[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 21]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 30521]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          CONGRATULATING THE PEOPLE OF BONITA SPRINGS, FLORIDA

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                          HON. PORTER J. GOSS

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, November 16, 1999

  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to recognize the creation of the 
ninth city in the Fourteenth District of Florida, the City of Bonita 
Springs. After many months of debate and discussion, the people of 
Bonita Springs cast their ballots in favor of incorporation as the 
fifth city in Lee County, FL on November 2, 1999.
  As a new Millennium begins, so the citizens of Bonita Springs will 
embark on a new challenge, the challenge of creating a new city from 
residents' ideas of what their community ought to be. It comes as no 
surprise that there are those willing to do the hard work involved with 
new cityhood. I'm sure they will find the rewards great and surprising, 
as I discovered in my experience when the City of Sanibel was born 25 
years ago.
  Now that the incorporation debate is over, I know the people of 
Bonita Springs will come together, roll up their sleeves and begin the 
business of fashioning a city that they can be proud of. Beginnings are 
marvelous, because the imagination is the only limitation. Of course, 
not everything can be accomplished immediately, but the ideas that come 
forth now can certainly become part of long-range goals.
  Again, my congratulations to the people of Bonita Springs. I stand 
ready to help them make their city the best it can be.

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