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BY ELLA _NAYOR enayor@florida-weekly.com T o many folks, a day set aside mowing a spit of lawn and trimming some shrubs is as close as they get to communing with nature let alone helping to create it. And it's not everyone who can say they live with nearly 30 monkeys in their own handmade rainforest. More ...
Old drawbridge now a memory BY JEFF _CULL jcull@florida-weekly.com After a decade of debate, a couple lawsuits and years of construction, one more piece of the Sanibel Causeway puzzle is about to fall in to place. Thursday night, June 21, pedestrians and motorists will be channeled on to the new "A" span of the causeway that replaces the aging drawbridge over Sa... More ...
Summer Exploration at the Edison & Ford Winter Estates is a special tour package available to organizations that serve children including camps, schools, home schoolers, and scout and youth groups. The program is available throughout the summer. More ...
The buzz is starting as excitement builds for the next local "Dancing with our Stars" event as last year's stars team up with this year's celebrities for the upcoming 2007 WishMaker's Ball, to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Southern Florida. This showcase and celebrity competition will be h... More ...
Special wishes for soldiers in Iraq on Independence Day Two Lee County Sheriff's Office Correction's Bureau clerks have initiated a card and letter campaign expressing gratitude to the men and women with American armed forces serving overseas. With the Fourth of July just around the corner, clerks and deputies wanted to send special wishes to those fi... More ...
The 12th annual "Do the Right Thing" Regional Awards Banquet will be held on Saturday, June 23 at the Harborside Event Center in downtown Fort Myers beginning at 5:30 p.m. This year's Keynote Speaker will be Lt. Gov., Jeff Kottkamp. More ...
June 21 is National Dump the Pump Day LeeTran, Lee county's public transportation system, is giving residents a free ride on Thursday, June 21 as part of the Second Annual National Dump the Pump Day. Riders can take any bus, system-wide at no charge on that day. More ...
"Sim man" acts like a real patient By _MICHELLE L. STA_RT Correspondent Nursing students at each of Edison College's three campuses will soon have a few new patients to treat. Only these won't need health insurance or complain about hospital food. They're robots. "Sim man" (for simulated man) is already clothed in a gown and tucked neatly into a hospital bed in the ... More ...
World-renowned botanist in Fort Myers drumming up support BY ERIC RADDAZ Special to Florida Weekly Passionate about his cause for protecting rainforests and the indigenous people who call these forests home, ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin warmly encouraged, thanked and educated an intimate group of supporters at the Pink Shell Beach Resort & Spa on Fort Myers Beach last week. More ... Report: Florida healthcare below average Feds say older Floridians at risk BY MICHELLE _L. START Correspondent Healthcare is sub par in the Sunshine State, according to a study released last week by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "Florida is in the lower 25th percentile, which means 75 percent of the states are better," said Dr. Jeff Brady, medical officer at the agency's research team.... More ...
Seventeen local children get ready to board a bus recently for a week at camp in Central Florida. Each of the kids, ages 7-16, are afflicted by cancer and are a part of the American Cancer Society's Reaching Out to Cancer Kids Programs and Camp. More ... Blood Drive to combat holiday shortages The Lee Memorial Blood Centers and Naples Community Blood Center are teaming up on Tuesday, June 26 for a community blood drive. The Lee Memorial Blood Centers located at Cape Coral Hospital, HealthPark Medical Center and Lee Memorial Hospital, as well as two Bloodmobiles located at the Bell Towe... More ... Copyright © 2007—2008 Florida Media Group LLC. |
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