Photos from December 9, 2005

  • The D'Jamoos Group's site plan for the proposed Imperial Landings project.
  • A proposed view from the bridge.
  • The proposed 'market bridge' in the D'Jamoos plan.
  • A view of the Imperial Landing proposed development.
  • Collier County Sheriff Don Hunter, center, greets the DRILL instructors Friday morning before the DRILL deactivation ceremony in Immokalee. Hunter started the DRILL program in March 1996.
  • DRILL candidate Dantae Howard hugs Cpl. Uriel 'Rick' Roman after graduating from the residential program of DRILL on Friday afternoon at Edison Community College. Howard's platoon was the final platoon to graduate from DRILL.
  • DRILL Commander Beth Jones watches as members of the Sheriff's Office retire the flag that flew at the DRILL Academy campus on Friday morning. As of Friday, DRILL, which opened in 1996 to help rehabilitate teenagers in trouble with the law, closed its doors for good.
  • Estero High graduate David Mahoney, shown here playing against Notre Dame earlier this season, has started every game for Navy the past two years.
  • Mary Web, left, and her firned Jim Prendergast, of Fort Myers, get acquainted with Web's new kittens. Web is adopting both kittens, a male and a female, both around 1 year old, from the Lee County Animal Services during its Home 4 the Holidays program.
  • Estero’s Carl Bleich (10) attempts a steal against South’s Kenny Louima in the second half.
  • It was an in-your-face game at Estero High on Tuesday night as Wildcat forward Peterson Dacius gets a hand in front of South Fort Myers forward Bradley Rucker. The Wolfpack — behind 21 points from Rucker — won 53-43.
  • After more than six months without a resolution to the case of the abandoned Regal on Ragsdale, shown here, a spokesperson for the Lee County Sheriff’s Office said Friday the car will be removed.
  • Residents on Ragsdale Street first complained in June about this abandoned Buick Regal. The city’s code enforcement department handles unregistered and inoperable vehicles on private property while the Lee County Sheriff’s Office is responsible for abandoned vehicles elsewhere. The sheriff’s office has logged abandoned vehicle complaints from Bonita Springs since Jan. 1, 2004.
  • Luis Antonio Garrido Giambo, 2-and-a-half-years-old, reaches out to touch the inflated snow man at the Holiday in the Park festival at Riverside Park on Old 41 Road. Holding the boy is his grandmother, Mary Anne Giambo, down from Venice visiting her daughter and grandson.
  • David Leach lived on next to the Caloosahatchee River and the Franklin Lock in Olga, which he is standing next to, for almost four years. During that time, Leach and his family watched as the Army Corps of Engineers drove more than 100 creosote-treated pilings into the river at the lock. During that period Leach and his wife fell ill with constant headaches and nausea and their teenaged son broke out in a rash that covered his body, scalp to sole. Creosote has been recognized as toxic and is being phased out as a wood preservative.
  • For the past year, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection has been testing river sediments near the Caloosahatchee River Franklin Lock for creosote contamination.
  • Florida State coach Bobby Bowden, left, and Penn State coach Joe Paterno discuss their friendship, coaching histories, and the upcoming Orange Bowl game during a press conference Thursday in Hollywood.

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