The Navarre Garden Club is sponsoring “Santa’s Workshop Craft Fair” this Saturday at the Navarre Conference Center. Goodies for Thanksgiving will be available at Ye Olde Bake Shoppe within the Craft Fair. Children’s Activities will entertain the kiddies and Santa will be visiting.
We observed a group of individuals picking up trash along East Bay Boulevard Saturday, Nov. 14. It was not obvious who they were or what organization they represented, but what a super job they did. A special thank you to all of you that took on this task! When we drove along the road today, there were numerous orange-colored plastic bags full of trash, secured and ready to be picked up. The roadside looks great!
By all accounts and everyone’s accounting, the 2015 Holiday Small Shop Crawl presented by the Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce was a huge success. More than a dozen Navarre shops participated, and each one said the event brought new customers into their shop. The Director of Membership and Marketing for the Navarre Chamber Chanda Ryan said, “The main goal of the Small Shop Crawl is to increase awareness of all the local shopping options in the Navarre area. I think we did that with over 300 purchases made.”
Six years in the making with input from dozens of Santa Rosa County residents, emergency officials and engineers, the new Local Mitigation Strategy poses 45 ways to reduce the impact of flooding: from landscaping low areas for better drainage to requiring that new construction be elevated.
For most families, Christmas mornings are spent gathered around the Christmas tree opening presents. And for some little ones it is the thrill of opening the mysterious packages, looking at the gift, tossing it aside and moving on to the next one. Some of the toys lose their excitement factor after just a couple days.
Daniel Ferry Lee of Cantonment has been transferred to the Santa Rosa County Jail and is being held without bond on charges stemming from a robbery at knife-point of the Underwood Food Store on Highway 87 South Tuesday, Nov. 10. He is currently facing multiple felony charges including fleeing without disregard of safety to persons or property, assault on an officer, and robbery with a weapon.