Wednesday, April 27, 2016

IT’S A TRAP

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BY BILL CORNWELL
bcornwell@floridaweekly.com

THE TREACHEROUS PATH TO A PRESIDENTIAL nomination, and ultimately to the White House, is mined with surprises, scandals, missteps and ill-conceived deeds.

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All (not just politics) journalism is local

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roger WILLIAMS
rwilliams@floridaweekly.com

There’s a lot of talk about the decline of journalism these days, but none of it’s true.

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Great Dock Canoe Race set for one last splash

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BY LINSDEY NESMITH
lnesmith@floridaweekly.com

Every May, when the last northbound snowbirds are pulling onto I-75 and the locals start settling in for a slow, steamy summer, one event in Naples is as dependable as the thunderstorms that mark time until the flock returns next winter.

But it looks like this year, the 40th, will be the swan song for the Great Dock Canoe Race.

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Caring for abandoned and feral felines in Collier County

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Megan Sorbara is president of the Naples Cat Alliance, a free-roaming, nokill shelter that last year found forever homes and families for almost 350 felines. She’s been involved since 2009, when a few people representing the Collier County Cat Coalition cared for 12 feral cats that lived in a barn.

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Alabama a harbinger of Trump or Cruz election?

BY BILL CORNWELL
bcornwell@floridaweekly.com

I have glimpsed the future, and it is Alabama.

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It’s a Southern tradition

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llilly@floridaweekly.com

The South is famous for many things but progressive policies or enlightened political leadership are rarely among them. Politically moderate Southerners are lonely voices within the conservative choruses dominating the statehouses of the old Confederacy.

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Workshop set for women who want to lose fear of firearms

ALTAIR Gun Club owner Michelle Jones leads a “Women’s Firearms Familiarization Workshop” from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, May 7, at the ALTAIR Gun Club Deep Lake Facility in Copeland off State Road 29 east of Naples. Participants must be 18 years of age. No firearms experience is required. Topics will include the different types of firearms, proper use of a firearm and firearm safety.

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Painters, potters, hard at work for Empty Bowls 2017

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SPECIAL TO FLORIDA WEEKLY

Potters, artists, students and others are working fast and furiously to make and decorate bowls for the 2017 Empty Bowls Naples lunch. It’s still nine months away — 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 28, in Cambier Park — but preparations began almost immediately after the 2016 event, which raised a record $95,000 to fight hunger in Southwest Florida.

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CLUB NOTES

¦ The League Club distributed a record amount in grants to a record number of nonprofit agencies in Collier and Lee counties earlier this month. Awards from the organization’s Community Trust Fund totaled $321,764.

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD

BY CHUCK SHEPHERD
Distributed by Universal Press Syndicate

Awesome governments

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Clerk offers Saturday hours for U.S. passport applicants

The Clerk of Court’s Office in the North Collier Government Services Center on Orange Blossom Drive will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 30, for anyone who wants to submit a United States passport application to the U.S. Department of State. Here are some suggestions for applicants that can save time on what promises to be a busy day:

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Jaguar’s new XF is a wild, rocking sports car, but is still an adult

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mk@autominded.com

Jaguar infuses driving passion into every car, even a responsible midsize sedan. How else can you explain a supercharged 380 horsepower rocket ship that has more trunk space than a Toyota Camry?

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Remembering the Great Dock Canoe Races

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[img_assist|nid=242590|title=|desc= Pete Jenks, at the stern, and John Edwards paddling toward the finish line. Mr. Jenks has the distinction of winning the first-ever Great Dock Canoe Race in 1976 and also taking the title eight times since then.

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Traffic deputies are on the road

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Here’s where Collier County Sheriff’s Office traffic-enforcement deputies will be the week of May 2-6:

Monday, May 2

Vanderbilt Beach and Goodlette- Frank roads: Red-light running

Pelican Marsh Boulevard and U.S. 41 North: Aggressive driving

Logan and Green boulevards: Speeding

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Jewish community invites all to Holocaust commemoration

GenShoah SWFL invites everyone to a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 4, at Temple Shalom, 4630 Pine Ridge Road.

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Physicians Regional offers classes, support groups on various topics

Here’s what’s coming up as part of Physicians Regional Healthcare System’s educational lectures and events. Most are free. Reservations are required and unless otherwise noted can be made by calling 348-4180.

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Reflecting on four years of the Mayo partnership

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allen.weiss@nchmd.org

In 2012, when NCH became the first Florida hospital and seventh in the nation to formally affiliate with the world-renowned Mayo Clinic, we knew the partnership would be a good one. And four years later, were we ever right.

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Study finds factors that may influence influenza vaccine effectiveness

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NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH

The long-held approach to predicting seasonal influenza vaccine effectiveness may need to be revisited, new research suggests.

