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Hughes Art Gallery, located in the big wooden “Bike n Beach” building on Park Avenue will be closed this summer, as the owner of the building has another use for the space she is in. While Barb is holding out hope against hope she might find another location, the option doesn’t exist right now … at least not one that she’s aware of.
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Decision made: After two years of not selling beads down by the Boca Grande Post office, I am coming back! Look for me, weather permitting, on Friday, March 11 a.m. (Thursday if the weather is to be lousy on Friday). At any rate, between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m., and weekly after that until my inventory is completed.
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Zimbabwe is the only African country with vast amounts of carveable stone. In fact, the stone found there is of such great importance to the people of Zimbabwe, that the word “Shona” is derived from a word in their native language literally meaning “house of stone.” This art medium has been made into a world renowned traveling exhibition of these modern Zimbabwean Shona stone sculptures and, in 2022, the prestigious honor for the exhibition location has been bestowed upon the Peace River Botanical & Sculpture Gardens in Punta Gorda. Join the festivities and listen to the sound of chisels clinking against stone echoing throughout the gardens through April 18.
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he musical theatre community mourned en masse when the iconic Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim passed away at the age of 91 on November 26, 2021. Broadway luminaries, such as Lin Manuel Miranda, Bernadette Peters, Sarah Bareilles, all gathered on the iconic red steps in New York’s Times Square to perform a moving tribute to the beloved composer.
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From kayaking each day on Charlotte Harbor with his lovely wife, Debbie, to biking through the streets of Boca Grande, to overseeing the fundraising efforts of A Better Shot at Lemon Bay Golf Club, John Lynch is a man of vision and a man of action.
“I’m a bike rider, I’m an exerciser, so I have to keep moving,” John explained. “I enjoy keeping busy. And could you find a better place than Boca Grande to be an outdoorsman?”
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To the two birds who are now the stewards of Placida, which is an estuary bay of Coral Creek (Caloosa Creek?). Imagine after your bridge card party, you and your mate took off to fly to the tops of 60-foot pine trees that encircled an ethereal small valley of deep ferns (where your babies could fall down safely). Above, another 100 pelicans (pterachtodons?) deafening pelican-Jurassic Park noise all in the pine tree rookery that was, through time, on that point or nearby, where they could fish the Placida shallows.
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Wilson is offering his services and expertise to individuals and, in some cases, organizations (he currently does contract work for sheriff’s offices, police departments, etc.). People who want to learn more about every day weapons usage and carry, self- defense, maintaining awareness and other related topics come to him for advice. Even as the world we live in gets more dangerous, many people still won’t acknowledge that services like the ones that Wilson offers are useful and needed.
“People don’t want to talk about those things; it’s horrifying to most people,” he said. “It’s a sensitive subject. Whether you think it can happen here or not, Boca Grande is not the only place you will travel. It’s not about if it will happen, it’s when.”
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How much progress has been made since the toxic-algae crisis that devastated Boca Grande and other Florida communities in 2018?
How likely is a recurrence of the red tide and blue-green algae that killed marine life and posed a public health threat to Floridians?
Have the political and policy responses to Florida’s toxic-algae crisis been adequate?
Those are the questions at the heart of an event Friends of the Everglades and VoteWater are co-hosting March 22, at the Boca Bay Pass Club Power House. You’re invited to join us for a “Clean Water Conversation: LIVE” moderated by Boca Grande’s own Wesley Locke. This informative and fun gathering will begin at 5 p.m. with an interactive presentation, to be followed by a 6-7 p.m. outdoor cocktail reception open to the Boca Grande community.
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Just because you can get most anything all the time, doesn’t mean you should.
Probably words to live by but for internationally known Ariella Chezar, it describes the backbone of her floral design philosophy. Ms. Chezar, who will be working with Boca Grande Garden Club members during the group’s annual “Flower Week,” places sustainability and seasonality at the center of her floral practice.
Written by T Michele Walker on . Posted in Featured News, Health & Wellness, News.
Scams are nothing new, from emails to send donations to Ethiopian princes, to fake calls from a family member in peril, nearly one in six Americans have lost money to a phone scam in the last 12 months, according to the 2019 U.S. Spam and Scam Report. Boca Grande residents are no stranger to scam […]