MONROE COUNTY, FL – Monroe County County Solid Waste, partnering with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, will be hosting three free Earth Day Tire Amnesty events for Monroe County residents with proof of residency. Residents may turn in up to six non-commercial tires with no rims for three days on Saturday, April 20, Saturday, April 27, and Saturday, May 4, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Monroe County Transfer Stations. The transfer stations are located at:
Residents must be able to load the tires into a container at the transfer stations, but assistance can be requested if needed by calling Monroe County Recycling Coordinator Melody Tuschel at 305-509-0325. “Tires can be a detriment to our local ecosystem and, when disposed of improperly, can hold water, making them the perfect breeding grounds for mosquitos,” said Tuschel. This event will help us remove some of these tires lying around people’s properties to recycle them properly.” In a landfill, it can take about 2,000 years for a tire to decompose. The tires collected at the event will be hauled to American Tire Recycling in Miami, where they are processed into rubber mesh granules. The granules are repurposed for asphalt/road surfacing, playgrounds, athletic fields, and landscape applications.
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Ft. Myers, FL - Offshore Sailing School President and CEO, Doris Colgate, is pleased to announce sailing lessons and courses will resume at the Pink Shell Beach Resort & Marina on Fort Myers Beach, Fla. starting May 2, 2024. The company had to suspend operations on Fort Myers Beach due to marina damage from Hurricane Ian in September 2022. “We are delighted to return to this favored destination on Fort Myers Beach in our company’s 60th Anniversary year. We know our students will enjoy the many enhancements the Pink Shell Beach Resort has made in the past 18 months to its facilities, marina, beachfront pool area, and restaurants overlooking the Gulf of Mexico.” Offshore Sailing School instructors will teach basic sailing lessons, 3-day Learn to Sail certification courses, as well as its popular Fast Track® to Catamaran Cruising 7-day course, combining learning to sail aboard a Colgate 26 sailboat and training aboard a big yacht, such as a Leopard 40 catamaran. The company offers the same courses on Captiva Island at ‘Tween Waters Island Resort & Spa aboard a Colgate 26 and 40’ monohull yacht. Coastal and Offshore Passage Making courses are also offered at these Southwest Florida resort locations. Team building and corporate group sailing and racing events are available at both locations aboard a fleet of Colgate 26 sailboats, designed by company founder/Chairman Steve Colgate.
The school also offers US Sailing certification courses in St. Petersburg and Key West, Florida, and Scrub Island in the British Virgin Islands. The company teaches a US Powerboating certification course aboard a Moorings power catamaran from The Moorings base on Tortola, British Virgin Islands. Students receive textbooks to study in advance and can earn US Sailing certification to skipper a boat up to 50’ all in just one week. Resort accommodations are included with the sailing course packages and the company also has no-lodging rates for area residents and those with alternate accommodations nearby. The company’s head office is at 6338 Presidential Ct., Ste. 201, Fort Myers, Florida, 33919. America’s #1 Sailing School® currently operates in four resort locations in Florida and two in the British Virgin Islands. Offshore Sailing School offers all levels of US Sailing and Powerboating certification courses, racing and refresher courses, Women-only sailing courses, racing events, team building and leadership development programs. Visit https://www.offshoresailing.com/. SENSE OF PLACE, KEY WEST Book Signing Wednesday April 10th Jag Gallery welcomes the publishing duo Margit Bisztray and Lena Perkins for a gallery book signing celebrating their recent collaboration SENSE OF PLACE, Key West, a gorgeous volume of engaging and captivating photography and prose which captures the wonder, beauty and idiosyncrasies that make Key West, Key West. Join us for a sip of Rosé on Wednesday from 5-6 pm, we’ll have books available for purchase and all are invited to bring a pre-purchased copy for signing.
Considered one of the Island’s top destinations for fine, contemporary art offering carefully curated exhibits featuring prominent artists from Key West and beyond, Jag Gallery is located at the Simonton Street entrance to Duval Square, 1075 Duval Street with ample, free parking. Gallery hours are Tuesday- Sunday, noon to 5 and always by appointment. For additional information call 305.407.6202 or email jaggallerykw@gmail.com and follow us on Facebook and Instagram. KEY WEST, FL, April 5, 2024—The College of the Florida Keys (CFK) invites the community to attend its CFK Poetics event on April 18 at 5 p.m. at the Tennessee Willliams Theatre on the Key West Campus. The annual visiting poets activity will feature a live reading from acclaimed poet Lauren K. Alleyne. She will read some of her work and take questions from the audience. The event is free for all attendees.
Alleyne serves as Executive Director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center and as a professor of English. She is author of two collections Honeyfish (2019), Difficult Fruit (2014), two chapbooks Dawn in the Kaatskills and (Un)Becoming Gretel, and co-editor of Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry. Her work has been widely published in journals and anthologies internationally, including venues such as The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Ms., among several others. Alleyne, who hails from the twin island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, has been recognized with a US Artist Award nomination (2023), an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Poetry (2020), the Green Rose Prize from New Issues Press (2017) and has been shortlisted for the BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Literature and the Library of Virginia prize for poetry (2020). In 2022, Alleyne was awarded an Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virgina, and the JMU Agency Star Award. CFK Poetics is a series that aims to develop awareness of an immersion in the humanities landscape by connecting students and the community with poetry on the national level in a way that is immediate to their own experiences. Since 2019, visiting poets have come to Key West or appeared virtually to share their work and have conversations with the student body as well as the community at large. Formerly featured poets include B.H. Fairchild, Chelsea Rathburn, Richard Blanco, and Ross Gay, Barbara Hamby, David Kirby, and Adrian Matejka. Additional information about CFK Poetics can be found on the College’s website at cfk.edu/poetics. KEY WEST, FL, April 4, 2024— The College of the Florida Keys continues its 2024 VIP Series with “State of the National Marine Sanctuary” on Thursday, April 18 at 7 p.m. in the Tennessee Williams Theatre on the Key West Campus. The presentation will be led by Sarah Fangman, the Superintendent of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. In its tenth season, the College’s VIP Series invites the community to learn from the Views, Ideas, and Perspectives of speakers of local, regional, and national prominence. The 2024 season includes presentations that focus on timely topics relevant to Keys’ audiences.
