Do you ever feel like you’re in a war of busy-ness that you never approved funding for? These days we are all so busy. Somehow, even with all of these modern conveniences, our lives are appear to be busier and more stressful than ever. Which means our bodies are more stressed than ever, producing even more cortisol which can wreak havoc on so many things.
One of the first things a personal trainer will have you do is test your level of fitness using a variety of exercises typically including push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups, bench press, squats, a 10 minute walk test and more.
Florida has the third highest number of sex trafficking cases in the country. These victims, frequently young girls roughly 12-years-old, are forced into prostitution where they may see as many as 30 “johns” or purchasers of sex, a night.
What happened Monday in the county commission meeting is an embarrassment to our county and especially to Navarre. What is even more embarrassing is having two chambers of commerce. One, Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce which has been in existence for 41 years and the other, which has been in existence for less than a year. There is not a truer verse in the Bible for a situation such as this, Matthew 12:25 “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.” The full context is dealing with the casting out of demons, but I’m not going that far.
I’m sure everyone remembers December 2013 when the commissioners made a strange scoring system to rebid for new Pier management. The scoring system was made to deny Ms. D. Slye from managing the Pier again. The commissioners picked Rayner, TC’s Coastal Porch, last of the original four. The original four almost broke their arms patting each other on the back about what great business people they were. TC’s Coastal Porch was to have periodic weekend famer’s markets and establishment of an ANNUAL $1,500 scholarship plus do other things and the commissioners fell hook-line and sinker for the story and did no enforcement. We tax payers continue to lose money because the Pier continues to be subsidized by us tax payers. What was a Jewel turned into a nightmare because of another of the commissioners decisions. Oh, by the way, Commissioner Cole, Lynchard and Salter voted for TC’s Coastal Porch.
Monday’s county commission meeting was interesting to say the least. Two chambers on the agenda presented applications to host the same event in different years. It is the same event that the Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce (NBACOC) has hosted for 10 years with a new venue. They built the event, grew it and made it a great success. And now the Greater Navarre Area Chamber of Commerce (GNACOC) wants to ride on their coattails by snatching the event out from under the NBACOC in 2018. But let’s be honest, the divide goes much deeper than one event.
Negotiations for teacher and staff contracts in Santa Rosa County that began in August have reached an impasse as the Santa Rosa Professional Educators and district representatives remain roughly $1.2 million apart on the level of pay raises.
The search for prospective sites for a new Santa Rosa County Courthouse is resuming in the wake of an abrupt about-face by Milton officials who no longer insist that it be located downtown.
