Moving to a new place can be daunting, especially for a child. It can mean being in an unfamiliar school with unfamiliar people and no idea where social hot spots and basic necessities are located.
At the age of 21, Melanie Angelis was diagnosed with a heart condition that doctors told her would have her on painkillers and anti-inflammatories for the rest of her life.
Not all foreign mission work is about going to the poorest nations to feed the destitute. Not all mission trips require the missionaries to abandon modern conveniences like electricity and plumbing. Not all mission work is about meeting people’s basic needs.
What began with the Brexit in the UK last June has spilled over to America in the wake of the nation electing Donald Trump as president. People are wearing safety pins to make a silent statement that the groups of people who feel threatened by the supposed hate and fear mongering of Trump and his supporters can feel “safe” around people wearing the pins.
Way to go Santa Rosa County voters where 68.04 percent of Santa Rosa County voters turned out to vote in the recent General Election. This participation rate has only been exceeded once and that was in the 1984 election. See our story on Community page B1.
Voters of Santa Rosa county turned out to vote in numbers not seen since the 2008 General Election, and before that you have to go all the way back to 1984 when the voter turnout was 70.28 percent of all registered voters. In this 2016 election the percentage was 68.04.
Discussion of shoreline setback regulations for Santa Rosa County by the Zoning Board Thursday, Nov. 10 may result in changes to the law regarding the 50-foot regulation to limit just how far construction can encroach toward the water.
With the election season finally put to bed, the National Retail Federation has become far more optimistic about consumer holiday spending in the coming weeks.