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FRED ROBBINS On Oct. 23, the NFL Super Bowl champion was honored by his alma mater. Robbins was inducted into the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame and honored at halftime the following day. The Tate High School graduate played at Wake Forest from 1996-99. He played 12 seasons for three teams, Minnesota Vikings, New York Giants and St. Louis Rams, starting in 148 of his 180 total NFL career games. He and his wife Tia have found the Pensacola area non-profit Mr. Robbins’ Neighborhood, which mentors young athletes.

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A FITTING TRIBUTE I miss Larry Butler. For 18 months, I shared the studio at NewsRadio 1620 with the Nashville legend, who is the only country music producer ever to win a Grammy.

His smile and “Hello, Buddy” greeted me every day. He held court on the radio the two hours before my “IN Your Head Radio” show. Often, I would either come in early to sit in for a few minutes to listen to his tales of Johnny Cash and the Butler brick, local television legend Lynn Toney, and Kenny Rogers.

Larry grew up in Pensacola and loved his hometown. When Pensacola was reeling from Hurricane Ivan in 2004, he reached out to his Nashville friends and put on three benefit concerts that raised over $300,000 to help rebuild this community. He was forever mentoring young musicians from this area, trying to help in the tough music business.

Larry was phenom on the piano and knew how to produce hits. His musical partnership with Cash led to Larry becoming his producer, pianist, musical director and studio manager. He co-wrote with Chips Moman B.J. Thomas’s greatest hit, “Hey Won't You Play Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song,” that earned him a Grammy for Song of the Year.

His Larry Butler Productions produced hits for Charlie Rich, Mac Davis, Debbie Boone, Don McLean and John Denver.

His collaborations with Rogers produced a

string of hit records that are now country standards—“Lucille,” “The Gambler,” “She Believes In Me,” “You Decorated My Life,” and “Coward Of The Country.”

In 2011, Larry began working on his autobiography, “Just For The Record,” with fellow musician and songwriter Dave Goodenough, but he died in his sleep early the following year before it was published.

Its subtitle is fitting: “What it takes to make it in the music industry and in life. Lessons from a Legend.”

On Nov. 6, the Frank Brown Songwriters’ Festival will pay tribute to Larry with a special concert at the University of West Florida Mainstage Theater. The benefit show is promoted as "Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Show" featuring five members of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Tickets are $20 and available through the UWF Box Office.

The proceeds will go to the UWF Larry Butler Memorial Music Scholarship, a fund his wife Peggy established earlier this year to help fund UWF Music Department student expenses and trips. If you can't attend the show, please consider a donation to the fund.

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RESTORE RETURNS FROM SUMMER VACATION At the October meeting, Dewberry Engineering, the committee’s consultant, offered up their “preliminary ranking” of the proposed projects. The firm evaluated the projects for environmental, economic and infrastructure values, applying a numerical score to each. A suggestion was made that committee members might also consider other factors when making their own assessments, such as the percent of the local population a project would impact, the geographic impact, historic preservation, budgetary realities, public support and collaborative opportunities.

Dewberry’s preliminary technical rankings will serve as a starting point to begin the discussion on the proposed projects in November. Committee members may

decide to go a different direction than Dewberry on a given project, but the firm’s rankings may come into play when considering how much attention a particular applicant’s proposal receives.

“If we get to those below 20, we say ‘does anyone want to discuss this project?’”

Terry said.

While there was some concern over the relatively small window of time allotted for the RESTORE committee’s assessment of proposed projects, members generally appeared optimistic about wrapping up their multi-year journey by December.

“My reaction is, it’s aggressive, but I actually like that,” said Vice Chair Alan McMillan. {in}

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By Jeremy Morrison It was early June when they were last together, back when everything seemed more academic and theoretical.

As the Escambia County RESTORE Act Advisory Committee convened on Oct. 20, a more tangible taste of reality marked the meeting. The numbers were in. Projects were on the table. The grunt work was over, and it was time to get down to the sexier aspect of the mission: divvying up the dollars heading to Escambia County as a result of environmental fines stemming from the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Over the summer, the federal government struck an $18.7 billion settlement with BP. While there are various pots of oil-spill money floating around the Gulf Coast region, the bottom-line dollar amount that eventually will trickle into county coffers amounts to just over $69 million—far less than the “windfall” local officials had anticipated.

“We were thinking we were going to get twice that,” Keith Wilkins, the county’s community and environment director, said in August, about a month after the settlement was announced. “The downside is, yeah, it was about half what we were expecting. The upside, the settlement is done, nobody has to look over their shoulder and we can get moving forward.”

According to the settlement, the money will be doled out over the course of 15 years, to the tune of about 3.9 million annually. Grand plans may need to be reined in.

“It’s going to be a lot harder to do anything big picture,” Wilkins said.

When the oil spill settlement was announced, Escambia was in the midst of accepting project proposals to be considered for funding. Those proposals, 124 in total, were presented to the RESTORE committee this month.

Over the course of November, the RESTORE committee will dive into the pool of proposals. Members will assess them according to an already-established criteria, with the goal of finalizing recommendations for the Escambia County Board of Commissioners by December. The sources of the proposed projects will remain anonymous until the committee has completed its scoring to ensure an unbiased process; proposals were allowed from government entities, non-profits, for-profits, groups and individuals.

RESTORE committee members will not be hearing presentations on the proposed projects.

“With 124 projects, that seems a bit unwieldy,” explained RESTORE committee chair Bentina Terry during the October meeting.

“The settlement is done, nobody has to look over their shoulder and we can get moving forward.”

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The Escambia County RESTORE Act Advisory Committee is getting a little help from Dewberry Engineering, Inc. in evaluating projects vying for funding from money the county will see as a result of financial penalties stemming from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

There are 124 proposed projects, with combined estimated budgets of just under $325 million. Escambia County will receive about $69 million over the next 15 years. It already has about $10.6 million in the bank and will receive another $3.9 million annually.

During its October meeting, the RESTORE committee got a glimpse at Dewberry’s preliminary rankings for the projects. The rankings, complete with numerical scores arrived at via a set of county criteria, will be used as the committee’s starting point moving forward.

Here’s a look at the top five of the 124 projects. For a complete list of projects and rankings, visit www.myescambia.com/restore.

Restore the City Creek

Score 78 Budget: $5,760,000 This project will restore a historic urban creek bed in Pensacola and improve downtown storm water conditions. The restored creek bed would also serve as a lineal greenway and a “downtown development axis.”

Eleven Mile Creek Stream Restoration

Score: 77 Budget: $12,929,908 In recent years, severe flooding has

impacted the Bristol Park, Bristol Creek and Ashbury Park neighborhoods. This project aims to improve storm water conditions by reconnecting Eleven Mile Creek with its historic floodplain.

Project includes property acquisition and demolition, as well as wetland restoration.

Navy Boulevard Beautification and Navy Point Restoration

Score: 76 Budget: $17,020,000 Project addresses drainage issues in the Navy Point area. Also includes features such as landscaping and sidewalks.

Forest Creek Apartment Complex Acquisition/Demolition & Jones Creek Floodplain Restoration Project

Score: 74 Budget: $2,029,200 Project involves the acquisition of about 12 acres in the Bayou Chico watershed and Jones Creek floodplain. A 200-unit subsidized housing complex will be demolished (with residents relocated), and the natural environment will be restored in an effort to improve water quality within Jones Creek and Bayou Chico.

Lake Charlene/Bridle Trail

Score: 73 Budget: $501,923 This project lies within the Warrington Watershed in southwestern Escambia County. It is divided into phases and is designed to better storm water conditions and improve water quality for Jones Creek Swamp and Bayou Chico.

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INTERPRETING PENSACOLA’S RICH HISTORY

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By Rick Outzen On Oct. 21, the University of West Florida Historic Trust unveiled its interpretive master plan for downtown Pensacola’ s historic district during an event at the Museum of Commerce.

UWF President Judith Bense, Vice President of University Advancement Brendan Kelly and Historic Trust Board of Directors Chair Jerry Maygarden laid out the plan developed with the assistance of Haley Sharpe Design for the historical and archeological assets of the 8.5-acre, 28-property complex that stretches from Ferdinand Plaza to Seville Square.

The Historic Trust encompasses the T.T. Wentworth, Jr. Florida State Museum, Historic Pensacola Village, Arcadia Mill Archeological Site, Voices of Pensacola Multicultural Center and Pensacola Children’s Museum. The trust has operated under the umbrella of the University of West Florida since 2001 as a part of the Division of University Advancement.

“Pensacola has an incredibly rich history that often flies under the radar,”

said Kelly, who also serves as CEO of the Historic Trust. “The interpretive master plan provides a strategic vision which will allow Historic Pensacola to embody a more engaging telling of that story.”

The plan aims to help locals to see the historic district as a resource for entertainment and education, but also as an economic engine for cultural heritage tourism.

“Our goal is to reposition this historic city in the minds of people living around the country,” said Maygarden. “Pensacola’s history can be more than just a reflection of the past; it can be an economic generator for the future.

We have an opportunity to impact this region in a positive way through the UWF Historic Trust.”

Rob Overton, executive director of the UWF Historic Trust, told Inweekly that Dr. Bense gave Bill Haley of Haley Sharpe Design specific instructions about her expectations for the plan.