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Pets of the Week

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To adopt or foster a pet

This week’s adoptable pets are from Brooke’s Legacy Animal Rescue, an all-volunteer, foster home rescue organization. For more information, call 434-7480, email Admin@BrookesLegacyAnimalRescue.org or visit brookeslegacyanimalrescue.com.

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Annual dog, cat vaccinations not always the answer

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BY KIM CAMPBELL THORNTON
Universal Uclick

How often do you have your dog or cat vaccinated? If you’re still following an annual schedule, you may want to reconsider.

Vaccines save lives; there’s no doubt about it. They teach the immune system to recognize and fight off invading organisms that cause severe and sometimes fatal diseases, such as distemper and parvovirus.

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Adding the bloom

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BY ROGER WILLIAMS
rwilliams@floridaweekly.com

NATURE IS A FINE AND DANDY THING LEFT untutored, and Floridians in particular like to look at it or even step into it, on occasion.

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Time on your hands? Consider becoming a SCORE volunteer

Are you newly retired and wondering what to do with your time? Volunteering at SCORE is a way for you to pass on your business knowledge and expertise to the next generation of entrepreneurs in the community.

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It’s time to be cautious about buying Microsoft, Google

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estaterick@gmail.com

One of the most frustrating things about being an individual stock investor is how quickly a stock can go from hot to not. Extreme examples of this over the last year include Valeant Pharmaceuticals, which in only a five-year period, went from around $30 a share to over $250 and now back to $30 a share.

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Suncoast Credit Union establishes first-generation scholarship fund

First-generation students at Florida Gulf Coast University will get a hand up with a new endowed scholarship fund established by Suncoast Credit Union Foundation.

The credit union has pledged $25,000 to establish the fund; additional gifts can be matched by the state of Florida or the FGCU Foundation.

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Ask the Fool

Q: How long should I keep various financial records?

— A. M., Elkhart, Indiana

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Fool’s School

In 2015, companies authorized a whopping $831 billion of repurchases of their own stock, the second-most in any year, per Birinyi Associates data. Is that good news? Well, it depends.

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My Dumbest Investment

I had decided I wanted to invest in Netflix even before its initial public offering (IPO), when shares were made available to the public. I bought a few shares as early as I could, for less than $3 apiece (split-adjusted). Soon after its IPO, my investment counselor talked me out of Netflix, saying it would never go anywhere. So I sold it all. I figure he owes me lots and lots of money.

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Last week’s trivia answer

I trace my routes back to the 1972 journey of a secondhand ship, the Mardi Gras, from Miami to San Juan, Puerto Rico. My founder bought my flagship brand (which is now my name) in 1974 for $1 and the assumption of its $5 million debt balance. Today I’m the world’s largest leisure travel company, with a fleet of about 100 ships and 16 more arriving by 2020.

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Name That Company

I trace my roots back to 1922, when three scientists founded the American Appliance Company. My early focus on refrigeration soon shifted to electronics, and after buying Amana Refrigeration in 1965, I introduced the first countertop microwave oven for consumers. I developed computers for NASA that helped astronauts land on the moon.

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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Lost in translation: whatever happened to Amendment 1?

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BY ROGER WILLIAMS
rwilliams@floridaweekly.com

Nathaniel Reed, a born-and-raised Florida boy, stepped out of his home on the southern terminus of the Indian River lagoon one early morning last week, looked up the river where he can see five miles on a clear day, and spotted a pod of dolphins.

“They weren’t feeding on snook,” he says. “They were moving through.”

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Getting the wheel rolling

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roger WILLIAMS
rwilliams@floridaweekly.com

From the Mosquito River near Cape Canaveral south through the Indian River, the Banana River, the Sebastian Inlet, the Fort Pierce Inlet, the St.

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Silver Alerts help locate seniors lost on the road or on foot

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BY EVAN WILLIAMS
ewilliams@floridaweekly.com

You’ve probably seen the electronic message signs on the interstate lighting up with a “Silver Alert,” displaying the characteristics and tag number of a car and imploring motorists who spot it to call #347 or 911.

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Cruz or bust

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richLOWRY
Special to Florida Weekly

If the Republican Party is to be saved from Donald Trump, Ted Cruz’s runaway victory in Wisconsin will have been the inflection point.

If you thought this service to the GOP would be met with plaudits from the party’s insiders, you obviously don’t know anything about their relationship to the Texas senator.

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Caught on camera

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leslieLILLY
llilly@floridaweekly.com

A couple years ago, the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach hosted a photography exhibit, “The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951.” It was organized by The Jewish Museum, New York, and the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio.

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Leadership Collier Foundation honors Soliday

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SPECIAL TO FLORIDA WEEKLY

Theodore “Ted” Soliday, executive director of Naples Municipal Airport, has been named the 2015-16 recipient of the Leadership Collier Foundation Alumni Association Distinguished Alumni Award.

