by Good News Pest Solutions Team | Feb 11, 2021 | Holiday, Love Bugs, Valentine's Day
Although it is one of the oldest holidays, we don’t know much about the true origins of St. Valentine’s Day or the Feast of St. Valentine. After all, he’s probably the second most known saint, after Saint Nicholas, even if we don’t always think of Valentine’s Day as a...
by Good News Pest Solutions Team | Jan 14, 2021 | Arbor Day, Good News Pest Solutions, Holiday, Invasive Species, Living Green, Sarasota Pest Control
There’s an old adage that goes “The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is right now.” That’s the idea and spirit that led to founding Arbor Day over 150 years ago. The United States and many other countries celebrate the holiday in April...
by Good News Pest Solutions Team | Dec 31, 2020 | Good News Pest Solutions, Holiday, New Year's Eve
If you’re like most of us, you can’t wait ’til we can finally bid 2020 goodbye. While nothing will magically change at the stroke of midnight, it just feels good to move on, even symbolically. Just like it was this year for Thanksgiving and Christmas, most of us...
by Good News Pest Solutions Team | Dec 24, 2020 | Christmas, Good News, Good News Pest Solutions, Holiday, Sarasota Pest Control
Sometime around 2000 years ago, in a distant Middle Eastern country, a humble baby was born in a stable. He was wrapped in strips of cloth, cradled in a cattle trough, and visited by the some of the lowliest people in the region. A dozen, maybe two, witnessed the...
by Good News Pest Solutions Team | Dec 17, 2020 | Good News, Good News Pest Solutions, Holiday, Spiders
It’s a time-honored tradition in many Gulf Coast Florida families. Sometime after Thanksgiving, you head down to the tree farm lot and pick out your Christmas tree. Sure, we’d like to go out and cut our own, but that’s just not possible in the Sunshine State. You pay,...
by Good News Pest Solutions Team | Nov 26, 2020 | Good News, Good News Pest Solutions, Holiday
The last couple weeks of November is probably our third favorite time of the year. On Easter, we honor Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross and subsequent resurrection that brought us redemption and new beginnings. Creation, of course, echoes that new start. Christmas,...