No Easy Answers In Area Used To Freewheeling Fun
Out west of Seminole Pratt Whitney Road, past 180th Avenue North, Orange Blvd. turns into 70th Road North and leaves suburban homes behind. Then 70th turns into dirt where it meets Hay’s Trail and Antoinette Road. It’s there that you’ll find the wind riffling the row crops and the tops of interlocking canals, whispering over the crosses and candles and other artifacts of remembrance left for Nicholas Bunchuk, 24.
Bunchuk, who grew up in the Acreage/Loxahatchee area, lost his life there in the early morning hours of Nov. 23, when his yellow 2021 Can-Am Renegade went into a canal. Some 36 hours later, friends who’d joined in a search for Bunchuk saw tire tracks at the edge of a canal and maybe the shadow of something in the water…