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SONJA GRIFFINS WOOD Having recently celebrated its fourth anniversary, Pensacola’s Gumbo Gallery was awarded the Flame Keepers Award for Art Galleries at the 2013 African Diaspora World Tourism Awards.

Gallery owner and artist Sonja Griffins Evans received the award, presented in Atlanta, which recognizes institutions displaying art depicting black culture and heritage that have contributed to tourism development through increased traffic. Gumbo Gallery was recognized along with the IFAN Museum of Arts in Senegal, Africa.

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KELSEY WOOD The Escambia County Public Schools Foundation has announced that the Bob Tuttle Scholarship at Escambia High School was awarded to Kelsey Wood. She graduated ranked 4 out of 306 seniors, with a weighted GPA of 4.5. She has been a member of the Beta Club for the last three years, the Latin Club for three years, and she is currently president of the National Honor Society. Wood has been accepted to Florida State University and will major in Biomedical Engineering.

The Bob Tuttle Scholarship was established in 1968 by Rear Admiral and Mrs. Magruder H. Tuttle, in memory of their son, 2nd Lt. Bob Tuttle, USMC, a 1963 graduate of Escambia High School, who was killed in action in Vietnam in May 1968.

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The utility missed its calculation on the amount of waste that spilled on June 6 into Bayou Grande by about 37,000 gallons, having to eventually adjust their figures from 35,000 to 72,000 gallons. Emerald Coastkeeper Sava Varazo pegged the number at about 100,000 gallons. ECUA is under a consent order to repair its aging infrastructure, but denied that was the cause of the latest spills. Instead ECUA spokesman blamed the two spills of untreated effluent on “fractured and splintered” PVC pipes. PVC? We are in trouble.

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date to become the interim administrator for the Greater Pensacola Chamber has a $270,857 problem. BOHAN, Visit Pensacola’s ad agency that is based in Nashville, Tenn., billed the chamber that amount for a 30-second tourism ad. Local producers say they could have done it for much less. Scruggs guided the process that hired BOHAN. Though the decision to hire the Nashville firm was made by a subcommittee of the Tourism Administration and Convention Committee, Scruggs was the interim vice president of tourism at the time. The chamber may have to come up with a plan B for its transition to a new president.

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The anniversary of D-Day, June 6, passed with little notice. On that day over 160,000 troops stormed the shores of Normandy, France in an effort to push back the Nazis and gain a foothold.

Most of us have seen the movie “Saving Private Ryan� which opens with American soldiers on the beaches.

I’ve interviewed veterans who were there that have attested the film’s accuracy. Some couldn’t sit through the opening scenes. Too many memories.

Today that area on the French coast has several vast cemeteries. The American cemetery, in Colleville-sur-Mer, contains rows of identical white crosses and Stars of David commemorating the 9,387 American dead.

The American general who ordered the invasion was Dwight Eisenhower, who would later be elected our 34th president. The military offensive was a huge gamble against a foe that had an aura of invincibility.

On the eve of the invasion, Eisenhower prepared for the worst. He drafted a statement to release if D-Day failed and he was forced to withdraw the troops: "Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information

available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that Bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone."

Fortunately, he never had to give that speech. The Normandy invasion was the turning point of World War II. However, the hand-written statement is preserved in the National Archives.

What stands out to me is Eisenhower’s willingness to take full responsibility for the failure. He didn’t point the finger at his commanders or the soldiers. He didn’t blame the weather or rough seas. “If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone.�

That is leadership. Eisenhower was willing to take a huge risk to win the war.

The cost of human life would be great.

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Natalie Shearlock, director of community The AmeriSponsored by the Pensacola Association engagement at the Pensacola Habitat for Corps crews of Realtors, the event marked the beginning Humanity said that in the NRI, “We’re trying poured over 23 of the Pensacola Habitat’s Neighborhood Reto work in defined communities, so that when yards of concrete vitalization Initiative (NRI) in which Habitat we’re done with the work we’re doing there is during sidewalk works with residents and local partners, rea group there to keep it up, keep it going.” repairs, cleared ceiving community input as to what neighbor70 vacant lots, hood residents would like to see improved. cleaned rightNRI has been a formal initiative of HFHI of-ways on 20 for four years, but as Evans explained, neighApproximately 20 local HFHI volunstreets, rehabbed borhood revitalization goes to the heart of teers and neighborhood residents joined four homes, and HFHI’s founding principles. the AmeriCorps mempainted street ad“Thirty years ago, bers on the ground dresses on curbs that’s where most affor a total of over 100 in the project area. filiates began, because people working on the They assisted they couldn’t afford [to various Build-a-Thon the Friends of St. build] a new house,” projects.

John’s Cemetery said Evans. “So you go AmeriCorps is a Foundation with into a neighborhood national community painting the cemand clean up, build service organization etery’s gatehouse an accessibility ramp, that places recent and began the re-roof someone’s Directory: G u l f B r e ecollege z e , graduates FL with THIS COPYenormous IS MEANT FUTURE CHANGES ONLY. task FOR home, because that’s partner organizations, Heading: AT3900 Ad Size: D of photographing the resources have.

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“We got a lot of work done, but there’s still hold its first elections later this month.

“The Build-a-Thon is near the end a lot to go—this was a great kick start to get Dianne Robinson has been working with of a service term, which typically starts things moving.” the Westside Garden District Neighborhood in August or September each year, so it Association preparing for the Build-a-Thon.

Classified Heading: Attorneys - Guide - Criminal Law CO-OP: Yes N is one of the culminating events of their Robinson, who was born and raised on the service,” Graham Green, Operations Senior corner of B and LaRua streets, returned to Specialist for HFHI explained. “It’s really Pensacola nine months ago having lived elsean opportunity to help the affiliate—in this Pensacola was one of five U.S. locawhere for 47 years. case the Pensacola Habitat for Humanity— tions selected for an AmeriCorps-Habitat “I came back and saw that the neighboraccelerate their goals.” for Humanity Build-a-Thon in 2013, the hood needed a revitalization,” said Robinson, Rico Ducatel, 26, has been serving as third year in a row for the Pensacola HFHI who lived in and served as a city councilan AmeriCorps VISTA –Volunteer in Seraffiliate. Unlike previous Build-a-Thons, woman in Bremerton, Wash. Now retired, vice to America—with the HFHI affiliate in the 2013 event did not focus on new home Robinson says community work “…is normal to his native Collier County for the past nine construction, but instead aimed at a numme, this is something I love doing, and I want months. Ducatel worked clearing vacant ber of community improvement projects. to bring the neighborhood back up.” lots during the Pensacola Build-a-Thon.

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From June 3-7, over 80 AmeriCorps members serving in Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) affiliates across the country came to Pensacola to perform a variety of tasks in the Westside Garden District Neighborhood.

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As a VISTA, Ducatel works with the Success Measures program in Collier County, analyzing the impact of HFHI’s work there. In his service year, Ducatel has seen, “By cleaning up a community, it gives more pride to the residents; it also decreases crime in the areas we clean up.”

Though he initially planned to pursue a Master’s in Business Administration and a corporate career, Ducatel said the work he’s done with AmeriCorps has him aiming for a Master’s in Public Administration for Nonprofit Organizations. “Working with Habitat I saw that the nonprofit sector is doing more good in the lives of people, giving back to the world.”

Inspiration through HFHI is of the utmost importance to Clive Rainey, Habitat for Humanity’s very first volunteer. Rainey has been working with the organization since 1977 and retired after 33 years as an HFHI staff member, but now works with a Habitat group in Guatemala, where he lives.

Rainey worked during the Pensacola Build-a-Thon and delivered the final speech at the event’s closing ceremony, encouraging the AmeriCorps members to continue serving their communities beyond their service year.

“The most powerful thing for me now is looking the next generation in the eye, because I’m 67,” said Rainey. With the continued addition of young volunteers, Rainey said when it is eventually time to stop working he will be fulfilled. “I will know that Habitat continues—because we’re not done yet.” {in}

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NO MORE NOOSES Dr. Judy Bense, the

president of University of West Florida, wants to make sure the racially charged incidents like those that happened in April 2012 are never repeated.

Last year, two nooses were found on campus. One was behind Martin Hall in a parking lot hung from a tree about three feet off the ground. The second noose was near the campus tennis courts draped over a sign featuring a campus map.

Dr. Bense committed to area leaders and UWF students to attack the issue head on, pledging to have a more diverse university that fosters acceptance and respect. On June 6, she unveiled plans to hire a chief diversity officer this summer, who will use the results of a recent campus climate survey and a diversity audit of existing programs, events and staffing to develop a diversity and inclusion strategic plan.

The university has also created the UWF Presidential Policy Council on Diversity and Inclusion, which is composed of 26 members from university departments, student organizations, governing bodies and community agencies. A new website has been established at uwf.edu/respect.

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DOES ANYBODY WORK HERE? The Mayoki Indians are laughing about their surprise visit to the seventh floor of Pensacola City Hall, the domain of Mayor Ashton Hayward and his crew.

The fictitious tribe that was formed over 40 years ago to enhance the City of Pensacola's annual Fiesta of Five Flags visits several local businesses during Fiesta week. When they arrived at city hall during the middle of the week, no one was on the seventh floor, except the city administrator and a few secretaries. Col. Bill Reynolds scrambled to gather employees from the other floors to make a decent showing.

WHO PICKED THESE BOZOS? Hotel owners are upset about the 30-second spot produced by Visit Pensacola’s new out-oftown ad agency, BOHAN Advertising (see “Winners & Losers”). Julian MacQueen, Innisfree Hotels founder & CEO, has been calling Escambia County commissioners asking them to consider taking the bed tax dollars away from the Greater Pensacola Chamber.

The subcommittee of the Tourism Administration and Convention Committee (TACC) that selected the Nashville, Tenn. firm included Harlan Butler, Innisfree Hotels president, and

the sales director for his Hilton Gulf Front Hotel on Pensacola Beach, Tom Rasinen.

The other members were Jehan Clark, Maria Goldberg, Maureen LaMar, Jatin Bhakta, Alison Davenport, Kim Kimbrough, George Hawthorne and Lorraine Christen.

BOHAN scored highest for advertising and public relations of the firms answering the Request for Proposals and was approved unanimously by the subcommittee.

PADDING THE SCHOOL BUDGET The Escambia County School Board held on June 6 a workshop to discuss the preliminary budget for 2012-13. The board had plenty of questions, but few answers.

Superintendent of Schools Malcolm Thomas didn’t include projected federal revenues and other potential changes or cuts.

He offered simply a look at what had been requested for these two areas and any issues that jumped out when looking at YTD spending.

