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HELP HURTING HEARTS HEAL

W orking in law respect and trust to heal their
enforcement for twenty- is not a concept brain and
one years, I watched they readily emotions. In
and listened understand. this naturally
to the histories of the habitual therapeutic
offenders in our county’s system. I have spent ranch and farm-
They all seem to have one thing countless hours like learning
in common: in their childhood, learning and atmosphere, we
they have experienced trauma. discussing with social workers, therapists, can support our
I have seen first-hand how the teachers, and other professionals, ways most vulnerable
traumatic events in their lives to help these children. All this has led youth by
have led them to life as a victim, me to a mission to develop Community collaborating with local organizations.
a criminal, or even suicide. Hearts Ranch. Community Hearts Ranch will
Community Hearts Ranch needs empower youth to develop character,
My training taught me the to secure a piece of property to create a social awareness, and leadership
physiological impact childhood hands-on, outdoor, alternative learning qualities using a combination of animal
traumas have on a child’s brain private school. This minimum of one year, interactions, research-based programming,
and ability to make healthy maximum of three years, program will and a homeschool curriculum. We equip
choices. Early intervention give us the ability to build trust, develop our youth to lead healthy and fulfilling
with traumatized children is respect and help the hurting youth of lives, find their purpose, and strive to be
crucial, and preventative care our community understand the benefit successful members of their community.
can drastically influence their of and learn a new “love language.” All The programs take place in a Christ-
ability to overcome. But more while interrupting their negative thought centered atmosphere with the finest
than that, my experience has patterns that come with trauma, helping American traditions.
taught me the impact childhood
traumas have on their hearts. If you would like to learn how to be a part of
helping hurting hearts heal at Community
Dr. Gary Chapman has Hearts Ranch through direct donations or
written a series of remarkable volunteering, don’t hesitate to get in touch
books called The 5 Love with me: Bonnie Bee (President / Founder),
Languages. He explains how 239.253.7744, [email protected],
we all inherit a love language communityhearts.org.
as crucial as a spoken language.
The principles of the five
love languages are words of
affirmation, physical touch,
quality time, acts of service, and
receiving gifts. Trust and respect are
the foundational pieces to what Dr.
Chapman teaches.

When a child’s love foundation
is developed in an atmosphere of
dysfunction and fear, their idea of love is
the opposite. The “love” they experienced
comes through words of rejection or
disapproval, unhealthy physical touch,
abandonment, servitude, and oppression.
These negative representations contribute
to why it is so difficult for a person to
change their life direction and accept
a healthy love from anyone, especially
themselves. Love with a foundation of

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THE FUTURE OF IMMOKALEE ROAD

BY ANDY SOLIS, ESQ., COMMISSIONER INTERSECTION B: Strand Boulevard and Juliet. Here we
Collier County District 2 are planning more conventional improvements. Residents of The
Strand will be happy to see additional left-turn storage both into
A s we all know, Immokalee and out of Strand Boulevard, and a dedicated right-turn lane for
Road is a critical part of our exiting west. One thing that will really help is greatly increasing
road network, a primary the left-turn lanes into the Walmart Plaza. And that is only possi-
connection between the east ble because of what we’re doing at I-75.
and west parts of our county. And we
all also know, traffic is an issue there, INTERSECTIONS C & D: I-75 North and Southbound
even in the off-season. For that reason, Ramps. Nothing conventional about this recommendation! Here,
the Board of County Commissioners we plan a diverging diamond, as the BCC already approved for
(BCC) recently completed a congestion Pine Ridge Road at I-75. FDOT was also very involved in this
management study for the segment review, and again we agree.
from Livingston Road to Logan
Boulevard, looking at expected traffic Although they may seem unusual at first, diverging diamonds
levels in both 2025 and 2040 to come up with opportunities and function exceptionally well. They are very efficient, don’t require
alternatives. much right-of-way room, and are one of the most cost-effective
Of course, the most important thing we can do to improve solutions possible. That’s why there are literally dozens of
traffic on Immokalee is complete the Vanderbilt Beach Road diverging diamonds in process all over Florida. Next up:
extension, and we are working hard on that. But down the
road (pun absolutely intended), Immokalee Road will still need INTERSECTION E: Northbrook/Tarpon Bay Boulevard.
improvements. It is already a six-lane facility, constrained on Here we’re back to more conventional approaches. We’ll widen
both sides by extensive residential and commercial development, the bridges a bit, adding left and right-turn lanes and another
and on the north side by the Cocohatchee Canal—it cannot get northbound left-turn lane on Tarpon Bay Boulevard.
any wider.
So, as we looked at this critical, two-mile segment, we had INTERSECTION F: Oakes Boulevard. With traffic moving
to focus on the entire corridor and how the nine intersections more efficiently east/west on Immokalee Road, making a left
work together from both an operation and a traffic modeling onto Oakes may take longer, so we will increase left-turn-lane
standpoint. Let’s walk through those now, starting at the west end: storage here.

INTERSECTION A: Livingston Road. Because this road is INTERSECTION G: Valewood Drive. Again, we’re adding a
a parallel reliever to I-75, the Florida Department of Transpor- dedicated left-turn lane in the southbound direction and re-strip-
tation (FDOT) has a deep interest in any changes here; they ran ing one of the southbound lanes as a through right. Also, we will
their own independent review. And both studies came to the expand the stormwater retention pond at the southeast corner to
same conclusion: conventional improvements will not cut it. An deal with any new run-off created with these projects.
overpass is the best solution.
INTERSECTION H: Executive Drive. There will be a little
Throughout the study, we did a lot of outreach to the re-striping here (and more on that later), but basically, this area
neighboring residents and took their concerns into consideration has what it needs. Now, last but definitely not least…
wherever possible. As a result, in addition to four lanes of
Livingston going up and over Immokalee, we will also maintain INTERSECTION I: Logan Boulevard and Immokalee Road.
ground-level access both northbound and southbound, so locals We looked at conventional approaches here, but eventually, traffic
can access their communities without a lot of U-turns. will just be too much, especially after Logan gets four-laned. So
once again we turned to cutting-edge traffic engineering tech-
niques, and the plan is to construct a continuous flow for the east/
west traffic movement here.

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This innovative design means we no longer must split the Annalu Leeza Arkhangelskaya | Owner
green light between left-turning and through traffic. Both Monarch Magic
directions can move at the same time, greatly increasing the Resin and Murano
number of cars served by each cycle. Again, this will be the glass wall sculpture
second one in Collier County, with one already approved at Pine 39” x 39” x 5”
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Staff has already identified the segment from Valewood to I-75
as the easiest place to begin, and we’ll see that project in the
budget for the next fiscal year.

But perhaps the most exciting is the plan to introduce
adaptive traffic signalization for the seven lights in this
segment. This will increase safety, improve travel efficiency,
and cut down on red-light delays, which saves time and fuel
and reduces emissions.

New equipment will monitor traffic volume and create
real-time data. Sophisticated programming will determine the
best, most logical, and most efficient action, giving green lights
precisely where they’re needed the most, for precisely the time
they are necessary, then quickly moving on to the area of next-
highest demand.

We are already installing the detection system along the
segment. When that is complete, we will collect traffic counts
to configure the system. Then county staff will test and finalize
the system; we should be operational by early summer. When
this technology was installed on South Airport Road in 2017,
it resulted in a 15-24% improvement in travel time. We are
hopeful it will have a similar effect here, so next season should
be a little easier for us all on Immokalee Road.

My office has prepared a link to more in-depth information
about diverging diamond and continuous flow intersections, and
to a slide presentation on these recommended changes. Send an
email to Angela @ CollierCountyFL.gov if you’re interested and
remember to be careful and drive safe!

March 2022

WHODUNNIT?

MURDER MYSTERY THE 39 STEPS:

A laugh-out-loud Gulfshore Playhouse production

G ulfshore Playhouse will transport Company and has also appeared on television in Law and Order: SVU, Blue
audiences back to the 1930s Bloods, and more.
with the two-time Tony award-
winning play, The 39 Steps. This The creative team includes lighting designer Jimmy Lawlor, known for
hilarious whodunnit is running now through his work on Native Gardens and My Fair Lady at Gulfshore Playhouse.
March 13, at The Norris Center. Costume designer Tracy Dorman won an Emmy for the daytime drama
series As the World Turns. Scenic designer David Arsenault, whose recent
Made famous by Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 New York City credits include #DateMe: An OKCupid Experiment returns
film, the story follows Richard Hannay, a man
trapped in a boring life, as he encounters a
woman who claims to be a spy. After she is
murdered, Hannay finds himself entangled
in a nationwide manhunt, pursued by a
mysterious organization called The 39 Steps.

Directed by Peter Amster, The 39 Steps is
packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany
characters (played by a ridiculously talented
cast of four), and abounding theater magic.
Amster previously directed It’s a Wonderful
Life: A Live Radio Play at Gulfshore Playhouse.

Returning to the Gulfshore Playhouse
stage is William Connell as Richard Hannay.
His previous appearance at the theater
includes In the Next Room, or The Vibrator
Play. Connell recently starred on Broadway
in INK and recently appeared on the Emmy-
winning HBO series Succession.

