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WEEKEND EDITION POST COMMENTS AT CAPE-CORAL-DAILY-BREEZE.COM Inside PARADE Softball • Sunday With ... title Inside today’s Breeze: Ty Burrell Taste of the Cape Baker girls conquer • Sunday Dinner: unbeaten Lemon Bay Gulf Coast Realty Network Jodi Picoult in 4A-11 tournament Serves Up Inside Hot Deals in Classifieds Memories cape-coral-daily-breeze.com cape-coral-daily- breeze.com CAPE CORAL BREEZE Vol. 50, No. 49 Saturday, April 23, 2011 50 Cents AT A GLANCE Cape to consider creation of police review board Appointed panel would check citizen complaints officers. By DREW WINCHESTER “I think it’s a The initial board would con- “The scrutiny [email protected] good idea. It sist of three members who would and trans- City Council will discuss the gets the com- creation of a Citizens Police serve two-year terms, and four parency the munity Review Board on Monday, which members who serve for three board brings involved and would review citizen complaints years. All members would serve to the process gets some and some closed departmental three years following the initial will encourage things out in investigations, if approved. appointments, according to city a more in- the open that City council would appoint all documents. depth review haven’t been seven members of the board by Councilmember Bill Deile and analysis.” majority vote, and the board said he’s worked for several before.” would consist of no more than months, along with the city’s law Councilman Councilman three former law enforcement See REVIEW, page 8A Bill Deile Pete Brandt Inside today’s Breeze Four Freedoms Alligators and crocodiles beach funding in the Southwest Florida area EasterEaster inin thethe CapeCape become more active when the weather gets warmer. approved — Page 4B By DREW WINCHESTER [email protected] The Community NEWS OF NOTE Redevelopment Agency will not have use of Tourist Development RE/MAX Red White Council funds to help construct a beach at Four Freedoms Park, so and Boom sponsor they pledged their own money on The Chamber of Com- Thursday to make the project a merce of Cape Coral an- reality. nounced this week that Identified in their new vision RE/MAX Realty Team will plan as an asset to the district, the return as the title sponsor of the 2011 Red, White and See BEACH, page 7A Boom. The event will be held Monday, July 4, start- ing at 4 p.m., on Cape Coral Blue lights Parkway at the foot of the Cape Coral Bridge. to illuminate FLORIDA police support LOTTERY Awareness event May 15 Holiday events today and Sunday Cash 3: By TIFFANY REPECKI 8-2-1/ 1-2-9 By DREW WINCHESTER [email protected] Cape Coral residents are again Play 4: [email protected] being asked to show their support Easter dawns Sunday morning, but there’s opportu- 3-4-3-9 / 8-4-3-3 for fallen and active police offi- nities to mark the holiday all weekend long in Cape cers by “lighting the town blue” Coral and Lee County. Fantasy 5: on May 15. Saturday is packed with Easter egg hunts and fami- 5-7-12-22-34 In 1962, former President ly activities for the kids, while Sunday opens with sun- John F. Kennedy signed a procla- Mega Money: rise services and continues with various events. mation which designated May 15 5-24-39-42 Megaball 21 Weekend events include: as Peace Officers Memorial Day ■ A Life in Christ Church will host the long stand- Lotto and the week in which it fell as ing Sunrise Service, 7 a.m, Sunday at the Cape Coral 4-20-40-43-46-53 x 3 National Police Week. Yacht Club off Driftwood Parkway. The police department’s Florida Powerball: This will be the 32nd year for the service, which has Citizens Police Academy Alumni 9-24-34-36-43 drawn thousands of people over the years to watch the Association is hosting the second PB 27 x 3 sun rise over the Caloosahatchee River. annual Blue Light Project to raise Pastor Leah J. Hileman from A Life in Christ awareness for National Police Church said this year’s service will be vastly different Week, and residents are encour- from last year’s, and will feature special guest music aged to display a blue light at INDEX minister Paul Jennings, founder of Praise Fest. their home in the outside lamp Hileman said Jennings will be performing music Blotter . .2A posts, entry way or windows. and sharing personal testimony. “We wanted to honor our local Classifieds . .Section C “His songs are upbeat and encouraging and lively police and the everyday officers Dr. Donohue . .4B and it will be a completely different mood from last and raise awareness of how many Editorial . .4-5A PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY MICHAEL PISTELLA year,” Hileman said. people have actually fallen in the Gardening . .4B