Good Works

For five years, Michelle and Jeremy Kuntze have been building an excited pool of actors and patrons at Fort Myers Theatre on San Carlos Boulevard. Now, they’re opening a second location. The Fort Myers Dinner Theatre will produce its inaugural play in July.

An Immokalee assistant director has been recognized statewide for helping first-generation students navigate the path to college.

“I’d like to have a chance to go to Broadway and beyond; maybe do movies and other things like that,” said JJ Freitas outside Fort Myers Theatre recently. Freitas has taken two big steps in pursuit of those lofty goals. First, he traveled with Fort Myers Theater to the Junior Theatre Festival in Atlanta in January. It’s the Super Bowl of student-driven musical theater.

A pickleball pro who competed in the US Open championships in Naples picked up the game when he was healing from cancer. He loved it so much, he shared it all the way to Papua New Guinea.

There’s a national shortage of Ob/Gyns. But a new program at Lee Health can help.