============================================================ DIGITAL DIGEST � http://www.bonitanews.com � November 21, 2004 ============================================================ Subscribe to the Bonita Daily News: http://web.naplesnews.com/circulation/ 100 DAYS AFTER HURRICANE CHARLEY: �A MATTER OF TIME� Sandra Wilson sits on the wooden steps outside her government-issued trailer, cradling a cell phone to her ear. The night air fills with the aroma of dinner cooking in nearby homes. The grating sound of sand hitting the sides of the trailers comes and goes when cars pass by. All around her on the 90-acre tract are hundreds of white single-wide, three-bedroom trailers and white, sandy dirt roads. There are no lawns, no trees, no shrubs, no pavement. Just white dirt and white trailers as far as one can see. PORT CHARLOTTE RESIDENTS MOURN CHARLEY CAUSALITIES Steadily recuperating from Hurricane Charley�s lashing, some Port Charlotte residents worry the homes they�re slowly mending will slip from their grips. Neighbors on Harper Avenue several blocks from Charlotte Harbor recently weighed the threat of rising property values to their working-class street. Homes untouched by Charley are brisk, say Charlotte County real estate watchers, who expect the allure of sun and more affordable coastal property to draw new buyers to the area, which concerns existing residents. ARCADIA RESIDENTS HOPE TO FIND PLACE IN THE WORLD AGAIN She rests with her legs intertwined on a floral print bedspread, staring at a piece of paper through her glasses and wishing her life could be like it was before Hurricane Charley. Linda Hinson knew her place in the world then. It was in the city-owned Arcadia Mobile Home Park, where men sat in chairs to gossip and women met at the clubhouse for bingo. But that was 100 days ago. And the world she knew then is gone. Hinson sighs and tosses the paper aside. EMS DIRECTOR: UNFAIR TO COMPARE OVERTIME NUMBERS An emergency medical services employee with Collier County made almost $37,000 in overtime during fiscal 2004. Mark Willis, an EMS lieutenant, made $23,000 in mandatory overtime and just less than $14,000 in other overtime. This was more money in overtime than any other Collier County EMS employee. County officials say those numbers can be misleading to people who don�t understand how the EMS overtime budget works. Get details on all these stories and more at http://www.naplesnews.com IN PERSPECTIVE: PHIL LEWIS: POUND FOR POUND, DAILY NEWS IS WORTH THE WEIGHT Reader Lloyd Lake has a bone to pick with the Naples Daily News. He recently sent an e-mail that began: �NDN subscribers are getting cheated out of $52 per year!� He noted that the price of the Naples Daily News in Collier County on weekdays is 50 cents an issue, while the price of a Sunday edition in Naples is $1.50. Read more commentary and get local editorials and today�s Letters to the Editor at http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/perspective/ IN FLORIDA THIS TIME NEW LEADERS� PROMISE TO GET ALONG MAY BE MORE THAN TALK It seems every two years the new House speaker and Senate president say they�re friends and they look forward to having a good working relationship. Speaker Johnnie Byrd and President Jim King said it two years ago. So did Speaker Tom Feeney and President John McKay two years before that. What followed each of those proclamations, though, was squabbling, poor communication and refusal to compromise. Now Speaker Allan Bense and President Tom Lee are also promising to get along. This year, though, it doesn�t seem to be just talk. Get details on all these stories and more at http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/florida/ IN NEAPOLITAN: WITH A NEW CHEF ON STAFF, SHELTER HOPES THEY HAVE A FRESH MIX OF INGREDIENTS FOR SUCCESS Most people reside in a world of recipes. They follow a prescribed path to create the quintessential quiche, or a superb souffl�. Chef Tadeusz Mieszczak is the ultimate improv artist. Unlike others in his profession, he doesn�t wander through a chilly walk-in refrigerator at the end of his workday, making a list of what items to order before leaving his restaurant. Mieszczak just disappears out the door. Get details on all these stories and more at http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/neapolitan/
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