Hodges University has named Raphael (Alex) Olivares as this year’s recipient of the 2015 Founders Award – an honor presented annually to an exemplary Hodges University graduate who has provided outstanding and distinguished service to our community. The Award was presented at the 19th annual Humanitarian of the Year Awards luncheon recently. “I am deeply […]
Is your medicine cabinet filled with prescription and over-the-counter medication that you no longer use? If so, Drug Free Collier can help you clean up your act. Volunteers with Operation Medicine Cabinet® will be on hand at multiple locations throughout Collier County on Saturday, April 25, 2015 to help residents safely dispose of unwanted household […]
ADVERTORIAL When I bought William C. Huff Companies 26 years ago, baby boomers were in the midst of upsizing their homes and lifestyles. As a result of their prosperity and upward mobility, our company grew along with them. A great number of boomers born between 1946 and 1964 have held top-level corporate positions; opened their […]
by Jaclyn L. Kovach, MD What causes age-related macular degeneration (AMD)? Patients pose this seemingly simple question to me every day. For the past seven years, my colleague Dr. Stephen G. Schwartz, MD, MBA and I at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (BPEI) in Naples have collaborated with geneticists at the John P. Hussman Institute […]
NAPLES ZOO TO OPEN NEW FLORIDA PANTHER EXHIBIT AS PART OF COOPERATIVE EFFORT WITH WILDLIFE OFFICIALS TO PROVIDE CARE FOR INJURED PANTHERS Naples Zoo officials announced today they are breaking ground on a permanent home for a young Florida panther that cannot be returned to the wild after it was blinded by a shotgun blast. […]
Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church (MMBC) had its second “Soul Food Gala” on February 26, 2015 at the River Park Community Center on 11th Street North. It fostered a feeling of togetherness, food, family, friends and fun with an evening of entertainment by the Youth Choir of Macedonia and Tenor, James McDuffy of Fort Myers. Those […]
The Boys & Girls Club of Collier County recently held the Third Annual Youth of the Year Celebration at Artis-Naples with special guest and Boys & Girls Club alumni, Sugar Ray Leonard. More than 500 attended the event centered on the remarkable accomplishments of 20 local Youth of the Year nominees. Evening highlights included a […]
You can’t turn on the news, open a magazine or talk to a neighbor without the ‘cloud’ appearing. What is the cloud and how can it be useful to you? Simply put, the term cloud is used to describe information that is stored not on your own personal computer but on a remote computer or […]
One Giant Leap For Tennis In Southwest Florida! Communist parades, medieval pole festivals, an enormous tennis tournament; it must be May. And in this season ending month here at Cambier Park in downtown Naples we speak tournament tennis; and we speak it fluently. That’s because arguably the biggest tennis tournament around is about to start. […]
Murray Hendel has left Gulf Shore Blvd and he has left behind “Murray’s Mile.” Mr. Hendel is moving to Bentley Village after over 27 years on Gulf Shore. He walked the beach behind his Park Shore high-rise condo. The beach walk nearly a mile long was where you could find Murray walking almost everyday. During […]