Come visit intern Kersey at the CREW table at the 3rd annual Florida Panther Festival today 10 to 4.
Join Us for the CREW Golf Tournament 10/25
The annual CREW Stanley Hole benefit Golf Tournament will be held Friday, October 25th at the Old Corkscrew Golf Club. Check-in begins at 7:30 AM. The shotgun start is at 8:30 AM. There is still time to register a foursome at https://2013crewgolf.eventbrite.com/ ($100/player or $500 hole sponsorship). Come join the fun, network with others, have lunch, win prizes. This event is sanctioned by the Everglades Golf Course Superintendents Association.
Proceeds benefit the CREW Land & Water Trust, a 501(c)3 non-profit conservation organization that has helped preserve over 47,000 acres of the Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed (CREW) in Lee and Collier Counties, FL. The CREW provides aquifer recharge, water filtration, wildlife habitat, and recreational and educational opportunities for the residents and visitors of southwest Florida. It’s environmental education programs benefit over 8000 people (preK – adult) every year.
David P. Browne Esq., Sponsors CREW 10K
The CREW Land & Water Trust thanks David P. Browne, Esq., Board Certified Wills, Trusts & Estates Lawyer, who has stepped up to be our major sponsor for the 2013 CREW 10K Trail Run and 1-Mile Fun Run on October 26, 2013.
This is the 2nd annual CREW 10K Trail Run organized by CREW runner and volunteer, Phil Nissen. Phil is known by many across southwest Florida as the founder of the “Caloosa Trailheads“, an informal group of trail runners. The run takes place at the CREW Cypress Dome Trails and Caracara Prairie Preserve Trails – through marsh and mud, ditches and sloughs, along cattle paths and beautiful back country where bears and deer reside.
Come on out for a fun day with other runners who enjoy the outdoors and excitement of off-road running. There will be a 1-mile fun run as well for families with smaller children. Snacks and water will be provided.
For more info or to register, click here. It’s free, but donations to the CREW Trust are greatly appreciated.
Save the Date: 2014 CREW Concert & Eco-Auction
Save the Date: March 1, 2014
CREW Trust Concert & Silent Eco-Auction
Riverside Park, Old Rte 41, Bonita Springs, FL
The 2014 CREW Concert celebrates our 25 years of conservation and environmental education efforts in southwest Florida. Music, food, friends, and fun! Don’t miss this one…bigger and better than ever.
Hole Montes, LLW, and EGCSA Sponsor 2013 CREW Golf Tournament
Thank you to Hole Montes, Inc., Lewis, Longman & Walker, P.A. (LLW), and the Everglades Golf Course Superintendent’s Association (EGCSA) all of whom have agreed to be major sponsors for the 2013 CREW Stanley Hole Golf Tournament. This tournament – one of two annual fundraisers for the CREW Land & Water Trust – will be held October 25, 2013 at the Old Corkscrew Golf Course on Corkscrew Road in Estero, FL.
Proceeds benefit the CREW Land & Water Trust in its mission to preserve and protect the natural communities and water resources in and around the Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed. Additional hole sponsors are needed. Hole sponsors, players, and foursomes can find registration information here.
This tournament is named in honor of Stanley Hole, who was a founding board member of the CREW Trust and instrumental in developing partnerships in the early days of CREW. Stanley was also an avid golfer.
For more information or to register for the golf tournament, click here.
10K Trail Run – October 26, 2013
Runners & Walkers: Join us for this 2nd annual no frills, back to nature, trail run at the CREW Cypress Dome Trail and Caracara Prairie Preserve.
No shirt, no fee (that means it’s FREE!), no whining, BUT lots of great CREW trails and fun.
8:00 start for 10K
8:10 start for 1-Mile Fun Run
This is a “cupless” run, but there will be one water refill station. Refreshments afterwards will accompany the tales of the trail.
Register here http://crew10k2013.eventbrite.com/ (Donations to the CREW Trust are greatly appreciated – online or on race day)
The CREW Cypress Dome and Caracara Prairie Preserve trails are primitive, rugged trails through pine flatwoods, popash slough, along marsh edges, in cattle pasture, and through oak hammocks. They vary from relatively flat grassy trails to narrow, root-filled curvy trails, to seasonally wet and muddy trails. This race goes across a drainage ditch as well. It’s adventure all the way!
