In 2012 the Commander of Florida District 13 Veterans of Foreign Wars received a request from a young lady searching for the burial location of her grandfather. He was a deceased Veteran buried at the Lake Trafford Cemetery near Immokalee, Florida. The request for assistance was forwarded to Golden Gate VFW Post 7721, Naples, Florida.As […]
AFTER RAISING CLOSE TO $16 MILLION AT LIVE AUCTION Each year, the NWWF Online Auction raises additional funds towards supporting NCEF February 28, 2019 (NAPLES, FL) – This year’s Naples Winter Wine Festival Online Auction came to a close, raising $302,100 alongside the close to $16 million raised under the tent during the Live Auction. This was […]
by Kelsey Burr, Naples Zoo Marketing Associate Would you like a painting done by a giraffe? Or a chance to feed a giant anteater? At Naples Zoo, we are constantly adding new experiences for our guests, to get them closer with wildlife and learn indepth about the animals. We have recently launched three new Wild Encounter experiences: a black and white tegu encounter, […]
Marieb College’s School of Nursing prepares nurses designed to be caring scholar clinicians for professional practice. The Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and other nursing programs are guided by the leadership of Dr. Anne Nolan, who is Director of the School of Nursing. Dr. Mitchell L. Cordova joined Florida Gulf Coast University as Professor and Dean of the Marieb College […]
By Jeff Lytle Skip Quillen has learned a thing or two since training in Switzerland as a chef and first coming to Naples to work in 1981. Example: He knows the folly of those celebrity chef TV shows, which portray cooks as the only stars at restaurants. “We are a whole company of stars,’’ says Quillen, whose Culinary Concepts launched the first […]
Let’s start this article from the top. By that I mean from the water that flows from Orlando south to Naples. This flow goes from the Greater Orlando area with its many septic tanks and flows southward through the Kissimmee River basin picking up agricultural runoff, septic tank discharge along the way to Lake Okeechobee. We are all familiar with what happens to the water during high rain events/seasons […]
Naples residents love their parks! This love comes easily when the city is graced with wonderful open spaces of various sizes, shapes and amenities that meet the diverse outdoors and recreational interests of residents. From the popular Cambier Park in the heart of downtown Naples – to the beach front Lowdermilk Park – to small but unique neighborhood parks […]
The Naples Senior Center, a nonprofit organization that provides comprehensive programs and social services for seniors, announced that it has launched a $15 million capital campaign dubbed “A New Era for Seniors” to establish a new state-of-the-art facility accelerated with a lead gift by local philanthropists Patty and Jay Baker. The Naples Senior Center is the only human services agency […]
by By Patrick Linn, MS, MSHAPI Executive Director, Collier Mosquito Control District With more than 40 species of mosquitoes in Collier County, our research in understanding their biology, seasonal activity, and resistance to insecticides are key to fulfilling our mission of controlling both disease-carrying and nuisance mosquitoes. From the salt marsh mosquitoes that migrate into the area from outside the District in the […]