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While COVID-19 may have accelerat-ed the demise of some local businesses, it wasn’t necessarily the cause. Effects from the pandemic during the last 10 months presented the opportunity for an exit for some businesses already on the cusp of closing.

Ships Store sailsAlthough the pandemic figured into

the August closing of Naples Ships Store, owner Wanda Klopf already knew it was time for her business ven-ture to sail off into the sunset.

“COVID was the door that opened for me,” she said. “It opened up the door for me to exit.”

Final farewell: Naples retailers lost in 2020

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Home & GardenHome gyms getting a lift from the pandemic. A19

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Healthy LivingGrief: Coping with painful reminders after a loss. A16

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ETWEEN MARCH 15 AND DEC. 27, the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity’s website shows that 2,805,354 unique claimants — as the department calls them — filed for re-employment assistance benefits, bet-

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The garden

The oldest garden in the world has a name that pops consonants off the tongue like firecrackers: Orto Botanico di Padova.

It’s fun to say, especially if you’re depressed.

If the New Year looks like more of the same old damn year.

If you’re listed last on the vaccination list, out of a job, or in a job you can’t get out of.

“Orto Botanico di Padova!”If you live near the same old golf course

in Palm Beach Gardens or overlook the same old beach in Naples or flank the same old clubhouse in the same old gated Estero community. If you find yourself staring at a gulf-access canal in Punta Gorda Isles — the same old canal — and nobody needs you.

“Orto Botanico di Padova!” LOUDER, pal! “ORTO BOTANICO Di

PADOVA!”If your children dutifully phone you

but thoughtlessly fail to ask for money even once more, to make you feel impor-tant again.

If your answers to polite queries about your health sound as tedious to you as they likely do to them.

In other words, if you’re “busted flat in Baton Rouge, feeling near as faded as (your) jeans,” in the iconic lamentation of Janis Joplin — well, my friend, the time

has come to surprise them all. Even to surprise yourself.

Do it with a garden, the world’s newest. Your garden. Maybe call it, Orto Backyardico di John

Doe-di-do, or something similar.I started a garden the other day with my

wife, who actually applies science, experi-ence and thoughtful cartography to her gardens, unlike her husband. Before long, I found myself doing roughly the same thing those Italians in Padua, where Padova is located, must have done beginning in 1545, when they broke ground.

I marked out a space, grabbed an old hog-nose shovel, broke every inch of surface by shoveling under December’s weedy history of summer, then raked the whole thing into a faintly loamy sand.

They planted their garden at the Uni-versity of Padua, which is now 798 years old. I prepared mine just off our back porch, which is now almost 15 years old.

Before long, Amy had laid old news-print across the surface (it’s biodegradable, organic and weed resistant). She watered it, we collected a couple of wheelbarrows full of horse manure, then covered the newsprint history of 2020.

Newsprint is good for gardens, but let me offer one bit of advice: For a more powerful fertilizer and weed inhibitor, I recommend using news pages pregnant with any politician’s quotes, about any sub-ject, made anywhere, for any reason. Espe-cially politicians who have demonstrably and repeatedly lied for years at a time. But practice care. If you use more than about 50 words of political horsepucky per square meter of garden soil, you risk burn-

ing the roots of new plants.We finished our planting surface with a

blanket of rich topsoil. Seeds will be placed in recommended quantities and depths, and probably in rows, their roots arcing down through the topsoil, manure and newspaper into the sand. Much of what we grow this winter — a statement north-ern gardeners don’t get to make — will be green and edible. But the garden will also be circled in sunflowers and punctuated here and there by other blooms, edible or not.

A friend of Amy’s who lives in New Hampshire, food writer and book author Barry Estabrook (“Pig Tales: An Omni-vore’s Quest for Sustainable Meat,” and the New York Times bestselling “Toma-toland: How Modern Industrial Agricul-ture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit”), noticed her social media post about an imminent garden and responded this way: “Planting a garden in late December? You Floridians just don’t get it. Harumph!”

We can do this because we live here. Take advantage. You don’t have to get fancy.

I used the word “roughly” to compare my gardening to Padova’s, but that’s an understatement, like comparing a rubber-band rocket to an Apollo moon mission.

The Orto Botanico di Padova is the world’s oldest academic botanical gar-den, located on the same 5.4 acres where it began when Charles V was the Holy Roman Emperor and Henry VIII was still on the throne in England. There, the oldest garden, the University of Oxford Botanic Garden, didn’t even break soil until 1621. That’s when the Puritans were giving up

their green and sceptered isle in favor of the New World. That’s when William Shakespeare was only five years dead, James I was King, and the American Revo-lution was still more than 150 years distant in time.

Our garden, in contrast to Oxford or Padova, is neither botanic nor academic, in part because we want it to produce food.

You might too. But if you go gardenless, there are options.

Just get thee to a serious garden — a botanic — and spend part of a day. Here are a proximate few:

■ Mounts Botanical Garden of 14 acres behind the Palm Beach International Air-port, with more than 2,000 species of tropical and subtropical plants in 25 dis-play gardens.

■ Naples Botanical Garden, with 170 spectacular acres of tropical and subtropi-cal plants in Brazilian, Caribbean, Florida and other gardens.

■ The Edison-Ford Winter Estates botanical gardens situated around 20 acres on the Caloosahatchee River in Fort Myers, with 750 species of plants and five state or national champion trees including a Bud-dha coconut, a King palm, a Blue Mahoe, an Indian Coral tree and a Puerto Rican Hat palm.

■ The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, 15 acres dedicated to the study of epiphytes or tropical air plants such as orchids, bromeliads and gesneriads.

If that’s out too, no problem: Just voice the name of the world’s oldest garden repeatedly each morning: “Orto Botanico di Padova.”

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GUEST COMMENTARY

What’s in a name?BY DAVE TRECKER

Special to Florida Weekly

It was comic relief at its best.

In the midst of the biggest public health crisis in a century, with businesses fail-ing everywhere, a battle erupted over what to call our new First Lady.

You can’t make this stuff up.The big news a few weeks ago had

nothing to do with the vaccine rollout or the stimulus package. The big news was whether the President-elect’s wife should be called Dr. Jill Biden.

The kerfuffle resulted from a humor-ous Wall Street Journal column by Joseph Epstein in which the author, himself a former Northwestern professor with only a BA degree, argued — tongue in cheek — that no one who has not delivered a baby should be addressed as doctor.

In other words only MDs deserve the

title. The title is fraudulent if used to des-ignate PhDs or EdDs (doctors of educa-tion) like the First Lady-elect.

The left-wing media, never accused of having a sense of humor, flocked to her defense. Bristling with indignation, talk-ing heads accused Epstein of being “offen-sive and sexist” and trying to “diminish all Dr. Biden has accomplished.”

Liberals were aghast. One of my daugh-ters-in-law, furious with Epstein, can-celled her Wall Street Journal subscrip-tion. A talk show host suggested a right-wing conspiracy.

Although I can’t take any of this seri-ously, I acknowledge the title dispute is an old one. Arbiters of etiquette have long dictated Mr. and Mrs. (or, better, Mr. and Ms.) should be used in formal invitations. Journalism demands everyone but God be referred to as Mr. or Mrs. regardless of education unless, of course, a loftier title serves the press corps’ political agenda.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was always addressed as such, although I can assure you he never removed a tonsil. Dr. Henry Kissinger, of German descent, never treat-

ed German measles.Most PhDs shy away from use of the

title. The smartest man I know has a doctorate in mechanical engineering, but I never realized it until he let it slip out accidently a few years ago. The woman across the street, an extraordinary host-ess, also has a PhD but keeps it art-fully hidden. A close friend who taught at Georgetown University shuns “Doc-tor,” preferring “Professor” instead. She’s apparently trading up.

My elder son, a dentist (Epstein might accept him as the real thing), always refers to his old man as “doctor” even though I can’t extract a tooth. I almost never use the title. My chemistry doctorate from the University of Chicago has been of little value since my working days, but I occasionally use it to flog pretenders who boast of PhDs received online or from places like East Nowhere Tech. I also use it when trying to win scientific arguments. That seldom works though. Probably too many other PhDs out there.

While differences on use of the title are hard to reconcile, both Joseph Epstein and

his detractors agree on one thing: Honor-ary degrees are absurd — misnomers that should carry asterisks or be printed in disappearing ink.

The pretend degrees are everywhere, parceled out like comfort food. No gradu-ation ceremony is complete without an entertainer or sports figure or politician being knighted as “Doctor.” Some people collect the titles like trophies. Epstein reports Sol Linowitz, former Xerox chair-man, told him he had accumulated 63 honorary doctorates.

At least our new First Lady had to work for her advanced degree. And an EdD from the University of Delaware isn’t exactly chopped liver. She deserves the recognition and respect the degree confers.

I have no trouble calling her Dr. Jill Biden. And in the long run it won’t matter. History will judge her for what she did, not what she was called. ■

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2020 WRITING CHALLENGE

A humorous “Sticky Situation” takes fifth place in contestBY CINDY PIERCE

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We figured out a way to keep the 10th annual Florida Weekly Writing Challenge going into the New Year. After last week’s wrap-up story and publication of the top four stories in the 2020 contest, we start this week publishing the entries that make

up the Top 10. They are just too good not to share. We’ll present one a week through the second week in February.

Our fifth-place story comes from Daniel Staesser of Cape Coral. A long-time participant, Mr.

Staesser won first place in the 2014 Writ-ing Challenge. His “Sticky Situation” was one of 12 entries he submitted through the course of the 2020 challenge, which ran from late April through November and consisted of 30 photo prompts that inspired the creative muses of 196 read-ers to send us more than 600 stories.

Mr. Staesser teaches high-school Eng-lish to young women enrolled at LAMP, the Lee Adolescent Mothers Program. For one of his creative writing assign-ments, he gathers paint chips from Lowe’s and hands them out with instruc-tions to write a short story using the name of the color as the title and to set the mood.

To exercise his own writing skills, Mr. Staesser participates in a few online con-tests in addition to the Florida Weekly

Writing Challenge.“I really need prompts,” he says. “I

can’t pull a story out of thin air. I also need a word count limit, because I tend to be rather verbose if I don’t have one. And I don’t write drafts,” he adds. “I prefer to agonize over every word the first time.”

Writing Challenge entries are limited to 750 words. Another contest he regu-larly enters is the 53-Word Story Contest run by Prime Number Magazine.

“They give you a topic and you write 53 words about it, no more and no less,” he explains. The November 2020 topic, for example, was “thanks,” followed in December by “giving.” Each month’s winner must also write a 53-word bio to accompany the story when it appears online. Go to www.press53 for all the

details and to read recent winners.Mr. Staesser says it took him a couple

of hours while visiting family in Tallahas-see to write “Sticky Situation.” The photo of the empty benches in a rustic park setting brought to mind his boyhood vis-its to the campground his grandmother owned near Sonoma Falls in Upstate New York. Although he never played a prank like the one in “Sticky Situation,” he allows, “We had a lot of really great and unique experiences there.”

As for his favorite writers, Mr. Staess-er says the late Ray Bradbury (“Faren-heit 451” and “The Martian Chronicles,” among many other novels and short story collections) wins hands-down. Korean-American novelist Chang-Rae Lee, a pro-fessor of creative writing at Stanford Uni-versity, is a contemporary favorite. ■

A Sticky SituationBy Daniel Staesser

“S’more?” he said, while waving a stick in front of my face, marshmallow ablaze on the end.

“Cut it out, Bobby,” I replied, as I swatted my right hand back and forth to guard against the inferno.

“I bet you want s’more,” he said, nearly falling off his log from laughter.

“Shh, dude, she’s going to hear you,” I said, still staring across the campfire, trying not to seem obvious about it.

“Why don’t you just go talk to her, man?”

Bobby lived his life like the once-recognizable ball of ash that he now plucked off with his sausage fingers and shoved into his mouth. His passion for life burned brightly, but in the end, he was just —well, gross.

“What would I say exactly? Hi, I’m Everett, and I am partly responsible for your utter embarrassment earlier today. Want to go out sometime?”

“Come on, man,” Bobby tried. “How could you have known she would eat it?”

“How could I have known?” I said. “How could I have known that she would eat the food with her name on it?”

“You know what I mean,” he said. “We didn’t know she went by Pat. I mean, who goes by Pat anyway? Dudes named Patrick do. That’s who. Not chicks named Patricia. If anything, they go by Patty. As in Peppermint or Cakes. Besides, have you ever heard anybody call her Pat before?”

The sage one examined his fingers in the firelight, sticky strings of white expanding and contracting as he pushed his hands together and pulled them apart. Then, digit by digit he sucked off the

gooey marshmallow remnant until, at last, satisfied, he wiped his hands off on his clothes, and leaned forward to feed the flames with twigs from around our feet.

Sometimes I watch him and wonder how we became friends. I guess it’s the whole car accident theory; the worse the wreck is, the harder it is to look away. Bobby is a head-on collision, but he is a good friend.

“I told you it was a bad idea from the start, putting a laxative in somebody’s lunch,” I said.

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in the guy who takes your lunch money. As in, the jerk who teases you the whole bus ride into school. Jiminy Christmas, man, this is the Patrick who lives up to every bullying stereotype there is. How could you not want to get back at him?”

“I do. I did. Why didn’t you just read all the bags first?” I asked. “You know, before you emptied an entire bottle of Bowel Blast into her tuna?”

“Bowel Blast. I like that.” He chuck-led. “That’s my bad. In my defense, you know eading is not my forte,” he said. “Besides, she seems fine now. I think the farting has stopped, at least.”

“I’m going for a walk,” I sighed. “We’re not even through the first night of the campout and I have already compro-mised my chances with her.”

“Okay, Private Pity. You go for a walk. I’ll stay here and watch your g...”

The wind shifted directions suddenly and a waft of smoke caught Bobby on his last word, and it came out as a cough. Yup, a rollover on the Interstate.

I walked to the small clearing in the woods. The benches that were full earlier during orientation, now stared up at me, vacant and blotched with the waning rays of sunlight coming through the trees.

I sat down and thought about how I might get Patricia’s attention over the next two nights and three days — you know — without over-the-counter aides.

As if on cue, I heard a branch break. And then, something else.

“Bobby, is that you?” I said. “That is so gross, man. Can’t I get two minutes?”

“O.M. Gosh! I had no idea anyone else

was here,” she said. “I am so embarrassed.”I looked up.“Patricia! Hi. No. Yeah. Please. Don’t

worry about it. Stay. I’m glad it’s you.” The words came out a mess, like a stack of playing cards going everywhere, me trying to gather and straighten them out.

“You’re glad it’s me who’s farting?” she smiled.

“No… that’s not what I meant.”“Relax. I know what you meant,” she

said. “I think my lunch got mixed up with that Patrick guy. His food’s as bad as his personality. You know what I mean?”

“Yeah, I do,” I smiled. ■

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GIVING

WolfStock 2020 raises $30,000 for sanctuary

Shy Wolf Sanctuary Education and Experience Center’s signature fund-raising concert, WolfStock 2020, raised $30,000 for the Collier County non-profit. Proceeds from the event will support the sanctuary’s ongoing efforts to rescue and provide emergency care for abused, abandoned and neglected exotic animals that would otherwise be euthanized.

WolfStock 2020 was a hybrid concert livestreamed on Facebook that featured the high-energy entertainment of Justin Ross, a founding musician of WolfS-tock, and the prolific work of Henry Gross, founding member of the ’50s revival group Sha Na Na. In addition to the concert, supporters were able to bid on over 100 auction items that included both in-person experiences and virtual learning opportunities, food and wine, golf, fishing charters, art, and fine jewelry.

Through its 20-plus year history, Shy Wolf Sanctuary has rescued more than 1,300 wolves, wolfdogs and other captive-bred exotic animals. The sanc-tuary’s vision is to revolutionize cap-tive animal care, particularly in disaster planning and education, while provid-ing a place of hope and healing for all who enter the gates. For more informa-tion, visit www.ShyWolfSanctuary.org.

Terracina Senior Living donates food to Youth Haven

Youth Haven is a recipient of a gen-erous donation from Terracina Senior Living, a senior living community located in Naples. Terracina Senior Living catered food and drinks for a small on-campus holiday luncheon on Dec. 23, for the children and teens that reside at Youth Haven. The menu consists of some of the youth’s favor-ite food items, which the senior liv-ing community be purchased, prepared and delivered as a way to give back to local children in need.

Youth Haven, founded in 1972, sup-ports children and teens ages 6 -19 that have been removed from their homes due to abuse, neglect, abandonment or are homeless. Financial and in-kind donations to assist with food expenses, such as Terracina Senior Living’s, are always greatly appreciated.

Fifth Avenue South brings holiday cheer to Boys & Girls Club

The Fifth Avenue South Business Improvement District delivered some holiday cheer to numerous underprivi-leged and at-risk children at the Boys & Girls Club of Collier County. Recently, representatives of Fifth Avenue South donated eight artificial Christmas trees, including one for the Boys and Girls Club Nichols Campus center in East Naples. Eight full turkey dinners were provided consisting of cooked turkeys and mashed potatoes and vegetables. Families also received a wide variety of Christmas toys and gifts, including bikes and scooters, baby dolls, art kits, Lego sets, remote control cars, EarPods and children’s books along with essen-tial clothing items like pajamas, socks and hoodies.

The holiday gift items were collected during the 47th annual “Christmas on Fifth” holiday celebration, and organiz-ers hope to build upon their success in future years. ■


ter known as unemployment payments. What gets obscured by this number in the millions and the term “claimant” is that these are people whose journeys through our collective experience of the COVID pandemic have been made even more stressful by the loss of employment. That loss has then been compounded by problems with filing for unemployment payments to get through the economic downturn.

Going into the pandemic, unemploy-ment claims could only be filed in Flor-ida by phone or online at the DEO’s CONNECT website. The website was designed only to handle 20,000 people signing in at one time, which included people coming back to report ongoing unemployment or to check the status of their claims. The state began adding new computer servers in April to increase the website’s capacity, and added the options to file for unemployment by mail using a paper form as well as adding a mobile-friendly online form. However, filing for and receiving unemployment payments has proven to be an odyssey for many Floridians. This week, three people who filed unemployment claims during the pandemic share their stories with Florida Weekly. Their contrasting experiences provide insight into the complications of filing unemployment claims during this time of unprecedented need.

The journeys beginBonnie Armstrong, a server in Naples,

in a sense had a stroke of luck in her odyssey with the DEO’s computer sys-tem — if you can ever call getting laid off from work lucky. Because she works for a corporation with restaurants in multiple states, her employer decided to close down its dining nationwide before Gov. Ron DeSantis issued his stay-at-home order for Florida on St. Pat-rick’s Day. Furloughed on March 15, Ms.

Armstrong was on the CON-NECT website applying for unemployment on March 17 while servers at other restau-rants were still working their last shifts.

“I was able to get on and apply right away, but then after a few days when everything happened and the millions of people were trying to get on, I could never get back into the system again to see what was going on because the website at the DEO crashed,” Ms. Arm-strong said.

Kevin McKeever, an IT support technician in Fort Myers, was poised for a sig-nificant advancement in his career because he had recently switched to an employer that had expanded its business-to-business computer support services. He had chosen to earn a degree and go into IT work as a career change after experiencing repeated rounds of unemployment when he had been a construction work-er. Information Technology appeared to be a more secure field of employment. But in mid-March, Mr. McKeever was among the recently hired IT support technicians that the company laid off as a group since the pandemic waylaid the service expansion plan. He said the group was called in, and the company president gave everyone a letter to future employers that explained that the employees simply were laid off because of the pandemic downturn and through no fault of their own.

