The cold weather shelter for the homeless and heatless will be open on the night of Friday, Dec. 19 at Ferris Hill Baptist Church, 6848 Chaffin St. in Milton.
Sunday morning, Dec. 14, at approximately 9 a.m., firefighters with Navarre Beach Fire Rescue District were dispatched to assist two kayakers in distress offshore.
Patients and families at Studer Family Children’s hospital received a special visit from two members of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron on Dec. 11, just before the holidays.
Col. Mark Hamilton, who is the commander of the 1st Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, stopped by Santa Rosa County school board Dec. 11 to celebrate the district’s purple star designation.
The community came together earlier this month to help the Navarre Beach Fire Rescue District replace its Christmas tree.
The 22-foot Christmas tree light display, which normally tops Station 49, was accidentally discarded from the roof by a contractor who assumed it was scrap.