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A summer recreation program for kids was under way at Bonita Springs Elementary School 30 years ago this week.

The five-week program had 30 children registered, with teacher Ronald Murphy supervising activities Monday through Friday. Tournaments were planned in ping pong, archery and basketball. A bus was arranged to take children to swim at Cypress Lake High School or Fort Myers Middle School as well.

In other news, Bonitans were pleased to learn that mosquito control planes soon would fly over their community.

Planes were slated to spray Bonita Springs June 25, according to T. Wayne Miller, director of Lee County Mosquito Control.

"If we come in at the proper time, right after a breeding period, we can wipe out a population and the spray treatment will be good until a new crop hatches out," Miller said.

To know when the time was ripe to spray, mosquito control sent trucks out nightly on mosquito-catching missions.

"Our trucks with big wind scoops on the top are in the Bonita area seven nights a week," Miller said. "We count the males in the trap, because males hatch faster than the females. When the male population disappears, then we know it's time and we schedule the flight."

Under construction on Beach Road in the Imperial Shores area was a new building for Bachant Builders. The island-type structure was to house one of the oldest firms in Bonita Springs.

Joining The Banner that week was Tish Gray, the former news editor of The Naples Star. Gray, a journalist for 22 years, was taking over The Banner's news coverage.

In the classifieds, a two-bedroom Bonita Beach condo was offered for $51,000 and lots on Pine Road in Estero started at $4,200. A duplex lot on Harold Street was going for $5,000 and a canal-front lot was priced at $10,000.

At the Trail Drive-In, Sean Connery was starring in "Man Who Would Be King" and Bruce Lee was featured in "Dragon Dies Hard."

Snook fishing continued to improve, with Bonitans and visitors catching linesiders aplenty. John Smith of Fourth Street hooked a 16 pounder and S.V. Parrish of Glazier Real Estate and Curtis Melvin of Naples Tomato Growers caught a stringer of the tasty fish.