“Everybody assumes that an IT guy is always going to have work, but my work revolves around supporting other companies that are paying my company to support them,” Mr. McKeever said. “We had clients from a lot of different industries — everything from legal to education to healthcare — but with the onset of COVID in March they didn’t have business and couldn’t afford to pay their bills to my IT support company. Enough of our clients were in trouble that our company’s owners had to look at it and go, ‘If our clients can’t pay their bills, then we can’t pay our people.’”

Mr. McKeever began his odyssey with

the DEO’s unemployment web-site in the third week of March. He encountered delays when trying to log into the website but, being an IT professional, he made use of his education, knowledge and experience in the field to come up with work-arounds for what he recognized as problems with overloaded computer hardware and band-width.

“During daytime business hours, it was very hard to log on for the first few months,” he said. “I attribute this not only to everybody trying to log in, but also the employees at the CareerSource centers using the system to help people apply. So, what I chose to do was log on either late night or early morn-ing. And by early, there were times I tried it at 2 a.m., 4 a.m., 6 a.m., and that worked out.”

Michelle Thurston began her odyssey with the unem-ployment system on March 27. As the owner of Your Travel Concierge of Naples, a bou-tique travel agency specializing

in luxury experiences to exotic locales worldwide and romance travel including elopements, honeymoons and destination weddings, she saw her busi-ness tank in early March when all of her clients for luxury travel and destination weddings canceled their plans for the remainder of 2020. Part of a group of workers who ordinarily wouldn’t qualify for unemployment, Ms. Thurston began trying to apply the day that the CARES Act, which offered Pandemic Unemploy-ment Assistance to self-employed and independent contract “gig” workers, was signed into law. She spent three days trying to get through on the CONNECT website until she finally succeeded in accessing the site to apply for unemploy-ment on March 30.

“This was a process that was com-pletely unexpected as the website simply stated, ‘All applicants must apply under the state website, and those that do not qualify will then be sent an additional link for the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance PUA,’” Ms. Thurston said. “Sounds easy, right? Wait — not so fast! There was so little information early

on for gig, freelance and self-employed that no one knew what to expect. After applying, many of us fell into a black hole which the DEO denied was an issue. The black hole basically put applicants in a holding pattern where there was no movement on their claims for months, unless you were lucky enough to know someone inside to pull your claim and move it or lucky enough to get a law-maker to assist you.”

The journeys divergeAlthough all three people applied for

unemployment benefits within the same two-week period in March, their experi-ences then diverged. For all three, unem-ployment payments, even with the addi-tional Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation of $600 weekly, were lower than what they could have made if they had been employed. While Mr. McKeever’s claim moved forward smoothly, Ms. Armstrong’s had an error that had to be resolved before she would be paid and Ms. Thurston’s claim took five months of full-time effort on her part to resolve.

Mr. McKeever continued his strategy of checking his claim and reporting his continued lack of employment by sign-ing into the CONNECT website during the wee hours, which worked for a while. Toward June, he found the website dis-played maintenance messages every night. It wasn’t until he tried to sign in during the day that he found a message explaining CONNECT would only be accessible from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. and that a waiting queue had been added, which he said helped manage the flow of traffic on the website to make it more usable. Look-ing at it from an IT professional’s view-point, he said this was one example of the many ways the website was not as user friendly as it could have been, and many of these issues were ones that could have been solved very simply by posting up a little additional information. He never tried calling the DEO’s 800 number for help because, as a tech person himself, he knew how to dig for information online.

“I figured, being IT savvy, there’s no sense to me tying up a phone line,” he said. “I’ll manage, and I’ll leave the phone line open for the people who don’t have a computer or can’t figure out how to use the website. It would have been nice, though, if they had added the new web-

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site hours on the maintenance message so I didn’t set the 4 a.m. alarm.”

He became nervous as he watched his savings dwindle while he waited to learn his claim status and to start receiving payments. During his prior experiences with unemployment — in Michigan at the height of the Great Recession on a paper- and telephone-based system — he typically received his first payment two weeks after applying. He finally received his first unemployment payment on May 5, and then back payments arrived in ran-dom spurts, taking until July to get fully caught up with both the state maximum unemployment payments of $275 weekly and the special federal pandemic supple-ment of $600 weekly. Mr. McKeever had to do the calculations himself to be certain he had received all of the back pay because the state unemployment system provided no accounting of the payments. From an IT customer service viewpoint, he said that was another area he saw where the DEO could improve the website.

“The hardest part was the six weeks of complete uncertainty with absolutely no income,” he said, “basically having to place your faith into a system that, even though they said they were keeping track so just keep reporting in, you kinda’ had to pray that they were tracking it and that you would eventually get all the money.”

While she applied earlier than Mr. McKeever, Ms. Armstrong saw her first unemployment payment later — on May 6. She had to get an error fixed on her account, which erroneously showed she had returned to work, corrected before she could be paid, but this problem required reaching someone at the DEO to resolve it.

“In April, I tried calling for two weeks — every day — starting at 7:30 in the morning, and I never got through or spoke to a person,” Ms. Armstrong said. “I finally typed up a letter to send in the mail explaining that I had not returned to work, and two weeks later I finally got the payments.”

In Ms. Armstrong’s case, once the problem was solved, she received the back payments in a lump sum. While trying to reach the DEO to get her case resolved, she became involved in sev-eral Facebook groups where Floridians

attempting to navigate the confusing unemployment system turned to one another for information and advice. She eventually became an administrator of the group “Florida Workers — Fight for your UE benefits,” through which she organized the Naples portion of several statewide protests for people who had not yet received their unemployment benefits and were wrangling with reach-ing the DEO to resolve problems with their claims. These problems included those of people who were unable to apply for unemployment promptly because of the overwhelmed website; they needed their claims backdated to when they had actually lost their jobs. They also included those of people whose claims included income from regular paycheck jobs with W-2 forms combined with independent contractor pay documented on 1099 forms — which caused confusion — as well as the self-employed people that the unemployment system was not at all prepared to handle.

“The system wasn’t set up to deal with people (with mixed income),” Ms. Arm-strong said. “Sometimes it can only count one wage, so if they had a W-2 that’s the wage it went off of. There are people getting $56 a week in unemployment because their W-2 wage was low because they earned the majority of their money from their own business.”

Ms. Thurston was one of the peo-ple who suffered protracted problems with the unemployment system, to the point that trying to resolve the problems became her new unpaid full-time job. She kept careful records of her time spent attempting to resolve her claim, logging every phone call and contact with the DEO.

“I’m gonna’ start punching in and send-ing a bill to DeSantis,” she wrote on her Facebook page on July 9, after spending three hours on hold.

Unlike employees whose earning his-tories are regularly submitted by employ-ers to be logged into the unemployment system, self-employed people had to send in financial records to a system that had not been set up to handle them. She emailed and faxed the records to the cor-rect department seven separate times in April and May. On June 1, she found she had mistakenly been entered into the sys-

tem as employed by FEMA, rather than employed by herself, and her financial records still had not been entered.

Documenting her odyssey on Face-book as she went through it, Ms. Thur-ston spent from March to August wran-gling with the DEO. She frequently spent eight hours a day on the phone and the unemployment website trying to solve the problems with her claim. She posted videos of the CONNECT website dis-playing error messages while she vented her frustrations by yelling at the com-puter. She posted screenshots on mul-tiple days of her phone log, showing that she had attempted to call the DEO 100 times daily to no avail. On days when she was able to get a call to connect, she posted screenshots documenting how many hours she waited on hold to speak to an agent. One day she was on hold for 8 hours and 28 minutes before reaching an agent, and four-hour holds were not unusual. When she did reach agents, she discovered many of these newly hired phone workers were reading from scripts and lacked access to fix anything on her claim. If she asked to be transferred to a supervisor or a technician who might be able to access her claim, the calls fre-quently disconnected upon transfer, so she would have to start over.

“They need to have agents who are ready and able to assist, not agents who are merely there and programmed by their scripts to say, ‘I’m sorry, keep the faith and try again, as our systems are

down and I don’t have access,” Ms. Thur-ston said. “On a few occasions, I actu-ally had agents on the phone who would break down and cry because of my story and the fact that they couldn’t help me. It is the sad reality of the Florida Reem-ployment system.”

Ms. Thurston ended up applying for unemployment a total of six times. Her first application, on March 30, was denied, so she filed an appeal on April 16. On July 20, she finally received acknowledge-ment that the appeal had been received. At the end of April, the DEO informed self-employed people that they needed to reapply for unemployment, which would be backdated to April 5. This was so the DEO could send the link self-employed people needed to file for the special Pan-demic Unemployment Assistance. She refiled and said DEO finally sent the link on May 14, which was seven weeks after the assistance was authorized by the CARES Act.

Between May 17 and June 13, she received sporadic payments at random intervals. While Ms. Thurston received the full federal supplement pay of $600, her state pay was set at the $125 mini-mum for gig workers rather than the $275 maximum pay. When she asked in June for a redetermination of her state pay-ment based upon her financial records that she had now sent them eight times, all payments stopped until mid-August.

Several times during her odyssey, Ms.

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COUNTY CLAIMS LABOR FORCE PERCENTAGE

Lee 82,688 348,027 23.8%

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“On a few occasions, I actually had agents on the phone who would break down and cry because of my story and the fact that they couldn’t help me. It is the sad reality of the Florida Reemployment system.”

— Michelle Thurston, owner of Your Travel Concierge of Naples who began her odyssey with the unemployment system on March 27

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Thurston attempted to contact lawmakers for help. While she didn’t hear back from many, to include unreturned calls to Gov. DeSantis’ office, she said that Rep. Anna Eskamani of Orlando championed unemployed Florid-ians regardless of whether or not they lived in her district, and an aide to Sen. Kathleen Passidomo helped with forward-ing her information to the DEO. She said, though, what finally resolved her prob-lems was receiving the name and contact information for a specific DEO supervi-sor from another member of the Face-book groups.

“Ultimately, the lawmakers didn’t solve my issue with the DEO — I did — with perseverance and dedication to solve my own problem, “ she said. “The payments restarted Aug. 14 at the wage redetermined amount. It still wasn’t what I was expecting but, at this point, I was not mentally able to fight anymore and my bills were stacking up. So, I made a decision to just stop and accept the exist-ing wage determination.”

The journeys continueMr. McKeever continues to look for

employment as an IT support technician.

Actively engaged in a job search since he was laid off, he applies when jobs are posted, but job openings have been sparce during the pandemic.

“I use websites like Indeed, Glass Door and Zip Recruiter,” he said. “A lot of times they would email me jobs of plumber or electrician needed. Well, I’m not a trained, licensed plumber or electrician, so it looks like, even though they try their best to give you things you’re looking for, it was impossible this year because there wasn’t anything and these were all the jobs they had to send to us as users.”

Meanwhile, he noticed that the waiting queue to access the CONNECT website seems to have slowed again in the days following Christmas, indicating that more people are trying to sign in. Uncertainty continues to be the word that defines his life in the present moment as well as the immediate future, both in terms of his job search as well as the unemployment payments that provide his lifeline to that future reemployment. Like many Florid-ians, he watched the news nervously over the holidays, waiting to see if the president would sign the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, which con-tained the $900 billion COVID relief package since continued unemployment payments relied upon that package. That worry has now been put to rest, at least for the 11 weeks, although now he is wait-ing to find out if the last-minute signing of the legislation into law will cause another delay in payments.

“There could be a gap week,” he said. “I don’t really know, but it feels like we’re getting back into some uncertainty, which makes me a little nervous. So, I’m kind of thrown back into the same situation I was in back in March because they’ve now authorized additional pay-ments again, of $300 this time instead of $600, but that’s going to be the difference

between me falling behind and keeping ahead because I can tell you the basic state unemployment would barely keep a roof over my head and food on the table. The extra $300 will keep me above water until I can find something. I would much rather be working.”

Ms. Thurston received calls from cli-ents seeking to travel over the holidays, so she has a little part-time work. How-ever, business is nowhere near her pre-pandemic levels. Since she posted on Facebook and participated in the groups for Floridians struggling to collect unem-ployment benefits, other unemployed people have contacted her for help since they couldn’t get answers from the DEO. She helped as many as she could until the requests became overwhelming, but she continues to share tips on the unem-ployed Floridian Facebook groups.

“I posted on Facebook to assist Florid-ians as much as I could,” she said. “We all are struggling, so it was a small act for me to keep that information flowing so oth-ers could get resolved. I didn’t choose to be unemployed and have my business taken away due to the pandemic. None of us did. I believe that the system was made to fail the people of the state of Florida, based on articles that I have read about

Rick Scott and his tactic when direct-ing the company that built the system. I feel it is unjust to the people of Florida and the entire system needs to be put to rest and a new program designed that will help the unemployed

and not hinder them. I know people in the state of Florida who walked away and stopped fighting for their right to collect. This is wrong and

should not be the case.” Ms. Armstrong has had the best luck

of the three. Her employer called her back to the restaurant on Oct. 21. Despite working double shifts during the busy holiday season, she continues to moder-ate the Facebook group to help those who are still unemployed.

“I feel really fortunate, so when I went back to work, I stuck with the group because I want to try to help as many people as I can with whatever I’ve learned through the process and be able to pass that on to help others,” she said. “Thousands of people whose mon-etary determinations of how much they should be getting are wrong, and there’s thousands of people who still haven’t received their benefits from the begin-ning. People have lost homes, and they’re living in their cars. It’s horrific. It’s dev-astating. And people who are not affected by it have no clue how bad it really is. But the thing I’m most disappointed about is DeSantis — and I voted for him — not having some empathy and making a statement about what he’s going to do to fix the problem. The hospitality workers are the backbone of Florida’s economy. We’re the ones who were hardest hit, and we’ve been shoved under the rug.” ■

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Mrs. Klopf and her late husband, Eric, started the business in 1986 after relocat-ing from Dayton, Ohio, to live on a boat at the adjacent City Dock.

“When my husband and I had (the store) together, it was fun because we were a team,” she said. “It wasn’t as much fun without him.”

It’s a bittersweet ending for her mom-and-pop store for nautical gifts and marine tackle that had a familiar nostal-gic connection to the city’s simpler times and fishing village past. The small store survived 34 seasons on 12th Avenue South in Crayton Cove.

“I have thousands of memories and hundreds of friends and great custom-ers,” she said. “It’s a great town. Very special.”

Mrs. Klopf had tried to sell her store for many years since her husband died in 2011. The coronavirus made it easier for her to walk away.

“There were so many unknowns,” she said. “Maybe if I was younger, I would have been up for the challenge, but I didn’t want to work that hard to make up for a year’s loss of income.”

Vogue vanishesAfter the pandemic obliterated what

normally would have been a busy season last spring, Ellie Loving chose to perma-nently close a women’s clothing shop that had operated for nearly 30 years in downtown Naples. Vogue Petite Shoppe closed July 1 just three months shy of its 30th anniversary. Devastated by her loss, Ms. Loving did not have plans to relocate her charming store. “Where do you go after you’ve been on Fifth?” she asked.

Aldo Castillo Gallery opened last fall in Vogue’s longtime space on the corner of Fifth Avenue South and Park Street. Next door in that same building, the Health & Wealth Company is coming to the former space of Kristoff Jewelers,

which also blamed its lack of business last year on COVID-19. Kristoff Jewel-ers permanently shuttered in June after operating since January 2013.

Del’s discontinuedAfter operating nearly nonstop for

more than 55 years, Del’s 24 Hour Store permanently closed in mid-August, a year after Del Ackerman’s death. The legendary local convenience store was shuttered ahead of a pending sale of the property, three small parcels total-ing 1.84 acres on the southeast corner of Thomasson and Bayshore drives in East Naples.

Collier County purchased the acreage from Theresa Ackerman, Del’s widow, in November for $2,118,000. The future use of the land remains to be seen but don’t expect another Del’s, which oper-ated around the clock since 1963. The old store and warehouse will be demol-ished soon. A memorial or marker to remember Del has been proposed for the site, while a roundabout with a flag-pole — flying the Stars and Stripes, of course — is planned for Del’s Corner.

Nordstrom nixedOne of the largest losses of 2020

was Nordstrom permanently closing its nearly 80,000-square-foot anchor store at Waterside Shops in Naples. It was especially surprising because the Seattle-based chain didn’t experi-

ence the widespread closing of stores seen by other retailers such as Pier 1 Imports, Stein Mart and Lucky’s Mar-ket. The two-story department store was the retailer’s first location in South-west Florida. No word yet about what retail brand might take that space at the upscale open-air mall.

Last lookIn North Naples, the pandemic per-

manently ended the Board & Brush DIY studio and Cycle Guroo indoor cycling classes at Logan Landings, as well as the five-year run of the Bounce trampoline business and kiddie hangout off Vanderbilt Beach Road. Speaking of hangouts, it’s been three months since Regal Cinemas reshuttered all of its theaters nationwide, including movie screens at Naples Boulevard, Coconut Point and Gulf Coast Town Center, but operations may resume this spring.

In Bonita Springs, the permanent closing of the Naples-Fort Myers Grey-hound Track in May was previously planned after dog racing ended in Flor-ida. A new poker room with simulcast-ing, drinking and dining options opened out front on Bonita Beach Road.

Not as fortunate in Bonita was the permanent closing of the Southwest Florida Event Center on the corner of Bonita Beach Road and Imperial Park-way. Social distancing just wasn’t going to work for the live music venue’s busi-ness model.

Although already abandoned years ago, it was still jarring to see The Plaza on Third Street demolished in November. It may still be a while before construction begins on the Old Naples Hotel proposed for that space between Third Street South and Gordon Drive in downtown Naples. ■

— “Tim Aten Knows” is published each week in Naples Florida Weekly. Mr. Aten is managing editor of Gulf-shore Business magazine. Email ques-tions to [email protected]. Follow @TimAtenKnows on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.


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Aldo Castillo Gallery opened last fall in Vogue’s longtime space on the corner of Fifth Avenue South and Park Street in downtown Naples.


After operating nearly nonstop for more than 55 years, Del’s 24 Hour Store permanently closed in mid-August.


Nordstrom permanently closed its nearly 80,000-square-foot anchor store at Waterside Shops in Naples.


The Plaza on Third Street was demolished in November 2020.


Kristoff Jewelers permanently shuttered in June after operating since January 2013 in downtown Naples.


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If you are looking for something to do that is fun, free and educational, the Naples Preserve is focusing its Spring Nature Talk Series primarily on the natu-ral habitats and ecosystems of Southwest Florida. This year, the Preserve will bring the speaker series to you via Zoom. Speak-ers will include rangers, researchers, for-esters and other subject-area specialists from a variety of the region’s parks, nature organizations and educational institu-tions. The series will include photographs and artifacts, and the speakers will inform as well as dispel myths. The programs are free and open to the public; please email to obtain the Zoom meeting information. The presentations are suitable for adults as well as children over the age of 7 who are keenly interested in nature.

While the Naples Preserve Eco-Center is currently closed, visitors may still take a stroll on the preserve’s boardwalk and watch the many birds, gopher tortoises and other small animals that call the nature sanctuary in the city home. The boardwalk is open dawn to dusk daily.

Spring Nature Talk Series topicsJan. 12: Herptiles of the Caribbean by

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When a loved one dies, you might be faced with grief over your loss again and again — sometimes even years later. Feelings of grief might return on the anniversary of your loved one’s death or other special days throughout the year.

These feelings, sometimes called an anniversary reaction, aren’t necessar-ily a setback in the grieving process. They’re a reflection that your loved one’s life was important to you.

To continue on the path toward heal-ing, know what to expect — and how to cope with reminders of your loss.

