{"id":10052,"date":"2012-06-27T15:09:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T20:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=10052"},"modified":"2012-06-27T15:09:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T20:09:07","slug":"community-receives-special-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/06\/community-receives-special-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Receives <BR> Special Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10053\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10053\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Palm-Planting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10053\" title=\"Palm Planting\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Palm-Planting-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Palm-Planting-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Palm-Planting-1024x690.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Palm-Planting.jpg 1415w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commissioner Mann with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reifer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lee County Commissioner Frank Mann\u2019s office announced\u00a0 that a special gift is being donated to the citizens of Lehigh Acres from two of their own.\u00a0 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reifer, long time residents, have a unique tree in their front yard, thought to exist only once in 25,000 occurrences in nature.<\/p>\n<p>It is the native Sabal Palm (also known as the Cabbage Palm), but this one has two heads.\u00a0 This palm is extremely rare, and Mann said \u201cin all my life in Lee County, I have only seen two others.\u201d\u00a0 They are accidents in nature, and scientists can only speculate as to how they occur, Mann said.\u00a0 County staff\u00a0 transplanted this outstanding Florida product from the Reifer\u2019s front yard today, moving it to the major Lehigh Acres\u00a0 intersection at the corner of Lee Blvd. and Homestead Road. Here it can then be seen and enjoyed by thousands of Lehigh citizens daily, Mann said.\u00a0 <!--more-->Mann said he believes this unique symbol of Florida to be perfect for this unique community, and will be a special sight to be appreciated for years to come. Mann said \u201cI am particularly pleased that our county staff is able to move the tree to its new location. We are very grateful to the Reifer\u2019s for this truly special gift.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee County Commissioner Frank Mann\u2019s office announced\u00a0 that a special gift is being donated to the citizens of Lehigh Acres from two of their own.\u00a0 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reifer,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}