You can attend a unique event, “Flea Barket” for your pet supply needs from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. this Saturday at Pet Nation located at the Publix shopping center. Your leashed dogs are welcome to the attend the more than 20 unique local vendors.
The anticipation of Hurricane Irma is a difficult waiting game for businesses. Restaurants have to figure out if they need to order a little – or a lot, payroll companies want payroll amounts early so they can make sure checks get out in time, property managers start seeing the cancellations rolling in, car repair shops get rush orders on the cars already in their shops and the repairs that people have been putting off, are suddenly – very important. However, if you are a grocery store or a dollar store – things are more certain. Storm or not – people want water – and beer – apparently. I had a message Monday evening that our Navarre Walmart was wiped out of beer and water and it was a week before we may even see a rain shower due to Irma.
We would like to welcome our new athlete of the week sponsors: Culver’s of Navarre and Mark Boltz, a Realtor with Century 21 in Navarre. We will begin with Navarre High School “The Athlete of the Week” in our next issue.
I’m sure you have heard by now but this is worth repeating. You are reading one of the best newspapers in the state of Florida – and we have the trophy to prove it. Last Friday in Naples, Florida, our newspaper earned 16 first place awards for journalism, three overall first place awards (meaning first place in all divisions) and the top award of Newspaper of the Year! They found our coverage to be second to none in sports, health/medical, in-depth reporting, headline writing, photography, First Amendment defense, the overall design of our newspaper, local tax reporting, environmental reporting and nearly every other section of our paper. We are so proud to be part of something so much bigger than ourselves (Navarre Press core value) and to provide our readers with excellence only. Thank you for being our cheerleaders! You can see all of the coverage that won throughout this issue and in the spread of section B.
This weekend is the back to school sales tax free weekend. Southern Specialty is offering some amazing sales for back-to-school. Please see their ad in the Back to School Guide for more details.
Santa Rosa Medical Center is hosting Talk with Doc on Tuesday, August 8th. The topic will be Skin Cancer. You can register for this free seminar at srmcfl.com/register.
Earlier this week we sadly reported that our resident Loggerhead sea turtle, Gigi died. For those of you who may be visiting our area, Gigi’s home was the Navarre Beach Sea Turtle Conservation Center. You will see a beautiful tribute to her on our Beach page. The people at the center who cared for her are going to miss her as will all of our Navarre residents. She had become the mascot of our area. I know they will begin the search for another sea turtle to care for soon. And I know their hearts are big enough to welcome another turtle in.
Seems like the Board of County Commissioners is finding their inner Goldilocks when it comes to land for the future courthouse. This one is too expensive, this one is free but lacks infrastructure, this one isn’t in the right place, and none of them are just right. The indecisiveness of this board would be amusing if we didn’t need a new courthouse yesterday. But you can read about it in Rob Johnson’s story on 1A. Hopefully you read it before you got to this page.
