Archive for January 27th, 2010
Local Organizations ‘Bag’ Kids Against Hunger Program
Recently, Wanda Day, President of the Sunrise Rotary Club and Event Chair Wayne Purvis gave local residents an opportunity to participate in the ‘Kids Against Hunger’ project. Steve Popper, a Naples Rotary Club member brought the program which bags food for those in need to Southwest Florida in August 2007. Since then, over 6,000,000 meals [...]
Veteran’s Community Park Tree Project
Recently a group of residents met at Mackle Park to discuss applying for available grant monies through the State of Florida to plant trees at Veteran’s Community Park. Carla Mickes explained the various processes and requirements for grant applications as gathered from Parks and Recreation Director, Bryan Milk and Leslie Sanford from the [...]
Handy Household (and other) Hints
One of the reasons I was always a fan of the Olde Farmers’ Almanac, was for its Handy Hints. I can’t claim to have discovered the following, but they work for me. Has the grout between your tiles turned a weird shade -- does it resist cleaning? This takes a bit of time, but people to whom I have recommended this hint have found it [...]
Robert College
The year was 1860. Abraham Lincoln was elected President of a young United States of America; South Carolina seceded from the Union; a possible Civil War was looming in the future. In Europe, once a mighty Empire, the Ottomans were in a slow but certain decline. In Istanbul, the capital city of the Ottoman Empire, a young American missionary, [...]
Book Review: The Healing of America
This book is a must for anyone confused by talk of health care plans. Well, I guess that just about covers everyone. T.R. Reid’s “global quest for better, cheaper, and fairer health care” is an easy-to-read explanation of the choices that exist and some of the tunnel-visioned, mind-blocked people who will be making them. Reid begins with [...]
Marco Island Municipal Election Results
Four Contestants, Three Seats Unofficial Results 6,107 Ballots Cast Joe Batte 3,535 24.8% Ted Forcht (Incumbent) 3,472 24.3% Chuck Kiester (Incumbent) 3,480 24.4% Larry N. Magel 3,745 26.3% From the Supervisor of Elections, Jennifer Edwards: Since the difference between the third place [...]
Swinging in the Breeze
Loft and getting the ball to fly high is a result of swinging the club head down and contacting the ball on the downswing. A downward blow creates backspin which, in turn, produces lift. The golf club goes in an upward motion on the backswing, reaches the top of the swing and starts downward until it reaches the bottom of the arc where it begins [...]
Breezin’ Through
Marco Bay Yacht Club Commodore’s Ball and Change of Watch Marco Bay Yacht Club Commodore’s Ball and Change of Watch was held January 23 at Hideaway Beach Club. The objective of the Marco Bay Yacht Club is to encourage safe boating, the sport of yachting, and to promote the skills of seamanship and navigation. Presentation of the Fleet [...]
Sunbloggin’ from Sundance
With opening night of Sundance 2010 just two days away, it is a balmy 29 degrees in Park City, Utah and snowing furiously. So far, 12 inches and counting, with five storms stacked up in the Pacific, ready to make their way here. In the distance is the boom of avalanche crews dynamiting the accumulated snow to prevent disaster. Historic Main [...]
Shooting the Breeze
These last two weeks have been incredible. Never in my wildest dreams did I picture six months ago (or ever, for that matter) that I would be spending my days (and nights, and mornings, and evenings....) writing for and editing a newspaper. I confessed to a few close friends that I have never been a Managing Editor before, and I was several weeks [...]
