Out and About Archive

The Navarre Chamber of Commerce is having a Munch & Learn Workshop on “Google Tools for Your Small Business.” Adam McCloskey, FSBDC at UWF will be the presenter on Wednesday, July 6 at 11:30 a.m. See their ad for more details.

The Betty J. Pullum Navarre YMCA wants to invite you to have some water fun in their zero entry pool with water slides.   First-time visits are always free.

Tonight Stevie Hall will be playing Pop, Country and Blues at Navarre Park.   This is part of the Free Summer Concert Series from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. every Thursday through the summer.

We have a new addition to our staff that you will be seeing around town. Journalist Jamie Gentry makes her debut with this issue. She is a recent graduate from UWF and we are very fortunate to have her as part of the NP Team.

This Saturday is the graduation of the class of 2016 and Navarre Press is officially 16. We just pulled out our first issue and it is two sections for a total of 16 pages and includes a large picture of the Navarre High School Class of 2000.

Thursdays in the Park starts tonight with our favorite band – Not Quite Fab. This one-of-a-kind Beatles Tribute Band features one of our own, Dickie Williams, aka Paul McCartney.  Not Quite Fab is in high demand and we are fortunate that they are playing tomorrow.

The Navarre High School Raiders will have its Maroon and White Game on Friday, May 13 at 7 p.m. Please make plans to go to the football stadium to show your support.

The Navarre YMCA wants to remind you that registration for summer camp and summer preschool is now open – as well as the pool.

This is our second week of publishing a page from the Milton Gazette. The issue this week is from August 19, 1910, and in it is a story that starts with “A rare relic.” It details how someone brought them a paper from January 4, 1800, that gives an account of George Washington’s funeral.  Here we are looking back at newspapers from more than 100 years ago to a paper that is also looking back at a newspaper more than 100 years ago. And, because the Milton Gazette reprinted that, we have a real treat – from more than 200 years ago. Please read the entire page of the Milton Gazette. If only you could hear Gail Acosta read it out loud. We may have to start a YouTube channel because the way she reads it – makes the entire page come to life.

Fun Fest is this Saturday!  When I was the chairman of the board of the Navarre Chamber, we went from a Friday night, all-day Saturday, half-a-day Sunday event to just a Friday evening – Saturday event. This year…they are eliminating Friday night and holding the event only on Saturday. The changes sound good to me and it promises to be a very fun event. In fact, I may just enjoy every moment of it because all-day Saturday sounds very manageable.

We made a few small changes to this week’s issue but next week – there will be an even more noticeable difference. One difference will be where you will find this page. We are going to move this page to the back of the A section for several reasons one of which is because we are going to have two pages of editorial content. We have had a small debate at the office about our section that starts out with the word “Community.”  All of Navarre Press is about our community or news that affects our community, so why have a page that says “Community?” We are still mulling that over. We will be moving a few other pages around and we are going to have a regular “History” page. The page may appear every other week – or every week. Today’s news is tomorrow’s history. However, we have found a source for local history that is a-w-e-s-o-m-e.