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Some times we all just need a break, a bit of care and understanding; especially coming out of the long recession. Good Works primary mission is to provide the resources necessary, free of charge, to home owners and renters who wish to maintain their properties, but neither have nor can afford the equipment necessary. Items such as weed eaters, lawn mowers, rakes and other property maintenance tools and supplies. For those with physical challenges, we also form volunteer groups made up of our partners, such as PYP, Pathways for Change and other kind neighbors, who will assist in property clean up efforts.

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Keeping Pensacola at the top of its game Congratulations 2013 Game Changers Here’s to Game Changers like Steve Williams — stepping forward to make the Greater Pensacola area a great place to live, work and play. We join you in your efforts to make our community better — for all of us.

When I was in college and listening to public radio I couldn’t afford a membership but I knew that it was important to contribute. My roommate and I pooled our money to donate at the membership level together. Now that I’m out and working, I make it a priority to give back to an organization that gives so much to me. I leverage my membership by volunteering my time to answer phones during the pledge drive and encouraging other listeners to become members, too. It’s a great feeling — you will never regret it!

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Each year, the IN compiles a list of people in our community whose efforts improve various aspects of local life in meaningful ways—individuals we consider Game Changers. Many game changers have worked consistently behind the scenes and have come to the IN’s attention through the stories we cover; others are so large and visible (think: Pensacola Ice Flyers) that everyone in town knows their name.

Regardless of their lines of work, Game Changers are among the most innovative and dedicated of Pensacolians. From coaches and politicians, to businesspeople and farmers, these Game Changers strive to make Pensacola the best it can be for everyone through their respective endeavors.

Here’s our list of people who are working to make Pensacola better—the 2013 Game Changers.

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Justin Beck

President, Beck Property Company

The president of Beck Property Company, LLC, was looking to move his family’s real estate operations to downtown Pensacola. He started eyeing parcel one at the Community Maritime Park—arguably one of the most cherry plots of land in town.

To be sure, Beck was warned.

Friends and associates advised against the park property. They had watched the YMCA-meltdown and feared the realtor would suffer the same fate.

Such warnings only served to whet Beck’s appetite.

“Made me want to go after it,” he explained, “see if we could make something happen.”

Properties at the Community Maritime Park are a perilous prize. In order to secure one of the park parcels—clustered around the Blue Wahoos stadium and meant to collectively serve as a sort of centerpiece for downtown Pensacola—prospective projects must traverse a treacherous path lined with bureaucratic booby traps and plenty of opportunities for public floggings.

The YMCA had hoped to land a new, state-of-the-art facility on one of the

park’s waterfront parcels. After getting snared in the process—languishing in the crossfire of the Community Maritime Park Associates, the Pensacola City Council and Mayor Ashton Hayward’s administra-

Beck tends to view his success as part of a bigger movement. He feels that Pensacola as a whole is in the process—perhaps at the climax—of its renaissance.

“I think we are taking off,” Beck said.

“I think you’ll look back in five years and say, ‘Wow, 2012, 2013, that’s when we really started to kick it into high gear.”

The area is certainly much different than it was when Beck returned home to join the family business after Hurricane Ivan. That revitalization—much of it centered in downtown—is in some part due to the drive of the younger generation.

Beck likes to think it’s also due to his generation’s attitude and outlook. He believes his contemporaries are shedding the us-versus-them, I-win-you-lose mentality.

“We’re much more collaborative then we’ve seen in the past,” Beck explained.

Such a collaborative spirit will be useful as his generation searches for solutions amidst a field of problems. For example, is the city’s stock of vacant properties a problem or opportunity?

“These are good problems to have,” Beck explained.

“We’re much more collaborative then we’ve seen in the past.”

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his spring, Justin Beck slipped into the hot seat. Maybe the hottest seat in town. The seat that had weeks earlier collapsed under the weight of the YMCA.

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tion—the Y reluctantly walked away.

Into this landscape stepped Beck. And with surprisingly little drama, it appears the property company will most likely be claiming parcel one. There are plans to construct an 18,000-square foot, threefloor development; the project will be mixed-use, encompassing retail on the first floor, office space for Beck’s company on the second floor, and residential units on the top floor.

Beck’s success at the park has garnered the 31-year-old father of three a good bit of attention lately. He is getting a reputation as the tip of his generation’s spear.

Fundraiser, PACE Center and Autism Pensacola

trustees president for the Escambia-Santa Rosa center.

Part of a statewide network, the PACE center strives to provide girls with an opportunity for a better future through education, counseling, training and advocacy.

PACE is recognized as among the most effective models for keeping teenage girls out of the juvenile justice system.

“There’s so many ways that bad things can happen to girls,” Doyle explained why she felt the need to serve at the center.

One the most effective ways she serves is through fundraising. The Men Who Cook event afforded the local PACE center a new kitchen.

Doyle’s fundraising efforts are not limited to the PACE Center. Another local organization that benefits from her service is Autism Pensacola.

Doyle became involved with the group after she and her husband—Pensacola News Journal Publisher Kevin Doyle—re-

alized that area children diagnosed with autism were not receiving the same level of care as their granddaughter.

“We have a granddaughter in California that has autism,” Doyle explained. “She got a lot of care that kids here weren’t getting.

We didn’t think that was right.”

After moving to town in 2006, the Doyles became involved with Autism Pensacola. The couple was instrumental in seeing the organization become incorporated and receiving non-profit status, and also assembling a board of local community leaders to guide the group’s efforts.

“I think putting together a board with community leaders was very, very, very important,” Doyle said. “They weren’t just people that wanted another notch.”

Doyle has also played a large role in Autism Pensacola’s fundraising efforts.

Beginning in 2007, she helped grow the

“The summer camp has provided services that kids had never had before.”

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his spring, Jenny Doyle was able to get about 50 men to participate in a cooking fundraiser.

Dubbed Men Who Cook, the event raised $35,000 for the PACE Center for Girls.

The PACE Center is an organization near to Doyle’s heart. She is the board of 010 1

organization’s annual fundraising gala, Connecting the Pieces, which funds the highly-praised Kids for Camp program.

“It’s been very, very successful,” Doyle said of the group’s fundraising effort. “And the summer camp has provided services that kids had never had before.”

At this year’s Connecting the Pieces gala, the Doyles were honored with the Autism Community Spirit Award. In accepting the award, Kevin informed the gala’s attendees that this would be the fifth and final year the couple would be leading Autism Pensacola’s fundraising efforts; he heralded the $850,000 that the community had donated during that time.

Jenny then took to the microphone for a tearful address. She explained why the couple was so committed to local autism efforts and thanked everyone for their charitable giving.

“I’m a crier, so please forgive me,” Doyle said after accepting the Community Spirit Award. “This is in honor of our granddaughter, Bella—she doesn’t even live here, she lives in California—she is the love of our life and this is in honor of her and this is the most fulfilling thing I’ve ever done in my whole life.” inweekly.net

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Mark Faulkner

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here are some big things afoot at Baptist Hospital. President and CEO Mark Faulkner isn’t revealing anything yet, other than to say there are “two really, really good things” brewing on the horizon.

“Just say Baptist Hospital is looking forward to some major unveilings in the coming days,” he said.

Faulkner’s clearly excited about the hospital’s news. But it will have to wait.

There are other matters to discuss—like the region’s bleak health outlook.

Northwest Florida is not a healthy place. Repeated studies have concluded such. Escambia and Santa Rosa counties have increased rates of diabetes and asthma, a big problem with sexually transmitted diseases, a high rate of Alzheimer’s disease, breast cancer and more.

As head of one of the area’s major health care facilities, Mark Faulkner is one of the people working toward changing these dismal statistics.

“I think it’s our responsibility,” he said.

Recently, Faulkner attended the Community Health Summit. It was a chance for area stakeholders—members of the health care, business and governmental communities—to get together and forge a path out of the woods.

The Baptist chief walked away from the summit hopeful, calling it a “good launching point.”

“I think the pieces already exist,” he

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obert Hill came to town on a mission.

“Informing and empowering the community,” he explained. “We saw a need to educate and empower the community.”

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President, Baptist Health Care

said. “The boxes are there, but the arrows directing us are not.”

In addition to being a key player in the regional health care scene, Faulkner also oversees one of the area’s major employers. On that end, the president plans to continue fostering a culture that encour-

“We keep our true North about ourselves, that’s why we exist,” he said. “We talk about our values, we talk about our vision. It’s constantly in front of us. It’s not just something that hangs on the wall.”

Faulkner is a long time member of the community he now serves. He grew up in Milton, graduated from the University of Alabama and has worked for Baptist since the early 1990s.

“My entire career has been at Baptist,” Faulkner said.

Faulkner landed his position as the head of the hospital a year ago. He has held various positions within the hospital administration and was awarded the 2002 Young Healthcare Executive of the Year by the American College Healthcare Executives.

The president said that, as head of Baptist Health Care, he feels a greater sense of responsibility to the community he serves. His community. He described his promotion as “a humbling experience.”

“I’ve never felt more accountable,” Faulkner said. “My accountability isn’t to a boss, but to a community.”

“My accountability isn’t to a boss, but to a community.”

Mark Faulkner ages community involvement.

He wants his employees to plug-in, become engaged. Maybe coach a T-ball team. Faulkner serves on local committees and teaches Sunday School.

“We’re of this community and for this community,” he explained. “And that’s what our mission is all about, we want to improve the community.”

The president said that the concept of giving back to the community is something the health care corporation places a great emphasis on.

Broadcaster, WRNE 980 AM

More specifically, Hill came to town to put WRNE 980 AM back on the air. That was in 1990. He only planned to stay six months before returning to Alabama.

“It’s been good,” he said, looking back on his time in Pensacola.

“There’s just an unbelievable connection that you can establish with the community.”

Over the last couple of decades, Hill has established such a connection.

Through WRNE, he has helped inform, entertain and foster a community.

The AM station caters primarily to the area’s minority community. It serves up news, along with a format centering on R&B oldies and urban contemporary music.

The radio station also serves to bring issues important to the community front and center. In addition to politics, the station focuses on health and education issues. WRNE has also conducted voterregistration drives and coordinated with local AIDS organizations to raise awareness about the area’s STD problem.

And over the years, Hill has seen his new hometown change—for the better.

“There’s been a transition,” he said.

“Years ago you saw a lot of things that needed to be done, now things are happening and you want to be a part of it.”

individuals who want to make a difference in the school system.”

In a few years, another opportunity for someone to impact their community will open up. Hill—who describes himself as a “workaholic”—is planning on taking leave of his post at WRNE. “For 40-something years I have dedicated my life to radio. I love it. I love every minute. I love every day. I love this minute that I’m living right now,” Hill said, before laying out his plans for retirement. “I want to spend whatever time I have left reading and watching western movies.”

