A new flowerbed here, wooden picnic tables there, a fresh coat of paint. It was all in a hard day’s work spent sprucing up the campus of Youth Haven, Collier County’s only homeless shelter for traumatized youth. Twenty volunteers from various walks of life such as bankers, attorneys, accountants and wounded war veterans recently tackled […]
My children are beginning to suspect that I haven’t told them the full story of our circumstances,” confided Jeannie, a lovely seventyish piano teacher. “Les and I were always in charge of our home, finances and lives, but now we see sideways glances exchanged between them when we are together.” Jeannie’s children were right to […]
Recently the Federal Trade Commission reported that government documents/benefits is the most common form of reported identity theft. As a tax practitioner, identity theft continues to be an ever increasing problem for my clients. First of all the question is asked: What is identity theft? Identity theft occurs when someone uses your personal information such […]
December 7, 1941 is a date that would live in infamy. August 14, 1945 marks the close of the mightiest struggle humankind has ever seen. Yet, this WWII generation, who had experiences that pushed them to their ultimate limits, has also given America life lessons and values we should strive to remember to subvert the […]
Naples. The Philharmonic Center for the Arts. Myra Daniels. It doesn’t matter in which order these words are spoken it is hard to mention one without the other two popping up. Naples is where Myra lives, works and plays. Her achievement with the Arts is legendary, she and a few hundred of her best friends […]
With 110,000 acres of coastal lands and waters, Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve has a big responsibility that cannot be accomplished by staff alone. Through the Reserve’s citizen support organization, Friends of Rookery Bay, volunteers and interns are filling many gaps with duties ranging from beautifying the grounds at the Environmental Learning Center to […]
It’s hard to believe that today is July 3rd, and it seems as if our last Season just flew by. In my 40 years of living in Naples I have never seen so much rain so early. I can clearly remember the way the summer weather patterns used to be when I first moved to […]
The Junior Achievement organization was founded nearly 100 years ago (in 1919), and took on its current and longstanding name in 1926. As with many cities across the country, this organization has a home in Naples as well as numerous counterparts across the globe. In the United States, the organization reaches four million students and […]
If you are self-conscious because you have missing teeth, wear dentures that are uncomfortable or don’t want to have good tooth structure removed to make a bridge, talk to your dentist to see if dental implants are an option for you. Dental implants are a popular and effective way to replace missing teeth and are […]
Summer time is ramping up to an especially exciting season for the Naples Art Association. In passionate pursuit of its mission to promote and advance education, interest and participation in the visual arts, it’s offering a vast array of new and returning programs to help artists of all ages and skill levels along their creative […]