I am the Holley Navarre Water System board director who voted against hiring Rob Williamson as CEO of the utility. My friends and family keep asking me, “why don’t you just quit? You have nothing to gain and nothing is going to change.” My answer is because this is my town. I got my first job out of college in Navarre in 1992 and have been here since then. We had a gas station at Highways 98 and 87, Winn Dixie and McDonalds. It was a small town with good, honest people. That’s why I decided this is where I wanted to be.
I recently moved from Navarre to Chattanooga, and I wrote a short essay about my very special Navarre Beach bridge and bridges as connectors in our lives. I thought your readers might be interested:
A new year means new hope.
The Cleveland Browns hope they can win a game at some point in 2018. The franchise is a mess. One of these years has to be their year. You can hope 2018 is it but probably not.
The Sept. 19, 2017, Holley Navarre Water System board meeting was peculiar in several respects. For the first time in months, all members were present. The meeting was contentious, filled with outbursts and accusations, open hostility, and President Bien May clearly lost control of the meeting; indeed, at times he personally joined in the unseemly shouting match. There was fighting and serious disagreement among the members on almost every issue, but two were at the very top of the list.
As always it’s good to indulge in the Christmas Kool-Aid but regarding your editorial, “The district 4 Master Plan…” it overhauls history, drops names and in short could almost convince a newcomer that incorporating Navarre will fix the problems.
Welcome to January. Have you ever wondered how our calendar evolved and why we have twelve months and 365 days a year? I recently learned the calendar use to start with March. There is a lot of history with the calendar and how it came to be what we hang on our walls today. Attempts at calendars can be traced back to the very invention of writing in the middle east. Yes – early humans were trying to organize their days from the very beginning. They used signs offered by nature – such as the moon and the stars as early as 27th Century – BC.
Merry Christmas! I found out recently (Ancestry DNA) that I’m 25 percent Jewish so Happy Hanukah to my fellow Jewish friends and ancestors. I learned in church this past Sunday that Jesus celebrated Hanukah and at that time – it was called the “Feast of Dedication.” Christmas fell on the calendar at a great time this year because our staff has time to visit with family between this issue and the Jan. 4 issue.
