The Donahue Academy Shamrocks lost their second-round playoff game to Clearwater Academy 59-24 Friday night, ending the Ave Maria team's seven-man football season.
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The St. Laurent Candy and Nut Shop in the Ave Maria Town Center offers a selection of homemade chocolates, fudge, nuts and other specialty items plus old-time commercially-made candy not easily available today. They also offer services like dry cleaning pick-up and golf cart rental, with plans for more. Above, store manager Chip Kiesel at the candy counter.
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"The re-election of President Obama means that our Federal lawsuit in defense of our University's religious freedom will proceed," Ave Maria University President Jim Towey said in a letter to AMU students and staff. Mr. Towey also announced formation of a special committee to look at the school's health insurance options.
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Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have different visions for the next four years. What would the implications for America be under a President Romney or a President Obama? A panel of Ave Maria University professors look at what a Romney or Obama administration would be from a moral, economic and political perspective in a panel open to the public Monday evening featuring Professors Gabriel Martinez, Joseph Burke, Seana Sugrue and Michael Novak as well as former Illinois state representative Kevin Joyce Monday.
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The Donahue Academy Shamrocks won their first-round playoff game Friday night, a convincing 46-20 win over Lakeside Academy, the team that knocked them out of the playoffs last year.
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The Ave Maria University men's basketball team has opened the season with two straight wins, the second a 104-58 blowout at home Saturday over DeVry University.
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 This year's election ballot is one of the longest anyone in Florida can remember. For those who haven't yet voted, The Ave Herald has prepared a general non-partisan outline of the ballot and links to learn more. Remember to vote!
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In 2007, the year the new Ave Maria Unviersity campus opened, coach Jeff Jagodzinski was head football coach at Boston College, taking the Eagles to the conference finals. He spoke with The Ave Herald recently about why being an assistant coach for the Gyrenes is the right thing for him at this point in his life. Above, "Coach Jags, as he's known, in his office at AMU."
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The Cub Scouts of Ave Maria are beginning their annual "Scouting for Food" drive Monday, dropping off bags at residents' homes early in the evening. The scouts will pick the bags of donations up Saturday morning, Nov. 3, between 10 a.m. and noon. Donations benefit the Guadalupe Center in Immokalee. Above, scouts pose last Ocoter with some of the food collected in October, 2011.
John Hurley had 107 yards rushing as quarterback and Luke Scheck returned an interception for a touchdown as the Donahue Shamrocks concluded their regular 7-man football season with a 40-28 win over Golden Rule Academy in Ft. Pierce. The Shamrocks will play a home playoff game Friday, Nov. 2, at home at North Park in Ave Maria against against Lakeside Christian, which knocked them out of the playoffs last year.
A few showers didn't dampen the fun at the monthly Family Fun Friday event in the Ave Maria Town Center. Above, Emily and Teresa Henderson in their homemade clown costumes which won the costume competitiion.
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There's a renewed vigor among Ave Maria University students for service projects, writes Ave Herald Editor Patricia Sette in her column in the Collier Citizen. Above, freshmen packing meals for Meals of Hope as part of their orientation at AMU.
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The Ave Maria University women's basketball team beat Chile's national women's team 62-48 Thursday night in an exhibition game at the Golisano Field House.
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 Two cardinals, an archbishop, several Ave Maria University faculty members and a number of other notable American Catholics have contributed to a new book Catholicism and America – Challenges and Prospects – edited by Fr. Matthew Lamb, chair of the AMU Theology department. Left, Cardinal William Levada, whose homily at AMU's 2011 Commencement is included.
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The Donahue Academy Shamrocks beat Cape Coral Christian 46-6 in North Fort Myers Friday night, guaranteeing the seven-man football squad a third seed in the playoffs that begin in November.
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Bishop Frank Dewane has granted a request from the Donahue Academy to be affiliated with the Diocese of Venice and to call itself an "independent Catholic school," diocesan Director of Education Kathleen Schwartz said Wednesday. Donahue Headmaster Dan Guernsey refused to comment for The Ave Herald, saying he wished to speak solely to another publication. The Ave Maria academy also has been named to the Cardinal Newman Society's list of the top 50 Catholic High Schools in the U.S.
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Shamrock Bank's Ave Maria branch, which opened in August, held an event Tuesday to welcome returning seasonal Florida residents. Above, full-time residents Maria Buccheri, Claire Emmans and Sophia Buccheri were delighted with their Shamrock Bank lunch bags, which were among goodies being handed out.
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Proud parents Veronique and Brian Scanlan were at St. Peter's Basillica in Rome last week for the ordination of their son Eric, one of 33 seminarians from the Pontifical North America College who were ordained as transitional deacons. Deacon Scanlan was nominated to the college by Bishop Frank Dewane of the Diocese of Venice.
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More than 60 people attended a 2nd Annual Rosary Rally organized on the AMU campus Saturday, Oct. 13, the 95th anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima. At the rally, which was organized by Ave Maria resident Joanne Hallenbeck, prayers were offered for the country, our leaders and for the unborn.
Will the fatal shooting of a black bear recently in an Ave Maria neighborhood be properly evaluated by state officials who had maintained that black bears aren't aggressive -- until a state law enforcement officer had to kill one that was charging him? Ave Herald Editor Patricia Sette examines the question in her latest column in the Naples Daily News Collier Citizen, available by clicking here. Above, the bear at the window of the Buccheri family's home on Milano St. shortly before the shooting.
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