Thank you for the support
By Staff | Apr 20, 2021
To the editor:
The Shell Islands Garden Club would like that thank our island community for its enthusiastic response to our caladium fundraiser. As a result, there will be dozens of Sanibel and Captiva gardens bursting with showy caladium colors throughout the spring and summer.
Proceeds from the caladium sales will benefit island beautification projects, as well as nonprofit groups that promote native plant landscaping and gardening for wildlife.
Also, a big thank you goes out to all those who visited and enjoyed SIGC’s “Art in Bloom” exhibit this month at the Sanibel Public Library. A joint production by floral arrangers from the SIGC and artists from the Sanibel-Captiva Art League, the exhibit will return again in 2023. See you all then!
Sanibel library hosts WWII program, more
By SPL - | Mar 10, 2021
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Jeannie Clyde Riddle in 1920 on Sanibel.
Locals and visitors can virtually attend World War II history programs with staffer Duane E. Shaffer of the Sanibel Public Library via Zoom. No in-person programs are scheduled. On March 17 at 10 a.m., he will present “1943 Operation Eiche (Oak).” Learn about the German paratroopers’ rescue of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from the Apennine Mountains in southern Italy in 1943. Visit www.sanlib.org and click on the link to login a few minutes beforehand to watch; no login registration is required. More details and login instructions are online, along with replays of Shaffer’s 2021 virtual programs.
Sanibel library offers cooking kits for patrons
By SPL - | Feb 17, 2021
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Melissa Balthaser with a cooking kit from the Sanibel Public Library.
The Sanibel Public Library can help those who are bored of cooking at home.
In addition to access to cooking databases and cookbooks, it loans cooking kits, which check out like library books. The kits are circulated in bags with a coordinating cookbook and instructions. Some of the kits are especially handy at this time of year, like the soup pot, heart-shaped cake pan, cookie kit, tart kits or crêpe kit. Thousands of recipes can be found at A to Z World Food, and A to Z America food culture and recipe database. To access the Websites, go to the Resources page at www.sanlib.org.
America’s Boating Club to offer boating course
By BOATING CLUB - | Jan 6, 2021
America’s Boating Club of Sanibel-Captiva will present the America’s Boating Course in two sessions Jan. 14 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. and Jan. 23 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Sanibel Public Library.
The course covers basic boat operation and safety with an emphasis on boating the local waters around Sanibel and Captiva. Among the topics reviewed are required safety equipment, boat handling, docking and anchoring, navigation, right of way rules, VHF radio operation, and handling emergency situations at sea. Students are introduced to boating the local waters by studying navigation charts for Pine Island Sound, San Carlos Bay and the Caloosahatchee River. Important destinations, channels and waterways are reviewed and advice for confidently boating in local waters is discussed.