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CHR team holds get-together

The Community Housing and Resources team recently gathered for an afternoon of food and fun at Doc Ford's Rum Bar & Grille, which sponsored the event It welcomed Sanibel City Manager Dana S o u z a , M a y o r R i c h a r d J o h n s o n a n d C i t y

Councilmembers Holly Smith and Scott Crater, who also attended CHR acting Executive Director Nicole Decker-McHale shared the news about a new office space on Sanibel post-hurricane “Everyone at CHR looks forward to this milestone,” officials stated The goal is to get residents back in their homes as quickly as possible For more information about CHR, visit SanibelCHR org PHOTOS PROVIDED BY COMMUNITY HOUSING AND RESOURCES

(A “Fib,” or Fibonacci poem, counts the number of syllables in every line according to the Fibonacci sequence of numbers introduced into Western mathematics by Leonardo Fibonacci in the 13th century: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 The sequence occurs often in nature: spirals of shells, flowerets of sunflowers, bracts of a pine cone, and the scales of a pineapple )

Full Moon

Over Florida, Come to me tonight

Let your milky light nurse my eyes

With silver bright, soothe my sighs with silent lullabies

Let us make love, you from above, I dreaming below, Before daylight uncovers us Florida full moon, Come to me, Tonight, Come. Come

Joe

Poetic License

THE COMMUNITY HOUSE

Rotar y Club donates to TCH

The Sanibel-Captiva Rotary Club, Rotary District 6960, recently donated $30,000 to The Community House on Sanibel The funds will support the facility's Hurricane Ian recovery.