Coastal Breeze News

On September 6th, Troop 234 met at the Marco Island Museum for a lecture series. The speaker that evening was Mark Renz, a well know Florida paleontology. Author of five books relating to Florida fossil finds  in Southwest Florida and the Peace River in Central Florida. Our Troop is planning a return trip, canoeing and camping on Peace River this coming November to fossil the river. The Troop meets every Tuesday night at the Wesley United Methodist Church. Young men 6th grade thru High School are welcome to join. The Cub Scouts, grades 1st thru 5th grade, will be meeting ... Read More »

by Vincent Giannone On Saturday the 17th, Friends of Tigertail hosted a beach cleanup at Marco Island’s Tigertail Beach. Various groups and local Marco Island citizens volunteered along side Friend’s members. A total of fifty one proud volunteers were in attendance, including such groups as the Newcomers, Marco Lutheran Church and the Collier County NAACP.   This local event coincided with the International Cleanup Day sponsored by oceanconservancy.org. This is a day when various volunteer groups from around the world clean their local beaches in order to enter the amount of each item collected into the oceanconservancy.org database. These items ... Read More »