Reminders can be anywhereCertain reminders of your loved one

might be inevitable, such as a visit to the loved one’s grave, the anniversary of the person’s death, holidays, birthdays or new events you know he or she would have enjoyed. Even memorial celebra-tions for others can trigger the pain of your own loss.

Reminders can also be tied to sights, sounds and smells — and they can be unexpected. You might suddenly be flooded with emotions when you drive by the restaurant your partner loved or when you hear your child’s favorite song.

What to expectwhen grief returns

The course of grief is unpredictable. Anniversary reactions can last for days at a time or — in more extreme cases — much longer. During an anniversa-ry reaction you might experience the intense emotions and reactions that you first experienced when you lost your

loved one, including anger, anxiety, crying spells, depression, fatigue, lack of energy, guilt, loneliness, pain, sadness and trouble sleeping.

Anniversary reactions can also evoke powerful memories of the feelings and events surrounding your loved one’s death. For example, you might remember in great detail where you were and what you were doing when your loved one died.

Tips to cope with reawakened grief

Even years after a loss, you might con-tinue to feel sadness when you’re con-

fronted with reminders of your loved one’s death. As you continue healing, take steps to cope with reminders of your loss.

■ Be prepared.Anniversary reactions are normal.

Knowing that you’re likely to experience anniversary reactions can help you under-stand them and even turn them into opportunities for healing.

■ Plan a distraction.Schedule a gathering or a visit with

friends or loved ones during times when you’re likely to feel alone or be reminded of your loved one’s death.

■ Reminisce about your relationship.

Focus on the good things about your

relationship with your loved one and the time you had together, rather than the loss. Write a letter to your loved one or a note about some of your good memories. You can add to this note anytime.

■ Start a new tradition.Make a donation to a charitable organi-

zation in your loved one’s name on birth-days or holidays, or plant a tree in honor of your loved one.

■ Connect with others.Draw friends and loved ones close

to you, including people who were spe-cial to your loved one. Find someone who’ll encourage you to talk about your loss. Stay connected to your usual sup-port systems, such as spiritual leaders and social groups. Consider joining a bereavement support group.

■ Allow yourself to feel a range of emotions.

It’s OK to be sad and feel a sense of loss, but also allow yourself to experi-ence joy and happiness. As you cel-ebrate special times, you might find yourself both laughing and crying.

When grief becomes overly intenseThere’s no time limit for grief, and

anniversary reactions can leave you reeling. Still, the intensity of grief tends to lessen with time.

If your grief gets worse over time instead of better or interferes with your ability to function in daily life, consult a grief counselor or other mental health provider. Unresolved or complicated grief can lead to depression, other men-tal health problems and other medi-cal conditions. With professional help, however, you can re-establish a sense of control and direction in your life — and return to the path toward healing. ■

Celebrate the new year with The Paradise Coast Wellness Experience A weekend of wellness events held

throughout Collier County kicks off 2021 on January 16 and 17, inviting locals and visitors to participate in the many health and wellness activities available in Collier in the midst of the COVID pandemic. Activities are held via Zoom or in person, observing physical distanc-ing.

The event, the 3rd annu-al Paradise Coast Wellness Experience, convenes Collier County wellness enthusiasts and practitioners on Saturday and Sunday, January 16 and

17, for activities that promote health and healing for the mind, body and spirit. The calendar includes nature immersions;

beach yoga and meditation; Segway wellness tours of down-town Naples; fitness instruc-tion; Blue Zones-inspired din-ing; plein air art instruction; a series of Zoom workshops hosted by Spiritual Communi-ties Network, and more.

The weekend is organized by the Paradise Coast Well-ness Alliance and the nonprofit Be Well in Paradise, both co-founded by Peggy Sealfon, who says, “The experiences encour-

age the active pursuit of activities in one’s daily life leading to mindful lifestyle choices that foster a healthy, balanced state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social well-being.”

See the calendar of events at BeWel-linParadise.com

The wellness experience kicks off on Saturday, Jan. 16 at 7:15 a.m. in Sugden Plaza with a Moai walk led by the Blue Zones Project of Southwest Florida. Moai is an ancient Japanese longevity tradition that roughly translates to “walking with a common purpose.” The walk is fol-lowed by beach yoga with yogi MaryAnn Knowles, 8:15-9 a.m.

An Olympic-style “Walk to Wellness”

on 5th Avenue South from the beach to Sugden Plaza begins Saturday at 9:15 a.m. The walk will feature wellness practitio-ners and community leaders carrying 16 colorful banners representing aspects of wellness.

Following the “Walk to Wellness,” an opening ceremony will take place in Sug-den Plaza at 10 a.m., complete with the ringing of a Tibetan gong and attended by dignitaries including Collier County Commissioner Andy Solis and City of Naples Mayor Teresa Heitmann. The cer-emony also includes the presentation of the event’s signature artwork by Naples painter Amy Moglia Heuerman.

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The weekend also features nature expeditions at Big Cypress National Pre-serve with paddling, swamp hikes and a photo expedition at no charge; a “Segway to Wellness” tour of downtown Naples featuring fitness, food and fun on a pro-gressive and interactive journey through wellness-oriented businesses and restau-rants ($127); a Blue Zones-inspired “Plants and Pinot” wine dinner at the Edgewater Beach Hotel ($65), and Max Flex’s High Intensity Interval Training.

Six free Zoom workshops, hosted by Spiritual Communities Network’s Gwen Peterson, include an Intro to Essential Oils; the Art of Sacred Smoke; the Power of Words, and EFT: Tapping for Great-

er Wellness. Registration for the Zoom workshops is offered through BeWellin-Paradise.com. Three Zoom workshops are held on each of the two days.

The weekend concludes on Sunday, January 17, with a Moai walk along 5th Avenue South, 4:30-5 p.m., followed by sunset meditation on the beach, led by Peggy Sealfon, 5:30-6 p.m.

A portion of proceeds from the “Seg-way to Wellness” tour of downtown Naples ($127) will be earmarked for the nonprofit Be Well in Paradise and its Mental Wellness Scholarship Fund, ben-efitting students who are training for a career in mental health.

Event tee shirts, masks and wristbands are for sale at ParadiseCoastWellness-Weekend.Eventbrite.com, with pick-up available at Beautiful Health, 4947 Tamiami Trail North, Suite 105. ■


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Get rid of rabies: Vaccinations benefit wildlife, tooBY KIM CAMPBELL THORNTON

Andrews McMeel Syndication

Just over a year ago, my husband and I were in Ethiopia’s Bale Mountain National Park, in search of Ethiopian wolves (Canis simensis). The world’s rarest wild canid, numbering fewer than 500, is tall, with red fur and white markings on the legs and chest. They resemble a coyote or jackal, or perhaps a fox on stilts.

As with so many endangered animals, habitat loss is taking a toll on the spe-cies. Farmers move herds higher and higher into the mountains, seeking more grazing land for livestock. Another threat is inter-breeding with free-ranging domestic dogs. Hybridization produces fertile offspring that are a genetic mixture and could eventually wipe out Ethiopian wolves as a distinct spe-cies. (This is a concern in other rare species as well, such as Scottish wildcats.)

But rabies is perhaps their greatest threat. Many of the wolves fall victim to the viral disease through encounters with domestic dogs. Rabies and other infectious diseases are a leading cause of mortality in African wild dogs, another rare species whose numbers are declining.

“Rabies transmission from domes-tic dogs into wild canid populations is a potential threat that can have devastating consequences,” says wildlife biologist Bill Given of Golden, Colorado.

It’s a human health issue as well. Approx-imately 59,000 people die annually from rabies, and the World Health Organization has a goal to eliminate human rabies deaths by 2030. Rabies is preventable through vac-cination, but that’s easier said than done.

“There are 10,000-plus dogs drift-ing around the outside of this park,” says Guy Levene, managing director of Bale Mountain Lodge, where we stayed. “You can’t really vaccinate 10,000 dogs. All it takes is for one or two rabid dogs to get through, and your very delicate population of wolves is in danger.”

In Ethiopia, at least, vaccinating the wolves themselves is a more practical option because of their small population. Levene says oral rabies vaccines are avail-able that can be placed in mouse-size piec-es of meat and gobbled up by the wolves. They are closely monitored by Oxford University’s Wildlife Conservation Unit and the Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority, so it’s easy to know which ones have taken the bait.

But rabies vaccination programs for wild dogs require local, political and economic support. If oral vaccines aren’t an option, it’s expensive, not to mention stressful to the animals, to capture individual wild dogs for vaccination. Local decision-mak-ers can be reluctant to give the go-ahead for fear that the rare animals might not

survive the experience.What do rabies vaccinations for animals

— wild and domestic — in other countries have to do with you and your pets? Pub-lic health everywhere includes animals. Rabies is a zoonotic disease, transmissible between animals and humans. Anti-rabies programs, such as the attempts to vaccinate Ethiopian wolves and the Cheetah Conser-vation Fund’s efforts to vaccinate domestic dogs and cats in Namibia, contribute to the worldwide One Health Initiative. In the United States, federal and state programs distribute oral vaccine doses in areas of Alabama, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.

The OHI collaboration between veteri-narians and human health experts expands and improves health care for animals and people and protects the environment. Land development and climate change affect habitat, often in ways that bring us in closer contact with wildlife. If you live in the western United States, for instance, you’ve probably seen this up close and personal, with coyotes, foxes, bears and even moun-tain lions making themselves at home in suburban and urban neighborhoods. That can result in greater transmission and spread of rabies, including to companion dogs and cats.

Vaccinating animals against rabies, any-where in the world, helps to reduce the risk and incidence of rabies. Supporting rabies vaccination programs in tandem with protecting natural environments is good for wildlife, good for us and good for our domestic animals. ■

Rabies vaccination programs can control and potentially eliminate rabies in domestic and wild dogs.

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f your New Year’s resolutions include getting in shape but you don’t want to enter a fitness center right now, join the trend of people setting up a home gym.

“We’re pretty inundated,” says Bryan Green, founder and CEO of Fitness Design Group, a consulting firm that works with clients to design and furnish residential workout spaces.

“Home gyms have been growing for some time, but it’s mostly been someone seeking out a particular piece of equipment,” Mr. Green says. “Now,” he adds, “the big trend is people making gyms in a second bedroom, garage or loft. We’re even seeing people cre-ate a gym in an area of a great room, if that’s the only space they have.”

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London Bay Homes capped off 2020 with an $18.5 million sale on Admiralty Parade West in Port Royal, Naples’ most prestigious neighborhood. The transaction followed the sale of a $12.8 million home the custom builder com-pleted nearby on Gordon Drive. The lat-ter residence was created in partnership with the award-winning team of John Cooney of Stofft Cooney Architects, Romanza Interior Design’s Jennifer Ste-vens and Naples landscape architect Koby Kirwin.

Idyllic views of Cutlass Cove and the mangroves on Keewaydin Island just across the water along with a private dock with Gulf access through nearby Gordon Pass were key selling aspects of the home.

Boasting 4,648 square foot of living space and four en-csuite bedrooms, the

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Zack and Chelsea Day lift weights as part of their commitment to fitness. The Days created a comprehensive CrossFit gym in their three-car garage.

two-story home fea-tures West Indies-coastal architecture and interior design that pushes luxury living to new levels.

The sophisti-cated design blends honed stone and wood-plank floor-ing, accent panels of

exotic woods like sapele, anigre and walnut, and distinctive reglet details on walls and door frames to create a uniquely contemporary style that uni-fies the foyer, great room, wine cellar and study.

Ms. Stevens’ interior palette eschews the expected white-on-white in favor of neutral taupes and ivories and accents of green and tan inspired by Mr. Kir-win’s lush landscape design. Ms. Ste-vens also designed a glass-doored wine room with temperature-control settings to accommodate approximately 300 bot-tles. The room is finished with walnut paneling, stainless steel and recessed lighting showcasing the wine collection.

The great room has sitting areas for formal or casual gatherings. “The light coming off the cove in the morning fills this room with an ethereal feel for enjoying coffee on the sectional or gathering in the evening on the four smaller scale lounge chairs for cocktails and conversation while taking in the sunsets,” the interior designer says. “It’s one the new homeowners will certainly enjoy.”

Upstairs, a VIP suite, along with an additional guest room and bath, are served by a loft space and full morning kitchen affording both convenience and privacy.

Spanning half the second floor, the master suite maximizes its orientation, the king-sized bed strategically posi-tioned to face a wall of glass sliding

doors with cove and mangrove views and a private terrace with a fireplace. The outdoor connection continues within one of the suite’s dual baths: a walk-through shower to the separate soaking tub overlooks Cutlass Cove.

“While the home is a luxurious design in one of the country’s finest neighbor-hoods, our desire was to make it a house

that truly feels like a home,” says Mark Wilson, president of London Bay Homes. “Amidst a backdrop of custom finish-es and top-quality selections, the home embodies a warmth and comfort that creates the ideal set-

ting for an upscale dinner party or a casual conversation after a day on the golf course.”

Additional custom designs by Lon-don Bay Homes can be seen in private residences throughout Park Shore to Port Royal, including a new developer-led collaboration — a 6,569-square-foot residence at 4155 Cutlass Lane that com-bines the talents of another creative dream team of Jon Kukk Architecture & Design, Michael Scott of Romanza Interior Design and Christian Andrea of Architectural Land Design.

London Bay also offers a collection of floor plans offering endless possibilities for complete customization, from creat-ing dedicated hobby and bonus rooms, to expanding outdoor living spaces to accommodate fully equipped outdoor kitchens and dining areas to enjoy the Southwest Florida sunset.

A variety of virtual tools allow for easy socially distanced home shopping, including extensive online photo galler-ies, high-definition, 360-degree 3D tours and digital site maps. Meetings can also be conducted via Facetime, Zoom or one-on-one, with scheduled appointments.

The company builds custom estates and multi-family homes, priced from $1 million to more than $15 million, in many of the region’s most exclusive neighborhoods and communities.■

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The great room has inviting seating areas for large or intimate gatherings.

Shades of ivory and taupe prevail throughout the main living areas.

The den/office is suitable for work or quiet contemplation.

Chelsea and Zack Day have had a home gym for five years even though they have access to the fitness facility at Arthrex, where they both work. Staying in shape is a priority for them.

“When we moved into this house about a year-and-a-half ago, the first thing Zack did was lay out the gym,” Ms. Day says. “We have been working out most of our adult lives. With children and demanding jobs, we can’t always make time to go to a gym.”

The couple has an 11-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son. Ms. Day likes the fact that she can work out at home while her son naps or plays in the driveway while she has the garage doors up. She works out at least four times a week for an hour.

The Days created a foldaway CrossFit gym that stretches across their three-car garage, which allows them to pull in vehi-cles when not working out. They have individual squat racks, weight racks, a bench press, weightlifting bars and plates, free weights, an air assault bike, ab mats, a box for jumps and wall balls (they also have a Peloton, but it is set up inside the house).

A full speaker system pipes music around the garage, though the couple makes sure to keep the sound lower early in the day or late at night. Rubber mats that vehicles can drive on cover the garage floor.

The Days enjoy working out so much, they are self-motivated.

“It’s all about the way it makes us feel,” Ms. Day says. “We don’t do it for appear-ances; we do it because it makes us feel more energetic. We’ve got two very active kids, so that’s our motivation at this time of our lives.”

This past year, Ms. Day has appreci-ated having her home gym. “When you have the equipment at your house, it makes it a lot more feasible and safer right now.”

Fitness Design Group helps home-owners find the right space in their home for a gym.

“If you’re going to have guests over

or want your house to look like a home and not a gym, you have to be thought-ful about aesthetics,” Mr. Green says. “People don’t realize that you don’t need a ton of equipment to have a good work-out. You need to figure out how to move your body and how to use resistance.”

For people who have limited space and need to be efficient, he often recom-mends training wall systems that can be configured in different heights and lengths. The bays hold free weights, ket-tlebells, stability balls, foam rollers, mats

and more. “This is a really clean look, tight to the wall, and everything has its place.”

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He also says suspension straps are low-cost and don’t take up a lot of space. And he’s seeing a trend toward guided televi-sion workouts.

In addition to equipment selection and space design, the firm also recommends floor coverings, mirrors, artwork and other elements to set a tone that encour-ages working out.

Exercise is inherently boring,” Mr. Green says. “If you’re going to do it at home, the real key to staying motivated is to exercise in a space that you enjoy. Some people say ‘I’m going to work out and build something in my garage.’ If it smells like car fumes, you’re probably not going to stick with it. At home it’s really important to be in a space that you look forward to spending time in. Sometimes that’s a simple as putting up a TV and being entertained while you exercise.”

The trainer connectionEven with a beautifully designed and

outfitted home gym, many people still need motivation to work out or even instruction while they are using their equipment.

Jon Bates with Addicted to Fitness is a personal trainer who makes house calls.

“The job of a fitness coach and trainer is to push someone, safely, harder than they would themselves to get results,” he says.

People hire a personal trainer to help them learn how to correctly work out, especially when lifting weights, and to have accountability for their workouts. “If my clients didn’t have a set time with me two or three times a week — well, life gets busy and people skip their workouts.

Mr. Bates says one of his goals as a fit-ness instructor is to help people age well.

“People retire here after working hard their whole lives and they’re not enjoying it because they’re running to the doctor for a shot or a pill. You want to be active and independent, and you have to exer-cise to do that.”

He knows that people view New Year’s as a new start, especially after indulging in food and drink over the holidays. And he’s here to help people select home gym equipment and motivate them to use it so, as he says, “it doesn’t become a clothes rack.” ■

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Above: Personal trainer Jon Bates spots Rosemary Thomas as she does TRX squats on a BOSU training device that helps build balance, strength and flexibility.

Left: Tom Cody uses a leg extension machine with guidance from Mr. Bates.

Exercise is inherently boring. If you’re going to do it at home, the real key to staying motivated is to exercise in a space that you enjoy.

— Bryan Green, founder and CEO of Fitness Design Group

10 questions to answerbefore setting up a home gym 1. What are your fi tness goals? 2. Who will utilize the home gym space? 3. How much area can you dedicate for

your gym? 4. What equipment do you enjoy the

most? 5. Are you open to learning new ways to

exercise? 6. Do you want your gym to refl ect a

particular look, such as CrossFit, or blend into your home?

7. What type of sport fl ooring would you prefer, or do you wish to maintain your existing fl ooring?

8. Do you intend to read or watch TV while exercising?

9. Would you like virtual training instruction or other guided workouts?

10. Do you have a wish list of accessories?

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Chelsea Day stays fit by working out at least four times a week for an hour each time.

Top: The assault bike uses air resistance to provide a serious aerobic workout.

Above: Keeping weights stacked against the wall helps make room for the Days to park their vehicles in the garage.

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he COVID-19 pandemic proved to be a double whammy for young women eager to launch their careers.

Young people in general have had their job searches stymied by the recession.

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Southwest Florida commercial market: Reason for optimismBY GARY TASMAN

AND SHAWN STONEBURNER

January 2020 seems like a lifetime ago, and as we think back to the start of the year, before the COVID pandemic changed the world, it’s difficult to recall where we were just 12 months in the past.

Commercial property brokers and property investors entered 2020 with a great deal of enthusiasm. Vacancy rates were low, demand was high, and aver-age rent rates were near historic levels in some asset classes. Developers were continuing to regard Southwest Florida with an optimistic eye.

We all recall what happened after

that. By mid-March, our economy and our optimism came to a screeching halt. Record num-bers of Floridians filed for unemploy-ment as businesses were forced to close or scale back, and Southwest Florida development activity came to a near-standstill. Nationwide, the U.S. econo-my collapsed at a 31.7% annual rate in the second quarter as schools, retailers, restaurants, theaters, hotels and other businesses closed.

