Old Naples News | January 2022

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JANUARY 2022

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Hip mechanics and golf

BY PAULA ALLIA flexibility. Again, one should not assume limitations is key to helping solve the
PT, DHSc, MTC, OCS it is a muscle and try and stretch it out. issue. Once finding the limitations or
If the limitation is truly the way your hip excess mobility, correcting the right
T he hips are an important proponent was designed, then forcing it could cause components are appropriate. This may be
of an effective golf swing. They impingement and hip dysfunction. with stretching muscles, addressing part of
coordinate with the spine and pelvis a joint capsule that is dysfunctional in one
and transfer weight to stay balanced Many middle and older-aged adults that way or another, strengthening muscles, and
for proper execution. play golf end up with total hip replacements. using neuromuscular re-education when
Hips have motion in three different The asymmetries in the hips and the presence appropriate. If joints are already broken
planes. These motions do not work in an of big or too little angles and age are certainly down, compensating with adaptation can
isolated manner but with synchrony as predictors of hip pathologies affecting the golf be used to lessen the stress and strains being
the pelvis and spine rotate. If there are any swing and quality of life. applied to your body.
limitations in any of these three areas, one
will be overused. Eventually, the faulty Abnormal hip mobility can lead to not Having the right amount of thoracic, low
mechanics are evident with movement only hip derangement and dysfunction but back, and hip mobility is the first step. If not, why
impairments and dysfunction. Many do not also to mid and low back dysfunction. The is this not present? Is it due to the anatomical
realize this until stiffness or pain ensues. body takes the path of least resistance. Since angles that your body has or is it due to hyper or
there is a fair amount of rotation needed in hypomobile areas? Second, once knowing your
Hips either have a certain amount of the hips and back, compromise occurs. If biomechanical joint alignments with available
anteversion or retroversion. These medical there is relative hypomobility present in one joint mobility, look then at supportive structures
terms are used to describe how the hip joint, another will take over and rotate more. that are necessary such as flexibility, extensibility,
is designed in the body. Those who have If hypermobility is present in a joint, this and strength in the muscles. Coordinate and
anteversion have more hip inward or joint will become more unstable over time adjust as the body needs to allow for longevity
internal rotation. The normal amount of with the torque applied to it. and quality of not only the golf swing but for
anteversion is 8-15 degrees. If someone everything else as well.
has less than this or a retroverted hip that Finding the right balance of necessary
has more external rotation, this limits the motion to execute a golf swing is pertinent Be smart. Take action before you have
internal rotation allowed in the hip. Limited to the longevity of golf, especially if trying to pain. Being proactive is much better than
hip rotations increase injury risk! have a consistent swing. Not uncommon reactive.
is the problem of a bad hip leading to a
Limited internal rotation of the hip back dysfunction or vice versa. If there Here’s to your health!
can definitely impact the golf swing. This are restrictions in the golf swing, finding
motion should be analyzed or evaluated by
a professional in order to determine what
the restriction is. It should not be assumed that
you just stretch this hip and force it into more
rotation than what is allowed. Forcing mobility
will lead to hip joint movement impairments
and result at some point in hip pain.

Excessive hip internal or external
rotation is also not necessarily good to
have. Too much may cause shifting in the
socket between the hip bone and the pelvis
which could result in hypermobility of
that movement and joint breakdown or an
arthritic condition.

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motion. Once tested, then it can be
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BY TERESA HEITMANN a furniture store, and a gift shop. We hope This is the perfect time for
City of Naples Mayor as newcomers, yearly residents, and visitors reflecting on everything we
arrive they will pay a visit to our city’s new have learned as a community
D ear Neighbors, businesses. We also have new restaurants and being grateful for all we
Happy New Year everyone! I in town including the Vine Room, Crème have accomplished, both big
can’t help but celebrate how far de la Crème, and Sandra’s Sweet and
we have come over this past Savory LLC. As a community, we hope to and small.
year. This is the perfect time for continue supporting our local businesses
reflecting on everything we have learned as old and new. chance to participate in these events and
a community and being grateful for all we bring your family and friends.
have accomplished, both big and small. In addition to our exciting new
businesses, there are many fun local Here’s to a bright New Year and a fond
As the late David Bowie said, “I don’t events coming up in the next few months farewell to the old; here’s to the things that
know where I’m going from here, but I that offer great activities to do on your are yet to come, and to the memories we
promise it won’t be boring.” Our local weekends. The 3rd Street Farmers Market hold dear.
businesses have been experiencing a season takes place every weekend on Saturday
like no other. As of November 2021, there mornings from 7:30 -11:30 a.m. On Many Blessings to all,
are thirty-seven new businesses coming to February 5 the Cars on 5th event will
the city. These businesses range from beauty be showcased on 5th Avenue South. Mayor Teresa Heitmann
shops, a coffee kiosk, several new charter On February 19, there will be the 43rd
boats, a barbershop, an art gallery studio, Naples National Art Show in Cambier
Park. And starting March 11, the Opera
Naples will be in Cambier Park, just to
name a few. For more events, please go
to the NaplesGov.com website and view
our calendar to see what events are taking
place each month. We hope you get the

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Marine Industries presents

55th Annual Naples Boat Show on land & in water

T he Naples Boat Show owned by EVENT INFORMATION:
the Marine Industries Association
of Collier County (MIACC) Admission:
Thursday, January 20 – Sunday, General 1-day admission $12, Kids FREE when accompanied by an adult
January 23, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily Buy Tickets Online at NaplesBoatShow.org
The Naples Airport will host the newest Parking: Free on-site parking
boat lines and maritime products and
services for all. Jump on the FREE shuttle Activities:
and cruise down to the Naples City Dock • MIACC Kids’ Club sponsored by Home Depot
to catch all the mega-yachts in-water! • Nautical Market and Auction to benefit the MIACC Foundation and Keewaydin Preserve
Parking is easy and free.
Sponsors: Naples City Dock, Coastal Angler Magazine, Galati Yacht Sales, WorldCat of Naples,
The event will host nearly 100 exhibitors Opus Studio Graphic Design, Florida Neighborhood News, and Creative Events and Rentals.
from around the world with an exceptional
assortment of boats of every type and style For more information or to request vendor information, visit www.NaplesBoatShow.org or contact
from flats boats, Show Director, Tiffany Sawyer-Schank at 239.682.0900, Email: [email protected]. Event updates will
bay boats, center be posted as they’re available and communicated on the show’s Facebook page /MIACCBoatShow.
consoles, cabin
cruisers, yachts,
and mega-
yachts. Plus,
a wide variety
of accessories,
equipment,
electronics, gear,
and services for
boaters. There is
something for
everyone at the
show. It promises
to be a fun day
for all.

The 55th Annual Naples Boat Show
opens Thursday, January 20th through
Sunday, January 23rd from 10 a.m.-5
p.m. daily. Admission costs $12 per adult,
and children 12 and under are free when
accompanied by a paying adult. Online
tickets are available at NaplesBoatShow.
org. Free parking is available at the Naples
Airport. Enjoy free shuttle transportation
to and from the Naples Airport and Naples
City Dock.

The Naples Boat Show is owned
and managed by the Marine Industries
Association of Collier County and is the
largest premier recreational show in the
Naples-Marco Island area.

