This information is updated from http://www.bocabeacon.com, it will help you get an idea of local events and information on whats going on. The Boca Beacon mainly covers events happening on ‘Big” Gasparillia Island & Boca Grande Island, these Islands are much bigger, have roads, and are more crowded then Little Gasparilla, but it can give you a good idea on whats going on around the area.
Friday, December 02nd, 2011 / agitatedbuddha
Taking some time off from holiday cooking and holiday guests, a smaller than usual number of players competed during Thanksgiving week at the Boca Grande Duplicate Bridge Club for Monday, Nov. 21 winners were: First in A: N/S partners Jay Whipple and Janet LaudenslagerFirst in A: E/W partners Jane Brockenbrough ...
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Friday, December 02nd, 2011 / agitatedbuddha
Rey Futch married Christian Urbat of Wernigerode, Germany on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011. The ceremony was held on Banyan Street where Rey’s parents, Mark and Kathy Futch, were married 37 years ago. The guests arrived to Colt Clark playing songs by the Beatles, Ray LaMontagne, and Ben Harpor to name ...
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Friday, December 02nd, 2011 / agitatedbuddha
Royal Palm Players will present “You’ve Got Hate Mail,” starring (pictured above) Kim Fox, Michael Gilbert, Donna Hadley, Gary Grossman and Monica McIntire. Performances will be Friday and Saturday, Dec. 2 and 3 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 4 at 2 p.m. at the Boca Grande Community Center auditorium. ...
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Friday, December 02nd, 2011 / agitatedbuddha
Partying at Boca Grande Marina … Barton & Gray Mariners Club held their annual dock party last week at Boca Grande Marina to celebrate the return of their Hinckley yacht, True Blue II, to Boca Grande for the season. Guests enjoyed light refreshments catered by Miller’s Dockside, touring the yacht ...
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Friday, November 25th, 2011 / agitatedbuddha
BY LIZA STROUT – Only a few of the Gasparilla Island Bridge Authority members present at the November 17 quarterly meeting knew when they sat down at the table that they were about to get a $6 million slap in the face. It’s a slap that may be amended in ...
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Friday, November 25th, 2011 / agitatedbuddha
BY MARCY SHORTUSE – New boundaries. New sponsors. The World’s Richest Tarpon Tournament will be back in 2012, and it will be back in a big way. The announcement was made by the Boca Grande Area Chamber of Commerce this week that the boundaries will include extended waters. The east ...
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Friday, November 25th, 2011 / agitatedbuddha
It’s beginning to look a lot like a Boca Grande Christmas. Island businesses are decorating their windows and getting ready for Saturday’s Christmas Walk, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. Santa will be arriving by fire truck, and he will be greeting children of all ages in front of Ariel ...
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Friday, November 25th, 2011 / agitatedbuddha
BY MARCY SHORTUSE – Joann Welch stood on a ladder inside the Boca Bargains annex holding a chandelier, straining to reach a nail. “I knew when I took these down yesterday that I wouldn’t be a happy camper today,” she laughed. The annex, as well as the main store for ...
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Friday, November 25th, 2011 / agitatedbuddha
BY MARCY SHORTUSE – It’s an amazing sight: Take a bored kid, throw a pole in his hands and set him out in Boca Grande Pass with some of the best tarpon fishing guides in the world. You can be guaranteed that what happens next will include priceless memories ...
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Friday, November 25th, 2011 / agitatedbuddha
BY LIZA STROUT – When Dennis Oller walked in to the Englewood Community Care Clinic with wounds on his leg, he had exhausted all of his other options for care in the Englewood area. He had been picking tangerines when he fell and injured his leg on a fence, and ...
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