The new 5,000-square-foot fitness center in the Ave Maria town center is having a "soft opening" this week and will have its official "grand opening" Saturday, May 10.
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Ave Maria residents and students are arrived back in town this week from Rome, where many believe their lives were changed by attending the canonization of Popes John and John Paul II. Above, John Paul Allan, 12, awaiting the start of the canonization Mass and ceremony.
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The Collier County Planning Commission unanimously approved plans for a Walmart north of the center of Immokalee Tuesday night. The plans now require further approvals by the Collier County Commission and state authorities.
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A bear on the ground and balloons in the air -- including, ironically, one depicting a bear -- made for an eventful morning Saturday in Ave Maria. Many of the balloons from the Balloons Over Paradise event in Immokalee landed in Ave Maria. On the ground, wildlife officials tranquilized and euthanized a bear that had been stalking the Bellera neighborhood.
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UPDATE: Collier County Commissioners agreed Tuesday to move ahead with an application to have a veterans nursing home in Ave Maria. Ave Maria Development has offered to donate 20 acres of land for the project. The VA will pick one location out of several possibilities in Florida.
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 Ave Maria Resident Laura Mastandrea, a standout soccer player at Palmetto Ridge High School, has been named to the Naples Daily News all-area team. She has signed to play for AMU this fall.
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Michael Novak presented Travis Curtight with the second Laub-Novak award for excellence in teaching at opening night Wednesday for the Ave Maria University Shakespeare in Performance production of What You Will. (photo of Dr. Curtright and his wife, Mary, with Mr. Novak by Tim Moore)
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 Ave Maria's drinking water was judged recently to be the best in the state of Florida in an American Water Works Association competition. The Ave Maria Utility Company also won the state-wide honor in 2010.
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Three Donahue Academy football players received state awards from the Florida Christian Association of Private and Parochial School at a banquet in Tampa Saturday. Honored were Luke Scheck, Marco Vega and Matt Houde Above, coaches Don Stuller and Rich Scanlon with Scheck, Vega and Ben Houde, representing his brother Matt)
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The mother of former Ave Maria University student Jon Scharfenberger, a pro-life activist who died in an accident in the fall of 2011, urged those attending a dinner raising money for scholarships in her son's name not to forget the cause for which he worked so hard. Above, Anna Scharenberger addressing the dinner.
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Barron Collier Chief Operating Officer Brian Goguen told an AMU fundraising dinner Thursday night that his company is projecting sales of between 250 and 300 homes in Ave Maria, surpassing sales numbers from a strong 2013.
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Shakespeare is such a big part of the lives of Travis and Mary Curtright that they named their five children (pictured above) after characters in Shakespeare plays. Ave Herald Editor Patricia Sette writes about this and Dr. Curtright's thoughts about this year's Shakespeare in Performance production of What You Will in her column in the Naples Daily News Collier Citizen.
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The Donahue Academy team placed third out of nine Collier County schools competing in the Collier County Junior Varsity Scholar Bowl tournament this weekend.
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 Ave Maria University is inviting anyone with an interest in religious life to its annual Vocations Fest Wednesday April 9. This year's fest has a record number of religious orders and communities represented.
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The Mother Teresa Exhibition Hall in Ave Maria opened to the public Wednesday, April 2, offering a unique look at the life of the beloved founder of the Missionaries of Charity. (Above, visitors at the museum in photo by Brendan Weston)
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More than 1,300 Ave Maria students, faculty, staff and town residents enjoyed great music and great food on the Feast of the Annunciation, March 25. (Above, the band Scythian performing. Photo by Brendan Weston)
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 The Donahue Academy in Ave Maria has announced the selection of Mrs. Regina ("Gina") Code from St. Veronica parish school in Cincinnati, OH, to replace founding headmaster Daniel Guernsey, who will lead the new AMU education department..
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The first employees at Advantage Inc.'s Ave Maria offices begin work Tuesday, March 25, company president Jeff Butzke said.
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A Mass of Christian Burial for Giogio Allan, who struggled with health problems for his entire nine-month life, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, March 21, in the Ave Maria Oratory, preceded by visitation in the oratory from 9:15-9:50 a.m.
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For 20 high school students at the Donahue Academy in Ave Maria, spring break excitement was a mission trip to Nicaragua where, among other things, they helped at an orphanage for abandoned and abused children.
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