The shortage of land available to expand recreational facilities in Santa Rosa County is prompting commissioners to ask the Navy to let it use part of a vacant 300-acre parcel in a section of Whiting Field.
Back in 2004 I met a crusty, disheveled man in our memory disorder clinic (West Florida Hospital Memory Disorder Clinic in Pensacola). His wife had called our clinic and asked for help dealing with his bizarre behavior. She told me about him locking her out of the bedroom and telling her to leave before his wife came home. He wouldn’t let her help him bathe or dress. She needed a wheelchair to get around. He drove and she navigated their car. She told me how he wanted to talk nonsense. “He does not know who I am and tells me to get out of our own home,” she said. His wife could not understand how that man had forgotten who she was. After all, they had been married 43 years.
Investigator James O’Keefe’s video on veteran suicides for Project Veritas asks why an increasing number of military graveyards are being filled with people who died at their own hands rather than in combat. He asserts that VA is unable to treat the underlying causes of veterans’ emotional problems, depending on drug therapies which can mask the problems or have serious side effects that make matters worse.
It pays for consumers to read food labels but that is now a murkier quest because the concern about chicken now extends to beef and pork originating from other countries. Assertive consumers’ efforts to determine where their food comes from was further complicated recently when the president signed the Omnibus Bill in December 2015 which rescinds Country Origin Labeling (COOL) requirements for beef and pork products.
Adcomm is having a Job Fair at their Mary Esther office on Wednesday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. They have several positions available. See their ad on the classified page for more information.
The travel by certain Santa Rosa County officials at taxpayers’ expense to numerous trade shows, government conferences and industry seminars is raising questions about the value of some trips.
True love isn’t an easy thing to find in any lifetime. William (Bill) Festing and Marie Wager, however, have found it together in their 90s. This coming Saturday at 2 p.m., the two will be joined in marriage in a private ceremony at The Beacon Senior Living Facility in Gulf Breeze. Festing’s son-in-law will officiate the wedding ceremony, and the two will be expecting some 50 guests in attendance, including their closest friends and family. The couple’s wedding ceremony will be held in the beautiful dining hall of the facility.
Santa Rosa County Tourism Director Julie Morgan applied for the same position last December in Walton County, where the job pays roughly twice her current $68,000 a year.
Dan Bongino, former Secret Service member of President Obama’s Personal Protection Detail was in Northwest Florida this past weekend to speak. Bongino, 41, is a former New York City police officer, a federal agent who worked financial crimes for the Secret Service and then became assigned to the Personal Protection Detail for presidents Bush and Reagan. He left after 12 years with the Secret Service, running for both U.S. Senate and Congress in Maryland and coming very close to an upset in the congressional race. Bongino is a frequent radio talk show guest and sometime host who is often consulted by major news networks for his unique law enforcement perspective and is currently the author of two best-selling books. His first book, “Life Inside the Bubble: Why a Top-Ranked Secret Service Agent Walked Away from It All,” was a New York Times best-seller. His latest book, “The Fight: A Secret Service Agent’s Inside Account of Security Failings and the Political Machine” is one of the fastest selling law enforcement book on Amazon.
