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FORT MYERS, Fla. – Jeff Bower had no clue what would be waiting for him when he arrived outside Gulf Coast Medical Center. It had been months since he entered the hospital’s Emergency Department as a seasonal nurse after he was diagnosed with ALS last year.  He was greeted by dozens of coworkers gathered together and cheering at his arrival.  “It’s better than Christmas and your birthday and everything put together because you just know you have everybody rooting for you,” Janah, Jeff’s wife and a fellow seasonal nurse at Gulf Coast said.  Gaby Foglia,...

FORT MYERS, Fla. – A group of Florida Gulf Coast University students has turned thousands of old plastic bags into sleeping mats for the homeless.  The students’ efforts are part of the college’s University Colloquium course, which focuses on environmental and sustainability initiatives.  “With as many negative things we had happen with COVID, I think there have been a few positives that have come out of it as well,” Patty Krupp, the colloquium office manager, said of the project.  Plastic yarn or “plarn” was used as students crocheted...