Community Archive

The Gulf Breeze Zoo’s Wild Shots Photo Contest began July 1 and runs through August 31. Participants may enter up to five photos online per category.

All candidates for fire commissioner at Holley-Navarre Fire District and Midway Fire District won election earlier this month because only one candidate qualified for each of the available seats.

The Thursdays in the Park free summer concert series has been a staple in the Navarre community for several years, but June 26 concert-goers experienced a first. Michael Cadena from San Antonio, Texas, proposed to his girlfriend Erin Harnist on stage during the intermission of Exit 4’s concert.

When Chet Beyer said he was “part of the Wells family in Holley,” I said he had a thousand relatives.

Roughly $80 million in Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) projects are being added to or advanced in the 2015-2019 Transportation Improvement Plan. The amendments were approved at the June 11 Florida-Alabama Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) meeting in Pensacola, which was attended by about 50 people.

The Florida Association of Counties hosted a FEMA flood mitigation workshop June 17 in Milton. Santa Rosa County staff members attended along with two representatives from Bay County. Attendees received an overview of federal programs aimed to reduce potential flood damages and lower flood insurance premiums and other related information.

One of the lesser known missions of the U.S. Coast Guard is to follow up on reports of unmanned, adrift vessels.

The Navarre Beach Leaseholders and Residents Association (NBLRA) discussed several issues at their meeting June 21, and most of them dealt with funding issues on the beach.

Ten-year-old Carlie Jeffries worked hard for her birthday presents. She went from door to door to businesses, took a wagon around door to door in her neighborhood and even asked members of her church and karate group for donations toward her birthday.

Chance Stephens and Jacob Leonard traveled through Navarre June 17 in the middle of a 4,000 mile walk across America to raise money for Tiny Hands International (THI), an organization that works on behalf of young girls who are being taken from Nepal and sold into the sex trade. Stephens, who began his trip in Santa Monica, Calif. on Sept. 9, 2013, now walks with friend Jacob Leonard. Their final destination is Virginia Beach, which they expect to reach by Christmas.