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July 4th, 2025 Parade Video is Published

Cool Front Bites, But Fish Don't

March 12, 2014
PineIslandNews.com

The Brothers Van Kirk to Perform for Haiti Benefit

Strange Arrangement performing

March 16, 2014
Olde Fish House Marina
2:00 PM to 6:00 PM
4530 Pine Island Road
NW Matlacha, Florida 33993

Squirrel Pox Reported On Pine Island

Phil Buchanan reported seeing two cases of squirrel pox within the last few weeks on Pine Island.

Taste of Pine Island 2014 is HUGE Success!

The Kiwanis Club of Greater Pine Island is very proud to announce this year’s Taste of Pine Island was a great success. The weather was perfect and the food was awesome.

Matlacha Hookers 12th Annual "Bag 'n Tag" & Breakfast

What is the Bag ‘n Tag? Each year, The Matlacha Hookers host the Bag ‘n Tag to raise monies for their ‘Hooked on Education’ Scholarship program.

Kiwanis Offering Scholarship to Deserving Pine Island Students

The Kiwanis Club of Greater Pine Island is once again providing several financial college scholarships to Pine Island students.

Breaking News in St. James City - UPDATE

Mar. 11, 2014 8:38 AM
News-Press.com Reports

Lee County Deputies on Scene of Standoff Situation on Pine Island

Matlacha Hookers Scholarship Applications Available

The Matlacha Hookers have announced that the organization is continuing its tradition of awarding scholarship grants to deserving and potential students, not only for college, but for trade schools as

Beacon of H.O.P.E. Summer Camp Plans Are Underway

The Beacon of H.O.P.E is seeking volunteers for this years’ Summer Camp program which is held at Pine Island Elementary School from June 9 through July 31.

Journey From Pine Island To Haiti

Island to Island Concert
Wednesday March 19th 6 pm-8 pm
featuring music by : Strange Arrangement and Deb & the Dynamics.

Bank of America Robbed

Bank of America at 5041 Pine Island Rd. The Pine Island Branch) was robbed just after 9a.m. on the morning of January 21, 2014.

Kiwanis Taste of Pine Island to be Held Jan. 25-26, 2014

Two-day Event Packed with Live Music, Entertainment and Great Food

Environmental Groups File Lawsuit to Replace Ceitus Barrier on North Cape Coral Spreader

The following parties filed a lawsuit on (December 27, 2013) enforce a Settlement Agreement and Consent Order requiring the City of Cape Coral to replace the Ceitus Barrier, to include either a boat l

Power Outage In Bokeelia Due To An Accident

Tuesday, December 3, 2013 about noon a two vehicle accident involving a late model white Dodge 2500 Power Wagon truck and a late model dark blue two door sedan

Beacon's Holiday House to Host Family Night Wednesday

The Beacon of H.O.P.E. presents Holiday House of H.O.P.E.

Starts this Wednesday, December 4th, 2013 at 4:00 PM. Which is also Family Night.

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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

4th of July, 2025 Parade - Video
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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