 Ave Maria University will confer 138 undergraduate and 37 undergraduate degrees at commencement exercises Saturday. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will be the main speaker at the ceremonies.
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The Ave Maria Stewardship Community District board recessed its meeting Tuesday to resume May 16 when it will consider a specific proposal for refinancing $26 million in bonds that come due in November. The board also heard details of mosquito control plans for Ave Maria this summer.
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 A preliminary budget for the new fiscal year, which has no change in assessments for homeowners, is on the agenda for the May 1 meeting of the Ave Maria Stewardship Community District board. There also will be a presentation on the Collier County Mosquito Control Program.
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National homebuilder Lennar is poised to enter the Ave Maria market, building homes in the Emerson Park neighborhood later this year, according to the company's division president for southwest Florida, Darin McMurray. Pulte Homes has been the exclusive builder of single-family homes in Ave Maria since the town's inception.
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Homeschooled children in Ave Maria displayed their projects and experiments Saturday afternoon at a science fair in the AMU Physics laboratory. Above, Isaiah Scanlon, explains the workings of the brain to one of the judges, Shahodat Hamraeva, an AMU senior majoring in biology.
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Students in Ave Maria Universiity's Shakespeare in Performance class will stage five performances this week of As You Like It -- trying to remain as true as possible to many aspects of how the comedy would have been performed originally. Above, Andrea Allphin as Celia and Vanessa Tompkins as Rosalind.
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Gov. Rick Scott and Arthrex CEO Reinhold Schmeiding (above, with Gov. Scott’s 5-month-old grandson Auguste) were among hundreds who gathered Monday morning at the site of the medical device maker’s new manufacturing plant in Ave Maria, which is scheduled to open in about a year.
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Ave Maria University is establishing a Jon Scharfenberger Scholarship Fund in memory of the former campus leader who died last fall in an automobile accident. Above, his mother, Anna Scharfenberger, speaking to a gathering in Ave Maria announcing the fund.
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Members of the Ave Maria University football team, and some other students, learned how to crew for hot-air balloons Wednesday. The students will help inflate, launch and recover balloons at the "Balloons Over Paradise" festival Saturday and Sunday at the Immokalee airport.
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Collier County commissioners have approved spending up to $25,000 for an independent third-party review of findings that showed Ave Maria had a net positive economic impact on the county during a five-year period that ended in 2010.
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Families gathered at the Ave Maria Oratory Saturday morning for the Blessing of Easter Food, traditional in Poland, Italy and other European countries. Above, Fr. Robert Tatman with (l-r) Wanda and Stanislaus Zdziechowicz, Rich and Laura Scanlan with children Dominic and Gabriel.
Work on the new Arthrex manufacturing facility in Ave Maria is ahead of schedule, Barron Collier executive David Genson told the Ave Maria Stewardship Community District board Tuesday. The board heard reports on a new design review board, the pending gas station and a number of other items.
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The fourth annual Musica Sacra conference on Gergorian Chant will be held again at Ave Maria University April 13-14, offering the opportunity to learn about the history and performance of this ancient form of Catholic liturgical music.
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Deirdre Lawler, soon to be married, Maria Almeida, wife and mother, and Christa McMahon, single, share insights about the lives they have chosen to lead so far with the more than 50 people attending the Genuine.Feminine Conference. More than a dozen speakers and panelists spoke at the conference, organized by students and held on the AMU Campus Saturday.
The Karen Laub-Novak Library at the Donahue Academy in Ave Maria opened officially Thursday, providing students with a modern new resource and computer lab.
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The Feast of the Annunciation was celebrated in Ave Maria with Mass, a Eucharistic Procession and festivities on the campus of Ave Maria University. Above, Bishop Frank Dewane leading the procession outside the oratory.
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The Ave Maria Oratory is oriented so that it directly faces the azimuth of the sunrise on March 25, the normal date for celebration of the Feast of the Annunciation. The above picture was taken shortly after sunrise on March 25, 2012, although the feast day is observed this year on Monday, March 26.
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Working with quill pens and other medieval materials, a team of artists and calligraphers working for 12 years has created a new illuminated bible, the first commissioned by a Benedictine abbey in 500 years. Selected prints are on display at the Ave Maria University Canizaro Library until May 7.
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Members of the Ave Maria women's basketball team did more than play basketball when they travelled to Sioux City, Iowa, for the NAIA Division II tournament. Bette Batson, wife of coach Bob Batson, writes in the Naples Daily News about the women's visits to hospitals, schools and nursing homes. (Above, Erika Derks reading to a child in a hospital)
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