Overton recalled that Bense told Haley: “Look, Bill, you can't come back with a plan that's going to be $40-$50 million.

We're never going to be able to make that happen. You need to come back with some options."

"The interpretive master plan provides a strategic vision which will allow Historic Pensacola to embody a more engaging telling of that story.” Brendan Kelly

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The executive director said Haley came back with a plan that can be executed in phases at a cost of about $8 million.

“In the big scheme of things, $8 million is actually doable,” said Overton. “Now, we're not talking about going out and doing it overnight. This is a three- to five-year plan.”

He said that plan helps people, both locals and tourists, connect to Pensacola’s history.

“It's really reminding people that there's history under your feet,” he said about the core themes of the plan.

“We're trying to raise that archeology up, let people know that it's there and the stories that we have to tell around that. The other overarching part is to keep telling those stories, this wonderful history that we have, by making the buildings and the assets that we manage work harder.”

Several renderings were on display at the unveiling. One drawing showed the area behind the T.T. Wentworth Museum converted to a grassy plaza with a canopy over an archeological area.

Overton explained, “The canopy is where the commanding officers compound was for both the Spanish and the British forts when they were here. The location is where Andrew Jackson accepted the Spanish turnover of Florida for the United States.”

The other buildings that were part of this fort are all underneath that parking lot behind the museum. He said, “This ground is very special ground. Nowhere else in America do you have ground with the history of this. All these various cultures came together in this struggle for empire, and it's almost a shame that we've got it covered with a parking lot.”

The plaza makes people aware of archeology there and showcase some of it.

It also ties T. T. Wentworth Museum to the rest of the historic village, once the parking

lot is replaced with grass and historic markers and displays.

The UWF Historic Trust owns both sides of Zaragoza Street from Tarragona Street to Adams Street. The plan seeks to give people the feeling that they’ve stepped back in time when they travel that block.

“Our consultant said you don't necessarily have to close the street, but if we could change the paving surface, studies have shown that traffic naturally reduces there,” said Overton.

The plan also calls for combining the Museum of Industry with the Museum of Commerce.

“I work in them every day, so I understand the differences,” said Overton, “but when you’re telling the story of commerce here in Pensacola and industry in Pensacola, don't those two stories really go together?”

He added, “Industry and commerce are really about how we live, and if we can do some changes, we've got half of the Museum of Commerce for a maintenance shop and storage. If I could clear that out, then we could really tell both of those stories together, in that one building, which would leave the Museum of Industry, across the street where the train is, open for us to relocate the Pensacola Children's Museum.”

The children’s museum is often overlooked in its current location south of the T.T. Wentworth Museum.

“I had people stop me on the street yesterday, right across form it, asking where is the children's museum,” he said. “That children's museum was an opportunity that we had with the merger of the old Historical Society into our program. It's been very successful, and we really have outgrown that building.”

The University of West Florida has already begun executing the plan, according to the executive director.

“We've actually started on a couple projects this week,” he said. The plans for the canopy over the commanding officer's compound have received conceptual approval from the city’s Architectural Review Board.

“The architects are now finishing those out, and we're working on starting to get some permits for them. That project is moving forward,” said Overton. “I really want to show people that we're serious about this, and we want to start seeing some things happen.” {in}

"I really want to show people that we're serious about this, and we want to start seeing some things happen.” Rob Overton

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QUALITY OF LIFE MOMENTUM The

Pensacola Young Professionals released on Oct. 22 the eighth Annual Quality of Life Survey. The overall Quality of Life Survey rating was at an all-time high–71 percent of those asked give our quality of life rating a positive. The first year, (2008), only 51 percent of the respondents felt that way.

As of June 2015, when the survey was conducted, the top three concerns of the voters in our area remained the same as last year with the economy and jobs at number one (38 percent), education at number two (13 percent) and crime and drugs at number three (11 percent).

Respondents saw both Escambia County and City of Pensacola continuing in positive directions; County 61 percent, City 70 percent.

There was little change from last year in how voters rated economic conditions in Escambia County with 34 percent believing the conditions were good or excellent.

In 2008, only 14 percent rated the local economy so well.

Some people feel that the city and county have been slow to respond to new

opportunities. They point to the successes of Destin and Mobile. Respondents felt the city does a better job in attracting job growth than the county; 30 percent for the city to 22 percent for the county.

Inweekly asked Scott Luth about the economic ratings. Luth is the president and CEO of FloridaWest, the economic authority for the city and county that was announced two weeks after PYP survey was conducted.

“This is a great report that comes out every year, especially when you can look at the trend lines,” said Luth. “The numbers tell us that while we have made some great progress since those early days of 2008, we still have a long way to go."

He said that the 2015 numbers provide the baseline to measure his organization's efforts to bring economic opportunities and jobs to this area.

“We partner very well with the city, county and our private partners to meet the public’s expectations on the economic front,” he said. “I am very excited about what we have ahead of us.”

Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward was pleased with the report. He said in his

biweekly newsletter, “I’m incredibly humbled by the results of the PYP poll. Pensacola is thriving due to the private and public sector partnerships committed to growing our economy and moving Pensacola upward.

Pensacola is continuing to make strides in leading Northwest Florida.”

REAP CENTER OPENS On Oct. 23, Re-

Entry Alliance Pensacola (REAP) the REAP Community Re-Entry Resource Center at 2610 West DeSoto Street opened, in cooperation with Pensacola United Methodist Community Ministries and Richards Memorial United Methodist Church.

ReEntry Alliance Pensacola, Inc. is a Florida not-for-profit, tax-exempt 501 (3) (c) organization that provides individual inmate and ex-offender re-entry services in participating counties in Northwest Florida as a means to lower a community’s recidivism rate.

The Re-Entry Center will be open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to noon. Hot lunches are served from10-11:30 am. REAP staff and volunteers will be available to assist returning citizens

from years of incarceration in accessing available community services, including identification cards, food stamp information, personal hygiene items, referrals to affordable housing, medical/mental health/dental/ prescription service referrals, work clothes, food pantry, GED classes, various enrichment classes taught by area trainers from REAP non-profit partners and job referrals to area employers interested in giving a person a “second chance”.

Rick Dye, REAP’s executive director, talked on News Talk 1370 WCOA’s “Pensacola Speaks” about the need for the center .

"After you have been incarcerated for six or seven years and paid your debt to society, they give you a $50 debit card--which most don't know how to use because they didn't exist before they were incarcerated,” said Dye. “Then they give you a bus ticket and tell you to go be a good citizen."

He said, “When they arrive at the Greyhound bus station, no one is there to meet them. They are supposed to figure how to get food, housing and a job. Our organization saw the need and has begun working to help them.” {in}

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Progress starts here

Education, economy key to our future

By Shannon Nickinson scambia County’s story from the Studer Community Institute’s Pensacola Metro Dashboard is the link between education and the economy. n Data show the community’s progress in improving educational, economic and social outcomes that impact the quality of life in the community. n Our per capita income has risen slightly, but remains more than $4,000 below the state figure. n The influx of new employers to the community in the last 10 years, especially Navy Federal Credit Union, is a welcome boost. Construction of the credit union’s campus in Beulah ultimately will employ 10,000 workers and mean an investment of $1 billion. n Building in the city of Pensacola is booming. From the expansion of the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition to plans for a new downtown YMCA, from plans to renovate the historic Blount and Brent buildings by Bobby Switzer to a $50 million plan to add retail and apartment space at the former Pensacola News Journal building site by Studer Properties, construction will be big business in the area for the next several years. n Our labor force participation rate exceeds the state average.

The Dashboard data also reveal the toll that generational poverty is taking on our prospects for growth.

In Escambia County our wages lag state and national averages.

Scott Luth, head of FloridaWest, Escambia’s economic development agency, and his team are focusing on industries that bring better-than-average wages to the area.

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THE STARK FINDINGS: n 66 percent of Escambia 5-year-olds were ready for kindergarten in the 2014 school year. n 66 percent of our high school students are graduating on time with their peers. n 66 percent of Escambia students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a sobering figure that speaks to the harsh economic realities many of our neighbors face.

For Carol Carlan, banker by trade and current president of the Sacred Heart Hospital Foundation, creating a sense of urgency in the community about the link between education and the economy is crucial.

“I looked at kindergarten readiness as the top of the list,” Carlan says. “Kindergarten readiness drives the high school graduation rate, which drives the number of college graduates.

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Jazhaun Boggan works on numbers in La’Tris Sykes’ kindergarten class at Lincoln Park Primary School. MICHAEL SPOONEYBARGER / STUDER COMMUNITY INSTITUTE ready, it would help in their performance in middle school and with the high school graduation rates, and in the number of college graduates. “You’ve got to get the community owning this.”

EARLY LEARNING Being in it together is a lesson everyone learns in La’Tris Sykes’ kindergarten classroom.

“Alright, I’m coming to check on my friends,” says Sykes, as she moves among her 18 students at Lincoln Park Primary School, highlighter in hand.

“If I bring you a 3, and put a yellow one on your paper, all you have to do is trace it,” she says. “It’s not because you got it wrong. It’s just because we have to practice forming the numbers. Say, ‘Forming the numbers.’ ” “Forming the numbers,” comes the reply from 18 voices.

Building on small gains is how Sykes helps her students every day.

“I say, ‘If you can learn one letter, learn one sound, we’re building,’ ” says Sykes.