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Spellbound by the age-old tradition of storytelling

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lnesmith@floridaweekly.com

Through the course of human evolution, stories have helped people understand themselves, their communities and their surroundings through narrative. Luckily for us in Naples, a new group called Storytellers of the Round Table is bringing back the tradition of storytelling with events that are growing in popularity.

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Shop for jewelry and an adoptable kitten

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As “kitten season” begins, Port Royal Jewelers and Naples Cat Alliance invite feline aficionados to a Kitten Shower from 1-4 p.m. Saturday, May 7, at the jewelry store on Fifth Avenue South.

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Pickleball players will vie for first U.S. Open Championships in Naples

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More than 1,000 pickleball players are expected to convene for the first-ever U.S. Open Pickleball Championships set for April 26-May 1 at East Naples Community Park. Minto Communities has signed on as title sponsor for the next three years, with the goal to make the tournament an ongoing annual event.

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CLUB NOTES

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¦ The PCBUG computer and technology club invites all those interested in learning more about computers and mobile devices to its regular meetings at 5 p.m. on the third Thursday of every month at Naples Regional Library, 650 Central Ave. The next meeting is April 21. For more information call J. Burke at 659-0659 or email paddyeb@hotmail.com.

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ALTAIR workshop for women who want to lose fear of firearms

ALTAIR Gun Club holds a “Women’s Firearms Familiarization Workshop” from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, May 7, at the ALTAIR Gun Club Deep Lake Facility in Copeland off State Road 29 east of Naples. Participants must be 18 years of age. No firearms experience is required.

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Clerk offers Saturday hours for U.S. passport applicants

The Clerk of Court’s Office in the North Collier Government Services Center on Orange Blossom Drive will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 30, for anyone who wants to submit a United States passport application to the U.S. Department of State.

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New bus joins PACE fleet in Collier Lee Charlotte counties

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A new Hope PACE vehicle will be on the road soon as the result of an $84,750 grant from the Florida Department of Transportation made to Hope HealthCare Services. The funds from FDOT’s Enhanced Mobility of Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities program will enable Hope HealthCare Services to add to its fleet for Hope PACE, a Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly.

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African immigrant entrepreneur is Dress for Success success story

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Jessica Wajoli has been chosen as Dress for Success SW Florida’s 2016 Success Story and will be honored at its annual signature event, “A Fashion Night in Black & White” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 27, at the Hilton Naples.

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD

BY CHUCK SHEPHERD
Distributed by Universal Press Syndicate

Body-modification exemplar

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Floridas wage gap costs women nearly $17 billion annually new study finds

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On average, Florida women employed full time, year round are paid just 85 cents for every dollar paid to men — a yearly pay gap of $6,203.

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Keep your eye on the road For CCSO traffic deputies

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Here’s where Collier County Sheriff’s Office traffic-enforcement deputies will be the week of April 25-29:

Monday, April 25

Immokalee Road and Cypress Way East: Aggressive driving

Thomasson Drive at Avalon Elementary School: Speeding

Collier Boulevard and Manatee Road: Speeding

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Tune up your driving skills at AARP class

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.

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GET OUT FOR A GOOD CAUSE

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¦ Girls on the Run Collier County holds its Superhero 5K Saturday, April 23, at Sugden Regional Park. Participants are encouraged to dress as their favorite superhero for a family run, children’s activities and more fun. The children’s run starts at 8:15 a.m. and the 5K sets out at 8:30 a.m. Registration is $10-$35.

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The Buick Cascada: A laid-back turbo droptop thats good but not great

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mk@autominded.com

Incorrect perceptions of Florida and Buick go hand-in-hand: Those in colder climates often think of the Sunshine State as home to retirees in LeSabre sedans with the turn signal welded in the “on” position. We know better, and so does Buick.

It only takes a frozen winter to change our state’s stodgy image, but a car company needs to be a bit more proactive.

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Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Making sense of your amendments

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BY OSVALDO PADILLA
opadilla@floridaweekly.com

The decisions are yours to make:

Should we maintain the status quo when it comes to solar energy, or should we leave the door open to alternative business models?

(Amendment 1)

Should sick people be allowed to use marijuana as medicine?

(Amendment 2)

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Food bank volunteers fuel success in fight to feed hungry

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BY MARY WOZNIAK
Special to Florida Weekly

When Maureen Yuster moved to Southwest Florida 25 years ago, she thought she knew what to expect.

“I guess I had a certain mental picture of what the community was like in Florida — a bunch of happy retirees, golfing, playing on the beach,” she said.

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Art, ladies and gentlemen, is a form of love

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roger WILLIAMS
rwilliams@floridaweekly.com

Remember that old question, the one that defies any generation gap known to humankind by reinserting itself into schoolyard conversations across time and space?

