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Sanibel Journal

by Len Edgerly

Show notes for a podcast about Sanibel Island's rebuilding after Hurricane Ian.

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  1. SJ21 Rep. Adam Botana

    This is a conversation I recorded today with State Rep. Adam Botana, R-District 80, about the bill he has drafted to create a Captiva Island Conservation Area. His comments are timely, because the Lee County Commissioners will discuss proposed land use changes for Captiva at their meeting…

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  2. SJ20 Matt DePaolis

    Environmental Policy Director, Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Commission (SCCF), left, with host Len Edgerly on Zoom Links SCCF web site Click here to donate to SCCF "Commissioners Grant 90-day Continuance on Proposed Land Use Changes" at SCCF.org - June 20, 2023 "South Seas Island Resort…

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  3. SJ19 David Mintz

    Vice President, Captiva Community Panel, addressing special meeting of the Sanibel City Council on June 14, 2023 Recorded video of Sanibel City Council's special meeting on June 14, 2023, highlighting the threats of a proposed Lee County ordinance on Sanibel and Captiva's sanctuary status....

  4. SJ18 The Islands Need Your Help ASAP!

    Len Edgerly recording this episode Recorded video of Sanibel City Council's special meeting on June 14, 2023, highlighting the threats of a proposed Lee County ordinance on Sanibel and Captiva's sanctuary status. Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) request to contact Lee County...

  5. SJ17 Kati Chapman Sherrard

    Project Manager, Sanibel Causeway Reconstruction Kati at Linkedin FDOT Sanibel and Pine Island Hurricane Ian Relief at YouTube - November, 2022 Linkedin video of Kati on site at the causeway WINK TV coverage of hurricane recovery - January 6, 2023

  6. SJ16 Barrett Holmes

    Regional Manager, CrowderGulf CrowderGulf 2023 National Hurricane Conference MySanibel website SanCap Citizens for a Resilient Future Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF)

  7. SJ14 Shine on Sanibel

    Me, Darlene and Deb wearing Shine on Sanibel t-shirts at today's ceremony to re-light the Sanibel Lighthouse City officials, residents, and Sanibel lovers from all over gathered at the foot of the iconic Sanibel Lighthouse before dawn this morning for the re-lighting of the lighthouse, which was...

  8. SJ13 Matt DePaolis

    Environmental Policy Director, Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) Links Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) "DePaolis Joins SCCF as Environmental Policy Director" - SCCF website April 6, 2022 Florida Right to Clean Water drive to amend Florida's Constitution The Everglades:...

  9. SJ12 Finnimore's Cycle Shop

    Joe Craig of Finnimore's Cycle Shop, Sanibel Links Finnimore's Cycle Shop Sanibel Farmers Market Billy's Bike Shop

  10. SJ11 Farmers Market

    Michael of Sage and Indigo Juice Company Today is a big day in the recovery of Sanibel from Hurricane Ian. The Sanibel Island Farmers Market has returned! I interviewed vendors, shoppers, and Sanibel Mayor Holly Smith this morning at the Jerry's Supermarket parking lot. If you hear this before…

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  11. SJ10 Doreen Bolhuis

    Sharing Stories of Trauma and Recovery Links St. Michael & All Angels Church, Sanibel FL Chico's women's clothing, Sanibel Recovering from Losses in Life by H. Norman Wright My Kindle Chronicles podcast ### If you'd like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow...

  12. SJ9 Roy Jones

    Golf Superintendent at The Dunes Roy Jones is golf course superintendent at the Dunes Golf & Tennis Club on Sanibel island. He spoke with me today about progress the club is making toward re-opening the 18-hole course for play. Note: you can hear each episode of the Sanibel Journal on any Alexa...

  13. On the Importance of Having Fun

    Mark Boluis Cleans a Court for Pickelball Mark is a nearby neighbor of ours who introduced Darlene and me to the game of pickleball more than a year ago. We took our pickleball passion north in May, to Massachusetts and Maine, and were looking forward to reconnecting with Mark and others in...

  14. Debris Pickup

    At work early on Sunday morning On the third morning of our current stay on Sanibel in a rental house, we heard the loud sound of a truck approaching. When we saw it was one of the double-bin debris-hauling vehicles, I took some photos and asked the guy standing behind the truck if he could tell…

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  15. SJ113022 Loss of Use

    As we prepare to travel to our home on Sanibel tomorrow I am in the midst of pointed conversations with insurance reps over the Loss of Use portion of our homeowners' policy with Lloyds.

