============================================================ DIGITAL DIGEST � http://www.bonitanews.com � November 18, 2004 ============================================================ Subscribe to the Bonita Daily News: http://web.naplesnews.com/circulation/ COUNCIL BACKS SLOWER BOAT SPEED ZONES IN NAPLES BAY The Naples City Council backed slower boat speed zones in Naples Bay on Wednesday, but a fight over the zones is just getting revved up. The 4-3 vote ended months of tumultuous uncertainty over where the City Council would come down on the most divisive issue facing the city. Mayor Bill Barnett and council members Tamela Wiseman and Clark Russell voted against the new zones. LOWDERMILK SITE SLATED TO JOIN GULF MONITORING SYSTEM The day is coming, probably this spring, when high-tech eyes looking out from Naples at the Gulf of Mexico will help everyone from fishermen to storm watchers and rescuers do their jobs better. It�s not much to look at. Just a small, thin tower, about 30 feet high, and a receiver that looks a lot like a whip antenna for a car. They will go at either end of Lowdermilk Park. HCA HOSPITALS TO OFFER DOMESTIC PARTNER COVERAGE Southwest Florida hospitals owned by HCA Inc. have a new employee benefit in the offing next year: domestic partner coverage, a move by the hospital chain to stay in step with a national trend among large companies. �We just think it�s going to be a competitive edge,� said Marti Van Veen, spokeswoman for Southwest Florida Regional Medical Center, one of two HCA hospitals in Fort Myers. The other is Gulf Coast Hospital. LEETRAN FARE KEPT AT ZERO, SATURDAY SERVICE ADDED LeeTran�s small but loyal group of riders in Bonita Springs will keep paying nothing for the bus service and, starting in December, will have an extra day each week to use it. The Bonita Springs City Council agreed Wednesday to expand the service to Saturdays. LeeTran officials estimated the additional day would cost the city up to $25,000, which is on top of the $102,000 it will shell out for five days of service this year. Get details on all these stories and more at http://www.naplesnews.com IN PERSPECTIVE: WASHINGTON TODAY: WAR IN IRAQ SULLIES U.S. IMAGE IN LATIN AMERICA, ANALYSTS SAY Secretary of State Colin Powell is heading off to Europe soon to try to heal divisions generated by the Iraq war. No less pernicious, according to some analysts, are that war�s effects on the U.S. reputation in Latin America. The Iraq war, says former Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castaneda, has �contributed to a wide, deep and probably lasting collapse of sympathy for the United States� in the region. Read more commentary and get local editorials and today�s Letters to the Editor at http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/perspective/ IN FLORIDA FLORIDA PAINTING �LOST� FOR 60 YEARS SOLD IN NYC FOR $1.2 MILLION After being �lost� for 60 years in the vaults of Florida�s Ringling Museum of Art, an 1887 oil painting sold at a Sotheby�s auction Tuesday in New York for $1.2 million. That�s a million more than its value had been estimated. The bidding for the oil-on-canvas �L�Enfant Malade,� by Venezuelan artist Arturo Michelena, was won by an anonymous buyer, said a Sotheby�s spokeswoman, who added: �I wish we knew more.� Get details on all these stories and more at http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/florida/ IN NEAPOLITAN: TENNESON PORTRAITS FEATURE �AMAZING MEN� OVER 60 I have lived enough to know that men and women act differently and think differently. Women think intuitively and have no trouble communicating with each other. Men think linearly, going from one point to the next. So I am sometimes in a quandary in the kitchen when my wife asks me to take this and put it there. What where? And why don�t I know what she means? Get details on all these stories and more at http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/neapolitan/
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