Brian Owen, who starred in the 2019
production of It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live
Radio Play, will be playing one of the clowns.
Notable appearances include the world-
premiere of Dog Man: The Musical at the
Lucille Lortel Theatre and Cabaret at the
Argyle Theatre.

Andrew Sellon will appear alongside
Owen as the second clown. Sellon was
recently on the national tour of Cheers as
Eric Finch, but he’s best known to TV
audiences as the recurring characters of Mr.
Penn, The Ventriloquist and Scarface in
FOX’s hit series Gotham.

Making their Gulfshore Playhouse
debut is Jess Nahikian, playing the roles of
Annabella Schmidt, Pamela and Margaret.
They are a nonbinary actor and voiceover
artist who most recently appeared onstage
in King Charles III at the Pioneer Theatre

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to Gulfshore Playhouse. Sound designer The work of Gulfshore Gulfshore Playhouse recently began
Joel Abbott most recently worked on the Playhouse is inspired by a construction on the state-of-the-art Baker
Broadway production of Birthday Candles belief in the magic of theatre Theatre and Education Center. Located
(2022). Production stage manager Danny to expand the imagination, at the corner of Goodlette-Frank Road
Kuenzel returns to Gulfshore Playhouse and 1st Avenue South, the gateway to
after a production of Holiday Inn at challenge the senses, downtown Naples, the facility will house a
Drury Lane Theatre. provoke discussion, and 350-seat mainstage theatre and a 125-seat
revitalize in its audiences studio space, in addition to numerous
Tickets for The 39 Steps are an understanding of our event, rehearsal, and educational spaces.
on sale now starting at $45. Visit Naming opportunities are still available.
gulfshoreplayhouse.org or call 239.261. common humanity.
PLAY for more information. For more information about
This belief drives the care with which Gulfshore Playhouse or its new facility,
Gulfshore Playhouse is passionately Gulfshore Playhouse treats its artists, or to make a contribution, visit www.
committed to enriching the cultural audiences, students, staff, and members of gulfshoreplayhouse.org or call 239.261.
landscape of our region by producing the greater community. PLAY.
professional theatre to the highest
artistic standards and providing unique TOP LEFT: William Connell
educational opportunities to diverse TOP RIGHT: Andrew Sellon
groups of people in a spirit of service, BOTTOM LEFT: Owen Brian
adventure, and excitement. The work of BOTTOM RIGHT: Jess Nahikian
Gulfshore Playhouse is inspired by a belief
in the magic of theatre to expand the
imagination, challenge the senses, provoke
discussion, and revitalize in its audiences an
understanding of our common humanity.

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NCH EMERGENCY

DEPARTMENT

Renovations have been completed

N early one-fifth of all Emergency Department Administrative Director, Chris Raphael and Nursing Director, Rachel Hoopes in one of the ER’s new
Americans are taken to resuscitation bays, with 360-degree patient access.
an emergency room for
treatment each year, and The ED receives more than 38,000 including a pediatric emergency room,
eighty percent of all patients admitted patients each year and has never closed throughout Collier and south Lee
to NCH come through the Emergency its doors in the sixty years since it began Counties, cumulatively receiving 105,000
Department (ED). operations. Now, the ED has doubled its patients each year. Each ED has been
footprint to nearly 47,000 square feet, and renovated or built from the ground up
When you or a loved one needs to incorporated extensive new features to since the Baker ED was last renovated in
make that emergency room trip, you ensure the optimum patient experience, 1997, said Christopher Raphael, MSN,
want to know you will receive the best said Dr. Todd Bethel, MD. In addition RN, CCRN-K, NE-BC, Administrative
possible care in the most complete, up- to being Medical Staff President for Director of Critical Care, Emergency
to-date facility. This is why the newly the entire NCH system, and Facility Services and Hemodialysis. Raphael has
completed renovation and expansion Director for the Baker ED, Bethel is also helped shepherd and coordinate the $32
of Collier County’s premier ED is a a practicing emergency room physician, so million downtown renovation, which
significant milestone, and a point of he is actively working in the new ER he was completed without ever interrupting
tremendous pride. helped to envision and design. patient care or ceasing to admit new
patients.
Funded through the generous support “The Baker ED is the flagship of
of local philanthropists, the Emergency NCH EDs,” said Dr. Bethel. “We were “Our operations were never impeded
Department at the NCH Baker Hospital able to take all of the lessons learned by construction,” said Raphael. “And
Downtown is a vital community resource. at our other facilities and put that even though the work took place during
Thanks to the following donors who cumulative insight together to deliver the height of the COVID pandemic, it
helped support this project by providing the highest level of patient care.” The was completed two months ahead of the
lead gifts, Homer and Pat Scoville, downtown emergency room is the most anticipated completion date of February
recent in the NCH system to receive an 2022, allowing the new ED to be fully
We were able to take all extensive makeover. operational before the arrival of the busy
of the lessons learned at winter season.”
our other facilities and put NCH has a total of five EDs,
that cumulative insight
together to deliver the highest

level of patient care.”

–Dr. Bethel

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“We have a unique design to accommodate our strong North Naples News | 13
seasonal fluctuations,” he said. “As volume increases, the ED
has the capacity to expand and take on more patients, opening
more space or shrinking to a center core as required. More
comfortable and welcoming waiting rooms for patients and
family were also incorporated.”

“We needed to grow and expand our emergency services to
continue to meet the needs of our growing population,” said
Chris Raphael. “NCH is the premier facility in Collier County
for emergencies.”
• Emergency room expanded to forty-three private beds
• Each treatment room is glassed-in for optimum patient

privacy
• Eighty percent of all patients admitted to NCH come

through the Emergency Department
• Emergency Department has never closed its doors since

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• Baker ED receives more than 38,000 patients every year

March 2022

RSEEDENFINIOINGR LIVING

V i at Bentley Village has been views of our golf at Bentley Village
redefining senior living in Naples
for over thirty-five years. The course and lakes. features resort-
community offers 156 acres of
the good life: a private eighteen-hole This is another like surroundings
par-three golf course, two golf simulators,
twelve miles of walking trails, bocce and exciting opportunity With a holistic focus on along with top-
croquet courts, a state-of-the-art fitness for us to show wellness, Vi at Bentley notch service and
center, two swimming pools, and much our commitment Village ensures that its amenities—and
more—all surrounded by the lush beauty to excellence includes access to
of Naples.
in senior living resident programs and the care venues
In the fall of 2021, Vi at Bentley through growth and restaurant menus adhere to should the
Village launched pre-sales for a new $92 development.” need arise. The
million redevelopment project that will
bring the community four new buildings With a holistic the company’s philosophy of community provides
housing sixty-four independent living focus on wellness, a continuum of
apartments, all with stunning lake and Vi at Bentley living well—mind, body, care including
golf course views. The buildings will
feature five new, spacious floor plans, Village ensures and spirit. independent living,
ranging in size from approximately that its resident assisted living,
2,400 to 4,500 square feet. Each of
the apartments will include a spacious, programs and memory support
screened-in outdoor living balcony, semi-
private elevator, great room with open restaurant menus and skilled nursing
kitchen, dining, and living space, a den,
luxurious bathrooms, and walk-in closets. adhere to the to its residents.
In addition, all the units will receive two
garage spaces for car parking and one company’s philosophy of living well— Vi at Bentley Village also recently
space for golf cart parking.
mind, body, and spirit. The lifestyle team announced a $41 million redevelopment
The entrance fees for the new
apartments will start at over $2 million provides opportunities for residents to of its Bentley Care Center and Assisted
and extend to over $4 million. Expected
to commence in the summer of 2022, the participate in activities that are designed Living Residences which commenced
project is anticipated to be completed in
early 2024. A priority reservation list, with to help them live each day to the fullest. in August of 2021 and is expected to
a $20,000 fully-refundable deposit, has
been established for people interested in The Culinary Institute of America– conclude within eighteen months.
reserving one of the new apartments.
trained staff creates imaginative fare,
“This project will continue the
renewal of our campus and provide from breakfast smoothies and fresh
enhanced living options for our current
and prospective residents,” said Penny salads to wood-fired flatbreads and
Smith, Executive Director at Vi at
Bentley Village. “The new buildings will five-course meals. Resident can choose
be located toward the northeast corner
of our community and offer spectacular from three full-service restaurants and a To find out more about Vi at Bentley Village,
grab-n-go café. visit www.viliving.com.

As a type-A Life Plan Community, Vi

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WE’RE BUILDING ON AN ALREADY Computer rendering only. Floor plan
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OLD NAPLES HOTEL

Elegantly blending the past with the present

T he new Old Naples Hotel
speaks to the city’s storied past.
Featuring gracious architecture
reminiscent of Naples’ original
homes and charming cottages, the
luxury boutique property recalls a time
when pioneering families planted their
roots in this very neighborhood…
vacationers arrived by steamboat at
the nearby Naples Pier, ready to enjoy
weeks or winters in the sun… and the
garden courtyard of the Naples Hotel
was the heart of a quintessential small
town, a place where neighbors gathered

in Florida, for the new hotel.

