The Utilities Department was originally established in 1973. In 1994 it was restructured as a division under the Public Service Department (which was later renamed the Public Works Department). Then in 2011, Utilities once again became its own department. Here's a look at the history of the ...
(Editor's note: The following story was published in the April 7, 1980, edition of the Cape Coral Breeze.) Dreams, like puffy clouds, are too high to reach, and even when one comes close, the substance apparent from afar is missing. Dreamers like Leonard Rosen don’t settle for that result. ...
(Published in the Cape Coral Breeze Aug. 20, 1970) The election is over. Those who won are happy; the ones who lost are probably disappointed. Everyone has one thing to rejoice for. The issue was earnestly pursued, both by those favoring and those opposing incorporation, but the bitterness, ...
(Published in the Cape Coral Breeze Aug. 13, 1970) Next Tuesday will be the most important day in Cape Coral’s brief history. On that day, the citizens of this rapidly growing community will decide whether we are to remain as just another development in Lee County, or assume the role of a ...
City Managers Cliff Ryan - 1971-1974 Lee Evett - 1975-1976 Robert Proctor - 1977-1984 Ellis Shapiro - 1984-1989 (deceased) William Noonan - 1989-1991 David Sallee - 1992-1997 Steve Daignault - 1997-2001 Howard Kunik - 2001-2002, eight months Assistant/Acting/Interim Terrance Stewart - ...
Here are some headlines from 1970 as appeared in the Cape Coral Breeze: January Ground broken for 850-seat movie theater Gulf American now GAC Properties Harry James, band perform at Country Club Toll on Cape Bridge reduced from 15 cents to 10 cents February Construction of new ...
“The first City Council and the first city manager laid a stable foundation for this city to grow on,” according to Cape Coral’s first Mayor Paul Fickinger. “To be sure, we had plenty of problems and there were some clashes of personality on the City Council, but all in all, they ...
The Rasos packed up from Pittsburgh in 1960 and arrived to the hurricane forces of Donna, which Gloria Tate’s father Joseph and then-pregnant mother Grace named their fifth daughter after. Raso Realty was established in 1973 by Joseph Raso and since passed on to his family. Joseph was the ...
“I was 8-years-old when I came to Cape Coral in 1960. My family had a grocery business in West Virginia and my grandfather had recently retired and was vacationing in Fort Myers Beach around 1957. “When the Rosen brothers started developing Cape Coral, my grandfather went over to talk to ...
No one had a better view of Cape Coral before it became the Waterfront Wonderland than Ed Wilson. Thousands of feet in the air, it was Wilson in the cockpit with a representative of the Rosen brothers in the early 1950s when he first laid eyes on what would eventually be Cape Coral. The ...
