More than 60 Ave Maria University students and faculty staged a 24-hour "Homerathon" reading of an updated translation of the entire Iliad from Friday to Saturday evening. A stirring reading by Prof. Stanley Lombardo, whose version was used, concluded the event.
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A pair of red-shouldered hawks has taken up residence in a nest in the Ave Maria town center, across a walkway from the bank building.
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Young people in America can be leaders in defending the founding principles of the United States only if they are not timid and speak up without fear of offending people, conservative political veteran Bay Buchanan told an audience at Ave Maria University Monday evening.
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The Ave Maria Cub Scouts held their 2nd Pinewood Derby Saturday, with 5th-grader Luke Klein taking the honors for the fast car in town. Above, family and friends watching cars cross the finish line of the aluminum track. (photo Alicia Ritter)
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Ave Maria University President Jim Towey said Friday that he was "disappointed" with the announcement earlier in the day by the federal government which the Obama administration called a "compromise" on the issue of mandating organizations to provide health care coverage for birth control services. "The Obama administration blew it again," Mr. Towey saId, with new regulations that "do not appear to settle anything."
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 Students and faculty at Ave Maria University will read the entire Iliad by Homer over 24 hours Feb. 8-9. The reading, which is open to the public, will use a modern translation for the 21st century by classics scholar Stanley Lombardo, who will read the final book himself. Right, AMU professor Travis Curtright who organized the Homerathon.
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Students at the Donahue Academy in Ave Maria prayed a "living rosary," in which each student was a bead, Wednesday as part of the school's events marking Catholic Schools Week.
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The Major League Soccer Chicago Fire won their first exhibition match this year, beating Florida Gulf Coast University 2-0 Sunday at North Park in Ave Maria.
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Clouds of charcoal smoke billowed over the Ave Maria town center for the third annual Sunshine State Steak Cook Off, one of a number of activities that took place on a busy Saturday in town. A grill team headed by Ave Maria resident Jim Hess took top honors in the steak competition.
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Hundreds of people from Ave Maria joined hundreds of thousands of others from across the country Friday in the March for Life in Washington, D.C., held 40 years after the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. (photo by Elizabeth Kirk)
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 The founder of Ave Maria University was upbeat about the prospects for the school and the town of Ave Maria when he spoke to fundraiser at AMU Wednesday. "My ideas are good if I have enough time and money," he said.
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More than 200 people from Ave Maria, including students and residents, will be in Washington, D.C., for the annual March for Life on Friday, Jan. 25. This year's march marks the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. Above, AMU students boarding a bus Wednesday night for the 21-hour trip.
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A sizeable group of runners from Ave Maria ran the Naples half marathon Sunday. The top finisher among the Ave Maria group was AMU student Charles Sercer who finished fifth in the male 19-24 category with a time of 1:25:37.8
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 The Ave Maria town center got a little sweeter Friday with the opening of the Scoopz Ice Cream Parlor. Left, owner Helen Altomari greets Rory and Marie Campbell, among her first customers.
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 The popular Spring Style Show and Luncheon fundraiser for Ave Maria University offers the opportunity to see latest fashions -- all modeled by members of the Ave Maria community.
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 On the heels of a well-received concert in Ave Maria Saturday, internationally-known pianist Eric Genuis has scheduled an encore engagement for Wednesday, Jan. 16, in the ballroom of the Ave Maria University student union.
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One of Florida's most successful homebuilders, CC Devco, is slated to begin building a new subdivision within Ave Maria called Maple Ridge. The first phase sitemap shows about 150 homes located just south of the town center in what originally was part of the Hampton Village neighborhood.
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The Sunshine State Steak Cook-Off -- now in its third year -- keeps getting bigger and now rivalries are building among local teams from Ave Maria who, even if they don't win prize money, will at least have the satisfaction of beating their neighbors. UPDATED
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It's one thing to be able to grill a steak, and quite another to be able to serve up 1,500 of them in short order as organizers were able to do at the Sunshine State Steak Cook Off in Ave Maria, as Ave Herald Editor Patricia Sette writes in her Collier Citizen column.
