Tony Carter has watched the players on Navarre’s football team grow up, his ties to many of them going back to their youth football days. He also has two sons, Michael and Josh, who have been instrumental to the success of the Raiders all season.
If you live anywhere off of Whispering Pines Boulevard, chances are you’ve waved at Paul Sims. For the last 13 years, he was been walking a 4-mile loop from his home to the intersection of U.S. Hwy. 98 and Whispering Pines Boulevard and back. And that’s not just on the days he feels like it either.
As part of National Farm to City week, Nov. 18-24, the University of Florida/IFAS Extension Service partnered with Feeding the Gulf Coast and other area organizations to provide a complete holiday meal to 800 food insecure families in Santa Rosa and Escambia county Tuesday, Nov. 22.
Congrats to the Navarre High School Raider Football Team for making it to the final four. They play Lake Gibson High School Braves Friday night in Navarre. The team will be traveling from Lakeland which means there be a lot of visitors in our area for the game. The next and final game will be in Orlando at 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10 at the Camping World Stadium.
Navarre will be feeling the holiday spirit Saturday, Dec. 3, for the Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual Christmas in the Park, Jingle Bell 5K Run/Walk Fun Run, Navarre Community Christmas Parade and Santa’s Workshop Craft Fair.
Despite colder temperatures, members of the self-proclaimed “church without walls” bundled up and came out to sing worship songs, pray and hear sermon in the parking lot of Navarre Beach Pier Sunday, Nov. 27.