Ocean Properties’ portfolio—

We are excited for the with mostly family-owned
and operated properties—

hotel to become a vibrant includes several Four
part of the Third Street Diamond resorts in South
Florida and the Sunset Key

District while reinforcing Cottages in Key West.
“We look forward to
the historical and cultural bringing the Old Naples

a casual heritage of Old Naples Hotel to life,” said Anne D.

for games and dances—and often brunch, itself.” Camalier. “This new luxury
outnumbered hotel guests. evening destination will undoubtedly

Weaving past and present, the Old cocktails, –Anne D. Camalier become a favorite of visitors
Naples Hotel’s gabled roofs, verandas,
and picturesque courtyard complement and for to Naples, as well as neighbors
the distinctive neighborhood character
of its two-acre site along Gordon Drive, those who throughout the community
Broad Avenue, and Third Street South in
Naples’ historic downtown. Adjacent to continue to who can enjoy the beautiful
the century-old Olde Naples Building,
the new four-star hotel recreates the revive the courtyard and gardens. We are
lively, neighborly ambiance of a time
long ago and honors the original hotel, fine art of afternoon tea. excited for the hotel to become a vibrant
opened in 1889, by replicating its iconic
cupola at the main entrance. Immersed Construction of the 109-room Old part of the Third Street District while
in gardens, vine-laced walls and raised
planters spilling over with flowers, the Naples Hotel is expected to begin in fall reinforcing the historical and cultural
Old Naples Hotel’s public spaces and
a café/bar with alfresco dining are sure 2022 with completion in early 2024— heritage of Old Naples itself.”
to become a favorite destination for
coinciding with the 135th anniversary Featuring elegant architecture by

of the original Naples Hotel, which renowned New York and San Francisco-

served guests for ninety years and based Hart Howerton, the Old Naples

counted President Grover Cleveland’s hotel devotes 35,000 square feet to open

sister, Rose, as one of its first guests. space seamlessly transitioning from

Owners and long-time Neapolitans, the neighboring streets. It will also offer a

Camalier family, have partnered with hotel sundry shop, a spa, a small retail

Ocean Properties Hotels & Resorts and space along Third Street South, and a

its affiliates, one of the largest hoteliers reconstructed underground garage.

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March 2022 North Naples News | 17

COLLIER STUDENTS LEAD THE WAY

BY CHAD OLIVER
Executive Director of Communications
& Community Engagement
Collier County Public Schools

W hen Steven Covey first
published 7 Habits of
Highly Effective People
more than thirty
years ago who could have predicted it
would have such a positive impact on
both adults and children? The book
has sold twenty-five million copies
and counting! The Franklin Covey

Education group turned those highly Barfield Elementary’s The Leader in Me, four of which have
effective principles into a framework— Sign Language Club earned the prestigious acknowledgment
The Leader in Me—to advance student leading the Pledge of as Lighthouse Schools. That means those
achievement in school and beyond Allegiance. The Veterans Memorial schools have met the highly regarded
graduation. Collier County Public Elementary (VME) Fifth Grade standard of excellence established by the
Schools (CCPS) was proud to showcase Chorus brought smiles to faces with two Franklin Covey Education group. New
our student leaders and share best songs. Students from Herbert Cambridge this school year, all students enrolled
practices around goal achievement with Elementary introduced the 2022 Florida in our traditional public schools are
educators from across the nation who Superintendent of the Year, our CCPS benefiting from The Leader in Me
gathered in Naples, in February 2022, Superintendent Dr. Kamela Patton, and during a dedicated time where students
for a Leader in Me event highlighted an eighth-grader from Corkscrew Middle and staff “Connect for Success.”
by Mr. Covey’s son, Sean Covey, who provided a warm welcome to Sean Covey.
authored The Four Disciplines of Execution Our CCPS student leaders gave the The Leader in Me impacts all
for Educators. audience a glimpse at what is possible stakeholders and spans three areas of
when you allow students to lead and grow focus: culture, leadership, and academics.
The first voices participants heard were their individual talents. This system supports our belief in
those of the color guard from Immokalee educating the whole child. Learning and
High School, followed by Tommie VME was the first of our Collier living with the “end in mind” is aimed
County Public Schools (CCPS) to adopt at creating a higher-quality workforce
the Leader in Me transformational
framework and paradigm. How far we
have come in the last decade! CCPS now
has twenty-three schools implementing

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In short, we are providing of belonging
the skill sets needed for and their desire
students to become local to participate in
and global leaders. class.

with higher graduation rates and improved school morale, increasing attendance at The Leader in
skills such as work ethic, leadership, school events, reducing staff turnover, Me is included in
communication, and goal setting. In short, and encouraging staff to authentically the CCPS three-
we are providing the skill sets needed lead initiatives to advance student year Strategic Plan
for students to become local and global achievement. With parents and staff in order to expand
leaders. becoming more invested in the school, the framework to
there is a positive, cascading impact on even more schools,
Our focus on school culture starts students. We have data which supports especially at the middle and high school
with the principal and the cadence student discipline issues decreasing, levels. We want even more students to
they set at the school. We rely on our attendance increasing, and a rise in reap the benefits, so they are college,
parents to provide valuable input and student participation in clubs that give career, and life ready.
to be a true partners in their child’s back to our community. A positive
education. Administrators applaud The school culture increases students’ sense LEFT: Swimmers from Barron Collier, Lely, and Naples High
Leader in Me culture for helping boost Schools at 2021 Swimming and Diving State Championship

MIDDLE: Members of the Barron Collier Cougar Band
TOP RIGHT: CCPS students taking Entrepreneurship meet with

local and state leaders
BOTTOM RIGHT: Students at Oakridge Middle School

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SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

RSW – An International Airport that offers residents a convenient gateway to the world

SANDRA RIOS
Public Relations & Communications
Manager – Tourism Division

W e’ve all been reading
about the superlatives the
past year has brought to
our destination – record-
breaking hotel occupancy and room rates
and the corresponding increase to Collier
County’s TDT (Tourist Development
Tax) revenues.

Along with the growth and
exceptional results within the hospitality
sector, our regional airport, RSW, has seen
exponential growth and outstanding year-
over-year results as well. In 2021, RSW
was named number one for passenger
recovery among the top fifty U.S. airports.
RSW was also ranked thirtieth among the

top forty busiest U.S. airports, outranking that’s a lot of passengers! recreational activities that guests enjoy.
far larger metropolitan airports like And to that point, each of those That means more revenues for our local
Chicago Midway and Washington Dulles. museums and theaters, our family-owned
The airport finished 2021 with a record- passengers enhances the Southwest restaurants and independent retailers,
breaking 10,322,434 passengers, which Florida economy. Air service plays local transportation companies, and
was a one percent increase compared to a significant role in supporting our small businesses sprinkled throughout
the previous record set in 2019. communities with a direct economic Collier County.
impact on local lodging, dining,
Think about that for just a moment, transportation, shopping, and The Naples, Marco Island, Everglades

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CVB has a long-standing partnership carriers. Within the past four months, to implement the COVID Response
with RSW, and working in tandem with fourteen new flights have been added to Plan “Stay Safe, RSW Cares About
other regional CVBs, supports marketing the list of connections, increasing weekly You.” These protocols include touchless
programs and campaigns that attract and and daily flights into Omaha, NE, Albany, hand sanitizer stations, social distancing
secure incremental service to Southwest NY, Louisville, KY, Manchester, NH, signage and announcements, plexiglass
Florida. With the increased interest and Milwaukee, and Green Bay, WI, St. Louis, shields installed at locations throughout
visitation our destination is experiencing, MO Duluth, MN, Rochester, MN, Los the terminals, concourses and rental
it is reassuring to know that we have Angeles, and San Francisco, CA. car facilities, and touchless short-term
a world-class airport right in our own parking dispensers.
backyard. RSW offers residents an easily United’s new routes to San Francisco
accessible airport for their personal and and Los Angeles, and Alaska Airlines’ As a community, we are fortunate
business travel and a convenient location flights into Seattle allow residents easy, to have such a vital and growing
for arriving houseguests and visiting nonstop access to these major west coast international airport hub right in our own
family members. cities. backyard. RSW offers residents nonstop
service to the west coast and Canada, new
With so many new arrivals to our This spring new carriers will be flying nonstop flights to Germany, a convenient
destination, the increased passenger count into RSW on a regular basis. These gateway to numerous European cities,
allows airlines to increase flight frequency include Eurowings Discover with three and one-stop access to Pacific Rim
between locations and add incremental times weekly, year-round service to destinations, Hawaii and Mexico.
routes between new ones. According to Frankfurt, Germany starting in March,
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TTRRAAVVEELL

WALKING IRELAND’S WILD ATLANTIC WAY

Clew Bay mussels and diamond-tipped mountains

Story and Photography
BY KAREN T. BARTLETT

Idreamed that I rambled for miles and
miles along the western coast of Ireland,
knee-deep in purple heather and ankle-
deep in spongy peat bogs. On the
landscape of my dream are narrow paths
to nowhere, punctuated with
the forlorn ruins of stone
cottages abandoned during
the potato famine. I don’t
dream of the horrific stories
infused in those stones (that’s
for a deeper conversation);
only of this place that
Oscar Wilde called a savage
beauty, where long-haired
sheep with black leather
faces and spiraled horns
brazenly stare me down,
and wild Connemara ponies
materialize out of an ethereal
white mist to inspect the
stranger in their land.

