Fireworks will fill Fourth of July skies in Bonita Springs
A fireworks and laser show will fill the Fourth of July skies over Bonita Springs after City Council voted to have “real fireworks” this year.
City staff is working on the specifics, but Councilor Jesse Purdon wants the annual show back in Riverside Park in the downtown area. He submitted the idea to have a fireworks show to universal councilor praise.
“We need to keep moving forward and get back to the way it was before, and the first step to that would be for us to approve, conceptually, the idea of going back to live fireworks,” Purdon said.
Six area heroes received the prestigious Phoenix Award
Andrea Stetson
When six local heroes received the prestigious Phoenix Award on Wednesday, it wasn’t about the honor or the certificate. It was about getting the word out to the public that they too can save lives.
Five Bonita Bay employees and one bystander were honored by the Bonita Springs Fire Department for saving the life of a man that was going into cardiac arrest on March 10. All six had been trained in CPR and in the use of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED). They used that knowledge to save Rob White.