Easter Lilies provided by Bumble Bee’s Florist, which is at 3512 Del Prado Blvd. in Chelsea Place plaza. See EASTER, page, 7A See SUPPORT, page 8A Hot Property . .1B Lifestyles . .4B Horoscopes . .4B Military Notes . .8B CRA to tackle zoning, development regulations Obituaries . .12A Puzzle Page . .7B By DREW WINCHESTER from developing into a success- Property Transfers . .2B [email protected] ful, cultural beacon for the city. “The code is set up for the big development, it’s not set Real Estate . .1-3B Cape Coral’s downtown is “We were fully aware of the up for the small stuff we’re detailing in the vision plan.” Religion . .6B mired in the zoning doldrums of a problem, but the depth of the — Trent Baughn, a member of planner Bernard Zyscovich’s problem was demonstrated com- Sports . .9-11A bygone era, back when the vision team, which is working on the CRA’s vision plan for the district included large pletely,” said Community TV Highlights . .7B tracts of land assembled for large Redevelopment Chair Don Weather . .2A projects that were never built. Heisler. the zoning “deeply flawed.” “The code is set up for the big Weekly Recap . .6A Now those very same zoning The demonstration was made Baughn also said the the Land development, it’s not set up for issues — which were supposed to by Trent Baughn, a member of Development Regulations were the small stuff we’re detailing in pave the way for high end condo- planner Bernard Zyscovich’s confusing and contradictory, and the vision plan,” Baughn said. team, which is working on the was working against any devel- miniums and boutique shopping See CRA, page 7A — are holding the district back CRA’s vision plan, who called opment from ever taking place. 7 48445 46010 1 State ‘pill mill’ legislation moves forward By TIFFANY REPECKI limited to those who truly have a prescription [email protected] need,” he said. “As opposed to the current system The Florida House of Representatives passed where drugs are being dispensed in many cases its version of the pill mill legislation Thursday in illegally.” an nearly unanimous vote. The bill keeps in place plans for a Prescription Deaths caused by drugs in 2009 Drugs Monitoring Program or PDMP, which House Bill 7095 passed 116-1, with Rep. Heroin: 95 John Tobia, R-Brevard, dissenting. would track what doctors are prescribing and “I’m thrilled that we passed it,” Rep. Gary what pharmacies are distributing. It also speeds Cocaine: 529 Aubuchon, R-Cape Coral, said. “Florida has up the time in which data must be entered in the Oxycodone: 1,185 established a reputation throughout the country as database from 15 days to seven days. being the state to come to get illegal drugs.” “Generally speaking, it means that Florida law With the bill, the state is sending the message enforcement are going to be able to more easily identify people who are doctor shopping and that Florida not only wants to keep its residents Source: Florida Department safe, but that the state will not permit illegal drug more easily identify doctors who are overpre- trades. scribing, and stop them,” Jennifer Krell Davis, a of Law Enforcement “It’ll mean that our citizens will be safer because the access to prescription drugs will be See LEGISLATION, page 8A Page 2A Saturday, April 23, 2011 cape-coral-daily-breeze.com CAPE CORAL BREEZE MEGHAN MCCOY Riley Cremins, a Gulf Elementary School fourth grade student who was one of many tour guides for the community non-profit fair, stops at the Hope Club House table with the students who were in her group Wednesday morning, so they could watch a short commercial about the organization on the school’s laptop computer. Non-profit fair informs Gulf students By MEGHAN McCOY started, said the students were provided with a list of [email protected] 13 non-profit groups from which they could chose to Twenty-three fourth grade students at Gulf research for the fair. Elementary School held a non-profit fair Thursday Those organizations included the Cape Coral morning to teach other students about the organizations Caring Center, Lee County Animal Shelter, United they spent time researching and how they can help. Way, Locks of Love, Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Teacher Vanessa York said she wanted to introduce Wildlife, American Red Cross, Gulf Coast Humane a project that would teach students that they to can do Society, Salvation Army, Hope Club House, Animal something to help a non-profit organization. Refuge Center, Community Cooperative Ministries “You can help change the world no matter how Incorporated, Ding Darling and Boy Scouts of young you are,” Emma Padgett, one of the fourth grade America.

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