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The Basin Sailing Yacht Club (BSYC) held its annual “Island Championships” on Sunday, April 23 at the Boca Bay Powerhouse lagoon. Racing conditions were great, with southwest breezes, and the races were close. The final outcome after seven races was John Foster (1st), Sam Howe (2nd) and Commodore Eric Holch (3rd). John Foster as MVP […]
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Where have your “Hearts” gone?
They have landed on Ann Fletcher’s Christmas tree!
In December of 2022, a member of our RPP family, Priscilla Masselink, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. A trip for treatment at Dana Farber in Boston meant she missed seeing Ann Fletcher’s Xmas tree filled with ornaments that Priscilla enjoyed seeing during the holidays.
That is when the idea of a “Hearts full of love” tree was born.
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This week Mote Marine Laboratories wrapped up its 2023 Coffee with a Scientist series of presentations at the Boca Grande Community Center. The series took deep dives, so to speak, into some of the research going on by Mote scientists. Through this series, audiences have had the opportunity to hear from the scientists, themselves, about their work and its value to the betterment of the Gulf, and the rest of the world.
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Mote Marine Laboratory’s March Coffee With A Scientist, held Tuesday, March 21, at the Boca Grande Community Center, brought visions of the fictitious Dr. John Doolittle to some people’s minds. The presentation never mentioned the doctor who could talk to the animals, but Dr. Beth Brady, Mote manatee vocalization specialist, did explain how she has […]
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Boca Grande theatre goers met Sister Mary Annette — Sister Amnesia’s mischievous puppet in Nunsense — at the beginning of COVID. Three years later, in its current season, Royal Palm Players introduces the more sinister, botanical, extraterrestrial Audrey II in its March 15-19 production of Little Shop of Horrors.
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You don’t have to be silent when visiting the big tent with the auction items at the 2023 United Methodist Women’s annual Strawberry Festival on Saturday March 4. In fact, the Silent Auction Committee is hoping for a lot of positive comments as visitors examine and bid on more than 60 items on display. […]
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The explanation is this: Currently Lee County looks at the entire grounds of the Boca Grande Community Center as a “park.” A park has more restrictions than a school, in the fact that a sex offender can be at a school with proper supervision, and with good reason to be there (and prior approval). A sex offender cannot be at a “park” in Lee County while children are present.
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Submitted by Food for the Poor The challenges in Haiti continue to mount, but Boca Grande Hope For Haitians is standing firm in its drive to provide 40 more homes for vulnerable families living in extreme poverty in Périgny. Led by longtime Food For The Poor donors Ben and Louise Scott, Boca Grande Hope For […]
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It started when she had first moved to the Englewood Beach area from the bright lights of Detroit. She was not smitten with the area, but when she met a young man flagging down a car to get him from Venice to Boca Grande, smitten she was. She told him – Mark Futch – she could only take him to Englewood Beach, but ended up driving him all the way to his intended destination. That was in February of 1975. They were married in May. “I was swept off my feet,” she admits.
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The first History Bytes lecture of the 2023 season, brought to you by the Boca Grande Historical Society and Bank of America, regarded grave matters of the island – literally. The presentation given by Boca Grande Historial Society Executive Director Crystal Diff and Scott Shively, Charlotte County historian, was all about local cemeteries … including […]