Karen Bell, co-owner of Lily & Co. Jewelry Gallery, recently celebrated her 50th birthday with a 1980s-themed party at Traders. Karen asked her guests to make donations to the PURRE Water Coalition in lieu of gifts, raising more than $1,500 for the organization. A big ‘thank you’ to Karen from People United to Restore our Rivers and Estuaries!
"The River of Grass was only the most distinctive link of an interconnected ecosystem that once blanketed almost all of south Florida, from its headwaters atop the Kissimmee chain of lakes near modern-day Orlando down to the coral reefs of the Keys, an area twice the size of New Jersey. "
~ Michael Grunwald, The Swamp ~