Carl Bowers has never had issues with his health.
So when the Pace firefighter received a diagnosis of angiosarcoma, a rare form of cancer that affects just 1-2% of the population, it came as a shock to both Carl and his wife, Shannon.
The year of relentless challenges has finally come to an end and what better way to celebrate the new year then by taking a quick dip in the cold water.
More than 300 people came out to Juana’s Pagodas New Year’s Day for the 12th annual Penguin Plunge. Some registered as “penguins” and plunged into the chilly water of Santa Rosa Sound, while others registered as “chickens” and stood on the sidelines. Either way, all proceeds benefited Healing Paws for Warriors, a nonprofit that provides service dogs to veterans in need.
The Navarre Garden Club helped brighten Christmas for 50 local families this year with its Angel Tree Program.
Ann Marie Corbett, representing the Navarre Garden Club, is shown in this photo delivering Angel Tree Christmas gifts to an unidentified representative of Caring and Sharing of South Santa Rosa County.
On sunny days, ladies strolling along the sidewalk of Harvest Village Court are frequently greeted with wolf whistles from the front porch of one residence.
The unscrupulous flirt is Pretty Boy, an African gray parrot and favorite feathered family member of the Salas household.
Flattened in the grass and paralyzed on a football field in Clinton, a young Mississippi University pre-law student had a moment of clarity. His neck was broken.
“Feb. 7, 1981, a date I will remember for the rest of my life,” he said of the injury.
