By: Quinton Allen, CCPS Communications Specialist Paying for the car behind you when going through a tollbooth, leaving more than the basic 15-20% tip when dining out at a restaurant, or donating essential goods to someone who really needs them…now add picking up yearbook costs to examples of kindness sure to bring smiles to faces.“No […]
NAPLES SENIOR CENTER ADDS THREE ADDITIONAL COMMUNITY LEADERS TO ITS BOARD OF TRUSTEES Naples Senior Center, a nonprofit organization that supports and enriches the lives of seniors and their families in Collier and southern Lee counties, today announced that it has further broadened its experienced leadership with the appointment of supporters Steven Coplin, Marsha B. Karp and John F. […]
HELP A DIABETIC CHILD FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES MATCHING GIFT PROGRAM ALL DONATIONS WILL BE MATCHED DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR Help a Diabetic Child Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping families and individuals who are dealing with diabetes, announced that all donations through June 7 th will be matched dollar for dollar thanks to an anonymous donor, allowing all gifts to […]
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 […]