COASTE | PERSONALITIES
Sunshine andy Put them all together, and you have one of Southwest Florida’s most successful women who does it all with a smile on her face. She’s She’s one part passion. One part determination. One part business smart. And one part thankful.
Seated on the sunlit second-floor deck of the new SS Hookers restaurant at the threshold of the Sanibel Island Causeway in Fort Myers’ Punta Rasa, one can’t help but be struck with a sense — make that senses — of the place. It’s another Southwest Florida postcard- perfect Sunday as patrons chat it up, toasting over a Bloody Mary or Mimosa. Below, anglers scurry back and forth to launch gleaming white boats, bellowing out guidance as hulls slip silkily into the water.
Island-bound motorists stack up single file like soldiers on parade at the toll booths that connect them to sugar-sand Sanibel beaches. Just beyond the expanse of the causeway, azure waters glisten off gingerly tossing waves — disrupted only by frolicking foamy wake that snakes behind passing powerboats.
It’s almost as if Stilwell Enterprises and Restaurants Group CEO and Founder
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