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July 4th, 2025 Parade Video is Published

GPIWA Membership to Vote on Increasing Fluoride Level

For Immediate Release, 10/3/12.

Greater Pine Island Chamber of Commerce After Hours Business Card Exchange

Thursday September 20th Mel Brinson with Adams & Brinson Attorney at Law and Betty Twigg with Aqualand Realty hosted the Greater Pine Island Chamber of Commerce After Hours Business Card Exchange.

From Our Hearts Provided $73,000 in Breast Cancer Screening & Treatment to Pine Island Residents

From Our Hearts’ mission is to raise money to provide Breast Cancer Screening and Treatment to eligible Pine Island area residents.

Greater Pine Island Chamber of Commerce Monthly Board Meeting

Members are encouraged to attend the monthly Board Meeting.

Know what your Board Members and Directors are doing to promote your local businesses.

Be Aware - Concerned - Involved

Benefit to be Held for Local Family

PAULIEPALOOZA Benefit

September 9, 2012
Starting at 12 noon till 9:00 PM

Olde Fish House Marina
4530 Pine Island Road
Matlacha, Florida 33993
Rain or Shine

Pine Island Little League Annual Meeting and Election of Board

Calling all Pine Island Residents who like Baseball and Kids.

Pine Island Little League is holding their Annual Meeting and Election of New Board Members.
September 5, 2012
6:30pm at field 1

Pine Island/Matlacha Artist Leoma Lovegrove Opens at Sidney & Berne Davis Art Fashion Runway

Pine Island. September 3, 2012. - This Saturday, September 8 at 7:00pm., Leoma Lovegrove will open the runway of the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center's, Art Walks the Runway Fashion Show. Ms.

Calling All Pine Islanders:

Lee County has some 400 trees and shrubs to be planted near the lake at the Galt Preserve, and needs volunteers to help with the work. Here follows is the message I received from Lee County.

Labor Day Family Fun Day at the Pine Island Legion

The American Legion Post 136 of Saint James City, Florida will be hold a “Labor Day Family Fun Day”

Monday, September 3rd
from noon to 3pm.

Olde Fish House Marina Special Exception Hearing

Public Hearing date set for The Olde Fish House Marina for a special exception in the IM zoning district to allow a restaurant in conjuction with outdoor seating .

BP Claims at Chamber Monthly Breakfast

The Wilbur Smith Law Firm has a record of integrity, hard work and results since 1970.

Will Issac Skirt Our Area?

It looks like hurricane Issac will at least skirt our area.

Body Found In Bokeelia Has Been Identified

UPDATE: The body that was discovered on August 22, 2012 around 10:45 AM in Bokeelia just off of Bahama Way has positively been identified by dental records as Amy Patterson.

Body of Amy Patterson Recovered - Brings Closure To Family

Bokeelia, Florida
August 22, 2012 around 10:40 AM the body of Amy Patterson was recovered on property just off of Bahama Way road in Bokeelia.

Jennings Appointed Chamber Directors Position

Buzzy Phillips, Greater Pine Island Chamber of Commerce Board member announced

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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

September

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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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