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The Boca Grande Camera Club, an already hustling, bustling group of island shutterbugs, have started their season off with a bang. Their first meeting was just this past week, and their first field trip will be underway on Tuesday, Jan. 17. Selby Gardens in Sarasota is the destination. The trip will be led by one […]
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Gail Cleveland featured artist for January at Smart Studio Smart Studio will host artist Gail Cleveland for the month of January, featuring watercolor and acrylics of local scenes. Gail is traditionally a plein air artist but has been sidelined by the hurricane. According to the artist, “Painting has been my salvation from the stresses of […]
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As the hurricane becomes something that is farther and farther away from the minds of those who weren’t seriously affected, those who were are feeling the financial crunch even more than before … and help is running out. Luckily there are a lot of organizations that can help with food needs, including one that may […]
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Helping people feel better and being in the great outdoors are two of the top things that make Jenny Maday happy. Jenny is the newest registered nurse to join the Boca Grande Health Clinic team. She arrived the same week as Hurricane Ian, but her impact has been much kinder and gentler. Jenny (whose last […]
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Lake Forest’s Thomas Benton Hunter III leaves behind a lasting legacy of good character and the importance of community spirit. It’s often said that a man is measured by the company keeps. And for Lake Forest’s Thomas (Tom) Benton Hunter III, this was the perfect ruler. “Our Dad was an incredible judge of character,” said […]
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Boca Beacon backpages FIVE YEARS AGO U.S. Sugar President and CEO Robert Buker and Judy Sanchez, senior director of Corporate Communications and publications for U.S. Sugar, gave a presentation about “big sugar” at the Community Center. TEN YEARS AGO Work on the new bridge system was coming along, as Wyoming rails were erected and the […]
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While much of Gasparilla Mobile Estates was dark last Saturday night, in the very back there was a little corner of festivity, complete with Christmas lights. Inside the Clontz home there were nine people gathered to eat, to drink, to share company among friends. Not long ago that was what the little mobile home park […]
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BY ROGER LEWIS Two favorite speakers from past years, Candice Millard and Akhil Reed Amar, will lead the 2023 programming for Friends of Boca Grande at the Community Center. Candice Millard will talk about her new book, “River of the Gods: Genius Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile,” on […]
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T’was the night before Christmas and all around No noses were frozen, no snow fluttered down. No children in flannels were tucked into bed, They all wore their shorty pajamas instead! To find wreaths of holly was not very hard, For holly trees grow in everyone’s yard. In front of the houses were daddies and […]
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FIVE YEARS AGO The Pink Pony got that really cool machine that presses pennies into different designs. TEN YEARS AGO Ed Seale passed away, a true Southern gentleman who helped shape Gasparilla Island with his real estate company. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO A company that was looking into purchasing the old Mercabo facility wanted to put […]