About 110 million people are expected to watch the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos battle it out in the Super Bowl Sunday. While watching great plays, new commercials and the halftime show, viewers will also be enjoying their favorite football-watching food, and that means a bump in sales for some local businesses.
Scott Rayner, representing TC’s Coastal Front Porch, presented Santa Rosa County Commissioners with conceptual plans for redesign of the Navarre Beach Fishing Pier’s bar area, which will feature a restaurant. The board approved the new management team’s conceptual design at the Jan. 23 board meeting.
Snowbirds Dave and Sharyl Nye have been wintering on Navarre Beach at the Summerwinds Resort for five years from Decatur, AL which is 30 minutes from the border of Tennessee. And, yes, Dave is a distant relative of Bill Nye the Science guy. “You can trace every “Nye” to a guy that came over from England,” said Dave. Dave has never met Bill Nye but they have science in the gene pool. Dave retired as a chemist from General Electric and his wife, Sharyl retired as a technical specialist for a school system. South Dakota is “home” for both of them because that is where they met. They have two children, Greg and Susan and five grandchildren.
Votes were tallied last Tuesday and incumbent Charles Enghauser and Daryl Lynchard were elected Holley-Navarre Water System board members, receiving more than 90 percent of the votes.
Only seven votes separated Enghauser and Lynchard, but the difference between Lynchard and Ashley Strabala, the candidate who received the third highest vote total, was 459 votes.
The second-seeded Navarre Lady Raiders drew a tough schedule in the district playoffs starting with Crestview in the first round. The next night, they were scheduled to play Niceville; a team they had never beaten. If they won both, then they would probably face number one seed, Pace.
The Raiders celebrated Senior Night on Jan. 15 by blanking Catholic 2 – 0. Two days later, they closed out the regular season with a 1 – 1 tie against Gulf Breeze.
Allison ‘Cat’ Pettigrew and Jenna Bobbitt signed a letter of intent on Jan. 16 to attend Pensacola State College and play softball for the Pirates. Surrounded by family, friends and teammates, the two close friends, signed together. Both said they look forward to playing together at the next level.
Although Marion Moseley, born in Tampa, Feb. 21, 1926, more or less grew up in Tennessee, Florida and Mississippi as her father, a ceramic tile contractor, traveled to different job sites, she really, in a way, learned a lot about life while in Mississippi.
Cases of the flu, including the H1N1 strain of the virus, are continuing to rise across the country. H1N1, originally known as swine flu, has even resulted in deaths here in Santa Rosa County.
A local company’s generosity will allow students at Holley-Navarre Middle School to stay up-to-date with the most current technology software and programs.
