Driving down neighborhood streets in Navarre, one would never know that there is a cottage industry of raising backyard chickens for eggs unless you happen to know someone that is participating. Neighbors wouldn’t necessarily know because the majority of the owners don’t breed their chickens and therefore a rooster is not required.  However, when you run into someone with chickens, you’ll notice they love to talk about them.

This evening’s Concert in the Park will have a special mission, featuring a donation table to benefit the planned Gulf Coast Discovery Center, a $6.9 million project that will allow the public to observe and interact with the gulf’s underwater ecosystem without ever leaving land.

“I was born in Elmwood, Ohio,” Donald Hickman, 80, said.  “It was a small community with 13 bars, 13 churches, about 3,500 people, and I quit school and joined the Navy in 1950,” he chuckled.