The tally is in: Give Where You Live Collier raised $3.9 million for dozens of charities. “We are continually amazed at how our community comes together to show their love and support for Collier County,” said Eileen Connolly-Keesler, president and chief executive officer of the Community Foundation of Collier County. “Together, we all made a …
Everyone in the audience understood when speaker Barry Petersen stopped in the middle of his talk, and said he had to take a “Kleenex break.” Petersen, telling the story of how his beloved wife Jan developed early onset Alzheimer’s disease, and had to be put into memory care, was the featured speaker at the forum …