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Nov. 11-17, 2021 Blast from the Past

One Year Ago – 2020

Despite citizen opposition, Santa Rosa County Commissioners extended Waste Pro’s waste hauling monopoly to cover the north end of Santa Rosa County, effective Jan. 1.

Community Briefs

Red tide returns to Navarre Beach
In the last week, Karenia brevis was detected in varying concentrations across Northwest Florida.

Out and About

Only the government could put “stormwater mitigation” and “COVID-19” into the same sentence.

In another twist to the long story of federal funding for the pandemic, the stormwater mitigation task force met last week to decide what stormwater projects to submit for COVID funding.

Still listening to same song all these years later

There is a song called “Joy,” performed by pianist George Winston, which I can credit in part with the beginning of my true writing life.

After college, I had originally gotten into social work and, although I was an English major, had not yet discovered the magic of writing. This song, along with a powerful friendship with someone at that time, connected the two.

Grace’s Place helps ‘Broken Chicks’ heal

“Many people think we’re just a women’s ministry to serve all women, but we are not,” said April Fisher, founder and “house mom” of Grace’s Place in Navarre, “we specifically help women who have been sexually abused and as a result have found themselves in a vicious destructive life cycle which we look to break through the power of Jesus Christ.”

For God’s Sake: Marriage is glorious gift of God we cherish

My idea of an enjoyable morning is sipping coffee with my wife at a café and watching the world pass by. Our favorite perch when we lived in Naples was a bagel shop in a very busy plaza.

On Friday mornings, we’d seat ourselves at a table facing the small, very full, parking lot to watch the clumsy ballet of cars attempting to enter and exit.

Corn snakeroot and rattlesnake weed will never hide in tall weeds

Sometimes residents and visitors are concerned about a surprise encounter with one of the 45 species of native snakes. In the cooler weather these coldblooded reptiles are unable to avoid the chance meeting which usually ends badly, at least for the snake.

In reality, it is far more likely to find a weed given a name based on one of its features which mimic a snake. One of these is corn snakeroot, a native wildflower currently blooming in Santa Rosa County.

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