The seventh anniversary of Give Where You Live Collier generated 2,593 donations, including 1,932 made online, and raised a total of $6,446,656 — over $763,000 more than last year’s total of $5,683,085. The event has brought in over $31 million since its inception. Hosted by the Community Foundation of Collier County and the Richard M. …
The Naples Senior Center has helped register 150 of the most vulnerable seniors in the SWFL community for the COVID-19 vaccine who are unable to register themselves. The seniors are all over the age of 80 and do not have the technology or cannot book appointments on their own. Volunteers at the Naples Senior Center …
Joseph Innes has tasted danger and flirted with risk before in his 101 years. The North Naples resident flew 35 missions over Nazi Germany during World War II as an Air Force navigator aboard B-17 bombers. “We dumped a lot of tonnage of explosives,” he recalled of the perilous forays above enemy territory. So confronting …
Life in Naples magazine recently published an article about the impact Naples Senior Center has on its clients and the community. Click below to view the entire flipbook magazine. The article about Naples Senior Center can be found on page 58. Life In Naples – February 2021 Flipbook
When the vaccine against COVID-19 became available last month, 86-year-old Ginny LaPlaine knew she would not get an appointment “I don’t use a computer,” the Naples resident said. “It was all so foreign to me.” Vaccine appointments for people 65 and over in Collier County must be made online, whether through the state Department of …
The Naples Senior Center has helped register 150 of the most vulnerable seniors in the SWFL community for the COVID-19 vaccine who are unable to register themselves. The seniors are all over the age of 80 and do not have the technology or cannot book appointments on their own. Volunteers at the Naples Senior Center …
More than 100 Collier County seniors received a renewed dose of hope and help. The over-80 crowd doesn’t have access to technology or the ability to book their own appointments, but they were able to get their shot in the arm with some help. Cars were full of some of the most vulnerable in the …
If we’ve all learned anything from 2020, we are social beings who often don’t cope well with isolation, something so many of our older family members deal with even when there isn’t a pandemic. But the Naples Senior Center, dedicated to making sure our loved ones don’t feel alone as they age, has gotten the spot …
Our love language as a society has changed, now that touch is so rarely allowed. But Judy Zwicker and Priscilla Martin still know just how to send a message from the heart. The two women are part of the Naples Senior Center Knitting Club, a 20-person group that churns out shawls, blankets, bags and hats. …
Naples Senior Center, a nonprofit organization that provides comprehensive programs and social services for seniors, announced that it has obtained the necessary approval from the Board of Collier County Commissioners to proceed with its new permanent home on Autumn Oaks Lane, just a block south of Immokalee Road. The Naples Senior Center is the only …
He’s not that little. His first name isn’t Anthony. But with the wedding of both those titles to his razor-clean countertenor and a direct, intimate style, Jerome Gourdine has won fans over six decades as Little Anthony, flanked by his harmonic colleagues, the Imperials. At 79, he still sings with that clean precision, as Southwest Florida can find …
Naples Senior Center, a nonprofit organization that provides comprehensive programs and social services for seniors, announced that it has obtained the necessary approval from the Board of Collier County Commissioners to proceed with its new permanent home on Autumn Oaks Lane, just a block south of Immokalee Road. The Naples Senior Center is the only …