"It's probably just a drop in the bucket, but right now we're happy to take whatever we can get, " said Nick DePasquale, president of Fairview Ford Lincoln Mercury in San Bernardino.

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In neighboring Fort Myers, Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Colleen DePasquale says job growth may in part be seasonal, because the population always swells in the winter months, and two baseball teams, the Twins and the Red Sox, go to Fort Myers for spring training.

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