============================================================ DIGITAL DIGEST — http://www.bonitanews.com — November 20, 2004 ============================================================ Subscribe to the Bonita Daily News: http://web.naplesnews.com/circulation/ COMMENT PERIOD OPENS ON ESTATES RESTORATION PROJECT The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is warning that it needs more information to figure out how much an Everglades restoration project proposed for rural Collier County will help the environment. The agency has been working for months with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the South Florida Water Management District to resolve lingering questions about Southern Golden Gate Estates restoration. MACK RETURNS TO D.C. FOR HOUSE ORIENTATION SESSION Connie Mack IV was a 14-year-old kid when he took his first step onto the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to stand alongside his father as he was sworn into office. Twenty-two years after Connie Mack III moved the family from Cape Coral to the nation’s capital, his son will repeat the trek to fill the same House seat. Mack returned to Washington this week to get started on his transition, taking part in an intensive orientation session where incoming members learned everything from how to serve their constituents to what tunnels will lead them to the Capitol. FINAL LINK IN LIVINGSTON ROAD OPENS IN NORTH NAPLES Jack Pointer flashed a wide grin as he left the tent where a celebration was held Friday to note the opening of another major north-south road linking Collier and Lee counties. It’s been two decades since the last one, Interstate 75, opened. And for Pointer, who throughout those decades has been patiently looking forward to the opening of the Livingston Road corridor linking the two counties, it was a special day. FDOT BUDGET DELAYS U.S. 41 WIDENING UNTIL 2009-10 Those working to change the schedule for widening the last section of U.S. 41 from four lanes to six will see a change in the new state budget. But they won’t like it. The new five-year construction plan proferred by the FDOT has the work funded in 2009-10, a year later than the current plan. That’s the opposite direction from the one Estero residents have been advocating as they’ve tried to pressure the state to move up the widening work. Get details on all these stories and more at http://www.naplesnews.com IN PERSPECTIVE: JAY AMBROSE: MESSAGE TO SCARE-MONGERS: GET OVER IT If you took a look at the Drudge Report Friday morning, as I did, you may have noticed two stories that had a certain similarity, although one of them was about a school teacher in Manchester, England, and the other about Linda Ronstadt, the singer. The school teacher, according to an Agence France-Presse account on the Web site, wanted to persuade 250 high school students in a morning assembly that they should seize the day, that they should make every moment count. Read more commentary and get local editorials and today’s Letters to the Editor at http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/perspective/ IN FLORIDA PANHANDLE HURRICANE VICTIMS EYING LOTTO JACKPOT FOR REPAIRS At first, Sharon Morrow said that if she wins Saturday’s drawing for an estimated $50 million Florida Lotto jackpot she would use it to fix her hurricane-damaged home. That still would leave plenty of unspent cash, so she had some second thoughts. “I’m just going to tear it down and rebuild it,” she said. “And I’d put in a swimming pool. ... I’d fix everybody’s house that I know.” Get details on all these stories and more at http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/florida/ IN NEAPOLITAN: NORTH NAPLES CHURCHES COME TOGETHER FOR NIGHT OF ECUMENICAL WORSHIP Too many times in the busyness of their lives and those of their parishioners, pastors can forget that their church isn’t the one and only. Their way isn’t the only way to follow the Lord. As the Rev. Richard Mueller sees it, there are many times that “Christians should be praying together and praising God,” forgetting their differences and commemorating the similarities. Get details on all these stories and more at http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/neapolitan/
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