On a cool, sun-splashed Wednesday morning, with miniature American flags blowing in the light breeze on the lawn in front of Navarre High School, Navarre’s Navy Junior ROTC commanding officer Arianna Clemente-Hunter spoke during a ceremony to commemorate Pearl Harbor Day.
Johnny Robertson has only been with the Holley-Navarre Fire District for a little more than 14 months but he’s made quite an impression in a short period of time.
Sage Offutt joked in an interview once that she thought her paddleboard rental business on Navarre Beach would end up be sort of like a lemonade stand.
Joe Henderson has marched to his own drum as a City of Gulf Breeze council member for the past six years, and he never seemed to mind if he fell a bit out of step.
While temperatures fell low enough to open cold weather shelters, residents in and around Santa Rosa County bundled up to wait outside Milton High School Friday night and into the wee hours of Saturday morning.
There were 75 citizen candidates at the Nov. 18 Naturalization Ceremony held in the National Naval Aviation Museum. Navarre resident, Marta Harsha, took a very different path before raising her hand to take the Allegiance Oath.
Navarre resident Eva Hale first visited Navarre from her native country of Sweden in 1988. “I had a niece and her family living here,” Hale said. “My brother and other members of my family had previously visited and I decided to see it for myself. I was hooked almost immediately. The people were friendly and the area was beautiful and warm. I traveled to other places in America, but I always came back to Navarre.”
Every child deserves to feel the magic of waking up Christmas morning to find gifts just for them, and during the season of plenty, no family should go hungry.
