Tag: Gasparilla Island

BIPS announces new partnership with Mote

January 5, 2018
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ BY SUE ERWIN Inspire. Educate. Preserve. Those are key efforts that the Barrier Island Parks Society board members strongly hope to achieve in 2018. BIPS held its monthly board meeting on...

Literature Forum to collaborate with Royal Palm Players for reading

January 5, 2018
Marcy Shortuse
Featured News, News

■ STAFF REPORT The Literature Forum’s January meeting will feature a reading by the Royal Palm Players of “The Trip to Bountiful.” The play, by Horton Foote, was originally produced on NBC...

Award-winning author Michael Grunwald tells the history of the Everglades on January 16, courtesy of Boca Grande Historical Society

January 5, 2018
Marcy Shortuse
Featured News, News

■ STAFF REPORT Michael Grunwald, award-winning author of “The Swamp,” will present a lecture on the history of the efforts to tame the Everglades and more recently the attempts to restore it, at 10...

What will happen if the ‘what if’ happens?

January 5, 2018
Marcy Shortuse
Featured News, News

■ BY SUE ERWIN Sometimes life can throw a wild curve ball, disrupting daily routines and putting obstacles in the way of those trying to move forward. Boca Grande residents Edie Gardner and Tim...

CEO of U.S. Sugar speaks to island crowd

January 5, 2018
Marcy Shortuse
Featured News, News

■ BY SUE ERWIN When U.S. Sugar CEO Robert Buker took the stage at the Boca Grande Community Center auditorium on Wednesday evening to discuss Florida’s sugar industry, audience questions following...

Perry Johnson to present program to Camera Club regarding digital imaging

January 5, 2018
Marcy Shortuse
Featured News, News

■ SUBMITTED BY THE BOCA GRANDE CAMERA CLUB On Tuesday, Jan. 9 at 10 a.m. in the Houghton Room of the Boca Grande Community Center, commercial photographer and graphic designer Perry Johnson will...

The Boca Girls bring an evening of fun to Boca Grande

January 5, 2018
Marcy Shortuse
Featured News, News

■ STAFF REPORT On Friday, Jan. 19 Royal Palm Players presents a one-night-only event guaranteed to raise your spirits as you raise a glass of wine. It’s “The Boca Girls,” and it’s a spoof. A...

C.L. Fornari to speak on ‘Creating the Cocktail Garden’

January 5, 2018
Marcy Shortuse
Featured News, News

■ SUBMITTED BY THE BOCA GRANDE GARDEN CLUB The Boca Grande Garden Club will host the well-known author, radio commentator, newspaper columnist, and gardening legend, C.L. Fornari, who will speak on...

Profile Eric Hronowski, Boca Blooms

■ BY SUE ERWIN Eric Hronowski has visited many countries, and he continues to have a keen interest in travel. But recently he’s been spending most of his days in Boca Grande. Eric currently...

Obituary Virginia ‘Jinny’ Estelle Garrett Cunning

Virginia “Jinny” Estelle Garrett Cunning, 100 years of age, passed away on Friday, December 15, 2017 at Elizabeth House, a hospice facility in Flat Rock, N.C. Jinny was born in 1917 in Brooklyn,...