Next Thursday, May 21, kicks off the free summer concerts at Navarre Park sponsored by the Navarre Chamber and Navarre Press. The concert starts at 6 p.m. and ends at 8 p.m. Not Quite Fab will perform and Dirt Road Cookers will serve concessions.  See the Navarre Beach Chamber’s ad for all the details and schedule. May 21 is also Navarre Press’s last paper of our 15th year – and we will be there celebrating. 

This weekend is the extremely fun Navarre Fun Fest.  Friday evening kicks off the event with live entertainment, a children’s area, and many vendor booths.  Saturday is the 5K run followed by a full day of Fun Fest.  Please see the Fun Fest Guide “on” this paper – which you can’t miss because it is wrapping this week’s edition of the Navarre Press.

Congrats to our Pigskin Pickin’ and Prognosticatin’ panel winner – and newcomer – Brian Brinsfield. Navarre Press would like to thank all the entire 2014-15 Pigskin Pickin’ and Prognosticatin’ panel for their good sportsmanship and their dedication throughout the season.

Last-minute holiday gift givers – we have the solution. If you can find someone without a subscription to Navarre Press – buy them one. We have a three-year deal that can be split up into three different subscriptions – or just give yourself two more years – and a friend one year. We will send them the bill next year – unless you tell us otherwise.

Start you kids’ trick-or-treating right here at Navarre Press on Halloween. We will have candy and giveaways from 2 to 5 p.m. We’ll be taking photos and you might just end up being featured in our next issue.

To promote Breast Cancer Awareness, Navarre Press is wrapping itself in PINK for the issues of October 9th and 16th.   In Okaloosa County, the Board of Commissioners declared a certain day in October as “Wear Pink Day”, and we think it’s such a good idea that we are borrowing it!  Everybody in Navarre should wear PINK on October 9th and look for our PINK wrap issue that will have good information on prevention and care. 

It is hard to believe that it has been ten years since Ivan, and in ten months it will be the ten year anniversary of Dennis which was the hurricane that affected Navarre Press and personally, my home the most. It is the reason why we have new siding on both structures and the reason why I was able to put my new refrigerator in my office through the outside wall, not through the door. Therefore, if my office refrigerator ever goes out, I’m not sure how it would exit the building. We also purchased a whole building generator that we have never had to use, thankfully. However, I’d like to say we are prepared but no one is truly prepared for catastrophes like Ivan. If you weren’t here ten years ago, I hope you never have to go through anything similar.