Those small steps will add up.

That’s why Sykes walks around her classroom during lessons, using a highlighter to write the numbers for those who can’t properly write a 3 or a 4.

“That’s just me offering support to the ones who don’t have the fine-motor skills to do those things,” she says. “They see the difference, and they can feel it” when they see classmates who can do it on their own.

When the gap between kids who haven’t had any preschool shows up in the classroom, it can be hard on the children who are behind.

“I know we can’t compare student to student,” Sykes says. “(But) they see within themselves what another kid can do. To know that ‘I’m going to kindergarten, and everybody’s writing their name, and I can’t even write my name at all.’

“You’ve got to constantly keep them motivated and going.”

BETTER WAGES As research supports, a strong foundation in early education is critical to a child’s academic — and economic — future.

Escambia schools superintendent Malcolm Thomas knows the challenge before his teachers.

“There’s substantial state funding that goes into early learning, but it’s not enough. It funds a half-day,” Thomas says. “For a working family, that’s not going to be sufficient. If you’ve got a job, you’ve got to work all day, not half a day. And if you have to pay the daycare center for the child to stay the whole day, that takes away from the parents’ wages.”

n Cybersecurity. n Aviation. n Offshore oil and gas. n Back-office, professional services and support industry. n Niche manufacturing industries that are growing.

The key, Luth says, is to grow Pensacola as “a true city, not just a tourism community.”

“We do have a good business community and tourism industry and healthcare industry and all of those things tie in, but when you look at our total growth numbers, where we’ve seen most of the growth has been in the service and tourism industry.”

The Greater Pensacola Chamber of Commerce’s Gap Analysis, done in cooperation with UWF, was a starting point to diversify the area’s economy. It also found gaps in the way the education pipeline is matching the workforce need in some areas.

Since then, the community has looked at ways to close that gap.

George Stone Technical Center is starting an airframe repair and maintenance training program to support employers like VT-MAE, which is to create some 300 jobs at a facility to be built at Pensacola International Airport.

UWF and Pensacola State are realigning their internal programs to support the cybersecurity and IT industries.

The chamber last year the rolled out Greater Pensacola Career Pathways, a one-stop online portal to help parents, guidance counselors and students see where the job growth is coming — and how to match an education track to it.

Luth notes that workforce development, ultimately, begins “at birth, but a lot of the issues that we’re talking about as a community truly are education issues not workforce issues.”

The business community, he says, can offer expertise and support for the cause, “but who really needs to take that ball and run with it, I think, is the community as a whole.”

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Kindergarten readiness

Escambia County POSITIVE Direction

High school graduation rate + 1.9%

NEGATIVE Direction

NO Change

BLUE RIBBON Better than state average

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66.1%

66.2%

76.1%

in 2013-2014 From 2012-2013 State Average

College graduates 23.7% in 2013

0%

From 2009

- 0.8%

71%

in 2013-2014 From 2012-2013 State Average

This measures the percentage of 5-year-olds found kindergarten-ready when evaluated in the first month of the school year. Kindergarten-ready students tend to have greater success throughout their academic careers.

Free & reduced-price lunch

26.4%

State Average

66.1%

+ 2.6%

60.8%

in 2014-2015 From 2012-2013 State Average

This measures the percentage of students who completed their high school career within four years of starting it.

While Escambia’s graduation rate increased more than 8 percentage points since 2010-2011, the rate still lags behind neighboring Santa Rosa County, the state and national averages.

This figure tracks the number of adults 25 and older with a bachelor’s degree and higher.

Research shows that communities with higher percentages of college-educated residents have higher wages

This helps measure poverty in a community. Children living in households at or below 185% of the poverty level are eligible to receive free or reduced-price meals at their schools.

Real per capita income

Middle class households

Single-parent households

$38,389 + 1.1% $42,645 in 2013

From 2012-2013

State Average

64.5% in 2015

+ 1.9% From 2010

63.4%

State Average

40.4% in 2013

35.1%

- 0.4%

State Average

From 2012

Real per capita income represents the total GDP of our area, adjusted for inflation and divided by the working-age population. It measures the average person’s purchasing power and economic well-being.

“Middle class households” — families who earn between $20,000-$99,000 in 2009 dollars — add to the economic activity, stability and vibrancy of a community.

Children living in single-parent families often face more economic and social hurdles than their peers from two-parent families.

Overweight & obesity rate

Rent-burdened households

Cost of child care

59.8% in 2013

- 8.1% From 2010

62.8%

State Average

57.2% in 2013

0%

From 2010

59.4%

State Average

49% in 2015

0%

From 2012

56%

State Average

Two out of three people in the Escambia County are either overweight or obese, meaning they have a body mass index of 25 or higher. Obesity-related health problems diminish worker productivity and add costs to the health care system.

The rule of thumb for affordable housing is that it should cost no more than 30% of your monthly income. This data measure the percentage of people who spend more than that on rent.

This measures average child care costs (for infant and preschoolers) as a percentage of median income for single-parent households. For many parents, the cost of child care may lead them to leave the workforce entirely.

Population

Median workforce age

Labor force participation

313,954 + 5.3% in 2015

+ 6.4%

change in state

From 2010-2015 population 2010-2015

38.7 in 2013

- 0.2%

From 2012-2013

41.4

State Average

62% in 2013

- 0.2%

60.1%

From 2012-2013 State Average

To prosper, a community needs to grow. Data show that after steeply increasing every decade between 1970 and 2000, our population stagnated. Santa Rosa’s population has boomed from 118,360 in 2000 to 167,795 in 2015.

It is no news flash that Florida is an aging state.

But it is important to maintain — and increase — a healthy population of “young professionals” to add the intellectual and creative capacity that vibrant cities thrive upon.

The unemployment rate is often reported as a measure of joblessness, but it leaves out people who quit looking for work.

Labor force participation shows how many people who are eligible to work are doing so.

Crime rate (per 100,000)

Voter turnout

Bed Taxes (2% normalized)

4,761 in 2014

- 9.9%

From 2012-2013

3,451

State Average

This measures the number of crimes reported per 100,000 citizens, including both violent crimes and property crimes

49.3% in 2014

- 26.2% From 2012

50.5%

State Average

How healthy is democracy in your community? Voter turnout is one way to measure that. In the 2014 general election, 43.3% of Santa Rosa voters cast ballots.

$855,711 in July

+ 9.6%

From July 2014

The tourist development tax, also called the “bed tax,” is collected from hotels and other lodging establishments and is a measure of tourism traffic in a community.

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High school graduation rate + 3.9%

76.1%

in 2013-2014 From 2012-2013 State Average This measures the percentage of students who completed their high school career within four years of starting it.

Santa Rosa’s graduation rate increased nearly 4 percentage points from the 2012- 2013 to 2013-2014 school year, more than 6 percentage points higher than the state average and nearly 2 percentage points higher than the national average.

Real per capita income

$37,739 + 0.5% $42,645 in 2013

From 2012-2013

81%

NO Change

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82.8%

NEGATIVE Direction

Kindergarten readiness

State Average

College graduates 25.9% in 2013

+ 2%

From 2009

0%

71%

in 2013-2014 From 2012-2013 State Average

This measures the percentage of 5-year-olds found kindergarten-ready when evaluated in the first month of the school year. Kindergarten-ready students tend to have greater success throughout their academic careers.

Free & reduced-price lunch

26.4%

State Average

45.3%

+ 3.4%

60.8%

in 2014-2015 From 2012-2013 State Average

This figure tracks the number of adults 25 and older with a bachelor’s degree and higher.

Research shows that communities with higher percentages of college-educated residents have higher wages

This helps measure poverty in a community. Children living in households at or below 185% of the poverty level are eligible to receive free or reduced-price meals at their schools.

Middle class households

Single-parent households

67.4% in 2015

+ 0.3% From 2010

63.4%

State Average

24.2% in 2013

- 1%

From 2012

35.1%

State Average

Real per capita income represents the total GDP of our area, adjusted for inflation and divided by the working-age population. It measures the average person’s purchasing power and economic well-being.

“Middle class households” — families who earn between $20,000-$99,000 in 2009 dollars — add to the economic activity, stability and vibrancy of a community.

Children living in single-parent families often face more economic and social hurdles than their peers from two-parent families.

Overweight & obesity rate

Rent-burdened households

Cost of child care

60.9% in 2013

- 2.2% From 2010

62.8%

State Average

49.9% in 2013

0%

From 2010

59.4%

State Average

30%

- 12%

in 2015

From 2012

56%

State Average

Two out of three people in the Escambia County are either overweight or obese, meaning they have a body mass index of 25 or higher. Obesity-related health problems diminish worker productivity and add costs to the health care system.

The rule of thumb for affordable housing is that it should cost no more than 30% of your monthly income. This data measure the percentage of people who spend more than that on rent.

This measures average child care costs (for infant and preschoolers) as a percentage of median income for single-parent households. For many parents, the cost of child care may lead them to leave the workforce entirely.

Population

Median workforce age

Labor force participation

185,393 + 22% in 2015

+ 6.4%

change in state

From 2010-2015 population 2010-2015

41.7 in 2013

+ 0.1%

From 2012-2013

41.4

State Average

61.8% in 2013

- 1.3%

60.1%

From 2012-2013 State Average

To prosper, a community needs to grow. Data show that after steeply increasing every decade between 1970 and 2000, our population stagnated. Escambia’s population has increased from 294,725 in 2000 to 313,954 in 2015.