And while there are certainly footsteps to follow, whoever eventually takes over the lead at WRNE will need to forge their own path. Hill shaped and molded the radio station during his years in Pensacola, and he understands that it will soon evolve again.

“I consider my mission finished,” the broadcaster said. “It’s up to that person to do whatever they want to do.”

Hill, meanwhile, will be enjoying his time off-air.

“I love to wake up and open a book and not have to go to a meeting,” he laughed.

“I love every minute. I love every day. I love this minute that I’m living right now.”

Robert Hill One positive change the broadcaster has noticed is the increasing number of young black leaders—he mentions Lumon May and Lonnie Wesley—that have emerged in the area.

“Ten, 20 years ago there were very few of these political leaders there,” Hill said.

“But they’re showing up right now.”

When asked how today’s youth might best contribute to their community, Hill pointed toward the education system.

“If they want to impact their community, get involved with any public school system,” he said. “There’s a great need for

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Pensacola Ice Flyers

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he Pensacola Ice Flyers had a good season. A really good season.

“The highlight would be winning the championship in front of 4,700 people in Pensacola,” said team owner Greg Harris. “It would have been great to win it anywhere, but it was great to do it at home.”

The Flyers clinched the franchise’s first Southern Professional Hockey League championship in April with a 2-0 victory against the Huntsville Havoc at their home rink inside the Pensacola Bay Center.

“Without being too cliché, it was a lot of hard work,” said Harris. “We had a team that didn’t give up, that could come from behind if they wanted to.”

Harris came on board following a 2011-2012 season that saw the Flyers make the playoffs. He joined owner, and former Philadelphia Flyers standout Tim Kerr and new head coach Gary Graham.

“Even though we made the finals we were in the middle of the pack during the regular season,” Harris said last fall. “This season we want to be in the front of the pack all year long. We’re going to be a high-paced, highscoring, hard-hitting team this year. It’s going to be a completely different style of game from what our fans have seen in the past.”

The Flyers slugged their way through this season and ended up with the President’s Cup.

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MPACT 100 is enjoying its 10th year.

Holly Jurnovoy, the non-profit’s current president, has been enjoying IMPACT for much of that run.

“It gives me the opportunity to work with some brilliant, bright women,” she explained. “Just brilliant women.”

The women of IMPACT aren’t just “brilliant.” They’re also charitable.

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Hometown hockey heroes who brought home the 2013 President’s Cup

“On the ice, we had a lot of one-goal games,” Harris said, “but we came out on top of those.”

The owner said he was proud that the Ice Flyers were able to provide Pensacola with a championship—“I think people take pride in winning a championship”—and offered a nod to the fans that cheered them through the season.

“They’re extremely loyal and dedicated, that’s for sure,” Harris said.

The Ice Flyers have developed a relationship with their fans since hitting the rink in 2009. Some have enjoyed Pensacola hockey since the 1990s, as the Flyers follow in the footsteps of the Ice Pilots.

Harris said the team enjoys a reciprocal relationship with the community. Players and staff are encouraged to engage themselves off the rink.

“We are all about community,” Harris

said. “We have our guys out visiting the schools, visiting the hospitals.”

At the onset of this past season, Harris announced that the team would be raising money for the Gulf Coast Kid’s House, among other charities. In addition, the Flyers’ opening home weekend would function as a food drive for Manna Food Bank.

“It’s great to support national charities, but we want to be sure that this year money that is raised in Pensacola stays in Pensacola,” he said at the time.

Harris said the Ice Flyers organization would continue to cultivate the relationship with the local community, as well as “increasing the fan experience.” Also, they’re shooting for another championship.

“We’re working hard again to come up with that right mix of individuals and players to wear an Ice Flyers jersey and hopefully have a repeat championship.”

“We are all about community. We have our guys out visiting the schools, visiting the hospitals.”

Greg Harris

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$1,000 annually. That money is then put toward several grants to area non-profits.

“We’ve funded big organizations, we’ve funded small organizations that people would have probably never heard of if they hadn’t been in IMPACT,” said Vice President Cyndi Warren.

Over the past 10 years, the organization has awarded over $5 million in grants throughout Escambia and Santa Rosa counties. This year IMPACT has 836 members, which equates to $836,000 in grants being

distributed in the community; grants are awarded in increments of at least $100,000.

The group focuses on various aspects of the community. It considers non-profits geared toward the arts and culture, education, environment and preservation, families and health. Non-profits may apply for the funds, and grants are announced each year in the fall.

One thing that IMPACT members look for when deciding which groups will be getting grants is sustainability.

“We have to be convinced that this is going to be an ongoing thing,” Warren said. “How is it going to support itself?”

Early on, IMPACT awarded a grant to help build a “ReStore,” which allows new and used building materials, appliances and household goods—all donated from businesses and individuals—to be sold with the proceeds benefiting Habitat for Humanity.

Thus far, the program has diverted more than 1,800 tons from the landfill.

Last year, an IMPACT grant allowed Milk and Honey Outreach Ministries to purchase two mini-buses. The buses support that non-profit’s efforts to provide early intervention programs for at-risk children. Also in 2012, the Escambia

Search and Rescue was awarded a grant that funded the purchase of technologically advanced equipment needed for recovery efforts.

ARC Gateway, an organization serving individuals with developmental disabilities, has benefited several times from IMPACT grants. In 2005, the non-profit received a grant that was used to further ARC’s employment-training efforts.

In 2008, another grant allowed ARC to create a shredding program that generates revenues and employees more than 40 adults. In 2011, IMPACT awarded ARC a grant that enabled the organization to improve its operations via technology.

“We help them do things they could never do on their own,” Warren said.

IMPACT 100 does not have any paid staff. That ensures that 100 percent of its members’ contributions go toward the grants.

In addition to the non-profits that benefit from IMPACT’s grants, Warren feels that members of the charitable organization also benefit from their involvement.

“Especially in these economic times, I think people get a great deal of satisfaction in giving,” Warren said. inweekly.net

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Buck Lee

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uck Lee is a permanent fixture in these parts. He has always been here and, presumably, will always be here—soaking up salt and sun underneath the brim of his hat.

“Only time I’ve lived north of I-10 is

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when I was in college or in the army,” Lee said. “I love this area down here.”

Lee has served this area in various capacities. In the early 1990s, he sat on the Escambia County Commission. More recently, he held a seat on the Santa Rosa County Commission.

For the past eight years, Lee has become the public face of Pensacola Beach through his position as executive director of the Santa Rosa Island Authority.

He took the job as the area struggled to recover from Hurricane Ivan.

“About six weeks later Dennis hit,” Lee recalled.

It was an appropriate way to begin, as the director has since repeatedly ushered the beach through one kind of hit or another. If not a hurricane, then the economy. If not the economy, an oil spill.

“It was a complete headache trying to get our beaches back to normal,” Lee said.

The oil spill was a new kind of monster. Instead of holding tight through the high winds and water of a hurricane, the beach suffered a long, hot summer of uncertainty.

The spill sent oil washing up on beaches across the Gulf Coast, with Pen-

sacola Beach on Florida’s front lines. Lee watched as BP contractors and the U.S. Coast Guard scrambled to respond. It was bad for the environment and bad for the beach’s economy.

“I think it’s terrible—you know, last month we removed over 400 pounds of a tarmat,” Lee grumbled. “And now they say, ‘Okay, the beach is clean, let’s go.’ Well, it’s not.”

The SRIA director said the move from BP should not have been totally unexpected.

“I’ve heard all the horror stories from the Exxon Valdez in Alaska,” Lee said. “It’s the first thing they wanted to do, was get out of there, and that’s what they want to do here.”

But Lee can’t spend too much time dwelling on how BP is shafting the Gulf Coast—something he commiserated about recently with oil spill-icon and Plaquemines Parish, La. President Billy Nungessor—because he’s currently busy trying to figure out how the beach will weather the summer since the national sequester has grounded the Blue Angels and knocked out the traditional July 4 air show.

Don’t worry. Lee’s already coordinated a backup plan for civilian planes to provide the annual overhead entertainment. The show must go on.

“Only time I’ve lived north of I-10 is when I was in college or in the army.”

Buck Lee Throughout the summer of 2010, the SRIA director helped keep the public informed of the situation on Pensacola Beach.

Three years later and Lee, in fact, is still dealing with the spill—tarballs and tarmats are still being removed from the beach.

Until recently, BP funded patrols to monitor gulf beaches for oil. Although the British petroleum company had previously vowed to stay until there were no signs of oil, that guarantee apparently evolved.

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2013 Game Changers

Mark Lee, Cherry Fitch & Gary Michael

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he housing market has been in a slump the last few years. Apparently, no one told Mark Lee’s team over at Levin-Rinke Resort Realty.

And they have run away with top-seller accolades for the past five years.

Lee’s team consists of himself, Cherry Fitch and Gary Michaels. They know how to sell a house.

“It’s kind of basic,” explained Mi-

chaels.

“You just take care of your customers.”

After years away, Lee returned in 2000 to practice realty in his hometown.

He had grown up in East Hill and on Pensacola Beach. He is now the managing broker for Levin-Rinke.

Fitch began working with Lee in 2006.

It was a second career after 35 years in the Gulf Breeze school system. She had been a teacher, a guidance counselor, an assistant principal and, finally, a principal.

In her final year working in education, she was named as Principal of the Year.

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nita Lesko is up to something.

“I’ve got a really, really big plan in my head,” she said. “It’s kind of a really big thing.”

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“The two of them are like best friends, brother and sister,” Michaels said of Lee and Fitch. “They just compliment each other. Sometimes they’re like twins.”

Michaels joined Fitch and Lee in 2007 after retiring from the health care industry. He worked in numerous elderly-care facilities throughout the state.

“I think I left a record of 5-Star facilities,” Michaels said.

Michaels said that both his and Fitch’s former occupations were geared toward caring for others. He said that both had similar values when it came to contributing to one’s community.

“It gets tiresome, but it’s so rewarding,” he explained.

Those values were right in line with the culture Lee was fostering. While working with a top-selling team is nice, Michaels points to the culture as the reason he’s with the team.

“The culture aligned very much with what our beliefs are,” he said, explaining that all three team members are active participants and contributors to their community.

Lee recently received the Distinguished Service Award for 2013 for his

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service with the Favor House. He is also the incoming board chair for the Pensacola Symphony.

Fitch currently serves on the Santa Rosa Education Foundation. She also sits on the Gulf Breeze City Council.

Michaels currently serves as the board chair for the Children’s Home Society of Northwest Florida.

“There’s a lot of families that find themselves on the verge of crisis,” Michaels said, “but we get in there.”

While the Lee team values its extracurricular community involvement, the area real estate market values its professional contribution. Having performed well in a down market, the crew appears set to continue that trend now that the market has shown signs of an upswing.

