What’s NEW at Rookery Bay! Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center is OPEN on Saturdays from October through April! Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center is open 9 am to 4 pm Monday through Saturday from October through April. Enjoy the air-conditioned two-story visitor center, marine life touch tanks, art gallery, gift shop, as well as nature […]
Water filled the submerged vehicle but 10-year-old Gabriella Chernysh would not let go of her book. Not as her 14-year-old sister Isabel punched the glass window to make their escape. Not when Isabel grabbed Gabriella and pulled her through to safety. Not even as emergency crews arrived on scene to treat their mother Rachael, who […]
Kris ‘Tanto’ Paronto Benghazi – An American Hero U.S. Army Ranger and CIA security contractor, author and motivational speaker, Paronto was part of the CIA annex security team during the 2012 terrorist attack on U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stephens and the CIA compound in Benghazi. He is featured in the book 13 Hours: The […]
Florida continues to lead the country in bicycle and pedestrian crashes and fatalities. Despite efforts to increase the education of all road users, improved infrastructure and signage, and better understanding and enforcement of laws by police officers, our roadways can still be a very scary place. The most vulnerable road users, those traveling on foot or bicycle, experience the worst consequences of critical […]
Associate Chief Nursing Officer Ilia Echevarria recently shared the following essay with me. In the June 2017 Quick Safety newsletter, the Joint Commission deemed daily safety briefings, also called safety huddles or daily check-ins, as ‘hallmarks of high reliability organizations.’ Safety huddles in healthcare have also been endorsed by a number of organizations, including the American Hospital Association, Institute for […]
It’s just like that old TV show ”Cheers” theme song – Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name … and they’re always glad you came. That’s what it’s like for the veterans who are regulars at Homer’s Annex, a little known meetup that helps fill the void left behind since Homer Helter passed away. Homer, the name-sake for the annex, was a […]
When I arrived in Naples in the summer of 1979, the first place I targeted was the City of Naples tennis courts. What better place to exercise and meet new friends? After getting on a new player’s list, I perused the tennis center’s “wall of fame” to see who was the Who’s Who of tennis. There was one name that […]
The NCH Safe & Healthy Children’s Coalition recognizes that multiple layers of protection are necessary to prevent drowning. We stress that NO single device or solution can prevent pediatric drownings. Parents, caregivers, aquatic facility owners, managers and operators should use “layers of protection” to provide a system of increased […]
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute welcomed Dr. Carla Osigian Probst to the fulltime faculty at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Naples in August. Dr. Osigian is an ophthalmologist who specializes in pediatric ophthalmology and pediatric and adult strabismus. She completed her medical degree at University of Panama Medical School in Panama City, an internationally recognized 6 year MD program. She then completed two years of transitional internship […]
What excites serious gemstone devotees is not so much adding more to their collection, but searching out the unknown, the rare and hard to find jewels. So quality trumps quantity every time in this sparkling pursuit. There are new gemstone varieties found all the time of course. The earth has not yet yielded all its glory. So, you can be […]