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Shawn Kelly and Pat Barton to its board of directors.

The Florida Engineering Society has given John R. Musser of TKW Consulting Engineers its 2002 Award for Outstanding Service to

the Engineering Profession.

Dr. Ralph R. Garramone has been appointed into

Fellowship of the American College of Surgeons.

J.L. Wallace has been awarded a contract

to design and build a fire and rescue station for the Tice Fire Department and to

build a strip center on Daniels Parkway.

Dennis Raney of Tarpon Point Marina in Cape Coral has been awarded the

International Mariana Institute's Certified Marina Manager designation.

Sprint

PCS Wireless business sales manager Steven

Powley has been named chairman of the board for Big Brothers Big Sisters of

Southwest Florida.

John H. Stroemer of Markhan Norton Stroemer & Co. on Fort Myers has been

nominated by the CIRA Committee to serve on the CIRA Section Transition Team.

The Lee County Association

of Independent Insurance Agents board officers for 2002-2003 are: president Jonathan M. Brooke of Risk Management

Insurance, vice president Paul

Atkinson of Atkinson and Associates; secretary Marc Evan Williams of Lutgert Smith Lesher Insurance and treasurer Stephen

L. Dannenhauer of Five County Insurance Agency.

The P.O.L.O. Club of Lee

County's 2003

board officers are president Kristin

Lissack of Healthy Start Coalition of Southwest Florida, vice president Jim Chouinard of Chouinard and Stamps,

CPA, secretary Rebeca Bright of

Sprint PCS, and treasurer

Jon Lissack of

Markham Norton Stroemer &Co.

The Southwest Florida

Hispanic Chamber of Commerce's 2003 board officers are

president Lucy Quinones of Century

21 Birchwood Realty, executive vice president Ernesto Rolon of Morg/Em International,

vice president of administration and finance Jeremy Dearinger of Fifth Third Bank, vice president of communications, Manny Romero of American Latino

Magazine, vice president of events, David Vargas of the Vargas Group, vice

president of membership

Robert Da Frota of Morgan Stanley, treasurer Luis Aldana

of the Circulo Maya Group and

secretary Darlene Welch of Goldstein

Buckley Cechman Rice & Purtz.

William Ernest Waites, president of the

Advertising Federation of Southwest Florida,judged the local ADDY Awardscompetition for the Suncoast

Advertising Federation and the

Greater Tallahassee Advertising Federation.

Lee County Electric

Cooperative's accounts

payable department received an honorable mention for the Institute of Management

and Administration's 2002 Achieving Excellence in Accounts Payable Awards.

Boran Craig Barber Engel

Construction Co.

of Naples has been named the general contractor for the Beau Rivage

development in Fort Myers.

The

Sanibel-Captiva Association of Realtors has named

Eric Pfeifer of VIP Realty Group

Rookie of the Year and Ada

Shissler theCommunity Service

Award Winner for 2002.

The

Florida Association of Colleges and Universities

has elected William C.

Merwin, president of Florida Gulf Coast University, president for the

academic year 2002-2003.

Gerri Moll

of Bank of America has been

appointed to the Florida Board of Governors.

Junior Achievement of

Southwest Florida's

advisory board for the Lee County Business Leadership Hall of Fame 2003

are William Blevins of Wachovia

Bank, Richard Durnwald of

Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, John

Fritts of Florida Gulf Bank, Randall

Henderson Jr., of Corbin Henderson Company,

Carol Hudler of The

News-Press, Charles Idelson,

D. Todd McGee of Gilbert, Wallace

Stewart, McGee, Stramel & Sowers, Marietta

Mudgett of Greater Fort Myers Chamber of Commerce, Steve Pontius of Waterman Broadcasting, and Gary Trippe of Oswald Trippe & Co.

Robert Shiels

of The Bonita Bay

Group has been named Regional Marketing Director of the Year by the

National Association of Home Builders.

Robert E. Banker, E. Jackson Boggs, W. Donald

Cox, Andrew J. Krause, Thomas G. Pelham, John W. Robinson IV and Edward

M. Waller Jr of Fowler White Boggs Banker have been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America 2003-2004.

Florida Gulf Coast

University's board

of trustees include Larry D. Hart, Scott F. Lutgert of Lutgert Cos., Harry K. Moon of Himmarshe Surgical Partners, Linda

K. Taylor, Plutarco M. Villalobes of

Cook and Koch and Renee F. Lee.

Fred Partin

of Bonita Springs Utilities has been elected as a trustee-at-large

on the board of governors for the Florida Section of the American Water Works

Association.

Philip C. Bennett

of Fort Myers has been

re-elected to the board of the National Association of Independent Public

Finance Advisors, becoming the first Florida business executive to ever earn a

board seat.

Wilhelm Gahabka

at The Club at Mediterra has

been named Chef of the Year by the Caxambus chapter of the American Culinary

Federation.

Tammy Kiehl

of Fifth Third Bank, Florida has been inducted for a second term

as secretary of the Women's Council of Realtors.

Rosemarie Hurley

with Senior Insurance Solutions in Bonita Springs has become a certified

senior advisor by the Society of Certified Senior Advisors.

The

Lee County Board of Port Commissioners, composed of the five Lee commissioners,

has elected Ray Judah chairman and John Albion vice chairman.

The

Ritz-Carlton Resorts of Naples has won the Mobil Five-Star Award for the fifteenth

consecutive year from Mobil Travel Guide

and ranked in the "Top Ten of North American Resorts" in the Annual Conde Nast Traveler "Readers' Choice"

Awards.

The Lee County Horizon Council's officers for the

coming year are: chairman Stephen Royal

of Southwest Florida Regional Medical Center, vice chairman Jim Nulman of Henderson, Franklin, Starnes & Holt, secretary Robbie Roepstorff of Edison National

Bank, treasurer Bruce Gora of

Gora/McGahey Associates in Architecture and Horizon Foundation president Steve Shimp of Owen-Ames-Kimball Co.

Lee County commissioner Andrew Coy

will represent the board of county commissioners. New members include Mark McCaw (Bonita Springs Chamber of

Commerce), Jack Glarrow (Cape Coral

Chamber), Al O'Donnell (Estero Chamber), Angie

Parker (Fort Myers Beach Chamber), Mark

Morris, (Greater Fort Myers Chamber), Darrel

Walters (Lehigh Acres Chamber), Darlene

Pye (North Fort Myers Chamber), Paul

Eckenroad (Pine Island Chamber), Gilda

Suarez (Sanibel-Captiva Chamber), Tom

Mueller (Chamber of Southwest Florida), Joyce Ryan (City of Cape Coral), Jeanne Dozier (Lee County School District), Jeff Wilson (Cape Coral Council for Progress), John Kremski (CCIM Southwest Florida), John Musser (Economic Development Coalition), Neale Montgomery (Real Estate Investment Society) and Jim Woodard (Realtor Association of

Greater Fort Myers and the Beach).

Rick Gallo, owner of Close Watch

Services, an absentee owner inspection company, has been appointed to the

National Office of Volunteers for the March of Dimes.

Westwood Investments Associates has selectged The Evans Group to provide architectural services for Province

Park, a private gated community in Fort Myers.

Ted A. Capuano with Legacy One Financial in Fort Myers has

become a certified senior advisor.

Debbie DeMaria

of Vogue Interiors has been

elected to the board of the Lee Building Industry Association.