Busy executive embraces complicated and sometimes dangerous sport

Kathryn Kelly has been spearfishing since she was a kid.

Stefania Pifferi. Heights Foundation President and CEO Kathryn Kelly says spearfishing requires practice and persistence.
Stefania Pifferi. Heights Foundation President and CEO Kathryn Kelly says spearfishing requires practice and persistence.
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Executive: Kathryn Kelly, 64. She’s the founder, president and CEO of the Heights Foundation, which supports education, wellness, arts and other community development efforts in the Harlem Heights community of Fort Myers. She started the foundation, which recently broke ground on its Heights Early Learning and Education Center, in 2000 after seeing the need in the community during an outreach project conducted over Thanksgiving in 1999.

 

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