Collier County Commissioner Jim Coletta (right in picture with Michael and Jean Mastandrea) met residents of Ave Maria Thursday afternoon at an event at the Salon d'Maria. Commissioner Coletta is running for re-election and the primary is Aug. 14.
Shamrock Bank will open a full-service branch in Ave Maria, bank President Coleen Kvetko confirmed Thursday, adding that she hopes it will open by Aug. 20.
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UPDATE: The Ave Maria Stewardship Community District board gave final approval Wednesday to a new $29-million bond offering that replaces short-term debt due in November with new 30-year bonds. A resolution approving new golf cart regulations, requested by the sheriff's office so that deputies could enforce the rules in Ave Maria, also was approved.
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"Setting the world on fire" was the theme at the Rhodora J. Donahue Academy's fifth, and largest, graduation ceremony Friday at which 13 seniors received diplomas in the Ave Maria Oratory. Above, graduates Joe Guernsey, Michael John Dauphinais and Christine Lenardson after the ceremony.
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Fr. Robert Garrity (left) will be an Assistant Professor of Theology at AMU next year, leaving eight years of service as director of campus ministry, a position that will be taken over by Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J. (right)
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Carole Carpenter, familiar to many in the town of Ave Maria and to countless donors to Ave Maria University, is starting a new career in real estate. Above, Dr. Carpenter with her husband, Reid.
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The Classical Virtuosi of Ave Maria Beginning Violin Pilot Program will present its first concert Wednesday, May 30, from 7-8 p.m. in the Ave Maria University Student Union Ballroom. The program has introduced dozens of children from Ave Maria, Immokalee and other nearby areas to the violin. Tickets for adults are $5; children under 18 are free. Above, some of the students at a rehearsal.
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Commemorative ceremonies for Memorial Day will be held at Naples Memorial Garden beginning at 9:30 a.m. Monday, May 28th. The site is located at 525 111 Avenue (which is also Immokalee Road) and arriving before 9 a.m. is recommended because of the large numbers expected to attend.
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 Joe Guernsey, "Graduate of Distinction" of the Donahue Academy of Ave Maria class of 13 seniors who will graduate June 1, is profiled as part of a series of "outstanding seniors" in the Naples Daily News.
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Ave Maria University will stop offering student health insurance plans, and no longer require students to carry health insurance, because of both moral objections as well as higher costs due to mandated coverage, President Jim Towey said in a statement Monday. The statement came on a day when more than 40 other Catholic dioceses and organizations filed suit against federal mandates requiring insurance plans to cover contraceptives and other services Catholics find objectionable.
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Ave Maria University is just one of the educational interests of the chair of its board of trustees, Ave Maria resident Michael Timmis. His missionary educational efforts have also provided the educational and moral background that has helped hundreds of Africans make a positive difference in struggling countries. Above, Mr. Timmis and his daughter Bailey at a school he founded in Uganda.
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Ernie Mitchell was honored as the Ave Maria Knights of Columbus Council's "Knight of the Year" Wednesday. Mr. Mitchell, who turns 90 this year and has been a knight since 1948, also stepped down as the council's Grand Knight, and was succeeded by Jeff Ball. Above, Mr. Mitchell flanked by Bobby Oshinsky (left) and Carlos Figueroa.
The Ave Maria Stewardship Community District board has approved general terms of a new bond offering that will replace short-term debt of about $26 million that comes due in November with long-term bonds.
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 On May 12, the Ave Maria School of Law graduated its first class to attend the Naples campus for all three years, and the school has never been in better shape financially, President and Dean Eugene Milhizer (left) told The Ave Herald in a wide-ranging interview.
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More than 120 dancers will perform routines from the 1940s to today in the Ave Maria Dance Academy's fourth annual dance recital Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Palmetto Ridge High School auditorium.
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 A special exhibit of information and depictions of about 60 Eucharistic Miracles will be open to the public free of charge at Ave Maria University May 18-20 in conjunction with a Eucharistic Conference. Left, consecrated communion hosts in Siena, Italy, that have been inexplicably preserved for more than 250 years.
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The themes of self-respect and standing up for oneself as a true woman of virtue will be the focus of a talk given for young women and their families by award-winning speaker and author Julie Marie Carrier at the Donahue Academy this Wednesday.
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Students at Donahue Academy in Ave Maria put on two performances of Thornton Wilder's Our Town Friday and Saturday nights. Above, Grace Matuszak as Emily Webb, David Scanlan beside her as her father and Thomas Smith as her husband-to-be.
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush urged Ave Maria University graduates to focus on core values of the traditional family and hard work to combat what he called a “crisis in our culture.” Gov. Bush delivered the commencement address at AMU’s graduation Saturday, at which 175 undergraduate and graduate degrees were conferred. Above, Gov. Bush receiving an honorary doctorate degree from AMU founder Tom Monaghan while President Jim Towey looks on.
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Ave Maria University seniors gathered outside the oratory Friday evening for the traditional cap toss following the Baccalaureate Mass. Among the graduates, who will receive diplomas at commencement exercises Saturday morning, is the first student to graduate from both the Donahue Academy as well as AMU.
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