I don’t want to wake from this happened, a of sunshine. Today, my friend Lynn and
dream in which I feasted on obscene full decade I are joining a guided walk with a group
quantities of succulent Clew Bay ago. Recently, of Danish hikers who could have been
mussels and Galway oysters, and though, about models for the North Face catalog. They’ve
listened to heartbreaking Celtic ballads in two bites into a already climbed to the peak of Croagh
centuries-old pubs. I don’t want to leave bowl of perfectly Patrick, where according to tradition a
the chin-high Victorian bathtub at the prepared mussels missionary named Patrick banished all
Connemara Seaweed Baths at the base of on a chilly snakes from Ireland. A holy site dating
Killary Fjord, where steaming saltwater thick January day back to the Stone Age, pilgrims first braved
with giant clumps of seaweed soaked the when Southwest its rocky face to worship the pagan god
toxins from every screaming muscle. Florida was Lugh. Legends say that in the fifth century
shrouded in when Patrick set out to convert them to
Luckily it isn’t a dream at all. It really gray mist, I time-traveled back to that Christianity, a flock of blackbirds tormented
midsummer week, and the mussel memory him on his forty-day pilgrimage to the peak.
(pun intended) was as crisp as the Chilean Believing they were demons in disguise,
sauvignon blanc that accompanied it. Funny he hurled his iron bell and banished them
how food does that, isn’t it? forever. Over time the translation got a bit
Irish summer requires several layers muddled, and blackbirds became snakes.
that one can peel off as misty mornings Today there are no snakes in Ireland, mostly
give way to the Emerald Isle’s brief “spells” because there weren’t any in the first place.

22 | North Naples News March 2022

But Patrick did begun to climb. It’s this pairt yer on now
pretty much “It’s this pairt yer on that’ll breek yer spirit.
succeed in Tha’ next pairt,” he says,
converting the pagans to Christianity. now that’ll breek yer pointing at the distant
But enough about pagans and snakes— spirit. Tha’ next pairt,”
this dream is all about me. It’s about the he says, pointing at the peak, “is easy.
gothic Kylemore Abbey, home to Benedictine distant peak, “is easy.”
nuns who keep Irish black bees and make monster a hill, anyway? Now Gerry is behind
honeycomb chocolates, peppermint beeswax He’s lying out of me, mercifully pushing my sodden dead weight
foot creams, and such. It’s about my morning kindness, of course. My up the final switchback, one excruciating step
tea at the cozy Clew Bay Hotel in Westport, hiking guide, Gerry, is at a time. At the peak, the Danes are sprawled
and late-night conversations with the locals worse. We’ve walked out enjoying the last bites of homemade Irish
in Cronin’s Sheebeen Pub on the quay. It’s eight to twelve miles bread sandwiches and luscious fresh fruit.
about that night of rousing Irish songs at every day this week. A split second after my grateful posterior
McCarthy’s Bar, interrupted (incongruously) Diamond Hill, one of settles onto a flat sun-dappled rock, they start
by a blind singer’s haunting a cappella version the twelve bens (pointed shouldering their packs.
of “The Tennessee Waltz” that made me peaks) in Connemara
forget to breathe. National Park, is more “Okay,” Gerry chirps, “time to head back!”
In my dream-not-a-dream, everyone’s challenging but, Gerry Patting the soggy bulge in my pack that
a friend, with stories, advice, and points out, it’s barely five was supposed to be lunch, I drag myself
encouragement along the trail. Like a local miles and a 1,500-foot up and start the descent. Surprisingly, my
sculptor named Eugene Finnegan, who tries ascent. Plus, the sun is downhill muscles are well-rested since
to reassure me about the steep quartzite shining. So how bad can it yesterday’s hike, and once down it’s a sweet
precipice of Diamond Hill that I’ve just be? Right. It darkens a bit walk through a muddy but gloriously flat
as we traverse an ancient bog. I have conquered the mountain! More
balsam forest, and when satisfaction lies ahead: it turns out that one
we emerge, the glittery Danish couple had followed their good
point of Diamond Hill instincts and turned back mid-ascent.
has disappeared beneath Oscar Wilde was so right. Ireland’s
a menacing gray cloud. western coast is a savage beauty. Its
The temperature drops ten wildflower-strewn summers atone for the
degrees. The air tastes like long bone-chilling winters. Just as it’s been
a melting slushy. Then it for centuries, sheep and wild horses still
begins to rain. But in Ireland, nobody turns graze free while hikers punish their muscles
back for a bit o’ drizzle—especially Gerry, on rocky mountain climbs and reward them
and most especially the Danes. By the time in heavenly seaweed baths. As for me, I still
we begin the ascent, the wind is howling dream of those Clew Bay mussels and the
like a banshee and stinging sheets of rain haunting tones of “The Tennessee Waltz.”
stab into my three layers. I keep my eyes on
my feet, navigating between loose, slippery PAGE 18
rocks and running streams in the crevices, TOP LEFT: Blackface Sheep thrive in the wild Irish uplands
praying to not be blown sideways off the face
of Diamond Hill. Lynn is holding her own, BOTTOM LEFT: A mussel feast
while the Danes surge upward, chatting and BOTTOM RIGHT: Clew Bay Hotel in Westport town center
breathing normally. My pride won’t let me
turn back. MIDDLE: Kylemore Abbey
“We have a long way to go,” I whine.
“No,” Gerry says. “See those people just PAGE 19
ahead? They’re right there. Just a few more TOP: Cronin’s Sheebeen on the Coast Road, Westport
yards.”
He’s lying, too, of course. When we reach BOTTOM LEFT: Connemara ponies
that spot, there’s a hidden switchback, and I RIGHT: Peat bogs and a balsam forest in Connemara National Park
see another peak straight up.
“Is that the top?” I ask.
“Sure is,” says Gerry. But it’s not, and
neither is the next one, and my pack weighs
a thousand pounds. Who named this rocky

March 2022 North Naples News | 23

THE ARTS – UPTOWN

Fluid Dreams – Venetian resin-glass sculptures by Annalù

BY LEEZA ARKHANGELSKAYA in Annalù’s works of
art is random. The
F resh, changeable, and direct, major focus of her
Annalù’s art knows how to touch art is on the theme
the viewer, provoking the deepest of water, the central
sensations and recalling ancestral element of life. The
emotions. resin-glass material
mimics fresh drops of
Annalù was born in Venice, Italy in life-giving water.
1976. Despite her young age, her artistic
experience is vast and deep. Annalù The butterfly,
exhibits her sculptures in international which is most
museums, public squares, and cathedrals, often present in
as well as over twenty global galleries.
East West Fine Art first introduced her creations symbolizes the rebirth of self,
Annalù’s art to the United States in 2015. constant change, and strength despite its
seeming fragility. The butterfly starts off as
In the works of the artist, there is a larvae, then grows into a caterpillar, and
sense of transformation, of evolution as a finally emerges as the butterfly, becoming
sort of journey between different states, more beautiful at its every stage of life. In its
between different realities. ephemeral, short existence, the butterfly makes
the longest and most arduous journey of any
“I want my work to be intensely living creature, flying for weeks over oceans and
lyrical and evocative. My creations are continents.
always metamorphic forms, imaginary
architectures Just as the butterfly is deceptively fragile,
created through Annalù’s sculptures only appear delicate and
the assembly effortless. However, there is a hidden danger to
and alchemy working with resin. Annalù wears a respirator
of synthetic and full-body hazmat suit while mixing the highly volatile
resins, papers, and toxic substance. Early in her career, the artist burned
and materials her lungs with toxic fumes. But this story has a twist: in
removed from the emergency room, Annalù met her future husband, the
nature such as doctor who saved her.
bark and roots,” Annalù is always experimenting, willing to risk her life
writes Annalù. for her other-worldly art. She writes, “The operation that
I carry out is not so far from alchemical witchcraft, the
From the transmutation of one matter into another. I tell stories about
materials that suspended worlds in metamorphosis and I place myself in
she utilizes to that moment of transition between painting and sculpture,
the objects that she recreates—nothing in a hybrid terrain that allows me to experiment with different expressive possibilities.”