“Our last quarter last year, we tripled our business,” Michaels said.

The realtor excitedly explained that he’s seen signs of an improving housing market across the board—from high-end, high-dollar properties to first-time-homebuyer-fixer-uppers.

“There’s somethings we’ve seen up, like, 18 percent,” Michaels said. “It’s just like, ‘Oh my God!’”

Author, Asperger’s advocate

When Lesko has a big plan, it’s a good idea to listen. Her latest big plan was a smashing success.

“It exceeded my expectations,” Lesko said. “It was really outstanding.”

In May, Lesko helped pull off the first Flying High with Autism conference at the University of West Florida. It started as an idea in her head. It materialized with speakers like Dr. Temple Grandin and Robert Kennedy Jr.—rock stars in the onthe-spectrum community—making their way to Pensacola for the three-day event.

“Tomorrow, I have a meeting to start planning for next year,” Lesko said, explaining that the conference will likely become an annual event.

Lesko discovered she had Asperger’s syndrome a couple of years ago. Though she was a registered nurse, Columbia University graduate and competitive equestrienne, she also knew she was somehow different.

“I just never fit in,” Lesko explained.

When a co-worker’s son was diagnosed with Asperger’s, something clicked with the 50-year-old nurse. She suddenly made sense.

Lesko proceeded to become an advocate for people with Asperger’s. She

started a support group, and also founded Born With Asperger’s, meant to serve as an educational source for people with Asperger’s and their families.

And then there’s the “big plan.” Lesko isn’t elaborating too much just yet, other than to say she’s hoping to “put Pensacola on the map.”

Prior to the Flying High conference in May, she hinted at similar ambitions, saying she envisioned Pensacola becoming “a Mecca, if you will, for Aperberger’s-related things.” More recently, Lesko talked about how she would like to see speakers at next year’s conference participate in workshops, providing attendees with more intimate venues.

“Parents will be able to be interactive with these people,” she said excitedly.

Dipping briefly into her “big plans,” Lesko talked a bit about the possibility of expanding on the conference concept.

What if she could arrange for experts in the on-the-spectrum community to extend their stays—“utilizing all the brain power that I know and bringing it here to Pensacola to be available”—beyond the conference?

It’s just a thought in her head.

“I’ve got big things planned for our community,” Lesko said.

“I’ve got big things planned for our community.”

Anita Lesko Lesko also wrote a book about her experiences with Asperger’s. Following the release of her book—entitled “Asperger’s Syndrome: When Life Hands You Lemons, Make Lemonade”—Lesko was also featured in Grandin’s “Different... Not Less.”

The local author has been working on a project with Dr. Tony Attwood, considered to be the world’s leading authority on Asperger’s, and Craig Evens, founder of Autism Hangout. That book—entitled “Been There. Done That. Try This! An Aspie’s Guide to Life on Earth,” and set for global release—will come out early next year.

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John Myslak

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ast year, John Myslak helped upstart a fall baseball league for Pensacola youth. It was about more than baseball.

“Baseball is just a tool,” Myslak said.

With Pensacola Youth Baseball, Myslak hoped to provide an organization that served the minority community. More than a simple baseball league, he wanted to focus on building character and sportsmanship. He wanted the league to be a

Founder, Pensacola Youth Baseball

place where role models mentored kids.

Last fall, 120 local youths participated in the league. This year, more are expected.

But Myslak is taking his concept further than the fall league. He has launched a non-profit, Pensacola Training Academy, Inc., and is offering baseball clinics to local players out of the Pensacola Pelicans’ old training facility.

“It’s been nothing but positive,” Myslak said. “We’ve got a lot of buy-in at the local level, everybody’s excited about it.”

Recently, the training academy joined forces with Major League Baseball’s RBI (Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities) program and is working together to better the lives of area youth, both on the field and off. One primary benefit of connecting with the RBI program is increased funding opportunities.

“It’s opened up a huge amount of doors for us insofar as fundraising,” Myslak explained.

At the moment, the local non-profit is eyeing funding opportunities with the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation (up to a half-million dollars), as well as with the Reds Community Fund, the charitable arm of the

Cincinnati Reds, the major league team that the local double-AA Blue Wahoos feed into.

The funding obtained by the non-profit will be used to improve a local baseball field. PTA is looking to make improvements to Terry Wayne Park, located at the

“It gives these kids some life experience and some exposure that otherwise they would never have.”

John Myslak intersection of Gadsden and J streets.

“It’s right in the middle of the neighborhoods we’re trying to impact,” Myslak explained.

Myslak said that the connection with the RBI program would also afford local players the opportunity to travel to com-

petitions. These ventures will provide not only a richer sports experience, but also serve as a source of invaluable lessons beyond the field.

“It gives these kids some life experience and some exposure that otherwise they would never have,” Myslak explained.

Already, the relationship has resulted in a back-and-forth with an RBI league out of Montgomery, Ala. The two organizations recently held a series of games in Pensacola.

“It was an unbelievable success— all the kids had a blast, the adults had a blast,” Myslak said, adding that local players will be traveling to Montgomery in late June to play the other side of the series.

And while Myslak’s goals—building character, instilling values—are lofty, he understands that the ills of a troubled world demand more remedies than afforded through batting practice and pep talks. But, maybe, baseball isn’t a bad place to start.

“We’re not on a white horse trying to save the world,” Myslak said. “It’s going to be one kid at a time. But that’s the way it works, I guess.”

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Ed Ranelli

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ast year, the University of West Florida opened the doors of its new College of Business Education Center. The center could well serve as a monument to the success of the school’s business college.

“We’re on a roll right now,” said College of Business Dean Ed Ranelli.

When the 36,000-square foot complex was announced in 2011, UWF President Judy Bense noted that the building

Dean, UWF College of Business

would “reflect the College of Business’ excellence.”

“Everyone has worked very hard,” she said, “and students and faculty are very worthy of this building.”

The new student center is designed to accommodate about 1,800 students. It is a state-of-the-art facility catering to the 21st-century business student.

“We’re quite proud of it,” Ranelli said.

“It’s really an iconic structure.”

While everyone is psyched about the new student center, the real jewels— UWF’s business students and faculty— reside inside of the building. It is those students and professors that give Ranelli the biggest sense of pride.

“It’s a real noble experience to provide students with the knowledge, values and skills to be successful in business,” the dean said. “We take a lot of satisfaction in doing that.”

The business college also derives satisfaction from the awards and honors bestowed upon it. The school and its students are regularly singled out for recognition.

UWF’s accounting program is considered one of the best around. The school

Elaine Sargent

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or a lot of people, the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was a warning. Elaine Sargent is one of those people.

“It really opened our eyes,” she said.

“It was a wake-up call.”

BP’s disaster in the gulf struck Sargent as a symptom of a larger problem. Against the backdrop of a warming planet, the oil company was pursuing increasingly risky 616 1

ventures in the race toward fossil fuel’s end game. She saw the Gulf Coast as a victim in a global environmental struggle that wasn’t going very well.

“It may be the most important issue of our time,” Sargent said, “because it threatens our future.”

Inspired by Bill McKibben’s international 350.org group, Sargent started the local 350 Pensacola in the fall of 2010 with intentions of actively addressing climate change-related issues. A few months later, Sustainable Gulf Coast peeled off from the group to focus on environmental education efforts.

Sargent’s local 350 group hosts regular meetings to discuss various environmental issues and strategize about regional efforts and interests. They orchestrate bike rides and organize the annual Hands Across the Sands event on Pensacola Beach.

The group also actively engages local officials.

“When they’re continuously being given ideas by big businesses and corporations,” Sargent said of leaders, “they’re not going to hear us unless we also get our voice out there.”

boasts the distinctive accreditation of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business—fewer than 4.7 percent of the business schools worldwide have earned this accreditation—and the college’s students have consistently scored in the top 20 percent nationally on

dated repeatedly by the accomplishments of the college’s students and faculty members. Last year, accounting student Megan Wise was among 37 recipients (out of a field of 90,000) to be awarded the American Institute of CPA’s Elijah Watt Sells Award. Larry Strain, director of UWF’s Small Business Development Center, won the 2012 Pensacola Area Commitment to Excellence (PACE) Professional Leader of the Year award.

“We’ve got a great team,” Ranelli said.

It is a team committed to the school’s mission.

“Our mission is to prepare students for a successful career and we do that,” the dean said. “You get a top-rate education that I think is competitive to any in the country.”

Beyond all the awards, beyond the bells and whistles of the new education center, the dean’s main instruction to his students can be boiled down to practical simplicity: “hustle.”

“To be successful, you’ve got to hustle,” Ranelli said. “You’ve got to hustle, that’s the take away.”

“You get a top-rate education that I think is competitive to any in the country.”

Ed Ranelli the ETS Major Field Test in Business.

Ranelli attributes the school’s success to its faculty. He has made a point of assembling a team that has experience beyond the halls of academia. The dean himself worked for about 20 years in the health care industry.

“Most of our faculty have had business experience as well,” Ranelli explained.

“You know, been-there-done-that.”

The dean’s formula for success is vali-

Environmentalist, 350 Pensacola Recently, Sargent became a leading voice in the local environmental scene, taking an instrumental role in the process that saw a collection of environmental

“It’s a challenge I think for the environmental community to present to those who are looking at it from a strictly economic standpoint,” she said. “It’s going to be a challenge to show them that if we don’t have a healthy environment we won’t have a healthy economy.”

The environmentalist is hoping that commissioners at least adopt a do-no-more-harm approach when reviewing potential projects.

“We don’t want a lot of road projects, let me put it that way,” Sargent said. “We don’t think that’s what this money’s for—putting more cars on the road.”

The 2010 oil spill may have been an environmental disaster for the Gulf Coast, and possibly a warning shot across the planet’s bow, but it also served to spark a passion within future environmentalists.

Environmental warriors like Sargent.

And she’s just getting started. Or, as she says, “finding my voice.”

“Yeah, finding my voice,” Sargent explained. “I’m good at making events happen and getting people together, but finding my voice so I can serve this cause.”

“It may be the most important issue of our time because it threatens our future.”

Elaine Sargent organizations select Christian Wagley to represent environmental concerns on Escambia County’s RESTORE Act Advisory Committee. The committee is tasked with advising the county commission on how best to spend funds that will result from Clean Water Act penalties—estimated to be between $100 and $200 million dollars for Escambia—connected to BP’s spill.

Commissioners have indicated that the local RESTORE money will be focused on economic development and infrastructure projects. Sargent’s hoping for the best.

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Albert Sengstock

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arlier this year, Al Sengstock launched Good Works Partnerships. The organization is sprucing up the Pensacola area, one property at a time.

