Letters to the Editor Archive

This past weekend, my sister and I visited the Gulf Breeze Zoo.  We had purchased two Military Adventure passes earlier in the year to use later on at our discretion due to our military related disabilities.  You can imagine our shock and disbelief when we got to the Zoo and realized we had misplaced our passes to enter the Zoo.  It was an extremely busy day at the Zoo and Venisa Stone was busy with another customer but immediately came over to assist us.  She could see the anguish and disappointment on our faces as we had waited for this one day that we both were well enough to enjoy a day at the Zoo together and our passes were gone!  Venisa so generously “Paid It Forward” by believing in us and allowing us entry when she didn’t have to. It ended up be a wonderful day at the Zoo and served to be very therapeutic for my sister and I. It was because of people like Venisa that make this community and the Zoo a great place! Thank you Venisa!!!

Congratulations and thank you for the very powerful reporting and factually accurate article on the health of our Sound today. All of my neighbors speak to their concerns over the smell of sewage in the sound on a constant basis and the negative effect it has on their homes and investment. They also speak consistently on these dangerous bacterial issues and the skin disorders their children suffer from going into the water. This article sounds the warning alarms to our community and I pray that they listen.

Lost: “no longer possessed; retained,” and “having gone astray or missed the way.” Based on recent comments regarding storm water projects related to the Local Option Sales Tax revenue tentative projects’ list, it seems District 4 Commissioner Rob Williamson is lost on the L.O.S.T.

The growth in solar power generation has nothing to do with science or real economics and everything to do with misguided “feel good” efforts by self-acclaimed environmentalists. 

A scientist, Harold Hill, authored “From God To You By Way of The Zoo.” How sad some actually believe they came therefrom!.

When Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt was kicked out of the Navy for praying “In Jesus’ Name,” the name above all others, little did it know God had bigger plans for him. Satan’s goal, to shut mouths about Jesus, failed because God’s specialty of meaning for good what Satan meant for evil, happened!

I moved to Navarre in 1994.  At that time there were just two schools, one grocery store, one hotel, two hardware stores, a drugstore, a bank, some real estate offices, a handful of fast-food eateries, a doughnut shop and a couple of sit-down restaurants. The tiny post office was in Sand Dollar Plaza and the library shared space with a church in a small community building.  Driving to Fort Walton Beach or Pensacola took only 30 minutes, regardless of the time of day. Aside from the Hidden Creek Golf Course, there were no recreational sports fields, liquor stores or even a sheriff’s office.  Most of our community leaders were (and still are) in the banking, building or real estate business who held fast to their conservative values of low taxes and individual property rights.

Shame on vandals targeting Jewish cemeteries, community centers and day schools. Trump should have/did condemn that hate/evil!

Our school board has a special single issue item scheduled for a vote March 28. You are being asked to continue for 10 years a one/half cent sales tax to be used by the School Board at their discretion.

In a recent column your publisher claimed that the Navarre Press was unbiased and then called out several other major news outlets for not positively reporting on the “Trump Bump” in the stock market.