It’s difficult to evaluate how our region

— and our nation — has responded to the COVID recession. The last pandemic to make a signifi-cant impact on the economy was a full century ago, hardly a comparable era. What we do know is that as we enter

2021, we once again have reason for optimism.

Ancient Greek philosopher Plato was the first to say that necessity is the mother of invention. Even 2400 years later, Plato’s words still ring true, as many recent innovations were neces-

sitated by the pandemic. Necessity motivated biotechnology companies to develop innovative COVID-19 vaccines using groundbreaking messenger RNA technology. Necessity inspired the fed-eral government to develop the Coro-navirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Secu-rity (CARES) Act and other emergency relief. Necessity also stimulated corpo-rations large and small to find new ways to conduct business when traditional interaction was off the table.

Necessity has also sparked a rebirth in several sectors of the commercial property market, most notably industri-al real estate. The jump to online shop-

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Meanwhile, women of all ages have seen their careers impacted negatively more than men by the events of 2020.

But despite the challenges, there is hope for ambitious young women just starting out who want to make a mark, even in male-centric industries, says Deborah Fairchild, president of Nash-ville-based VEVA Sound, which verifies and archives projects for clients in the music industry.

“That doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy,” she says. “But if you can avoid becoming discouraged, and can face the world with firm determination, the opportunities will be there.”

Ms. Fairchild, who started her career with VEVA Sound as an archival engi-neer in 2004 and rose to lead the com-pany in all facets of the business, has suc-ceeded in an industry in which women are still underrepresented.

Just as an example, a study released in 2019 by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative looked at 700 popular songs and found that women accounted for only 21.7% of artists, 12.5% of songwriters and 2.7% of producers.

Ms. Fairchild understands the chal-lenges today’s young women face, and she offers a few tips for those who are just now launching their careers and hope to move up in their organizations.

Be prepared to clean toiletsThis could be viewed metaphorically,

but in Ms. Fairchild’s case it was also literal.

“When I started as an intern at a stu-dio, I did everything they asked — even clean toilets,” she says. “To pursue a professional career in the music indus-try, you have to be prepared to pay your dues, starting at the bottom and working your way up. I imagine that’s true for a lot of other industries as well.”

Learn from everyoneFormal education is great, and it’s

wonderful to have a college degree, but once you’re on the job you will discover how much more there is to learn from watching and listening to other people, Fairchild says.

Just about anyone in an organization — from the lowest-paid employee to

the CEO — has skills or knowledge they can share with you that will prove use-ful in your career journey. “Whenever you meet someone,” she says, “always assume they have something to teach you until they prove they don’t.”

Networking is a key, but not THE key

Who you know is important. So is what you know.

“A strong network will give you opportunities,” Ms. Fairchild says, “but your knowledge and capabilities will be what give you a long-lasting career.”

Know when to pivotAt every stage of your career, stay

sensitive to when it’s time to pivot, Ms.

Fairchild says. “The interesting thing about the music

industry is that some things take genera-tions to change, while others change on a dime,” she says. “The ability to discern when to move on or when to double down will set you apart.”

“The pandemic has made things tough for those just trying to launch a career, which means it’s more important than ever to stay positive and persevere,” Ms. Fairchild says. “Grab the opportunities that are there, and then make the most of them.”

About Deborah Fairchild

Deborah Fairchild, president of VEVA Sound (www.vevasound.com), started her career with the company as an archi-val engineer in 2004. In the past 16 years she has risen to lead the com-pany in all facets of the business. She has grown VEVA into a global entity servicing major labels in North America and Europe, establishing offices in New York, Los Angeles, and London in addi-tion to the compa-ny’s headquarters in Nashville. Fair-child has kept VEVA at the forefront of technology and con-tinues to evolve and adapt VEVA’s ser-vices and technology to assist the needs of their extensive client base. She advises many label executives, producers, engi-neers and artists seeking archival and asset management solutions. ■

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“ if you can avoid becoming discouraged, and can face the world with firm determination, the opportunities will be there.”— Deborah Fairchild, president of Nashville-based VEVA Sound

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ping during the pandemic has made property in the industrial/logistics asset class hotter than ever before. “In the second quarter of 2020, internet sales surged 44.5% year over year,” explains Kevin Thorpe, chief economist and Ken McCarthy, principal economist, both of Cushman & Wakefield. “In this envi-ronment, it is no surprise that demand for logistics space is nearly back to pre-crisis levels and occupancy is near all-time highs.”

Our local Southwest Florida market reflects this same international trend. Industrial class real estate is filling nearly as quickly as it becomes avail-able, with just 3.4% of industrial proper-ties currently vacant. Rent rates, which were already at historic highs at the end of 2019, are still climbing, presenting an excellent opportunity for owners of properties and those with land ready to develop.

The office property market gave investors and brokers plenty of anxiety in March and April, as traditional offic-es closed their doors and transitioned to telecommuting. Those nerves from six months ago are quickly subsiding, as Southwest Florida properties in this asset class are also recovering quickly. Cushman & Wakefield data indicates this recovery will continue, following a national trend as our economy shifts to more service and knowledge-driv-en industries. “As the economy adds jobs, a greater proportion will be in an office-using industry,” stated Thorpe and McCarthy.

Of course, the full picture isn’t com-pletely rosy. Much of our economy has yet to recover. Southwest Florida’s unemployment rate at the end of the third quarter of 2020 was still a stag-gering 10.2%, well above the national average and an alarming increase over

last year’s third quarter local unemploy-ment rate of 3.8%. Our region’s depen-dence on retail and hospitality jobs will likely keep employment recovery slow – but there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Florida’s low taxes, combined with

our region’s high-quality workforce, safety, healthcare, and quality of life continue to make Southwest Florida an appealing destination for residents, vacationers, and new businesses. Com-panies worldwide are expanding and relocating to Southwest Florida. Home sales are skyrocketing, which will spark other sectors of our economy including construction, finance, retail, and hospi-tality.

We’re not completely out of the woods yet, but the gloom and doom of Q2 2020 is fading. Necessity generates invention, and the Southwest Florida property market is continuing to rein-vent itself. ■

— Gary Tasman is the founder of Cushman & Wakefield Commercial Property Southwest Florida and serves as its CEO/Principal Broker. With more than three decades of real estate expe-rience, Tasman is consistently recog-nized as a top-producing broker. His firm provides commercial real estate solutions, locally and globally, in every stage of the real estate process, repre-senting clients in buying, selling, leas-ing, financing and valuing assets. For more information, contact [email protected] or 239-829-5400.

— Shawn Stoneburner has more than 18 years of commercial real estate expe-rience successfully assisting buyers, sellers, landlords and tenants transact win-win commercial real estate busi-ness. Stoneburner joined Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. in January, 2007. Stone-burner focuses on retail, industrial, land and investment sales. In the past five years, he has closed over 800 commer-cial property transactions with a gross value of more than $500 million.

“In the second quarter of 2020, internet sales surged 44.5% year over year. In this environment, it is no surprise that demand for logistics space is nearly back to

pre-crisis levels and occupancy is near all-time highs.”

— Kevin Thorpe, chief economist and Ken McCarthy, principal economist, both of Cushman & Wakefield

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The PSR: A tool for stock valuationThe price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio is a

popular tool that many investors use to get a rough idea of a stock’s valuation — to see whether it looks overvalued, undervalued, or fairly valued. If a company has no earn-ings, though, a P/E ratio can’t be calculated. Instead, the price-to-sales (P/S) ratio, some-times called the PSR, can be used, as it focuses on sales (also known as revenue). Even with a profitable company, you might check the PSR.

Calculating a company’s PSR is fairly easy: You simply take its market capitaliza-tion and divide it by the company’s sales over the past 12 months. The “market cap” reflects a company’s current market valuation — it’s the current price per share multiplied by the total number of shares outstanding. You can find market caps listed for companies on major financial websites such as Fool.com and Finance.Yahoo.com. (Finance.Yahoo.com presents each company’s P/S ratio, too, under its “Statistics” tab.)

Here’s how you would crunch the PSR yourself: Let’s say the Free-

Range Onion Company (Ticker: BULBZ) has 20 million shares outstanding, at $25 a share, giving it a market capitalization of $500 million. If it had $1 billion in sales over the last year, its PSR would be $500 million divided by $1 billion, which equals 0.5. If its peers have PSRs of 1.0 or higher, Free-Range Onion’s PSR of 0.5 suggests that it’s more attractively valued and likely to have a substantial upside relative to its rivals — if it executes its strategies successfully.

It’s not uncommon for companies to be unprofitable in some years, and you needn’t avoid such enterprises entirely. By checking the PSR, you can see how much you’d be paying for a dollar of sales instead of a dol-lar of earnings. Compare the PSR with sales growth, too: A high PSR isn’t necessarily bad if sales are growing rapidly.

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Chick magnateTyson Foods (NYSE: TSN) has certainly

felt the impact of COVID-19, which has hurt production. The company has been facing headwinds such as supply struggles, pricing pressures amid weak restaurant sales and rising demand for meat substitutes. While recent results suggest that Tyson is dealing effectively with the issue and its operations are running more smoothly, rising COVID-19 cases may prove to be another setback. The stock was recently down more than 30% from its 52-week high — presenting a buying opportunity.

Tyson is one of the biggest processors and sellers of beef, pork and chicken, with brands such as Jimmy Dean, Hillshire Farm, Ball Park, Wright, Aidells, ibp and State Fair. Even in a bad economy, demand for its

products remains stable.Despite ongoing issues, Tyson’s results

showed an improvement in its fiscal fourth quarter, with adjusted sales down by only 2% year over year as the virus continued to affect production — and operating profit jumping by 40% despite higher COVID-19-related expenses.

Showing confidence in its future, Tyson’s board of directors recently raised its quarterly dividend by 6%, and the stock yielded over 2.7%.

No one wants to see widespread shut-downs, but that’s a possibility with cases rising. Regardless, long-term Tyson inves-tors can collect dividends while waiting for better times — and a rising stock price. ■

I trace my roots back to the 1929 found-ing of a mothproofing company by a former minor league baseball player. I grew into the ServiceMaster company, offering many ser-vices to homes and businesses, and added a big pest-control brand in 1986. In 2020, though, I sold off my ServiceMaster Brands, including AmeriSpec (home inspections), Furniture Medic (cabinet and furniture repair), Merry Maids (residential cleaning), ServiceMaster Clean and ServiceMaster Restore. I kept my pest-control business, though, and took its name as my own. Based in Memphis, Tennessee, I employ more than 10,000 people and serve 2.8 million custom-ers. Who am I? (Answer: Terminix Global Holdings)

Fixed income vs. equity

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traded funds (ETFs) — that aim to deliver income to shareholders.

A “fixed income” fund is typically invested in securities that pay out interest income on a reliable sched-ule — such as government or cor-porate bonds, certificates of deposit (CDs), and money market funds. The term “fixed income” is often used as a proxy for “bonds.” The term “equity” refers to stocks, so an “equity income” fund is one that aims to gen-erate income from the dividends of stocks in which it’s invested.

Bonds have a reputation as safer than stocks, and they can be less vola-tile, but they vary widely in their riski-ness. U.S. Treasury bonds, backed by the federal government, are quite safe, while corporate bonds carry more risk (and thus higher interest rates). Junk bonds sport the highest inter-est rates — because they’re issued by risky companies. Over long periods, the stock market has usually outper-formed bonds, so you may want to focus most or all of your long-term investment dollars on stocks.

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Solutions has pro-moted Tish Sheesley from fundraising and event specialist to fundraising, market-ing, and communica-tions manager. In this role, Ms. Sheesley will lead the fundraising, marketing, and com-munications team to grow the presence of nonprofits by producing engaging material that reinforces the brand and mission of clients. She has worked with nonprofits for over 35 years, wearing a variety of hats including executive director, assistant director, and missions director.

Youth Haven Inc. announced the appointment of Cassandra Bliss as its director of finance and operations. With

19 years of experience in the financial field, her professional back-ground includes expe-rience with nonprof-its, large and small for profit corporations, corporate litigation, the financial side of political advocacy and lobbying, FAA com-pliance, and insurance. At Youth Haven, she will be responsible for leading the administration, finance and operations departments of the organization. Youth Haven, founded in 1972, supports chil-dren and teens ages 6 -19 that have been removed from their homes due to abuse, neglect, abandonment or are homeless.

The Naples City Council appointed Richard “Rick” Ruppert to the City

of Naples Airport Authority board of commissioners. The board is comprised of five citizen vol-unteers who are appointed to four-year terms to govern the Airport Author-ity. Mr. Ruppert replaces outgoing Commissioner Ted Brousseau. Mr. Rup-pert retired with over 40 years of execu-tive experience at several corporations, including Jet Aviation; The Walt Dis-ney Company; and most recently at Ulta Beauty as vice president of merchandise and private label products. He is a five-year resident of Naples who previously served as the Gulf Shore Association of Condominiums liaison to the NAA.

The Village School of Naples, an inde-pendent school that serves students in pre-school through 12th grade, announced the appointment of Vik-tor Tuparov as com-munications coordi-nator. Mr. Tuparov will assist the school’s leadership with its internal and external marketing and communications needs. He is a recent graduate of Florida Gulf Coast University, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Communication. While attending FGCU, he served as secretary of the student chapter of the Florida Public Relations Association. Before joining The Village School of Naples, Mr. Tuparov worked for The Inn on Fifth as a sales and marketing intern and reservations manager. ■

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PELICAN BAY


Catherine McAvoy 239.370.2539

$5,900,000

790 6th Avenue North

James Bates 239.961.3973

$3,195,000



$535,000

4530 Gulf Shore Boulevard North #2-222

Linda Perry 239.450.9113

$1,525,000

1150 Clam Court #4


$1,195,000

1021 3rd Street South #102

Debbi/Marty McDermott 239.564.4231

$425,000

6001 Pelican Bay Boulevard #303

Roxanne Jeske 239.450.5210

$655,000

PARK SHORE

OLD NAPLES

THE MOORINGS

PARK SHORE

ROYAL HARBOR OLD NAPLES

PELICAN BAY



$4,500,000

505 5th Avenue South #203


$2,995,000

701 21st Avenue South

Marybeth Brooks 239.272.6867

$9,375,000

7080 Villa Lantana Way #3.5

Jane Darling 239.290.3112

$1,050,000

1598 Curlew Avenue


$985,000

4101 Gulf Shore Boulevard North #20S

Marion Bethea/Anne Killilea 239.261.6200

$9,750,000

6000 Pelican Bay Boulevard #C-103

Heidi Deen 239.370.5388

$497,000

8111 Bay Colony Drive #1901

Leah Ritchey/Amy Becker 239.289.0433

$3,595,000

2924 Bayshore Drive

Sherry Irvin 239.825.2786

$1,995,000

PARK SHORE

OLD NAPLES

AQUALANE SHORES

PELICAN BAY

ROYAL HARBOR PARK SHORE

PELICAN BAY

BAY COLONY

BAYSHORE COMMERCIAL

514 Turtle Hatch Lane

Kim Price 239.248.6924

$4,190,000

6585 Nicholas Boulevard #305

Hugo Torres 305.338.6438

$839,000

7099 Barrington Circle #5-202

Janet Rathbun 239.860.0012

$475,000

8111 Bay Colony Drive #302

Charlina McGee 239.770.1911

$3,100,000

385 7th Street SW

Kathryn Tout 239.250.3583

$1,350,000

PARK SHORE

PELICAN BAY

PELICAN BAY

BAY COLONY

GOLDEN GATE ESTATES

4719 Villa Mare Lane


$3,250,000

8495 Abbington Circle #212

Frank Duggan 239.734.0397

$775,000

7613 Bay Colony Drive

Peter Reppucci/Michael G. Lawler 239.595.6500

$19,900,000

7855 Vizcaya Way

Cynthia Rosa 239.287.6015

$2,950,000

700 La Peninsula Boulevard #503

Bill Frantz 330.329.0077

$1,150,000

PARK SHORE

PELICAN BAY

BAY COLONY

BAY COLONY

ISLES OF CAPRI

510 Anchor Rode Drive

Larry Caruso 239.394.9191

$3,200,000

5850 Pelican Bay Boulevard Unit D

Sharon Kaltenborn 239.248.1964

$999,500

PELICAN BAY

THE MOORINGS

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HYATT REGENCY COCONUT POINT RESORT AND SPA | 239.301.5300

9255 Troon Lakes Drive

Terri Moellers 239.213.7344

$775,000

2939 Tiburon Boulevard East

Julie Rembos 239.595.1809

$1,395,000

1373 Great Egret Trai

Sam Heitman 239.537.2018

$4,950,000

15268 Devon Green Lane

Sandra McCarthy-Meeks 239.287.7921

$624,900

PELICAN MARSH

TIBURON

GREY OAKS

AUDUBON COUNTRY CLUB

9758 Niblick Lane

Ann Marie Shimer 239.825.9020

$3,299,000

16440 Carrara Way #6-102

Chloe de Maleissye-Melun 239.287.7431

$1,250,000

1351 Noble Heron Way

Melissa Williams 239.248.7238

$2,150,000

750 99th Avenue North


$585,000

ESTATES AT BAY COLONY

TALIS PARK

GREY OAKS

NAPLES PARK

2546 Escada Court

Lisa Tashjian 239.259.7024

$4,850,000

1494 Borghese Lane #101

Dana Perkins 239.595.0008

$469,000

14587 Regatta Lane

Kris Maine 239.298.1772

$894,000

7505 Lantana Circle

Sandra McCarthy-Meeks 239.287.7921

$815,000

2599 Twinflower Lane

Jutta V. Lopez 239.659.5113

$1,229,000

17045 Porta Vecchio Way #102

Erik David Barber 323.513.6391

$529,900

TIBURON

HAMMOCK BAY

NAPLES RESERVE

OLDE CYPRESS

GREY OAKS

MEDITERRA

13915 Old Coast Road #905

Craig Wolf 239.850.3172

$2,695,000

145 Ridge Drive


$3,995,000

1010 Moon Lake Drive

Cullen Shaughnessy 239.248.3978

$389,000

1050 Borghese Lane #1601

Michelle Thomas 239.860.7176

$759,000

2646 Bolero Drive #6-2

Kimberly Wagner 239.571.5474

$758,000

2311 Tradition Way #201


$1,075,000

5381 Guadeloupe Way

Roya Nouhi 239.290.9111

$350,000

KALEA BAY

PINE RIDGE MOON LAKE

HAMMOCK BAY

TIBURON

GREY OAKS

ISLAND WALK

9257 Mercato Way

Helayne Frankel 239.293.7802

$2,410,000

1255 Rialto Way #102

Zach Dreier 239.250.1916

$369,000

12903 Brynwood Preserve Lane

Chandler Marks 239.980.0272

$555,000

9115 Strada Place #5501

Julie Rembos 239.595.1809

$699,000

1785 Ivy Pointe Court

Terri Moellers 239.213.7344

$1,150,000

11125 Gulf Shore Drive #1002


$5,950,000

MERCATO

HAMMOCK BAY

BRYNWOOD PRESERVE

MERCATO

PELICAN MARSH

VANDERBILT BEACH

Only one residence remains from $2,410,000

Gated enclave of 45 single-family homes with outdoor living areas. 1.7

miles from the beach. Model open daily.

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RESIDENCES AT MERCATO

Single-family lakefront estates from $1,800,000

Private gated enclave within Treviso Bay. Includes membership to the

Arthur Hills TPC 18-hole golf course. Open daily from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

239.249.6830 | PeninsulaNaples.com

Luxury residences from $2,895,000

Modern style meets the authenticity of Naples. Located in the heart of 5th

Avenue South surrounded by upscale boutiques, spas and art galleries.