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Spain Flips Some Real Estate

The World Gains Blue Curaçao WWW.CURAÇAO.COM

Story and Photography
BY KAREN T. BARTLETT

Remember that time in the 1500s on Amsterdam’s Grand Canal. It’s said Caribbean. Fair disclosure:
when Spain dumped Curaçao that the sun bouncing off the whitewashed the tourist board refutes
onto the Dutch? Some say it was buildings gave the governor migraines. So the migraine story. Turns
a clear-cut case of helmet plumes. he decreed that all homes on the island be out the old boy had
The Conquistadors looked mighty painted in colors. Maybe in defiance, the financial ties with a paint
imposing in the tall feathers, Handelskade owners conspired to choose distributor.
plucked from the rare Curaçao pheasant. It outrageously bright colors, with no two alike.
took about half a century to wipe out the Today, hundreds of pastel buildings make Curaçao’s paintbox
entire pheasant population. Then there was Curaçao the most colorful island in the also includes cornflower
the matter of Spain’s extraordinarily sweet blue skies, aquamarine
oranges. When transplanted in Curaçao’s waters, tropical reefs, and
harsh salty soil, the saplings produced an rainbow-hued fish. But
extraordinarily nasty fruit. It looked like you already know this,
a lime with an unfortunate skin problem. so here are seven more
Even the wild goats spit it out. Long reasons I love Curaçao.
story short: Spain proclaimed the island a
worthless wasteland Kadushi, Stoba,
and unloaded it on and Tutu
the Netherlands.
Historians put a There’s no more
more militaristic slant authentic taste of Curaçao
on it, but even so: than the open-air kitchen
Bad mistake, Spain. of Marshe Bieu in the Old
Market of Willemstad,
Fast forward to where cast iron skillets and
1896. A poor farmer ancient coal pots sizzle,
named Senior and simmer, and steam with
a buddy in the savory kabritu stoba (stewed
drugstore business goat), fried plantains, kadushi (cactus soup),
figured that when tutu (a savory blackeyed peas concoction),
nature hands you and other African/Caribbean- offerings
bitter oranges, you by local vendors, enjoyed at long plastic-
ferment the peelings covered tables beside local workers, artists,
in a vast amount of executives, and tourists. This local fare, plus
sugar, add electric Dutch, Indian, Jamaican, Venezuelan, and
blue food coloring, other cultural-influenced cuisines, is broadly
and make medicine. interpreted from homestyle to sophisticated
Apparently the
medicine “cured” many people, often.
The drugstore flourished, and you know
the rest of the story. Senior & Co’s Blue
Curaçao liqueurs now also come in neon
red, orange and green.

Colors are totally the Curaçao thing. See,
for example, the sherbet-colored stucco row
houses that early Dutch families built along
the Handelskade reminiscent of their homes

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all over the island. Best to try it all. burning of Momo, the king of mockery, Wild Christoffel
satire, and excess. Street food, libations, The rugged outback of Christoffel
Mother Congregation parades, dancing, and unbounded revelry in
of the Americas excess may be exactly what the world needs National Park has everything: a challenging
after two years of restraint. rock mountain, awesome hiking trails, wild
The large, yellow Dutch building in goats, donkeys and deer, beaches, hidden
Willemstad with the cobalt blue stained- Art coves, dry riverbeds, salt marshes, plantation
glass windows is Mikvé Israel-Emanuel What is the true enchantment of this ruins, a mahogany grove, and a tree too
Synagogue, circa 1651, the first in the poisonous to stand beneath. Guided walks
Western Hemisphere. Its sand-covered place that lures and inspires artists and include dramatic full moon and sunrise
floor is a reminder that during the Spanish artisans? The colors? The stark desert? mountain climbs. There’s a cultural museum
Inquisition Jews had to worship in secret Perhaps it’s the ghosts from Curaçao’s dark in Landhuis Savonet, the largest former
houses of prayer, walking on sand to muffle past of slavery, still whispering their legacy plantation on the island.
their footsteps. Pilgrims of all faiths will be of tragedy, courage, and resilience. From the Landhuisen
touched by the twenty-first-century services blue women and colorful kunuku houses by
interwoven with ancient Sephardic rites. the late Nena Sanchez to the coral stone Essential to the Curaçao experience are
sculptures of Ashley Mauricia to the found the imposing coral stone plantations that
King Momo objects-turned-art by the famous Yubi grew aloe, orange, and sugar cane on the
Curaçao’s Carnival starts in January and Kirindongo, and scores of others, Curaçao sweat and pain of enslaved Africans. Some
is an art journey worth taking. Start at are restored as restaurants and galleries.
kicks into high gear from mid-February Curaçao-art.com. Landhuis Kenepa, the origin of the Tula-led
to Ash Wednesday. It ends at midnight slave uprising of 1795, is a museum dedicated
March 1 this year with the spectacular San Pedro Flats to the rebellion. When she was a starving
Nothing except cactus grows on this artist, Nena Sanchez camped out in a corner
of Landhuis Jan Kok, an especially cruel salt
stark, seaside desertscape, and nothing plantation. Nobody else would live there
moves except some wild goats and lizards. because of the spirits said to lurk in the walls.
This is exactly why during World War II,
the American and Canadian military created Finally, there’s Landhuis Chobolobo,
giant bulls’ eyes in the sand to drop practice home of the world-famous Senior Distillery.
bombs. The bulls’ eyes are now restored with A tour and tasting offers just the kind of
circles of natural coral rock, and treasure spirits to balance out the intensity of the
seekers can still find remnants in the sand. more soulful spirits that make Curaçao
Back in his lean days, Yuri Kirindongo chose anything but a wasteland.
this intense wilderness as the backdrop
for several of his startling sculptures of Eat your heart out, Spain.
driftwood, stones, and bleached bones. In
contrast, there’s the ultra-contemporary row BOTTOM LEFT: Handelskade
of white, three-bladed turbines that rise out MIDDLE LEFT: Carnival Revelers | Courtesy of the Tourist Bureau
of the flats like surreal ballerinas… or ghosts,
if you’re feeling the spirit. MIDDLE: Blue Curaçao
MIDDLE RIGHT: Christoffel National Park
RIGHT: Desert Sculpture by Yubi Kirindongo

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Naples Winter Wine Festival

Naples Children & Education Foundation set to “Raise the Grade” on education
vital initiatives are identified for 2022 Naples Winter Wine Festival fund a need

T he Naples Children & Education
Foundation (NCEF) announced
that its annual Fund a Need at
the 2022 Naples Winter Wine
Festival will support its education
initiatives for the underserved children of

Collier County. The vision for “Raise the

Grade” is that every dollar raised during a

special call to action auction lot will go to

support the strategic initiatives of Early

Learning, Out-of-School Time, and Career

and College Readiness.

