The boardwalk along the Santa Rosa Sound at Navarre Park is set for demolition by the county public works department in the near future. Crews would have already started tearing down the structure but recent unprecedented rainfall has kept them busy with road work and drainage issues. It is undetermined if the boardwalk will be reconstructed.
The Second Annual Navarre Beach Songwriter Festival was held May 16 – 18 at five venues in the Navarre area. The event featured singer-songwriters from the local area, as well as other who traveled from as far away as Nashville, Tennessee.
The Gulf Breeze Zoo made sure patrons coming through their doors May 16 knew it was National Endangered Species Day. “This is the first time we’ve celebrated National Endangered Species Day to this extent,” said Zoo Marketing Director Valerie Pennock.
Born and raised in the coal-mining town of Arno, Virginia, Violet Mullins knows what it’s like to live the life of a coal miner’s daughter; “I was born in a company house and we lived in a company house … you had to sign your life away at the company store in the little town of Appalachia … the company lived off’n you,” Mullins said.
For the seventh year, donations of food collected by letter carriers in Gulf Breeze are benefiting ACTS Ministry at Harbor at Holley Church. The national “Stamp Out Hunger” food drive is in its 22nd year.
About 50 community leaders and volunteers turned out May 7 for SAFER’s 2014 annual meeting. Safer, the Support Alliance for Community Readiness, is the successor organization to the Santa Rosa Long Term Recovery Organization which developed after Hurricanes Ivan and Dennis.
Santa Rosa County Sheriff Wendell Hall issued a proclamation May 5 joining the State of Florida in recognizing May as Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month.
State Reps. Mike Hill and Doug Broxson partnered May 8 with Farm Share, a nationwide relief organization, to distribute food and supplies to Santa Rosa County residents impacted by the flood. Even before the distribution officially began at 10 a.m., cars were lining up in the Winn Dixie parking lot waiting to receive food and supplies.