Open regularly.

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7798 Mulberry Lane


$945,000

455 Gate House Court

Jim/Nikki Prange-Carroll 239.642.1133

$1,495,000



$4,450,000

8854 Shenendoah Circle

Zach Dreier 239.250.1916

$729,000

1131 Swallow Avenue #3-502

Jacki Strategos 239.370.1222

$749,500

301 Useppa Island Unit B

Brian McColgan 239.410.7850

$1,175,000

FIDDLER’S CREEK

MARCO ISLAND

VANDERBILT BEACH

LELY RESORT

MARCO ISLAND

USEPPA ISLAND

2721 Callista Court #204


$590,000

581 Inlet Drive

Jim/Nikki Prange-Carroll 239.642.1133

$985,000


Jon Peter Vollmer 239.250.9414

$724,000

8039 Players Cove Drive #102

John Dolle 239.410.5896

$479,000

777 Bluebonnet Court


$575,000

14200 Royal Harbour Court #904

Maxwell Thompson 239.989.3855

$1,099,000

FIDDLER’S CREEK

MARCO ISLAND

VANDERBILT BEACH

LELY RESORT

MARCO ISLAND

GULF HARBOUR YACHT AND COUNTRY CLUB

8413 Mallards Way


$589,000

990 Cape Marco DrIve #203

Dave Flowers 239.404.0493

$779,000

1268 Winterberry Drive

Brock/Julie Wilson 239.821.9545

$1,699,000

8031 Players Cove Drive #8-101

Vito A. Galatro 239.595.6669

$469,000

379 Morning Glory Lane

ML Meade 239.293.4851

$500,000

24820 Pennyroyal Drive

Debbi/Marty McDermott 239.564.4231

$969,000

28861 Regis Court

Kimberly Salay 239.300.5075

$579,900

1606 Ardmore Road

Burns Family 239.464.2984

$949,000

FIDDLER’S CREEK

MARCO ISLAND

MARCO ISLAND

LELY RESORT

MARCO ISLAND

PELICAN LANDING

VANDERBILT LAKES

EDISON PARK

8435 Mallards Way


$495,000

800 West Copeland Drive

Cathy Rogers 239.821.7926

$3,999,000

11541 Paige Court

Stephanie Bissett 239.292.3707

$4,000,000

8081 Players Cove Drive #102

Vito A. Galatro 239.595.6669

$455,000

1020 Mendel Avenue

Cathy Brodie 239.272.7725

$419,000

19884 Markward Crossing


$759,900

10341 Autumn Breeze Drive #202


$535,000

931 Dolphin Drive

Vanya/Dimo Demirev 239.565.0550

$535,000

FIDDLER’S CREEK

MARCO ISLAND

CAPTIVA

LELY RESORT

MARCO ISLAND

GRANDEZZA

THE BROOKS

CAPE CORAL

2745 Callista Mar Way #101


$459,000

26045 Fawnwood Court

Pamela Hershberger 239.784.7534

$3,600,000

3840 Mahogany Bend Drive


$969,900

28708 Pienza Court


$759,000

21450 Strada Nuova Circle #A204


$390,000

3426 Hancock Bridge Parkway #606

Amy Nease 239.910.7267

$365,000

FIDDLER’S CREEK

BONITA BAY

FIDDLER’S CREEK

VASARI COUNTRY CLUB

GENOVA

NORTH STAR YACHT CLUB

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Select Your Masterful Stock Custom Home Today

Stock Custom Homes, the award-winning custom homebuild-ing division of Stock Develop-ment, is crafting grand estates in

Southwest Florida’s most highly regarded communities and neighborhoods to much success. Residences by Stock are remark-ably stunning, with masterful craftsman-ship visible in every detail, which is part of the reason why the Collier Building Industry Association named Stock Cus-tom Homes its 2020 Builder of the Year. More and more people are discovering ideal living as the brand continues its rapid expansion throughout Florida and beyond.

Pine Ridge EstatesStock continues to be a preeminent

builder in Pine Ridge Estates with four residences available. A 4,000-square-foot under-air estate located at 603 West Street is well-appointed with four bed-rooms plus a bonus room, four and one-half baths, formal dining, great room, study, and a generous outdoor living area. Elegantly furnished by Gina Goldstein of Soco interiors, the aesthetic is clean and classic paired with an open and airy feel.

At 607 Myrtle Road, a nearly 5,000-square-foot under-air residence at is under construction and is expected to be completed next month. The home was designed in collaboration with R.G. Designs Inc. and will be elegantly fur-nished by renowned Wilfredo Emanuel Designs. It will boast four bedrooms plus a bonus room, four and one-half bath-rooms and a pool bath, great room, study, double two-car garages, and Stock’s trade-mark luxurious and expansive outdoor living area.

Inspired by the fresh, airy palette of a Southampton aesthetic, a 4,672-square-foot under-air residence at 125 Caribbean Road is being designed in collaboration with R.G. Designs and Cardamom Design. To be completed this summer, the proper-ty will boast four bedrooms plus a bonus room, four full bathrooms, plus a pool bath, and one powder bath, a great room, study, double two-car garages, and an out-door living area encompassing more than 1,500 square feet.

Finally, a new estate is being built at 422 West Street. It will offer four bedrooms

and four and one-half baths, plus a pool bath, within 4,477 square feet under air. The generous outdoor living space will encompass 1,348 square feet. Clive Daniel Home and South Florida Architecture are collaborating on the home, which will have an overall aesthetic of comfortable luxury and a color palette of white, cream, and taupe with accents of periwinkle, aqua, and soft blue throughout.

Bonita BayStock is also currently constructing

two custom estates in Bonita Bay, featur-ing Gardenia II and Clairborne II layouts, after their tremendous success in Bay Woods. The residences, which will be completed in the spring, will showcase the division’s highest level of sophisti-

cation in one of the most sought after and well-recognized areas of Southwest Florida.

Breathtaking from the entry, the Garde-nia II will encompass nearly 4,000 square feet under air of cutting-edge architec-tural design and interior design by Sheila Corasaniti-Cook of Boutique Interiors. The second custom estate, inspired by Stock’s grand 4,369-square-foot under air Clairborne II floorplan, will feature taste-ful interiors by Soco Interiors in its four bedrooms, study, exercise room, great room, and expansive outdoor living area.

Customize Your Dream HomeNow celebrating 20 years as Southwest

Florida’s preeminent homebuilder, Stock has completed more than 5,000 homes

along the Gulf Coast and beyond. Con-tinuing to expand, the award-winning luxury homebuilder’s custom homes divi-sion, Stock Custom Homes, is actively working on custom estates throughout Southwest Florida along with Sarasota, Wellington, and Palm Beach. ■

Stock is one of the most dynamic and innovative development compa-nies in Southwest Florida. Their superb craftsmanship, originality, and vibrant outdoor living designs are the hall-marks of distinctive communities. For more information about Stock Custom Homes’ visit stockcustomhomes.com or call (239) 249-6400.

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Kalea Bay Residents Love Their Community’s Incredible Amenities

In January 2018, Kalea Bay announced the completion of its clubhouse and the many incredible amenities that surround it. Three years later, the

luxury high-rise community’s residents continue to love the amenities and their fantastic lifestyle the amenities enhance.

“Our main amenity area measures 88,000 square feet and is truly the rec-reational and social centerpiece of our community,” said Inga Lodge, Vice Pres-ident of Sales and Marketing for Kalea Bay. “Receiving compliments regard-ing our amenities from residents, their guests and even visitors is a daily occur-rence. They believe the amenities at Kalea Bay are the envy of all other com-munities in the Naples area.”

The 88,000-square-foot main ame-nity area is located on the north side of the large lake at the community’s entrance. It features three individual pools, including a resort pool, an adults-only pool and a children’s pool, plus expansive pool decks, an open-air bar, a fitness center, a lakeside fire pit, kid’s game room, teen’s lounge and an event lawn.

All three pools overlook the lake and provide a multitude of recreation-al options. Expansive sun decks with lounge chairs and native, tropical plants separate each of the three pools for the ultimate in privacy.

If basking in the sun or taking a refreshing dip in the pool isn’t on a resident’s schedule, perhaps meeting friends for lunch, dinner or drinks is.

“We have the perfect place for all three,” said Lodge. “Our restaurants serve incredible meals throughout the day. And what better way to celebrate the good life in Florida than meet-ing family and friends for drinks while watching the sun set over the Gulf of Mexico. This is what living in Florida is supposed to be.”

Two restaurants serve residents of Kalea Bay. The Driftwood Café offers a more casual fare while The Salt and Oak restaurant is designed for an elegant evening dining experience and includes such features as a private dining room, a banquet room and wine tasting room – among others.

The current state-of-the-art fitness center features Peloton bicycles, assort-ed strength machines, free weights and stretch area.

For those residents who have young children or grandchildren, the club-house will delight one and all with a teen lounge, complete with virtual real-ity and PS4 games, foosball, WiFi and multiple TVs, and a kid’s game room with child-size furniture, books, chalk-board and TVs.

Adjacent to the clubhouse lies the tennis pavilion with four Har-Tru tennis courts, as well as eight pickleball courts. Guest suites for overnight guests are also located near the clubhouse.

Soon, another amenity will be avail-able for residents to utilize, enjoy and benefit from – a Wellness Center.

“The 14,000-square-foot facility will be dedicated to the health and well-being of our residents,” reports Lodge. “Our Wellness Center is expected to include a dedicated yoga studio, sauna, spin room and Pilates. The spa will include treatment rooms while locker facilities and a large cardio and free weight area are also planned.”

The start of construction on the Well-ness Center is anticipated to begin in early 2021 and take between 12 and 16 months to complete.

Currently, two residential high-rises are completed in Kalea Bay and a third

has begun its ascent skyward. As for sales, throughout the fall and start of winter they have remained extremely strong.

“As of early January, there seems to be no slowing down as buyers continue to be enthralled with Kalea Bay and the value it offers,” said Lodge. “Of the 120 residences in our second tower, only a few remain and are available for imme-diate move-in. A number of outstanding residences remain available in our third tower, which has been under construc-tion for a while now and is due to be completed in October 2022.”

Tower 300 is 22 stories in height and also includes 120 residences. Specifical-ly, it’s 20 floors of residences over two floors of parking. Rooftop amenities are similar to those found in Tower 100 and 200 including a rooftop pool, open-air fitness center and a sky lounge.

Six floor plans are available in Tower 300 ranging between three-bedroom plus den/three-and-a-half-baths to four-bedroom/four-and-a-half-baths. The size of the residences ranges from 3,722 to 3,922 total square feet. Each floor plan, following an open-concept design, allows the living, dining and kitchen areas to spill out onto an expansive lanai, creating a true outdoor living room.

Kitchens include such standard fea-tures that most consider upgrades such as luxury cabinetry, quartz countertops and a large island, as well as SubZero and Wolf appliances.

The master bedroom includes an oversized walk-in closet while the mas-ter bath has his and hers vanities, quartz countertops, luxury cabinetry, a soaking tub and a glass-enclosed shower.

Additional residential features include floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors that retract across the entire living area bringing the outdoors in. The large lanais are constructed with transparent glass rails for uninterrupted views of the gulf. Smart home ready and fully equipped laundry rooms round out

the list of features.Residences in Tower 300 are cur-

rently priced from $1.5 million.Kalea Bay is located on Vanderbilt

Drive, just two-tenths of a mile north of Wiggins Pass Road in North Naples.

For more information regarding the high-rise community visit KaleaBay.com. ■

To maintain social distancing in the sales center, located on Vanderbilt Drive, two-tenths of a mile north of Wiggins Pass Road, appointments are required. Call (239) 793-0110 to set up an appointment.

Above: All three pools at The Club at Kalea Bay overlook the large lake at the high-rise community’s entrance.

Right: The main amenity area at Kalea Bay measures 88,000 square feet.

Residents of Kalea Bay can gather around a number of fire pits both night and day.


The state-of-the-art fitness center at Kalea Bay has more than 1,700 square feet.

Kalea Bay offers its residents both indoor and outdoor dining options.


Peninsula at Treviso Bay’s Location, Quality HomesAnd Incredible Amenities Attracting Buyers

Imperial Homes of Naples LLC, one of Southwest Florida’s most experienced and universally respected luxury home builders, is developing Peninsula at

Treviso Bay, a gated neighborhood of only 55 homes with each offering a lake and golf course view.

According to Curtis Gunther, Owner and General Contractor of Imperial Homes of Naples, Peninsula is the perfect fit for his custom home building company.

“Those purchasing in Peninsula at Treviso Bay are very savvy buyers who are looking for a great Naples’ location, close to downtown and the Gulf beaches, as well as a quality built home with incredible views,” said Gunther. “That fits Imperial Homes to a T. Our team has the complete background to offer not only the quality of construction, but can also customize each home so it is uniquely different to each owner.”

Gunther went on to say, “Working with a multitude of high-end buyers, that can have anything they dream of, is part of the fun – and the challenge of building at Peninsula.”

Jim Berk is the Director of Sales at Pen-insula at Treviso Bay. He is often the first person to greet and welcome potential new buyers as they walk into the sales center.

“They usually have three questions for me. Who’s the builder? What’s includ-ed in standard features? And, is a golf membership included? My response is always: Imperial Homes, a custom home builder. Our standards are the other’s upgrades. And yes,” noted Berk. “From there, the community pretty much sells itself. There’s simply nothing like it in the Naples marketplace.”

According to Berk, the typical Penin-sula buyer is a second or third homebuyer, a retired or almost retired business owner from both the US as well as Canada, and parents of college age or adult children.

“There are three things that surprise potential buyers when they first visit the community,” noted Berk. “The first is the quality of construction and the fact they have the ability to customize their home. Second, the reasonable fees. And third, the views. They just can’t get over the incredible lake views with the finishing holes of Treviso Bay’s TPC golf course on the other side.”

“We’ve designed specific floorplans to take full advantage of the phenomenal lake and golf course views,” added Gun-ther. “We do that by using as much glass as possible on the back of the home to ensure that the owners and their guests can enjoy the fabulous views from any room.”

There are many other reasons for Pen-insula’s popularity. It’s the only new con-struction, in a golf course community, that’s within 5 miles of downtown Naples. It will have only 55 homes at completion. Each home is quality constructed. The community has a TPC championship golf course. And amenities are abundant.

“If someone is in the market for a new home in the Naples area, they owe it to themselves to visit Peninsula at Treviso Bay,” encourages Gunther.

“After just one visit, they’ll realize Pen-insula has everything they are looking for. A great location. Phenomenal custom-designed homes. And amenities to keep them as busy as they want to be,” adds Berk.

Currently 29 homesites remain at Pen-insula, all featuring lake and golf course views.

The homestyle offered by Imperial Homes in Peninsula has been described as coastal contemporary, and includes a wide range of floor plans specifically designed to take advantage of the lake and

golf course views from every homesite.The Abaco is a four-bedroom plus

optional study/three-and-a-half-bath plan with 3,196 square feet under air and 4,642 total square feet, including three-car garage.

The Burano is a four-bedroom/four-and-a-half-bath home with 3,515 square feet under air and 5,035 total square feet, including three-car garage.

The Caprina is a four-bedroom plus study/four-and-a-half-bath home with 3,770 square feet under air and 5,180 total square feet including a three-car garage.

The Domenica is a two-story, four-bedroom plus study and club room/four-and-a-half-bath home with 4,544 square feet under air and 6,409 total square feet, including three-car garage.

The Elisabella is a two-story, four-bed-room plus club room/ four-and-a-half-bath home with 4,687 square feet under air and 6,683 total square feet, including

three-car garage.The Firenze is the three-bedroom plus

study/three-and-a-half-bath plan with 2,881 square feet under air and 4,282 total square feet, including a two-car garage with optional three-car garage.

The Abaco, Caprina and Domenica have optional floor plans to consider. Prices for a home and homesite start at $1.8 million.

Currently, one model is open in Pen-insula. The Domenica II is a two-story, four-bedroom plus den plus bonus room/four full-bath/two half-bath home with 4,157 square feet under air and 6,329 total square feet. It is priced at $2,865,000, including furnishings and offered as a leaseback opportunity.

Another model, The Burano, recently sold just days after being completed.

Surrounding Peninsula is the Arthur Hills designed, 18 hole championship golf course, part of the PGA TOUR’s

acclaimed TPC Network of Clubs. The enclave of Peninsula also overlooks the magnificent 76,000-square-foot Mediter-ranean-inspired clubhouse. There’s also the Player’s Grille, a smartly stocked Pro Shop, and the locker room lounge.

Nearby is Treviso Bay’s 15,000-square-foot Villa Rilassare, a spa, fitness and health club and pool complex. Other ame-nities include 8 lighted Har-Tru tennis courts and beach volleyball, pickleball and bocce courts.

Peninsula at Treviso Bay is being mar-keted exclusively by Premier Sotheby’s International Realty. ■

For more information please visit the onsite sales center, go online to Peninsu-laNaples.com or call 239-249-6830. Model homes and the sales center are open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m..


The homestyle offered by Imperial Homes in Peninsula has been described as coastal contemporary.

The homes at Peninsula at Treviso Bay were designed to enjoy the outdoor lifestyle.

Every home in Peninsula at Treviso Bay overlooks a lake and the finishing holes of the community’s TPC golf course.

The Burano model sold just days after being completed. Surrounding Peninsula at Treviso Bay is the Arthur Hills designed golf course, part of the PGA TOUR’s acclaimed TPC Network of Clubs.

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The perfect work life balance

Imagine if your workday started here. Where each and every day is filled with brilliant sunshine

and glorious sunsets. If you can work from anywhere, why shouldn’t it be here? End your days the

same way you start them. At home. Loving your life at Kalea Bay.

Oral representations cannot be relied upon as correctly stating representations of the developer. For correct representations, make reference to this brochure and to the documents required by chapter 718.503, Florida statutes, to be furnished by a developer to a buyer or lessee.

