Walking into a West Navarre Intermediate School classroom last week meant ducking flying plush cupcakes and stepping over splayed out, half-finished mini mansions surrounded by students with pipe cleaners. The noise of a half-dozen hammers wielded by third-graders filled the halls.
As the Santa Rosa County Tourist Development Council (TDC) continues to push toward prioritizing funding of physical tourism assets, some members of the council admitted a lack of firsthand knowledge of some existing tourism facilities.
Children’s brains complete up to 90 percent of development in the first five years of life, according to research by the Rauch Foundation. Though the typical newborn brain is only a quarter of the size it will reach by adulthood, it will grow rapidly in those first years and develop trillions of synapse connections.
It was at one of Navarre’s Junior ROTC military balls that Master Chief Jim Ethridge recalls a funny story about the late Shirley Brown, a long-time supporter of ROTC who used the cadets for many of the community service efforts she was involved with in Navarre.
Take Stock in Children and the Santa Rosa Education Foundation awarded over $350,000 in scholarships to 25 graduating seniors who received four-year tuition scholarships. The May 30 event was held at the Hilton Pensacola Beach. Local area students raised money to give each senior an Apple Laptop, a $750 value, and a North Face Backpack, a $125 value.
From providing free civil legal services to building wildlife habitats, dozens of volunteers lent their skills and labor Saturday for Santa Rosa County’s third annual Day of Service.
Claire Crider grew up on the white sand shores of Navarre, and from those early years she had a love of crafting. That love combined with an entrepreneurial spirit has gained her national recognition in the popular magazine “The Pioneer Woman.”
