Chris Smoot of Navarre has been making custom rods for himself as well as his family and friends for the past six years. Smoot says he was motivated to start making custom fishing rods because he could never find a rod that met his exact specifications, so he started acquiring supplies to build rods exactly the way he wanted.
The one thing Navarre hasn’t done this season is start fast offensively against an opponent.
That changed on Friday as the Raiders built a two-touchdown lead in the first quarter and went on to defeat Leon 24-14 on a fall-like September evening at Gene Cox Stadium in Tallahassee.
Nicklaus McMellon, PharmD, CPh, started shadowing his father Paul, RPh, when the family business Rx Express Pharmacy opened in 2002. Now 28, he is the full-time pharmacist.
“I love it. I would never do anything else,” Nick said.
Growing up in Santa Rosa County, Nick and Brittany Herbst were the kids who didn’t have money for school events. And when their two oldest children started school several years ago, they even struggled to meet those extra needs.
When Bart Daughtey and his wife go to the beach, they choose the most isolated stretch of sand they can find. Usually, that’s Beach Access 33A, which is in the middle of the Gulf Island National Seashore about midway between Navarre Beach and Pensacola Beach.
That’s where, about two weeks ago, they discovered the remains of a raft, constructed out of bamboo and rope. They found it not long after Hurricane Ida kicked up other treasures from the Gulf of Mexico, including the old Jet Ski that washed up near the Navarre Beach Fishing Pier.
Motorists traveling along the Navarre Beach Causeway are still being urged to slow to 20 miles per hour to protect nesting birds. But instead of protecting the hundreds of black skimmers that were there this spring and summer, they’re saving one little new life.
Kyle Chambers rushed for three touchdowns and threw for another score while the defense dominated the second-half as Navarre shook off a slow start and buried Tate 35-14 in the District 1-7A opener for both teams Friday night at Bennett C. Russell Stadium.
Trailing 14-12, Chambers threw the go-ahead touchdown pass with 1:30 to play until halftime as the Raiders took the their first lead of the night and never looked back.
On Friday, Sept. 17, members of the Preserve Navarre nonprofit filed appropriate paperwork with the Santa Rosa Supervisor of Elections to establish a political action committee (PAC), according to a press release issued that day.