New Additions Summer of 2009

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Bob and Bobbe Hickman, accompanied by student volunteers, devoted countless hours repainting all of the learning center cabinetry.

A big thank you goes out to Bob and Bobbe Hickman for installing the new formica to the learning center countertops.  Also, we want to thank Jim Brunco of Quality Cabinets, for his donation of the formica, which was utilized in the project.

FINALLY!  After much research and careful planning, Collier County installed two remote recycling toilets.  The one pictured here is on the Saylor Trail, near the new Chickee Hut.  You will find the second one in the third parking lot.

Blackjack Ron donated the Sears axe head he found on Barefoot Beach. Look for it in the cabinet

This is the picture of Friends President, Margaret Winn, standing by the new sign on the Saylor trail near the Chickee educational  hut . Margaret checks it out prior to a visit from the Florida Communites Trust Foundation representative. This group helped fund the purchase of the "outparcel" thus ensuring the preserve remained intact in 2001.

The Friends pay for bus transportation for elementary school children to visit Barefoot and have a program with ranger Cindy Piper. The Barefoot Express Scholarship program is growiing.

Bob and Bobbe Hickman unpack the small refrigerator the Friends purchased and installed in the ranger office for use by the Friends and all volunteers when on duty at the park in addition to the ranger staff. Especially in the summer the cold drinks were welcome and good to have as an aid to helping the occasional distressed visitor.Along with the refrigerator, the drinking fountain outside the ranger office is brand new as of this summer and we now have icy cold water available to all.
 
August 20,2009; forty law students from Ave Maria Law School spent the afternoon weeding the cactus garden, setting posts for the new tortoise protection along the road and clearing brush on the trail. After a challenging afternoon of work, many of them took a dip in the warm Gulf waters before boarding the bus.