Capt. Willard “Bill” Reddel helped usher in the space-age era of satellite communications, but first he had to paint his gray ship white to appease the Nigerian government.
Capt. Alan Dean, commanding officer of Naval Air Technical Training Center (NATTC), received a hand-made quilt from the Flying Needles Quilt Guild of Niceville during a small ceremony March 6, as part of the Quilt of Valor program.
Hours after learning about last week’s fatal Black Hawk helicopter crash, which took the lives of 11 servicemen, Navarre First Assembly of God on U.S. 98 announced it would host a candlelight ceremony open to the public.
The Navarre Beach Sea Turtle Conservation Center (NBSTCC) hosts a Trash Bash each month, collecting debris found along the beach in order to protect sea turtles that nest on the beach as well as other forms of marine life.
Gardening can be tricky in a part of the country where the soil is essentially sand and creates a less than ideal situation for growing plants, trees or vegetables.