It is no news flash that Florida is an aging state.

But it is important to maintain — and increase — a healthy population of “young professionals” to add the intellectual and creative capacity that vibrant cities thrive upon.

The unemployment rate is often reported as a measure of joblessness, but it leaves out people who quit looking for work.

Labor force participation shows how many people who are eligible to work are doing so.

Crime rate (per 100,000)

Voter turnout

Bed Taxes (2% normalized)

1,297 in 2014

- 11.3%

From 2012-2013

3,451

State Average

This measures the number of crimes reported per 100,000 citizens, including both violent crimes and property crimes

43.3% in 2014

- 22.8% From 2012

50.5%

State Average

How healthy is democracy in your community? Voter turnout is one way to measure that. In the 2014 general election, 49.3% of Escambia voters cast ballots.

$170,620 in July

- 0.2%

From July 2014

The tourist development tax, also called the “bed tax,” is collected from hotels and other lodging establishments and is a measure of tourism traffic in a community.

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Quality of life, schools drive Santa Rosa’s boom

By Carlton Proctor

S

anta Rosa County’s story over the past two decades is one of robust growth and a stubborn resolve to improve the quality of life for its citizens.

“One of the things I’m very proud of about Santa Rosa County is that I see its elected officials constantly planning ahead, and trying to anticipate that growth,” said local attorney Renee Bookout, a mother of three and member of the Gulf Breeze City Council.

Santa Rosa County Commission Chairman Don Salter agrees.

“I think we’re doing a pretty good job of managing growth,” he said.

“Evidence of that is our recent passage of a local option gas tax to go into our road maintenance program.”

Salter said commissioners also are rewriting the counCARLTON PROCTOR ty’s land development code, which determines how future growth is managed. This document is important to managing high-growth areas such as Navarre and Pace.

Based on the data from the Studer Community Institute’s Pensacola Metro Dashboard, the county’s strategy is paying off.

The Dashboard — 16 educational, economic and social metrics to gauge the quality of life in a community — shows Santa Rosa’s population growth, good schools, low crime rate and lower concentration of poverty make it an attractive place to live and raise a family.

AMONG THE HIGHLIGHTS: n High school graduation rate: 82.8 percent. n Kindergarten readiness: 81 percent. n People with college degrees: 25.9 percent. n Middle class households: 67.4 percent. n Nearly 22 percent population growth from 2010 to 2015.

The figures all are above the state average and out pace the same data for Escambia County.

EDUCATION THE KEY

Santa Rosa’s proactive approach to growth management, and its sustained determination to improve the quality of life for its residents, is backed up by data compiled by the Studer Community Institute.

Of the 16 dashboard metrics — which cover everything from high school graduation rates, to crime to the number of single-parent households — Santa Rosa exceeds the state average in several categories.

Santa Rosa schools Superintendent

Gulf Breeze Councilwoman Renee Bookout Michael Spooneybarger/ Studer Community Institute

Lynchard said the county’s recent approval of a 6-cent gasoline tax will help Santa Rosa deal with mounting traffic problems, but annual revenues — estimated to be in the $3.5 million range — won’t solve the major problems with the roadways.

One option that commissioners have talked about is placing a tax referendum on the ballot in 2016.

The tax would generate about $12 million a year that could be used for transportation, infrastructure, such as a new courthouse, and for parks and library improvements.

But it won’t be easy getting voters to approve the proposed tax.

Twice — in 2002 and 2014 — voters have rejected a local option sales tax.

At the top of that list is replacing the existing courthouse, a controversial project with a cost estimated at some $50 million.

THE STRAINS OF GROWTH

Mission

To improve the quality of life for the people in the Pensacola Metro Community.

Vision

To make the Pensacola Metro Community the greatest place to live in the world.

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Tim Wyrosdick says growth — and its challenges — is important for the school district. Growth helps financially, and it helps develop new services for students, he said.

“Controlled growth, getting out ahead of growth, is our goal,” Wyrosdick said, noting that in the 1990s Santa Rosa was building a new school every year.

Determining where that growth is and how fast it’s taking place, requires specialized data in the fields of demographics, zoning and growth management.

Wyrosdick said the district has hired Gene Boles, a recognized growth management expert from University of Florida.

Boles will lead a joint meeting Nov. 4, with the Santa Rosa County Commission and School Board to begin planning the school system’s growth for the next two decades.

INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS

While Santa Rosa can rightfully claim one of the best school systems in the state, one growth area where it is struggling to keep up with demand is roads and transportation.

That, by far, say local officials, is the biggest — and most expensive — challenge going forward.

“We grew so much from 2000 to end of decade, it was hard to keep up, and some of our roads got overtaxed during that span,” said Santa Rosa Commission Vice Chairman Lane Lynchard, whose District 5 includes the narrow Gulf Breeze peninsula and U.S. 98, the major east-west corridor in South Santa Rosa.

“With U.S. 98 we are constrained by our geography, and we can’t easily add capacity to 98,” Lynchard said. “There are plans to six-lane 98, but it will be a very costly project.”

Bookout sees some demographic concerns ahead for her Gulf Breeze community and Santa Rosa County as a whole.

“I am a little bit concerned about the availability of appropriate and affordable housing for young people in Gulf Breeze,” she said. “We’re seeing the gentrification of downtown Pensacola, and its median workforce age drop, but we’re not seeing that here in Gulf Breeze and Santa Rosa County.”

While Santa Rosa’s growth has been impressive over the past couple of decades, there are quantitative signs its growth is slowing.

The county’s unemployment rate has leveled out over the past several months.

It is holding steady at 4.8 percent, but employment opportunities, as reported by the latest U.S. Census Bureau survey of individual Santa Rosa households, have been stagnant over the past 12 months, says University of West Florida economist Rick Harper.

Santa Rosa’s population growth, however, continues at a healthy pace.

“For the nation the average growth rate is slightly less than 1 percent per year, so for Santa Rosa, its growth rate is double the national growth rate, and still growing at about 30 to 40 percent faster than the state of Florida,” Harper said.

Despite the growth challenges Santa Rosa faces, Lynchard is optimistic the county’s quality of life will be sustained and improved.

“Everything that’s happening in the Panhandle, with the money flowing in from the RESTORE Act, I think some great things will be taking place in Santa Rosa County over the next five, 10, 15 years,” Lynchard said. “So, I’m optimistic. I’m not concerned about us going downhill as a county.”

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Paranormal Pensacola

by Shelby Smithey

“About 15 years ago I was in the Rosie O’Grady’s bathroom upstairs trying on Mardi Gras costumes when I felt someone in the room with me. I saw a woman wearing a white, puffed-sleeved dress.

Eight years ago our graphic designer Ryan Little saw a woman wearing a velvet cape standing in front of her desk. She said she could see the transparent silhouette of the woman and the dust particles in the light. Wesley is our resident ghost. Since I’ve been working here for 10 years, he’s done things like turn radios and the copier in the hallway on. He’s very mischievous. I tell him to knock it off.”

-Nancy Rodriguez, Administrative Assistant, Seville Quarter

SAENGER THEATRE

Known as the “Grande Dame of Palafox Street,” the Saenger Theatre was constructed from the ruins—the bricks and other fittings—of the Pensacola Opera House, which was destroyed in 1917 by a hurricane. The theatre opened in 1925 as a venue for live

“During the Ghost Hunters episode filmed in 2009, they heard footsteps and a woman’s voice.”

Jon Hill

PENSACOLA LIGHTHOUSE

Every city has them. Legends of haunted houses and ghost stories seem to inexplicably permeate our culture no matter the location. Due to its rich history, Pensacola is no stranger to the paranormal with wellknown landmarks, historic sites and downtown buildings having been known to house ghostly activity.

You’ve probably heard about the haunted Pensacola Lighthouse, which has been featured on an episode of Ghost Hunters and a Travel Channel special, or Wesley, Seville Quarter’s resident bartender-turned-ghost.

Pensacola even has a local group of ghost hunters. The Pensacola Paranormal Society was created due to the amount of requests from the community involving paranormal issues. Curious to know more, we talked to a few locals (and a professional ghost hunter) to get some insight on some of Pensacola’s most haunted places.

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SEVILLE QUARTER

Seville has been sitting on Government Street since 1871, when the main building was the Pensacola Cigar and Tobacco Co. However, the business of this building hasn't always been the most honorable. Being just a few blocks from the docks, Seville Quarter was a central part of Pensacola's red light district, and the second floor of Seville may have been used for this purpose "off the books" even into the 1930s. On two separate occasions, strange women have been seen by Seville employees on the second floor. Then there is Seville Quarter’s resident ghost, Wesley Gibbs. Wesley was a bartender at Rosie’s in the early 1990s and after his shift one night went into the cooler to escape the heat. He suffered from a heart attack in the cooler and died at 27 years old.

Built in 1826, the legend surrounding the lighthouse on Naval Air Station Pensacola involves the newlywed wife of the first lighthouse keeper, Jeremiah Ingraham. Accounts say that Michaela Penalber was the ideal lighthouse keeper’s wife, constantly tending the light and maintaining the house. When Jeremiah died in 1840, some speculated that Michaela murdered him violently by stabbing him while they were alone in the tower. It was never proven. When the lighthouse was refurbished years later, stains were discovered on the floor that looked suspiciously like blood. No amount of scrubbing could get rid of them.

