Super Bowl 2012: Patriots vs. Giants in Indianapolis. What A Game This Is Going To Be!
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Fort Myers offers beautiful Birds
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A card of Thanks from Kevin Joe Stahl. A huge success and out reach from Sanibel Island and Captiva Island.WORKER OF: C.R.O.W. Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife, Inc
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New Auction Items Announced for Kevin Joe Stahl Fundraiser A benefit fundraiser for Kevin Joe Stahl, to be held on Saturday, January 21 from 2 to 4 PM at Sanibel’s Matzaluna Restaurant, will have an abundance of valuable auction items offered to those who bid. These include a New York Jets game ball signed by Head Coach Rex Ryan. The authentic game ball has been donated by 2nd Head Coach Mike Westoff. It joins other recently donated items such as gift baskets, jewelry, fine art from Sanibel and Captiva Island artists and galleries, and much more from South Seas Resort, The Bait Box, Bailey’s, Grog Shop, Tuttle’s, Lily & Co, JB Designs and artists such as Alan Maltz, Richard Sullivan, Katie Gardenia, Sheila Hoen. Restaurant also are represented, with Il Tesoro, Sweet Melissa’s, The Mucky Duck, The Lighthouse Restaurant, The Green Flash, Island Pizza and more. Kevin Joe Stahl, has been the Sexton at St. Michael’s & All Angels Episcopal Church on Sanibel, and an employee at Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife (CROW), which treats and cares for injured wildlife during their recovery. Now, it is Stahl’s turn to be in recovery after corrective surgery for a recent injury damaging four discs in his lower back. During this recovery he is unable to do heavy work associated with his employment. Sandy Kostick, organizer of the fundraiser, advised that proceeds will assist Stahl with living expenses while he is unable to work. Kostick added, “We are thrilled at the response from Sanibel and CaptivaIsland friends of Kevin’s. The outpouring of contributions for the silent and live auctions is very gratifying. We look forward to a large turnout Matzaluna on Saturday. A light buffet and beverages will be served at the event, which will also include live entertainment by Robbie Hutto. A $10 per person contribution will be collected at the door. There will also be a cash bar. Those unable to attend the event are requested to send donation checks, payable to Kevin Stahl, c/o Reverend Ellen Sloan, St. Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church, 2304 Periwinkle Way, Sanibel, Florida33957. The event is being supported by friends and acquaintances of Kevin and the following local businesses:www.prawnbroker.com/floridawest/Matzaluna/index.php, Sanibel CaptivaDaily.com For questions and more information, please contact: Sandy Kostick @ 239-822-6593
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Fort Myers Beach Sunsets
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It’s What Women Want – A Group to Call Their Own By popular demand, Certified Master Life Coach David Essel is launching a new personal growth group exclusively for women. For more than three years, his Men’s Success and Faith Group has been the envy of Fort Myers and Naples women who desired the same opportunity. Now, they finally have a group to call their own, The Women’s Group on Personal Growth.
(January 11, 2011) FORT MYERS, FL – Attention women! Would you like to break through procrastination? Create a deeper love life or more meaningful friendships? Would you like to let go of resentments? Learn to create the body you’ve always wanted? Would you like to let go of dependency on alcohol, food, prescription drugs, smoking, spending, or co-dependent unhealthy relationships?
Take the first step and join David Essel’s Women’s Group on Personal Growth – a gathering of like-minded women, who will support each other on the path to greater personal freedom, happiness and success.
The group will meet every Tuesday, beginning Jan. 24, from 6-7 p.m., at Fitness on the Move, located at 13010 Metro Parkway in Fort Myers. The session will run for eight weeks, and the cost is $200 for the entire 8-week session.
To register, contact David Essel at 941.266.7676 or email david@davidessel.com.
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Down From Indiana For A Taste of Ft. Myers Beach
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Great weather for Boating
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I just couldn’t resist: PINK AND GREEN.
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AND OH, WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD……….
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Holiday Last minute gifts…….If you are in a rush this can help. Check it out: http://www.fortmyersdaily.com/store/
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Buster’s offers a great Pool League night on Thursdays 6pm. All are welcome.
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Blessings in a Backpack is excited to announce they will be hosting the 3rd Annual “Girls’ Night Out” (GNO) event on Friday, February 3rd at Harley-Davidson of Fort Myers.
