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Fortana named Pioneer of the Year during Spring Festival

By Staff | Mar 18, 2015

Jim Fortana

Jim Fortana, a former executive with the old Lehigh Corp., the group that formed Lehigh Acres, has been chosen as the Pioneer of the Year and will ride in an open convertible in the Lehigh Spring Festival on March 21 down Homestead Road.

Each year the Lehigh Spring Festival Board likes to honor someone who has been a part of Lehigh since its beginning many years ago. This year, Fortana, who is 87, and a resident of Fountain Crest in Lehigh, was nominated by Mike Nevins, Fred Elliott and J. Nathan Stout, who all said he deserved the honor because of his early work with Lehigh Corp.

Andy Reisinger, Lehigh Spring Festival chairman and also chairman of the parade on Saturday, March 21, always ask the Greater of Lehigh Chamber of Commerce to name someone as the Pioneer of the Year, who usually rides near the front of the parade with his name and designation as the Pioneer of the Year on the sides of the convertible.

Fortana, who says his memory is fading somewhat, laughed and teased that he didn’t know if he was going to ride in the convertible or not, but the plan is that he will be there.

When asked about his days at Lehigh Corp., Fortana says he remembers “selling a lot of lots” in Lehigh. He said he would never have believed that Lehigh has grown to the size it is today with a population believed to be hovering around 100,000 mark.

Fortana named Pioneer of the Year during Spring Festival

By Staff | Mar 18, 2015

Jim Fortana

Jim Fortana, a former executive with the old Lehigh Corp., the group that formed Lehigh Acres, has been chosen as the Pioneer of the Year and will ride in an open convertible in the Lehigh Spring Festival on March 21 down Homestead Road.

Each year the Lehigh Spring Festival Board likes to honor someone who has been a part of Lehigh since its beginning many years ago. This year, Fortana, who is 87, and a resident of Fountain Crest in Lehigh, was nominated by Mike Nevins, Fred Elliott and J. Nathan Stout, who all said he deserved the honor because of his early work with Lehigh Corp.

Andy Reisinger, Lehigh Spring Festival chairman and also chairman of the parade on Saturday, March 21, always ask the Greater of Lehigh Chamber of Commerce to name someone as the Pioneer of the Year, who usually rides near the front of the parade with his name and designation as the Pioneer of the Year on the sides of the convertible.

Fortana, who says his memory is fading somewhat, laughed and teased that he didn’t know if he was going to ride in the convertible or not, but the plan is that he will be there.

When asked about his days at Lehigh Corp., Fortana says he remembers “selling a lot of lots” in Lehigh. He said he would never have believed that Lehigh has grown to the size it is today with a population believed to be hovering around 100,000 mark.

Fortana named Pioneer of the Year during Spring Festival

By Staff | Mar 18, 2015

Jim Fortana

Jim Fortana, a former executive with the old Lehigh Corp., the group that formed Lehigh Acres, has been chosen as the Pioneer of the Year and will ride in an open convertible in the Lehigh Spring Festival on March 21 down Homestead Road.

Each year the Lehigh Spring Festival Board likes to honor someone who has been a part of Lehigh since its beginning many years ago. This year, Fortana, who is 87, and a resident of Fountain Crest in Lehigh, was nominated by Mike Nevins, Fred Elliott and J. Nathan Stout, who all said he deserved the honor because of his early work with Lehigh Corp.

Andy Reisinger, Lehigh Spring Festival chairman and also chairman of the parade on Saturday, March 21, always ask the Greater of Lehigh Chamber of Commerce to name someone as the Pioneer of the Year, who usually rides near the front of the parade with his name and designation as the Pioneer of the Year on the sides of the convertible.

Fortana, who says his memory is fading somewhat, laughed and teased that he didn’t know if he was going to ride in the convertible or not, but the plan is that he will be there.

When asked about his days at Lehigh Corp., Fortana says he remembers “selling a lot of lots” in Lehigh. He said he would never have believed that Lehigh has grown to the size it is today with a population believed to be hovering around 100,000 mark.