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10032 ORCHID RIDGE LN., ESTERO• 3 BR, 3.2 BA + Den, 4,380 S.F., Pool• Great Room, Wet Bar, Outdoor Kitchen$1,599,000 MLS# 220056535Meli Chelon-Gumma 239.273.3974

SHADOW WOOD AT THE BROOKS

3471 THORNBURY LN., BONITA• Cozy Villa w/Newer Roof, 2 New A/C’s• 2,626 S.F., Guest Suite on 2nd Floor$729,000 MLS# 220065519Linda Ramsey 239.405.3054

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8968 MORGAN CT., NAPLES• Golf Course View• Pool & Spa$573,000 MLS# 220029369Kimberly Alvord 239.919.2742

LELY RESORT

4815 SHINNECOCK HILLS CT. #201, NAPLES• Bundled Golf• 3 BR, 3 BA + Den, 2 CG$419,000 MLS# 220061985Cheryl Suffoletto 239.770.1801

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9060 PALMAS GRANDES BLVD. #202, BONITA• Sought After 3 BR, 2 BA Condo• Outstanding Lake & Golf Views$285,000 MLS# 220079276

SPANISH WELLS - LAS BRISAS

28750 TRAILS EDGE BLVD. #305, BONITA• Spacious 3 BR, 2 BA + Den• Updated Kitchen w/SS & Granite$249,900 MLS# 219075335Terri Shrodi 239.247.3972

THE CARLYSLE

26670 ROOKERY LAKE DR., BONITA• 4 BR, 4.5 BA + Den, Bonus Room, 3 CG• Private Lake & Preserve View, 6,000+ S.F.$3,450,000 MLS# 220079131Connie Lummis, The Lummis Team 239.289.3543

BONITA BAY - ROOKERY LAKE

3791 BAY CREEK DR., BONITA• Sprawling 4,900 S.F. Home• 5 Bedrooms, 5.5 Bathrooms$1,495,000 MLS# 220071488Cindy Reyf 239.216.6366

PELICAN LANDING

24330 SANDPIPER ISLE WAY #502, BONITA• 3 BR, 3.5 BA + Den Penthouse• Breathtaking Views$639,000 MLS# 220063441Claudia Hoh, Koffman Group 239.560.2067

PELICAN LANDING

23540 VIA VENETO #704, BONITA• Luxury 7th Floor Condo• Great Pool, Lake, Golf & Bay Views$560,000 MLS# 220060047Gary Ryan 239.273.6796

PELICAN LANDING

20382 BLACK TREE LN., ESTERO• Great Floor Plan, 3 Masters + Office• 18’ Master Closet & Custom Built-Ins$417,000 MLS# 220046011Darlene Rice 239.325.3537

PRESERVE AT CORKSCREW

9596 TREVI CT. #5446, NAPLES• One-of-a-Kind Top Floor End Unit• 2 BR, 2 BA, Carport + Storage$272,000 MLS# 220062100

TREVISO BAY - TREVI

4873 HAMPSHIRE CT. #202, NAPLES• #1 Bundled Golf Community• 2 BR, 2 BA + Den, 2 CG, 1,669 S.F.$239,900 MLS# 220031547Cheryl Suffoletto 239.770.1801

NAPLES LAKES

27381 OAK KNOLL DR., BONITA• Gulf Access Estate Home, Riverfront Lot• 2 Private Boat Docks w/No Size Limits$2,900,000 MLS# 220059984Sue Ellen Mathers & Ashley Wells 239.405.4503

BONITA BAY - OAK KNOLL

760 BALD EAGLE DR., MARCO ISLAND• Rarely Available C-4 Zoned Lot• Exceptional Opportunity for an End User$1,100,000 MLS# 220073552Nancy Ehlen 239.494.0455

MARCO BEACH

8871 VENTURA WAY, NAPLES• Large Home w/Private Lake Views• Beautiful Pool/Spa Setting$635,000 MLS# 220079345

PELICAN MARSH - VENTURA

23440 COPPERLEAF BLVD., ESTERO• 2 Bedrooms + Den, Pool• Fully Furnished, Move-In Ready$549,000 MLS# 220080044The Bordner Team 239.989.8829

NEW LISTINGCOPPERLEAF AT THE BROOKS

8515 MYSTIC GREENS WAY #105, NAPLES• 2,400 S.F., 3 BR, 3 BA + Den• 2 Master Suites, Elevator, High Ceilings$399,000 MLS# 220050665Maureen Ahmed 239.839.7250

LELY RESORT

9820 GIAVENO CIR. #1416, NAPLES• Furnished 2 BR, 2 BA, 1st Floor, Lakefront• Golf Included, Across from Clubhouse$270,000 MLS# 220064899

TREVISO BAY - GIAVENO

16056 CALDERA LN. #10, NAPLES• Move-In Ready Townhome• Freshly Painted$239,900 MLS# 220080036Dodona & Ornela, The Roboci Team 239.776.8123

NEW LISTINGMILANO

4464 TAMARIND WAY, NAPLES• Built 2015, 2,830 S.F., Open Floor Plan• Chef’s Kitchen w/SS & Large Island$619,000 MLS# 220065331Karen Stone, Epifanio Team 239.784.1920

RAFFIA PRESERVE

4751 WEST BAY BLVD. #405, ESTERO• Sunset Views Over Lake & Golf Course• Luxury High Rise, Private Elevator Lobby$499,000 MLS# 220004999The Bordner Team 239.989.8829

WEST BAY CLUB

1237 SILVERSTRAND DR., NAPLES• Tennis Community• Huge Open Floor Plan, Private Rear View$399,000 MLS# 220064429Patty Vahle 239.450.7805

STERLING OAKS

26630 ROSEWOOD POINTE DR. #302, BONITA• Beautiful Lake Views• Private 1 Car Garage$269,000 MLS# 220073372

BONITA FAIRWAYS

600 NEAPOLITAN WAY #127, NAPLES• 1 BR, 2 BA Tropical Hideaway• Great Investment Opportunity$239,000 MLS# 220013019Troy De Mond 239.822.0332

PARK SHORE RESORT

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3546 BEAUFORT CT., NAPLES• 3 Bedrooms, 2.5 Bathrooms + Den• Saltwater Pool$599,800 MLS# 220073304Joe Epifanio, Epifanio Team 239.825.6161

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RIVERSTONE

27715 HORNE AVE., BONITA• ATTENTION INVESTORS!!!• New Up & Coming Redevelopment$470,000 MLS# 220008100Joe Epifanio, Epifanio Team 239.825.6161

DOWNTOWN BONITA

638 VINTAGE RESERVE CIR. #2B, NAPLES• Large Hurricane Proof Slider in MBR• Abundant Upgrades Throughout$395,000 MLS# 220081005Dodona & Ornela, The Roboci Team 239.776.8123

NEW LISTINGVINEYARDS

860 MEADOWLAND DR. #B, NAPLES• Beautifully Furnished, Turnkey• 2 Bedroom Suites w/Baths$265,000 MLS# 220081398Dodona & Ornela, The Roboci Team 239.776.8123

NEW LISTINGPELICAN RIDGE

4863 HAMPSHIRE CT. # 303, NAPLES• 2 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, 1.5 Car Garage• Penthouse$234,900 MLS# 220081098Cheryl Suffoletto 239.770.1801

NEW LISTINGNAPLES LAKES

1806 MAYWOOD CT., MARCO ISLAND• Coastal Contemporary• Built in 2019, 5 Bedrooms, 4 Baths$2,499,000 MLS# 220051259Justine Hine 239.784.3298

MARCO ISLAND

4731 BONITA BAY BLVD. #303, BONITA• 3 BR, 4 BA + Den, Sun Room, 3,799 S.F.• Expansive Patio w/Bay Views$995,000 MLS# 220059100Connie Lummis, The Lummis Team 239.289.3543

BONITA BAY - HORIZONS

25800 HICKORY BLVD. #204, BONITA• Direct Beachfront• Turnkey Furnished 2 BR, 2 BA$595,000 MLS# 220077387

SEASCAPE

2500 GULF SHORE BLVD. N. #N2, NAPLES• 2 BR, 2 BA Across from Beach• Gulf Access, No Bridges$459,000 MLS# 220058180

MOORINGS

28251 LISBON CT. #3422, BONITA• 2nd Floor End Unit w/Lake View• Great Room Floor Plan, Formal Dining$305,000 MLS# 220055372Sue Ellen Mathers & Ashley Wells 239.405.4503

SPANISH WELLS - MARBELLA

28060 PALMAS GRANDES LN. #107, BONITA• Turnkey 2 BR, 2 BA Condo• 1st Floor Access$259,000 MLS# 220078888

SPANISH WELLS - LAS BRISAS

28445 LAS PALMAS CIR., BONITA• Lot w/Great Lake & Golf Views• Cleared & Ready to Build - 89’ x 124’$199,000 MLS# 220027223

SPANISH WELLS

4971 BONITA BAY BLVD. #506, BONITA• Masterfully Designed & Finished• 3 BR, 4 BA + Den, Built 2018, 3,421 S.F.$1,895,000 MLS# 220065467

BONITA BAY - SEAGLASS

674 CAMEO CT., MARCO ISLAND• Direct Access, Deep Water Lot• Walk to Eagle Sanctuary & Esplanade$995,000 MLS# 220073553Nancy Ehlen 239.494.0455

TIGERTAIL BEACH

26941 WYNDHURST CT. #102, BONITA• Great Golf Course & Lake Views• 3 BR, 3 BA, 1st Floor Coach Home$585,000 MLS# 220071203

BONITA BAY - THE HAMPTONS

960 16TH AVE. NE, NAPLES• Large 3 Bedroom, 2 Bath• 3 Car Garage$420,000 MLS# 220072744Kurt Petersen, Petersen Team 239.777.0408

GOLDEN GATE ESTATES

5238 TEXAS AVE., NAPLES• Lovely Location in Naples Manor• New Kitchen, Bathrooms, Doors & Paint$300,000 MLS# 220070615Dodona & Ornela, The Roboci Team 239.776.8123

NEW LISTINGNAPLES MANOR

8001 VIA MONTE CARLO WAY #1102, ESTERO• 2 BR, 2 BA, Resort Style Living• Great Urban Setting, Spacious Lanai$259,000 MLS# 220078874Sue Ellen Mathers & Ashley Wells 239.405.4503

COCONUT POINT - THE RESIDENCES

1008 MANATEE RD. #G302, NAPLES• Minutes from Dowtown & Marco Island• Beautifully Updated, New Roof/Water Heater$174,000 MLS# 220073546Nancy Ehlen 239.494.0455

GULF WINDS EAST

4971 BONITA BAY BLVD. #602, BONITA• Professionally Furnished, 2,889 S.F.• 3 BR, 3.5 BA, Private Beach Access$1,650,000 MLS# 220076604Stacey Glenn, Team Stacey 239.823.1343

BONITA BAY - SEAGLASS

6585 NICHOLAS BLVD. W. #505, NAPLES• 3 BR, 2 BA + Glassed-In Den• 1,795 S.F. Under Air, 1,889 Total$964,000 MLS# 220064444Jenn Nicolai & Steve Suddeth 239.784.0693

PELICAN BAY

24299 GOLDEN EAGLE LN., BONITA• Conveniently Located• “Gem” of a Community$580,000 MLS# 220077997Glenn Kouns 239.770.8860

SAN CARLOS ESTATES

9836 VENEZIA CIR. #915, NAPLES• Gated, 1st Floor, TPC Golf Included• 2 BR, 2 BA + Den, Move-In Ready$419,000 MLS# 220015627

TREVISO BAY - VENEZIA

3540 AVION WOODS CT. #401, NAPLES• Close to Everything• Hurricane Impact Protection$299,900 MLS# 220077808Mary Ellen Bonelli 239.776.8737

AVION WOODS

28012 CAVENDISH CT. #5002, BONITA• New Carpet in Living & Bedrooms• Beautiful View of 2nd Fairway & Lake$255,000 MLS# 220039205Larry Bell 239.919.4404

WORTHINGTON

8735 RIVER HOMES LN. #6308, BONITA• 3rd Floor, 2 Bedrooms, 2 Baths• Beautifully Maintained, Great View$161,000 MLS# 220057705Larry Bell 239.919.4404

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NaplesPORT ROYAL 1201 Galleon Drive $11,995,000 Royal Shell Real Estate Call for Details! 239.275.2300 Sunday 1-4pmPELICAN BAY WOODS 812 Buttonbush Lane $5,495,000 John R. Wood Properties Laurie Bellico, PA 239.449.2770 Sunday 1-4pmPINE RIDGE 145 Ridge Drive $3,995,000 Premier Sotheby’s International Realty Jordan Delaney 239.404.3070 Sunday 1-4pmPORT ROYAL 2700 Treasure Lane $3,995,000 Premier Sotheby’s International Realty Nina Van Arsdale 239.860.7022 Sunday 1-4pmADMIRALS WATCH AT WINDSTAR 1610 Star Point Lane $2,999,000 John R. Wood Properties Emily K Bua & Tade Bua-Bell 239.595.0097 Sunday 1-4pm

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GREY OAKS 2630 Grey Oaks Drive #B-19 $1,525,000 John R. Wood Properties Susan Wall 239.285.5033 Sunday 1-4pm

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QUATTRO AT NAPLES SQUARE 1030 3rd Avenue South #101 $1,325,000 The Ronto Group Van Osborne 239.228.5800 Mon-Sat 10am-5pm Sunday 12pm-5pmCOLLIER’S RESERVE 1436 Gormican Lane $1,100,000 John R. Wood Properties Dennis Brando & Doug Stewart 239.777.2428 Sunday 1-4pmCALAIS AT PELICAN BAY 7040 Pelican Bay Blvd #D-203 $895,000 John R. Wood Properties Helen Janssen 239.450.7437 Sunday 1-4pmPELICAN BAY - ST. TROPEZ 5501 Heron Point Drive #602 $799,000 Premier Sotheby’s International Realty Janine Monfort 239.641.0990 Sunday 1-4pmMERCATO 9115 Strada Place #5304 $749,000 John R. Wood Properties Susan Gardner 239.438.2846 Sunday 1-4pm

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ELEVEN ELEVEN CENTRAL 1101 Central Avenue $725,000 The Ronto Group Van Osborne 239.302.6848 Mon-Sat 10am-5pm Sunday 12pm-5pmVANDERBILT YACHT & RACQUET CLUB 11030 Gulf Shore Drive #201 $724,000 Premier Sotheby’s International Realty Jon Peter Vollmer 239.250.9414 Sunday 1-4pmOLD NAPLES 280 2nd Avenue #204 $720,000 John R. Wood Properties Nan Dietrich 239.564.2906 Sunday 1-4pmVANDERBILT BEACH - GULF BREEZE 21 Bluebill Avenue #B-302 $620,000 Premier Sotheby’s International Realty Jon Peter Vollmer 239.250.9414 Sunday 1-4pmAVIANO 12768 Aviano Drive $595,000 John R. Wood Properties Doug Stewart 239.777.8686 Sunday 1-4pmNAPLES PARK 750 99th Avenue $585,000 Premier Sotheby’s International Realty Roxanne Jeske 239.450.5210 Sunday 1-4pmTHE MOORINGS - EXECUTIVE CLUB 3300 Gulf Shore Boulevard North #112 $535,000 Premier Sotheby’s International Realty Tami Eilers 239.216.7828 Sunday 1-4pmPELICAN BAY - BARRINGTON CLUB 7099 Barrington Circle #202 $475,000 Premier Sotheby’s International Realty Melinda Gunther 239.297.2155 Sunday 1-4pm

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6777 Bent Grass Drive $574,000 —Move-in condition awaiting your personal touch. Fully furnished/turnkey. Soak up the paradise lifestyle with loads of natural light from the abundance of windows/sliders. Ideal for family entertaining with comfortable floor plan & lanai.

Courtyard Towers 3-502 $749,500 —Trifecta of stunning views, sunrises, sunsets & twinkling lights of the island. Very generous living space when you arrive in your private elevator. High ceilings, spacious rooms, great amenities + close to beach entrance and park across street.

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London Bay caps off 2020 with luxury Port Royal sale

Following the record sale of the luxury estate on Admiralty Parade West listed for $18.5 million in Port Royal, London Bay Homes is capping 2020 with another mul-timillion sale in Naples’ most prestigious neighborhood.

Located on Gordon Drive, the $12.8 million custom home by London Bay was created in partnership with John Cooney of Stofft Cooney Architects, Romanza Interior Design’s Jennifer Stevens and Naples landscape architect Koby Kirwin.

Boasting 4,648 square foot of living space and four en-suite bedrooms with-in two stories, the home features West

Indies-Coastal architecture and interior design that pushes luxury living to new levels.

London Bay also offers a collection of floor plans designed for the needs and tastes of today’s homeowners. A variety of virtual tools allow for easy socially dis-tanced home shopping and meetings can also be conducted via Facetime, Zoom or one-on-one, with scheduled appoint-ments.

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Naples ArtFormer Baker Museum director/chief curator takes the helm at Naples Art. C2

Marco Island Center for the ArtsArtist Juan Diaz featured in solo exhibition “The Gathering.” C9

SocietyDavid Lawrence Center fundraiser “Sound Minds” featuring Patrick J. Kennedy. C15

Art Fest Naples returns to Fleischmann Park on Friday and Saturday January 16 and 17, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Cel-ebrating 24 years, Art Fest Naples is a juried show that offers South-west Florida residents and visitors an opportunity to browse and purchase fine art that includes paintings in oil and acrylic, watercolors, drawings in graphite and pastels, art photography, blown glass, turned wood pieces, sculp-tures, metal works, ceramics and pottery, fiber art, hand-crafted fine art jewelry and

a variety of 2D and 3D mixed media pieces. “Art Fest Naples draws 140 of the best

fine art and fine craft artists from around the country and is a must do for residents and visitors of Southwest Florida,” said Taire Mal-

loy, show director. “Art Fest Naples has been consistently

24th Annual Art Fest Naples returning to Fleischmann Park

e started exhibiting his photographs at pro-fessional outdoor art festivals when he was only 15 years old. Since then, he has par-ticipated in nearly 200 of them across the country, amassing numerous awards along the way.

He is Naples resident Tyler MacDonald. Today, armed with a sage outlook on life and art that is decades ahead of his 25 years, this lauded nature photographer

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“Steel Dancing Family” by Boris Kramer. Kramer is one of the artists displaying work at Art Fest Naples Jan. 16 and 17.

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Former Baker Museum director/chief curator takes the helm at Naples Art


Naples Art has announced the appointment of Frank Ver-poorten as its Executive Direc-tor and Chief Curator, effective immediately. A renowned leader, professional, and academic in the art world with more than 20 years of curatorial and artis-tic leadership in museums in the USA and Europe, Mr. Ver-poorten will lead Naples Art into a new phase as a premier Naples hub for artists, art enthusiasts and students.

Mr. Verpoorten previously served as Director and Chief curator for Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum, where he grew and advanced the appreciation of the permanent collection dur-ing his seven-year tenure, raising the museum’s profile and build-ing a reputation for distinctive, world-class exhibitions. Mr. Ver-poorten’s impressive fundraising efforts during his tenure resulted in significant donations, gifts of art, endowment support, and exhibition sponsorship/under-writing. He oversaw the pro-gramming of stimulating exhibi-tion seasons that included installations from The Baker Museum’s collection, national and international exhibitions, the acquisition of notable collections as well as showcases of emerging and under-recognized artists.

Prior to his tenure at Artis—Naples,

Mr. Verpoorten’s esteemed career includes 10 years in New York City as Culture Attaché at Flanders House (2009 – 2012), Director of Visual Arts and Exhibitions Curator at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and the Newhouse Cen-ter for Contemporary Art (2005 – 2009)

and Curator of the Dahesh Museum of Art (2002 – 2005). Mr. Verpoorten attended the Ph.D. Program in Art His-tory at the City University of New York and holds dual Master’s degrees in Cul-tural Studies and Art History from Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.

Naples Art Board Chair Ricki Baker shares, “We are extremely excited to welcome Mr. Verpoorten to the helm of Naples Art and look forward to our continued growth in the Naples artistic community under his leadership.”

Mr. Verpoorten adds, “I have long admired Naples Art’s commitment to art edu-cation as well as its prime location in the heart of Old Naples, adjoining a park teeming with activity and a pedestrian destination par excellence. I join the orga-nization with the intention of propelling Naples Art to greater prominence, to elevate its exhibition program, and to ensure its future viability and relevance as an organiza-tion that embraces diversity, equity, accessibility and inclu-sion. This joining of forces is a welcome opportunity for me to continue to foster the relation with the Naples com-munity, which I have come to know well over the past

eight years. I am confident that I can strengthen the mission

of Naples Art so that it may fulfill its greatest potential as an institution of art educational purpose.”

For more information about Naples Art, contact Frank Verpoorten, 239-262-6517, email [email protected], or visit NaplesArt.org. ■

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Frank Verpoorten

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In addition to the beautiful park set-ting, Art Fest Naples is unique in Florida

and the country because a portion of the proceeds benefit a 501(c)(3) orga-nization, St. Vincent de Paul Naples’ Meals on Wheels Program. The pro-gram serves the homebound by pro-viding 150 meals daily. St. Vincent de Paul’s other programs include the Fam-ily Assistance Center and Choice Food Pantry. For more information visit www.svdpnaples.org.

