As an ambassador of ink let me welcome you, Francis, or you Chauncey — and you too, Lizbeth, or you, Jason, and even you, Kathleen or Matt — to the anteroom of hell.
The David Lawrence Center joins voices of recovery around the country in celebrating September as the 27th annual National Recovery Month.
CLOSE YOUR EYES. THINK OF YOUR FAVORITE VISUAL moment from your past. Now open them.
Did you remember an image from living history or did you remember an image from an old photograph that was burned onto your brain?
The influence that Colin Powell has over Hillary Clinton is something to behold. His word is her command. When he tells her to break the law and endanger the nation’s secrets, she doesn’t hesitate. She salutes smartly and does as she is told.
The historical origins of Labor Day are still subject to debate. We do know it became a federal holiday in 1894. There was a long run-up by trade unions and the labor movement to promote the idea, and it caught on. By the time Congress acted, 30 states already had inaugurated their own versions of a celebration.
Naples Botanical Garden mourns the loss of longtime friend, collaborator and designer of the Marcia and L. Bates Lea Asian Garden, Made Wijaya. His vignettes of Asia through borders and history are a favorite of Garden guests and horticulturalists alike. His dedication to aesthetics and detail was unparalleled.
Virtual fandom
Conductor/pianist William Noll, a resident of Naples and New York City, serves as artistic director for ArtsNaples World Festival, Classic Chamber Concerts and the Fifth Avenue Chamber Orchestra. He is also guest conductor for Opera Naples and the newly appointed music director/conductor of the Bach Ensemble.
The community of Golden Gate hosts “We Will Never Forget,” a commemorative service at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 11, at the Golden Gate Government Center, 4701 Golden Gate Parkway. This is the 12th year the community has hosted a service in remembrance of those who lost their lives to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on America.
Humane Society Naples has received an $800,000 bequest from the estate of Nancy “Jill” Weinig. A resident of Naples for many year, Ms. Weinig did not have children of her own and her extended family was small. Because she was especially fond of small dogs, she wanted to do something in a meaningful way to help provide for their humane care.
From tips on board recruitment to learning how to position your organization as “the brand of choice,” Southwest Florida nonprofit leaders will receive industry best practices from business experts with the help of Hodges University’s Center for Nonprofit Excellence. Three workshops are on the calendar for September/
Due to the popularity of this summer’s class in public speaking, the Education Department of The Naples Players is holding another session this fall. The class will meet from 7-10 p.m. for eight consecutive Tuesdays, Sept. 20-Nov. 8.
Nonprofit organizations are encouraged to register for the second annual “Get Involved Collier! Volunteer Expo” set for 3-7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2, at the Hilton Naples. Organizations with volunteer needs can register for an exhibitor table by Sept. 30. Sixty booths will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.
The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance is the Super Bowl for classic cars. Only the top contenders get the opportunity to part the Sunday morning fog for one day of competition with all of the (automotive) world watching.
¦ The Naples Orchid Society welcomes members and guests to regular meetings on the first Thursday of the month at Moorings Presbyterian Church. At the Sept.
Parents of children of all ages can benefit from two free programs being offered this fall by the David Lawrence Center, Collier County’s only comprehensive, not-for-profit mental health and substance abuse treatment facility serving children, adults and families.
It’s late summer in Southwest Florida, which means as temps continue to soar, so do incidents of heat exhaustion and stroke. Lee Memorial Hospital has seen a 48 percent increase in heat-related admissions this summer over the last year.
Aggressive driving is one of the most frequent driving complaints that CCSO receives from citizens. So far this year CCSO has received 3,425 such complaints from the public.
Have you been feeling really sad, tired and worried for more than a few days? If yes, you could have depression. This is not a character flaw or a sign of personal weakness. You can’t yourself well by trying to “snap out of it” or “lighten up.”
Nursing excellence at NCH is a core value and a critical competence for our 98,000 emergency room visits and 40,000 inpatient and outpatient encounters.
Under the guidance of Associate Chief Nursing Officer Ilia Echevarria, we recently submitted our 650-page document for reaccreditation of the Pathway to Excellence to validate our nursing processes.
LET’S GET THIS STRAIGHT FROM THE GET-GO. Anyone who tells you that he or she knows with any certainty how Florida will vote in this year’s presidential election is full of hooey. It just can’t be done. Not at this date, at least.
The David Lawrence Center is accepting registrations for the next Making Positive Choices series for teens. The psycho-educational program helps adolescents (ages 14-18) who are having trouble making choices that move them in the right direction.
