A fun-loving crowd filled a huge portable tent at The Club at Hidden Creek July 26 to enjoy country music, country folks and to support area charities. PGA Tour pro Boo Weekley’s annual charity golf outing, BooFest, generates funds that are donated to nearly 20 charities including the Air Commandos Association, Fisher House Foundation, Navarre High School golf team and Milton High School athletics.
Ted Lockwood was excited about being interviewed, so that’s probably why he didn’t waste time or mince words, and hit the ground running when I asked where he was born and raised.
From atop the Imogene Theatre in downtown Milton, historic preservation advocate and mayoral candidate Wesley Meiss identified structures comprising the county seat’s historic district. Meiss opposes widening or building roadways which could threaten structures that contribute to the district’s status on the National Register of Historic Places.
Navarre Beach firefighters and lifeguards conducted a joint training earlier this year in an effort to better coordinate their responses to water rescues. The training was taken to new heights July 15 and 16 as a helicopter from Lifeguard Ambulance Service and personnel from Santa Rosa County Emergency Management joined in the training exercise. The groups worked on four different scenarios including a swimmer in distress, unconscious person, animal bite and a heart attack.
Caitlyn Gaddy is entering her freshman year at Navarre High School and completed a summer internship at Pensacola Cooks, a local culinary company that specializes in “putting the fun in food” through education and cooking. As part of her internship, Gaddy assisted with summer camps that the company sponsored and helped with administrative tasks.
Two Navarre High School students and the worship minister from Navarre United Methodist Church are participating in Pensacola State College’s production of “Big: the musical,” which is being presented July 25 – 27 and Aug. 1 – 3 at the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium.
“I was born in Seymour, Connecticut, it was a small town, a nice town,” Olga Fagerstrom said, her soft voice barely audible, but her phenomenal memory screamed at the top of its lungs.
Business was booming on Pensacola Beach leading up to Saturday’s air show and performance by the Blue Angels. The event attracted tens of thousands who came by land and sea, clogging local roads and waterways but providing a welcome economic boost after the Blues were grounded last year amid federal budget cuts.
Local residents impacted by flooding in April only have until 10 p.m., July 21 to apply for assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
What does an alligator named Sam eat for lunch? If you guessed “anything that he wants to,” then make plans to visit the Gulf Breeze Zoo and see if you are right. The zoo began public alligator feedings earlier this month. They are held at 3 p.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays and feature the zoo’s 13-foot male alligator, Sam.
