Mother’s Day is this Sunday and I’m looking forward to spending time with my mom in central Florida. I thought I might want to go ahead and pick up my childhood belongings before she auctions them off for millions of dollars. Ha ha.
May is “officially” Military Appreciation Month, even though I thought it was every month and every day of the year. At least in May – the military is in the spotlight. We have several stories in this issue that highlight the military as we do every week. We appreciate and support the troops, past and present.
During the past week-to-10 days, House and Senate negotiators have worked on scores of details — big and small — in the $74 billion state budget for the fiscal year starting July 1.
Santa Rosa Medical Center Fun Fest weekend starts tomorrow, Friday, April 26. You will see a full schedule of events in the middle of this section. There will be arts and crafts vendors, a children’s area with lot of inflatables and a lot of entertainer including Robert Wayne and Erik Paslay. Navarre Press will have a booth there the entire weekend so if you want to see us, please stop by and if you don’t want to see us, we will always be happy to see you.
My interest in hunting the quirky-moving, nervous-acting, but beautifully colored wild turkey was piqued about 12 years ago by an old high school friend and band mate, Todd Bevis.
There’s something distinctly American about praying at public events – graduations, football games and such like. Having witnessed too many of these prayers to count, I can’t say there is much religious or spiritual about them, but by golly, we Americans can be sure that – unlike the Brits or the Swedes or the Japanese – whenever we assemble, we’re going to be knock, knock, knocking on heaven’s door.
As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of University of Central Florida in Orlando this year, we are reminded that a core benefit of an upper-level education is the opportunity to pursue and obtain insight and knowledge over blindness and ignorance.