“It makes you feel better,” Sengstock said back in January, as he stood admiring a Saturday morning’s worth of work.

On that early job, volunteers from Marcus Pointe and Greater Little Rock Baptist churches gathered together to clean an elderly women’s property. They cleared brush, cut grass and fixed broken windows.

“I bet you come back here in two weeks and you’ll find the neighbors sweeping their sidewalks,” Sengstock said. “You have to start somewhere.”

That’s the idea. With the Good Works Partnership, Sengstock is hoping to empower, inspire and help the community clean itself up.

Good Works Partnership is a non-profit organization that provides people with the tools needed to tend to their properties.

Hammers, lawnmowers, rakes and pretty much anything else are lent out to people looking to clean up lawns and fix up houses.

The organization also coordinates volunteer work crews. The crews target individual properties for cleaning.

Sengstock got the idea for Good Works during his years as a code enforcement manager. He saw the impact that financial penalties could have on a person, a person who wanted to address their property but was unable to do so.

“It would be heartbreaking and frustrating when confronted by the dilemma of working with people who, due to physical or financial limitations, could not comply with the various property maintenance codes,” Sengstock explained. “I also concluded that

Founder, Good Works Partnership

much of the conflict and unintended ‘bad will’ was actually born of the frustration by those who couldn't comply, even though they wanted to.”

While visiting his cousin in Pensacola, Sengstock relayed the success he had experienced in Arizona. His cousin—Quint Studer—thought such a program would be beneficial to the Pensacola area. A few months later, Good Works Partnership was born.

Since he began, Sengstock’s organization has been warmly received in the area. Code enforcement officers, from both Pensacola and Escambia County, have embraced the concept and direct their citizens to it. Organizations such as the Pensacola Young Professionals, Pathway for Change, Habitat for Humanity and Catholic Charities have also developed relationships with Good Works.

The non-profit is growing just as Sengstock had hoped. The effort is helping to beautify the area, giving residents pride in their properties, contributing to neighborhood safety and promoting a sense of community.

“It is a real joy to see the change in those who, through such programs, were once again able to be positive, empowered members of their neighborhoods,” Sengstock said.

“It is a real joy to see the change in those who, through such programs, were once again able to be positive, empowered members of their neighborhoods.”

Al Sengstock After trying out the Good Works model, Sengstock was encouraged by the results.

“By making tools and supplies available to the able-bodied, and by organizing volunteers to assist the physically challenged, much of the conflict was eliminated,” he said.

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Rev. Rick Sosbe

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t the age of 10, Rev. Rick Sosbe became a Christian. He felt at that time that he was called to serve God and become a pastor. He also felt that he was gay.

Sosbe currently serves the Metropolitan Community Church in Pensacola. He moved to town about a year ago, and lives with his partner, Michael, along with their Jack Russell Terrier, Zoe. “We enjoy it here,” Sosbe said.

The Metropolitan Community Church, or MCC, has its roots in 1968 Huntington Park, Calif. Its founder, Rev. Troy D. Perry, penned “The Lord Is My Shepherd, And He Knows I’m Gay.” “We are Christian-based, and yet we are also accepting of all people,” Sosbe explained. “Years ago, we were known as the ‘gay church.’”

The church has grown to an estimated 43,000 members, with 300 congregations spread throughout 22 countries. It still serves the gay community, but also caters to those looking for a more inclusive environment in general.

“Simply because they believe in what we stand for,” Sosbe said, “which is fairness to all people.”

And though the church has broadened the scope of its focus beyond the gay community, it still very much focuses on gay rights issues. That can be a tough sell in Northwest Florida.

Sandy Veilleux

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ome people are wild about food.

Wild about fresh food, local food.

Foodies, they’re called.

Sandy Veilleux is a foodie. She approaches food with an almost spiritual intensity. She embarks on “crazy, culinary adventures.”

As co-owner of Flora Bama Farms, Veilleux is also passionate about making fresh, locally produced food available to the community. She provides both private and commercial customers with food grown and produced in the area.

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“That’s probably our mission statement: From our farm to your family,” Veilleux smiled.

Veilleux preaches the gospel of the farm-to-table philosophy, which embraces the eat-local ethos. It espouses a more environmentally and socially sustainable way to feed people. It also means fresher eating.

“We can literally bring something from a farm to someone’s restaurant that’s only three hours old if we hustle,” Veilleux said.

This passionate foodie is driven by her mission. She’s constantly networking, making connections between the farming and consumer communities. Constantly searching out farms and fresh food and something new and wonderful to get excited about.

“Crane Farm was a fantastic, lucky adventure,” Veilleux described one her favorite farms. “Their basil is so insane. Their hybrid lettuces—it’s hard not to get excited. You’re literally Googling in the field.”

Rudy Rudolph, executive chef at the Sunset Cork Room in Gulf Shores, Ala., likened that farm to “going to Epcot.”

“They can do amazing things,” he said.

“She could grow something out of her living room floor if she wanted.”

Pastor, Metropolitan Community Church

“There are pockets of people that are fair minded,” Sosbe said, “but there are a good amount of people that are clearly discriminatory and not in favor of gay rights.”

ordinances that critics claim criminalize homelessness. A minister with the church showed up at the council meeting and made some noise.

“She’s the one that made the comment that her vagina was not weak,” Sosbe said.

The homeless are a segment of society that the local MCC has focused on. They feed and minister to the local homeless population. Sosbe wonders what impact the new ordinances will have on the area homeless.

“There’s a lot of people that are just a paycheck or two away from being in the same position,” Sosbe noted. “It’s always a struggle in every community. You always have homeless people. It’s a long and elaborate dance as to how to deal with it. I think to just kind of push it under the rug, or criminalize it, isn’t a solution.”

The reverend doesn’t have the longterm answers for homelessness, but he’s committed to the search.

“I don’t,” Sosbe said. “But I think we need to be constantly talking about it.”

“We are Christian-based, and yet we are also accepting of all people.”

Rev. Rick Sosbe The reverend mentions the passage several years ago of Amendment 2, an amendment to Florida’s constitution that defines marriage as being only between a man and woman.

“We still have a long way to go,” he said. “And Florida is one of these states that needs help moving forward.”

While the MCC has always been an advocate for gay rights issues, the church also focuses its energies elsewhere.

“We are serious about social justice,” Sosbe explained.

Recently, the local MCC entered into the debate surrounding the city of Pensacola’s decision to pass a number of

Co-owner, Flora Bama Farms “It’s as captivating as it is inspiring to be around,” Veilleux concluded.

Veilleux and Rudolph are akin to two fresh, locally grown peas in a pod. They share a passion for good food and community. They

the festival’s VIP section.

“So, farm-to-family became farm-tofestival for a hot minute,” Veilleux laughed.

“We got serenaded by Stevie Wonder Sunday morning,” Rudy said.

“I was like, ‘Wow, could this get any better?’”

Veilleux said.

“Everything you dream about.”

It looks like the pair will be living that dream again next Hangout. The food was a hit.

“They made us promise we would before the festival was even over,” Veilleux said.

Between now and then, the foodies will be focusing on providing the community with fresh, local food options.

“We really want to grow the community in every way we can,” Veilleux explained, noting that she is constantly running into passionate people with new ideas. “There’s so many amazing minds doing so many great things for this community.”

“We can literally bring something from a farm to someone’s restaurant that’s only three hours old if we hustle.”

Sandy Veilleux feed off each other’s energy and brainstorm “big ideas” about feeding the poor, teaching children about agriculture and bringing farming back into the region’s urban areas.

Together, Veilleux and Rudolph have formed the non-profit Four Blades of Grass.

The organization is striving to raise funds to pay area farmers to grow food for families in need, to distribute that food and also to educate the community.

The pair also recently shared the area’s offerings of fresh food with the Hangout Music Festival. They were invited to prepare meals in

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2013 Game Changers

Christian Wagley

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n 2010, the oil spill in the gulf hit the Gulf Coast. It was the worst spill in the country’s history.

Congress responded by passing the RESTORE Act, which requires 80 percent of funds collected through Clean Water Act penalties—a yet undetermined amount—to be spent on Gulf Coast

restoration efforts. It could mean between $100 and $200 million dollars for Escambia County.

County commissioners have established a RESTORE Act Advisory Committee to provide them with some direction when it comes time to spend the expected windfall. There is one voice on the committee that is representing environmental interests. That voice belongs to Christian Wagley.

“I like to try to find places to bring people together and talk,” Wagley said.

Although, the oil spill was an epic environmental disaster, it also had an economical impact. With that in mind, the county commissioners have made it clear that local RESTORE dollars will be primarily focused on infrastructure and economic development efforts.

The nine-member advisory panel consists of individuals hailing from various fields of expertise. There are realtors, a hotelier, a Gulf Power executive and several chamber of commerce members.

Each seat is tasked with representing different interests: economic development, transportation, the financial sector and government. Commissioners allowed

Environmental Seat, Escambia County RESTORE Act Advisory Committee

a collective of environmental groups to select one representative.

“I think I have a great role to play in trying to bring together different voices in the community that don’t always talk to each other,” Wagley said.

“I’m hoping to have that discussion,” Wagley said, laying out a vision for a more progressive urban landscape via oil spill money. “I think we have a wonderful opportunity to make it bike/walk-friendly— realizing that it was our addiction to fossil fuels that brought us to this oil spill in the first place.”

Wagley was a natural choice for the local environmental community, receiving sweeping support. He’s an active participant in local environmental issues and owns Sustainable Town Concepts, a green-building consulting business.

Wagley decided to live in Pensacola after receiving his Master’s in Biology and Coastal Zone Studies from the University of West Florida. He made the decision while bicycling back home to Maryland.

As the lone environmental voice on Escambia’s RESTORE committee, Wagley is on a mission. He’s hoping he can wrest a silver lining from the oil spill.

“If you leave your own ego behind it opens you up to do great things—great things for the community for all the right reasons,” Wagley said.

“If you leave your own ego behind it opens you up to do great things.”

Christian Wagley He understands that other members of the committee will likely be focused on “big ticket” items— “a very, very easy way to spend a lot of money”—like the chamber’s suggestion to spend up to $60 million buying land and readying build-it-theywill-come sites in hopes of feeding off the Airbus subcontractor market. But he’s also hoping to sell his fellow committee members on projects that address the region’s water quality issues or pave the way for a more pedestrian-friendly community.

Rev. Lonnie Wesley III deposit something positive into the life of a child.”

Pastor Wesley serves at Greater Little Rock Baptist Church in Pensacola. But it might be more accurate to describe his congregation as community-wide.

Recognizing his home is rife with racial and economic disparities, Wesley has set out to serve the area’s minority community. He wants to help his community better their circumstances and opportunities.

