We own a “small” business in Navarre, and have done so for 14 years. We were open for regular business hours on Sept. 10 and Sept. 11, 2017, during Hurricane Irma.
When I read Sandi Kemp’s “Out & About” Column in the Sept. 14 edition, I was gratified to see that someone else had felt the same way that I did, and was willing to “put it out there” for all to see… regarding the local businesses that opted to CLOSE during our forecast “Wind Advisory” Sunday, Sept. 10, and/or Monday, Sept. 11.

Several years ago it appeared that the Apostolic Lighthouse Church of Navarre on Route 399 had outgrown there current building and purchased a larger rundown building a few lots further west at the corner of East Bay Boulevard and Avenida de Sol.  For almost two  years the congregation has slowly been improving that property.  They have cleared the 1 acre lot around the building and planted some very nice palm trees at what appears to be their main entrance and a few other trees along 399 on their property line; they removed an old broken fence along w/a lot of wild underbrush around the building and put up a nice privacy fence around their new air conditioning unit and also along their parking lot; they added nice gravel to form a big parking lot around the side of the building; they painted parking spaces in the existing paved parking lot and added a painted line to separate the parking lot from the County walkway; they added stop signs from their parking lot; and they painted the entire building and added two very nice looking side entrance doors facing Avenida de Sol.