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I. Sandy Kostick got really tall or this Basket Ball hoop is really low………..lol
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WHAT A DEAL FOR THE HOLIDAYS. NOTHING LIKE A LIL ASS CREAM CAKE.
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Fishing Island style
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Suggestion of the day: GO FLY A KITE!
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING FORT MYERS FL. STYLE!
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WINNER OF 25th ANNUAL
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SANIBEL MASTERS ART FESTIVAL FRIDAY AND SATURDAY WITH KATIE GARDENIA AND MANY OTHER GREATS“Sanibel Turtle Garden,” an acrylic on wood painting by artist Teri Causey, has been selected as the poster image for the Annual Sanibel Masters Art Festival, which will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on FRIDAY Nov. 25 and SATURDAY the 26th at the Sanibel Community House. The festival features 75 terrific artists. The proceeds from the event benefit the programs at the Sanibel Community House and BIG ARTS, a home for all the arts. Admission is free, but donations are accepted at the gates. As a special treat, the BIG ARTS Chorus will perform a preview of their holiday concert at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 26. For more information, visit boulderbrookproductions.net or facebook.com/boulderbrookart. Regarding this years poster art: The festival hs used a similar type of underwater sea turtle image for the past three years, and this year when we saw the vibrant colors of Teri’s painting, we immediately selected it. The color palette of the painting offered us a chance to freshen up the design. The new colors are so varied from the past that it allowed us to create a similar poster but something that really looks new and fresh. Sanibel Island has a fondness for turtles and we like to keep the poster for this event from changing too much, so that it is recognizable each year. Many guests have started a Sanibel Masters Art Festival poster collection. Signed posters will be available for the first 50 visitors to Teri’s booth. ALSO CHECK OUT THIS EXCITING NEWS: She’s a baker, artist and former Bubble Room restaurant owner. And, now she’s an author. Katie Gardenia, one of the most prominent Sanibel-Captiva area residents, recently released “A Bubble Moment,” a combination cookbook and coffee table book sure to delight residents and visitors to the area. She will sign her book, and sell her fabric sculpture and fiber art pieces, during the Sanibel Masters Art Festival being held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 25 and 26 at the Sanibel Community House. For years, Gardenia owned the whimsical Bubble Room restaurant on Captiva Island. It was famous for serving the biggest slices of homemade cake, with wedges that looked as if they were designed for an art gallery. In her book, she shares al her recipes including red velvet cake, bubble bread, and orange crunch cake. But, she emphasizes, it’s more than a cookbook. The four-color, hardcover, 117-page book chronicles the history of the Bubble Room building, the people who came in and out of its door, the people who helped create it, long and tall stories, local color, her original recipes, old photos, and page after page of handmade collages. As the reader travels through the story, they will come upon handmade paper pages that have “secret envelopes” that were artfully hand stamped, chalk colored, that are waiting unveil more information.
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Jennifer Valiquette Submitted these great pictures of Dolphins playing in the water ways.
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HOLIDAY CAROL SING TO HELP CCMI FEED THE HUNGRY; NEED FOR FOOD CALLED “CRITICAL”
Residents, both young and old, can celebrate the holidays by singing together to help feed the hungry at the 21st Annual Holiday Carol Sing, presented by First Presbyterian Church of Fort Myers and sponsored by the Galloway Family of Dealerships. The Holiday Carol Sing will be Tuesday, Dec. 13, at First Presbyterian Church, 2438 Second Street in downtown Fort Myers, between Lee Street and Royal Palm Avenue. Admission is at least two cans of non-perishable food for the Everyday Café and Marketplace (formerly known as The Soup Kitchen), operated by Community Cooperative Ministries, Inc. (CCMI), and a voluntary cash donation, if you can. “We certainly need to raise all of the money we can to feed the hungry, but in the event you don’t have the money, do not feel embarrassed or let that keep you away. This is a birthday party – it’s Jesus’ birthday,” said Organizer Sam Galloway, Jr. “Our birthday party is in God’s house and He welcomes everyone – regardless of means – and so do we.” Because of the overwhelming popularity of the event, three birthday parties are planned at 1 p.m., 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. The doors will open 30 minutes prior to show time. First Presbyterian’s pastor, Rev. Paul deJong, is urging the community to help with canned