Founded by NCEF,

the Naples Winter Wine

Festival enters its twenty-

second year and ranks

as the most successful

international charity wine

auction in the world,

raising nearly $220

million for local children’s provide homework help,
mentorship, focused academic
causes. support, and enrichment
during non-school hours.
At the 2022 Festival, • Career and College
Readiness: Only 36% of
guests will have a chance young adults in Collier
County have attained a
to show their support high-quality degree or credential.
Regardless of whether they plan to
through a live auction on attend college or not, students need
to learn the skills that will allow
Saturday, January 29, while PHOTO BY ERIC STRACHAN them to navigate the peaks and
supporters across the country valleys of life after school. NCEF
supports programs that provide
who are unable to attend the festival will early childhood education is 25% access to college readiness for those
continuing their education or career-
be able to participate in an online auction more likely to drop out of school, focused opportunities for those who
decide college is not their path.
starting Friday, January 21. 40% more likely to become a teenage
Since its inception, NCEF has become
“Our investment in a child’s education parent, and 70% more likely to be the single largest source of funding
for essential services for at-risk and
goes far beyond reading, writing, and arrested for a violent crime. When underprivileged children in Collier County.
Through its annual grants and strategic
arithmetic,” said John Walter, NCEF children have the benefit of high- initiatives, NCEF has impacted more than
fifty of the most effective nonprofits in the
Trustee, and 2022 Grant Committee quality early childhood education, community, providing more than 275,000
children with the services and resources to
Chair. “From early learning to high school they make cognitive and social gains

graduation, children who participate in that prepare them to start school and

NCEF-funded programs receive a safe, enter kindergarten ready to learn and

nurturing environment and are set up for succeed.

success in the post-high-school graduation • Out-of-School Time: One in five

years. Our investments are designed to children across America are alone

have life-long impacts on the children who and unsupervised after school. The

receive these essential services.” hours of 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. are the peak

Research shows that children’s time for juvenile crime. For many

experiences in their school-age years can children, unsupervised after-school

have a dramatic impact on their outcomes hours and unoccupied weekends

as adults. Here are statistics supporting the can lead to experimentation as well

education initiatives: as risky and dangerous behaviors.

• Early Learning: A child without an NCEF invests in programs that

January 2022 Old Naples News | 17

Small Chef Table Luncheons to live happier, more fulfilling lives.
Support the Naples Culinary NCEF has broadened its role over the years from traditional
Community and Those Facing
Hunger and Homelessness in grant-making to local charities on an annual basis by adding seven
strategic initiatives to fill gaps in basic children’s services and develop
Collier County long-term, collaborative solutions. These strategic initiatives address
gaps in the areas of early learning, healthcare, hunger, mental health,
20 Naples oral health, out-of-school time, and vision.
Restaurants & Chefs
“From the very young child in need of quality early learning to
JAN 26, FEB 23 & the older child who needs something to do after school or tutoring
MAR 23, 2022 all the way to at-risk teens and young adults needing career and
college support, our education initiatives provide the most fragile
For info & tickets, go to: children with the tools they need to succeed academically and
CulinaryAdventureNaples.org thrive,” said NCEF Chief Executive Officer Maria Jimenez-Lara.

SPECIAL THANK YOU Here are some examples of how contributions
to Old Naples News! to “Raise the Grade” can last a lifetime:

Sponsored By: • $100,000 provides 360 at-risk high school students a chance
to graduate on time
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• $50,000 provides fifty children a year of after-school
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• $25,000 provides thirteen children scholarships for year-
round early learning

• $10,000 provides ten high schoolers with a career-focused
internship

• $5,000 provides ten early learning classrooms with reading
libraries

• $1,000 provides eight children, who are experiencing
behavioral challenges, with assessments and therapies

Every dollar raised will go to support NCEF’s education
initiatives to focus on the future of local children. For
more information or to make a donation, please visit www.
napleswinefestival.com.

About Naples Winter Wine Festival

The Naples Winter Wine Festival, one of the world's most
prestigious charity wine auctions, offers a weekend of unforgettable
memories. Guests enjoy world-class food and wine during intimate
dinners in private homes and are invited to bid on once-in-a-
lifetime travel and wine experiences during an electrifying live
auction. Since its inaugural event in 2001, the NWWF has raised
nearly $220 million, making a profound difference in the lives of
hundreds of thousands of children.

About Naples Children & Education Foundation

The Naples Children & Education Foundation, the founding
organization of the Naples Winter Wine Festival, is improving the
educational, emotional, and health outcomes of underprivileged and
at-risk children. Through its annual grants and strategic initiatives,
NCEF has impacted more than fifty of the most effective nonprofits
in the community, providing more than 275,000 children with the
services and resources they need to excel. NCEF's unique approach,
which emphasizes collaboration between organizations and bridges
public and private resources, has become a blueprint for how to
transform a community, one issue at a time.

For additional information on the Naples Children & Education
Foundation or the Naples Winter Wine Festival, contact Lisa
Juliano at [email protected] or 239.514.2239.

January 2022

“My leadership on City Council has
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We have achieved a more
HEALTHY BALANCE
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Commercial interests. “

“We absolutely can achieve balance
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O ne of the most On February 1, voters residing within the City of Naples city limits will be asked to
fundamental rights for vote for three City Council seats. The individuals elected on February 1 will represent
Americans is the right the City of Naples and the citizens who live within it. They will serve the city’s best
to vote. In order for our interest by legislating for the city, directing the enforcement of ordinances, transacting
government to function city business, providing community leadership, and overall protecting the welfare of the
and respond to the needs of our people, city and its inhabitants.
citizens must play a role in shaping it.
Collier County broke voter participation
records during the 2020 Election Cycle
with over 90% of Collier’s registered
voters casting a ballot in the November
Presidential Election alone, which was
also the highest turnout percentage in the
State of Florida.

When we do not take full County-wide, voters will participate in the August Primary Election followed by
advantage of the right to the November General Election. Not only will voters be asked to make a choice
vote, we not only give away for Governor and Cabinet members, but they will also make selections for their
our voice, we also give away representatives in the United States Senate and Congress, the Florida Senate and
the ability to shape our House, Judicial Retention, County Commission and School Board Members—and
contingent on where a voter resides, they may see Special District races on their ballot
community’s future. including Mosquito Control seats, Soil and Conservation seats, Fire District seats, and
Community Development District positions.

Important dates to remember for the 2022 Election Cycle are as follows:

The elections in 2022 are of paramount Election Voter Registration Deadline Election Day
importance. The outcomes of these local
elections directly impact the citizens of City of Naples January 3, 2022 February 1, 2022
Collier County. It is up to each individual Primary Election July 25, 2022 August 23, 2022
to exercise the right that so many fought General Election October 11, 2022 November 8, 2022
to obtain and continue to fight to protect.
The Collier County Supervisor of The leaders in 2022 will be our decision-makers in our community and our voice in
Elections office has made it their mission Tallahassee and in Washington D.C. When we do not take full advantage of the right
to remind voters of the importance of to vote, we not only give away our voice, we also give away the ability to shape our
these elections and to help voters engage community’s future. In 2022, use your vote to voice what is important to you.
in the electoral process.
Visit www.CollierVotes.gov for more information about the 2022 Election Cycle or call
239.252.VOTE (8683).

