Archive for June 3rd, 2010
Home Inspections and Home Warranty
As a buyer, you want to ensure there is nothing wrong with the house you intend to buy. While you will want to know the condition of the house if it’s not a new house, you can expect that it won’t be perfect. (Even a new house isn’t going to be perfect). When my wife and I planned our dream home, we spent nearly two years developing [...]
Wear Blue, Get Two – Rookery Bay Admissions for World Oceans Day—June 8
The Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center, 300 Tower Road in Naples, will celebrate World Oceans Day from 9 a.m. to 4 pm on Tuesday, June 8. In addition to regularly scheduled daily programs, which include a nature walk at 11 a.m. and a Coastal Birds program at 2 pm, visitors to the center can enjoy a Touch Tank experience featuring Rookery [...]
What can you do to prevent falls?
Are you part of the America that is going gray as the Baby Boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964) are moving into their 60s? I must admit, I am. And to think that Americans are now living into their 80s and 90s and are coping with more age-related challenges than ever before. Health care issues continue to emerge as many struggle to care for [...]
To the citizens of Marco Island
Many of you have seen me around the island riding my bike. My name is Steve Zandy and I have a brain injury. I would like to tell everyone on the island how much I appreciate their embracing me and taking me under their wing. You have helped me more than you know. I’d especially like to express my appreciation to Matt Walthour of Island Bike [...]
The Sweet By and By
by Todd Johnson Published by HarperCollins Publishers, New York Rhonda sat in her car in the parking lot of the Ridgecrest Nursing home. She was talking herself into going in and getting started on her part time job as hairdresser to the patients. She thought you could wash their hair, listen to their absent chatter, and walk away unaffected [...]
Men in Blue—Marco’s Finest
Marco Island residents may not be aware of the impressive qualifications of the police officers who make up our local force. The officers’ backgrounds, qualifications, experience, and training, add up to a formidable force to protect us and keep us crime free here on Marco. Coastal Breeze News thought our readers might like get better acquainted [...]
Lanes shifting for bridge construction June 3rd
Tonight (Thursday) June 3rd at 10 PM, the Northbound and Southbound lanes on North Collier Blvd. near the Marco Island Yacht Club (1400 N. Collier Blvd.) will be shifting as part of the bridge construction project on Collier Blvd (SR951). Lanes will be shifting to the north and temporary delays, while unlikely, are possible. Drivers are [...]
