each Neighbors woke Major day from 9 a.m.-1 p.m., and the pro- Wednesday morning to witness the home that students watch adolescents as they sustained attend a party, experience a court gram was open to the public massive blaze, which caused Wednesday from 6-9 p.m. propane tanks within the home to damage in hearing and get into a fatal car acci- dent. Over the past couple of years, the explode, according to fire officials. the fire. odyssey has focused on eighth- It took 18 firefighters and six Michelina Edwards and John Beebe, fifth-grade teachers at Patriot graders throughout the county. fire units to extinguish the fire, Keral Kronseder-Vogt, executive according to city spokesperson Elementary, toured the grounds with Connie Barron. 53 students. This was the school’s See ODYSSEY, page 3A See FIRE, page 3A First Cure 4 Children Run set Fund-raiser organized in To go What Cure 4 Children Run memory of one’s mother When Saturday, March 28, By MCKENZIE CASSIDY “It’s in my mom’s name,” he at 8 a.m.; with check-in [email protected] said. “My mom passed away from beginning at 6:30 a.m. A Cape Coral man has organ- cancer and I put it in her name.” Where ized the inaugural Cure 4 Children An official from St. Jude Rotary Park, Run for Saturday at Rotary Park to Children’s Hospital in Miami will 5505 Rose Garden Road benefit St. Jude Children’s attend the event. Students from Information Research Hospital. Trafalgar Elementary will present Visit: www.active.com or Check-in time for the 5K race is the representative with 48 cancer www.therunshoppe.com between 6:30 and 7:45 a.m., and it caps and 260 Easter cards for chil- officially begins at 8 a.m. dren staying at the hospital. Coby Palmer, volunteer coordi- Nationally, St. Jude Children’s According to Palmer, there MCKENZIE CASSIDY nator, said he organized the run in Hospital is centered in Memphis, have already been 100 registra- memory of his mother, Linda Tenn., and deals with some of the tions for Saturday’s race and Fifty-three students from Patriot Elementary School Palmer, who recently passed away most difficult cases of pediatric $2,000 raised for the hospital. toured the Drug House Odysssey on Wednesday on the from lung cancer. cancer in the world. See RUN, page 3A grounds of Cape Christian Fellowship, 2110 Chiquita Blvd. ATAGLANCE AROUND THE CAPE NEWS OF NOTE WHAT’S INSIDE Neighborhood meeting set Road closures in Cape Annie’s Mailbox........6A NASCAR..........14A A Neighborhood Watch group sign-up Temporary road closures are planned for Florida meeting will be held at 7 p.m. today at Cape Del Prado Boulevard from Kismet Parkway Classifieds ............1-6 B Nation ................8A Coral Police Department in Community to Diplomat Parkway from 7 p.m. today until Comics ............10A Obituaries ..........2A Lottery Room. Those interested in starting a group 5 a.m. Friday for drainage installation work. CASH 3: should plan to attend. Sign-up meetings are Del Prado and Diplomat will be open to Crossword........10A Police Blotter ....2A 3-8-8 / 7-5-9 held on the fourth Thursday of every month. local traffic only. Advance warning signs, Dr. Donohue........6A Sports ........11-13A PLAY 4: For information, call 573-3048. electronic message boards and barricades 4-0-7-0 / 4-3-4-6 Editorial..............4A State ..................5A will be used to assist motorists traveling Fantasy 5 through the area. A detour will be in place. Health ................7A TV Listings..............9A 4-5-6-28-35 Last Showtime 2009 event Lotto Northbound Del Prado motorists wanting The final Showtime 2009 performance to access north Kismet will travel west on Horoscopes........6A Weather ............2A 2-6-11-18-38-48 will be held at 7 p.m. April 4 at Cape Coral Florida Powerball Diplomat, north to Andalusia Boulevard, 10-20-23-47-54 High School, 2300 Santa Barbara Blvd. east on Kismeet and north onto Del Prado. PB 20 x 2 The event will feature singer impressionist Southbound motorists on Del Prado will be Suzi Cruz and comedian singer Timothy directed west on Kismet, south on Andalusia, Hawkins. Donation is $12. For information, east on Diplomat and back onto Del Prado. 7 48445 46010 1 call Joe Vieceli at 542-5099. For information, call 707-9050. Page 2A Thursday, March 26, 2009 cape-coral-daily-breeze.com CAPE CORAL DAILY BREEZE OBITUARIES Cape Coral; and two brothers Ronald Linn Bryson, 64, of of seasons. and Tyler (Noelle) Bryson and Colleen M. Brown and two sisters, all of Canada. Eden Prairie, Minn., formerly He loved his backyard, his granddaughter, Brianna, of Colleen M. Brown, 42, of A memorial service will be of Cape Coral, passed away fishing time, his beloved Cape Coral; stepdaughter, Cape Coral, died suddenly held at 7 p.m.