‘Community’ Archives
29TH Annual Prayer Breakfast
The twenty-ninth Annual Marco Island Prayer Breakfast will be held 7:30AM, Wednesday, Feb. 14 at the Marriott Marco Beach Resort, 400 South Collier Blvd. Marco Island. The doors open at 7:00 AM and the breakfast will conclude at 9:00 AM. Guest speaker, retired Chaplain, Brigadier General Doug Lee will give the keynote address. Lee retired from [...]
Jewish Congregation of Marco Island Celebrates 30th Anniversary
By Jane Marlowe janem@coastalbreezenews.com The Jewish Congregation of Marco Island will celebrate its 30th anniversary with a Gala Dinner Dance on February 18, 2012 at the Marco Island Marriott Resort. Marjorie Seltzer and Elena Rosner Fink, founders of the congregation, will be honored at the event along with the founding members who [...]
Everglades City ready for festival
By Coastal Breeze News Staff Historic Everglades City is buzzing as residents get ready for the popular Seafood Festival on the weekend of February 4/5. The normally laid-back town is humming with preparations – carnival rides waiting to set up, porta-potties in a vacant lot, traffic barriers at the side of the streets, and tents going up [...]
MUSIC AT MOZART’S
By Coastal Breeze News Staff Two superb young singers – Will and Anthony Nunziata - will be performing at the House of Mozart, Thursday and Friday night, February 2nd and 3rd. The 6:00PM performances will feature well-known and loved Broadway hits. They’ll add some classical Italian songs, and have some fun with the audience, and [...]
Interfaith Community Education Series
Submitted The Marco Island Clergy Association’s 2012 Interfaith Community Educational Series, titled “Embracing with Love and Understanding – An Interfaith, Community Adult Education Series”, provides an opportunity to learn about one another’s faith at weekly lectures and discussions. The series began Wednesday, Jan. 18th, at [...]
Christmas Island Style 2011 wrap-up
By Monte Lazarus Bengoshi@comcast.net Santa’s back with the missus and the elves; Christmas 2011 is over. Marco Island’s own Christmas Island Style wrapped up on January 17th with a festive awards ceremony. Unlike Hollywood, there were no red carpets, no speeches thanking agents, families and producers. It was simply down-home thanks [...]
CELEBRATION!
By Coastal Breeze News Staff It was the night to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Marco Island Area Chamber of Commerce at the Island Country Club on January 15. Not only that - to complete a triple-header, it was graduation night for the 2011 class of Leadership Marco, and the Chamber inducted its 2012 president and board of directors. [...]
FUN in the GLADES
BUZZ FROM THE SWAMP Patricia Huff mulletrapper@gmail.com As the winter season continues through the months of January and February, more exciting activities are being held in the Swamp. This Friday, January 27, the Everglades Society for Historic Preservation is hosting the classic film Wind Across the Everglades in the Jinkins [...]
Goodland festivities
GOODLAND LIFE Natalie Strom nstrom81@yahoo.com As a former Buzzard Queen at Stan’s annual Mullet Festival, I feel as though it is my duty to inform the uninformed about this one-of-a-kind event. Not to be outdone, the annual Goodland Boat Parade is approaching fast on the Mullet Festival’s heels. Don’t forget about the [...]
Bad knees
Q. I have bad knees. Can Pilates help to strengthen them? A. There are many things that can lead to “bad knees”: injury, arthritis, infection, degeneration and (rarely) tumors. Sometimes, misalignments of the joints above and below the knee are to blame, as well as years of overuse and abuse. But all is not lost. After getting the green [...]