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Healthy living in the New Year

BY LORNA FEDELEM, MD

D o you use the New Year as Many scholarly and anecdotal studies but these are negated when it is loaded
an annual health seminar highly promote plant-based eating. with sweeteners and creamers. Gradually
with yourself ? In the past, I Consuming a variety of colored fruits and wean yourself off the Starbucks White
would brainstorm all the ways vegetables has been shown to promote Chocolate Mocha Frappuccino (550
I wanted to better myself in longevity, disease prevention, and overall calories) and opt for a Caffe Americano
the coming year and set lofty goals that wellness. (15 calories). Your taste buds will gradually
would make me feel so much better about get used to less sugar, I promise!
myself. These included exercising daily, 3. Always keep healthy snacks near
losing weight, dining out less, reading more you NON-TOXIC LIVING
literature, and drinking less soda. I loved 6. Examine your beauty regimen and
the idea of a new and improved me, but When healthy food is near, it’s easy to substitute new, green products when
seldom made it past week two. According forgo the salty and sweet cravings. Just say you run out of your old ones
to Forbes, only 8% of people actually “no” to buying the unhealthy snacks in the
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When the body is dehydrated, it doesn’t for household cleansers
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setting a drastic goal is setting yourself benefits including increasing energy, flushing Substitute vinegar and water to clean
up for failure. Make your goal realistic out toxins, improving skin complexion, countertops and baking soda to cut grease
and attainable. Take baby steps toward and boosting immunity, to name a few. If rather than strong, toxic cleaners. Or look
reaching your goal and you are more likely you don’t like plain water, try infusing it or for cleansers filled with more natural
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CLEAN EATING 5. Start your morning with a 8. Use lemons as a sponge
2. Add more fruits and vegetables at hydrating warm drink
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Warm water and lemon is a good drink and throw them in the sink. It smells
January 2022 choice because it has a pleasant taste, nice and is easy on your hands when
and the lemon alkalizes your system. scrubbing.
Coffee also has many health benefits,
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ACTIVE LIVING Think short-term; create a new goal Our mind is a powerful tool and
9. Be active daily every month. Think homemade juices or sometimes we get stuck thinking about
smoothies five days a week or don’t eat negative thoughts that bring us down. To
Aim for thirty minutes of activity packaged snacks for a month. It doesn’t be your own cheerleader, find some phrases
daily. Break it up throughout the day: seem like such a life overhaul if you add or to use (and say to yourself ) when you’re
ten minutes before work, ten minutes eliminate a certain food for just thirty days. feeling down. “Be a warrior, not a worrier,”
afterward, and ten minutes home with the Plus, if you get in the rhythm of it, you “Be in love with your life,” and “Don’t ruin
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10. Find a workout buddy and set MINDFUL LIVING 15. Make sure you get a good night
goals together to make fitness fun. 12. Meditate for ten minutes early sleep regularly
morning
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Generations, times two

BY PAMELA EDWARDS BUNN

W alking up the stairs The most valuable advice from some blanket corporate strategy of trying to
and through the door, coordinate a one-size-fits-all approach to our
I found my way down my father was when I asked clients. People at BFE actually care about
the hall to Eric Price’s their employees and treasure the client -first
office. It was opening him if we were in this business relationship.”
day in the spring of 2019, and he was
meeting with a client. He invited me in to to make money, or to make our St. Louis-based Benjamin F. Edwards
be introduced. “ has a simple mission: To empower our
clients money. His response financial advisors with the freedom to
My father and I have served four provide personalized investment advice in
generations of Mr. Cox’s family.” was, ‘It’s to make money for an atmosphere grounded in trust, integrity
and mutual respect. We are committed to
Building client relationships. Caring our client’s first. We make supporting our financial advisors through
for their families. Serving their needs. advanced, comprehensive resources as they
Investments for Generations, the corporate money based on how successful offer clients informed and objective advice.
tagline, is a mission at work every day in the
life of Eric Price, manager of the Naples we are for them. The company core values are
office of Benjamin F. Edwards & Co. five-fold:
& Co, continuing the client-first service
In the mid 1960s, newly retired Presley that had always been Edwards’ hallmark, • The Golden Rule
Edwards moved to Naples from St. and that he believed was desperately • Independence
Louis, Missouri, where he had been the needed in our present culture. Another • Accessibility
third generation Edwards at the helm of generation of Price would soon put a new • Striving for Excellence
investment firm A.G. Edwards, founded pin on their map in Naples. • Having Fun
by his grandfather, Albert, in 1887. His These time-honored values have
stepson, Bob Avis, soon joined him in As the new company expanded, Bob characterized the firm’s legacy for over
Naples and established a branch of the firm Price, nearing retirement, and his son, Eric, 130 years. They drew Eric Price back to
that Presley’s son, Benjamin III, led. followed its success. Eric looked for an Edwards, and he is committed to seeing
opportunity to return to the Edwards he’d that they flourish into the future, to yet
A.G. Edwards was the only securities known. He opened the Naples branch in another generation.
firm that served Collier County, a growing April of 2019, soon bringing on advisors Entering the Trianon building on Park
retirement haven for mostly Midwesterners, Tom Kahl and Wayne Meland. Shore Drive is a déjà vu moment. It is the
for several years. After Avis moved to same building where the Edwards office
Houston to expand branches there, Ben “The most valuable advice from my father on the first floor buzzed with activity and
Edwards tapped Bob Price, then a manager was when I asked him if we were in this made a difference in people’s lives for
in Tuscaloosa, AL, to come build the business to make money, or to make our clients decades. The new office now hums right
Naples branch located on Fifth Avenue. money. His response was, ‘It’s to make money above and alongside the original. One
for our client’s first. We make money based on more generation of company, one more
Naples had about 12,000 residents, how successful we are for them.”’ generation of manager, and one more Price
many snowbirds. Price arrived in 1970 and to lead the opportunity to invest in clients,
managed one of the firm’s most profitable Eric says that having clients introduce treat them as you want to be treated, and
branches for decades, soon moving it to a you to their children is the highest enjoy the ride.
new building on Park Shore and establishing compliment one can receive in this
its name and reputation as those trusted to business. “It creates a relationship with This article was provided by Pamela Edwards
treat clients with the Golden Rule. His son, the next generation. By arranging that Bunn, Senior Advisor-Executive Division at
Eric, joined him in 1983, becoming assistant connection your client has entrusted Benjamin F. Edwards & Co and was prepared
manager before Bob retired, and developing you to take care of their greatest asset, by or in cooperation with Benjamin F. Edwards.
his own relationships with a wide spectrum their family.” He has numerous multi- Pamela Edwards Bunn is a member of the board of
of clients. generations in his book of clients, some directors for Benjamin F. Edwards, Inc., the holding
extending four generations at one time, like company for Benjamin F. Edwards & Co. (BFEC)
Fast-forward a generation. Five years Mr. Cox.
after Ben’s retirement in 2001, A.G.
Edwards was sold to Wachovia Securities, “What brought me back to Edwards
and a year later to Well Fargo Advisors. was the culture of putting the client first, not
In 2008, Ben’s son, Benjamin IV (Tad)
founded a new firm, Benjamin F. Edwards

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Start a New Year with a safe exercise

