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July 4th, 2025 Parade Video is Published

Mangrove protection on Pine Island is critical

To Lee County Commissioners:

October Happenings at the Pine Island Library

The cool weather isn’t here yet, so consider visiting your air conditioned Pine Island Library! We have a lot going on during October.

Fraud Alert!

Sep 15, 2011
Criminals Posing as "Microsoft Security Team"

Commissioners Preference is Alternative 6 in the Redistricting

On behalf of the Greater Pine Island Civic Association, thanks to all Pine Islanders that sent emails and attended the commissioner redistricting hearing in Fort Myers today.

The Passing of Marianne Paton

Marianne Paton, passed away on 9-12-2011. She worked for the Cape Coral Breeze Corporation and was head editor for the Pine Island Eagle for many years.

The Passing of Franklin Scott Futch

Franklin Scott Futch, age 72, passed away on September 10, 2011. Franklin was born and raised in Matlacha and served in the Armed Forces during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Pine Island Should Not Be Ignored in Lee County Redistricting

All Pine Islanders need to immediately notify the Lee County Commissioners that the welfare of Pine Island should not be ignored in county redistricting, and that all five of the presently proposed re

Daniel Proctor Is Arrested

The ex-husband of a missing Cape Coral school teacher was arrested early Monday morning in Okeechobee, Florida, according to multiple unnamed law enforcement sources.

2nd Annual Bert's Redfish Challenge

2nd Annual Bert's Redfish Challenge is a charity fishing tournament to benefit Pine Island F.I.S.H.

Pine Island Presents: The Sean Chambers Band, Live from the Long Island Blues Warehouse

TAMPA, FL – Blue Heat Records announces a September 20 release date for the exciting new CD from The Sean Chambers Band, Live from the Long Island Blues Warehouse, distributed nationally by Burnside D

Hurricane Irene Hits Long-Time Pine Island Residents

Renee Futch reports from her home in Pamlico County, NC, "I just want to tell everyone we are fine. A bit shook up.

Help with Donations - Support 13th Annual PIE Fishing Derby, Earn Local Businesses Publicity

Cutline: Silent and Chinese auctions at the PIE Fishing Derby mean good publicity for local merchants; books and technology for local students.

Fire District Official's Recognition of Promotion and Hire from Volunteer Ranks

August 25, 2011 -PRESS RELEASE: The Matlacha/Pine Island Fire Control District at its August 24, 2011 monthly meeting, officially recognized and introduced to the Fire Board, newly promoted Engineer J

Matlacha Mariners Monthly Membership Meeting

Matlacha Mariners Monthly Membership Meetings
First Thursday Of Every Month at 6:30 p.m. sharp
Location: Matlacha Community Center

Tropical Storm Irene Update

This Image as of 8:00 am, 8-24-11 from the NOAA forecasters indicates the likely path of the tropical storm Irene. It DOES NOT indicate the actual wind speeds.

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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

October

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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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