“Personally, I have heard noises. A lot of the people who have had experiences have heard footsteps. During the Ghost Hunters episode filmed in 2009, they heard footsteps and a woman’s voice. On a freezing night several years ago, a plumber named Howard Strickland and his partner came to turn the water off so it wouldn’t freeze the pipes. Strickland thought he saw his partner standing on the porch, and asked him if he was done working yet. He said he heard a voice respond ‘I’ll never be done.’ His partner wasn’t on the porch. He was right behind him.”

-Jon Hill, Executive Director, Pensacola Lighthouse Museum

performances and film. The balcony is said to be where strange voices may be heard, and odd things happen with the lighting system, as well. Rumor has it that a worker once died in a boiler-room explosion, and his ghost still hangs around.

“While attending a play, I saw the apparition of a young girl. During investigations, we captured several EVPs (Electronic Voice Phenomena), some in response to direct questions.”

-Sharon Renae, psychic veteran, minister, author and co-founder of the Pensacola Paranormal Society

PENSACOLA CHILDREN’S MUSEUM

When the museum moved to the Arbona building, the staff realized that the ghost of a former resident inhabited the building.

Eugenio Arbona, who came to the area in the late 1800s, apparently never left. Witnesses have detected his strong cigar smoke, objects are moved around by unseen hands and mysterious noises are heard on the second story.

“The Arbona Building is now the Pensacola Children's Museum, but it was the Pensacola Historical Society's Pensacola Historical Museum. From 2006 to 2009, I was the Curator of Exhibits,and my office was on the first floor of the museum. I would work late into the evening when changing exhibits and would hear things, one time hearing my name whispered. The elevator was forever opening and closing for unknown reasons.”

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The Headless Horseman / Photo by Davis House Photography The headless horseman has returned to Ballet Pensacola.

After a successful debut last year, the bewitching retelling of the classic tale is bigger and better than ever.

“We premiered it last year as a one act, but with a grant from Foo Foo Festival, we’ve been able to develop a full evening,” said Richard Steinert, artistic director of Ballet Pensacola.

Expanding on the story he created last year, Steinert took from Scottish, Welsh, Germanic folklore, along with the Colonial roots, as part of his version of “Headless Horseman.”

“I looked for inspiration from film and stage versions,” he said. “There’s still Ichabod Crane, Katrina and Brom Van Brunt, but we now have a witch and some more woodlands.”

Steinert describes the woods as “a little spookier” than last year’s set.

“It’s a little higher creep value,” he said with a laugh. “The show is dark stylistically…but it’s more like a Tim Burton film versus ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre.’ The show is still for ages 8 and up.”

Since there is no spoken script, the mood is kept dark through choreography and costume design from Ballet Mistress

Christine Duhon. Not to mention the show is performed on the Pensacola Little Theatre stage, which was once where jail cells imprisoned men and women nearly 100 years ago.

Another element that’s likely remembered from last year is the horse structure designed and constructed by Production Designer Lance Brannon.

Since last year the horse has been sitting deconstructed in storage just waiting to return to the stage.

“It was a fun project,” Brannon said. “It’s very gratifying to see it again.

So many times in theater you work for six to eight weeks building sets for a show. It might run two to six times and then it’s over.”

The horse has the measurements of a full-size male quarter horse, which is what Brannon studied in preparation of building. The designs took a cue from WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Oct. 30 & 31; Nov. 6 & 7. Also the Broadway production of “War an 11 p.m. show Oct. 31 Horse,” which utilized a full-size WHERE: Pensacola Cultural Center, 400 S. horse puppet.

Jefferson St. Built from mainly PVC pipe, COST: $20 - $32 glue and pipe insulations the INFO: balletpensacola.com horse is more than a set piece for the dancers to ride on.

“The show is dark stylistically… but it’s more like a Tim Burton film versus ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre.’” Richard Steinert

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“It’s become its own character… it has mannerisms, which is neat,” Brannon said.

While all of the Ballet Pensacola shows are exciting and fun to create around “The Headless Horseman” let the cast and crew “really flex our creative muscles,” Brannon said.

Revisiting “Headless Horseman” Brannon said he has the opportunity to do touch ups to the set instead of building it from scratch. He’s also been working on the “spookier” woods as well as a complete house setting.

“I’m also adding mystical woodland creatures…it’s going to be wicked creepy,” he said with a laugh.

“Headless Horseman” is a great way to start the season for Ballet Pensacola since it welcomes a broad audience.

“It’s exciting on a couple of different levels,” Steinert said. “It’s a story that most people are familiar with. Ballets have no words and very often when people come to a ballet they wonder ‘Am I going to understand this?’”

For those unfamiliar, the story follows a young Ichabod Crane who fights an evil witch and her cursed horseman to save his small village and the love of a beautiful maiden, Katrina, who is also being courted by the sinister Brom Van Brunt.

There are several versions behind the tale of the headless horseman. Most cultures have a differing backstory about the horseman’s missing head.

The Ballet Pensacola season typically starts in October, which is why the first production is Halloween themed.

This year is extra special since one of the performances actually falls on the haunted holiday. To celebrate, the company will have an 11 p.m. show. As always, costumes are encouraged.

Steinert calls “The Headless Horseman” a “triple whammy production.”

“It’s a spectacle all around,” he said.

“It’s so contemporary. It’s so hip. I’m excited for people to see what really is in 2015. If you haven’t seen a Ballet Pensacola show before this is the time to see it.” {in}

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10.30 and 10.31 HAUNTED LIGHTHOUSE TOUR 6-9 p.m. Come visit the decorated haunted lighthouse and help raise money for the Coast Guard Relief Fund. Pensacola Lighthouse, 2081 Radford Blvd. $6 adults, $4 children under 12. pensacolalighthouse.org 10.30 and 10.31 A GRAVE OCCASION: TRICK OR TREAT TROLLEY TOUR 6 p.m. (for kids/families) and 8 p.m. (for adults) Climb aboard a Winterfest trolley and meet folks like Jack Torrence and Pennywise the clown on the Blood-Red Trolley as you move closer and closer to the Old Sacred Heart Hospital, where zombies lurk and a diabolical doctor waits to show you around. $20 for adults, $5 children 10 and younger. Tours depart from the Visitor’s Information Center, 1401 E. Gregory St. pensacolawinterfest.org 10.30 HAUNTED HOUSE WALKING AND TROLLEY TOURS Walking: 6:30, 7, 7:30, 8 and 8:30 p.m. Trolley: 6:30, 7:30 and 8:30 p.m. Tour options include: Ghastly Ghosts of North Seville walking tour, Murder and Mayhem walking tour, Adults Only Redlight walking tour, Tragedy and Terror of South Seville walking tour and Trolley of the Doomed ride. Walking tours are $15 for adults, $8 for children ages 12 and under.

Trolley tours are $20 for adults, $10 for children 12 and under. Tours depart from the Voices of Pensacola presented by Gulf

Art for the Community Art Beyond Walls, the newly-formed group with the mission to encourage public art, is calling on the community to contribute to a mural outside First City Art Center to be finished on Mexico’s Day of the Dead.

You don’t have to be connected to Mexican culture to be drawn to the colorful holiday, which focuses on remembering friends and family who have died and help support their spiritual journey.

The plan is to create a Day of the Dead inspired mural on the northeast outside walls of the First City Art Center.

The public is invited to be a part of the art piece by bringing a laser print of a loved one to be wheat pasted within the mural.

The mural will take place over three days and end with a small ceremony on Sunday, Nov. 1— the Day of the Dead, according to a press release from First City Art. This is the first project from Art October 29, 2015

Power, 117 E. Government St. historicpensacola.org

FOR THE KIDS

10.29 DOWNTOWN TRICK OR TREAT 4:30-7 p.m. Head downtown for a special trick or treat event just for young children and their families. Palafox Street will be closed to car traffic, and over 50 downtown merchants will be open to give out candy and other goodies to Halloween revelers. downtownpensacola.com 10.31 HALLOWEEN AT THE MUSEUM 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Bring the family and enjoy a day at the National Aviation Museum with treats and special offers on Museum attractions. Free The Magic of Flight IMAX for kids in costume. Naval Aviation Museum, 1750 Radford Blvd. navalaviationmuseum.org

CORN MAZES

Daily–11.1 SWEET SEASONS FARMS Visit the largest corn maze in the panhandle, with over eight acres to explore. 2260 Horn Road, Milton. Visit sweetseasonfarms.com for more information, including hours of operation.

Daily–11.1 HOLLAND FARMS Experience a corn maze, pumpkin patch and hayride. $10 wristband per person for pumpkin patch (includes 1 pumpkin), hayride and all other activities; $6 for single pumpkin; $6

for maze only. Kids 2 and under are free to activities. 2055 Homer Holland Road. Visit hollandfarmsonline.com for more information, including hours of operation.

