LEXEY SWALL

• Home is where school and heart is Published 03/19/2012 at 10:25 a.m.

  Tennille Hansen dreamed someday of having a pharmacy, a petting zoo and an orphanage. Instead, she has a medicine cabinet full of herbal remedies, four goats, 25 chickens and six of her own children whom she teaches at home.

• Our World: 'It's about what the baby wants' Published 01/30/2012 at 12:40 p.m.

  It's hard to believe breastfeeding is a controversial issue in 2012. If it weren't, many mothers wouldn't feel the need to create code words for breasts.

• Our World: Organization helping open doors to the future for area youth Published 12/01/2011 at 2:29 p.m.

  Sometimes all you need to make the right decisions is encouragement from someone who has seen the consequences of the wrong ones. That's is what Vaughn and Rose Young are hoping as they mentor youth through the Mother Perry Youth ...

• Our World: One man’s trash is another woman’s treasure Published 10/14/2011 at 1:47 p.m.

  They are “two scrappin’ ladies.” It’s an apt moniker for Michaela McNier and Jo-Ann Jarvis, two San Carlos Park residents who use their mornings to dumpster dive in search of scrap metal to sell for extra money. “Money is money,” ...

• Cupboard is bare: St. Matthew's House needs food Published 10/05/2010 at 1:15 p.m. 1 Comment

  The St. Matthew’s House food pantry, usually stocked full of donated, non-perishable food, is at its lowest point of the year.

• More than 200 form 'life chain' in Naples to rally against abortion Updated 10/03/2010 at 9:47 p.m.

  More than 200 people lined U.S. 41 in Naples between Fifth Avenue South and Pine Ridge Road for an hour Sunday, sending a pro-life message for Life Chain, a national movement to end abortion.

• Bonita Springs church displaced by fire gets help from fellow church Published 09/20/2010 at 12:25 p.m.

  One week after a fire destroyed their own church on Rosemary Drive in Bonita Springs, the congregation of Tabernaculo de Alabanza has found a temporary home in the sanctuary of another.

• VIDEO/PHOTOS: Retired firefighters paint Freedom Memorial Published 04/07/2010 at 3:50 p.m.

  Members of the Gulf Coast Retired Firefighters Association gave the Freedom Memorial a coat of primer and paint Wednesday at Freedom Park in Naples. The Freedom Memorial Task Force raised $450,000 to erect the concrete American flag in Fall 2009, ...

• VIDEO/PHOTOS: Lots of eggs, laughter and fun at Bunnymania in Naples Published 04/03/2010 at 3:25 p.m.

  The City of Naples laid more than 20,000 eggs in three hours Saturday for the annual Bunnymania event at Fleischmann Park. As soon as the eggs were down, they were snatched back up by running, screaming and laughing children.

• Our World: Calming impact, equalized motion Published 03/08/2010 at 5:31 p.m.

  Here, he can be himself. A balanced and more equalized version than the boy he is the other six days of the week. He runs, he plays, he giggles. You would never know he has autism.

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