Run With It in Fort Walton Beach is celebrating 10 years in business. For those of you who may not know, Run With It started in Navarre at the Publix shopping plaza. They had an opportunity for more space and moved to downtown Fort Walton Beach and have kept growing. They are the best place to buy running or walking shoes and accessories. They also have awesome fitness clothes. I bought a pair of running shoes there and my daughter took them – never to be seen again until it was time to replace them after several marathons. I still exercise in a pair of shoes that I bought there – when they were still in Navarre. However, I don’t run marathons – so they have lasted. Run With It will celebrate their anniversary at the store on September 29th with sales, food and beverages.
If you like Beer and Germany – you are going to like Oct. 6 in Navarre. The festivities start at Juana’s/Sailors Grill on Navarre Beach with their sixth annual Oktoberfest. There will be beer tastings from beer distributors at different stations with music on the deck from noon until 4 p.m. Admission and a commemorative souvenir glass (while supplies last) is $25. From 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. you can also witness anglers from the Navarre Fishing Rodeo bringing in their catch to be weighed. All of this is a lot of fun. Then – you may want to call an Uber and make your way up Highway 87 to Ye Olde Brothers Brewery.
Santa Rosa County won Tuesday night along with Dave Piech. However, I’m certain that Santa Rosa County will benefit much more from Dave Piech than Dave Piech will ever benefit from Santa Rosa County. The same could not be said about the incumbent who just lost the election that was his to lose. Williamson out spent Piech two to one and Williamson had his war chest early. Piech’s contributions trickled and more was given at the end. We will have an analysis of the contributions next week when all the accounting has been done.
Touch of Gray will be playing Classic Rock tonight at Navarre Beach. Bring a chair to the free concert starting at 7 p.m. as part of the Tunes by the Dunes concert series.
Toes N Sand Free Sunset Movies are back on Wednesday nights at Navarre Beach Pier. Wednesday the 22nd will be Jaws 2 on the big screen in the sand by the pier.
This is the last full weekend before our children go back to school. I can see some of you jumping for joy as you read this. I miss those days, but now my daughter, who is a teacher, calls and tells me how excited she is for the first day of school. Funny how that happens. Our reporters will be out at the schools taking pictures of children starting their day on Monday. If you see us, say “hi” and let us know your child’s name so we get it right. We hate it when we get it wrong! We chronicle students’ journeys through 18 years of school. We have it all – it is just one of the many reasons you should subscribe. We try to keep track of our students after high school too – so if you know of a student who has graduated and is doing great things let us know so we can brag about them. Once we were reviewing a bid for an engineering company to put in our reefs and we saw the name of one of our former Navarre High students on the bid. That’s exciting work – so we did a story about her. We love bragging about our students. We wish all our teachers a great school year.
The Club at Hidden Creek is looking for proposals to lease the restaurant, bar and event facility for operating a public restaurant and catering events. See the Public Notice for more information.
The Holley Navarre Senior Center is having an indoor flea market Saturday, Aug. 4. You can still rent a table for the event. Call 850-936-1644 for more information.
Fourth of July at Navarre Beach was the most patriotic event I can remember in my years in Navarre. The Navarre Beach Fourth of July Hometown Celebration and Children’s Parade was pure magic with more than 100 children participating in the parade. They decorated tricycles, bicycles, batons, children and even a little front-end loader and paraded around the parking lot led by the Cat Country 98.7 Cat and Jenna Scott to patriotic tunes compliments of Systems of Sound (Bob Levison).