THEATRICAL SHOWINGS

10.30 and 10.31 THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN 7:30 p.m.; and an extra 11 p.m performance on 10.31 only. An original production by Ballet Pensacola’s artistic director Richard Steinert, “The Headless Horsemen” tells the classic tale of Ichabod Crane like you’ve never seen it before. Pensacola Cultural Center, 400 S. Jefferson St. $20-$32. balletpensacola.com 10.30 and 10.31 THE SHINING SCREENINGS 6:45 p.m. Treehouse Cinema, 1175 Gulf Breeze, Pkwy. treehousecinemagulfbreeze.com 10.31 THE ROCKY HORROW PICTURE SHOW 8 p.m. There will be a dance party, costume contest, midnight screening of the film and tons more. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox. Free. vinylmusichall.com

BARS & NIGHTLIFE

10.29 SEXY SOUTHERN WITCH CONTEST 10 p.m. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com 10.31 HALLOWEEN AT O’RILEYS PUB 7 p.m. O’Riley’s Irish Pub downtown is play-

ing host to Halloween-themed contests all night, including a costume contest with $1,000 in cash and prizes. Drink specials all night. $5 cover at the door. 321 S. Palafox, orileyspub.com 10.31 HALLOWEEN DANCE PARTY & COSTUME CONTEST 7 p.m. Once again, Seville Quarter hosts Pensacola’s largest Halloween costume contest starting at 9 p.m. inside Phineas Phogg’s. $1,000 cash is awarded to the first place winner, with prizes for the top 20 costumes. Registration starts at 7 p.m. Open to ages 21 and up. The party spans throughout the Seville Quarter haunted complex with music and spooky tricks and treats. Seville Quarter.130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com 10.31 BALLOON DROP Midnight. When the clock strikes midnight, the team at Tin Cow will drop hundreds of balloons filled with gift cards and goodies. They will also have themed drinks and milkshakes, jello shots and house-made sangria on hand. Tin Cow, 102 S. Palafox. thetincow.com 10.31 HELLBOUND 9 p.m. Emerald City’s annual Halloween bash will be hosted by the “Devilish Divas” Lauren Mitchell, Ebony Sinclair, Monica Heart and Penny Holliday.

Festivities include a “Phantasmic Costume Contest” at 1 a.m. with $1,000 in cash and prizes and a “Witchy Wedding” for Ian and Kelly at 11 p.m. $10 cover. 406 E. Wright St. emeraldcitypensacola.com {in}

by Jennifer Leigh Beyond Walls, which was a springboard will remain on the walls on from the Pensacola Graffiti Bridge ProjGonzales Street for about three ect. Inspiration for the mural came from months or so. memorials created on the Graffiti Bridge Plans are to have the mural to give the community another place to finished by 7 p.m. A moment of celebrate lives. silence, flute music and reading The mural project will begin Friday from Northwest Florida Poet Oct. 30 with the beginning stages of the Laureate Jamey Jones will folmural painting from 6 to 10 p.m. Particilow. {in} pants can visit to watch the artists at work or help paint under the direction of the lead artists. Mid-morning Saturday, Oct. 31 the painting will continue. On Sunday, Nov. 1 from 4 to 7 p.m., the WHEN: 6-10 p.m. Oct. 30 (painting public is invited to bring their begins), 4-7 p.m. Nov. 1 (public bring in photograph of a loved on photographs/painting ends) to be incorporated into the WHERE: First City Art Center, 1060 N. mural. Candles, flowers and Guillemard St. other items that honor the COST: Free person or pet of their choice DETAILS: firstcityart.org can also be used. The mural

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Oysters Galore and More The IN Catches Up with Lennon and Maisy Before being cast in “Nashville,” sisters Lennon Stella (16) and Maisy Stella (11) captivated the world and quickly rose to YouTube-fame with their cover of Robyn’s ‘Call Your Girlfriend.’

Since then, they have successfully launched their acting careers, playing Connie Britton’s daughters on the show, and have continued in music, playing at the Grand Ole Opry multiple times and appearing on Good Morning America.

The IN had a chance to catch up with the two sisters via email and chat with them about Hangout, “Nashville,” and the everlovely Connie Britton.

Hangout Oyster Cook-Off and Craft Beer Weekend / Courtesy Photo Oysters, music and craft beer, oh my.

Hangout Oyster Cook-Off and Craft Beer Weekend is a great way to celebrate the bounty that our wonderful region has to offer this time of year.

The Cook-Off consists of a craft beer festival on Friday and a food-centric day on Saturday, with the oyster cook-off, as well as cooking demos by over 70 chefs.

This year’s lineup is loaded with big names, such as food network stars Anne Burrell, Marc Murphy and Alabama’s-own Martie Duncan, as well as James Beard Award winners Alon Shaya and Ryan Prewitt. All chefs will be competing in three oyster categories, and attendees will have a chance to try them all.

In order to taste Shaya and Prewitt’s oyster demos though, you will have to spring for the VIP tickets, but the good news is that along with samples from the renowned James Beard Award chefs, the VIP ticket also comes with plenty of other perks. These include admission to the craft beer festival on Friday, two booklets of tasting tickets to the main demos, access to a private shaded lounge, an invite to the “Chefs Only” party on Saturday night, and the opportunity to meet the chefs themselves. Pensacola’s own celebrity Chef, Jackson’s Irv Miller, will also be demoing (at 11 a.m. on Saturday), as well as presenting his new cookbook “Panhandle to Pan.” While the cook-off starts Saturday, the craft beer festival starts Friday, with brews 818 1

from over 60 brewers. Make sure to check out Hoptub Bath Machine, which is a collaboration between Oskar Blues Brewery and local Alabama brewers Straight to Ale, Good People Brewing Co., Cahaba Brewing and Fairhope Brewing Company. Dale Katechis, the founder of Oskar Blues and the namesake of popular Dale’s Pale Ale, began brewing in his dorm room at Auburn and has a soft spot for local Alabama brewing.

Hoptub Bath Machine, a light citrusy brew with a slight kick, thanks to the addition of green peppercorns, will be released right before Hangout and will have a limited 6-pack availability in select Alabama markets and along the Florida panhandle. On top of the beer, The Black Jacket Symphony will also be performing Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon.”

And don’t worry if you’re looking for something to wash down those oysters with on Saturday. There will be craft beer available at the Cook-Off, as well as bloody marys and mimosas. Our tip? Skip the orange juice and go for straight champagne— oysters and bubbly are a classic match made in heaven.

Worried about bringing your kids to an oyster festival? No need—the cook-off is ultra kid-friendly. There will also be a live performance by hit show “Nashville’s” Lennon and Maisy. Any fan of the show knows that this concert will delight more than the kids, though, so don’t miss the opportunity to see this sister duo live.

INWEEKLY: What is it like being so young in the music industry?

Obviously you both have proven yourself to be incredibly talented and world-class performers, but did you find it tough at first to be taken seriously?

MAISY: Being so young is hard, because we are trying to balance school and friends, but it is still so amazing.

Honestly no one was ever not taking us seriously…I think that is just because we were in the business, too.

LENNON: It’s a fun learning experience, but it gets hard at times. Being surrounded by really awesome people on the show and in the music industry has definitely made it the most positive experience possible. I’ve never found it tough to be taken seriously, because I didn’t really take myself seriously. I was super new to the industry, and it has been a fun learning experience.

LENNON: “Nashville” has definitely given me different perspectives on writing, and all the different writers on “Nashville" has made me aware of how big the songwriting community is. I’ve been writing a lot more and feeling super inspired by the writers on the show.

INWEEKLY: Who are some of your role models?

MAISY: Neon Trees, Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez.

LENNON: John Lennon, my mom and Stevie Nicks.

INWEEKLY: Do you have as much of a girl crush on Connie Britton as we do?

LENNON: I have a bigger one!

MAISY: We love her to death, but it’s kind of creepy to have a crush on your mom!

INWEEKLY: How do you balance both your acting and music careers on top of school?

MAISY: It was more difficult at the beginning when we tried to stay in traditional school, but now it’s much better since we are homeschooled.

LENNON: Yes, it is challenging but definitely keeps things interesting in the Stella home.

INWEEKLY: You guys have done some great covers, but do you have any plans for your own original music? Is there an album in the works?

MAISY: We are writing tons right now and definitely preparing work for an album.

LENNON: Yes, at some point soon we are going to start recording for an album. It is definitely a dream of ours.

“Being surrounded by really awesome people on the show and in the music industry has definitely made it the most positive experience possible.”

Lennon Stella

INWEEKLY: How do you feel like your experience with “Nashville” has helped you evolve as artists?

MAISY: It has helped in so many ways. There are so many songs in the show that we love that are presented as "Lennon & Maisy,” which I think has helped us a lot.

INWEEKLY: Have you ever been to the Gulf Coast before?

MAISY: Yes—once.

LENNON: My best friend is from there.{in}

HANGOUT OYSTER COOK-OFF AND CRAFT BEER WEEKEND

WHEN: Friday, Nov. 6 and Saturday, Nov. 7 WHERE: The Hangout, 101 E. Beach Blvd, Gulf Shores, Ala. COST: $11.24-$42.99 INFO: hangoutcookoff.com inweekly.net

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PENSACOLA INTERSTATE FAIR 4-11 p.m.

