JUST CALL IT THE LITTLE HOUSE WITH THE BIG reputation.
According to Naples architect David Corban, the Walker Guest House on Sanibel Island is “probably the biggest little deal out there.
“It’s this perfect little structure. It’s architecturally very important,” he says.
Halloween comes but once a year, and with it comes a pillowcase full of community events to amuse big and little gremlins alike. If you’re looking at opportunities to get some wear out of that costume, hit up as many contests, haunted houses, candy grabs and parties as you can before the witching hour turns into turkey time on Sunday.
“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
— Second Amendment, United States Constitution, 1791
Scandinavia is the American left’s Shangri-La. It is the land of social democracy and of all good things. It is the answer to any objection that new welfare benefits can’t be adopted here: But look how well they work in Sweden.
It is a scary season.
Jared Grifoni is a practicing attorney and corporate counsel for Gulf Coast Donuts (Dunkin’ Donuts). He also hosts “Resistance Radio” Saturday mornings on WGUF 98.9- FM and chairs the Libertarian Party of Collier County.
The Naples Preserve will be offering free family oriented, nature-based programs from 1-3 p.m. Saturday afternoons from Oct. 31 through Nov. 28.
The Village School and North Naples Church recently broke ground for the addition of a high school at the campus on Goodlette-Frank Road. Expansion of the worship/performing arts center is also part of the $10 million capital campaign plan. The high school is scheduled to open in August 2016.
Parents of children with disabilities are invited to “Sharing the Commitment,” a conference presented by the Exceptional Student Education department of Collier County Public Schools in collaboration with Florida Diagnostic and Learning Resources System and Lee County Public Schools.
Royal Palm Academy invites families who want to learn more about the private Catholic school for grades pre-K through eight to open house from 1-3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8.
Guests will meet staff and current families, learn about school programs and future plans and tour the campus.
Refreshments will be served.
The Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida needs to provide about 10,000 turkeys and chickens for families in need this Thanksgiving. The community can help by donating frozen holiday birds or making a financial contribution.
The CME Group Tour Championship Junior Clinic will take place from 1:30-4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, at Tiburón Golf Club at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort. Golfers ages 17 and younger are invited to the free event that will include group instruction, activities and games by LPGA professionals and local golf pros.
Doing time right
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The Collier County Identity Theft Task Force invites the public to its next presentation from 10-11:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 6, in the Community Room at the Naples Daily News. Attendance is limited to 150 people.
The redesigned Ford Mustang made our Guys’ Choice list earlier this summer because this American icon was re-engineered to offer more widespread appeal than a Hershey bar. But what if this was just the base for a more exotic dessert?
The Catholic-Jewish Dialogue of Collier County holds a commemoration service for the 77th anniversary of Kristallnacht, “The Night of Broken Glass,” at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8, at St. William Catholic Church, 601 Seagate Drive.
Here’s where Collier County Sheriff’s Office traffic-enforcement deputies will be the week of Nov. 2-6:
Monday, Nov. 2
Glades Boulevard and Palm Drive: Red-light running
Immokalee Drive and North 15th Street: Red-light running
Old 41 Road and Tamiami Trail North: Speeding
AARP offers classes to help older drivers learn about new traffic laws, refresh their driving skills and reduce their risk for tickets and accidents. Drivers over age 55 might be eligible for a discount on auto insurance.
¦ Gulf Coast Runners host the Run Wild Halloween 5K setting out at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, at Gordon River Greenway Park to benefit the Conservancy of Southwest Florida and The Naples Zoo. There is a special division for children who run the course. Registration is $30 through Oct. 30 and $35 on race day.
On a pleasant October morning, Niki Dondero, Rick Hart and Kathleen Hoover went out to wrestle with the dark in a world designed for light.
Florida Weekly’s ad designers and creative team took home 15 awards for advertising design excellence last week at the annual statewide meeting of the Florida Newspaper Advertising and Marketing Executives in Sarasota.
It was a rain of biblical proportions, a once-in-a-thousand-years rainfall producing massive flooding without precedence, inundating South Carolina from the coast to its midlands. The consequence of heavy rains over several days was cataclysmic.
The Harry Chapin Food Bank has been serving Southwest Florida communities for more than 30 years. I have been privileged to be the CEO for the past 8 ½ years. I am leaving to accept a similar position in California.
I’ve heard that expression all my life — “blind as a bat.” Just like my mother, who’s been blind as a bat for half of her 88 years.