  16. SJ112322 Return to Sanibel

    Bikes awaiting us in Sanibel... This morning we confirmed the rental of a neighbor's home for December and January, which means we are headed to Sanibel in a week to oversee repairs to our home and do what we can to help out on the island. I can't wait to be back on Sanibel!

  17. SJ11422 Rick Winningham

    General Manager of Jerry's Foods Sanibel Island, FL Rick Cunningham has been a very busy guy since Hurricane Ian hit Sanibel on September 28, 2022. He and his team got Jerry's up and running two weeks ago. In this episode of the Sanibel Journal, Rick explains the obstacles that had to be overcome...

  18. SJ11222 Return to Sanibel

    Darlene and I got our first look at our home on Sanibel this morning. The ride from our Airbnb in Cape Coral via the miraculously repaird Sanibel causeway was smooth, without delays. Our purple hurricane pass hanging from the rental-car mirror led a sheriff at the checkpoint to wave us on by...

  19. SJ102522 Kara Souza

    I spoke with Kara Souza, wife of Sanibel City Manager Dana Souza, this morning about what she has learned about the island since Hurricane Ian hit, her husband's leadership skills, and how anyone who loves Sanibel can help with the island's recovery. Click here to donate to the Charitable...

  20. Diane

    Excerpt from an interview on September 12, 2010, with Diane Williamson, wife of handcrafted fine art photographer Joel Anderson, on her support of his artwork through Twitter. I discovered Joel's booth at the St. Louis Art Fair because a tweet Diane posted.

  21. APC 81 Obama's Town Hall in Portsmouth, NH

    Comments from Ray and Mark, two of those who attended President Obama's town hall meeting on health care today, August 11, 2009. Although they disagreed with the health care reform proposal, they said they thought Obama was honest and did a good job at the session.

  22. APC 80 Birth of a Podcast

    Phillip Zannini, aka @phillymac, an good Internet friend of mine, tells how this morning on the way to Podcamp Boston 4 he received what may well have been a divine inspiration to launch a new podcast. It sounds very promising to me, and I was glad to be one of his first guests on The Three Quick...

  23. APC 79 How to Pay for Health Care Reform

    This is a presentation on how to pay for health care reform, given July 18, 2009 by Rahul Rajkumar, senior advisor to Doctors for America, at an Organizing for America forum in Dorchester, Mass.

  24. APC 78 Exercise is Big Medicine

    My longtime Casper, Wyoming, friend Neil J. Short is almost 62 and does not put in an inordinate amount of time on exercise. But he's passionate about the benefits of daily exercise, as he shows clearly in this conversation we had today in my living room in Denver. Neil couldn't possibly have…

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  25. APC 77 Mark J. Penn at a Harvard Crimson Lunch

    Mark J. Penn, Hillary Clinton's chief strategist in the 2008 campaign and the author of Microtrends, spoke on April 25, 2009 at the Sheraton Commander Hotel in Cambridge before a lunch organized by The Harvard Crimson, the university's daily newspaper, of which Penn is an alumnus. This is a...

  26. 76 Kevin Rafferty on

    Kevin Rafferty talks about his documentary, "Harvard Beats Yale, 29-29" before a screening of the film at the Denver Film Society's Starz Theatre in Denver on April 14, 2009. With audience Q&A after the screening. I was a freshman at Harvard on November 23, 1968, the day of a legendary football...

  27. 75 Ron Lyle at Manual High School

    Ron Lyle of Denver, a retired heavyweight boxer who fought Muhammad Ali in 1975, visited his alma mater, Manual High School, on February 10, 2009, to talk with students working on the school magazine, Boom. This is the unedited recording of the conversation, featuring Lyle's heartfelt…

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  28. 74 Volunteers of America

    This is an interview I did today (January 19, 2009) with Jason L. Owens, volunteer manager for Volunteers of America - Colorado. I was inspired to check out VOA as part of President-Elect Obama's call to service on Martin Luther King Day. VOA is one of 5,000 organizations where volunteers signed…

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  29. 73 Grassroots Presidency

    My wife and I attended a "house party" organized by the Obama campaign, one of 4,000 such events held across the country this past weekend. Ours was held at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and featured an introductory talk by Marshall Ganz.

  30. 72 The Man Who Never Misses The Game

    My college friend Ben Beach, editor of The Wilderness Society's Wilderness Magazine, never misses a Harvard-Yale football game and always holds a tailgate barbecue before the game. In this podcast Ben talks about the hard-to-define pleasure he gets from this regularity, and he and I remember the...

