A family with plenty of beach experience and encounters with marine life, the Damrons didn’t get overly excited when they first saw a fin moving through the water and coming toward them last Thursday on Navarre Beach.
Santa Rosa County residents and interested parties will be a part of the process on Monday when the Santa Rosa Board of County Commissioners reviews the proposals to manage the Navarre Fishing Pier.
She moved silently, each step bringing her nearer her prey. The inclination to attack was strong, but experience held her back. Vicki and Jack Dunklebarger, relaxing at Navarre Park, were unaware they were being watched.
Mark Hall didn’t like what he saw after he made the transition from sitting on a church pew to standing in front of the congregation. As a young youth pastor in Samson, Alabama, what Hall observed from the pulpit was troubling. Church members were not acting as the loving body of Christ but rather as an audience behaving in ways which he felt wasn’t welcoming to others, especially those in need.
Lowe’s, Sonic Drive-In, Walmart and a number of other big-name corporations are following the trend of offering payroll cards, a prepaid card used as an alternative to a paycheck. However, according to local employees who have experience using the cards, the fees associated with them outweigh any convenience. For this reason, the fairness of their use has been examined nationally in recent months.
Santa Rosa’s RESTORE Council is trying to determine how to establish evaluation criteria to review projects submitted to the county for funding via RESTORE Act dollars. So far, 19 proposed projects have been submitted for consideration. For a complete list of proposed projects, visit our website at http://www.navarrepress.com/news/13/6333-nineteen-projects-vie-for-restore-act-funds. At the July 8 RESTORE Council meeting, Commissioner Lane Lynchard, who serves as chairman of the council, pointed out that just three of the submitted projects add up to roughly $130 million, underscoring the need for the county to develop evaluation criteria to make funding decisions. “We’re going to have to really work and prioritize the funding that we get,” said Lynchard.
Special Note: We hope that you are looking at your paper on July 3, because that was our plan until press night when we received a phone call that we didn’t expect. We print our paper in Panama City and they were hit by lightning Friday night that disabled their printing press. They had been printing their own paper at an alternative location but didn’t make arrangements for us. I’m sure they thought they would be up and running by Monday night. Update: We just received the dreaded call. The press didn’t work when they turned it on. The words they used were, “It blew up.” We were told they would be looking for a place for us to print…which we would have done first thing Monday morning had we known.