A decade has passed since Hunter S. Thompson — hedonist extraordinaire and the self-styled founder and foremost practitioner of what is known as “gonzo journalism” — died by his own hand at the age of 67.
“We HATE horrible, wholesome sunshine!”
Tag banned; Rover, Red Rover in jeopardy
Florida’s first bear hunting season in two decades opens Saturday, Oct. 24, in the East Panhandle, North, Central and South bear management areas.
The 13th season for the Speakers Assembly of Southwest Florida starts Friday, Nov. 13, with guest speaker Ron Plesco of KPMG. The luncheon takes place at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort & Spa.
There’s a funny little lie we tell when romanticizing a convertible. Mentioning the “wind in your hair” feeling helps describe the freedom that an open top allows in only four little words. But in reality, taking a drop top road trip often means getting whipped around until the carload looks like a 1980s cover band on tour.
Here’s where Collier County Sheriff’s Office traffic-enforcement deputies will be the week of Oct. 26-30:
Monday, Oct. 26
Collier and Triangle boulevards: Speeding
Airport-Pulling Road and Emerald Lakes Drive: Red-light running
Radio and Livingston roads: Red-light running
AARP offers classes to help older drivers learn about new traffic laws, refresh their driving skills and reduce their risk for tickets and accidents. Drivers over age 55 might be eligible for a discount on auto insurance.
¦ The Gator Club of Naples, an affiliate organization of the University of Florida Alumni Association, hosts social gatherings so UF alums and friends can cheer on the Gators throughout football season (Stevie Tomato’s on Collier Boulevard is UF game-day headquarters this season), holds a golf tournament to raise scholarship dollars for Collier Count
As the Southwest Florida economy continues to grow, it is important for students to plan for the future following graduation from high school.
Drama takes center stage at the Marco Island Historical Society meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov.
“Modern Marco,” a joint venture of the Marco Island Historical Museum and the Marco Island Historical Society, takes visitors back in time to the mid-1960s, when the concept of the island as it is today existed only in the imaginations of the Mackle brothers — Elliot, Robert and Frank Jr. — who developed it.
Some parents bring a newborn into their bed with them because they cannot afford a crib. Many other parents simply believe it is a natural, loving thing to sleep with their baby. In either scenario, parents are creating a potentially life-threatening scenario.
¦ Old Naples Surf Shop hosts the third annual 13th Avenue South Skim Jam starting at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, to benefit the Friends of Rookery Bay Team Ocean Project. Same-day registration is from 7-8 a.m. at the store at 1311 Third St. S. Early registration is $30, same-day registration in $35. Call 262-1877 or visit oldnaplessurfshop.com.
Tiburon Golf Club members and guests of The Ritz-Carlton Resorts of Naples will have the opportunity of teeing up with a caddie beginning in November, when Tiburon becomes the first resort club in Southwest Florida to offer caddie concierges through a multiyear agreement with CaddieMaster.
THREE DEAD OVERNIGHT IN DELRAY Beach. A Collier County bust worth more than $120,000. Fifteen out of 21 group therapy patients in Lee County wrestling with a powerful compulsion that has taken control of their lives.
Feline lives matter, including tens of thousands of feral cats that are estimated to roam free through Southwest Florida neighborhoods.
Hillary Clinton has a new gun agenda that is the same as the old gun agenda.
Do you get discouraged by bad news? By shootings here, bombings there and a variety of train wrecks everywhere else?
I don’t, because I have a powerful antidote. Each day I spend at least a few minutes hanging around individuals afflicted with a single prominent ambition: to do something For the Good.
As the founder and president of Presentations Plus Inc., Naomi Buck seeks out and vets shows for her clients, negotiates artist fees and then supervises the programming and production team to massage the show through to performance day.
There is new evidence of climate change and it is not just affecting the weather we normally expect this time of year.
The Collier County University of Florida Extension Service and the Collier County Master Gardeners host the 2015 Yard & Garden Show from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25, at the Collier County UF Extension Service at 14700 Immokalee Road.
The Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida needs to provide about 10,000 turkeys and chickens for families in need this Thanksgiving. The community can help by donating frozen holiday birds or making a financial contribution.
Marco Island resident Roseanne Pawelec is donating $1 from every sale of her new children’s book, “Ollie Finds a New Home,” to a fund to help protect Marco’s burrowing owls.