For more information: philnissen@yahoo.com
Be sure to thank the good folks over at Run Florida on McGregor for being our official sponsor of this run.
2013 CREW Concert & Silent Eco-Auction
2013 CREW Concert & Silent Eco Auction
VIP Tent Sponsored by
THANK YOU to The Sarah Hadeka Band, Mudbone, our Concert Sponsors, the City of Bonita Springs, Fitzgerald’s Pub, The Rotary Club of Bonita Springs, and all our wonderful VOLUNTEERS for making this 2013 concert event a success!
Watch this video of concert/auction images put together by Peter Kitzerow of Free Market Financial.
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Featuring Mudbone and The Sarah Hadeka Band
It’s all NEW at the CREW Concert!
New band line up! Mudbone and The Sarah Hadeka Band will rock the stage at Riverside Park with energetic pop/rock and funky blues. General Admission Tickets $10. Children under 12 FREE.
There will be a new VIP Cafe, catered by the renowned Survey Cafe, featuring preferred seating, buffet dinner, and drinks. VIP CAFE Tickets $75.
The all-new Silent Eco Auction offers nature experiences and products unavailable anywhere else.
The CREW Trust thanks the City of Bonita Springs and the Rotary Club of Bonita Springs for their continued support. All profits support the mission of the CREW Land & Water Trust.
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Thank you to all of our concert SPONSORS.
If you’d like to be a sponsor and see your logo here, contact Brenda Brooks at 239-657-2253 or download this Sponsorship Form or donate online (select CREW Concert Sponsorship in the “Apply to Fund” drop down menu).
Twilight Hike & Campfire Stories with Judge Hugh Starnes
- Judge Hugh Starnes
photo by Kathy Broyard
February 22, 2013
Take a short hike at the new Caracara Prairie Preserve and then sit around the campfire with Judge Hugh Starnes and hear stories about the old days and history of the Corkscrew community. Judge Starnes is the former owner of Caracara Prairie Preserve and still holds an active cattle lease on the property. His family has lived and worked this land for many generations. He’ll spin a yarn or two about homesteading, cattle ranching, and changes to the landscape over the years.
CREW Concert 2012 – A Look Back
On Saturday, March 24th, 2012 about 400 people gathered on the lawn of Riverside Park in Olde Bonita Springs to support the CREW Land & Water Trust at our 5th annual benefit concert. The music line-up “was the best one yet” – with Wendy Webb‘s smooth vocals, The Wholetones funky upbeat folkcore fusion, and the grand finale with Kat Epple and the Katalyst Project. A classy touch was the dancing of Christar Damiano.
Between sets CREW Chairman of the Board, Bill Hammond, and CREW Executive Director, Brenda Brooks, shared a few stories about CREW and thanked all the concert sponsors, Trustees, volunteers, and those who attended. We also shared three short videos about CREW that were produced as part of our documentary package by WGCU-Public Media last year.
The silent auction was fabulous and Rotary of Bonita Springs provided drinks while CREW Trustes provided food for concert-goers. The people who attended were generous bidders at our silent auction as well as generous donors to our food/drink donation jug. Thank you to all who made this night so special.
Come Bid on These Cool Silent Auction Items!
This coming Saturday, March 24, 2012, the CREW Trust will hold its annual benefit concert – A Musical Night with Nature at the beautiful Riverside Park in Olde Bonita Springs. As part of our concert festivities we also hold a silent auction.
We’ve got great experiences as well as some pretty cool items up for auction this year. From canopy tree climbs to fossil expeditions, airplane rides over CREW to swamp buggy tours at Corkscrew Sanctuary – there’s something for every adventurer.
Plus, you can bid on original art, music, and crafts – a family portrait sitting with world-renown portraitist Bradford, photographs, art prints, walking sticks, scarves, and music -including a 3-hour personal Classic Rock concert by the band, The Mighty Quint.
We thank all our silent auction donors for their generous donations to help raise money for our environmental education programs at CREW. Educating kids and adults about the wonders of the watershed and the importance f protecting places like CREW is a critical component of our work.
So, come on out to the concert (tickets are available at the event!) and stroll through our auction to bid on these great items and fantastic experiences!
See you there!