STAFF REPORT The Florida Highway Patrol is searching for the driver of a stolen Toyota Prius who was engaged in multiple hit-and-run vehicle crashes early Monday morning, first at McGregor Boulevard and other areas of Lee County with a 2017 Chevrolet pickup truck before allegedly stealing the Toyota Prius in one of the crashes. At approximately 5:56 a.m. Monday, the Florida Highway Patrol responded to a series of hit and run traffic crashes, first at McGregor Boulevard and later at Daniels Parkway and Interstate 75, the Florida Highway
Patrol stated in an announcement Monday. A white 2017 Chevrolet pickup truck driven by an unknown white male, was initially involved in a hit-andrun traffic crash on McGregor Boulevard. The truck fled the scene after damaging another vehicle, the Florida Highway Patrol reported. After the collision, troopers determined the same Chevrolet truck began to follow and take aggressive actions in the area of Gladiolus Drive, toward a 2013 Chevrolet Equinox, driven by a 23-yearold female. As the Chevrolet truck continued to follow the other driver for several miles, the driver used the Chevrolet truck to intentionally collide with the
Chevrolet Equinox in the area of eastbound Daniels Parkway and the entrance ramp to southbound Interstate 75, the Florida Highway Patrol reported. In an effort to flee the scene, the Chevrolet truck traveled over the median divider and collided with a 2018 Toyota Corolla. A witness, driving a 2010 Toyota Prius, stopped to assist with the crash. The driver of the Chevrolet truck exited the vehicle, stole the Toyota Prius, and fled south on Interstate 75. The criminal investigation remains ongoing, anyone with information is asked to contact the Florida Highway Patrol or Crimestoppers.
Keep Lee County Beautiful gives out awards The 2022 Environmental Award Winners are: ∫ Outstanding Adoption Group – Julie Yellig ∫ Community Partner – Tunaskin Aquatic Apparel, Inc. ∫ Youth Engagement Partner – Lovers Key State Park ∫ Outstanding Site Captain – Trish White-Cape Coral Northwest Neighborhood Association ∫ Business Partner – Coca-Cola Beverages Florida ∫ Marine Debris Improvement – Sarah Burnsed ∫ Hurricane Recovery Champion – Mid Island Water Sports ∫ Volunteer of the Year – Allen & Chery Day
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Trish Fancher with Allen & Chery Day who won the Volunteer of the Year Award.
Letters wouldn’t that be a disincentive to the corporation gouging the public? When we fail to impede profiteering from the corporations that control our vital national resources, we miss the opportunity to discourage price gouging. If Exxon expected to see a tax offset they would have no self interest to throw
the economy into a tailspin by increasing the price of gas. Lacking a will to impose windfall taxes, far from being a fair distribution of tax burden, becomes a tax to the benefit of oil oligarchy to increase ever higher gas prices. Imposing a tax offset to modify the
behavior can have an effect. Instead, we taxed ourselves with higher gas prices to funnel more wealth to the already well heeled. That is the opposite of a progressive tax policy. Ellen Starbird Cape Coral
Fort Myers Beach Observer
From page 4 taxes; corporations pay more in taxes when gouging, can cull from super-profits funds to the treasury. This can affect whether the corporations decide to gouge the public. After all, we all hate paying higher taxes. If the government were to tax uber profiteering,
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Keep Lee County Beautiful, Inc. celebrated their 34th anniversary serving Lee County with their first annual environmental awards breakfast honoring volunteers of the year Allen and Chery Day, as well as Tunaskin with their business partner award among others. The awards breakfast, sponsored by Wawa, was held at the Riverside Community Center with Marshal Bower the President & CEO for the Foundation for Lee County Public Schools as the Emcee. Last year, Keep Lee County Beautiful educated 1,302 individuals, engaged 4,084 volunteers and organized 233 community cleanup projects. As a result, 78,951 pounds of litter were removed, and 800 sea oats were planted.
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Florida Highway Patrol searching for driver in multiple hit-and-run crashes