One of the challenges facing a major community resource like David Lawrence Center is staying on top of changing needs among the population it serves. To address the needs of a growing population and its children, the mental health and substance abuse treatment center is in the midst of expanding its facilities and programming for local kids.
The 2016 Summer Olympic Games are the ultimate summer distraction, the perfect antidote to all the unpleasant news ubiquitous just now. It is a delight to lose yourself in watching Team USA compete with hundreds of other superlative athletes from around the world.
Aug. 24, 1925. Ninety-one years ago. today.
So what?
I can answer that question.
Look at the blood coming out of the newest scratch on your kid’s knee, or the little paring-knife slice in your finger. Someone deeply, closely related to you lives in that blood. Someone who was alive on Aug. 24, 1925, just like William Kilpatrick Jr.
There are days — not often, but certainly regularly — that Minecraft makes me want to toss our iPad into the gulf. As far as video games go, however, it certainly has some beneficial lessons for kids. I often wonder if it isn’t the technology age’s equivalent to chess.
Tim Pool is a fearless social media reporter who specializes in getting close to the action. It almost doesn’t qualify as a protest or a riot if Pool isn’t livestreaming from the streets. But he is pulling out of Milwaukee because it is too dangerous for white people.
Collier Child Care Resources is accepting registrations for Little Wonders, its new early learning center at Emmanuel Lutheran on Moorings Line Drive. The early childhood education program will serve up to 70 children ages 2-5 years. School Readiness and VPK vouchers are being accepted, and partial scholarships are available for qualified families.
Fifteen years after the inaugural Naples Winter Wine Festival, social, educational and health-care gaps among children in Collier County have narrowed dramatically, according to a report from the Naples Children & Education Foundation.
¦ The Collier County Stamp Club meets from 7-9 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of the month at the Naples Airport Office Building, 200 Aviation Drive. The next meeting is Aug. 25. Stamp trading follows the evening’s program. All stamp enthusiasts are welcome.
This spring, 65 Immokalee Middle School students met dogs named Sadie and Skyy and were captivated. Sadie is an Akita belonging to Jenny Ingles, and Skyy is an American Staffordshire terrier owned by Sara DeMarco, both of whom work for Best Friends Animal Hospital in Fort Myers.
Girl Scouts of Gulfcoast Florida invites girls to join the fun and register for the new membership year. Girl Scouts gives girls a supportive space to take chances and try new things.
There’s nothing really new about the car on this page. But there are plenty of Floridians who would like to remind you that there is nothing wrong with a little maturity. The Nissan 370Z Roadster is out to show there can be stability and wisdom in the world of a 332-hp drop-top.
New World Order
The Conservancy of Southwest Florida invites anglers to sign up for the 2016 RedSnook Catch and Release Charity Tournament set for Nov. 4-6. It starts with a party Friday evening and continues with two full days of fishing and an awards reception.
Registration is underway for the next spiritual intensive meditation program based on the teachings of Eckhart Tolle. Weekly meetings for “Discovering Your True Self” will take place from 6:30- 8 p.m. Thursdays, Oct. 6-Nov. 10, at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Naples, 6340 Napa Woods Way. Cost is $35 for the six weeks.
Testing for the activity of two genes could pick out women who are at increased risk of dying from their breast cancers, suggests a new study of almost 2,000 patients.
Women whose tumors had a specific pattern of activity in the two genes were three times as likely to die within 10 years as others with a different pattern of activity.
The Parkinson Association of Southwest Florida Inc. is looking for volunteers in the following areas: public relations, finance, educational and social activities, the annual walk and general office duties. Volunteer orientation sessions take place at 3:30 p.m. on the last Monday of every month. The next session is Monday, Aug. 29.
The second annual Naples Diabetes Conference is set for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, at the Greater Naples YMCA. The event is a collaboration of the Y with the Naples-based Help a Diabetic Child Foundation and the Health Care Network of Southwest Florida.
What exactly do we mean when we talk about NCH being on a constant “journey” to improve?
One answer can be found in our Primary Stroke Center program, which was first certified in 2014 and is a premier facility for treating a disease that is the No. 5 cause of death in the United States and a leading cause of disability.
ON A HOT JUNE MORNING THIS summer, a staff meeting of Kitson & Partners Babcock Ranch town planners crowded into the reception area of their offices east of Fort Myers and listened to a speaker, Larry Burns, explain the future of cars as he sees it. Babcock Ranch in Charlotte and Lee counties is scheduled to open next year and eventually be home to some 50,000 people.