“Every community is in need of the kind of spirit that is a helping spirit, a hand-up spirit,” Wesley said.

The community Wesley serves is one he is intimately familiar with. The youngest of eight children, he was born and raised in Pensacola.

“I grew up on Michael Drive, brother,” the pastor said. “Michael Drive is a stone’s throw from Truman Arms. So, I was in Truman Arms everyday, behind B and C buildings, by the basketball courts.”

After school, Wesley left the area and earned his degree in Mass Communications at Alabama State University. After a couple of public relations jobs with the National Football League—working for both the Dallas Cowboys and Cleveland Browns—he returned home.

Back in Pensacola, Wesley participated with the One Hundred Black Men’s Moving Forward program.

A taste of things to come for the pastor, this early-‘90s effort aimed to serve the educational needs of students who were expelled from school.

“Gave them the opportunity to keep up with their class work while they were out of school,” Wesley recalled. “It was tremendous. It really kept a lot of kids in the loop.”

After a couple of years back in town, Wesley left again. This time for a job with Jackson State University in Mississippi.

“The top of a community is only as strong as the bottom of the community.”

Rev. Lonnie Wesley III

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astor Lonnie Wesley III has just returned from speaking with local students at C. A. Weis Elementary School. He’s still riding off the buzz.

“This is like the fifth straight year of being a speaker for the fifth grade class, and, man,” Wesley said, “it’s just a joy to June 13, 2013

Pastor, Greater Little Rock Baptist Church

“While over in Mississippi, that’s when I started preaching,” Wesley said, explaining that the church he attended asked him to preach; he ended up serving there for seven years.

In 2004 , the pastor and his wife began to think again of home.

“I prayed the Lord would allow both my wife and I to come back here to help our siblings and our parents,” Wesley said.

“And the Lord blessed.”

It was a homecoming 10 years in the making.

“We love Pensacola,” Wesley said.

“We didn’t know how much we loved Pensacola until we moved away.”

It is this community that he so loves that the pastor hopes to serve. It is this community—that so often neglects to accommodate the less fortunate—which he hopes to help.

“The top of a community is only as strong as the bottom of the community,” Wesley said.

That’s where the pastor is putting his energies. Into the foundation. Into the people.

“I try to invest in people,” Wesley explained. “We are the best resource we have.”

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2013 Game Changers

Steve Williams

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rowing up in Baton Rouge, La., Steve Williams was a member of the YMCA. Today, he chairs the Board of Directors of the YMCA of Northwest Florida.

“The Y has always had a place in my heart, I’ve always had a passion for the Y,” Williams said. “When people think of a Y, they think of a gym. That’s true, we do offer that. But we offer so much more than a gymnasium.”

These days, Williams is fighting for a new YMCA facility in Pensacola. The current downtown facility is showing its age after years of wear and tear.

“I think a new, modern Y would just inject new life into the Y,” Williams explained.

Recently, Blue Wahoos owners Quint and Rishy Studer put up $5 million dollars toward a new Y. They tied the offer to a waterfront parcel next to the baseball stadium at the Community Maritime Park.

“When the $5 million offer was made, we thought, ‘Wow, this really is a possibility for us,’” Williams said.

There were plans for a 40,000-square foot, state-of-the-art facility. The concept was taken to the city of Pensacola.

“We had no idea it would become so political,” Williams said.

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s this academic year drew to a close, Escambia County School District Superintendent Malcolm Thomas paid a visit to Oakcrest Elementary School. He told the students he had an announcement to make and, for a brief moment, Principal Denny Wilson got a little nervous.

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Wilson half-thought the superintendent was about to announce he was being transferred to another school. Instead, Thomas told the students that Wilson was being named as the district’s Principal of the Year.

“It’s very humbling,” Wilson said, redirecting the honor, “but to me it’s a recognition of what’s going on at Oakcrest.”

What’s going on at Oakcrest can only be described as a dramatic turnaround. It’s been a gradual progression since Wilson took the reins a few years ago.

“It didn’t happen over night,” the principal said. “We’ve made a lot of progress.

We went from an F to a B, we went from a low-F to a B.” When Wilson found out he was headed to Oakcrest he was excited. It would be his first gig as principal.

“Then reality set in,” he recalled his realization that he was headed to the district’s only F school at the time.

The first few years were tough. The new principal faced an uphill trek.

“That third D, I’m not gonna lie, that’s when I was like, ‘Mr. Thomas, I don’t know what to do, you might need to find somebody else,’” Wilson said.

Chairman, Board of Directors of the YMCA of Northwest Florida

While the notion of a new downtown, waterfront YMCA got a lot of support, there were procedural questions raised—the city, as well as the Community Maritime Park Board are involved in the

“I think a new, modern Y would just inject new life into the Y.” Steve Williams process—and also concerns over what constituted the best use of the park property.

In the end—after being approved conceptually by the city council, but then rebuffed by the CMPA—the Y board walked away from what it deemed a “broken” process.

“I was disappointed people didn’t share the long-term vision. I think there was some short-sightedness on some people’s parts.”

Williams is still working toward a new facility. He believes it would be good for

both the Y and the greater community. The organization is currently assessing possible locations and the Studers have taken the parcel eight-stipulation off their offer.

“We will have a new Y,” Williams said.

Although the YMCA’s attempt this winter to relocate its downtown facility to the park was unsuccessful, Williams isn’t entirely disappointed with the results.

The publicity surrounding the Y’s attempt has yielded some positive results.

“Just from the publicity, we’ve seen an increase in our membership,” Williams said.

The board chair described how he now gets asked regularly about the YMCA. People have taken an interest.

“Absolutely, I get stopped at least three times a day—‘Hey, what’s going on with the Y, man?’” Williams said. “They just want know the situation. There is an increase in the awareness of the Y in downtown Pensacola. People know a lot more about the Y than they would otherwise.”

Williams hopes he may soon be able to point people interested in the YMCA toward the organization’s new facility.

“We still think Maritime Park would be a great place for a ‘Maritime Y,’” he said.

Principal, Oakcrest Elementary School But over time, Oakcrest experienced what Wilson describes as a “culture change.” The principal focused on things like reading instruction, reducing the num-

“Kids all have the same ability,” Wilson said. “It’s not determined by what we grew up thinking, or what neighborhood we grew up in, or how much money we have.

Kids all have potential.”

Wilson also credits the school’s faculty with its success. He describes his teachers as “incredibly, incredibly dedicated” and “almost missionary-like to be here.”

That’s exactly the kind of people that Wilson has tried to staff his school with. He wants people that are as excited and passionate as he is about educating children and involving the community. He wants people that want to be there.

“You’ve got to believe that you’re at the right place. If you’re not where you feel like you’re called to be, I don’t know how you can be successful,” Wilson said.

“I see this as my mission field. I feel like teaching is a calling. I feel like being a principal is a calling. I’ve felt like for seven years I’ve been at the right place at the right time. I wouldn’t trade places with anybody right now.”

“I’ve felt like for seven years I’ve been at the right place at the right time. I wouldn’t trade places with anybody right now.”

Denny Wilson ber of suspensions and increasing the level of parental involvement.

“This place is going to become a lighthouse for this community,” Wilson remembered thinking.

The principal pointed to the Oakcrest school motto: “Every student, every day, whatever it takes.” He takes these words seriously, offers it up as the foundation of the school’s philosophy and reason behind its success.

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Beverly Zimmern Mayor, Gulf Breeze

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everly Zimmern has been mayor of Gulf Breeze for three years.

“Four years next month,” Zimmern said upon reflection. “You lose track of time, it seems like yesterday.”

As mayor, Zimmern oversees a community that is in a state of evolution. The Gulf Breeze of old has long since faded, but the Gulf Breeze of tomorrow is still being realized.

“We’re emerging,” Zimmern said.

“We’re not that sleepy village anymore.”

When the mayor envisions the future, she looks to the Andrews Institute. She looks to AppRiver. She embraces the coming “nexus of excitement,” and hopes the city will grow into a place its children can return home to with expectations of viable career options.

“They want to come back, but they don’t have a place to come back to,” Zimmern said.

At the same time the mayor is excited about future growth, she also hopes her community is able to retain its “smalltown feel.”

“It’s a big responsibility being in the driver seat,” Zimmern said. “I don’t take it lightly.”

The mayor credited her city’s administration and staff with any success she might seem to be experiencing. She described them as “strong and true to what they do.”

“To do what I do for $1 a year, it’s easy by virtue of the people I’m surrounded with,” Zimmern said.

The mayor said she also appreciates that Gulf Breeze is not evolving in a vacuum; it plays a role in a larger regional picture.

She’s a supporter of the Greater Pensacola Area Chamber of Commerce’s Vision 2015—which focuses on bringing jobs to the area—and believes her community will play an integral role in a community on the verge.

“Northwest Florida is really poised to bloom, to blossom, to expand, to grow,” Zimmern said.

The mayor said one positive that Gulf Breeze brings to the regional table is a stellar education system. The community’s schools—part of the Santa Rosa County School District—are considered some of the region’s best public schools. Employees of businesses looking to expand anywhere in the area, will likely consider residing in Gulf Breeze for this reason.

“That, to me, is an economic driver,” Zimmern said. “People are not going to want to come here to work if they’re not going to get a good education.”

Prior to becoming mayor, Zimmern was a nurse for 18 years. She also served for 13 years on the Gulf Breeze City Council.

It is not lost on Zimmern that she is a rare breed in this area. There aren’t many elected female officials in the Panhandle.

“It is a man’s world in politics, particularly in Northwest Florida,” the mayor said.

Zimmern is, in fact, the first female mayor of Gulf Breeze.

“I’m proud to be that,” Zimmern said.

“I hope that I will inspire future women.”

One of those future women watching is Zimmern’s granddaughter. That’s also one of the reasons she’s doing what she does.

“It’s not just political, it’s personal,” the mayor said.

“To do what I do for $1 a year, it’s easy by virtue of the people I’m surrounded with.”

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Marching Toward Equality

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and moved to June to align with national celebrations, many of which occur around the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, marked as sparking the gay rights movement.

Today’s PensacolaPRIDE event, while certainly still maintaining social components, is strongly rooted in activism. This year’s theme is “Marching Toward Equality.”

“We’re trying to use this PensacolaPRIDE to say that rights that are denied because of either sexual orientation or identity and expression are part of the civil rights movement,” said Doug Landreth, event organizer and President of Gay Grassroots.

Although following closely behind Memorial Day Weekend in the calendar year, Landreth is quick to distinguish the two. He notes that PensacolaPRIDE events are family friendly and seek to welcome and involve the local straight community, whereas Memorial Day tends to be heavily driven by tourists, showing fewer visible signs of integration.