BY DR KOGAN
Concierge Holistic Internal Medicine

N aples is one of the just like brushing your teeth. electrolytes, such as Gatorade, to replenish
healthiest cities in the As a holistic doctor, I am often asked the salt lost through sweating.
United States. If you look
around and pay attention, if stretching before exercise is necessary. One of the unpleasant complications
you will understand exactly In my opinion, most folks can take a pass of overexerting yourself and not hydrating
why. Just take notice of how many seniors on performing isometric or static stretches enough in the heat of the Florida sun is
are engaged in some form of exercise: from prior to exercise. In fact, stretching before rhabdomyolysis—a condition in which
tennis to golf, from yoga to tai chi—retirees exercise can cause problems. According muscle cells break down excessively. This
are keeping their bodies in motion. And to a large study in the Clinical Journal of could lead to further issues like kidney
this exercise pays off. Decades of research Sport Medicine, by stretching before exercise failure if not promptly addressed in the
demonstrate that participating in twenty (like bending to touch your toes) muscles medical setting. However, if you avoid
minutes per day of continuous physical contract and become tenser and more prone exercising in the midday heat and hydrate
activity adequate to raise the heart rate to injury during the activity that follows. before and after, you will most likely
improves circulation to the brain and Instead, studies show that it’s best to warm never have to deal with this unpleasant
limbs, and decreases the risk of heart up in an active way. I advise starting before malady. It helps to remember the words
attack, stroke, and dementia. As a doctor, exercise by doing activities that mimic of Hippocrates, an ancient Greek
one of my toughest preventive tasks is to the movements of your intended sport or physician, who said: “Primum non nocere”
get patients moving. It often takes a real activity, such as walking lunges to prepare (First, do no harm). These words are
effort for people to move! Just think of for a jog or going through the motion of a classically pronounced by doctors taking
how many wonderful passive activities few serves for tennis. This light movement a professional oath. However, I find them
we can do: sunbathing, people-watching, increases heart rate and blood flow to the very useful for anyone who is embarking on
birdwatching, or just sipping an espresso muscles, raising your body temperature a new exercise routine. Physical activity is
with a newspaper. All are worthwhile ways and increasing muscle flexibility. The extra meant to repair and nourish your body—
to spend free time. However, the residents benefit to warming up this way is that not to harm it. And don’t forget to spread
of Collier Country prove that inertia can you may be able to exercise longer and the word about your exercising routines
be overcome when you still have a spark in with less pain. This way you will capitalize on social media, so that your friends and
your eye—a “joie de vivre.” And mobility on all the rewards of fitness, including followers around the world can look up to
is one of the best ways to keep the body increased energy, toning, and slimming. you as a role model for healthy living in
strong and healthy and feed back into that And whether you have stretched or not, their communities.
joy of life. This is particularly important for remember to wear light, loose clothes to
those who have had any kind of orthopedic avoid overheating and drink plenty of Dr. Kogan is a Concierge Holistic Internal Medicine
surgery—moving right away is the key to water. If you expect to exercise for over doctor in Naples. Her website is CustomLongevity.com.
thirty minutes at a time, drink water with
successful rehabilitation. The January 2022
key to exercise is getting
started and then being
consistent. Amazingly,
once you get moving
and continue
for at least forty
consecutive days,
your brain will
actually wire the
new habit into
your neuronal
pathways, and
you won’t need
to be reminded
to exercise
anymore. It will
come naturally,

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Antilles adds a golf amenity in time for season

BY LUCITT & CO home to many of its first and windows are wind
homeowners. and hurricane-rated and
A ntilles may be a smaller Phase One included sixty-eight units coordinated paver walk and
community, but it has devoted and after an active winter season, some driveways are standard. Low
a significant amount of the three-bedroom homes remain, ranging E impact resistant aluminum
fifty-four-acre site to its amenity from 1,509 to 2,444 square feet under air windows are included as are reinforced
package, which was recently and priced from the $400,000’s. Coach concrete slabs with moisture barriers. Roofs
increased with the completion of its own homes are four-unit buildings with attached are engineered with hurricane clips and 160
four-hole golf putting green. Better yet, garages and multiplexes are twelve-unit, mph wind protection tie downs. All homes
access to all is included in the purchase elevator buildings designed as two floors include linen closets, pantries, walk-in master
price of an Antilles home. No extra fees over ground-level parking. Designer models closets, and separate laundry rooms, plus
or membership dues are of all are available for viewing daily, when energy-saving appliances. Quartz countertops
required to fully participate accompanied by an on-site agent. are also standard throughout as are kitchen
in the Flamingo Club’s The value of a home in Antilles has been island pendant fixtures and GE stainless steel
combined 14,000 square built into it at every stage in its construction. kitchen appliances—including on-trend
feet of indoor and outdoor No upgrades are required to get solid wood, French-door style refrigerators. Recessed
amenities, which includes eight-foot interior doors, Merano hardware, lighting and pre-wiring for data, voice, and
a specialized exercise and sleek, rocker-style lighting switches, cove video are standard features. The full range of
fitness center, comfortable ceilings per plan, higher ceilings, and taller selections, options, and upgrades available
gathering and socializing baseboards are standard. Shaker style wood to homeowners can be reviewed at the sales
spaces, quiet cafe section, cabinetry is used throughout the home with office in the Flamingo Club.
fireplace and big screen soft-close features, as are forty-two-inch-high Antilles is a gated community two miles
TV lounge, resort pool and kitchen upper cabinets and wide profile, south of Tamiami Trail East (US 41), off
heated spa, pergola-shaded porcelain tile flooring in all living areas, and Collier Boulevard (SR 951). Turn east on
fire pit, sun and shade decks, designer-level carpeting in the bedrooms. Port Au Prince Road and continue to The
plus an oversized Tiki Hut with huge service Showers are tiled floor-to-ceiling and finished Flamingo Club, 155 Indies Drive East,
and party bar. Add to that the regulation with substantial frameless glass shower doors. Naples, FL 34114. Antilles is represented
bocce and pickleball courts which have Kohler plumbing fixtures are standard as are by JRW Developer Resources, a division of
been surfaced for year-round play—and double-sink master bath vanities. Closets John R. Wood Properties. Please refer to
now the putting green—and you have a include custom built-in storage systems AntillesNaples.com to register for the most
comprehensive amenity package that any to promote air circulation. Exterior doors current updates or call 239.691.4455 for
homeowner will be proud to share with an appointment. The Sales Center is open
family and friends. Antilles even provides daily 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Noon - 5 p.m.
the equipment. on Sundays. Jaime and Kerry are on site to
answer any questions.
In addition to the amenity package,
Antilles’ own five-acre Kingfisher Lake and January 2022
adjacent wetland preserve have a serene
presence within the community, offering
long water views from every vantage point.
All bird and waterfowl photographs used
in Antilles marketing materials were taken
on site.

Antilles offers a quiet setting all year long,
set back from the Collier Boulevard corridor
yet minutes from all the premium resort
attractions of Marco Island and Old Naples.
When completed it will have 212 coach and
multiplex residences featuring classic West
Indies Island style architecture rendered
in soft dove grey stucco exteriors with
substantial black Bahama shutters and fresh
white trims for an elegant presentation. It is
a handsome community, and as construction
continues to Phase Two, it is becoming