No, not that one — not the one about what goes where.

The other one, about trees falling in the forest. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make any noise?

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Do not fear the chalk

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richLOWRY
Special to Florida Weekly

Students at the University of Michigan called police the other day — because someone had written Donald Trump’s name in chalk.

No arrests were made. The episode is part of a nationwide trend of Trump supporters writing pro-Trump messages on sidewalks, stairs and other surfaces at college campuses, where fainting fits are sure to ensue.

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Can you hear me now?

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leslieLILLY
llilly@floridaweekly.com

It is more than a decade since Hurricane Katrina, a Category 5 storm, weakened and then made landfall on the northern Gulf Coast. Though it was downgraded to a Category 3 hurricane when it hit the mainland, its massive size and earlier intensity delivered a gargantuan storm surge deep into the coastlines of Mississippi, southeast Louisiana and Alabama.

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Finding her fun in the serious business of early childhood education

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bobharden@hotmail.com

Low-income working parents with preschoolers need a nurturing environment for their kids while they’re on the job. Fun Time Early Childhood Academy was established more than 55 years ago to do just that in Naples.

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TIF students inspire continued support from corporations, individuals

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SPECIAL TO FLORIDA WEEKLY

Jaguar Naples and Porsche of Naples are building on a decade of support for The Immokalee Foundation as sponsors of the 2016 Charity Classic Pro-Am and Charity Classic Celebration that take place in November.

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Naples Equestrian Challenge volunteers saddle up for awards

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Naples Equestrian Challenge recently celebrated the 450-plus volunteers who make the work of the organization possible.

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Time and talent to offer? Consider volunteering

¦ The Conservancy of Southwest Florida needs volunteers for duties at its von Arx Wildlife Hospital, which treats more than 3,200 injured, sick or orphaned animals every year. Among the jobs:

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Conservancy of Southwest Florida hosts Earth Day Festival

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The Conservancy of Southwest Florida invites Southwest Florida to join the celebration of our water, land, wildlife and future at its annual Earth Day Festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 16.

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD

BY CHUCK SHEPHERD
Distributed by Universal Press Syndicate

The power of precedent

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Jewish Family and Community Services welcomes $100,000 for endowment fund

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Jewish Family and Community Services of Southwest Florida has received a lead gift of $100,000 from John Levy and Gail Rothenberg to establish an endowment fund for the agency. Mr. Levy and Ms. Rothenberg will also match additional gifts to the JFCS endowment dollar for dollar up to an additional $100,000.

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Organizations collaborate to stock food pantry shelves for summer

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Satisfy the Hunger, a program to help stock the shelves of Collier County food pantries for the lean days of summer, kicks off Friday, April 15, and runs through June 3. Ten local non-profits, including the Harry Chapin Food Bank, will benefit.

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Welcome May with a feline fiesta to benefit Humane Society Naples

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Celebrate the sixth annual “Cinco de Meow” to benefit Humane Society Naples from 5:30-8 p.m. Thursday, May 5, at Painting with a Twist, where an instructor will guide cat lovers through the creation of a cat-centric painting. Cost is $40 and includes all materials for the painting along with house-made sangria and Cinco de Mayo-inspired snacks.

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Renaissance Academy solicits proposals for classes, lectures

The Renaissance Academy at Florida Gulf Coast University seeks new topics and instructors for its lifelong learning program for winter/spring (January-May), summer (June-August) and fall sessions (September- December) at any of the academy’s 12 RA locations in Collier, Lee, and Charlotte counties.

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Eight co-chairs for 2017 promise a ‘Bright Sunshiny’ wine festival

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SPECIAL TO FLORIDA WEEKLY

For the first time in its 16 years, the Naples Winter Wine Festival next year will be chaired by four couples, three of whom are founding trustees and past festival chairs and one who recently joined. NWWF 2017: “Bright Sunshiny Day” is set for Jan. 27-29 at The Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort and in private homes throughout Naples.

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David Lawrence Center announces sale of award-winning preschool

SPECIAL TO FLORIDA WEEKLY

The David Lawrence Center has announced the sale of its award-winning Child’s Path preschool to Collier Child Care Resources. The transaction is expected to close in the next 30-60 days.

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Hyundai Veloster – the outstanding, oddball virtues of being different

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Daring to be different has a thin margin of error. It’s the line that separates a tech entrepreneur from your weird uncle Randy. But both will find appeal and value in the asymmetrical Hyundai Veloster.

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Traffic deputies are on the road

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Here’s where Collier County Sheriff’s Office traffic-enforcement deputies will be the week of April 18-22:

Monday, April 18

Collier Boulevard and Tuscany Cove Drive: Speeding

Bayshore Drive and Botanical Place Circle: Speeding

Immokalee Road and Juliet Boulevard: Red-light running

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Tune up your driving skills at AARP class

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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.

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