Page 7 The Sun Bay Paper August 2, 2026 What’s New around Fort Myers August Programs from Lee County Library System Lee County Library System locations are hosting programs for all ages. Registration is required for some programs. For more information or to register, please call the library at 239-479-INFO (4636). Program information is also available online at https://www.leegov.com/library/programs 2026 Festivals and Events Island Hopper Songwriter Fest Sept. 18-27 island-hopperfest.com “Scarecrows in the Park” at Lakes Park Fall Festival, Fort Myers Oct. 9-31 www.lakespark.org 41st Cape Coral Oktoberfest Oct. 17-19 & 24-26 German-American Social Club capecoraloktoberfest.com Art in the Wild Oct. 20-22 J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge dingdarlingsociety.org/art-in-the-wild Edison and Ford Winter Estates Fall Festival Oct. 31 edisonfordwinterestates.org REVIVE! Trash to Fashion Couture Collection Show Nov. 4 Sundial Beach Resort and Spa, Sanibel Island dingdarlingsociety.org/revive 36th annual American Sand Sculpting Championship, Fort Myers Beach Nov. 19-23 fmbsandsculpting.com Edison and Ford Winter Estates Garden Festival Nov. 21 edisonfordwinterestates.org Fort Myers Tip-Off Nov. 24 & 26 Florida SouthWestern State College, Fort Myers fortmyerstipoff.com Elevance Health Women’s Fort Myers Tip-Off Island and Shell Divisions Nov. 27-28 Suncoast Credit Union Arena Florida SouthWestern State College, Fort Myers womensfortmyerstipoff.com Holiday events Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre, Fort Myers broadwaypalm.com “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas,” Main Theatre Nov. 20-Dec. 30 “The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical,” Off-Broadway Palm Theatre Nov. 26-Dec. 30 “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” Children’s Theatre Dec. 1-24 Florida Repertory Theatre, downtown Fort Myers “Plaid Tidings” Dec.1- Jan. 3, 2027 Artstage Studio Theatre floridarep.org 38th Fort Myers Beach Christmas Boat Parade Dec. 5 fortmyersbeach.org Cape Coral Holiday Boat-a-Long and Christmas Movie Dec. 19 Four Freedoms Park tinyurl.com/capecoralboatalong Adventures in Paradise Santa’s Dolphin and Wildlife Cruises and Christmas Eve Sunset Cruise Dec. 24 (check times) adventureinparadiseinc.com/cruises/holiday-cruises 2027 Festivals and Events 42nd annual Cape Coral Art Festival and Market Place January tba capecoralartfestival.com 36thth Tour De Cape in Cape Coral January tba Rotary Park tourdecape.net ArtFest Fort Myers, downtown Fort Myers Feb. 5-7 artfestfortmyers.com 89th Edison Festival of Light Grand Parade, Fort Myers February tba Downtown Fort Myers edisonfestival.org 25th annual Burrowing Owl Festival, Cape Coral February tba Rotary Park Environmental Center ccfriendsofwildlife.org/burrowing-owl-festival-2 Southwest Florida Ag Expo Feb. 25-March 7 Mike Greenwell Regional Park swflagexpo.com Be sure to enjoy the many downtown Fort Myers celebrations hosted by local businesses and the River District Alliance (RDA). Check out all the happenings this month on the events calendar on fortmyers.gov! Cont’d. from pg. 6 And there is a name for that ideology: Third World-ism. It’s a dystopian zeal for barbarism over civilization. And these days, it’s the name of the game for the activist left. We see it everywhere. Third World-ism explains the activist left’s support for the butchers of Hamas over the free people of Israel. Third World-ism explains the activist left’s support for punitive environmental regulations that engender economic degrowth. Third World-ism explains why the activist left wants us to have (SET ITAL)fewer(END ITAL) children. Third Worldism explains why the activist left speculates that maybe America actually deserved 9/11. Third World-ism explains why the activist left wants the anarchy of open borders, not the ordered liberty of the nation-state. Third World-ism explains why the activist left sides with illegal aliens and not victims of illegal alien crime. And Third World-ism explains why the activist left sides with criminals, in general, and not victims of crime. The problem with ideology, as the philosophers recognized millennia ago, is that it is stubborn. It is usually impervious to logic, reason or empiricism. The remedy for bad ideology, therefore, cannot simply be facts and statistics. We also need good ideology: a moral argument that public safety is a public good, and government exists to secure the public good. Whether there is anyone willing to make that argument in earnest remains to be seen. DAILY EDITORIALS BY: JOSH HAMMER DSAAssault on Prisons, cont’d.
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