The Children’s Advocacy Center of Collier County is planting a pinwheel garden to remember a Naples police officer who died in a car crash.
Sgt. Jeffrey Reidy of the Naples Police Department worked in the special victims unit, so he was a very familiar face to the Children’s Advocacy Center before his death in a car crash earlier this year. The Center says his passion to help others was evident in both his professional life and his personal one, adopting and fostering children with his wife Jennifer. And it says the legacy he left behind his commitment to helping kids and other victims of abuse lives on.
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FGCU research students go underwater to take scuba certification to the next level
Published: April 7, 2021 5:02 PM EDT
Updated: April 7, 2021 6:13 PM EDT
Students at Florida Gulf Coast University are learning how to do research underwater while scuba diving.
The university is known for researching issues that happen in our own backyard, but in order to get out there, students first have to get their feet wet, in a pool.
Calli Johnson is a dive safety officer and scientific diving course instructor at FGCU, She says, “We’re doing a really, really simple introduction to technical diving here in the pool.”
Don’t mistake this for a pleasure diving course, for these students it’s all about scientific research.
In a small cove at the mouth of Rock Creek near the Gordon River that runs into Naples Bay, four artificial oyster reefs await new denizens.
The habitats are one of three artificial reef projects the City of Naples is implementing to improve water clarity, quality and restore lost habitats.
“The Naples Bay and Gordon River area has lost 80% of the historical oyster cover that existed since 1950s due to development, dredging for navigation and the altering hydrology, which affects water quality,” Katie Laakkonen, interim manager of the city’s natural resources division. “This is an effort to get this key habitat back into the bay and do it in a successful way.”
Innovation school to become part of East Zone
Tentative opening date is August 2024
By MEGHAN BRADBURY - | Apr 7, 2021
The school district is moving forward with a pre-k through eighth grade innovation school in the East Zone, which has tentatively been scheduled to open in August 2024.
“This is the right school for the right location at the right time,” Operating Planning & Project Management Executive Director Kathie Ebaugh said.
The site, which the district owns, is close to Florida Gulf Coast University on Treeline Avenue and represents the diverse population from which the school will be pulling.
“We know that the schools in this area are highly selective. The area elementary schools are over utilized,” Ebaugh said. “The recommendations of our site and school type for this campus is based on over two years of work our team (has been) collaboratively working on.”