24 | North Naples News BOTTOM LEFT: Annalú | “Dream Catchers”
BOTTOM LEFT: Annalú | “Islands”

TOP MIDDLE: East West Fine Art Leeza Arkhangelskaya,
Annalú, and Olga Arkhangelskaya

TOP RIGHT: Annalú with her works of art

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Children’s Museum to celebrate ten years of operation this April

A fter a decade of planning, special after-hours events
fundraising, and construction, designed for children
Southwest Florida’s first with sensory integration
museum devoted to children and disorders, and/or physical
families opened its doors in 2012. In the or neurological disabilities,
ten years since CMON has become Naples’ once a month. During
premier family attraction and a valuable Exceptional Nights, lights
community partner. are dimmed, guests are
kept to a minimum to
CMON is a two-story, 30,000 square- reduce crowding, and
foot space where families play, learn, and otherwise loud noises
dream together. The museum includes are muted. There are also
permanent and temporary interactive, multiple cool-down spaces
fully accessible exhibits that blend state- throughout the facility.
of-the-art technology with a replication Exceptional Nights are
of the natural world and human

communities. Developed by experts in free for members and $5 per person for and transparency. The museum is
child psychology and development, these non-members. supported by dedicated volunteers,
experimental play exhibits foster creativity, community partners, fundraising events,
curiosity, empathy, and self-esteem. CMON proudly partners with housing grants, and generous donors. In fact,
and childcare programs in the community CMON’s annual fundraising gala, Night
The museum welcomes 150,000 guests to offer Discovery Nights, where children at the Museum, has become Naples’
to the colorful, inviting building each year from foster care, emergency housing must-attend social event and experience
to learn and play together. In addition to shelters, and other assistance programs of the season.
everyday play and museum exploration, can play in the museum during their own,
CMON also offers day camps during private event, sometimes even giving On April 3, the integral donors who
school breaks, kindergarten preparedness siblings who are otherwise separated time made the dream of CMON into a reality
workshops, holiday-inspired family events, to reconnect. will be welcomed back to the museum to
and school field trips, each focused on celebrate its tenth year in operation. There
offering unique and engaging learning The museum was awarded a coveted will also be special activities and pricing
opportunities. four-star rating from Charity Navigator leading up to the celebratory event.
in 2021 for demonstrating strong financial
CMON offers Exceptional Nights, health and commitment to accountability To learn more about field trips, membership,
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has to offer, visit www.cmon.org or call
269.514.0084.

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BY PATRICE SCHELKUN Strategy, she discovered
she was “a late bloomer”
I t seems to be inherent in our DNA with creative capability
to be creators of one kind or another. she never knew she
Whether it’s gardening, cooking, or possessed. “Moving to
even building a successful business Florida gave me the
or putting together a happy, comfortable inspiration and new
home for your family, many of us have appreciation of abstract
experienced the joy of creating. art,” says Blauvelt, who
now shares space in the
It’s always amazing to me to find Art2Amaze Studio and
out how many people are enamored
with artmaking. If you’re lucky enough Gallery on Shirley Street in the Naples Art remember a time when I didn’t want
to have great support and direction as District, “I am drawn to abstract painting to draw. So, I grew up with dreams
a young person, you might have found because I enjoy the creative process where of attending the School of the Art
yourself pursuing an art career from the there are no rules.” Institute of Chicago. In the end,
get-go. But through choices made early however, my practical side won out
in life—by us or by circumstance—a Blauvelt is just one of over ninety and I received my bachelor’s degree in
lot of people find themselves taking artists who make their artistic home Business from Roosevelt University and
a different road that leaves artistic in the blossoming Naples Art District, went to work in the corporate world,”
pursuits on the back burner. spread throughout a largely industrial area says Hamilton. “I didn’t give up the dream
bordered by Pine Ridge Road on the south however and eventually attended a few art
Take self-taught Naples artist and Airport-Pulling Road on the east. classes and workshops.” Hamilton now
Valerie Blauvelt, for example. After a Celebrating its fifteen-year anniversary paints stunning, highly-colored watercolor
long corporate career in Marketing and with special events through the season, the compositions.
Naples Arts District is one place where Sometimes the circumstances of life
30 | North Naples News you can rev up your creative juices, and take you in a different direction. Sara
view or purchase art—even venture into Wilson was forced to give up a nursing
artmaking for yourself by taking a class career after health problems of her own
with one of these accomplished artists! derailed that vocation. She then moved
Here you’ll find not only painters, but on to a long career as an EMS dispatcher.
sculptors, jewelry-makers, textile artists, Eventually, she realized she needed an
fine art photographers, and ceramic and outlet to vent her stress and discovered clay
glass artists. and the pottery wheel. Thus, her passion
for ceramics was born. She now creates and
Sharing space with Blauvelt at teaches at her wonderfully inviting studio,
Art2Amaze is Loretta Hamilton. “I can’t ClayMore Ceramics, where she also rents
space with other ceramic artists who share
this large facility on Shirley Street.
Taking your first creative class or
workshop can feel a bit intimidating,
especially if you’ve never ventured
into art or tried a particular technique
before. While there is a wealth of art

March 2022

instructional videos now available online if you’re so inclined, OPEN STUDIOS
the value of participating in an in-person artist demonstration
or working with an instructor can’t be overstated. And then Discover and buy 1ST WEDNESDAY
of course there’s the camaraderie that comes from sharing an original art from
experience with other students who are also exploring, looking to 85+ artists. MAR 2
improve, or expand their artistic skills.
3-7 PM
The Naples Art District may be the perfect place for you to
explore. It hosts many events throughout the year, including a AIRPORT-PULLING RD J AND C BLVD 1ST THURSDAY
regular schedule of Art Alive open studio events three times each YAHL
month during season where you can meet and see artists at work. SEWARD MAR 3
As part of its fifteenth-anniversary events, it is joining forces with SHIRLEY ST PINE RIDGE RD
the Naples Woman’s Club to present For the Love of Art: An 1-5 PM
Arty Party with a Purpose on Tuesday evening, April 5 at 7 p.m.
3RD SATURDAY
Meet Naples Art District artists, watch live art
demonstrations, and participate in a silent auction and fun MAR 19
drawing for original artwork called “Dart for Art.” Everyone 1-5 PM
goes home with a piece of original art! There will be tempting
tastings and sparkling wines. Best of all, this is a fundraiser event
that will benefit high school youth interested in furthering their
education in Fine Arts. What better way to encourage a young
person to pursue a career in the arts!

Tickets for this event cost $100. For more information or to
purchase tickets for this event, visit NaplesWomansClub.org or
NaplesArtDistrict.com

Patrice Schelkun is a contemporary realist painter working in oils and on glass.
She and her husband split their time between Naples and Lake George, New York.
Her website is www.patriceschelkun.com.

LEFT: Student at ClayMore Studios
MIDDLE: “Pears” by Loretta Hamilton
RIGHT: “Breaking Waves” by Valerie Blauvelt

NAPLES ART DISTRICT
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MONTHLY FREE OPEN STUDIO TOURS
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1ST WED 1ST THUR 3RD SAT SAVE THE DATE FOR THIS FUNDRAISER AND
3-7 PM 1-5 PM 1-5 PM SUPPORT THE NAPLES ART DISTRICT:

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THE NAPLES PLAYERS

Brings Broadway Magic to their volunteers and community!

OBY LAUREN SPEIRS NYC, I get mixed up! The shows at The It’s a much grander scale and I’m sure
ld Naples resident Maida Naples Players are just as good as the ones Mary Poppins is going to be over the
Sperandeo moved to our in Manhattan!” top—literally with the flying!”
community in 1993 after
being a trauma nurse in “I met Selwyn Mills on a JetBlue “I’ve seen the film as a kid and when
New York City. She now works as a flight—he was a prominent psychologist you’re older and sit and look at the details
discharge planning nurse for home in NYC and after he retired, gave a lot of how they do everything—you still have
health care at NCH Baker Hospital. “I’m of his time to TNP. He used to give me that wonder, that feeling of ‘wow,’ and see
grateful that I’ve been a nurse all this tickets to performances.” Maida also looks it as a kid again.”
time—it’s a great career.” forward to someday volunteering her time
at TNP when her career in healthcare Old, young, or young at heart, the volunteers
“My grandparents came to the United isn’t as busy. “It’s practically unheard of and staff at TNP welcome you to Blackburn Hall
States from Italy. After arriving through to see an organization where nobody is for a magical journey with the Banks children.
Ellis Island, they were physicians in in it for anything except their passion for Audiences are sure to be delighted by a magical
NYC until they were in their eighties. I performing and the arts.” experience that will evoke nostalgia and new
read about Naples in a travel magazine memories all at once. Bring your friends and plan
and brought my grandparents down. As far as The Naples Players’ upcoming for an evening for reminiscing that you won’t
They loved it and they moved down, and production of Mary Poppins goes, Maida forget! Call the box office today at 239.263.7990
I was a snowbird first. My grandpa didn’t is sure it will be a success. Just like the or go to Naplesplayers.org for tickets.
think he would like it because he missed 1964 film, actors will be “flown” during
his patients so much. The first time he these live performances. “I’ve seen some (L to R) Eileen Ebin, Maida Sperandeo, and Jackie Morelisse at
went to the swimming pool he heard, scenes at TNP that are right up there a VIP Event at The Naples Players.
“Dr. John is that you?!” It was one of his with New York City! It’s amazing what
patients from NYC—he delivered all of this theater is able to do—it’s not what
the family’s children. From there on out, people expect from a community theater.
we realized it was really meant to be that
he moved here. In fact, he was born in
Naples, Italy, and passed away in Naples,
Florida.”

