Pine Island Kiwanis Gold Rush

Pine Island Kiwanis Presents The Gold & Silver Exchange.
Exchange your Gold & Silver for $$$$$$

Who Has the Right-of-Way?

Who Has the Right-of-Way? I mean no disrespect, but wanted to post this for awareness, to bicyclists on the island. The other day I was taking my son to his dads on Pine Island, in Saint James City.

Relocate Winn Dixie Cats

Leave the Winn-Dixie cats alone. I’m continually amazed how one individual that does not get the Pine Island life-style of “live and let live” can ruin things for everybody else.

Golf Cart Proposal Unanimously Approved at the Pine Island Town Hall Meeting

Golf cart proposal unanimously approved at the Pine Island town hall meeting on April 3, 2012.

Helping Paws Animal Sanctuary, Inc. Holds HUGE Rummage Sale

Helping Paws Animal Sanctuary, Inc. will be holding a HUGE Rummage Sale

Mike Greenwell’s Family Fun Park
35 NE Pine Island Rd (Cape Coral)
Saturday April 28th.

from 8:00am until 1:00pm.

MangoMania 2012 Art Contest Underway

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.

Will You Be the Next MangoMania Queen?

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

Written Warning Issued for Golf Cart use to do Landscape Along Bicycle Path.

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.

NEWS UPDATE - Bokeelia Residents Back Home After Fire Area was Determined to Be Safe

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.

Golf Cart Proposal as thus far Approved by Majority Vote at the Town Hall Meetings

Attached is a copy of the golf cart proposal as thus far approved by majority vote at the Town Hall Meetings.

Pine Island Boat Club Holds Free Vessel Safety Check

The Pine Island Boat Club is sponsoring a free Vessel Safety Check

9-11 AM on Saturday, March 31,
The Waterfront Restaurant and Marina
2131 Oleander Street
St. James City, Florida 33956 .

Phil Rosenberg & Harold Bruner to Speak at Chamber Breakfast

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.

Great Turnout for Chamber's March Card Exchange

The Greater Pine Island Chamber of Commerce held its March “Business After-hours” networking event for all its members.

History on Olde Fish House

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..

Pine Island Chamber Building Is No More

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.

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Little Known Facts

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
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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<
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Sea Levels in Pineland
have NOT gone up 1 inch in 50 years - But the Atlantic Ocean, 150 miles away has risen 3 feet?
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The Dollar's Value IS Tanking!
'92-'05 ~ $400 oz.
2011 - $1800+ oz.
The Gold Story
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Money Isn't Counted
in Venezuela,
It Is Weighed:
10-31-16; Wall
Street Journal,
1 Doz. eggs, $150
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In 1757, Lomonosov fathered the theory crude oil originates from biological material. The Story
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Little Known Arab Facts The Story
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The REAL “Cellular Therapy” Story The Cell Story
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Read: Climate Change "Consensus" a Fallacy
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Read: Astronauts Object to Global Warming "Crisis" Assertion
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17,000+ children and teens are treated for lawn mower injuries each year. The Story

Event Calendar

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Items of Note

HURRICANE IAN - Video
4th of July, 2024 Parade - Video
4th of July, 2023 Parade - Video
4th of July, 2022 Parade - Video
4th of July, 2021 Parade - Video
Common Sense American Patriot Dearly Missed -
Rush Limbaugh - Died 2-17-21
4th of July, 2019 -- Here for 4th of July, 2019 Parade video
ClamJamSWFL Video video link
PIN Upgrade -- Here for Upgrade Story
4th of July, 2018 -- Here for 4th of July, 2018 Parade video
4th of July, 2017 -- Here for 4th of July, 2017 Parade video
4th of July, 2016- Here for 4th of July, 2016 Parade video
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

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