Community Highlights
Cape Coral
Cape Coral Yacht Club
Treasures of the tide pools is Thursday, Oct. 8 for ages 16 and older from 6 to 9 p.m. The resident fee is $10 and non-residents pay $12.
The Fall Wedding Expo is Oct. 18 from 1 to 4 p.m. Admission is $2.
The Cape Coral Yacht Club is located at 5819 Driftwood Parkway. For more information and to register call 574-0806.
Cookie Cutter Yacht Boat Cruises
Island Dolphin Sun set Cruise for all ages on Tuesdays, Oct. 13 and 15 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. and Thursdays Oct. 15 and 20 from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 31, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The cost is $30 plus tax for ages 10 years and up and $20 plus tax for children 2 to 9. Holiday lights cruises are $34 plus tax.
Lake Kennedy Senior Center
Lake Kennedy Senior Center at 400 Santa Barbara Blvd., presents the following events:
Join the Lake Kennedy Kruiser’s and hop aboard the Palm Beach Princess Friday, Oct. 2, 6:45 a.m. Cost $69 per member, $70 per non-member (must be 18 years of age or older. Photo I.D. required)
A Sunday afternoon with “The Boys” (Dan Schortman, Gary Pheed, Freddy Franklin and Stan Preston. All tickets are $5 per person. Call 574-0475 for reservations. Oct. 4, 2 p.m.
A trip to Tarpon Springs with the Kennedy Kruisers, Friday, Oct. 16, aboard the MV Island Winds to Anclote Key. Cost $57 per member, $67 per non-member.
Clogging classes Mondays: beginner 11 a.m.-noon; beginner plus noon-1 p.m.; Intermediate 1-2 p.m. Cost $6 members; $10 non-members all classes.
Evening ballroom dance classes Wednesday, 7-8:30 p.m. Oct. 21, and 28. Cost $24 member,. $40 per non-member, four classes per session.
T.G.I.F. dance party Oct. 9, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Cost $4 per member, $8 per non-member
Registration is required for all trips and programs. Call Lake Kennedy Center at 574-0575 to register and for more information
Lake Kennedy Senior Center is located at 400 Santa Barbara Blvd.. For directions call 239-574-0575.
Rotary Park
Rotary Park Environmental Center at 5505 Rose Garden Road presents: Keeping “fluffy” fluffy Fridays Oct. 2 to Oct. 9, from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Cost $40 Cape resident/$60 non-Cape resident Cost includes both class dates.
For more information or to register call 239-549=4606.
Fort Myers
New Exhibit Opens at the Edison & Ford Winter Estates
A new exhibit at the Edison & Ford Winter Exhibit in Fort Myers, “Music, Dance and Movies with Edison and Ford,” introduces some surprising interests and inventions that show how music, movies and dance wove deeply through their lives and their inventions. The exhibit includes dozens of examples of Edison’s phonographs and movie equipment, Ford’s interest in dance and his published dance and music books, and even an antique piano for live performances of the music and dance of their era. The exhibit opened on Sept. 20 and throughout the next year the historic site will present performances of dance, music, film festivals and other programs that show the varied music, movie and dance interest of both inventors.
The Estates is open daily from 9 to 5:30 p.m. The Estates was awarded the National Trust for Historic Preservation Award in 2008 and is an official project of “Save America’s Treasures” at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a Florida Historic Landmark and a National Register Historic Site. For additional information call 334-7419 or visit: www.efwefla.org.
Palm seminar
The Southwest Florida Palm Seminar is Oct. 10, at the Lee County Extension at 3406 Palm Beach Blvd. in Ft. Myers. The cost $8 per person in advance or $10 at the door.
Southwest Palm Seminar agenda:
8:30 to 9 a.m. Registration
9 to 9:30 Palm Characteristics: beginners guide with Donna Cressman, aster Gardener,Lee County
9:30 to 10 Best Palm for Southwest Florida
9:30 to 10; Mike Allen, Soaring Eagle Nursery Pine island
10 to 10:30 The Ins and Outs of establishing a palm garden. Gen and David Prall, Cape Coral
11 to 11:10 Break
11:10 to noon Top Ten Palm Problems Stephen Brown, IFAS, Extension Horticulture, Agent,Lee County. For more information contact Stephen Brown 533-7513.
Uncommon Friends Foundation
Three honorary life memberships and a volunteer of the year award will be presented during a special event for the Uncommon Friends Foundation on Wednesday, Oct. 14, at 5:30 p.m. at the Burroughs Home at 2505 First Street in Ft. Myers.
Those being honored with lifetime memberships are Ft. Myers Mayor Jim Humphrey; Ken Sneeden, Owner/President, Ken Sneeden & Assoc. LLC; and the family of John Halgrim III. Helen McLaughlin will be presented with the volunteer of the year award.
Honorary life memberships for the Uncommon Friends Foundation are presented to individuals who have demonstrated the character traits of the uncommon friends: commitment to helping friends, unending personal growth, a spirit of adventure, and a sense of purpose. The volunteer of the year award is presented to an individual who has given of his/her time and talent to the organization.
The public is invited to attend the event. The cost is $25, which includes heavy hors d’oeuvres. The presentations will begin at 6:15 p.m. Reservations are requested and may be made by calling the foundation at 337-9505.
Continuing classes at Wa-Ke
Beginning Oct. 1, the following classes/activities will be offered year round at Wa-Ke Hatchee Recreation Center at 16355 Summerlin Road, Fort Myers:
Tai-Chi classes are held Wednesday afternoons beginning at 1 p.m., runs for four weeks Cost is $28 per session. No registration required
Jazzercise classes are held monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings from 9-10 a.m. and cost $38 per session
Tuesday and Thursday from 4:30-5:30 p.m., cost $30.
For one class $8. Each session runs for one month.
Capoela, an Afro-Brazilian art form that combines dance, music, percussion, martial arts, aerobatics and gymnastics. The cost $76 per session. Registration is required.