“We are grateful to be a beneficiary of Art Fest and we greatly appreciate the community’s support,” said Diane Van Parys, Art Fest volunteer coordina-tor and St. Vincent de Paul Naples vol-unteer. “The funds raised will help the Meals on Wheels program serve Collier County’s homebound residents.” For Art Fest volunteer information email [email protected].

Fleischmann Park is located at 1600 Fleischmann Boulevard in Naples. Sponsorships are available. For more information about the 2020 Art Fest Naples contact Taire Malloy at 239-634-2337. Email [email protected] or visit www.artfestnaples.com.

There will be a designated ENTRANCE and EXIT; SANITIZING

stations will be in key areas of the park; Booths will be limited to two people at one time. The show will fol-low the guidelines set forth by the City of Naples regarding masks and social distancing:

The City of Naples resolution requires all persons to wear face cover-ings inside public buildings or business-es, or attending public outdoor events when it’s not possible to maintain a social distance of six feet. Exceptions to the resolution include children under two years of age; persons eating or drinking; or persons needing accom-modation per the Americans with Dis-abilities Act. ■

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Naples Art reopens with full class,workshop and exhibition schedules


Naples Art reopened its downtown Naples building at 585 Park Street on January 2, following a period of exten-sive repairs and remodeling. An exciting lineup of one- and two-day workshops, adult and youth classes, and special events are scheduled for the upcoming spring season in its renovated home just steps from Fifth Avenue.

Classes starting January 18 appeal to a range of artis-tic interests. From curious beginners to weekend paint-ers and accomplished artists, Naples Art has something for you. Youth offerings include: Art for Teens, Clay for Kids, Therapeutic Finger Painting and Paint Naples, while adults can choose from workshops such as:

Watercolor Out Loud, Beginning Sea-scapes, Encaustic Encounter, Cold Wax, Abstracting Landscapes, and Painting Mangroves.

Naples Art is implementing com-prehensive protocols to keep students, teachers, and staff safe. Included are:

reduced class size to create generous social distancing, enhanced cleaning protocols, mandatory mask wearing, extensive signage, and sani-tizer availability.

Visit www.NaplesArt.org for the complete schedule, to register for classes and information about upcoming outdoor festivals and Naples

Art’s annual Scene to be Seen fundrais-ing gala as well. For questions, email Executive Director Merlin Lickhalter, [email protected]. ■

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Drawings by artist Nancy Strailey will be on display at the 24th Annual Art Fest Naples.

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Above: Tyler MacDonald pre-fers control over the entire photo-graphic process, from making the image to print-ing it himself on his studio’s large format photographic printer.

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At left: “Gator,” one of Tyler’s most popular images, was taken deep in the Everglades. “Bimini Star” a personal favorite of the artist, was taken while snorkeling in the waters of Bimini, Bahamas.

has added the craft of creating guitars to his repertoire.

“I’ve been a photographer my whole life, and it’s what I’m known for — my nature and wildlife photography,” he said. “And I love photography and I’ll always be a photographer, but I wanted to expand out and show people that I can do many things. I want to be known as an artist, not as a photographer. Pho-tography is just another creative outlet within my artwork.”

Mr. MacDonald started displaying that creativity early on.

“I’ve always been picking pens up and drawing, creating,” he said. “My parents were always very encouraging, signing me up for art classes, experimenting with different things at a young age.”

Mr. MacDonald grew up on Marco Island, where he was born to an out-doors-loving family that enjoyed trav-eling and camping across the country. As it turned out, that’s what fueled Mr. MacDonald’s desire to take up photog-raphy. He wanted to capture the feel-ings of seeing the natural world and bring them back home.

“I was a very unique kid,” he said. “I was very shy, so I had more of a con-nection with nature and animals, kind of away from the world. I very much like to be by myself. I’m self-reflecting, and that’s how I get really creative — going out in nature and camping for a couple of days, getting away from all this noise in the world to kind of clear my head.”

A family friend saw the boy’s work, and found it exceptional enough to suggest to Mr. MacDonald that he try exhibiting his photos in art festivals.

“My first few (festivals) were pretty low-tier, as far as that I didn’t know what I was doing,” Mr. MacDonald said. “But I found pretty good success early on, so my parents thought it was great.”

The only thing his age got in the way of was his transportation.

“My mom had to drive me around to these different events because I was so young,” he recalled.

Within a few years, Mr. MacDonald was reinvesting in himself and his busi-ness. His desire was to see the world — and photograph it. This led to trips to places as diverse as Africa, Fiji (where the avid scuba diver engaged in nearly half a dozen dives a day to experience the colorful fish), Costa Rica and more.

“I’ve traveled the world,” he said. “Before I was 20 years old, I’d seen more than a lot of people get to see (in their lifetimes), so I’m very grateful for that.”

In addition to nature, music is also a major catalyst for Mr. MacDonald’s creativity — and for the latest leg of his creative journey.

“Music is something I’ve always loved,” he said. “I just have a certain connection with music that I don’t get from anything else.”

Although Mr. MacDonald describes himself as a “very chill, kind of quiet guy,” don’t assume that the music he finds most inspiring to be the kind of classical or pastoral pieces you’d hear from a chamber orchestra or symphony. Oh, no.

“I get into very extreme metal music — a lot of screaming and loud riffs,” he confessed. “When people first hear that I’m into it, they’re kind of surprised.”

His favorite group is the L.A. rock band Tool, which he had an opportunity to see in concert last year in Colorado.

“They’ve given me a lot of inspira-tion, for sure,” Mr. MacDonald said. “Seeing them for the first time was an experience I can’t really describe. Something happened that was almost

like a spiritual thing. I just knew I was on the right path, and everything I was doing was meant to be.”

With that in mind, it should be no sur-prise that, while traveling cross country to art fairs a couple of summers ago, Mr. MacDonald’s interests turned toward the guitar.

“I just had this idea that I wanted to make guitars,” he said. “I don’t know exactly where the idea came from. When I got back to Florida, I started to work on it.”

Of course, one does not simply begin creating working instruments of any sort. Mr. MacDonald combined his pre-vious experience with woodworking with intensive study in order to forge the unique specimens he manufactures inside his shop.

“I really like a challenge,” he said. “I like to figure things out, take them apart and examine them. I began to study guitars.”

Starting with only sketches before moving to the actual carving of the wood, Mr. MacDonald is involved with every part of the guitar’s construction, includ-ing hand-selecting raw lumber sourced from different parts of the world.

“I consider components such as tone and visual design when selecting my materials,” he said. “I strive to source the most sustainable and practical woods that will be turned into a lifelong instrument.”

Mr. MacDonald uses uncomplicated and simple power tools for portions of the rough beginnings, and finishes the final pieces by hand — from shaping the neck and body to inlaying the fret board and lacing up the strings.

“My hope is that each and every one of these instruments finds a home, whether it is a young musician starting out, a musician touring with a band, or a guitar collector,” he said. “The idea that my work will be used to create music brings me such happiness, and that to me is what being an artist is all about.”

For Mr. MacDonald, this is living the dream.

“Success is following your path, your intuition, doing what you want to do and not caring what other people think,” he said. “I don’t have to clock in anywhere, (although) I do try to man-age my time. It’s not really a financial thing. I think too many people have this goal that they’re going to have this

much money and this kind of house and that kind of car, but I try to live more in the moment, be thankful for what I have and what I’ve done, doing what I want to do.

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THEATER‘Til Theft Do Us Part - By Broad-way Palm Dinner Theatre Jan. 14-March 6. Tickets start at $42. 1380 Colonial Blvd., Fort Myers. 239-278-4422 or BroadwayPalm.com.

The Spirit of Bay Manor - By the Marco Players through Jan. 24. 1089 N Collier Blvd, #432, Marco Island. 239-642-7270 TheMarcoPlayers.com.

Sandy Toes & Salty Kisses - By Firehouse Community Theatre Jan. 7-10 and 14-17. 241 N. Bridge St., LaBelle. 863-675-3066 or http://www.firehousecom-munitytheatre.com.

Happy Days The Musical - By Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre through Feb. 14. $48-$73. 1380 Colonial Blvd., Fort Myers. 239-278-4422 or Broadway-Palm.com.

Higher - By Gulfshore Playhouse through Jan. 15. The new one-man show featuring Broadway star Jeffrey Binder is streaming and can be viewed world-wide. Pre-sale tickets are $50; the pass-word is “Gulfshore.” www.Gulfshore-Playhouse.org.

Bravo Broadway - By TheatreZone Jan. 7-17 at the G & L Theatre. 13274 Liv-ingston Road, Naples. 888-966-3352, ext. 1, or https://theatre.zone/shows/.

Little Shop of Horrors - By Cul-tural Park Theater Jan. 7-17. Show times vary. 528 Cultural Park Blvd., Cape Coral. 239-772-5862 or http://cultural-parktheater.com.

THURSDAY1.7Funny Guy - Comedian Richard Shul-tis performs tonight through Saturday at the Laugh In Comedy Café. Show times vary. $18 general admission; $25 VIP. 8595 College Pkwy., Fort Myers. 239-479-LAFF or www.laughincomedy-cafe.com.

Comedy Show - Comedian Kountry Wayne performs tonight through Sun-day at the Off The Hook Comedy Club. Show times vary. $25 general admission; $35 VIP. 2500 Vanderbilt Beach Road. 239-389-6901 or www.offthehookcom-edy.com.

Beach Walk - Mound House offers a free Newton Beach Park Guided Beach Walk at 9 a.m. today and Tuesday. Meet at the thatched hut closest to the beach. Face masks are mandatory. Parking is $3 per hour. 4650 Estero Blvd., Fort Myers Beach. 239-765-0865 or www.mound-house.org.

Guided Tour - Mound House offers a Shell Mound Outside Guided Tour at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. today and Sat-urday, and Tuesday. Participants tour the 2,000-year-old site with interpretive staff. Masks are required for those over age 6. $5 per person; free for members. 451 Connecticut St., Fort Myers Beach. 239-765-0865 or www.moundhouse.org.

Kayak Tour - GAEA Guides offers a Manatee Kayak Tour from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. today and Sunday on wild creeks and rivers. Get up close and personal with these gentle giants and learn about their history, habitat and habits with a Flor-ida Master Naturalist. $65 per person; includes all equipment. For reservations: 239-694-5513 or www.GAEAGuides.com.

Weekly Market - The Coconut Point Farmers Market runs 9 a.m.-1 p.m. every Thursday through April 29 in the Coconut Point mall’s Panera Bread parking lot. The market features fresh produce, seafood, meats, cut flowers, locally harvested honey, baked goods and handcrafts. 23106 Fashion Drive, Estero. Facebook.com/coconutpoint-farmersmarket or 239-992-9966.

Art Event - An Art Studios and Gal-leries Open House runs from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. every Thursday through May in the Artisans Plaza in the Naples art District. Tour more than 20 professional studios/galleries working in a variety of medi-ums in one location. 5760 Shirley St., Naples. 239-572-3386 or 401-527-6554.

Live Music - AURA performs from 7-10 p.m. at The Center Bar at the Promenade at Bonita Bay. 26811 S. Bay Dr., Bonita Springs. Free. www.thecen-terbar.com.

Guided Walk - CREW Trust vol-unteers host a guided interpretive walk from 9-11:30 a.m. every Thursday through April 29 at the CREW Flint Pen Strand. The strand is a unique part of the Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed including the Kehl Canal, headwaters of the Imperial River and habitats that are undergoing habitat restoration. Wildlife sightings include deer, swallow-tailed kites and wading birds. Masks required. 15970 Bonita Beach Road SE, Bonita Springs. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/guided-walk-3rd-tuesdays-at-crew-cypress-dome-trail-tickets-116889356211?aff=affiliate1 or crewtrust.org.

FRIDAY1.8Art Event - The Fort Myers River District Alliance kicks off the New Year with Art Walk from 6-9:30 p.m. in the downtown historic district. Enjoy art, demos, exhibits, music, dining and shopping. www.explorefortmyers.com.

Art Opening - DAAS CO-OP Art Gal-lery & Gifts hosts an opening reception for the works of multi-faceted artist Lafe James from 6-9:30 p.m. during Art Walk.

The exhibition is on display through Jan. 30. 1815 Fowler St., Fort Myers. daascoop.com or 239-590-8645.

Pet Party - Yappy Hour runs from 6-8 p.m. in Center Court at the Bell

Tower. The event benefits Gulf Coast Humane Society. 13499 S. Cleveland Ave., Fort Myer. 239-489-1221 or www.belltowerFL.

Kayak Trip - Mound House offers a Mangroves by Kayak Tour for ages 12 and up at 9:30 a.m. today and at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Wednesday. Explore the winding mangrove creeks and the hid-den waters of the Estero Bay Aquatic Preserve on this environmental educa-tor-guided tour of the ancient realm of the Calusa. $45 for non-members; $15 for members. Masks required on land. 451 Connecticut St., Fort Myers Beach. 239-765-0865 or www.moundhouse.org.

Sunset Tour - Mound House offers a Sunset Kayak Tour for ages 12 and up at 4 p.m. Explore the tidal creeks and mangrove tunnels in the backwaters of Estero Bay. $45 for non-members; $15 for members. Masks required on land. 451 Connecticut St., Fort Myers Beach. 239-765-0865 or www.moundhouse.org.

Live Music - Phil Scibelli performs from 4-7 p.m. near Naples Flatbread at Miromar Outlets. Saxophonist Jim Black-burn performs from 4-7 p.m. near Nike. 10801 Corkscrew Road, Estero. 239-948-3766 or www.miromaroutlets.com.

Farmers Market - A Farmers Mar-ket & Craft Show runs from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on Fridays near Ford’s Garage at Miromar Outlets. Shop fresh produce, homemade soaps, plants, baked goods, candles, paintings, tie-dye apparel and accessories. 10801 Corkscrew Road, Estero. https://www.facebook.com/localladiessouthflorida/.

Live Music - The Old 41 Band per-forms from 7-10 p.m. at The Center Bar at the Promenade at Bonita Bay. 26811 S. Bay Dr., Bonita Springs. Free. www.thecenterbar.com.

Live Music - Fusion performs from 9 p.m.-midnight at the Zig Zag Lounge at Seminole Casino Hotel Immokalee. 506 South 1st St., Immokalee. 800-218-0007, moreinparadise.com or facebook.com/SeminoleCasinoHotel/.

Yoga at the Slough - Yoga instruc-tor Terri Fields teaches Beginner/Inter-mediate yoga outdoors on the covered deck at the Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve Interpretive Center from 9-10:15 a.m. on Fridays. $32 for four Friday ses-sions. Register for the month at webtrac.leegov.com. CDC guidelines are observed

and participants are spaced 6-feet apart. 7751 Penzance Blvd., Fort Myers. [email protected] or 239-823-5428.

SATURDAY1.9Cool Cars - A Corvettes on the Gulf Auto Show runs from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. in the back parking lot at the Bell Tower. The show is open to all; car registration is required. 13499 S. Cleveland Ave., Fort Myer. 239-489-1221 or www.bell-towerFL.

Home & Garden Show - The 2021 Semi-Annual Home & Garden Show runs from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. today and Sun-day at the new Caloosa Sound Conven-tion Center. In its 25th year, the show features more than 100 local and region-al companies that display and present products and services to homeowners. 1375 Monroe St., Fort Myers. 855-321-2111, ext. 20, [email protected] or expomanagementinc.com.

Art Show - The Naples Artcrafters Fine Art & Craft Show runs from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. in Cambier Park. A show is also set for Feb. 13. 580 Eighth St. S., Naples. www.naplesartcrafters.com.

Art Fest - The Bonita Springs Nation-al Art Festival runs from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. today and Sunday at Riverside Park. The show features work from more than 200 national and international art-ists. 10450 Reynolds St., Bonita Springs. 239-495-8989 or artcenterbonita.org.

Ben Allen Party - Hertz Arena hosts an appreciation concert for Estero musician Ben Allen, semi-finalist on NBC’s “The Voice,” at 7 p.m. The show also features the Naples hard rock band DepLoRableS. $20 admission; free park-ing; masks required. 11000 Everblades Pkwy., Estero. https://hertzarena.com.

Chess Club - The Paradise Chess Club meets from 12:30-3:30 p.m. every Saturday for casual, social games on the outdoor patio at Paradise Found Restaurant & Bar. Chess boards and pieces are provided; bring a clock. All ages and levels are welcome. 401 Papaya Street Goodland. [email protected] or ParadiseChessClub.com.

Beach Program - The Ostego Bay Foundation presents a “Treasures from the Sea” beach presentation from 10 a.m.-noon on Saturdays at the Ostego Bay Marine Science Center. Learn about the lifestyles of seashells, sea urchins, sea stars, sea horses, sand dollars and more. The presentation includes hands-on demonstrations, Touch Tank Expe-rience, cleaning shells and more. $15 adults; $8 ages 5-17; CDC guidelines followed. 718 Fisherman’s Wharf, Fort Myers Beach. http://www.OstegoBay.org or 239-765-8101.

Kayak Trip - Mound House offers a Family Fun Kayak Tour for ages 6 and up at 9 a.m. See birds, dolphins, mana-tees and other wildlife while paddling through the Estero Bay mangroves. $25 for ages 13 and up; $15 per person for ages 6-12. Masks required on land. 451 Connecticut St., Fort Myers Beach. 239-765-0865 or www.moundhouse.org.

Kayak Trip - Mound House offers a Mangroves by Kayak Tour for ages 12 and up at 9 a.m. today and Wednesday. Explore the winding mangrove creeks and the hidden waters of the Estero Bay Aquatic Preserve on this environmen-tal educator-guided tour of the ancient realm of the Calusa. $45 for non-mem-bers; $15 for members. Masks required on land. 451 Connecticut St., Fort Myers Beach. 239-765-0865 or www.mound-house.org.

CREW Trust volunteers host a guided interpretive walk from 9-11:30 a.m. every Thursday through April 29 at the CREW Flint Pen Strand. The strand is a unique part of the Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed including the Kehl Canal, headwaters of the Imperial River and habitats that are undergoing habitat restoration. Wildlife sightings include deer, swallow-tailed kites and wading birds. Masks required. 15970 Bonita Beach Road SE, Bonita Springs. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/guided-walk-3rd-tuesdays-at-crew-cypress-dome-trail-tickets-116889356211?aff=affiliate1 or crewtrust.org.

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WHAT TO DO, WHERE TO GOOutdoor Music - Claire Liparulo performs acoustic hits from 4-7 p.m. between Ford’s Garage and Naples Flatbread at Miromar Outlets. Kenneth “Pearl” James performs a variety of genres from reggae to oldies from 4-7 p.m. near Nike. 10801 Corkscrew Road, Estero. 239-948-3766 or www.miroma-routlets.com.

To Market, To Market - Stock up on fresh produce and locally made goodies at the Third Street South farm-ers market in Naples from 7:30-11:30 a.m. every Saturday. 239-434-6533 or www.thirdstreetsouth.com.

Farmers Market - The Golden Gate Community Farmers Market runs from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturdays year round at 4701 Golden Gate Pkwy. Vendors sell seafood, local produce, ethnic foods and more. 239-206-4339.

Farmers Market - Local Roots holds a farmers market from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. on Saturdays at the Promenade at Bonita Bay. Shop prepared foods and drinks for breakfast and lunch as well as cut flow-ers, produce, cheese, artwork, native plants, baked goods, salsas and pickles, honey, jams and more. 26795 S. Bay Dr., Bonita Springs. 239-691-9249 or BuyLo-calLee.com.

