The sights of angels and the roar of jet engines will indeed grace the skies and captivate aviation enthusiasts over Pensacola Beach, despite sequester budget cuts that threatened to cancel the team’s 2013 schedule.
Family members, friends and fellow service members of the military’s explosive ordnance disposal technicians traveled to Northwest Florida last week from all over the nation to be in attendance for a weekend that included an EOD memorial ceremony Saturday to honor their fallen warriors — both past and present.
Staff Sgt. Brian Dunnagan, an Explosive Ordnance Technician with the 1st Special Operations Civil Engineer Squadron at Hurlburt Field, made the following comments Friday, April 26, during a presentation to the Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce:
Runners Laura and Stephen Pifer met at the University of Colorado, where both competed for the Buffaloes. A few years later, the couple is married and raising sons Jameson, 5, and Vincent, 4, in Jacksonville, where Stephen is a technical representative and educator for Boulder, Colo.-based Newton Running. Laura is a stay-at-home mother and an Internet entrepreneur, marketing fashions made from repurposed materials from her web-based business, Trash to Couture (www.trashtocouture.com).
Jordan Leggett didn’t know much about Clemson University in South Carolina until the Tigers’ football program began recruiting the Navarre High School standout. But on April 13, he joined a select brotherhood.
Seventh grader Noah O’Connor has always been a straight–A student. But the 13-year-old said he studies hard for his high scores and “takes school seriously.”
The biggest surprise that came out of the District 1-3A track meet two weeks ago may have been the emergence of Navarre High School triple-jump third-place finisher, Elijah Appel. The senior football star and sprinter came out of nowhere to become a medal winner and, last week, to become one of just two Raiders who qualified for the Class 3A state championship meet Friday, May 3, at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville.
Linn Campbell flashed the proverbial Cheshire cat grin when I asked if his siblings, Lee, Beth and Marilee, got him into trouble growing up in Republic, Mich., “I didn’t need any help, I got in my own trouble,” he admitted, laughing.
