The annual contest for the artwork for MangoMania Tropical Fruit Festival has begun!
All Pine Island residents and artists are eligible to enter the contest.
It’s that time of year again, MangoMania 2012 is around the corner and the Greater Pine Island Chamber of Commerce is on the searching Pine Island and Matlacha for the next woman to be crowned MangoMa
A few days ago, a Lee County Sheriff's Deputy issued a written warning to a person using a golf cart to do landscape maintenance along the bicycle path.
BOKEELIA, FL - The 25-acre brush fire that was burning off Bay Point Road in Bokeelia is now 100 percent contained, according to the Florida Forest Service.
The March Chamber Breakfast will be held next Tuesday, March 27, at the Island Grill Restaurant, located in the Winn Dixie Shopping Plaza, on Stringfellow Road in St James City.
Calling all Pine Islanders, We are hoping you can help us out. We are trying to find as many old photo's and stories of what was The Olde Fish House going back as far as possible..
After serving Pine Island Businesses for more than 40 years, it took a mere 30 minutes to reduce the Chamber walls to an unrecognizable heap of rubble.
$47,000 was raised to continue the mission of From Our Hearts, which is to raise funds to provide breast cancer screening and treatment for eligible persons in the greater Pine Island area.
1 to 5K Walk Begins at 9:30 am Registration starts at 8:30 AM
Saturday, March 10th, 2012
Sponsored by From Our Hearts Org
to be held in the Baseball field at Phillips Park at Pine Island Center.
Who's The Real Enemy? Average Prices as of 3/10/22 Russian's pay $.44 per gal. of natural gas & $2 a gal for gasoline. The U.S. pays $5 gal + del for propane and $4.35 for gasoline _________________ UPDATE: Temp Extremes on Earth's surface These ARE "everyday" & NOT Record Temps! 7-20-2016! Iraq: 126deg. F. Antartica: -91deg. F. 217 deg. spread 8-4-2021! Samoa: 129deg. F. Antarctica: -96deg. F. 225 deg. spread 4 deg. warmer 5 deg. colder >In over 5 Years< ________________ Sea Levels in Pineland have NOT gone up 1 inch in 50 years - But the Atlantic Ocean, 150 miles away has risen 3 feet? _________________ The Dollar's Value IS Tanking! '92-'05 ~ $400 oz. 2011 - $1800+ oz. The Gold Story ________________ Money Isn't Counted in Venezuela, It Is Weighed: 10-31-16; Wall Street Journal, 1 Doz. eggs, $150 ________________ In 1757, Lomonosov fathered the theory crude oil originates from biological material. The Story ________________ Little Known Arab Facts The Story ________________ The REAL “Cellular Therapy” Story The Cell Story ________________ Read: Climate Change "Consensus" a Fallacy ________________ Read: Astronauts Object to Global Warming "Crisis" Assertion ________________ 17,000+ children and teens are treated for lawn mower injuries each year. The Story
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Actual Photo of the Calusa Golden Mask discovered over 40 years ago
Wisdom From 450 BC
Just in case you or anyone you know or heard of thinks they have had one original thought in their entire life. . .some technology excluded.
“The longer a war lasts, the more things tend to depend on accidents."
“You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.”
“Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.”
"The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”
"I am more afraid of our own blunders than of the enemy's devices.”
Quotes from Thucydides translated from the classic Greek text: Born:460 BC, Halimous, Athens (modern Alimos) Died:400 BC, place of death unknown Thucydides was an Athenian historian and a general having fought in many Greek battles. Most notably fighting in and cronicaling the Pelopeneasean War in the fifth-century BC between Sparta and Athens manuscript of which he didn't finish for unknown reason. (more to come)
Relevant Quotes
The U.S. Constitution is just words on parchment. If no one protects and defends. . .protects and defends it, God won't bother.
“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” — Thomas Jefferson
When accused of colluding with the Russians, Winston Churchill said, “If Hitler invaded Hell, I'd find something nice to say about the Devil himself in the House of Commons."
". . .while the excesses of McCarthyism may be fairly described as a witch hunt, it was a witch hunt with witches, some in government.... " (Thomas Powers, New York Review of Books, 11th May, 2000)
"It (not being conclusively exposed until 1999) meant that he (Alger Hiss, assistant to Secretary of State Edward Stettinius under Franklin Roosevelt) could take pride in acting as Soviet agents in the United States were instructed by their handlers to act. Never reveal your covert existence, they were told; if exposed, categorically deny any complicity; if convicted (he WAS convicted with the help of Richard Nixon), strenuously maintain your innocence as long as you live... (G. Edward White, Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars - 2004)
In 10,000 years no one ever sacrificed their arms, their legs, their family or their life for "progress."
Speaking of Iran's crude nuclear bomb technology and inaccurate delivery systems, "If I were the (west bank) Palestinians, I'd be a little nervous." --John Wohlstetter, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute
"Goodbye, my beloved friend. A great voice falls silent. A great heart stops. " --Salman Rushdie (On the death of Christopher Hitchens, Dec.,16, 2011) UPDATE 8-22 (See link)
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."...."To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."-- Thomas Jefferson
"If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare… The powers of Congress would subvert the very foundation, the very nature of the limited government established by the people of America."--Alexander Hamilton:
“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else." --Winston Churchill