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■ SUBMITTED BY THE BOCA GRANDE GARDEN CLUB Russ Morash, the distinguished WGBH Boston producer and program creator, is speaking to the Boca Grande Garden Club on Tuesday, Jan. 8 at 2 p.m. His topic is “Remembering the Victory Garden,” the popular PBS show that has aired in one incarnation or another for 44 years. First […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN John Mannion is a fitness trainer whose goal is to help people in Boca Grande gain strength and stability to avoid the risk of injury. He currently teaches a “Sit and Get Fit” class three days per week at the Boca Grande Community Center. The courses are held on Mondays, Wednesdays and […]
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To the Editor: INCOMING EMERGENCY MESSAGE: There has been a disturbance in the Force and the IMAG is tasked with bringing back balance. The IMAG History & Science Center is hosting a Star-Wars themed evening of exploration, activities, dining, and fun, at which both Sith and Jedi will train you in the same location under […]
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■ STAFF REPORT Another year in Boca Grande is coming to an end, so it’s time to recap what the headlines have been for 2019. Island residents were just letting their guard down and sticking a toe in the water, so to speak, after almost two years of ferocious red tide. Local artists like Gail […]
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■ SUBMITTED BY THE GICIA Excitement is building around the Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association’s Mercabo Cove Restoration Project, which is set for groundbreaking on March 1st. As we enter the preconstruction phase of this exciting project, don’t be surprised to see activity on and around the site as material is being delivered and […]
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Virginia McMillan Lambrecht, 79, of Boca Grande, died Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019, in St. Clair Shores, Michigan. She was born in Detroit, Michigan to James McMillan and Virginia Cutting McMillan and attended Grosse Pointe University School (now University Liggett School) and The Ethel Walker School in Connecticut. She also attended Wheaton College in Massachusetts and […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN Rebecca DeRosa has been keeping busy helping out with charity events this holiday season. She recently led a fundraiser for Boca Grande’s Lighthouse United Methodist Church. More than 100 boxes of school supplies, holiday goodies and other surprises were collected at the church and transported by Becca to Kids’ Needs in Englewood, […]
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■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE In another classic case of “don’t kill the messenger,” our Boca Beacon Facebook page went a little nuts last week regarding our article about the orange rocks on The Promenade at 3rd Street beach. Let me preface this by saying, I was not the one who created this famous venue. I […]
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To the Editor and all users of Gasparilla Road: I am so saddened every time I see a dead bird on the side of the road, an obvious victim of a car strike. I want to make people aware of the fact that the larger birds (egrets, ospreys, hawks, owls) need MUCH more room in […]
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To the Editor: Responding to the article the “Gift: published 12-20-19. God’s “Gift of Grace is revealed in the bible in John 3:16 and Ephesians 2:8 & 9 which states – For it is by Grace you have been saved through faith – and this is not of yourselves, it is the Gift of God […]