Growing up in NYC, Maida was
accustomed to seeing lots of great
theater. “When you live in NYC, going
to a show is like going to the beach! You
definitely take it for granted that it’s at
your fingertips. I used to love going to off-
Broadway shows as well. I initially missed
that culture that I had in the city.”

Maida didn’t have to look far to find
out where all the residents and tourists
of Naples were getting their theater fix.
“I’m friends with a lot of people who are
subscribers at The Naples Players (TNP).”
One such friend is TNP’s longtime
volunteer and donor, Jackie Morelisse,
who has included Maida by inviting her
to special events and performances. “I’ve
seen so many shows between here and

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GENES: who is in charge?

BY DR KOGAN the studies of over 2000 the people who have exercised regularly,
Concierge Holistic Internal Medicine identical monozygotic twins have been extremely cognizant of the
who came from the same nutritional benefits of what they ate—and
T he year 1990 was an exciting fertilized egg. These twins were still got sick with cancer, or autoimmune
time to study biology at Cornell chosen for the studies because they were or inflammatory disease. What exactly
University. Our genetics professor separated at birth and grew up in different happened to those people who seemingly
had announced with great pride environments. They lived in different parts did all the right things? Perhaps, they
that humanity was embarking on an epic of the world, ate different foods, stuck to have ignored the energy variable of the
quest of identifying all of the existing different day regiments, and were exposed epigenomic equation.
human genes: Project Genome. For to different parenting styles. To everyone’s
the next decade or so, forty-something joyful surprise, it turned out that if one How we perceive the world and our
thousand genes were identified and to of the twins had a certain serious illness place in it cannot be measured or quantified.
everyone’s dismay humans turned out like cancer or inflammatory disease only It is made up of energy, but it triggers a
to be only one percent different from 38%-48% of the identical siblings would biochemical cascade of the molecules of
chimpanzees. Eventually, however, in the succumb to the same disease. Most twins emotions which are then directly attached
first decade of the twenty-first century, grew up to have vastly different health to our cellular receptors. What happens
geneticists realized that there is no point outcomes. In fact, studies like these gave next is that the message is triggered inside
in focusing on all the newly discovered rise to a new science called Epigenetics. the cell which leads all the way into the
genetic material—there was just too much “Epi” in Greek means “above” something, nucleus where protein transcription and
spliced out as waste during transcription of so this word was coined to indicate translation are initiated. As a result, disease
the DNA in living humans. Instead, it was that the bio-psycho-social environment expression can be activated or remain
decided to focus on the 23,000 genes that of a human upbringing is much more dormant, depending on the emotion which
code for the proteins because those were important to genetic expression than the triggered it.That is why we often see how
the only ones that mattered for life. mere inheritance of genes themselves. the passing of a loving spouse, will often
lead to the surviving spouse’s subsequent
At the time, it was believed that genes The epigenome is less material and untimely death. We frequently observe
would determine your destiny. If you were more energetic in quality. It is affected by how psychological trauma can result in
born with a genetic predisposition to a everything that happens to us and how we gastrointestinal disorders, heart attacks,
certain disease—you were very unfortunate think about ourselves. Early experiments diabetes, and chronic fatigue syndrome. It
because it was just a matter of time before of Dr. Masaru Emoto on water, discussed helps to remember that it does not take a
you would succumb to that particular illness. in the March issue of Life in Naples, monumental drama in your life to kill you.
Subsequently, in medical schools around allow a glimpse of understanding on the Daily common emotions which are sure to
the globe, family history was considered mechanism of such energetic influences trigger genetic malfunctioning are: hatred,
of utmost importance because you had to transmuting into material changes of the resentment, fear, anxiety, insecurity, feeling
watch out for your defective genes.This water crystal structure. Other experiments disempowered, feeling cheated, and the list
outlook on health has ruined many lives with harmful environmental exposures, goes on and on. It would serve us well then
because for millions of people this kind such as radiation help to raise this mystery to cultivate and nourish the opposite state
veil even further. Epigenomic changes of mind: that of love, affection, freedom,
of self-fulfilling prophecy acquired in our lifetime can be passed on security, comfort, balance, empowerment,
has plagued them with to future generations without adherence and gratitude.These positive emotions
anxiety and waiting to any previously known genetic rules are the key to the lock of the epigenetics
for a disaster to because traditional rules were created for doorway behind which your genetic destiny
happen. Along the material things in the Newtonian view of is just up to you.
way, scientists were the universe.
using observational Dr. Kogan is a Concierge Holistic Internal Medicine
experiments to When we add the element of energy doctor in Naples. Her website is CustomLongevity.com.
see how genetic to understanding our genes—a whole
material would new world of potential outcomes unfolds March 2022
express itself in in front of our eyes.This leads us into an
people. exciting new era of becoming masters of
One of our genes. But many of you have known
the biggest
breakthroughs
occurred in

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IMPACT INVESTING

TIMOTHY CARTWRIGHT Everyone wins with this structured through the CFCC.
impact investment vehicle. Individuals “While the
FPartner, Fifth Avenue Family Office donate to CFCC.The CFCC then
inancial success and social impact purchases stock in TOI. As a TOI Tamiami Angels
are not mutually exclusive. One shareholder, the foundation benefits impact investment
innovative company in Immokalee from the sale of the company if Taste was the first of its
shows us the way. of Immokalee takes off and is sold.The kind for Southwest
The small agricultural town in eastern proceeds from a sale would be reinvested Florida in 2016, the
Collier County may be an unlikely place by the CFCC to further local economic triple win structure
for the newest trend in venture-capital development and entrepreneurship, of impact investing
circles, but one company there is at the especially those in Immokalee. Everyone has caught fire on
vanguard of impact investing. wins! The investor receives a tax credit, the a national level,”
student-led business gets growth capital said Timothy
Taste of Immokalee, Inc. is unlike any and the CFCC supports the entrepreneurial J. Cartwright,
company you’ve seen before in Southwest community in Southwest Florida. chairman of the
Florida. It’s not a nonprofit and it’s not Tamiami Angel Fund
a for-profit company. It’s a hybrid called Nationally, the numbers prove that Investors. “Today,
a benefit corporation or B Corp. It seeks the rising popularity of impact investing impact investing is ubiquitous, however,
profits and pays taxes, but it has a mission is not just anecdotal. According to local opportunities can be hard to find
for public benefit, which in its case means the 2020 survey by the Global Impact and fund. This investment vehicle creates
profits are returned to the community of Investing Network (GIIN), the global a turnkey approach for local individuals
Immokalee to benefit youth programs and impact investing market size is $715 to directly fund and, on a firsthand basis,
alleviate hunger and poverty. billion in assets under management and is witness the community impact.”
expanding rapidly. Through the leadership To date, TAFI has raised $115,358.50
Taste of Immokalee was founded in of the Tamiami Angels, CFCC, and TOI, in donations to the CFCC for investment
2014 by Immokalee-based One by One local Southwest Florida investors can in TOI. Timothy J. Cartwright, also
Leadership Foundation. What began participate in this popular investment Chairman of the Taste of Immokalee
as a seed of an idea by a group of local style and make a direct investment Board, said, “it is a thrill to see the
high school students has grown into a Taste of Immokalee program awaken
social enterprise that creates and sells the entrepreneurial spirit inside of each
specialty food products, like salsa and hot student as they leverage their God-given
sauces, representing the unique blend of talents to pursue personal and professional
Immokalee’s culture and rich agriculture. development goals.”
Taste of Immokalee is committed to
providing students with hands-on Tim Cartwright is a partner with Fifth Avenue Family
experience in all aspects of business, with Office, which manages the Tamiami Angel Funds.
a focus on giving back. For further information on impact investing, or
charitable giving visit www.fifthavenuefamily.com
A Southwest Florida-based group of
investors known as Tamiami Angel Fund TOP: Taste of Immokalee product
Investors (Tamiami) was introduced to BOTTOM: Taste of Immokalee Executive Director
Taste of Immokalee (TOI). Tamiami
was impressed by the vision of TOI and Marie Capita with Eileen Connolly-Keesler.
expressed its desire to help. As a result of
Tamiami’s efforts, a unique partnership
was forged with the Community
Foundation of Collier County (CFCC
or Foundation) to launch the Taste of
Immokalee Impact Investment Fund.

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BOOK REVIEW

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Ik a r r a sf you have been in Naples for the past few years, you have probably heard
THE BLUE ZONES of the Blue Zones project. In 2004 Buettner visited Sardinia to investigate
CHALLENGE: A a startling amount of people who were living to 100 years old. After
4-WEEK PLAN FOR A years of research, he put together a list of five blue zones: Sardinia, Italy,
LONGER, BETTER LIFE Okinawa, Japan, Loma Linda, California, Nicoya, Costa Rica, and Ikaria,
Greece. Each of these populations had a story to tell about the lifestyles
by Dan Buettner of people who lived a rich life to a ripe old age.
National Geographic With a team of scientists and the backing of National Geographic, Buettner
240 Pages was able to pinpoint nine areas of lifestyle these disparate populations shared.
$19.99 US His first book, The Blue Zones: 9 Lessons for Living Longer was published in 2008.