goods and cash donations to help those in need. “The need for food has become a desperate situation for many families in our community,” Rev. deJong said. “Continued unemployment and the ongoing downturn in our local economy have caused many of our neighbors to ask for food to feed their families for the first time in their lives. We need our community to come together and help with all the canned goods they can.” Galloway said cash donations are especially needed because CCMI can buy five times as much food for the same amount of money that residents spend at local grocery stores. “This way, we can take every dollar and make it stretch as far as is humanly possible,” he said. “The need is greater now than people realize. Please dig as deep as you can.” Residents who cannot attend any of the Holiday Carol Sing performances may donate canned goods at either the Galloway Ford dealership on Boy Scout Drive or the Coconut Point Ford dealership on U.S. 41 in Estero or mail donations to CCMI, P. O. Box 2143, Fort Myers, FL 33902 The Holiday Carol Sing is a festival of holiday music and family fun. This year’s 90-minute performance will feature the First Presbyterian Church Choir, soloists and other special guests singing favorite holiday carols with audience sing-a-longs. There is a strong rumor that Santa Claus and Frosty the Snowman will be making a surprise visit for the “children in all of us” along with Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and other holiday characters. All canned goods and cash will benefit CCMI, which operates two locations of the Everyday Café and Marketplace in Cape Coral and on Martin Luther King, Jr., Boulevard in Fort Myers. The Holiday Carol Sing is the third of three hymn sings sponsored annually by the Galloway Family of Dealerships. The other two are Mrs. Edison’s Hymn Sing in February and A Midsummer Night’s Sing in July. All three events benefit the Everyday Café and Marketplace of CCMI, which was started in 1984 by First Presbyterian Church as The Soup Kitchen to help alleviate hunger and suffering in Lee County. CCMI is an innovative nonprofit 501 (c) (3) organization made up of social service entrepreneurs fighting to end homelessness and hunger in our community. The agency provides more than 14,000 meals each month through their Everyday Café and Marketplace and Home Delivered Meals programs. CCMI also educates 40 children in their Community Montessori, offers homeless and comprehensive case management services through the Cape Coral United Way Resource House, oversees an emergency mobile food pantry and supplies weekend backpacks full of food to more than 1,500 children each school year. Last year, CCMI received more than 2,000 pounds of canned goods and other non-perishable items from the Holiday Carol Sing. The food was immediately distributed to those in need. For more information, call First Presbyterian Church at (239) 334-2261.
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Welcome to the 2011 Oktoberfest!Florida’s biggest and most original Oktoberfest- Our 26th Year! – The German-American Social Club of Cape Coral
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World Famous Buckingham Blues BarGreat time had by all! This is a super cool place! A must see. Great music, great food and great people! Check out all the pictures below and for more info go to http://www.buckinghambar.com/ Photo Credit: Kevin Stahl View photos and read more »
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22ND Annual “Ding” Darling Days : photo credit Kevin Stahl
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Great times at the Cracker Box in South Ft. Myers……….
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John Sayles, Henry Rollins, Dan Bern and John K. Samson will headline the conference. Veteran filmmaker and novelist Sayles will deliver the keynote address Saturday, Nov. 5. Sayles’s most recent novel is the critically acclaimed “A Moment in the Sun” (2011, McSweeney’s). The address will begin at 6 p.m. in Schein Hall at BIG Arts, 900 Dunlop Road, and is open to the general public once all the registered conference attendees have been seated. Author Steve Almond (“Candyfreak,” “God Bless America”) will open. Henry Rollins brings “An Evening of Storytelling” to the conference at 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4 in Schein Hall at BIG Arts. Registered conference attendees and FGCU students gain immediate admission. Tickets for the general public to Rollins’ event are free, but must be reserved in advance. To reserve tickets, visithttp://henryrollinssanibel.eventbrite.com/. Rollins hosts a weekly radio show on L.A.’s renowned NPR affiliate KCRW, is a regular contributor to VanityFair.com with his “Straight Talk Espresso” blog and recently joined forces with National Geographic as host of a series of television specials. On Thursday, Nov. 3, acclaimed singer-songwriters Bern and Samson will perform solo concerts at 6 p.m. in Schein Hall. Bern has released over a dozen albums, including the critically acclaimed “Fifty Eggs,” “New American Language,” and the children’s album “2 Feet Tall.” Bern’s