FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:    Greg Jackson, Lee County Parks & Recreation
                (941) 267-2181

FORT MYERS, Fla. (May 15, 2001) – Lee County Parks & Recreation is hosting its third and final Concert in the Park at Three Oaks Community Park Saturday (May 19) with The Mambo Brothers as the featured act.

The opening soloist will be Charlie Jenkins. The concert is scheduled to run from 5:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., with the Mambo Brothers starting around 7:00 p.m.

The concert series is free and soda (Pepsi products), beer (Miller) and food vendors are on site. Coolers are not allowed into the event.

Three concerts made up this season’s series. The first concert in November featured Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band from New Orleans. The February concert featured Sheba and the Rhythm Kings from Miami. Past concerts typically have drawn between 1,500 and 2,000 people, however The Mambo Brothers typically are the biggest draw with 2,500 to 3,000 concertgoers.

Sponsors this year have been San Carlos Park Sunshine Ace Hardware, radio station B103.9, WM. Thies & Sons Inc. (Miller Beer), Bill Vernay Movers, and the San Carlos Park Optimist Club.

If you need additional information, call Greg Jackson at 267-2181.

Three Oaks Community Park is located at 18251 Three Oaks Parkway just south of Alico Road in the Three Oaks/San Carlos Park community. The park has baseball fields, bike/jogging trails, picnic tables, shelters and grills, a playground and racquet ball courts.

Lee County’s Parks & Recreation Department maintains and operates 3,500 acres of developed park land, 14 centers, 10 pools, five boat ramps, three Gulf beach parks, one lakefront beach, 76 beach accesses, 60 tennis courts, 73 ballfields, and 13 preserves. The department’s fiscal year 2001 operating budget is $15.1 million.