In this lecture, Superintendent Fangman will discuss managing the sanctuary under stress and how marine researchers and the community have responded in novel ways to try to protect threatened resources. Topics will include what we know are the impacts from the current temperature stress on the whole system—including corals, seagrass, fish, and sponges—and how the marine community is answering the cry for help. Fangman became Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Superintendent in 2017, transitioning from the same position with Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary in Georgia. She began working with the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries in 1998 after serving as a U.S. Presidential Management Fellow with NOAA Fisheries at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center and the Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response program in Washington D.C. CFK’s 2024 VIP Series is sponsored by First Horizon Bank. Tickets for each event are $5 at the door. Admission is free for students at CFK and Monroe County schools. For more information, call CFK at 305-296-9081 or visit the College’s website at CFK.edu/VIP. KEY WEST, FL, April 3, 2024— The College of the Florida Keys (CFK) welcomes Dr. Monekka Munroe as the Vice President of Academic Affairs. She will start full-time with the College in May. A member of CFK’s senior leadership team and Chief Academic Officer, Dr. Munroe will lead the academic affairs division, which includes the academic divisions of Arts and Hospitality, Marine Science and Technology, and Sciences and Nursing, as well as Student Success Services and the Learning Resource Center. “I thank the numerous CFK employees who participated in the selection process for our new Vice President of Academic Affairs,” said Dr. Jonathan Gueverra, CFK President. “They join me in welcoming Dr. Munroe to the College.” Dr. Munroe began her 16-year plus career as an Assistant Professor for Criminal Justice at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University before working as an Associate Professor and the Department Chairperson for the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Virgina Union University. Dr. Munroe has also worked as a part-time faculty member for Nova Southeastern University and as an instructor for a female correctional institution. She holds an associate in arts degree from Sante Fe College, a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education and master’s degree in Criminal Justice from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. She earned a doctorate in Higher Education Leadership from Nova Southeastern University. KEY WEST, FL, April 2, 2024— The College of the Florida Keys is accepting applications and registering students for its summer semester. CFK is offering three summer term options:
Leadership Monroe County will celebrate its Class XXXI graduation with “Leadership Spring GradFest,” a community festival and alumni reunion to be held April 27, 2024, from 11:00am-8:00pm at Marathon Community Park, MM49. The expanded family-friendly event will feature multiple food trucks, games, a bounce house, water slide, a classic car show, axe throwing booth, the KWPD Mounted Patrol Unit, all-day music, artist vendors, Monroe County non-profit booths, a targeted 50/50 $25,000 Class XXXI raffle, graduation ceremony @3:00 pm, and more. Admission is $10; children aged 12 and under free. LMC is an educational, nonpartisan, non-profit community organization that brings together existing and emerging leaders to build constructive alliances in the Florida Keys. For more information about Leadership Monroe County and its program visit leadershipmonroecounty.org or call 305-394-3804. MilitaryPersonnel and Veterans Benefit from Professional Expertise in Military Benefits, the Relocation Process, and Support Key West, Florida April 1, 2024 - Meghan K Davis with Bascom Grooms Real Estate has been awarded the nationally recognized Military Relocation Professional Certification. The National Association of REALTORS® awards the MRP certification to REALTORS® who help military personnel, veterans and their families find housing that lets them make the best use of their benefits and serves the unique needs of military life.
When military staff and their families relocate, the services of a real estate professional who understands their needs and timetables can make the transfer easier, faster, and less stressful. REALTORS® who earn this certification know to work with active duty military buyers and sellers, as well as veterans. The certification provides NAR’s members with resources to accommodate current and former military service members at any stage of their military career and is an approved elective for NAR’s Accredited Buyer’s Representative designation. To earn the MRP certification, REALTORS® must be in good standing with NAR and complete the Military Relocation Professional (MRP) Certification course. Job fairs to be held in Key West and Key Largo KEY WEST, FL, April 1, 2024—The College of the Florida Keys invites employers and job seekers to join CFK students and alumni at their annual Career Connections Job Fair and Networking events on Wednesday, April 17 from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the Tennessee Williams Theatre on the Key West Campus and Thursday, April 18 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the College’s Upper Keys Center in Key Largo.
This event serves as a platform for CFK students, alumni, and community members to meet with potential employers, explore career opportunities, and apply for jobs within their fields of interest. To make the most of this networking opportunity, attendees are advised to bring their resumes and dress professionally, ensuring a polished and effective interaction with prospective employers. Employers interested in participating must email Nicole Gerrard, Associate Dean of Student Success, at nicole.gerrard@cfk.edu by April 12. Space is limited |
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