This Friday is the opening game for the Pensacola Ice Flyers’ 2016-2017 season. The Ice Flyers will raise their championship banner and receive their 2016 championship rings. Navarre Press has tickets for our All-Access subscribers. You can call our office to subscribe and receive 2 tickets to the game.
Last week we published all the fun things to do on the Beaches to Woodlands Tour. This week we have a special story about one of those stops along the way, the Kiln Openings at Holley Hill Pottery. Don’t miss it on Page B2. It’s the next best thing to being there.
“Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain loving one another. “
I really wanted a game board in this week’s paper that showed how to navigate all of the events that are happening this weekend. However, we had too many other special graphics in the paper for my request to move forward. So, good luck – that is all I have to say about that because it is unbelievably busy this weekend.
Florida’s extraordinary tradition of open government is founded on the simple but essential concept that the people have a right to know how and why the government makes decisions on their behalf. After all, it’s our government.
This weekend is the official beginning of Beaches to Woodlands, a monthlong schedule of fun things to do in Santa Rosa County. Saturday begins Fish Navarre Weekend with free admission to the pier Saturday and Sunday. And, you can purchase your annual walking or fishing pass for 10 percent off. If you already have an annual pass, you can purchase at the discount and the county will send you a new pass with your new extended expiration date. I for one, didn’t know you could buy an annual walking pass. I walked it this week to see how many steps I could get out of one lap up and back and I got more than 1200 steps. I found others on the pier that were walking for exercise on the pier as well.
Lia Wolfe was 16 years old when she almost died by her own hands. On a cold day in February 2013, she felt so alone and isolated that she wrote a suicide note and took action with the intent to never wake up again. Wolfe almost became one of the more than 30,000 people in the United States who kill themselves every year. This is why September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month.
I am very proud of the Navarre Press staff with the outcome of our 18 awards presented last week in Sarasota. However, the awards we received were for our work in 2015. We are much better now in 2016 because we are always getting better. We don’t have time to rest on our laurels – and what fun would that be anyway? While it is nice to be recognized, we don’t do what we do for the awards. We have a passion for informing our community and we live by our core value of “excellence is our ordinary.” Recognition is just icing on the cake. Maybe next week we will share with you some of the things we learned from our sessions. Better yet, we will show you in the weeks and months to come.
