Navarre running backs coach Tony Carter sits down next to one of the college football coaches on hand for the recruiting fair in the high school library Friday afternoon.
A line of cars forms along a road leading into Blue Spring State Park, not quite as bad as one you would find at one of the theme parks in Orlando, which is roughly 40 miles south of this escape from the real world. Still, the line is just long enough to test your patience ever so slightly.
Gulf Islands National Seashore plans to conduct one to two small controlled burns within the Naval Live Oaks (NLO) Area near Gulf Breeze, Florida. Controlled burns may occur sometime between now and end of April.
High school memories are not always the best. In my “less-than-best” category are English class reading assignments: read some literary classic and be prepared to discuss it in class or, worse yet, write a paper on it. Many of the assigned books failed to interest me, so I often relied on another literary classic – Cliff’s Notes. However, one book ignited my imagination – James Hilton’s Lost Horizons, with its fictional lamasery Shangri-la secreted high in the mountains of Tibet. Hilton introduced me to the idea of a utopia, the dream of a perfect life in a perfect place. Haven’t we all yearned for such an idyllic existence, a perfect life with no sickness or sadness or loss, in a place where hatred and violence don’t exist?
Walking into the main entrance of Community Life Methodist Church in Gulf Breeze and seeing the large gymnasium with basketball courts right off the main foyer you might wonder, “Is this a community center?”