Cape Coral Breeze Athletes of the Week

Cape Coral Breeze Athletes Week of the

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Fort Myers 53, Cape Coral 47: The Seahawks finished the season at 13-11 with their loss in the semifinals Friday's championship

Charlotte

Charlotte 67, Dunbar 62 Mariner 80, Cypress Lake 65: The Tritons (17-9) move into Friday s district final against top seed Port Charlotte

From page 18A CJ at Port Charlotte championship

TENNIS

School of Naples 7, Oasis 0: The Sharks (1-1) are home Monday against Gateway Charter Tuesday GIRLS SOCCER REGION 5A-3 All matches 7 p m At higher seeds North Fort Myers 5, Braden River 1: Freshman Hannah Busenbark scored twice for the Red Knights (13-2-3), and Lexi Neumann made three assists Carolina Jenkins had a goal and an assist, Sohia Quartuccio and Brianna Sullivan scored a goal each and Evie McCarthy made an assist Next up is a semifinal date with Naples on Friday Mariner 8, St Petersburg 0: The

(15-4-1) are home against Barron Collier in the semifinals

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Resource Conservation Society to do a field tour The NRCS said these areas would be eligible for shoreline restoration such as plantings

The problem that we re going to have is (the NRCS) told us in those same meetings, they have no funding available to even help us ” Ilczyszyn said

Ilczyszyn said he and Schweitzer this week also reviewed policies for the monitors and contractors performing work He said there is no guideline that states an ecologist must be on-site Ilczyszyn said they are setting up a training for all contractors to give them additional knowledge on what to look for in addition to pamphlets they received earlier

This week, city officials have also asked contractors that when they do find a burrow that is unmarked to report it to the city so it can be added to the database

Schweitzer added, We are not doing land clearing on behalf of any future growth or contractors’ behalf Part of that misconception comes from the way we have to approach it from land-based removal operations We have to travel from the roadway down the easement to the back of the lot, and then work on the back easement of the lot So there is some removal of vegetation that is incidental to the actual removal of the vegetation debris ” Schweitzer said there have been instances during the removal process where wildlife were identified, and work was stopped until a best practice method could be found or left

Ryleigh Acosta one of her three goals in the Mariner Tritons' 8-0 regional opener win over St Petersburg Tuesday night

Dunbar 64, Island Coast 53: The Gators season ended at 10-14 Kobey Babernitch led Island Coast with 19 points, w i t h I s i a s O r t i z - T o r r e s s c o r i n g 1 4

Wednesday GIRLS TENNIS Fort Myers 6, Ida Baker 1

Singles: Gabriela Whitmer (FM) d

K a t h r y n e J o n e s 6 - 3 , 6 - 3 E l i z a b e t h

Ida Baker 43: T h e R e d K n i g h t s ( 1 0 - 1 5 ) s c o r e d 3 2 fourth-quarter points to pull away from the B u l l d o g s G a v i n H o l l o w a y s c o r e d 1 2 points and pulled down nine rebounds for Ida Baker

DISTRICT 5A-11 All games 7 p m

K r e m e n c h u c k e r ( F M ) d A l e x a n d r a Hamilton 60- 6-2 Maddi Welsh (FM) d Ella Peterson (6-0 6-1 Isabelle Rose (FM) d Brooke Robinson 6-1, 6-2 Amber A b e r ( F M ) d J u l i k a F e i x z 6 - 0 , 6 - 0

D o u b l e s : J o n e s - H a m i l t o n ( I B ) d

W e l s h / A l e x a n d r a B o c a n e g r a 8 - 4 L i l i

F a b b r i n i / A a n i k a S h e i t y ( F M ) d Peterson/Robinson 8-2 Record: Ida Baker 0-1

Canal cleanup: Council says city committed to proper process

ing well and are making every effort to improve the process ”

Mayor John Gunter said “For me I want to make sure that we police ourselves to make sure that we are working within the confines of the specified permit I think that s our responsibility as a city to make sure that happens -- whether it’s Tetra Tech or the subcontractors that do that removal -- it still falls upon us to make sure that they are doing what they re supposed to do It sounds like we are, but I want to make sure we're dotting our Is and crossing our Ts Councilmember Bill Steinke inquired if there would be a way to drag a large piece of vegetive debris over healthy debris instead of clearing everything out to get to it

(The crews perform) I guess the most time-efficient and cost-effective way that they can get it ”

Schweitzer said “Yes they are paid by the cubic yard of anything they remove but if they have to do something to get to the canopy (and) they ve got to remove more vegetation to get to it, that s what they'll have to do ”

Hurricane debris removal has some waterfront property owners concerned Pictured is a portion of the bank of a canal off of Embers Parkway West where most all vegetation has been removed think we’re doing enough District 2 Councilmember Dan Sheppard said, It seems to me there s no intent of malice I think staff respects wildlife as well and it seems to be that they’re going to do what they can to improve I think staff is respond-

CCFW officials said they are looking into any potential environmental legal action pertaining to the work

The Breeze did confirm with Florida Fish and Wildlife that they are looking into the sites

Debris removal being done is part of the FEMA reimbursement program

To report a burrowing owl or gopher tortoise burrow, residents can call 311

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