“It’s a weeklong of enjoyable events that are family friendly. We encourage the straight citizens of Pensacola to come to our events to see that while we certainly have a very rich history, culture and heritage we wish to honor and preserve, we are not a foreign entity to be feared,” Landreth explained.

“We’re trying to use this PensacolaPRIDE to say that rights that are denied because of either sexual orientation or identity and expression are part of the civil rights movement.”

Doug Landreth

Friday, June 14 marks the return of PensacolaPRIDE. Presented by the Gay Grassroots Association of Northwest Florida, this annual weeklong celebration upholds PensacolaPRIDE’s mission, “to celebrate and promote the history, courage, diversity and worth of the Pensacola area gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons individually and collectively as the LGBT Community.”

Weeklong events held at various locations include a community youth prom, documentary series, celebration ball, chili dinner and line dance, town hall and open microphone and stage events. The week

culminates with a daylong festival in Seville Square, Saturday, June 22, including food, arts, crafts, entertainment and a “Wedding of Hearts” Ceremony.

The event began locally in the early 1990s as a single day observance centered around National Coming Out Day on October 11. During this time period, it remained in seclusion and was strictly tied to socializing—evolving from small scale meetings and home dinner parties to a gathering at the Naval Live Oaks area in Gulf Breeze.

As the event became more visible, the celebration expanded into a multi-day event

One of the events Landreth is especially looking forward to bringing back for a second year, is the community Youth Prom, which provides an opportunity for students to bring a same gender partner to prom in a venue that is safe and comfortable, eliminating the risk of being subjected to bullying.

“We think that it is important to offer an event for the youth. Very little progress has been made in the bullying issue. It doesn’t have to be based on gender identification.

Many students perceived as LGBT are subjected as well,” he said.

Another event is the Celebration Ball, highlighting “Heroes of Equality”—celebrating those pioneers who have come before, but also shedding a light on the responsibility of members of today’s community to serve as tomorrow’s heroes.

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“No matter where you happen to be in your journey of coming out and self-acceptance, and being valued, there are those that have come before you who we owe a great deal of respect to. We owe it to them to pick up the torch and carry on the fight.

We also owe it to those coming up behind us. We have a duty to make it better for them,” said Landreth.

Saturday’s festival in Seville Square— the most heavily attended event—begins with a symbolic march to and from Martin Luther King Plaza. A special component of the day is the “Wedding of Hearts,” ceremony allowing couples the opportunity to exchange their vows. Landreth reminds that at this time, this is the furthest they are able to go in the state of Florida.

Straight couples also participate to show their solidarity.

Overall, PensacolaPRIDE is a time to promote a culture of understanding within a family friendly, community-centered environment.

“Through this week, there can be a lot of understanding that comes about. It provides members of the LGBT community a time to enjoy events in a way where they may feel safer, but yet these events are those they can certainly introduce their straight friends to—so they can enjoy on a level ground,” he said. {in} For more information, visit GGnwfl. com. To purchase advance tickets to PensacolaPRIDE events, email PensacolaPRIDE@gmail.com or call 685-2881.

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Pensacola PRIDE 2013—Event Lineup Friday, June 14, LGBT Youth Prom, 6 p.m. – 11 p.m. This community wide youth prom is for all LGBT persons and supportive allies, ages 16 to 21 years. Tickets are $20. Refreshments and non-alcoholic beverages to be provided. Holy Cross MCC, 3130 W. Fairfield Drive Saturday, June 15, “Heroes of Equality” Celebration Ball, 7 p.m. – 11 p.m. This community wide semi-formal event is for all LGBT persons and supportive allies, 21 years and older. Suggested dress is reflective of “Woman’s Suffrage/Seneca Falls-1948,” “Black Liberation/Selma-early 1965,” “LGBT Rights/ Stonewall-1969,” or Gold Tone. Tickets are $50. Includes dinner, live stage show “Music Through the Decades” produced

by Lacy Delanio, dancing and specialty drinks. American Legion Hall, 1401 W.

Intendencia St. Sunday, June 16, LGBT Film Series, showtimes at 1, 3, 5, & 7 p.m. One $5 ticket is good for all four screenings: 1 p.m. “Brother Outsider;” 3 p.m. “If These Walls Could Talk 2;” 5 p.m. “Bully;” 7 p.m. “Were the World Mine.” Unitarian Universalist Church of Pensacola, 9888 Pensacola Blvd.

Monday, June 17, Town Hall Meeting “Homophobia in Pensacola: Fact of Fiction” 6 p.m. Free presentation by Dr. Susan Walch, of The University of West Florida Psychology Research Lab. Learn how gender, race, religious affiliation, political affiliation, level of education and individual interactions affect the climate of homophobia.

Downtown Library, 239 N. Spring St. Tuesday, June 18, Day of Action “Stand Up, Step Out, Movie It Forward.” Take a few moments today and “Be A Positive Force” by writing a letter, calling into a radio show, coming out to someone, etc. Everyone is encouraged to share their stories on the PensacolaPRIDE Facebook page.

Wednesday, June 19, Chili Dinner & Line Dance, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. Enjoy homemade chili (beef or vegetarian), slaw, cornbread and brownies at 6 p.m., followed by country line dancing at 7 p.m.

Tickets are $7. Country attire is encouraged but not required.

Holy Cross MCC, 3130 W. Fairfield Drive Thursday, June 20, Performance Showcase “Diversity United,” 7 p.m.

– 9 p.m. Open microphone/open stage performance showcase. Tickets are $5. All artistic expressions are welcome: poetry, song, music, dance, etc. Performers email PensacolaPRIDE@gmail.com to sign up. First City Arts Center, 1060 N. Guillemard St. Saturday, June 22, Equality March “Honoring the Past, Securing the Future,” 9 a.m. Free event. Symbolically follow in the footsteps those who marched in Seneca Falls for Women's Suffrage, Selma Alabama for Minority Rights, and outside Stonewall for LGBT rights. We leave Seville Park, pass by MLK Plaza, walk down Palafox, before returning to Seville Park. Everyone is encouraged to bring rainbow flags and signs and wear purple.

Saturday June 22, Festival in the Park, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. Free day of live entertainment, arts and crafts and festival food. Includes annual Military salute, “Wedding of Hearts” ceremony, and more. Bring your chairs or blankets and plan on spending the entire day. Historic Olde Seville Square Park.

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culture

by Jessica Forbes

Retrieving the Past to Give to the Future

Over the past 20 years, Linda and Columbus Thompson have developed a personal passion for history into something with a much broader reach.

As the organizers of the Sankofa Juneteenth Heritage Gathering, the Thompsons also perform educational outreach programs throughout the year that focus on African and African-American culture and history.

In the Akan language of Ghana, West Africa, the word sankofa means “to go back and fetch what you did not know or forgot.”

Part of the meaning is also, Linda explains, to prepare and preserve that knowledge discovered for future generations.

“That’s why we’re constantly searching and presenting as we go,” she said, standing outside of the Belmont Building where this year’s Sankofa Juneteenth Heritage Gathering—the 10th annual—will take place.

The Juneteenth event’s subtitle, “Restoring the Forgotten Heritage to the Forgotten People,” indicates how the Thompsons’ research initially began, with the question, “Who am I?” Growing up in Europe in a Navy family Linda remembers, “I was just curious—I travelled so much as a child to different coun-

tries. I always wanted to know the history, even as a child.”

Linda and Columbus married in 1965, living and travelling abroad for Columbus’ assignments in the Navy, also. The couple settled in Pensacola upon Columbus’ retirement in 1994.

“As I got older and came back here, I started looking at Juneteenth and I wanted to know a bit more,” Linda recalled.

Juneteenth is a holiday commemorating the day—June 19, 1865—on which enslaved people in Galveston, Texas learned they were free, over two years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered in April of 1865, ending the Civil War, and it was Union Troops that brought word to Texas, the last state to learn of emancipation.

Since the late 1800s, Juneteenth has been celebrated as a holiday in communities throughout the U.S. The Thompsons’ research started with the ending of slavery and went back through time. “We do it in reverse—it’s the old history that we had no clue of,” said Linda.

“We were learning and finding out so many different things that were new to me,” remembers Linda, who began displaying African artifacts in the clothing store she owned, Talinda’s Designs. Customers were curious and Linda found she was often sharing information about the African art, statues, and fabrics on display.

Columbus, who grew up in Louisiana, noticed over the years that there were no organized Juneteenth events in Pensacola.

“We’ve been doing [Juneteenth] there all our lives, as long as I can remember,” said Columbus who learned Juneteenth is a state holiday in Florida, but was not widely

observed in this area. The Thompsons decided to hold a Juneteenth celebration at Talinda’s in 2004 and “We’ve been going with it ever since.”

“It’s American history, Black history, it’s World History,” said Columbus of he and his wife’s work. “It’s World history, because everybody needs to know,” agreed Linda, adding the research and outreach is about “bringing everybody back together.

It’s not just for so-called African-Americans, it’s for everybody. I find more Caucasian people that really want to know—they only know bits and pieces, too. I meet people everywhere who ask me questions.”

The Thompsons are now working to turn the Talinda’s Designs store space on Barrancas Avenue into a Sankofa Heritage Museum and Resource Center. Currently closed, the building is being renovated to better display the artifacts and information the couple has collected in their research.

“It’s such a spiritual journey to find out,” said Linda, who sees the learning process, which she shows no signs of giving up, as “a daily evolution, because you’re finding something new, there’s so much history to expose.” And, like a true scholar, she is happy and committed to sharing her knowledge. {in}

“It’s American history, Black history, it’s World History.”

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“It’s a constant growth process,” said Linda, who, along with Columbus, leads afterschool and senior citizen programs, and travels to events at universities and military bases as well. The size of their display and presentation can be tailored to the venue and audience, and includes a variety of artifacts and instruments.

In addition to a large historical display, this year’s Juneteenth Gathering will feature speakers, poetry, dancing, vendors, food, and music, including a performance by the Belmont Youth Band. The festival will also have children’s games and activities for different age groups.

Holding the event this year in the Belmont Building, the Thompsons are hoping to assist Reverend John Powell Sr. raise funds to repair the building, which is home to Powell’s Truth for Youth program.

WHEN: 1-6 p.m. Saturday, June 15 “We’re there to support Reverend WHERE: The Belmont Building, 432 W. Powell,” said Linda, “to help him get Belmont St. his building completed. Every little COST: Free bit will help.”

