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The 2025-26 CCLGA League year is well underway with varied events, including our monthly scramble luncheons. The Red and White Tees to the Green was an enormous success with all participants dressing in holiday colors. There were six groups who won Johnny Cash prizes. The first prize winners were Chris Young, Joyce Trost, Mindy Metz, […]

Happy New Year! We hope you all enjoyed the holidays and are ready for some great golf. We started the season off in great fashion with our first luncheon of the season. It was an ABCD scramble that was won by the team of Scott Chenet, Bill Rooney, Tony Fiasconaro and Tony Innocente. Closet to […]

Men … The Men are off to a great start! The 65 plus-3.0 group won the Bonita Fall League. They also finished 5th out of 12 teams in the 3.0 Open Division. Winter League begins in January. Social tennis is also available. Sign up at the condo courts weekly. Ladies … The ladies are also […]

VCC Bocce Federation is happy to announce that our fall bocce champions were the all-male team Bandits. They won 24 out of 30 games. Gene Cipriano is their captain. Congratulations to Gene and his team on a job well rolled! The Blazers and Rascals tied for second place, while the Bandettes and Forgers tied for […]

This year the Country Creek Golf Cart Parade was held on Wednesday, December 3. We had 24 or so Creekers in their very creatively decorated carts and costumes, who drove up to the Clubhouse and assembled for the tour throughout our Village. Faith Bannister Bauer, the architect of this newer version of the parade, had […]

Due to the uncertainty of the time line for the beginning of the restoration of our Clubhouse, the Wii committee has decided to forego league play for the winter of 2026. INSTEAD We will be offering Wii bowling using the same format used during the summer and fall seasons. Bowling will start on January 12. […]

Last month there was a State level meeting of the Office of Greenways and Trails held in Jupiter, FL. During the two-day meeting, the committee heard updates on trails in SUN Trails network, and crowned Marco Island as a Florida Trail Town. BERT is working towards making Bonita Springs and Estero the next Trail Towns […]

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With all the current discussion about hunting black bears, I thought it might be a good time to know a few things about them. Black bears originated in North America and have been here at least 1.5 million years. There are currently estimated to be about 4,000 black bears in Florida. Like all members of […]