KOVELS: ANTIQUES & COLLECTING
Ideas for collecting vintage valentines
Valentines that we send today can be printed on heavy paper, homemade using paper lace and trim or e-mailed via a digital greeting-card service. The idea of a valentine dates back to the Middle Ages, when men gave handwritten verses to their girlfriends. Full Story
Hodges University celebrates 20 years
Hodges University, a private, nonprofit institution of higher learning offering 24 undergraduate and seven graduate degree programs of study, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this month. Full Story
Soup Kitchen Benefit announces menu donors
Menu donors for this year’s Sam Galloway Jr. & Friends Seventh annual Soup Kitchen Benefit have been announced. Full Story
Online registration is now open for Southwest Florida Race for the Cure
The 2010 Susan G. Komen Southwest Florida Race for the Cure is set
for March 13 at
the Coconut Point mall in Estero and online registration for individuals and teams is now open. Full Story
Woody Hanson addresses Estero Historical Society
The Feb. 8 Estero Historical Society meeting will be held at the recreation center in the Estero Community Park at 2 p.m. The guest speaker will be Woody Hanson, a fifth-generation Lee County resident and the grandson of W. Stanley Hanson, the “white medicine man to the Seminoles.” W. Full Story
Three performances planned of Mrs. Edison’s Hymn Sing
Celebrate the Edison Festival of Light and help feed the hungry by attending “Mrs. Edison’s Hymn Sing” Tuesday, Feb. 9, at The First Presbyterian Church in downtown Fort Myers at the corner of Second Street and Lee Street. Admission is free, but cash donations and canned goods will be accepted for The Soup Kitchen, operated by Community Cooperative Ministries, Inc. Full Story
Edison State offers continuing education classes
The following continuing education classes are offered at Edison State College, 8099 College Pkwy., Fort Myers. For information and registration forms, visit www.edison.edu/lee/ce/, e-mail celee@ edison.edu or call 489-9235.
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Nothing tops a blooming prickly pear cactus for beauty
Let’s face it: Think Florida plants, and we picture palms; think Florida flowers, and we envision the showy flame vine, oleander and poinsettia (all introduced species). Few of us picture the beautiful native eastern prickly pear cactus. Full Story
EDISON & FORD WINTER ESTATES
Antique cars, sneak peeks on tap
For more than a century, Southwest Florida has celebrated the Feb. 11 birthday of Thomas Edison with a month of activities and events to commemorate the inventor’s life, his home and his laboratory in Fort Myers. Full Story
This week on WGCU TV
. THURSDAY, FEB. 4, 9 P.M.
Pioneers of Television
Sitcoms — Part 1
Five key sitcoms are highlighted with insightful interviews: “I Love Lucy,” “The Honeymooners,” “Make Room for Daddy,” “The Andy Griffith Show” and “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” Full Story
Florida ranks in the bottom third for bicycle and pedestrian safety
Florida has a ways to go towards investing in safe streets, according to a report released by the Alliance for Biking & Walking. “Bicycling and Walking in the U.S.: The 2010 Benchmarking Report” shows that while 8 percent of trips in Florida are by bicycle or foot, bicyclists and pedestrians account for 20 percent of traffic fatalities in the state. Full Story
Lecture series features top scholars
The Renaissance Academy of Florida Gulf Coast University, a lifelong learning program for adults, seniors and retirees, announced its 2010 FGCU Great Scholars Lecture Series. The Great Scholars Lecture Series will be held at Bentley Village, 704 Village Circle in North Naples, on Saturday, Feb. 27. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Full Story
‘Ding’ lecture series introduces the photographic life’s work of Theodore Cross
Newly released in December 2009, the weighty 344-page coffee-table masterpiece, “Waterbirds: Portraits and Anecdotes from Birding Adventures,” unfolds the 40-year journey upon which Theodore Cross embarked midway through a life marked with political highpoints. He will make a special guest appearance to speak about his adventures and sign copies of his $100 volume at 1 p.m. Full Story
AMERICAN HEART MONTH
New software provides 3-D views of arteries
New technology that allows doctors to see three-dimensional images of heart arteries in the catheterization lab passed its first major testing hurdle — moving doctors closer to understanding its impact on clinical practice, researchers report in Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, an American Heart Association journal. Full Story
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