You may have noticed a new name in the paper for the past two issues – Eden Davenport. Navarre Press is excited to introduce you to the young lady behind the name. Eden is a new intern from Navarre High School who is now a budding young journalist. She took a journalism class and loved it – and now she wants to see how the process of putting a newspaper together really works.
With great joy and even tears our community heard the news Monday that Santa Rosa Animal Services would end the practice of breed bans on adoptions. Moving forward they will base decisions on a dog’s temperament instead of the breed.
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.
Let’s not mince words here: there are a lot of amendments on this November’s ballot. A lot. Depending on how the courts rule in the next month or so, as many as thirteen amendments covering more than 20 topics. Those who watch these things closely tend to worry that voters will feel overwhelmed, and simply vote no on everything, or leave them all blank, and this isn’t an unreasonable fear.
We have people in Navarre living in trash piles. I don’t care if they are white, brown or black, the Santa Rosa County Commissioners job is to make sure all residents are provided safe livable housing that meets the basic human needs and sanitary healthy living condition. The trash I have seen is in no way safe or healthy livable. If we get a storm, hurricane or cold weather the people would suffer. Could those places they call home have mold or something that could make them sick. They are unsafe. Those people are our residents, from what I have seen they are red blooded Americans. I know the County can do a better job of providing for the poor here in Navarre. First, we need low income housing and then we need shelters in case of a hurricane or storm. The Commissioners should take the time to write better code enforcement regulation, the County Commissioners should do its job and write strict rules for the Health Department and Code Enforcement and make them follow the new rules because the old ones has no place in Navarre. Unless it’s a rich person or someone trying to get more tax money out of the residents the Commissioners turns a blind eye to the poor here in Navarre, yet they will spend every dime on themselves, and helping the wealthy business, the birds, turtles and their friends. This is not how God wanted us to live as his children.