Weekly Market - The University Village Farmers Market runs from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. every Saturday at Univer-sity Village Shops. Shop fresh produce, homemade soaps, plants, baked goods, candles, tie-dye apparel and acces-sories. 9800 Village Center Dr., Fort Myers. https://www.universityvillage-fl.com/news/events/73.html or [email protected].

Live Music - Edith Diamond per-forms from 7-10 p.m. at The Center Bar at the Promenade at Bonita Bay. 26811 S. Bay Dr., Bonita Springs. Free. www.promenadeshops.com.

Live Music - Vintage performs from 9 p.m.-midnight at the Zig Zag Lounge at Seminole Casino Hotel Immokalee. 506 South 1st St., Immokalee. 800-218-0007, moreinparadise.com or facebook.com/SeminoleCasinoHotel/.

SUNDAY1.10Veggie Fest - The Bell Tower hosts Veg Fest from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Learn about healthy, plant-based foods in Fort Myers, Florida; find local sources of eco-friendly products; . and learn about the science behind the benefits of a plant-based diet. The event includes speakers, cooking demos, vendors, ani-mal rescues, entertainment and activi-ties. 13499 S. Cleveland Ave., Fort Myer. 239-489-1221 or www.belltowerFL.

Live Music - Jeff Bradford performs Rock n’ roll classics 1-4 p.m. across from Oakley at Miromar Outlets. Guitarist and vocalist David Tecce performs old-ies and classic hits from 1-4 p.m. in the Restaurant Piazza. 10801 Corkscrew Road, Estero. 239-948-3766 or www.miromaroutlets.com.

Farmers Market - A Farmers Mar-ket runs from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. every Sun-day year round near Golden Gate Ace Hardware. Vendors sell local produce, ethnic foods and more. 11725 Collier Blvd. 239-206-4339.

Live Music - Tat-2 Trio performs from 4-8 p.m. at the Zig Zag Lounge at Seminole Casino Hotel Immokalee. 506 South 1st St., Immokalee. 800-218-0007, moreinparadise.com or facebook.com/SeminoleCasinoHotel/.

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■ Marco Island Center for the Arts presents “The Gathering,” a solo exhibition by Colombian artist Juan Diaz, Jan. 11-March 2 in the Lauritzen and Rush galleries. The show features work in oils, acrylics and mixed media. — marcoislandart.org

■ Preferred Travel of Naples & Holland America Line present the Preferred Travel of Naples & Holland America Line present the interactive event interactive event “Virtual On Stage Alaska”“Virtual On Stage Alaska” at 3 p.m. Jan. 12. at 3 p.m. Jan. 12. Enjoy a fun and interactive presentation about one of the world’s Enjoy a fun and interactive presentation about one of the world’s great cruise and travel destinations: Alaska and the Yukon. great cruise and travel destinations: Alaska and the Yukon.

— preferrednaples.com— preferrednaples.com

■ Comedian Kountry Wayne performs Jan. 7-9 at the Off The Hook Comedy Club. Show times vary. $25 general admission; $35 VIP. 2500 Vanderbilt Beach Road.

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1.9■ The Marco Island Historical Society The Marco Island Historical Society presents the exhibit “presents the exhibit “A Pressing A Pressing Matter: Preserving Marco Island’s Matter: Preserving Marco Island’s Flora”Flora” through April 3, 2021, at the through April 3, 2021, at the Marco Island Historical Museum. Hours Marco Island Historical Museum. Hours are 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday; are 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday; masks required. 180 S. Heathwood Dr., masks required. 180 S. Heathwood Dr., Marco Island. Marco Island.

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GET OUT FOR A GOOD CAUSENaples Senior Center will present

a “virtual” Evening for Better Tomor-rows, its ninth annual signature fund-raising event, on Jan. 9 featuring Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Little Anthony. Each year, more than 300 supporters typi-cally attend the gala. The virtual fund-raising event will kick off at 7 p.m. with WINK News Morning Anchor Lind-sey Sablan serving as honorary emcee. Other highlights will include member success stories, a live call to action with Florida’s favorite fundraising auc-tioneer Scott Robertson and presenta-tion of the second annual Volunteer of the Year Award. All proceeds support Naples Senior Center and continued expansion of services. Reservations are now being accepted. There is no cost to attend the virtual event. In lieu of a ticket, attendees are encouraged to make a tax-deductible donation to sup-port the Center. A wide range of spon-sorship opportunities are available for local businesses and individuals. For information or reservations, visit www.naplesseniorcenter.org or call 239-325-4444.

Naples Woman’s Club presents its first “A Culinary Adventure” on Wednesday, Jan. 24. The event will take place at select restaurants as al fresco luncheons. Small groups will dine as the guests of chefs serving a special meal and interactive experience. The first part of the adventure is finding out at which restaurant you will dine just days before the event. All proceeds will go to four local agencies serving those with

food insecurity. Current CDC dining parameters will be adhered to and take out will be an option. Tickets are $125 or $200 at the Patron level. Ticket pur-chase deadline is Jan. 17. Future Culi-nary Adventures will take place Feb. 24 and March 24. Guests may attend one, two or all the dates. For further information and to purchase tickets, visit www.culinaryadventurenaples.org or call Naples Woman’s Club at 239-262-6331.

American Cancer Society’s Marco Island office invites you to take a walk on the wild side the evening of Friday, Feb. 5, as it goes Wild For a Cure at the 2021 American Cancer Society Imagina-tion Ball. With a dress code of cocktail attire, the gala will be held outdoors at the JW Marriott Marco Island. The new presenting sponsor is Walker Marine Group. Seating will be limited for this new outdoor venue. For more informa-tion, call 239-642-6217 or email [email protected].

NCH Hospital Ball is a 62-day cel-ebration this year, beginning with a special tree-lighting event and culmi-nating on Feb. 5 with a virtual event. The celebration is a unique alternative to the traditional Hospital Ball gather-ing at The Ritz-Carlton Naples, which was postponed due to the pandemic. “To celebrate this tradition, we light our beloved banyan tree in the Gar-den of Hope and Courage at the NCH Baker Hospital Downtown,” said Paul Hiltz, president and CEO of the NCH

Healthcare System. “The tree will be illuminated for 62 days, one day for each year of the Hospital Ball to date.” The funds raised from this year’s event will build and equip a state-of-the-art 10,000 square foot Multidisciplinary Simulation Center (Sim Center) at the NCH Baker Hospital campus. Unique sponsorship and giving opportunities are available during the 62-day celebra-tion and for the Feb. 5 virtual event. For more information about sponsorship and giving opportunities contact Mon-ica Biondo at 239-624-2019 or [email protected].

CLUB NOTESPC Bug Club continues to have

monthly meetings, but the venue has changed to the Zoom format. The club invites you to join them online via Zoom at 5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 21. The fea-tured speaker is Bob Gostischa, a retired banker, now an IT security expert pri-marily for Avast Antivirus. His topic is, “Is Cyber Security Really Important? Join the PC Bug Club as Mr. Gostischa guides you toward secure cyber security practices. The PCBug Club is a comput-er and technology club providing infor-mation and education on computers and mobile devices. Meetings are held on the third Thursday of the month. Both novice and advanced users are encour-aged to attend. To attend this meeting, contact Don Beach at 239-455-1542 to receive the ZOOM meeting link. ■

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MONDAY1.11Solo Exhibit - Marco Island Center for the Arts presents “The Gathering,” a solo exhibition by Colombian artist Juan Diaz, today through March 2 in the Lauritzen and Rush galleries. The show features work in oils, acrylics and mixed media. La Petite Gallery features the journey of art created by Carolyn Burger today through Feb. 2. Receptions for both artists are set for Jan. 12 and Feb. 9 by reservation only; limited to 30 participants. 1010 Winter-berry Dr., Marco Island. 239-394-4221 or marcoislandart.org.

Film Series - The Centers for the Arts Bonita Springs Films for Film Lovers series presents “Aquarela” (2019) at 7 p.m. at the Center for Performing Arts Moe Auditorium & Film Center. Refreshments are available and a discussion follows. $10 (advance reservations suggested). 10150 Bonita Beach Road, Bonita Springs. 239-495-8989 or www.artcenterbonita.org.

Yoga on the Beach - The Friends of Lovers Key (FOLKS) offers Yoga on the Gazebo at Lovers Key State Park at 9:30 a.m. every Monday, Wednesday and Fri-day. The Open Vinyasa Flow (multilevel) class is designed to keep bodies and minds fit and flexible. Bring a yoga mat, water and props. $10 per class plus park entry. 8700 Estero Blvd., Fort Myers Beach. Class size is limited and pre-registration is encouraged. www.fmbwellnessproject.com.

Outdoor Music - Jennifer “Golden Note” Gilmore performs timeless hits from 2-5 p.m. near Bloomingdale’s The Outlet Store at Miromar Outlets. 10801

Corkscrew Road, Estero. 239-948-3766 or www.miromaroutlets.com.

TUESDAY1.12Virtual Travel - Preferred Travel of Naples & Holland America Line present the interactive event “Virtual On Stage Alaska” at 3 p.m. Enjoy a fun and interac-tive presentation about one of the world’s great cruise and travel destinations: Alas-ka and the Yukon. www.preferrednaples.com. To register: https://attendee.gotowe-binar.com/register/294739896472913679.

Yoga at the Slough - Yoga instruc-tor Terri Fields teaches beginner/interme-diate yoga outdoors from 9-10:15 a.m. on Tuesdays on the covered deck at the Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve Interpre-tive Center. $32 for four sessions. CDC guidelines are observed. 7751 Penzance Blvd. Register at webtrac.leegov.com. For info: [email protected] or 239-823-5428.

Senior Softball - A slow pitch soft-ball group for ages 50-plus gathers at the Bay Oaks field at 9 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays through April. No equipment required. Men and women are welcome. 2731 Oak St., Fort Myers Beach. 530-913-2152.

Drive-In Movie - The Naples Play-ers presents TNP Drive-In Movie Night with a showing of “Singin’ in the Rain” from 8-10 p.m. tonight and Wednesday at 300 Eighth Street S. Concessions and non-alcoholic beverages are available for purchase. Fifty-spot maximum each night. Soundtracks are broadcast over short-range FM radio. Tickets are required for entry. $20 per car for members; $45 per car for non-members; $60 per car VIP. 239-263-7990 or https://naplesplayers.org/drive-in-movies/.

Kayak Trip - GAEA Guides offers an

Estuary Kayak Tour in Estero Bay from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Tour the area with a Florida Master Naturalist to see mangroves, birds, dolphins, manatees and other critters. $50 per person; includes all equipment. For reservations: 239-694-5513 or www.GAEAGuides.com.

Outdoor Music - Trumpeter and vocalist Gary Greenstien performs from 2-5 p.m. near Saks OFF 5TH at Miromar Outlets. 10801 Corkscrew Road, Estero. 239-948-3766 or www.miromaroutlets.com.

WEDNESDAY1.13Chess Club - The Paradise Chess Club meets from 2-4 p.m. every Wednesday at Gumbo Limbo at the Ritz. Chess boards and pieces are provided; bring a clock. All ages and levels are welcome. 280 Vander-bilt Beach Road, Naples. [email protected] or ParadiseChessClub.com.

Waterfront Tours - The Ostego Bay Foundation offers Working Waterfront Tours of the San Carlos Island shrimp fleet from 9 a.m.-noon every Wednesday. Tours provide an up close and personal look at the shrimping industry, plus a visit to the Marine Science Center Museum. $20 adults; $10 children. For reservations: 239-765-8101 or http://www.ostegobay.org/waterfront-tours/.

Kayak Trip - GAEA Guides offers an Estero Bay Aquatic Preserve Kayak Tour from New Pass south of Fort Myers Beach from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Tour the area with a Florida Master Naturalist to see mangroves, birds, dolphins, manatees and other critters. $50 per person; includes all equipment. For reservations: 239-694-5513 or www.GAEAGuides.com.

Comedy Show - Social media star and comedian Renny performs at 7 p.m. tonight and at 7 and 9 p.m. Jan. 14 at the

Off The Hook Comedy Club. $25 general admission; $35 VIP. 2500 Vanderbilt Beach Road. 239-389-6901 or www.offthehook-comedy.com.

Outdoor Yoga - A gentle yoga class starts at 9:30 a.m. every Wednesday on the lake view patio of the Mackle Park Com-munity Center. Good for all skill levels; bring a mat. $10 per class. 1361 Andalusia Terr., Marco Island. 239-642-0575.

Outdoor Music - Pianist Marc Meyer performs from 2-5 p.m. near Under Armour at Miromar Outlets. 10801 Cork-screw Road, Estero. 239-948-3766 or www.miromaroutlets.com.

Live Music - Manny T performs from 6-9 p.m. at The Center Bar at the Prome-nade at Bonita Bay. 26811 S. Bay Dr., Bonita Springs. Free. www.promenadeshops.com.

Guided Walk - A CREW Land & Water Trust volunteer hosts a guided walk at CREW Bird Rookery Swamp at 9 a.m. every Wednesday through April 28. The cypress/maple swamp is home to wading birds, owls, deer, bear, panther, bobcat, limpkins and more. Masks required. 1295 Shady Hollow Blvd. W., Naples. For tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/guided-walk-wednesdays-at-crew-bird-rookery-swamp-tickets-113809248526?aff=affiliate1 or crewtrust.org.

UPCOMINGSWFL Premiere - The Latin Divos present their Southwest Florida premiere concert at 7 p.m. Jan. 14 on the lawn stage at the Mercato. The new Latin pop-opera trio from Miami performs a diverse repertoire from opera to greatest songs with Latin flavor. $45. 9131 Strada Place, Naples. www.GulfshoreOpera.org or 239-529-3925. ■


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Marco Island Center for the Arts will present “The Gathering,” a solo exhibi-tion by artist Juan Diaz featured in the center’s Lauritzen and Rush Galleries Jan. 11- March 2. This show will feature work in oils, acrylics and mixed media. Diaz will present works that are a response to and interpretation of human and envi-ronmental issues from a psychological viewpoint. The diverse styles of Diaz’s work are used to elucidate the reality that surrounds him, illustrating the layers of humanity and the outer stories of life.

Diaz first came to Marco Island Center for the Arts as a student participant from Naples High School in 1999 in the then annual High School Student Scholarship Competition and Exhibition that has been showcasing the artistic capabilities of Collier County’s finest young talent since 1983. Now Juan Diaz will be completing the circle in his return to Marco Island Center for the Arts as an accomplished professional artist.

Diaz, a Naples resident, was born in Bogota, Columbia in 1981. His father, a professional sculptor and artist, noted his talented son’s natural creative intelligence and artistic gifts early in life. Diaz and his family relocated to Naples in 1995 where he began to create and explore the com-plexities of life seeking freedom, respect, and equality, all through his painting and drawing. Diaz added to his creative reper-toire using performing art and installation in 2010 and public art and sculpture were included to his ever-expanding areas of expertise in artistic skill.

In early 2006, Diaz met renowned artist Jonathan Green who resided in Naples. Green and his art manager Richard Weed-man were impressed with Diaz’s compo-sitional skills and his outstanding use of geometric planes and understanding of perspective and color, and offered him a mentorship to learn about the art busi-ness, administrative and management methods, which lasted three years.

Diaz’s work has been included in important exhibitions in Southwest Flor-ida as well as during Art Basel Miami Beach. His LIGHT Performance Art Series has been commissioned and trea-sured by the Holocaust Museum of South-west Florida, The Naples Art Association, The Sidney & Berne Davies Art Center, The Naples Film Festival and recently the whole series was presented at The Fill-more Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater.

Diaz was the recipient of the South-west Florida 2013 FACE Award for Cul-ture & Arts awarded by Gulfshore Life Business Magazine and the 1999 Porter

Goss Award. Diaz’s style and early mas-tery in drawing and the use of oils earned him a range of awards for Best in Show and various scholarships. Diaz continues to independently study the works, styles, and techniques of master artists from the United States, Europe, South America, Asia and Africa.

“The Gathering” will be featured in Lauritzen and Rush Galleries January 11- March 2, 2021.

Also on tap at Marco Island Center for the Arts”

January 2021Carolyn Burger January 11-February 2La Petite Gallery will feature the amaz-

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impressionist inspired works of Pat Per-rotti. Perrotti uses her impressionistic style to paint florals, boats, figures, sea-scapes, and still life.

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ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Aspects call for care in preparing material for submission. Although you might find it bothersome to go over what you’ve done, the fact is, recheck-ing could be worth your time and effort.

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LEO (July 23 to August 22) Although the Lion might see it as an act of loyalty and courage to hold on to an increasingly shaky position, it might be wiser to make changes now to prevent a possible meltdown later.

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LIBRA (September 23 to Octo-ber 22) Don’t hide your talents. It’s a good time to show what you can do to impress people who can do a lot for you. A dispute with a family member might still need some smoothing over.

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Some hands require a certain amount of delicate handling if declarer is to get home safely. In these cases, even the slightest slip can cost declarer the contract.

Take this case where West led a heart against three notrump. South took East’s king with the ace, led a diamond to dummy’s king and returned a low spade, covering East’s seven with the jack. It didn’t matter whether West took his ace or ducked the jack to preserve his only entry card. In either case, South would sooner or later make nine tricks.

What did declarer do that was so marvelous? Actually, nothing extraordi-nary. However, he did avoid two pitfalls, and to that extent he played the hand well.

First, South did not make the mis-take of ducking the king of hearts at trick one. Had he done that, East would have returned the jack of hearts at trick two, allowing West to overtake with the queen and play a low heart back to establish his ten if declarer ducked the second heart lead. South would then have lost three hearts and the A-K of spades for down one.

Second, South did not make the mis-take of leading a spade from his hand at trick two. Had he done that, he would also have failed.

East would have won the spade with the king, cashed the jack of hearts and led a spade to West’s ace to set the contract.

It is true that South would have made only eight tricks — even the way he played the hand — if East had gone up with the king at trick three when a low spade was led from dummy. However, the reply to this is very simple: How many players do you know who, hold-ing the East cards, would have risen with the king of spades without seeing declarer’s hand?

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Jerome Anthony “Little Anthony” Gourdine was noted for his high-pitched voice as the lead singer for Little Anthony and the Imperials. The rhythm and blues vocal group enjoyed sustained success on the pop charts throughout the late 1950s and 1960s with such hits as “Tears on My Pillow,” “Goin’ Out of My Head,” “Hurt So Bad,” and “I’m on the Outside (Looking in).”

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The Naples Senior Center serves the entire community and is a portal to com-prehensive services provided by licensed or certified professionals to meet the critical unmet needs of those diagnosed with ADRD and their caregivers as well as the area’s drastically underserved senior population. NSC offers an average of 40 different social, emotional and wellness programs each week aimed at stimulating the mind.

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The Naples Woman’s Club is host-ing a three-time event called “A Culinary Adventure That Gives Back.” These lun-cheons, open to the public, will feature small groups at noted Naples restau-

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Funds generated will support the restaurants and provide grants to four local social ser-vice agencies that are address-ing food insecurity among Col-lier County residents.

Chops City Grill celebrates National Oysters Rockefeller Day on Sunday, Jan. 10, with unique interpretation of the American classic dish: Oysters Chopafella, a mainstay on the steakhouse’s menu since 1997. The dish replaces the tradition-al anise flavor of Pernod with the tangy heat of miso (slight maple flavor) and yuzu (citrus juice).

For guests who prefer chilled starters, Chops offers a chef’s flight of mixed coast oysters served on a platter (the French say, “plateau de couqillages”) with cocktail sauce, citrus and Tabasco, atop shaved ice with a cucumber vodka mignonette. Additional chilled oyster cock-tails include a shrimp and oyster pairing served with and without Alaskan king crab and a three-

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