May 1 might have been a little too ambitious a goal for opening a new restaurant at Hidden Creek Golf Course, but the new tenants say progress is being made.
Navarre baseball player Kaleb Hellard, a right-handed pitcher for the Raiders, has committed to play at George C. Wallace State Community College in Selma, Alabama.
Michael Sandle had already extended his hit streak to five games an inning earlier. He was now up to bat one final time for the University of South Alabama on a sunny and warm Sunday afternoon at Stanky Field in Mobile.
Although the race director was considering cancelling Saturday’s 11th annual Sunset Stampede 5-kilometer run, the storm clouds made a quick departure and left cool temperatures in its wake.
“I don’t know why you guys come here,” a prison inmate told the visitor. His was not an expression of complaint but one of amazement. What would compel a group of men to give of their time every month to visit inmates in a prison facility? You might say, “it was time.”
A day filled with impressive feats of strengths, high fives, fist bumps, celebratory jumps for joy, big embraces and even a little frustration when a lift didn’t go quite right, boiled down now to one final moment at Arnold High School in Panama City Beach.
Jacobi Smith was almost brought to tears by the fact that he and his fellow seniors have helped put the Navarre boys weightlifting program on the map, leading the Raiders to a 2A state championship Friday at Arnold High School in Panama City Beach.