songwriting skills were used in the films “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story,” and “Get Him to the Greek.” Samson is the singer and songwriter for The Weakerthans, an acclaimed Canadian rock band that has released five CDs, including the award-winning “Reconstruction Site” (2004) and “Reunion Tour” (2008). Samson’s poetry and prose have appeared in Matrix Magazine, Geist, The Believer, and Post-Prairie—an Anthology of New Poetry. He lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he’s also the managing editor and co-founder of a small publishing house, ARP (Arbeiter Ring Publishing). The concert is open to the general public once all the registered conference attendees have been seated. In addition to the artists mentioned above, the conference offers workshops, presentations, panels and readings from the following authors, editors and literary agents: Lynne Barrett (fiction/editor), Nickole Brown (poetry/editor/publicist), Kevin Canty (fiction), Ron Currie Jr. (fiction), John Dufresne (fiction), Carmen Edington (editor), William Giraldi (fiction/editor), Barbara Hamby (poetry), John Hoppenthaler (poetry), Christopher Joyce (NPR-writing for radio), David Kirby (poetry), Christopher Phillips (Socrates Cafe), Robert Root (creative nonfiction/editor), Christopher Schelling (literary agent), Laurel Snyder (YA lit), Darin Strauss (memoir), Jay Wexler (creative nonfiction), Thomas Williams (novella/editor), Tom Zoellner (investigative journalism). For a complete schedule or to register visit www.fgcu.edu/siwc. Contact Tom DeMarchi at tdemarch@fgcu.edu or (239) 590-7421.
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Florida sunsets( See all pictures on thehttp://www.sanibelcaptivadaily.com/ )
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It is 7:00 a.m. on Sept. 18 on the beach at South Seas Island Resort, and you are eagerly and anxiously awaiting the start of the race. You’ve trained, you are ready. The air horn sounds and you are off. It’s all good. You are standing at the intersection of Captiva Drive and Andy Rosse Lane on a warm morning on Sept. 18 watching and cheering as 500 cyclists ride by. Some ride like the wind and others and working very hard with less forward motion. It doesn’t matter, you cheer for all of them. It’s all good (and there is no charge for spectators). You more than anyone know about doing more with less. At CCMI you are facing more hungry people and emptier shelves. You know that Galloway Captiva Tri will help fill those shelves. It is all good. You are filling cups with water and watching the runners on the beautiful golf course path. It is a beautiful day and you are helping 500 people make their dreams a reality. It’s all good. You are the Lee County economy, facing one of the bleakest months of the year. Over 600 people from throughout Florida as well as Georgia, Michigan, Illinois and Indiana come to race in September. It’s all good. You are not a great runner, but your best friend is and your cousin is a fast swimmer. Together you make an awesome team that is out to have a good time and a good race. It’s all good. You are a six-year old still wearing your race tee shirt and medal from the kids’ tri yesterday. You are watching Dad race, feeling very proud. It’s all good.(Well mostly all good, there is one really angry three-year old who wanted to race, but has to wait until he is six). You are watching your significant other racing, knowing that he or she is no longer a couch potato –he or she has lost weight, gotten in shape, and turned his or her life around. The family doctor is thrilled. It’s all good. On Sept. 17, more than 100 children will compete in two age groups in a mini-tri beginning at 8 a.m. Everyone who finishes will receive a medal. The purpose is to encourage lifetime fitness and family fun. On Sept. 18, more than 500 people ages 14-75+ will compete to swim 440 yards, bicycle about 10 miles, and run 3.1 miles on Captiva Island to raise funds (to help the needy)and have fun. -30- Galloway Captiva Triathlon at South Seas Island Resort The Galloway Captiva Triathlon at South Seas Island Resort is a weekend family, fun and fitness event comprised of two children’s triathlons on September 17 (Ages 6-9:100 yard swim, 1.5 mile bike, 0.5 mile run; Ages 10-13:200 yard swim, 3 mile bike, 1 mile run) and an adult sprint length triathlon on September 18 (Swim 440 yards [0.25 mile], Bike 10 miles, Run 3.1 miles [5K].) All events will take place on Captiva Island. For more information go to www.captivatri.org About our race charity: CCMI CCMI provides more than 14,000 meals each month through their Soup Kitchen and Meals On Wheels programs. The nonprofit agency also educates 40 children in their Community Montessori Preschool, provides weekend backpacks full of food to more than 2,500 children each school year and oversees a mobile food pantry, everyday choice marketplace and cafe. For more information, visit www.ccmileecounty.com<http://www.ccmileecounty.com
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Wanna go wind surfing? This is super cool
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