The Pensacola Ice Flyers will have Hero and Princess Night this Saturday at the game. Dress up as your favorite hero or princess for the game. We have Ice Flyer tickets for our All Access subscribers.
Thank a veteran this Saturday on Veterans’ Day. Mike Esmond, a Vietnam Veteran, at Gulf Breeze Pools and Spas put an ad in this issue thanking Veterans. Navarre Lumber always offers military discounts. Check out their ad for some of the items they carry that you won’t believe they have.
The property east of Publix is under contract. We do not know who has it under contract, but it isn’t for lack of trying. I think it is smart to keep it under wraps until it is a done deal. As you know by reading this column, a lot of “under contract” properties – never finalize. There is a lot of moving and shaking and positioning going on in and around Navarre. That just means that the economy is awesome, people are optimistic, and we have got it going on. Case and point, our business page. Our unemployment rate is almost a full percent lower than Florida’s average and 1.2 percent less than the national average. Also, A+ Mini Storage sold recently to a national company – “Move-It.”
This was one of those weeks that we almost decided to have a pictorial edition. There was a lot going on this past weekend – as you will see in this issue.
Get Lost in the Fun at the massive corn maze at Sweet Season Farms in Milton. The farm is now open until Nov. 5, Friday nights and Saturday and Sunday. There is more than just a maze – see their website for all of the details: www.sweetseasonfarms.com. Sweet Season Farms has partnered with The Studer Family Children’s Hospital to raise money for childhood cancer.
We put up our storm shutters for Nate for several reasons – other than we are nerds. The main reason was because there was a hurricane in the Gulf. Secondly, I was here for Opal. Opal was supposed to hit New Orleans and she took a turn at the last minute and hit us as a Cat 3. And last but not least, we had never used our fabric shutters and we wanted to actually use them. The fabric of our window covers was mildewed from our storage unit where they were rotting away. In the end, we really put them up because we knew we wanted to get our building and parking area pressure washed. We found one of the newest Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce members, Curb Appeal. We left our window covers up for two days after Nate so that they could be pressure washed along with our building. Barry Underwood, owner of Curb Appeal Exterior Cleaning is awesome, licensed and insured. His number is 850-503-2444. Also, don’t use service providers that put up the yard signs on the side of the road. They are breaking the law. If they will break the law to get your business…how can you trust them? Just a thought.
We have a column by Inkie this week. She can’t write every week – because she is too busy playing and napping. My husband and my daughter pop in to the office occasionally during the week – but not to see me. They want to see Inkie. My husband doesn’t know how we get any work done. “I fully expect that one week you will just have pictures of Inkie and some press releases – and that is it,” he said. Nope, that won’t happen.
This is the last issue of September. And, I predict that your October is going to fly right by and before you know it, it will be Thanksgiving and then Christmas. I’m sure you have already noticed that Christmas merchandise has been out in big box stores since three weeks ago – unfortunately. Can’t we get through pumpkins, scarecrows and cornucopias before we see Santa? Rhetorical question.
I have been out of town for almost half of September. Every five to six years we take a long family vacation which usually involves hiking. This year we went to the Grand Tetons National Park and stayed in Jackson Hole. Three of my four children made the trip and we put in more than 30 miles of hiking. My youngest daughter hiked every mile with us and ran a marathon on our first full day there. My son who is a law enforcement officer wrote on Facebook afterward that it was the first time he came back from vacation and had to tighten his belt. It was really like a fitness vacation with some wildlife thrown in to include both bull and cow moose, marmot and more.
