Garden Gala This Weekend Held on Pine Island

The 12th Annual Pine Island Garden Gala will be held Saturday, Feb. 23, from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m., at Phillips Garden Park at Pine Island Center.
An assortment of raffle items and a few silent auction items will be a part of the Garden Gala this weekend to help raise funds for many Pine Island charities that the Pine Island Garden Club supports.

This year some of the raffle prizes include gift certificate to Carraba's; autographed photos of some of the Pittsburgh Steelers; a gift bag from the Beacon of H.O.P.E.; $50 gift certificates from Winn-Dixie and so much more you just have to attend to see them all.
This year the basket "Time for Me" consists of $50 gift certificate with shampoo, conditioner and hair treatment from Angles; Little Lilly's Island deli $20 gift certificate, Koozie and T-shirt; and a $75 gift certificate to Center of Attention Day Spa and about a hundred dollars worth of products from the spa.

The Garden Gala will offer a wide variety of vendors with plants, cuttings, arts & craft vendor and so much more. Come out and send a day on Pine Island a support a local organization that supports its island and the people who live on it.

Our growing list of Gala Raffle Prizes!
Happy to provide a link to their website for a visit.
We are having a silent auction this year! Tickets for the silent auction will only be sold the day of Gala..
There is a form provided on this page if you would like to donate to our Gala Raffle.

Silent Auction Items:
Day of Beauty at Center of Attention Day Spa to include Facial, Massage, Haircut, Nails, Pedicure, Beauty Products and Lunch at Lil Lilly's, Two Night Stay at the Tarpon Lodge to include 2 person ECO Paddling Tour by Pine Island Paradise Paddling.
Gala Raffle Prizes:
We will be having all of our vendor's donate one item & to include some great donations from our local business's & friends.. $25 Gift Certificate to Carraba's, Four / $50 Winn Dixie Gift Cards, Autographed Photos of some of the Pittsburgh Steelers, "Best of Color Garden for Florida" Pamela Crawford, "Container Gardening with Flowers and Herbs" Pamela Crawford, "Along the Caloosahatchee River" Amy Bennett Williams, A Gift Certificate for a massage at Spa 33 in Matlacha, 2 Tickets to Edison Ford Estates, Hand crafted pillow by Artist Gretchen Bennett, Hand painted Rain Barrel by Marty Kendall, Turquoise & Lime Green Fused Glass Fish from Lynne Smith, Gift bag from Beacon of Hope, Print of Dolphins from Sandy Costanzo, Pine Island Feed Store donated 11 cases of bottled water to be sold at Gala.
Come out and enjoy a day on Beautiful Pine Island

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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'92-'05 ~ $400 oz.
2011 - $1800+ oz.
The Gold Story
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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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