There is always something fun and exciting to see at the fair! Head to the fairgrounds to meet farm animals, eat classic fair snacks and try the rides. Pensacola Interstate Fairgrounds, 6655 Mobile Hwy. $6-$12. pensacolafair.com MARKET ON THE BEACH 4 p.m. Check out Pensacola Beach's new farmers market, held every Thursday from 4 p.m. until sunset. Casino Beach parking lot, 735 Pensacola Beach Blvd. facebook.com/MarketontheBeach/info WINE TASTING AT AWM 5 p.m. Try something new every week at Aragon Wine Market’s regular wine tasting, only a few blocks from downtown. Aragon Wine Market, 27 S. 9th Ave. aragonwinemarket.com BALLROOM DANCING 6:30 p.m. Learn how to waltz, hustle and tango at this weekly class, which is followed by a social dance at 8:45 p.m.

DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. $10. dancecraftfl.com A NIGHT AT THE SPEAKEASY 7 p.m. Join the Gulf Coast Citizen Diplomacy Council and its supporters for A Night At The Speakeasy; a benefit party complete with secret password entry and speakeasy-themed surprises. Artel Gallery, 223 S. Palafox. artelgallery.com MARSHALL TUCKER BAND 7 p.m. As a thank you to all who supported the effort to bring back Springfest, a downtown music festival, a concert is being hosted by Quint and Rishy

Studer. Pensacola Blue Wahoos Stadium, 351 W Cedar St. $15. http://bit.ly/1W2UoVc

FRIDAY 10.30

DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. $10. dancecraftfl.com PEACHES: RUB TOUR 7 p.m. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox. $18. vinylmusichall.com CELTIC WOMAN 10th ANNIVERSARY TOUR 7 p.m. Saenger Theatre, 118 S. Palafox. $42-$102. pensacolasaenger.com

PENSACOLA INTERSTATE FAIR 4-11 p.m. There is always something fun and exciting to see at the fair! Head to the fairgrounds to meet farm animals, eat classic fair snacks and try the rides. Pensacola Interstate Fairgrounds, 6655 Mobile Hwy. $6-$12. pensacolafair.com WINE TASTING 5-7 p.m.

Out and about in East Hill on Friday night?

Stop by City Grocery for their free weekly wine tasting before settling in or heading out for the night. City Grocery, 2050 N. 12th Ave. ICE HOCKEY 7:05 It’s opening night! Come out and support Pensacola’s Ice Flyers.

Pensacola Bay Center, 201 E. Gregory St. $15-$29. pensacolabaycenter.com LATIN DANCING 6:30 p.m. Learn the basics Desaparecidos / Photo Courtesy of Epitaph Records of salsa dancing.

SATURDAY 10.31

SANTA ROSA FARMERS MARKET 8 a.m.-1

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Items originate directly from participating vendors, including dozens of local farmers, home gardeners and area artists. Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza, N. Palafox. palafoxmarket.com PENSACOLA INTERSTATE FAIR 4-11 p.m.

There is always something fun and exciting to see at the fair! Head to the fairgrounds to meet farm animals, eat classic fair snacks and try the rides. Pensacola Interstate Fairgrounds, 6655 Mobile Hwy. $6-$12. pensacolafair.com BOZ SCAGGS 7:30 p.m. Saenger Theatre, 118 S. Palafox. $50-$60. pensacolasaenger. com

City Art Center, 1060 N. Guillemard St. firstcityart.org DESAPARECIDOS 7 p.m. With The So So Glos and Bandroidz. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox. $20. vinylmusichall.com

SUNDAY 11.1

TUESDAY NIGHT POETRY NIGHT 7 p.m.

PENSACOLA INTERSTATE FAIR 4-11 p.m.

There is always something fun and exciting to see at the fair! Head to the fairgrounds to meet farm animals, eat classic fair snacks and try the rides. Pensacola Interstate Fairgrounds, 6655 Mobile Hwy. $6-$12. pensacolafair.com ART BEYOND THE WALLS 4-7 p.m. Be a part of this community-involved mural and remembrance wall (inspired by Mexico’s most famous holiday, Day of the Dead.)

Bring a laser print of a loved one to be wheat pasted within a mural painted by local artists. Gonzales Street outside of First

MONDAY 11.2

COUNTRY & WESTERN DANCING 6:30 p.m.

Learn the Country two-step at this weekly class, which is followed by a social dance at 8 p.m. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. $10. dancecraftfl.com LAGWAGON 6:30 p.m. With Riverboat Gamblers, Runaway Kids, Pears, and Broken Gold. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox. $20. vinylmusichall.com

TUESDAY 11.3

Free open mic poetry event every Tuesday.

Sluggo’s Vegetarian Restaurant, 101 S. Jefferson St. facebook.com/TNPN BROOKS 7 p.m. With Post Pluto and Chainsaw Kelly. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox. vinylmusichall.com

WEDNESDAY 11.4

LEFTOVER SALMON 7 p.m. Vinyl Music Hall,

2 S. Palafox. $25. vinylmusichall.com

CARLOS MENCIA LIVE 9 p.m. Seville Quar-

ter, 130 E. Government St.

arts & culture

≥Exhibits

MUCHA: MASTER ARTIST OF ART NOUVEAU On display

from Oct. 23 through Jan. 2. Museum hours and location: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. pensacolamuseum.org MY BEAUTIFUL CITY

In a photo exhibit by area students, as well as students from Pensacola’s sister cities including Gero, Japan; Macharaviaya, Spain, and Miraflores Peru, student photographers discover the beauty in their communities. On display from Oct. 23 through Dec. 4. Museum hours and location: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Artel Gallery, 223 S. Palafox. artelgallery.org

STRINGS AND THINGS

The Strings & Things, Sealing Wax & Other Fancy Stuff is a group of fiber, animal, and mineral artists who have joined together to have a positively good time. On display from Oct. 15 through Nov. 16. Museum hours and location: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday 1-5 p.m. Quayside Art Gallery, 17 E. Zaragossa. quaysidegallery.com

VISIONS: THROUGH PAINTINGS, POETRY, AND PROSE An exhi-

bition by artist Margaret Biggs that celebrates and explores Gulf Coast inspired landscapes, seascapes, still life, and holistic pieces within a stylized manner, which borders between the elements of abstraction and realism. On display from Sept. 25 through

Nov. 14. Museum hours and location: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. pensacolamuseum.org

Classes & Workshops

“MAKE-YOUROWN-GLASS” CLASS

“10a.m.-3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30 and Saturday, Oct. 31. Held weekly on Friday and Saturday, First City Art Center offers weekly “Make-Your-OwnGlass” classes, no previous glassblowing skills necessary. The classes are open to anyone age 8 and older and range in price from $25-$45.

Pre-registration and pre-payment are required and can be made by calling 429-1222. First City Art Center, 1060 N. Guillemard St. firstcityart.org

INTRODUCTION TO POTTERY ON THE WHEEL 6-8:30 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 2. During this weekly workshop held on Monday evenings at First City Art Center, instructor Pearl VanHoove works individually with students to develop consistency in throwing on the wheel. Participants receive an introduction to materials, equipment and throwing techniques.

Each session begins with a brief demonstration followed by hands-on time at the wheel. The class is $40 and open to individuals age 14 and up. Pre-registration and pre-payment are required and can be made by calling 4291222. Class is limited to two participants.

First City Art Center, 1060 N. Guillemard St. firstcityart.org

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Thursdays POKER 8 p.m. The Ticket 1, 7250 Plantation Rd., ticketsportsbar.com POOL TOURNAMENT

8 p.m. The Ticket 2, 2115 W. 9 Mile Rd., ticketsportsbar.com Fridays DRAG BINGO 6-8 p.m. Ages 21 and over. Emerald City’s

The Other Side, 406 E. Wright St. emeraldcitypensacola. com POOL TOURNAMENT 8 p.m. The

Ticket 1, 7250 Plantation Rd., ticketsportsbar.com Mondays

TEXAS HOLD ‘EM FOR FUN AND TRIVIA 7 p.m. The

Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker. com TRIVIA NIGHT 7-9

p.m. World of Beer, 200 S. Palafox. wobusa.com/locations/ Palafox BAR BINGO 8 p.m.

Apple Annie’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com MONDAY NIGHT TRIVIA 9:30-10:30

p.m. Mugs and Jugs, 12080 Scenic Highway. facebook.com/ MugsJugs Tuesdays TUESDAY TRIVIA 8 p.m. The Bridge Bar

and Sunset Lounge, 33 Gulf Breeze Parkway. facebook.com/ thebridgebargb TICKET TEAM TRIVIA

8 p.m. The Ticket 1, 7250 Plantation Rd., ticketsportsbar.com POKER 8 p.m. The Ticket 2, 2115 W. 9 Mile Rd., ticketsportsbar.com TEAM TRIVIA 9 p.m.

Hopjacks. 10 S. Palafox. hopjacks. com Wednesdays PUB TRIVIA NIGHT

7-9:30 p.m. Goat Lips Beer Garden, 2811 Copter Road. facebook.com/ goatlipsdeli

WEDNESDAY QUIZ TRIVIA 8 p.m. The

Cabaret, 101 S. Jefferson St. cabaretpensacola.com

TICKET BAR BINGO

8 p.m. The Ticket 1, 7250 Plantation Rd., ticketsportsbar.com BAR BINGO 10 p.m.

Play, 16 S. Palafox,

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Thursdays Lili Marlene’s at Seville Quarter, 8 p.m.

130 E. Government St. sevillequarter. com The Sandshaker Lounge, 9 p.m. 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker. com Mondays The Cabaret, 9 p.m.