IT IS SO ENLIGHTENING TO READ AN OPINion of an insider into self-driving cars. Larry Burns explains in simple terms what a self-driving car is, at the same time discussing expected milestones of the project and its potential consequences.
CAR COMPANIES HAVE BEEN TRYING TO GET rid of the driver since the tailfin was standard issue. Last month our interstate system turned 60 years old.
I love you people, I really do.
Not all of you, of course, but I’ve never been a lover of just anybody. I don’t love all Democrats, Independents, Libertarians, socialists, Christians or Jews, either.
Muslims? No. I don’t love all of them. I don’t even know many of them.
At first glance, the barred owl appeared to be recovering well from an unknown injury. Veterinarian PJ Deitschel and staff at The von Arx Wildlife Hospital suspected the handsome bird had been hit by a car before someone found it, disoriented and unable to fly, stumbling beside the road and called the hospital at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida.
Lynne McChristian is Florida representative for the Insurance Information Institute.
If the 2016 presidential election is any indication, there is no joy in Mudville; nor will there be any time soon. You remember Mudville. It is that mythical place immortalized in a famous baseball poem written in 1888. The poem remained popular all these years because its narrative is a familiar one.
The Obama administration is entering its final months, but it’s never too late to further diminish U.S. influence and discomfit our allies.
Naples has a seven-member City Council consisting of a mayor and six council members who are nonpartisan and elected at large. Per the city charter, City Council members and the mayor serve four-year terms and are limited to two consecutive terms.
When The Dock restaurant hosted the 40th annual Great Dock Canoe Race in May, it was billed as the final event. But the beloved tradition will continue after all, thanks to the Naples Junior Chamber (Jaycees) stepping forward to run the event.
The Naples Pathways Coalition is looking a few volunteers to assist in planning and coordinating its Lights for Bikes project, a major initiative to provide safety gear and language-appropriate information to those whose only means of transportation to work is a bicycle. Collier County has a higher percentage of these individuals than any other Florida county.
¦ A golf tournament to raise money for the eighth annual Take A Solider Fishing Tournament tees off at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, at Lely Resort. Registration is $100 per player; hole sponsorships are available for $100.
Designer leather
The Florida Gulf Coast University Presidential Search Advisory Committee invites the public to a community forum from 8:30-9:15 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 23, in the Cohen Center Ballroom.
Early voting for the Aug. 30 primary election begins Saturday Aug. 20, and runs through Saturday, Aug. 27. Polls will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the following locations:
Collier County Government Complex: 3311 Tamami Trail, Naples
We all know that one person who’s really great, but it’s hard to spend time with him because he just tries to hard to show off. That’s how the Honda Civic has felt for the last 15 years.
[img_assist|nid=253098|title=|desc= Marco Island resident Wade Keller, right, shakes hands with 6-year-old Rachel Li of Texas, who defeated him after 44 moves at the World Chess Open earlier this summer in Philadelphia. Mr. Keller has started Chess K-12, a new club for local youngsters who want to learn the game or improve their skills. All are welcome from 9 a.m.
Have you been feeling really sad, tired and worried for more than a few days? If yes, you could have depression. This is not a character flaw or a sign of personal weakness. You can’t yourself well by trying to “snap out of it” or “lighten up.”
If there are crumbs on your desk from countless lunches spent responding to emails and attending to other job-related responsibilities, it might be time to clean up and take a step back.
The David Lawrence Center, Collier County’s only comprehensive, not-for-profit mental health and substance abuse treatment facility serving children, adults and families, is accepting registrations for the next Making Positive Choices series for teens.
THERE ARE MOMENTS — A SIP of bitter beer, the pull or a resistant trigger, the push of a lawn mower — when we begin to understand what it means to be a man. From then on, we surround ourselves with the things of man, while we wrestle internally with the what and why of it all.
DURING MY BRIEF STINT OF ONLINE DATing last year — a fraught, ego-bruising time — I was introduced to a new term: gray area.
As in, “This thing between us? It’s a gray area.”
WHAT MAKES A GREAT “GUY” MOVIE? Obnoxious, immature humor, awesome action, toughness and alluring women are oft-found ingredients in the 10 best guy movies ever made, listed below. Don’t agree with our list? Well, that’s your problem, man.
10) Slap Shot (1977)
New technology has taken the traditional man cave out of the dark ages. With the advent of high-definition flatscreen TVs with movie-quality pictures, even the manliest of spaces can stand a little light.
Bottled Light