In 2016 Collier County, led by Naples Community Hospital (NCH),
spearheaded their own Blue Zones initiative. Partnering with grocery stores,
schools, restaurants, and many other organizations, they strove to spread the
message about a way to live longer and live better.
Now you have a personal challenge: Buettner’s new book lays out a four-week plan to help you
make small changes to your lifestyle that could add years to your life. And it isn’t all about diet
and exercise. In fact, some of them, like putting family first, hanging out with friends, and having
a glass of wine every evening sound downright pleasant. That’s the point—it’s supposed to be. Yes,
he asks you to eat a more plant-based diet and take the stairs instead of the elevator, but this is a
whole-life approach, not just what you are eating.
The Okinawans have ikigai. The Nicoya Costa Ricans have a plan de vida. They both mean
roughly the same thing: a life’s purpose, or a reason to get out of bed in the morning. Having one
makes a big difference in a person’s outlook. Stressed out? The Greeks from Ikaria take a nap.
Want to connect with family? The Seventh Day Adventists of Loma Linda, California spend every
Saturday (their Sabbath) with family: no screens, no chores, no homework. And the Sardinians
have a happy hour where they drink good red wine and laugh with their friends.
According to this book, Collier County, which went from seventy-third in the country in well-
being, shot to number one and has stayed there for four years in a row. Heart disease deaths have
dropped by eight percent and remain the lowest in the state of Florida.
Buettner suggests finding a Blue Zones buddy. In a community already deeply involved
with the movement, it shouldn’t be too hard. Check out swfl.bluezonesproject.com for more
information, including how you can participate in the community movement, volunteer your
time, or just make plans to have a glass of wine with friends on the lanai every week. I’ll bring a
Sardinian red and meet you there.

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Before his work in longevity studies, author and journalist Dan Buettner, a St. Paul,
Minnesota native, completed several “transcontinental cycles.” He rode his bicycle from
Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Tierra del Fuego Argentina, which covered 15,536 miles. A second
“Sovietrek” followed the 45th parallel across Europe and Asia. He holds three Guinness Book of
World Records awards for endurance cycling.

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COLORECTAL CANCER

BY LORNA FEDELEM, MD patients have • a persistent change in your bowel
metastatic disease habits, including diarrhea or
W e recognize National at the time of constipation
Colorectal Cancer diagnosis, which
Month in March to raise means the cancer has already spread to • a change in the consistency of your
awareness for the fourth other parts of the body. Still, this may be stool
most common type of cancer in the cured with a range of treatment options
United States. With well over 100,000 available, including surgery to remove • rectal bleeding or blood in your stool
new cases each year the cancer, chemotherapy, and radiation • persistent abdominal discomforts,
and over one million therapy, depending on how far the cancer
cases total colon has spread. such as cramps, gas, or pain
cancer is a huge It was in the year 2000 that President • a feeling that your bowel doesn’t
problem. Luckily, Clinton officially recognized National
with early detection Colorectal Cancer Month. Since then, empty completely
of this disease, it various organizations have worked • weakness or fatigue, or unexplained
is estimated that together to try and raise awareness and
well over half of the increase early detection. weight loss
deaths that occur
annually could be FAQS ABOUT COLON How bad is colon cancer?
prevented. Thanks to CANCER It’s a deadly cancer but it’s one of
National Colorectal
Cancer Awareness What are the early signs of colon the easiest diseases to detect and, in its
Month, a much- cancer? earliest stages, it’s also one of the most
needed spotlight is being cast on the curable cancers.
importance of early detection. In March, Many people with colon cancer
we come together to provide hope and experience no symptoms in the early 4 FACTS ABOUT
advocate for recognition. stages of the disease. However, some COLON CANCER
symptoms include: 1. A person may have colon cancer,
According to the American Cancer with no symptoms at all.
Society, anyone can develop Colon
cancer, but some studied factors that can According to the Colon Cancer
potentially increase your risk are a diet Coalition, patients who are diagnosed
that’s high in red meats (such as beef, with colon cancer often do not have any
pork, lamb, or liver) and processed meats
(like hot dogs and deli meat). Age and March 2022
smoking are also risk factors.

The best thing you can do to avoid this
cancer is to stay active, don’t smoke, eat a
diet full of vegetables instead of red meat,
and get regular colon screenings, starting
at age forty-five, or younger, if you have a
family member who has had colon cancer.

Colon cancer is treatable and is not
necessarily a death sentence. The reason
the cancer is more deadly for U.S. adults
is that twenty to twenty-five percent of

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It’s a deadly cancer but
it’s one of the easiest
diseases to detect and,
in its earliest stages,

it’s also one of the most
curable cancers.

symptoms. knowledge on to those around you. In
my office, I offer the Galleri blood test
2. If you were born in the 90s that can detect fifty different cancers,
If you were born in the 1990s, including colon cancer. While this doesn’t
replace a colonoscopy, it is an excellent
you have double the risk of colon test for the early detection of fifty types
cancer and, four times the risk of of cancer and an additional layer of
rectal cancer than those born in monitoring!
1950. A disappointing statistic for any 2. Talk about it.
millennials.
Though the word “cancer” is difficult
3. Colon cancer runs in the family to bring up on its own, this cancer is
People with a parent, sibling, or child common, and nothing to be ashamed of.
You could save a life if you recommend a
with colorectal cancer have two or three friend to get screened.
times the risk of developing colon cancer, 3. Get your colonoscopy.
compared to those with no family history
of the disease. Colorectal cancer incidence rates in
individuals of screening age have been
4. It is the 3rd leading cause of death declining in the US since the mid-1980s.
for young adults This is due to increased awareness and
screening, but the screening rate remains
The CCC estimates that in 2020, there low, especially among those who are
will be about 18,000 cases of colorectal uninsured or don’t have a primary care
cancer diagnosed in people under fifty, the doctor.
equivalent of forty-nine new cases per day.
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The earlier the cancer is found, the North Naples News | 41
better chance the person has to beat MY RECOMMENDATIONS
it. That is why early detection is so 1. Visit your primary care physician.
important.
The medical community is always
• IT’S TREATABLE coming up with new discoveries and
Though it’s a deadly disease, it’s a new findings, and the statistics change
treatable disease. Surgery is the primary over time. Educate yourself by talking
form of treatment and results in a cure with your PCP so that your awareness
approximately 50% of the time. improves, and you can pass that

• IT’S EASY TO DETECT
A cancerous polyp can take as many

March 2022

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BY JEFF BOHR
Naples Mac Help

W e all hear the term You can control Smart Doorbell
“smart” all the time now individual bulbs or
as a descriptive prefix to multiple rooms of them What if you’re
common items. Smart from your smartphone, not home and you’re
phones. Smart lights. Smart TV sets. and you can schedule expecting an important
Smart thermostats. Smart homes. Wait.... bulbs so that they turn package? The Arlo video
smart homes? How can you get started on when you wake up or doorbell lets you answer
making your home smarter? turn off when you go to a ring at your door from
sleep or leave for work. your smart phone, you
The item you already have that likely can see and speak to
counts as a smart device is your TV set. If them in every room! You can replace your whoever is there! Don’t
your set was made in the last four years, it existing bulbs with smart LED bulbs worry, the video is only
can likely connect to the internet to bring that will last twenty to twenty-five years one way; you can see
you online services such as Netflix, Hulu, and start automating your home with them, but they can’t see you, so if you’re
Amazon Video, and even AppleTV. The them. LED light bulbs also use eighty just getting out of the shower, you can
ability to connect you to these services percent less power than traditional bulbs, have a two-way conversation and ask the
is what makes your TV “smart.” If you so it won’t take long for them to pay for delivery person to leave the package on
have that mastered, you are ready to themselves. You can control individual the porch. Optional motion alerts send a
move on to getting more devices that are bulbs or multiple rooms of them from notification when movement is triggered
connected and thus smart. Here are a few your smartphone, and you can schedule as well as record the visitor, and you can
that can make your life a bit easier. bulbs so that they turn on when you wake access a live view of the front door at any
up or turn off when you go to sleep or
For most, if not all, of the items I leave for work. I personally use the Philips time. If you live on a street with lots of
will review, you will need a smart phone Hue bulbs, and bulbs made by GE, IKEA, traffic, you can select motion zones that
to have the most control over your Cree, and other manufacturers are also limit false alarms.
technology. available. Many smart lights now connect
to your home WiFi without the need of a Smart Cameras
Smart Lighting hub that some older lights needed.
Having a security camera in the home
Lighting is an easy way to get into the provides total peace of mind. The Arlo
smart home lifestyle, you already have smart home security camera lets you keep
an eye on things while you’re away on
vacation, and lets you check up on your

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As you see, there are many options available for changing
your home into a smarter home, don’t be afraid to try a few
light bulbs or change your doorbell. It will give you more
control and bring you into the IoT world that is starting to
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UNEXPECTED!