101 S. Jefferson St. 607-2020 or cabaretpensacola.com Tuesdays The Sandshaker Lounge, 8 p.m. 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker. com Play, 9 p.m. 16 S. Palafox, Suite 200. iplaypensacola.com

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THURSDAY 10.29

LUCAS CRUTCH-

FIELD 6 p.m.

The Deck, 600 S. Barracks St. fishhousepensacola. com JORDAN RICHARDS 7 p.m. Hub Stacey’s Downtown, 312 E. Government St. hubstaceys.com MIKE QUINN 9 p.m. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St.

FRIDAY 10.30

30 X 90 6 p.m. Paradise Bar and Grille, 21 Via De Luna Dr. paradise-bar.com BAD HABITS 9 p.m. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. THE BLENDERS 8:30 p.m. Hub Stacey’s Downtown, 312 E. Government St. hubstaceys.com BUZZCUT 9 p.m.

The Deck, 600 S. Barracks St. fishhousepensacola.com

SATURDAY 10.31

30 X 90 6 p.m.

Paradise Bar and Grille, 21 Via De Luna Dr. paradisebar.com ULTRAVIOLET 9 p.m. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. BUZZCUT 9 p.m.

The Deck, 600 S. Barracks St. fishhousepensacola. com

SUNDAY 11.1

GABE STEEVES 9 p.m. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St.

MONDAY 11.2

PAPER STREET SOAP CO. 8 p.m. Seville Quar-

ter, 130 E. Government St.

TUESDAY 11.3

LUCAS CRUTCHFIELD 6 p.m.

The Deck, 600 S. Barracks St. fishhousepensacola. com MIKE QUINN 9 p.m. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St.

WEDNESDAY 11.4

DAMIEN LOUVIERE 7:30 p.m. Hub Stacey’s Downtown, 312 E. Government St. hubstaceys.com LUCAS CRUTCHFIELD 9 p.m.

The Deck, 600 S. Barracks St. fishhousepensacola. com

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news of the weird IS IT REALLY A "PROBLEM" IF 99 PERCENT WISH THEY HAD IT? Among those struggling with psychological issues in modern America are the rich "one-percenters" (especially the mega-rich "one-percent of one-percenters"), according to counselors specializing in assuaging guilt and moderating class hatred. London's The Guardian, reporting from New York, found three such counselors, including two who barely stopped short of comparing the plight of the rich-rich with the struggles of "people of color" or out-of-closet gays. Sample worries: isolation (so few rich-rich); stress, caused by political hubbub over "inequality"; and insecurity (is my "friend" really just a friend of my money?).

CAN'T POSSIBLY BE TRUE Stories surface regularly about a hospital patient declared dead but who then revives briefly before once again dying. However, Tammy Cleveland's recent lawsuit against doctors and DeGraff Memorial Hospital near Buffalo, New York, reveals an incident more startling. She alleges that her late husband Michael displayed multiple signs of life (breathing, eyes open, legs kicking, attempted hugs, struggles against the tube in his throat) for nearly two hours, but with two doctors all the while assuring her that he was gone. (The coroner came and went twice, concluding that calling him had been premature.) The lawsuit alleges that only upon the fourth examination did the doctor exclaim, "My God, he has a pulse!" Michael Cleveland died shortly after that­—of a punctured lung from CPR following his initial heart attack—an injury for which he could have been treated.

PEOPLE DIFFERENT FROM US It would be exhaustive to chronicle the many ways that the woman born Carolyn Clay, 82, of Chattooga County, Georgia, is different from us. For starters, she was once arrested for stripping nude to protest a quixotic issue before the city council in Rome, Georgia; for another, her driver's license identifies her as Ms. Serpentfoot Serpentfoot. In October, she filed to change that name—to one with 69 words, 68 hyphens, an ellipsis and the infinity sign. One judge has already turned her down on the ground that she cannot recite the name (though she promised to shorten it on legal papers to "Nofoot Allfoot Serpentfoot").

JUSTICE SERVED Hinton Sheryn, 68, on trial at England's Plymouth Crown Court in September, denied he was the "indecent exposer" charged with 18 incidents against children dating back to 1973—that he would never do such a thing because he would not want anyone to see his unusually small penis. In response, the prosecutor brought in a prostitute known to have serviced Sheryn, to testify that his penis is of normal size. Sheryn was convicted and sentenced to 17 years in prison.

BRIGHT IDEAS In September, village officials in Uzbekistan's town of Shahartepeppa, alarmed that Prime Minister Shavkat Mirzi-

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yoyev would drive through and notice barren fields (since the cotton crop had already been harvested), ordered about 500 people into the fields to attach cotton capsules onto the front-row stalks to impress Mirziyoyev with the village's prosperity.

LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS Jorge Vasconcelos, 25, was traffic-stopped in El Reno, Oklahoma, in October because he was reportedly weaving on the road, but deputies detected no impairment except possibly for a lack of sleep. Then, "out of nowhere," according to a KFOR-TV report, Vasconcelos, instead of quietly driving off, insisted that he was doing nothing wrong and that deputies could check his truck if they thought otherwise. They did— and found an elaborately rigged metal box in the engine, containing 17 pounds of heroin, worth over $3 million. He was charged with aggravated trafficking.

POLICE REPORT A Jacksonville, Florida, sheriff's SWAT team surrounded a mobile home on Oct. 14 to arrest Ryan Bautista, 34, and Leanne Hunn, 30, on armed burglary and other charges, but since two other women were being held inside, officers remained in a stand-off. Hunn subsequently announced by phone that the couple would surrender—after having sex one final time. Deputies entered the home around 4 a.m. on the 15th and made the post-coital arrest without incident.

A NEWS OF THE WEIRD CLASSIC (JULY 2010) In the midst of (2010) World Cup fever, readers might have missed Germany's win over host Barbados in June for the Woz Challenge Cup, following an eight-team polo tournament with players not on horses, but Segways. The sport is said to have been created by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, whose nerdpopulated Silicon Valley Aftershocks competed again (in 2010) in Barbados (but last won the Cup in 2007). Wozniak lamented that his own polo skills are fading, but the San Jose Mercury News reported that Woz's fearlessness on the Segway seems hardly diminished.

UNDIGNIFIED DEATHS (1) The naked bodies of a man and a woman, both aged 30, were found in August 40 feet beneath a balcony—in the moat surrounding the Vauban Fort castle on an island in the English Channel. Police speculated that the couple had fallen during exciting sex "gone wrong." (2) A woman was killed in an accidental head-on collision in Houston on June 18 as she was racing after another car. She was angrily chasing her estranged husband, who was with another woman, but neither of those two was hurt.

(The driver of the crashed-into SUV was severely injured.) {in}

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A C E L E B R AT I O N O F D I F F E R E N C E M A K E R S I N P E N S ACO L A Pensacola has been blessed with families who have helped to mold our community, generation after generation. This series of stories celebrates the 1st generation to come to Pensacola and the legacy of contributions they started. Here’s a look back at the 1st generation of difference makers.

John H. & Mary Alice Sherrill FAMILY THE

Pensacola’s YMCA and John H. Sherrill both came on the scene in 1903, combining parallel careers that truly have made a community difference. John was born to Frontiss and Sarah Sherrill in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1874. His family’s deep religious roots had a profound impact on his education. Sherrill graduated in 1899 from the International YMCA Training School, now known as Springfield College, in Massachusetts.

John H. Sherrill

Leadership Begins with Y Sherrill began his work with the YMCA as a general secretary in Petersburg, Virginia, and established a good reputation, thus when Pensacola’s program was established and its building erected, Sherrill was a logical choice as initial YMCA director. He remained in that role for over a decade. Opened in 1906, the Pensacola YMCA included a gymnasium, bowling alley, café and billiard room.

Through YMCA committees, Sherrill became an education advocate, establishing a business college within the Y and helping to form the beginnings of the PTA. He was a school board member from 1913 to 1917. Using the Y’s sports image, he worked with city officials to transform idle parks into playgrounds. In 1913, his quest for a better government made him a leader in producing a new city charter for a commission form of government. With Mayor Adolph Greenhut, he established the Association of Charities, a concept which preceded the Community Chest.

John married Mary Alice Hall and had nine children, five of whom survived: Frontis, Margaret, Alan, Mary Alice “Polly” and John Jr. With a growing family, he turned to commerce. First he became an agent for Bingham Transfer Company, and then was made a representative of the Texas Company. From that beginning came a relationship with Pure Oil Company. From the late 1910s forward, Sherrill Oil Company helped bring modern motoring to Northwest Florida and South Alabama. Sherrill’s service stations became models of aid and comfort.

The Sherrill Family

Along with other family members, John became involved in scientific agriculture, and the Sherrill family were among the area’s first environmental protection advocates. Throughout his life, John Sherrill remained active in many forms of public service, including a 1921 stint as Rotary Club president.

John and Mary Sherrill chose to make Pensacola their home, the Continuing Because generations that followed continue to live and work in the community making the Legacy a difference in many ways. We all benefit from these family members who choose Pensacola to live and grow their legacy.

Saluting 1st Generation Difference Makers: If you have a suggestion for a family to feature, email Quint@studergroup.com.

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Independent News | October 29, 2015 | inweekly.net

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