  31. 71 Beauty and the Geek

    My wife Darlene, a quilter, today helped me think through the talk I'll give this weekend in Billings, Montana, about Internet technology and the arts. She looks for tools that help her do things, not a lot of personality and ego. Good advice for this podcaster! (She's also looking for a good…

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  32. 70 Obama in Denver

    We've seen a lot of Barack Obama here in Colorado in recent weeks. But Sunday's event was the biggest anywhere in the country so far -- well over 100,000 people at Civic Center Park. This episode is a soundscape of the rally and ends with Darlene making yet another phone call in search of...

  33. 69 Voices of the Regatta

    Interviews at the Cambridge Boat Club on October 14, 2008, with four leaders of the Head of the Charles Regatta, a massive rowing event on the Charles River in Cambridge this coming weekend. You'll hear from Pete Peterson, the chief referree/umpire; John Romain, cochair manager of the Starting...

  34. 68 Mile High Obama

    Barack Obama this week returned to Colorado for a speech at Mountain Range High School in Westminster. My wife and I arrived at the school at about 5 a.m., which put us in line for a seat upgrade at the last minute and a terrific view of the candidate. His arrival in the arena was delayed by...

  35. 67 Obama's Hard Words and Soft Touch

    This episode of m podcast comprises excerpts from Barack Obama's speech September 16, 2008 at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. I was there with a friend of ours, Tish, from Wyoming, who had an exciting moment at the end of the event. Also included are reactions to the talk by…

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  36. 66 Talking Politics with Albert Maruggi

    Albert Maruggi, my well-connected Republican Twitter friend who lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, has great insights into the convention going on in his hometown this week. Albert was a key GOP staffer when Dan Quayle was chosen as Bush I's VP, so his memories are good preparation for tonight's big...

  37. 65 DNC Preview

    Chris Lopez, communications director for the 2008 Denver Host Committee, took time out of a VERY busy day today to preview what's ahead in Denver once the Democratic National Convention gets under way this weekend. He seemed remarkably serene, and he was optimistic that the convention's protests...

  38. 65 DNC Preview - mp3

    Interview on August 19, 2008 with Chris Lopez - .mp3 version.

  39. 64 Jeff Cutler Unplugged - mp3 version

    This is the mp3 version of this week's Audio Pod Chronicles interview with Jeff Cutler.

  40. 64 Jeff Cutler Unplugged

    Writer and podcaster Jeff Cutler was one of the only Boston Media Makers without a device feeding him information from the Internet at our meeting on Sunday, August 3, 2008, at Doyle's Cafe in Jamaica Plain. It turns out his laptop was in the shop. This prompted him to lead a lively discussion...

  41. 63 PodCampers Pick Podcasts - mp3

    mp3 version of today's Audio Pod Chronicles, "PodCampers Pick Podcasts."

  42. 63 PodCampers Pick Podcasts

    At PodCamp Boston 3 this past weekend, I asked 12 happy campers to identify their favorite podcasts. Here is what they came up with: Sarah Vela - Push My Follow, You Look Nice Today. Chris Cavallari - Nature Stories, Little Bit of Nonsense. Robert Blatt - Let's Go Out Tonight, twentyhood Doug...

  43. 62 mp3 A Dilly of a Denver Police Commander

    mp3 version of Episode 62, A dilly of a Denver Police Commander.

  44. 62 A Dilly of a Denver Police Commander

    Denver Police Commander Debra Dillly heads District 6, the core downtown area. On July 8, 2008 she addressed a meeting of homeowners from three downtown condominium buildings, including the one I live in. She gave the best overview I've heard so far of what it's really going to be like in my...

  45. 61 mp3 Breakfast of Videos

    mp3 version of Episode 61, Breakfast of Videos.

  46. 61 Breakfast of Videos

    Social Media Breakfast 8, hosted by Bryan Person and Bob Collins June 24, 2008 at Ryles Jazz Club in Cambridge, Mass., was all about video. An audience of nearly 100 heard excellent presentations from Larry Lawfer of YourStorys.com and Jeff Glasson of PerkettPR.com and two other presentations...

  47. 60 MP3 Waiting for iPHone 3G

    MP3 version of this week's podcast.

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Show notes for a podcast about Sanibel Island's rebuilding after Hurricane Ian.

HOSTED BY

Len Edgerly

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Show notes for a podcast about Sanibel Island's rebuilding after Hurricane Ian.

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