Entries by LifeInNaples

FRANCES PEW HAYES CENTER FOR LIFELONG LEARNING PROVIDES BENEFITS TO SWFL RESIDENTS

Serving adults in Southwest Florida, Hodges University’s Frances Pew Hayes Center for Lifelong Learning (CLL) provides a wide variety of lifelong learning classes throughout the year. Established in 1996 as the first lifelong learning program in Collier County, the CLL is member-directed and multigenerational, enabling participants to experience diverse, collaborative, life-enhancing, intellectual and social activities. […]

The Third Eight

by Benita Staadecker What are you talking about you may ask? Well, everyone knows that we each get 24 hours every day. The question is what do you do with them. Let’s divide the day into three 8 hour segments: 8 hours to sleep (very important); 8 hours to work or play (after all we […]

State of the City – November 2016

I find it hard to believe that it has been six months since the Mayoral election. The time just seems to fly by and it’s amazing that Thanksgiving and the Holiday Season are right around the corner. The Mayor’s office has been a busy place as many good things have and continue to happen in […]

A Final Salute – From the Publisher

Our Naples community, specifically our Veterans and I have lost two of the best friends we’ve ever had. A quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson summed it up, “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” No one embodied these words better than Jim Elson and Homer Helter. Jim was involved in many […]

Serving up more than award winning steaks!

When Don Shula opened his first steak house back in 1989 to honor his 1972 perfect 17-0 winning Super Bowl season, he purposely incorporated the same coaching principles and traditions into his restaurant that propelled him to eventually become the NFL’s all-time winningest coach. And then he empowered the future leaders of this new family […]

Meet the Musicians

by Claudia Polzin November – the end of Hurricane Season and the beginning of “SEASON” – the end of one storm and the beginning of a storm of another kind – a whirlwind through April. Somehow all of us survive both of the seasons; lately the “season” is more taxing on our energies – but […]

A Riot of Color

by Diana Jarrett, GG RMV Pearls are every woman’s jewel. Think about it. While other ‘gemstones’ are actually minerals that we unearth, the cultured pearl is a fascinating product of an organic source. Pearl farms carefully cultivate bi-valves allowing them to fully develop and produce lustrous organic gems–the elegant pearl. PEARLS TODAY Long ago, pearls […]

Charity Classic – a Silver Lining for Success

By Steven Kissinger – Long-time supporters of The Immokalee Foundation have joined together to lead the organization’s signature events – the Charity Classic Celebration and Pro-Am – during this, the foundation’s silver anniversary year. Parker Collier, who joined with other community leaders to found The Immokalee Foundation in 1991, will serve as honorary chair of […]

Life’s a Beach! And now there’s a book!

by Sandra Lee Buxton – Curiosity may have killed the cat, but for Robert and Carole Leher, their curiosity resulted in a book. Naples Beach Homes: Cottages, Castles, and the Families That Built Them. Their excitement in planning, implementing, and execution took about three years. It began with a simple question, “Who lives in those […]