Gulf Islands National Seashore offers visitors plenty to do during the year, from camping and swimming to exploring old military forts and biking or walking along the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico.
A special immunization clinic for students entering seventh grade is scheduled for July 30 at the Florida Department of Health in Santa Rosa County Midway facility, 5840 Gulf Breeze Parkway in Gulf Breeze.
Santa Rosa County provides a free and safe solution for residents who generate sharps waste. Those with home-generated sharps waste are asked not to place the items in their household garbage or recycle containers in order to help protect waste handlers, the public and the environment. Instead, residents are asked to take sharps waste in a store-bought sharps approved container with a secured lid to the Household Hazardous Waste Center located at the entrance of the central landfill, 6337 Da Lisa Road in Milton. Drop-off hours are Monday through Saturday, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Roman Catholic leaders in the early voting state of Iowa implored presidential candidates earlier this month to take up Pope Francis’ call for “profound political courage” by focusing their campaigns as much on improving the environment and income inequality as they have on opposing gay marriage and abortion in past elections.
You will notice a lot of pictures from Red, White and Blues Weekend in this issue. To be honest, I took more than 2,000 photos over two days and ended up with less than 20 decent photos. It is tough to take decent photos of the Blues. You never know which way they are coming from and at the last second, the sneak up behind you.
I’d like to point out that Mr. Rob Williamson is our duly-elected (by a wide margin I might add) county commissioner despite the Navarre Press’ and reporter Romi White’s diligent efforts to prevent that from happening last fall.