The Winged Foot Scholar-Athlete Foundation recently announced the selection of First Baptist Academy Senior Malaya Melancon as the recipient of the 31 st annual Winged Foot Scholar-Athlete Award. Melancon, who has signed to play soccer at Florida Gulf Coast University, becomes the first Winged Foot winner in the private school’s history. The Winged Foot selection committee made its decision […]
Myra Janco Daniels, Founder and Former CEO of the Philharmonic Center for the Arts, saw a challenge that she could not ignore…the 11,500+ children in Collier County who go home to an empty house after school. According to the Sheriff’s Department, this is the time when at-risk latchkey children are unsupervised, bored and are more likely to get […]
By: Quinton Allen, CCPS Communications Specialist “It would definitely be super awesome if we were able to walk across the stage,” Barron Collier High (BCH) senior Gene Michal Goin excitedly stated immediately after taking his cap and gown pictures on the morning of May 7. While social distancing, students returned to campus for a brief moment, dressed in […]
Keith Gibson interviews Sherri Parmar, Class of 2015, the first Eagle to tell her emotional inside story Florida Gulf Coast University has stepped up to meet the challenges created by the COVID-19 crisis in many ways, from reinventing how it educates students and conducts daily operations on and off campus, to serving as a community […]
NCH is sending one of its Xenex Germ-Zapping robots to several local restaurants as a way of saying “thank you” to those businesses who collectively donated thousands of meals to NCH staff during this pandemic. Yesterday, NCH sent it’s robot to Sails Restaurant and Bellini on Fifth with plans to disinfect Lake Park Diner, La Colmar, Bill’s Café, […]
By: Quinton Allen, CCPS Communications Specialist When the COVID-19 pandemic forced school campus closures, Collier County Public Schools (CCPS) created what would quickly become a statewide model for an online Continuous Learning Plan, while at the same time attending to the physical needs of our CCPS Family. More than 31,000 of the District’s 48,000 students […]
Are you experiencing difficulties sleeping as you worry about how the charity, that is near and dear to your heart, is going to be able to survive in our current economy? Are you secretly afraid your charity is going to close its door because a lack of fundraising? Are you intrigued by the concept of […]
MAY 2020 Experience Rookery Bay “Virtually” Every Day in May Join Rookery Bay Research Reserve every day in May at Friends of Rookery Bay on Facebook for interesting information, virtual tours and behind the scenes access to Rookery Bay’s research and programs. Each week will focus on a different aspect of Rookery Bay’s work and […]
The one thing that you can almost always predict people to do is to act in their own best interests. – Kim Dickey, Leadership Consultant and Speaker This quote offers the unadulterated truth about human behavior and dealings with others. In the age of COVID-19, though, all bets are off. These uncommon times call for […]
by Jeff Lytle February’s 24 hour Give Where You Live marathon is history, with a record $5.7 million in donations some as small as $10. With that mission accomplished, the harder work begins – for the non-profits who got money. “Our team is honored to be involved with two incredible foundations – The Community Foundation […]