More than 200 dogs and even more humans gathered at Pik-itz on April 13 for a day full of peace, love, music, and pups at the Navarre Chamber’s Inaugural WOOFSTOCK 2024. The costume contest was competitive, with golden doodles dressed as hippies, bulldogs in wigs, Terriers in overalls, and golden retrievers with scrunchies on their paws.
Homeschool teenagers from all over Santa Rosa County gathered in the gymnasium of Gulf Pointe Latin School on East Bay Blvd. for the Navarre Homeschool Prom April 6. This event is put together by Santa Rosa County parents from Navarre to Milton every year.
“An answered prayer.”
That’s how Austyn Evans describes knowing her two-year-old son, Conrad, now has a kidney after an agonizing search for a donor. Although the search took them from Northwest Florida to Texas and then to Georgia, the donor turned out to be closer to home (in fact, the donor lives in their home).
Shigeko Honda, who was director of the University of West Florida Japan Center and Japan House for 26 years, has been awarded the prestigious Order of the Rising Sun, Silver Rays. Honda was recognized at an event on UWF’s Pensacola campus on April 1 which celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Japan House.
Every year, millions of children celebrate Easter with egg hunts and family time. While most children are concerned with finding candy in eggs, over 2.5 million are worrying where their next meal will come from.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is sharing the reminder that bat maternity season, the time when most of our state’s native and beneficial bats give birth and raise their young, starts on April 16. Now is the time for property owners to check homes and other buildings for roosting bats before bat maternity season begins.
Most people don’t think of a church as the place where a hard rock band with punk influences would get their start, but most people don’t know ‘Power Bomb.’
Dr. Irene Butter, 93, has spent most of her life in academics. A professor emeritus at the University of Michigan, she taught in the college’s School of Public Health from 1962 to 1996.
Friendship is a powerful thing. When people have your back and encourage you, it can help get you through some of life’s challenges, the big and the small.
