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 Patrick Novecosky, who works in Ave Maria as Editor of Legatus Magazaine, had a bird's-eye view of history at the Vatican Wednesday -- and found out that the view was for the birds.
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Cheers erupted in the Ave Maria University cafeteria Wednesday, where students had gathered to see the first public appearance by Pope Francis. Later, many students and residents offered prayers for the Holy Father in the Ave Maria Oratory. (photo: Charlene Doman)
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About a dozen Ave Maria University students are studying in Rome this semester and some are sending their thoughts and some pictures to The Ave Herald. Many students are spending a lot of time in St. Peter's Square these days, some there all night to ensure they'll be there when the new pope is announced, writes AMU student Kim Scharfenberger. Alexandra Clark is struck by how many people are in the square praying, and at the media circus that has erupted. Above, AMU students were among those spending a rainy night in St. Pater's Square Tuesday.
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 Thirteen Donahue Academy students chose to forgo the usual diversions of spring break to spend a week on a mission trip serving the poor in Nicaragua. Donahue senior Peter Scheck (right) wrote about what they did, and how the trip was "the experience of a lifetime," for The Ave Herald.
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 A statue of Our Lady of Fatima, which has been touring the world for more than 65 years, will be at the oratory in Ave Maria March 14 and 15. Specialactivities, including a procession and a talk by the statue's current custodian, are planned for Thursday evening.
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It was a day for Irish music, dancing and food Saturday at Ave Maria's annual Touch of the Irish event in the town center. Above, dancers from Kellyn Celtic Arts in Fort Myers drew a large crowd.
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Ave Maria University has announced the hiring of Maureen Joyce as the school's new vice president for finance and administration. Mrs. Joyce, who most recently has been comptroller at Simmons College in Boston, will be AMU's third finance chief since Paul Roney resigned at the end of 2011.
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Firemen quickly extinguished a small brush fire Thursday afternoon that erupted at the end of Milano St. in Ave Maria. No one was injured and no property threatened. Photo by Paula Caskey
The streets of Ave Maria will be filled with music, chalk and bikes Saturday when a number of events take place simultaneously. Above, Sydney McManus with some of the art that will be for sale to benefit the Casa de Bambini pre-school, which also will be holding a chalk art competition.
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Ave Maria University has added undergraduate majors in Education and Accounting, both of which will be offered beginning with the fall semester, the university said in a news release. AMU is launching a nationwide search for a chair of its Education program.
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The Ave Maria University Ballroom was alive with The Sound of Music over the weekend as the Ave Children's Theater staged an energetic performance of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.
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Ave Maria is "off to the best sales year since the first year we opened," Barron Collier President Blake Gable told a gathering of residents Thursday evening during a wide-ranging discussion in which he also said that the company is looking seriously at proposals for an assisted living center and an apartment development among other future projects.
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Dozens of Ave Maria University students spent the final three hours of the papacy of Pope Benedict XVI making hundreds of lunches for needy people in Immokalee. The service project was one of a number of activities on the campus honoring the former pontiff.
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Thirty actors aged 7-17 will be performing this weekend in the Ave Children's Theater presentation of the classic musical The Sound of Music in the Ave Maria University ballroom.
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 Ave Maria University's unique 19th-Century Ball is nothing like the dances Ave Herald Editor Patricia Sette experienced in her youth, she writes in her latest column in the Naples Daily News Collier Citizen.
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Blake Gable, president of Barron Collier Cos. who oversees Ave Maria Development, will provide an update on current and future developments in the town at a special two-hour session Thursday, Feb. 28, beginning at 5 p.m. in The Bean of Ave Maria. The event will include a Q&A period, and is open to everyone.
The Arthrex Manufacturing East facility on Oil Well Rd. in Ave Maria is on schedule to begin preliminary operations in April and the company plans to break ground on a second building in the fall, a company spokesman said.
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About 20 Ave Maria University students spent Saturday night in shelters made of cardboard boxes as part of a Lenten effort to better understand the plight of the poor and homeless. Above, several students constructing their "homes" for the night.
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 Special Masses, a panel and lecture Wednesday and Thursday at Ave Maria University will honor Pope Benedict XVI and celebrate his Petrine Ministry.
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The sound of the blues filled the Ave Maria town center Saturday afternoon as for the Blues, Brews and BBQ event which drew people from throughout southwest Florida. Above, a couple from Naples, and their toy poodle, danced to Little Eddie and the Fat Fingers.
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