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VOLUME 49, NUMBER 22
Celebrating Pine Islanders; Trygve Anderson
By PAULETTE LEBLANC
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Pine Island Experience podcast host and caretaker, Trygve Anderson describes himself as someone who has a deep desire to help people. After having been here for approximately a decade, he said he and his wife Joanna had been all over the country, living in places such as Wisconsin, Indiana, California, Illinois and Pennsylvania as well as other parts of Florida. After various trips to Southwest Florida, he said it
occurred to them that they should just buy something. Since she had been a fan of author Randy Wayne White, they settled on buying a place nearby. “We stopped for a bite to eat at Low Key Tiki and we were sitting next to a retired surgeon who told us how fabulous the island was. That started our search and eventually we bought property,” Anderson said. The knowledge that Pine Island was home came on fairly quickly, for the couple, he said, emphasizing that the small-
town feeling offered by Pine Island, where neighbors help neighbors had undoubtedly won them over. “I saw that this area still had a Fourth of July parade,” Anderson said. Something the couple is sure to do to help fellow islanders, is to offer free marketing on their Pine Island Experience, podcast, as they see advertising and marketing as an important investment, but not one that is easily afforded by everyone. See ANDERSON, page 9
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First Baptist Church of Pine Island making a difference with Gospel Outreach By PAULETTE LEBLANC
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First Baptist Church of Pine Island, team leader Jody Link reports that the Honduras trip made this past July went very well indeed. “Nineteen members of the local First Baptist church of Pine Island had the opportunity to impact children and families in the mountain town of San Matias, outside of the capital city of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Rancho Ebenezer is a mountain side ranch operated by World Gospel Outreach that takes in abandoned children from the capital city. These children are given a bilingual education, and skills to allow them to leave the ranch as adults and be See FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, page 12
Greater Pine Island Chamber of Commerce Adopt a Pelican Wall Art Auction Oct.12 The live auction will take place on Oct. 12, from 4 By PAULETTE LEBLANC
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to 7 p.m, she said. “The event will be held at the Tarpon Lodge, in the ccording to Greater Pine Island Chamber of Commerce board member Cynthia Welch, the shade at Island House,” Welch said. “This lovely outGPICC is proud to announce that they are door setting will set the tone for a wonderful fun casual hosting the fifth annual wall art auction fundraiser, time. The bar will be open and a lighter fare menu ofat Tarpon Lodge, with proceeds benefitting Island fered if you would like. Bob Mueller will be entertaining us with his fabulous island blend music. Starting at Businesses and the Calusa Land Trust. Thanks to 23 local businesses that sponsored a 4pm there will be time to see and enjoy the 23 Pelican blank template of a pelican and then organized a local on display. Make sure you arrive early, as thanks to artist to adorn them into fabulous works of art. Check See ART AUCTION, page 8 out the website for a preview of the Pelicans. www. Pelican Wall Art PineIslandChamber.org.
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