Out and About Archive

I’ve been running between all three newspaper locations, and I’m often in Navarre, Milton and Crestview in the same day.

At the first of the year as I was visiting all of the properties, I decided that it was very difficult to drive carefully and pay attention to the road while also paying attention to everything in the three organizations.

There is a gun show this weekend, Saturday and Sunday June 4 and 5 at the Santa Rosa County Auditorium, Milton, FL from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Ads were placed by the gentleman that runs the thirty plus year old gun show more than a month ago and have been running ever since.

We have had a busy couple of weeks gathering information for our graduation section of this week’s issue.

Even though graduation happens every year it always sneaks up on us, and apparently school staff and parents as well.

There is a lot going on this weekend. There is a Military Appreciation Picnic that is organized by the Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce.

See the full page ad on Page 6D. There is a flag dedication at the Holley Navarre Senior Center, and numerous other events including a business fair event for business owners that live in Holley by the Sea.

I had the opportunity to sit down with our U.S. House Representative, Matt Gaetz, at his district office in Pensacola last week.

He was preparing for a hearing with Alejandro Mayorkas last Thursday and took an hour out of his day to chat about his district that covers all the areas where we have news organizations.

This past week my husband and I drove to Fort Worth, Texas to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary.

The last time we were there was for a short stop about 20 years our ago with our children on our way to a vacation in Colorado.

The site work for Slim Chicken’s location next to the Navarre Post Office is moving quickly.

And, according to one of our avid readers, Mike Sandler, there are survey stakes where the proposed apartment complex is possibly going east of St. Augustine’s Church.

I had a conversation with a recovering newspaper publisher this past week who was in the newspaper, business journal business for more than 30 years.

He found me because he visited the Navarre Beach Area Chamber and Chanda Ryan, the executive director, told him he should talk to me. We talked for a little bit on the phone but then I invited him to lunch at Panera.