Month: June 2017

Athletes take advantage of free sports physicals

Written by Staff Reporters on June 29, 2017. Posted in Sports.

More than 1,500 high school athletes from the area were able to have their sports physicals done for free earlier this month at the Andrews Institute in Gulf Breeze.

Southern League All-Star Game washed out by tropical storm

Written by Brian Lester on June 29, 2017. Posted in Sports.

History was made at the Southern League All-Star Game last Tuesday night in Pensacola.

Brady Hammel gearing up for second season as the kicker at Shorter

Written by Brian Lester on June 29, 2017. Posted in Sports.

Brady Hammel started right out of the gate as the kicker on Shorter’s football team. His first time on a college field was in a game against Division I Chattanooga, a game the Hawks lost 66-0.

Meals on Wheels program extends its reach to pets

Written by Staff Reporters on June 29, 2017. Posted in News.

Josh Newby of the Council on Aging of West Florida can’t say for sure that senior citizens in need have had more issues affording food for their pets in recent years. But he does know one thing.

Pet Nation aims to honor shop’s cat, promote local businesses

Written by Staff Reporters on June 29, 2017. Posted in News.

In honor of the passing of Pet Nation’s 14-year-old tabby cat Tiger Woods, the locally owned pet supply store intends to hold a charity Flea Barket selling a variety of items for humans and pets July 8 outside the store.

Rain doesn’t put damper on YCC experience

Written by Brian Lester on June 29, 2017. Posted in News.

Gulf Breeze student Grant Landry is a Boy Scout, so he is used to being outdoors. On that note, it made sense for him to take a shot at landing a job with the Youth Conservation Corps.

8th SOS hosts Operation Eagle Claw memorial ceremony

Written by Staff Reporters on June 29, 2017. Posted in Military, News.

Hurlburt Field - Team Hurlburt gathered together to remember Operation Eagle Claw at a memorial ceremony June 23, and pay tribute to the five Air Commandos assigned to the 8th Special Operations Squadron and three Marines who lost their lives during the mission.

How do you want to feel?

Written by Staff Reporters on June 29, 2017. Posted in News.

Last week we talked about going to the mental gym. I am a mental gym regular and part of that includes reading good books and even taking the time to do some journaling in response to those books!

Functional medicine on the rise

Written by Staff Reporters on June 29, 2017. Posted in News.

More than 100 years ago, a prediction from inventor and scientist Thomas Edison was printed in newspapers across the country. “The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease,” Edison said in 1902.

Sensational exploration hits Navarre Library this summer

Written by Staff Reporters on June 29, 2017. Posted in Faith.

Things got sensational at Navarre Library Friday as children with special needs participated in the first Sensational Summer Fun camp created by Sensational Friends, Inc.