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DAR honors outstanding Lely JROTC cadet from Marco Island
Chris Curle
Special to teh Eagle
Marco Island’s Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) chapter held its first “regular “meeting at Marco Lutheran Church April 15 at the Marco Lutheran Church. It was the first in-person meeting for the members since the Zoom meetings of the virus restrictions.
Each year, the DAR awards a medal to an outstanding JROTC cadet who has shown leadership skills and academic achievement. This year’s medal and certificate was presented to Lely sophomore Mauricio Andre Rocha, who lives on Marco Island. His proud mother, Lizbeth Palacios, was at the meeting to see her son honored.
Water was on everyone s mind on a recent Dunbar morning.
Not just because renowned Southwest Florida water scientist Rae Ann Wessel had come to the I Will Mentorship Foundation s urban farm, but because the stuff was pouring from the sky, soaking the nonprofit s crops and hammering its tin roof.
After a decades-long environmental career, most recently with the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation, where she retired as its Natural Resources Policy Director, Wessel is poised to help others learn about what she loves: natural systems and the water that sustains them.
On this rainy morning, though, she settled for joining a handful of volunteers from Florida Gulf Coast University making wooden picnic tables under I Will’s pavilion.
They’re not the biggest, but they might be the brightest. A five-member team from Sigonella High School has taken top prize in the 2021 Navy Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps academic competition for the first time in the school’s history. Seniors Eliza Moore, Noah Bachicha and Katherine Payne, junior Norman Nguyen and sophomore Allison Havard made up the team. Each had to take an online test in March with 70 questions featuring an array of general academic and Navy-specific topics. “This is a big deal for any program,” said Victor Martinez-Frias, who runs the program at the school. It’s even more significant at Sigonella because it has the smallest program in the Navy with only 31 students, he said.
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