Women across the U.S. are risking their lives for black market procedures to make their buttocks bigger, often involving home-improvement materials such as silicone injected by people with no medical training.
Gulf Breeze resident Frank Spellman might be approaching 91 years-old, but he’s still in great shape and has a great mindset and strong faith – which he credits as a major factor in his accomplishments and successes.
We live in a beautiful place and it is easy to take it for granted because we see it so often. I’m talking, of course about what it looks like when you cross the bridge over onto Navarre Beach. If we didn’t have that beach, we would just have a messy, dirty, littered, faded-sign stretch along Highway 98. You would think that having such a beautiful beach would inspire people to clean up their acts, but it is just taken for granted. Anyway…back to the beach. Deep sigh. We have a beautiful beach and water and it has been made even more beautiful by the efforts of the Marine Sanctuary Committee – which is the signature committee of the Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation. Full disclosure: I sit on that board. However, the efforts of the Marine Sanctuary Committee were well into play before I was on the foundation board. Because of the sanctuary’s efforts, Navarre had artificial reefs placed in the Gulf in September and they are already showing phenomenal growth of biomass in less than a year. And, today, thanks to scuba diver and foundation board member, Mike Sandler, we have awesome video of an octopus on one of the artificial reefs. It is a “common octopus,” but it isn’t really all that common.
While classrooms might not have yet been filled with students, school was most definitely in session last week. Shots rang out, smoke filled the air and fire alarms pierced the quiet that usually fills the halls of schools this time of year. First responders busted through the doors to find they had left the world of what they know and entered into a world where they have to rely on each other just as much as rely upon their training. The shots were, of course, blanks and the smoke from a machine rather than a fire. The “injured” were covered in makeup rather than blood, but don’t tell that to the first responders…they had those injured out of the building quicker than this reporter could snap more than a handful of photos.
Santa Rosa County citizens had a unique opportunity to discuss local matters with several local and state leaders at a “Meet & Greet” for elected officials hosted by the Santa Rosa Young Professionals (SRYP) on July 31 at the Santa Rosa County Auditorium.
Within a sleepy, unassuming corner of the Holley community lies one of the biggest pottery kilns in the country. It’s one of various sized kilns, wheels, and other pottery-making paraphernalia belonging to Holley Hill Pottery, a family-owned-and-operated business for more than 30 years.
This year’s Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) serving at the Gulf Islands National Seashore included five Navarre High School students, along with other teens from Gulf Breeze and Pensacola.