MIAMI ART WEEK 2021

Story and Photography
BY LEEZA ARKHANGELSKAYA
Owner of East West Fine Art

M iami Art week was
finally back and
brought so much
fun! Art Basel Miami
Beach was grander than ever with 260
world’s best contemporary art galleries
participating. Satellite fairs with over
300 art galleries from all over the world
were true rivals to the major event.

November 29 - December 5,
2021, formal and informal openings,
champagne receptions, and private
parties manifested that the contemporary art scene has
survived the pandemic and continues to flourish.
To me, as an art dealer and art gallery owner, it’s always
interesting to visit international art fairs and to feel the direction
in which contemporary art is developing. I have observed that
most artists are employing new media as a novel way to express
their artistic message. Using unconventional and non-glamorous
media, artists are breaking the barriers to art connoisseurship,
inviting wider audiences to appreciate art, striking them with the
element of surprise and good humor.
New media often evokes emotions very different from
traditional paintings and sculptures. Tapestries made of old
worn-out clothing invite you to explore the threads and tussles,
check the content of the pockets; candy-colored sculptures
made of felt tempt you to give them a big hug; an intricate
oriental rug made of woven plastic paste inevitably urges you to
poke it with your finger (I did when nobody was looking).
The old classic painting style known as “Trompe L’oeil” (trick
the eye) got totally new interpretation in various installations
using holograms, mirrors, and all sorts of high-tech shimmering,
flickering, vanishing imaging. The effect goes far beyond
tricking the eye—some impressionable art lovers experience
temporary mental confusion and nausea.
Please enjoy photos I made featuring art pieces that I find
interesting. If you didn’t visit this mega art event last December,
I would highly recommend not to miss it this year. And invite
your friends. You’ll be out for a good time, I guarantee it!

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BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT

THE LYKOS GROUP

Completes Marco Island spec home

T he Lykos Group has announced An exterior view of The Lykos Group’s latest Marco Island spec home at 506 Tigertail Court, Marco Island.
the completion of a two-story,
6,680 total square foot spec home Interior features include icynene sitting area, covered lanai with roll-
located at 506 Tigertail Court. spray foam insulation at the roof and down hurricane shutters and screens,
The transitional-style residence is an walls, LED lighting throughout, lighting full outdoor kitchen with NatureKast
open great room floor plan designed by control, audio-video, and security systems, cabinets and stone countertops, Alfresco
Lotus Architecture with interior design three air conditioning systems, linear gas grill, Best exhaust hood, and Uline
by Pure Design of Naples and landscape grills, on-demand gas water heaters, refrigerator. On the second floor, the
architecture by Metis Design, LLC. dual fuel range, ten-inch wire brushed home features three bedrooms, three
white oak engineered wood floors, solid baths, a family room, laundry room, loft,
Situated on a canal, the residence offers core interior doors, poplar interior trim, and covered balcony.
5,052 square feet under air with four custom ceiling millwork, custom built-ins
bedrooms plus a flex room, five full baths, and cabinetry, stone countertops, and Founded by Sonny Lykos in 1989 as Lykos Home
one half-bath, and a three-car garage. Sub-Zero and Wolf appliances. Improvement, today The Lykos Group, Inc. is a
design-build residential remodeling and custom
Exterior features include a cement The home’s first floor offers a homebuilder with award-winning projects
tile roof, cypress exterior ceilings, covered entry with wood ceiling and throughout Bonita Springs, Naples, and Marco
custom stucco details, custom composite wood beams, elevator, entry foyer, great Island. Company offices are located at 4779
overhang brackets, Energy Star-certified room, dining room, open kitchen with Enterprise Avenue, Naples, FL 34104. For more
Andersen 400 Series wood windows, oversized island, spacious combination information, call 239.594.8510 or visit www.
Win-Door aluminum sliding glass doors pantry and laundry room, master suite remodelingnaples.com.
with custom paint finish, custom folding with dual walk-in closet, flex room
glass doors from the great room to the with closet and en-suite bathroom,
pool deck, Cantera custom metal and pool/powder bath, outdoor living area
glass front entry door, in-ground pool with screen-enclosed pool deck and

Situated on a canal, the
residence offers 5,052 square

feet under air with four
bedrooms plus a flex room,
five full baths, one half-bath,

and a three-car garage.

with integral spa, shell stone tile over
slab deck on the pool and lanai and gas
sconces at the front entry.

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NORTH NAPLES WELCOMES LUXURY GREEN DRY CLEANER

Pristine Fine Dry Cleaning is expanding to North Naples, where it offers
luxury dry cleaning using environmentally friendly techniques.

P ristine Fine Dry Cleaning, the
environmentally friendly luxury
dry cleaner and fabric-restoration
company, has expanded to a
second location in North Naples for
clients demanding upscale dry cleaning
and laundry services in that area.

The new location at 4596 Tamiami Trail It also restores and We customize our service For more information
North is the former home of longtime cleans items such for every client, so you about Pristine Fine Dry
operator Allen’s Dry Cleaning & Laundry. as handbags that don’t even have to be Cleaning and scheduling
“We’re excited about the new location are made of leather at home or the office a pickup, visit www.
because Allen’s talented team brings and other animal bestdrycleaningnaples.
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Tom Janick, who founded Pristine Fine cleaning for special
Dry Cleaning with his wife Lorrie Janick care by hand. ABOUT PRISTINE
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its leadership in using environmentally deliver your clothes. Pristine Fine Dry
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friendly techniques and is an expert who complimentary
is a frequent speaker at industry events. laundry services. Total
Tom and Lorrie Janick are also industry pickup and delivery service with its
consultants who have trained more than Laundry Care, its commercial and
150 dry cleaning operations on “green” fleet of vans for which it is trusted. “We medical division, provides laundry
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NAPLES SENIOR CENTER

Hosts 10th Annual “Evening for Better Tomorrows”

W ith warm coastal breezes
under a starlit sky, Naples
Senior Center hosted
its 10th annual Evening
for Better Tomorrows “Dare to Dream,”

raising a record $600,000 to support

critical social services and programs

benefitting older adults in Collier and

southern Lee counties.

The annual gala was moved outside at

a private country club in Naples to ensure

the health and safety of all patrons, guests

and staff. More than 150 people attended

the event, which included cocktails, a lavish

dinner and live entertainment.

Lindsey Sablan, anchor for WINK

News This Morning, kicked off the

festivities, welcoming guests and saluting

Naples Senior Center for its many with legendary Motown hits mixed with

accomplishments over the past year, rock n’ roll songs, including hits by the

including breaking ground on a new Four Tops, Supremes and Temptations.

permanent home and getting over 7,400 Founder and creator Dave Revels was a

seniors vaccinated. member of The Drifters and is currently

President/CEO Dr. Jaclynn Faffer lead singer of The Persuasions.

presented the third annual Volunteer of Naples Senior Center opened its

the Year Award to Grace Chen. Chen doors in January 2014. It is the only

teaches tai chi and total fitness with the human services agency of its kind in the 30,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art
building and that completion is anticipated
belief that most seniors can advance, our community with the mission of in about a year.

not decline, by connecting their mental empowering seniors and families by giving “Naples Senior Center is not just
thriving, but we are soaring into the
and physical functions. The crystal them tools to address life’s challenges, like future. Tonight, we celebrate a decade of
dancing, dining, and dreaming,” she said.
clock embossed with the quote “Your the isolation and loneliness faced by so “Our members and clients experience
compassion and human connection
Time is Our Treasure” was generously many local seniors. through the sounds of music, the love
of art and gardening, the support of our
underwritten by supporter Ray Harman. The need is there. Membership in the dementia respite and caregiver programs,
and above all, the strength of friendship.”
Sablan, with the assistance of auctioneer Naples Senior Center has surged from
For more information on Naples
Scott Robertson, then led a call for support eighty initial members to more than 1,400 Senior Center or how to help, visit www.
NaplesSeniorCenter.org.
to benefit crucial programs and services today. The center is able to provide such
TOP: Patty Baker makes a pledge of support during the Call to
that provide a sense of belonging and hope a broad spectrum of important support Action for Naples Senior Center

among seniors, including the Geriatric programs and social activities for seniors BOTTOM: Dr. Jaclynn Faffer and Jay and Mona Brodsky

Case Management and Dementia Respite in our community thanks to its generous

Support programs. The center offers more contributors and loyal supporters as well as

than forty stimulating programs each week its corps of more than 200 carefully vetted

to help combat isolation and loneliness. and trained volunteers.

Dinner featured colorful floral To accommodate future growth, the

centerpieces and a four-course meal Naples Senior Center is moving forward

highlighted by an entrée duet of roasted with a $30-million capital campaign to

lamb loin and miso glazed sea bass with build a “new central address for seniors

salted caramel chocolate cake for dessert. and families in Collier and southern Lee

Following dinner, lively entertainment counties.” During the gala, Faffer reported

was provided by The Shadows of the 60’s, that construction is now under way on

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