I’ve gas-bagged about this little bird before, so this is mostly for new arrivals; however, it is a continuing story.
Protecting our freedoms
St. Monica’s Episcopal Church has hauled in more than 5,000 pumpkins and ornamental gourds for its 11th annual Pumpkin Patch. Pick yours from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day between now and Oct. 30.
One in four American women will experience domestic violence in their lifetime. That’s more women than are affected by breast cancer, ovarian cancer and lung cancer combined. Still, more than one-third of Americans have never discussed the issue.
Anyone who is interested in learning about the inner workings of the Collier County Sheriff’s Office should consider applying for the CCSO Citizens Academy. Participants ride along with deputies, shoot at the gun range and get a close look at various aspects of CCSO operations.
Classes meet from 6-8 p.m. every Thursday, with the next session running Dec. 10-March 10, 2016.
The Israel Advocacy Committee of the Jewish Federation of Collier County and Israel Bonds invite the public to brunch with Alon Ben David starting at 11 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, at The Club at Pelican Bay. Mr. David will discuss “Israel’s Strategic Challenges in the Middle East,” drawing on his 25 years of experience as a journalist.
Here’s where Collier County Sheriff’s Office traffic-enforcement deputies will be the week of Oct. 19-23:
Monday, Oct. 19
Pine Ridge Road and Forest Lakes Boulevard: Red-light running
Livingston Road and Marbella Lakes Drive: Aggressive driving
Immokalee Road and Twin Eagles Boulevard: Speeding
The 2015 Murano debuts the third generation for Nissan’s look-at-me crossover. It’s a truly bold move to try and be this distinctive in the mainstream world of midsize vehicles, but that’s nothing new for this one.
¦ The Red Sox Foundation hosts its fourth annual Swings for the Sox tournament Friday, Oct. 23, at Tiburon Golf Club. Golfers also enjoy a pre-tournament Party in the Park on Thursday, Oct. 22, at JetBlue Park. Registration is $250 per person, $800 for a foursome, with proceeds going to the organization’s scholarship fund.
A dolphin cruise with Pure Naples was part of the fun for the Pure Pink weekend to make a splash for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
AARP offers classes to help older drivers learn about new traffic laws, refresh their driving skills and reduce their risk for tickets and accidents. Drivers over age 55 might be eligible for a discount on auto insurance.
THERE ARE INCREDIBLES AMONG US. THEY ARE extraordinary humans, possessed of singular focus and ambition, willful dreamers who turn fanciful notions into reality. While many of us might fantasize about solving the world’s problems or surmounting impossible odds, the Incredibles actually do it.
LIKE HIS LIFELONG FRIEND AND commander in Vietnam, the late George Patton IV., Maj. Gen. James Dozier (Ret.) has also become a farmer. Square-jawed, barrel-chested and fit at 84, he grows vegetables with one of his children on four acres in north Lee County, where he lives with his second wife, Shirley.
FORTY MEN AND WOMEN, CALL them pilgrims, sit expectantly on folding chairs in the grand atrium of Lee Memorial HealthPark on a Friday afternoon. They’ve gathered to see and hear a prodigy — a celebrated classical pianist so young his voice has yet to fully change. The boy’s name is Noah Waddell.
MAUREEN KELLEHER CARRIES A trace of New York City in her speech, although she long ago traded the land of skyscrapers for endless skies, and private life for the calling of the Catholic Church. A nun and immigration attorney with the nonprofit Legal Aid Service of Collier County, she came to Immokalee three decades ago.
CESARE FRUSTACI MAY BE A HUNgarian version of our own Forrest Gump.
On his own as a 7-year-old, he evaded the Nazis in 1941 in Budapest, Hungary, for months before being captured and moved to a detention camp, where he was imprisoned until the liberation.
FOR NEAPOLITANS WHO WANT someone to thank for the stateof the-art medical care provided by the NCH Healthcare System, Thelma Hodges is a great candidate. After being recruited in 1955 to be part of the nursing team that opened the center, Mrs. Hodges is still, at 87 years old and 60 years later, one of the pillars that keeps the health system running smoothly and efficiently.
WHILE PAINTING WITH 8- TO 15-year-old participants in ARTREACH, Nola Theiss and her volunteers broach serious subjects: the dangers of exploitation and the importance of sound decision making. Even after nine years of educating Southwest Florida about human trafficking, Ms.