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MATRIX V ery little is known about the woman named Marie
by Lauren Groff de France. We know she lived in England in the late
Riverhead Books twelfth century and she left behind a series of lyric
272 Pages poems now known as the Lais of Marie de France.
$28.00 US Otherwise, she is a figure shrouded by the shadows
of time. Lauren Groff chose this woman of great
literary talent to be the central figure in her new
novel, Matrix. With little source material she was
able to draw a fictional portrait of a great woman to
her own satisfaction.
When we meet Marie, she is seventeen years old
and newly banished from the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine to become the new
prioress at an unnamed convent somewhere in the wilds of medieval England.
Groff characterizes her as a large woman, not beautiful but with a fire in her heart.
She goes to the abbey, desolate and grief-stricken at being separated from Eleanor.
The convent is not a happy place—it is cold, damp, and the nuns are starving.
Marie’s fortitude and practical mind soon have things changing at the convent and the lives of
all the women and girls under its roof are vastly improved. But this story is more than the linear
progression from misery to happiness. It is the cyclical nature of daily prayers, the turning of the
seasons, and the wheel of the years where the heart of this novel lies. Almost fable-like, Groff
weaves a matrix of details through lush prose that spiral throughout the pages, bringing themes
of the feminine, mystical visions, and by contrast, the hard work that was the product of those
visions back to us over and over.
And while cycles are readily apparent in the narrative, so too is the straight line of Marie’s
life. It pierces and intersects the spirals so that if it were diagrammed, might resemble the
labyrinth the nuns create in the book to protect their abbey from the nearby town. Groff
marries Marie’s physical strength with her mystical encounters with the Virgin Mary to create
a harmony of flesh and spirit. She also draws a line between being a good woman and being a
great woman, the latter not necessarily the better of the two.
Just because Marie de France is an almost complete fabrication by Groff does not mean her
depiction of medieval monastic life is as well. Careful research and presentation of details pack
this novel. We know she used the real names of women from convent registers so that Wulfhid,
Wevua, and Gytha might not be lost to history. They buzz around Marie like proverbial bees in
a hive would dance around their queen.
A book to be savored, Matrix is a peek into a possible incarnation of the life of Marie de
France. Her beautifully crafted sentences are meant to be read slowly. Short-listed for the 2021
National Book Award, Matrix has a luminous quality that is at once part meditation and part
fever dream.

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Lauren Groff grew up in Cooperstown, NY, and attended Amherst and the University of

Wisconsin, Madison, where she received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. She is the
author of six books of fiction including Fates and Furies, as well as a collection of short stories
titled, Florida. She currently lives in Gainesville with her husband and two children.

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David Lawrence Centers

Behavioral health technology expert and youth entrepreneur Solomé Tibebu
to headline signature fundraiser

S olomé Tibebu dealt with a severe the impacts that mental health “I acknowledge the negative impact that
anxiety disorder and obsessive- challenges can have on our social media has had on youth, but I am
compulsive disorder as a teen, families and our communities,” inspired by how we’ve gone from online
feeling alone and frustrated. said Garrett Richter. “We are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools to more
After realizing that there was honored to chair the Sound personalized solutions for adolescents,”
no immediate resource for education on Minds Luncheon and are said Solomé Tibebu. “I definitely think the
what she was going through, she founded certain that this generous community next generation is thinking very differently
and operated an online teen mental health will help us advance this tremendous about mental health and their comfort
non-profit, AnxietyInTeens.org, while a and greatly needed organization that to use digital tools to be able to address
sophomore in high school. provides affordable, world-class behavioral anxiety and depression.”
healthcare to nearly 10,000 children and
Now, as a behavioral health strategist, adults each year.” Sponsors to date include Naples
Tibebu is passionate about frontier Children & Education Foundation, First
technologies and solutions that transform Sound Minds is DLC’s signature Florida Integrity Bank, Naples Heart
mental health, equity, and access. As a fundraiser and a critical source of funding Rhythm Specialists P.A., Gulfshore
lecturer and consultant, she shares insights for its life-saving services, for which Business, Centennial Bank, Monica
about her journey as a young entrepreneur demand has sharply increased during McVicker, Moorings Park, Physicians
developing solutions for important the COVID-19 pandemic. Sadly, mental Regional Healthcare System, Sunshine
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challenges these solutions address. were already at an all-time high—are now Bank & Trust.
more prevalent as a result of the lasting
Tibebu will serve as the keynote speaker psychological impacts of the pandemic— The cost to attend is $275 per person
of David Lawrence Centers for Behavioral especially for our youth and young adults. or $450 per VIP ticket. To learn more,
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Immediately following the luncheon, VIP purpose in helping others find their way TOP LEFT: Solomé Tibebu
ticket holders and sponsors will enjoy a is the proven format for the Sound Minds TOP RIGHT: Garrett and Diana Richter at Sound Minds 2021
private VIP reception with coffee and fundraiser. Past speakers have included
dessert for an intimate opportunity to a Columbine shooting survivor, national January 2022
meet with Tibebu. Funds raised through experts, actors, and legislators who have
the proceeds of Sound Minds will benefit been impacted personally by behavioral
Collier County’s only comprehensive, health challenges.
not-for-profit behavioral health provider
serving children, adults and families, by Tibebu will discuss how technology
improving access to DLC’s innovative is expanding access and impacting youth
prevention, intervention, treatment, and mental health.
education services.

Sound Minds is being presented by
Education Sponsor Naples Children &
Education Foundation and will be co-
chaired by longtime community supporters
and mental health advocates, Garrett and
Diana Richter.

As co-chairs, the Richters hope to bring
awareness around these common issues and
how Collier County can come together to
make a difference in the innovations that
are helping address access to behavioral
health locally.

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Statewide award

reflects excellence in Collier Schools

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

C ollier County Public Schools superintendents in school district in the United
(CCPS) Superintendent, this state who are States. “Those who choose to
Dr. Kamela Patton, has fiercely committed pursue the path as a public
been named Florida’s to ensuring access school superintendent do so
2022 Superintendent of to academic not for the glory, but rather
the Year by the Florida Association of excellence and the opportunity to make
District School opportunities a positive difference in children’s lives.
Superintendents for all students. Dr. Patton exemplifies this passion and
(FADSS). This recognition commitment each and every day and has a
Dr. Patton is truly an honor true passion and dedication to consistently
was formally personally, but make child-centered decisions that always
recognized in more so, it reflects put the best interests of students first,”
Tampa during the outstanding states FADSS Chief Executive Officer
the joint meeting achievements (CEO) Bill Montford.
of FADSS and and tireless work “Dr. Patton is not only an exceptional
the Florida of everyone who superintendent with a proven track record
School Boards makes up Collier of success; she is a true servant leader
Association. County Public committed to educational excellence and is
She is the first Schools.” truly deserving of this award,” adds FADSS
in the history President and Citrus County Schools
of Southwest Dr. Patton Superintendent Sandra “Sam” Himmel.
Florida to win was appointed During her tenure as superintendent here
this prestigious Superintendent in Collier, Dr. Patton has been committed
award and the of CCPS in June to a trajectory of continuous improvement
ninth woman 2011 and is now in anchored in culture, academics, and
to receive this her eleventh year leading the 115th largest leadership. Since 2011, our district has
honor since the successfully transformed through the
inception of the implementation of innovative practices
awards program designed to improve student outcomes
in 1988. and impact systemic change. CCPS has

“I am deeply Old Naples News | 41
humbled and
grateful to have
been selected as
Florida’s 2022
Superintendent
of the Year,” says
Patton. “It is a
privilege to be
chosen among
a class of outstanding and dedicated

