April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, and Santa Rosa Kids’ House, which provides services for abused children, is holding related awareness activities. Last year there were more than 1,500 reports of child abuse in Santa Rosa County, and the group hopes to curb that number through prevention efforts.
Beth Walters and Dan Ramsey started out their two-year terms as Holley By the Sea Board members in July believing they were up to the challenge, but eight months later, both resigned within a week of each other for very different reasons.
Fourteen area residents completed a 26-hour Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) course that ended with a mock disaster exercise March 30 at the Holley-Navarre Senior Center. The Navarre Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) conducted the training over two consecutive weekends.
Spring officially arrived last week and that means many local residents will be taking to their backyards to start their vegetable gardens. University of Florida Residential Horticulturalist Mary Derrick said children can be part of the process from start to finish.
The first female pilot to break the sound barrier grew up in Bagdad, just south of Milton. Jacqueline “Jackie” Cochran was a record setter who also shattered the glass ceiling in aviation, earning induction into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio in 1971.
The second annual Navarre Beach Songwriter Festival is scheduled May 16 – 18 but local songwriters have been honing their skills and playing original songs at Juana’s Club Pagodas for a couple of months.
The Santa Rosa County Commissioners at their meeting March 13 approved a resolution recognizing March as American Red Cross Month. America Red Cross of Northwest Florida executive Jerry Kindle attended the meeting.
