I saw a Facebook post a couple of weeks ago on a Saturday morning that caught my attention. It was on one of the Milton pages and featured photos of several players doing yard work just hours after they walked off the field at Bennett C. Russell Stadium in Navarre. They were holding rakes, working and smiling.
In 1985, I went on a short-term mission trip to Haiti with a small team from our church. We were going to help Hosean International Ministries (HIM) build an orphanage in the town of Pignon, 40 miles south of Cap Haitien. There was a lot riding on this trip.
Santa Rosa County has its very first Veterans’ Treatment Court for justice-involved Veterans and Judge Tony Giraud admitted three Veterans to his first court Sept. 11. He will admit 10 more Sept. 25.
As I’m writing this, we are watching the yet-to-be-named storm that will be in the Gulf by the time you receive this paper. We are having daily updates with management and have a good plan in place. As an organization, we have been through Ivan, Dennis, Opal and Erin. However, many of our team members haven’t been through hurricanes, and they aren’t sure what to expect. There is no way to describe it except you will learn a lot about yourself and others after the storm. That is where it gets very real. Time will tell. In the meantime, we now have a “Storm Center” on our website where we will post when there are significant updates. When we post there, it will disseminate to Facebook and “X.” Now is not the time to check your insurance policies or decide you need flood insurance. But it is time to make sure you have 72-hours’ worth of food and water, just in case it heads west instead of east.
I do some freelance work in the Division III college football world and one of the coaches last week said something interesting that all teams should keep in mind as they go through their respective athletic seasons.
His nationally ranked team, a title contender, had been upset by an unranked opponent at home in week one.
Have you ever sat in a class lecture, a business presentation, or even a sermon and realized that you haven’t a clue what the speaker is talking about? I have.
Life is tough and the tough keep going. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. It doesn’t matter how many times you fall down; it matters how many times you get up. Just when you think you have given your all, give a little more. Always do one more rep. Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. There are lots of quotes about working harder, keeping going, but who is letting our younger generation know that there is light on the other side of the tunnel or that it often gets worse, right before it gets better? I spend time with a lot of young adults. I have four that grew up in our home, and I work with quite a few. It seems that many have forgotten or were not taught that you have to take the good with the bad. All the things that our parents told us when we were growing up. Or, at least mine did. My parents went through the great depression and WWII, Korea, Vietnam, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Nixon resigning and more. They were a hearty bunch and had been through a lot of disappointment and pain. However, it made them into the awesome people that they were. As a matter of fact, my mom passed away a year ago next week.
In the past few weeks, we’ve urged everyone in Navarre to participate in the upcoming straw poll on Oct. 12 regarding the city’s possible incorporation.
I took a moment to look at the spot in the driveway where our basketball court used to be while on a trip home a couple of weeks ago.
It’s safe to say it doesn’t look the same as it did in the 1980s and early 90s.