January 2022

achieved numerous accomplishments under Dr. Patton is not only an exemplary work ethic, and a true passion
Dr. Patton’s leadership including: exceptional superintendent and dedication to always make decisions
with a proven track record that are in the best interests of students,”
• Improved the district ranking to tie adds Montford.
for 5th in the State from 33rd just of success; she is a true
nine years ago servant leader committed to The process for selecting Florida’s
educational excellence and Superintendent of the Year was established
• Increased the graduation rate by by the American Association of School
19.7 percentage points to 92.2% is truly deserving of Administrators (AASA), a national
from 72.5% this award. organization of school superintendents
and other educational leaders. Dr. Patton
• Earned a district grade of “A” since – SANDRA “SAM” HIMMEL will represent all Florida superintendents
2017 FADSS President & at the AASA 2022 National Education
Conference February 17-19, 2022, in
• Currently one of seven school Citrus County Schools Superintendent Nashville, Tennessee, where she will be
districts to earn the “A” distinction recognized and honored for her public
for 2021 “Dr. Patton is widely respected education service in Florida.
throughout Florida, not only by the
• CCPS students outperformed the superintendents of Florida, but by all who TOP RIGHT: Superintendent Posing with School Board
state average on 21 out of 21 tested know her and have had the opportunity Members District Staff Community Members
areas the past school year to work with her. Undoubtedly this high
level of respect is a clear reflection of her TOP LEFT: Patton being presented SOY Award from FADSS
These accomplishments are even more MIDDLE LEFT: Patton receiving SOY Award
impressive considering our district covers and flowers from FADSS
2,300 square miles with a diverse student
population—65% of students are on free BOTTOM LEFT: School Board Members look on as
and reduced lunch, 55% of students come Patton receives award
from homes where English is not the first
language, and 96 different languages and
dialects are spoken. CCPS also has the
largest number of migrant families in the
state of Florida with over 3,300 migrant
students.

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The Naples Sailing & Yacht Club

reefs mix with an aqua hue. See the evening
atmosphere transform as one thousand
crystal cylinders come together to create
three chandeliers in the dining room which
provide soft, romantic lighting throughout.

The second Compass Rose directs all
members to the bar for a libation. Sit under
the glow of the glass twenty foot sailboat,
while a friendly bartender creates a special
cocktail, full-tilt or virgin, or pours an
excellent glass of wine just for you.

Although this is a yacht club, owning
a boat is not a necessity at NSYC. Forty
percent of members do not own boats
and prefer to have their two feet on the
soil. However, for the other half who
own a seaworthy vessel, NSYC’s floating

BY CARYN HACKER-BUECHEL enthusiasm as well as his extensive dock can accommodate up to seventy-five
knowledge of boating is certain to member boats in its marina. A few slips
TMember Publicity Director NSYC bring additional life to this already are also available for transient boaters
he Naples Sailing and Yacht wonderful Club. and members may dock their boat at
Club’s iconic lighthouse sits, the T-dock to stop in for a quick lunch
sun-drenched, at the foot Consider allowing Director of or dinner. NSYC Marina Dock Master,
of the Gordon River. The Membership and Marketing, Ann Amanda Wentworth, stands ready to help
striking yellow exterior and Marie Ashline, to take you on a you with your boating needs.
green roof, a beacon to those stroll through NSYC. Step beyond
who come by sea or land, suggests that the front doors and into the quiet Additional ‘Clubs within this Club’
they may seek sustenance within its walls. elegance of a coastal life-style, focus upon other member interests
For over fifty years, NSYC has served our shades of blue and coral against the dark including: Mah-jongg, cars, books, and
Naples community as a sought-after private browns of the custom baltic birch floor. wine clubs, to name only a few.
boating, social, and dining venue. Take a moment to notice the many accents
designed to make any mariner feel at home. Membership opportunities are available.
Updated under the direction of Miami Follow a directional arrow of the inlaid Please contact Ann Marie at 239.774.0424,
designer Ed Cox in 2018, NSYC offers Compass Rose to the silver fish sculptures or [email protected] to explore
32,000 square feet where members as they head up-stream to the second floor NSYC membership opportunities. Your new
can dine, socialize and dance the night which houses the bayside and lighthouse friends are waiting.
away surrounded by their friends and dining areas, as well as, the inviting bar.
acquaintances, all the while enjoying January 2022
magnificent views of Naples Bay from Enter the bayside dining room, the
every southern window. This member- heart of the club, as most of the extensive
owned club has flourished under the social event calendar, including fun themed
guidance of General Manager, Manny parties, are held in this beautiful space. The
Blanco, the member Board and the Officer Social Member Team creates events which
Bridge including the Club Commodore. are as beautiful as they are fun, while this
Always attempting to stay modern, 2015 room may also provide your backdrop for
saw the Club’s first woman Commodore, a private event or meeting. The colors of
Linda Butler, while 2020 brings in Scott the newly installed custom carpet from
Schwalback as the Club’s youngest Ireland will draw you into this masterpiece
Commodore. At fifty, his energetic of undersea calm and contentment, as coral

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A PREMIER SOCIAL, DINING, AND BOATING CLUB LIKE NO OTHER IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA

HAVE FUN WITH US! DINE WITH US! BOAT WITH US! DOCK WITH US!

NSYC is a well-established, private member-owned Club that encompasses creative culinary dining, outstanding marina facilities,
breathtaking views of Naples Bay, and an active social calendar. For the non-boat owner, we offer a Social Membership. Over 40%
of our members are non-boaters who join the Club for its outstanding dining and exciting social calendar.

Some of the reasons members enjoy the lifestyle of membership.

• Membership categories: Regular, Mariner, Social
• Full Marina Privileges (Regular members)

• 32,000 square foot clubhouse with dazzling views of Naples Bay
• Premier social, dining and boating events
• Award–winning certified Executive Chef

• Boating cruises or excursions (Regular and Mariner members)
• NSYC offers reciprocity with 710 yacht clubs nationwide, including 35 in Florida

• Special Interest Clubs within the Club
For more information on NSYC Membership opportunities and fees, please contact:

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Stem cells provide new breakthroughs

In the treatment of back pain, asthma, and other disorders

BY CHADWICK C. PRODROMOS MD

BACKGROUND: Adult of sleep. He also and publish in high-quality journals. With
had residual arm a BA from Princeton, MD from Johns
mesenchymal stem cells (NOT weakness and pain Hopkins, Harvard/MGH fellowship, and
fetal or embryonic) provide even after expert twenty-seven years as Assistant Professor
safe, effective treatment for corrective surgery to at Rush, I am committed to rigorous
dozens of difficult-to-treat implant a prosthetic evidence-based practice.
disorders. These treatments are cervical disk.
generally only available offshore Other treatments ANTI-AGING: Anti-aging medicine is
due to overly restrictive FDA had failed. We effective. Stem cells are an essential and
regulations that do not allow treated this patient proven part of any anti-aging program. We
them in the US. We operate our with an intravenous infusion as well as provide stem cell treatment and partner
Prodromos Stem Cell Institute epidural and facet injection of stem cells. in Naples with Fountain Life’s (www.
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island nation of Antigua for minute procedure. Five days later his back program through their internationally
this purpose (www.thepsci. spasms had completely resolved, and he was renowned chief innovation officer George
com). Below I will explain two extremely happy that for the first time in Shapiro, MD, and COO Dr. Matt Burnett;
breakthroughs at our institute years he was able to sleep well at night. In as well as with Eduardo Maristany, MD
using stem cells providing success for the addition, his residual arm nerve symptoms (www.naplescfm.com).
first time in a human patient. were 98% gone. Relief of these problems OTHER DISORDERS: Stem cells are
from epidural/facet injections had also never proven effective and provided by us for
ASTHMA: There has been no published before been reported. This case and that of a variety of other disorders, including
the asthma patient are being submitted as a MS, Osteoarthritis as an alternative to
prior report of successful treatment of medical journal case report for publication. joint replacement surgery, Rheumatoid
asthma in a human. One study showed Arthritis, Diabetes, Autism, Crohn’s disease/
success in a cat study, and others in rodents. SAFETY: Properly used, stem cells have no ulcerative colitis, chronic kidney disease,
Two months ago, we treated a patient known severe side effects unlike the toxic ED/Peyronie’s disease, retinitis pigmentosa,
with a simple one-hour intravenous corticosteroids, immunosuppressants, and glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetic
infusion of stem cells in Antigua who then other drugs and surgery commonly used retinopathy, infertility, lupus, and spinal cord
had immediate relief of his asthma. He for treatment. injury paralysis.
experienced a 90% decrease in his use of his COST: Treatment is not covered by insurance,
emergency inhaler and a 70% decrease in his but our charges are much less than at other MORE INFORMATION: If you would like
use of his nebulizer that has continued for offshore centers. more information, please email us at care@
months to date. thepsci.com or call us at 847.699.6810. We
RESEARCH: We perform world-leading evaluate patients remotely from all over the
SEVERE BACK PAIN AND stem cell research through our 501(c)(3) world and have physical offices in Chicago
SPINAL ARTHRITIS: non-profit foundation (www.theforem.org) and Naples, FL.

