Gulf Breeze bested the Navarre High School Lady Raider Varsity volleyball team for the second time this season on Sept. 10. A nail-biting first game escalated point by point until Gulf Breeze finally got a two point lead, sealing their win with a score 27-29.
Catherine Baccarini, a local Navarre soccer player, committed to Faulkner University out of Montgomery, AL earlier this week. Catherine first visited Faulkner last September and instantly made a connection with the coach, the program and the school. “I spent the entire day at the campus, ate dinner with the players and practiced with the team. I liked everything about the school and really liked the coach and team. One of the biggest things for me was that it was a Christian School and it wasn’t too big”, she related. Catherine has been playing travel soccer since she was 7 years old and has played for the semi pro under 20 team in the W League, the Alabama state Olympic Development Program team and currently plays for the Gulf Coast Texans out of Pensacola.
A former caregiver herself, Joanne Koenig Coste has heard the word “I’m fine” so often from Alzheimer’s caregivers, she made it the title of her developing book and created an acronym: FINE.
Decatur, Ill. (AP) — Approaching tournament time, Russell "Rusty" Heitz's Cardinals slow-pitch softball team was winless. Heitz, the manager, wasn't fretting.
All pets bring us closer to the natural world, but specialty pets, such as fish, small pets and reptiles, provide a unique way to inspire kids to learn about the world around them. As teachers and families gear up for the start of a new school year, pets can help teach kids responsibility and how to keep a routine. They can sharpen kids’ math and science skills through activities such as measuring food and water, keeping track of days of the week on a calendar and studying information about their care needs.
Milton, FL - On Friday, September 26, the Florida Department of Health in Santa Rosa County and Santa Rosa Animal Control will host the third drive through rabies vaccination clinic for dogs and cats in observance of World Rabies Day. The event will be held from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at Santa Rosa Animal Control, 4451 Pine Forest Road, in Milton.
“4H has expanded so much, but of course it still includes poultry and cattle,” said Dawn Keeton, whose sons Lance and Landyn are members of the Homegrown Ocean Investigators 4H Club.
“This is a job where, if you rely on the work you’ve done in a hospital strictly to get by, you will fail 9 times out of 10,” said Capt. George Salloum, flight surgeon with the 1 SOSS on Hurlburt Field.
Washington (AFNS) -- Implementation of a series of changes to the enlisted evaluation and promotion systems announced in July by Air Force senior leaders continues with new promotion eligibility cutoff dates for Airmen competing for promotion to technical and master sergeant.
A rare respiratory illness-causing virus has affected 82 people in the middle of the country, most of them children according to the Centers for Disease Control and Protection (CDC). Hospitals in Missouri and Illinois are seeing more children with the virus than are typical for this time of year, which has promoted the CDC’s attention.
