Lighthouse Project – What We Do: Snowbirds help economy, but permanent...
For Naples native Christine Kirkland Durfey, the beach is "like seeing the Statue of Liberty."It's there. It's iconic. But the sand and surf have lost their attraction, and Durfey, 54, doesn't visit as...
View ArticleLighthouse Project – What We Do: More than 10 percent of area workers in...
On a recent afternoon, Charlie Palmer polished water glasses as the lights dimmed at Chops City Grill in Bonita Springs.He adjusted the chairs, ground the coffee and ducked into a pre-dinner staff...
View ArticleLighthouse Project – What We Do: Estimated 12,000 farmworkers toil in fields...
Cristobal Calzada Guillen has spent more than half of his life picking crops in the fields near Immokalee. For the past 32 years, waking up at the crack of dawn to work under the sun, rain or cold has...
View ArticleLighthouse Project – What We Do: Where snowbirds come to winter
Each spring for the past 22 years, Lewis and Starr Emrick have packed up their Old Naples condo and headed home to Parkersburg, W. Va., for six months of the "real world." The twice-yearly move is a...
View ArticleLighthouse Project – What We Do: What a day can say
By the time the sun rose at 7:14 a.m. on April 5, Southwest Florida was already alive. Maintenance crews prepared practice greens, and construction workers hit their job sites. It was just another...
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