One month ago, we treated a forty-seven- January 2022
year-old patient with disk herniations,
spondylolisthesis, facet arthritis, and other
abnormalities manifesting as severe chronic
back pain and spasms, unresponsive to
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Reporting live from COP26

Climate change – now or never ZERO-EMISSION VEHICLES K.C. SCHULBERG AT COP
Though the host country the UK
K.C. SCHULBERG by restrictions on fuels used to power their
Collier County Waterkeeper wanted governments, manufacturers, and emerging economies. This was a dogfight,
investors to adopt zero-emission vehicles with a watered-down agreement limping
I was invited to COP26 to help my globally by 2040 and 2035 in leading across the finish line two days after the
friend, colleague, and the Kissimmee markets, the agreement had significant conference ended.
Waterkeeper, Dr. John Capece, naysayers, including the United States.
provide live daily reporting from Given the poverty in some underdeveloped I am reminded of a joke. Two men
the conference for the international countries, it seemed a bridge too far for flying private stare out the window of their
Waterkeeper Alliance. With filmmaking some western nations to help underwrite plane. One says to the other, “You know we
and television skills in my quiver, I was able the conversion in poorer nations. really own very little when you think how
to bring enhanced production value to our much there is to own.”
reporting by producing, directing, and co- LOSS AND DAMAGE
hosting thirteen hours of original reporting Similarly, the US gave a thumbs down And so, it is with global climate
from COP—programs that have now been agreements. Despite the progress, we have
viewed 3400 times. to climate change reparations. Vulnerable so much more to “own.” The wonderful
countries contend that wealthier nations students and protesters—20,000 on the
What is my take-away from the COP? who have largely caused the climate crisis first Friday and 100,00 on the following
Friends, we are on the knife’s edge. It is should be held liable to poorer nations day—were driving the attendees to
unlikely that we will hold to the north suffering the consequences of global work harder, to strive for more success.
star of 1.5 degrees Celsius warming above warming through no fault of their own. Meanwhile, we hold our collective (CO2
pre-industrial levels by the end of the Though the US and sixty-one nations emitting) breath, engage as we can and
century—the benchmark authorities believe signed the "High Ambition Coalition" to must, and hope to stay off the griddle.
is necessary to avoid catastrophic impacts increase resources for vulnerable countries,
of global warming. We are at a tipping the US does not currently support a loss Watch the live reporting at www.
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from the precipice of a cataclysmic crisis.
We are currently at +1.1 or +1.2 C degrees And then, there was the gorilla in the
and already seeing major upheaval in our room.
weather patterns with increased flooding,
ferocious wildfires, powerful hurricanes, as FOSSIL FUEL AGREEMENT
well as climate-triggered social unrest and Amazingly, the words “Fossil Fuel” had
climate refugee migration.
never appeared in any COP agreement
Was anything accomplished at the dating back to its founding in 1995. This
conference? In a word, yes. Was it enough? most consequential COP agreement was
In another word, no. also the most contentious, with less-
developed nations (and China and India)
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Seventy miles of safe walking
and biking trails in Collier County?

It’s becoming reality!

BY MICHELLE AVOLA-BROWN PARADISE COAST TRAIL (PCT)
Executive Director, Naples Pathways Coalition

M any cities in Florida Immokalee
like Dunedin, Winter
Garden, and Inverness ESTERO CORKSCREW Immokalee Road
have extensive, connected SWAMP
multi-use pathways 75
that enhance the quality of life, improve SANCTUARY
safety, and provide substantial economic BONITA SPRINGS
benefits. Inexplicably, Collier County Big Corkscrew
lacks a safe, inviting pathway system for Island Regional Ave Maria 29
walking and biking. Our trails consist Park
of the Gordon River Greenway and the North Collier
Rich King Memorial Greenway. Four and Regional Park
three miles in length, respectively, they are
not connected to other paths and are so ParadiseLivingston Road The PCT will be a premier
popular that at times they are too crowded Coast Trail 70+ mile trail built exclusively
to enjoy safely. 41 Conceptual for safe and enjoyable walking,
Corridor
In recent surveys of Naples residents, running and biking.
walking, hiking, and biking trails were cited
as the second most important recreation NAPLES Golden Gate The trail will connect Naples,
facilities (beaches came in first). Trails Ave Maria, Immokalee and many
ranked number one in unmet needs. A Baker Collier County 75 foutthutoererMCacaoroerlnlFcaWineosLerIIOwcLsCtliDoRiatNohunLInAinDdnItoTFyAaap,IEnnpOwPddoRiNArtobthEtAuNehnyFLeToirUtHniedGEs ER
safe pathway system for non-motorized Park Sports and Events
recreation and transportation is genuinely Complex PICAYUNE locales.
what the residents and visitors to Collier STRAND STATE It will also expand transportation
County need. Lely
FOREST options, improve health and
In 2018, Naples Pathways Coalition Donna Fiala wellness, reduce our carbon
(NPC) introduced a multi-use Eagle Lakes
pathway system for Collier County. Community Park footprint and provide a
We began meeting with City, County, destination to experience the
and State representatives, local and 951 Paradise Coast’s unique beauty.
state Departments of Transportation,
our hospital system, and business and FAKAHATCHEE
community leaders. NPC received STRAND PRESERVE
support for the trail across the board. We
STATE PARK
Icontacted the national organization, Rails
MARCO ISLAND COLLIER-SEMINOLE
to Trails, and shared our vision. In January STATE PARK
2019, we coordinated to host a kick-off
meeting with members of their team, 41
a broad representation from City and
County transportation, our Metropolitan EVERGLADES CITY
Planning Organization, members of local
government, Parks and Recreation, public develop a strategic plan, map a possible as the name for the trail, and we continued
transit, an architect, and others. study corridor with Collier County gaining broad support.
Transportation Department and the
Fundraising began, and in April Collier MPO, and increase community Later in 2019, a proclamation
2019, NPC hired Kimley-Horn to help awareness and support for the project. The supporting the PCT was issued by the
Paradise Coast Trail (PCT) was decided Board of Collier County Commissioners.
The trail was incorporated into the

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