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Natalie Shearlock, director of community The AmeriSponsored by the Pensacola Association engagement at the Pensacola Habitat for Corps crews of Realtors, the event marked the beginning Humanity said that in the NRI, “We’re trying poured over 23 of the Pensacola Habitat’s Neighborhood Reto work in defined communities, so that when yards of concrete vitalization Initiative (NRI) in which Habitat we’re done with the work we’re doing there is during sidewalk works with residents and local partners, rea group there to keep it up, keep it going.” repairs, cleared ceiving community input as to what neighbor70 vacant lots, hood residents would like to see improved. cleaned rightNRI has been a formal initiative of HFHI of-ways on 20 for four years, but as Evans explained, neighApproximately 20 local HFHI volunstreets, rehabbed borhood revitalization goes to the heart of teers and neighborhood residents joined four homes, and HFHI’s founding principles. the AmeriCorps mempainted street ad“Thirty years ago, bers on the ground dresses on curbs that’s where most affor a total of over 100 in the project area. filiates began, because people working on the They assisted they couldn’t afford [to various Build-a-Thon the Friends of St. build] a new house,” projects.

John’s Cemetery said Evans. “So you go AmeriCorps is a Foundation with into a neighborhood national community painting the cemand clean up, build service organization etery’s gatehouse an accessibility ramp, that places recent and began the re-roof someone’s Directory: G u l f B r e ecollege z e , graduates FL with THIS COPYenormous IS MEANT FUTURE CHANGES ONLY. task FOR home, because that’s partner organizations, Heading: AT3900 Ad Size: D of photographing the resources have.

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“We got a lot of work done, but there’s still hold its first elections later this month.

“The Build-a-Thon is near the end a lot to go—this was a great kick start to get Dianne Robinson has been working with of a service term, which typically starts things moving.” the Westside Garden District Neighborhood in August or September each year, so it Association preparing for the Build-a-Thon.

Classified Heading: Attorneys - Guide - Criminal Law CO-OP: Yes N is one of the culminating events of their Robinson, who was born and raised on the service,” Graham Green, Operations Senior corner of B and LaRua streets, returned to Specialist for HFHI explained. “It’s really Pensacola nine months ago having lived elsean opportunity to help the affiliate—in this Pensacola was one of five U.S. locawhere for 47 years. case the Pensacola Habitat for Humanity— tions selected for an AmeriCorps-Habitat “I came back and saw that the neighboraccelerate their goals.” for Humanity Build-a-Thon in 2013, the hood needed a revitalization,” said Robinson, Rico Ducatel, 26, has been serving as third year in a row for the Pensacola HFHI who lived in and served as a city councilan AmeriCorps VISTA –Volunteer in Seraffiliate. Unlike previous Build-a-Thons, woman in Bremerton, Wash. Now retired, vice to America—with the HFHI affiliate in the 2013 event did not focus on new home Robinson says community work “…is normal to his native Collier County for the past nine construction, but instead aimed at a numme, this is something I love doing, and I want months. Ducatel worked clearing vacant ber of community improvement projects. to bring the neighborhood back up.” lots during the Pensacola Build-a-Thon.

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From June 3-7, over 80 AmeriCorps members serving in Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) affiliates across the country came to Pensacola to perform a variety of tasks in the Westside Garden District Neighborhood.

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by Sarah McCartan

Dragonette Says Hello IN: What was it like touring with the Presets? Was it an all out dance party?

SORBARA: That coheadlining tour was consistently awesome, and our crowds overlap. We have a segment in our show where we play several mellow songs in a row. At the Presets we were able to take it down and bring it back up and keep everyone with us. It’s rewarding to know you can keep your audience with you. photo by Kristin Vicari Chances are you know Dragonette for the chart topping dance club hit “Hello,” a collaboration with French DJ and producer Martin Solveig. I guarantee you that if you’ve heard the song even just once, you will find the lyrics, “I just came to say Hello” playing on repeat in your head.

This renowned track aside, the Canadian born, electro-pop, three-piece have been doing what they do for quite some time.

They call it “homemade basement pop.”

Dragonette is comprised of a husband and wife tag team, lead singer and songwriter Martina Sorbara and bassist and producer Dan Kurtz, along with drummer Joel Stouffer. Touring in support of their third album “Bodyparts,” the trio is coming off of back-to-back high energy, sold out tours, most recently alongside the Presets, and just prior to that, Major Lazer.

The band is currently headlining a June tour, with a midway stop in Pensacola to say hello, Tuesday, June 18 at Vinyl Music Hall.

The IN caught up with Dragonette’s leading lady Martina Sorbara to learn more about the band’s latest album, their steady stream of growth and underground roots.

IN: Now you are headlining your own tour. Are there any destinations you are especially excited about? Firefly Festival looks like a great lineup.

SORBARA: A lot of fun bands will be at Firefly. I am excited to play shows in places like Miami and Austin that we’ve been before in circumstances that weren’t proper shows. We have only played late nightclub shows in Miami. And in Austin we’ve only played South by Southwest.

IN: Was “Bodyparts” a breakthrough point for the band? Or can you cite a specific point?

SORBARA: I don’t think we are that kind of band. Our career path has been an old fashioned trajectory—equal steps, a steady flow. Halfway through touring behind our last album, I remember going from feeling like, “How are we doing?” to being like, “People are going to our shows—we have an audience.” Continuous growth has been the only way we know to grow.

IN: What about the attention garnered from “Hello?”

SORBARA: “Hello” was one of the biggest songs in whatever the hell year it came out, but it didn’t change the core of our growth.

Maybe if we had written three more “Hellos” it would have. Really we do what we do and that’s all we know—and that is typically playing to smaller audiences.

IN: Are there any women in music you cite as having inspired you in your own musical journey?

SORBARA: I think I have only been inspired by strong female front women. Bjork, Sinéad O’ Connor, Madonna, Blondie, Cyndi Lauper. These are the voices that formed my voice.

“I wanted to make music that sounded like daytime and sunshine.”

Martina Sorbara IN: Would you say that there is an established theme throughout “Bodyparts?”

SORBARA: I wanted the album to be sunny and happy even though that may not be super apparent when you listen to the whole thing. I just wanted to get away from nightclub sentiments. That wasn’t necessarily the theme, but I felt that chain was all over electro-pop music and I was having a reaction to hearing so much of that theme.

I wanted to make music that sounded like daytime and sunshine.

IN: Do you have favorite tracks from the album, or ones that have seemed to really catch on with fans?

SORBARA: A lot of people seem to like the song “Ghost,” the most emotional song of the album. I didn’t know if anyone was going to gravitate toward it because it is sentimental and slower, and I’m not sure if that is what people listen to Dragonette for.

IN: What are your hopes for Dragonette moving forward?

SORBARA: I don’t think I’ve ever had any enormous dreams that feel really big and unattainable. I’ve only wanted to keep doing what I’m doing and keep feeling challenged and feel that we are growing at some rate—moving forward and doing interesting stuff that makes us feel really proud.

IN: How would you describe Dragonette for those who have yet to listen?

SORBARA: The reason that we are fairly underground is the type of music we write is all over the place, and it’s hard to describe it. That keeps us a bit small. People can’t say that it is this type of band. If labels can’t pigeonhole you, they can’t promote you, but that is also what is interesting about us. I call it “homemade basement pop.” {in}

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THURSDAY 6.13

GENEALOGY RESEARCH ASSISTANCE 9 a.m.-noon Thursdays in June. Library volunteers are available to give general genealogy research guidance; one-on-one assistance in using online and print resources for family researchers; and will help in filling out ancestral charts and family group records. Navarre Library, 8484 James M. Harvell Rd., Navarre. 981-7323.

MESS HALL 10 a.m. The Pensacola MESS Hall (Math, Engineering, Science & Stuff) offers hands-on opportunities for children and young people to have a summer of science. Weekly themes, special activities and workshops will captivate curious minds of all ages and inspire a lifetime of discovery. 116 N. Tarragona Street (behind Caldwell Associates Architects). For information visit call 1-877-YES-MESS (1-877937-6377 or visit PensacolaMESShall.org.

QUAYSIDE ART GALLERY 10 a.m. through July 15 ‘Together At Last’ brings together two longtime friends, Darlene Homrighausen and Jerry Lewis. 17 E. Zaragoza St, 438-2363 or quaysidegallery.com.

BLUE MORNING GALLERY 10 a.m. A visiting artist show featuring the work of noted local artist Margaret Biggs will be on exhibit through Saturday, June 15. Composition, color and the play between positive and negative space are hallmarks of Biggs' art as she bridges realism and imagination in art that has been described as both modern and surrealistic. 21 Palafox Place.

429-9100 or bluemorninggallery.com.

DRAGONFLY GALLERY 10 a.m. The gallery’s feature room is a favorite site for artists from throughout Santa Rosa County. 5188 Escambia St., Milton. 981-1100 or thedragonflygallery.com.

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The 5K (3.1 miles) course is an out-andback route along Bayfront Parkway, starting and ending at the Community Maritime Park.

In patriotic fashion, the designated “color stops” along the route, hosted by local radio stations, will be rocking red and blue, with an additional splash of yellow to compliment the blue in honor of the Blue Angels. The color itself is cornstarch infused with food grade colorant that washes out with a little soap and water.

The Great American Jubilee party kicks off and concludes the event at the Community Maritime Park. Festivities include a DJ and live music entertainment, athletic activities, food from several local and regional vendors, and even a charity hot dog competition benefiting the Gulf Coast Kid’s House. Plus, of course, extra color—in case you didn’t get enough during the route.

ARTEL GALLERY 10 a.m. Artel Gallery presents "Time”, a juried exhibit, through July 12. Works in this exhibit were selected by juror Nicholas Croghan.

The placement winners are: Best of Show, Richard Rodriguez; First Place, Chip Spirson; Second Place, Joseph Smith; Third Place, Ann Hemard; Edgiest, Jim Eustace; Honorable Mentions, Sheila Courtney, Bill Silhan and Andrea Sutrick.223 Palafox, Old County Courthouse. 432-3080 or artelgallery.org.

DAUMIER: ART FOR THE MASSES 10 a.m.

Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. 432-6247 or pensacolamuseumofart.com.

HISTORIC PENSACOLA TROLLEY TOUR 10 a.m. & 2 p.m. Historic Pensacola Trolley Tour.

Pensacola Visitor Center, 1401 E. Gregory St. 914-2876 or beachbumtrolley.com.

JAPANESE CULTURAL VISUAL ANIMATION CLUB MEETING 12 p.m. Pensacola State College 1000 College Blvd. Building 14, Room 1466, Pensacola Campus, 484-1000 or pensacolastate.edu.

TABLE TOP GAMING MEETING 3 p.m. Pensacola State College, 1000 College Blvd. Building 14, Room 1466, Pensacola Campus, 484-1000 or pensacolastate.edu.

PLAY HAPPY HOUR 4 p.m. Play, 16 S. Palafox, Suite 100. 466-3080 or iplaypensacola.com.

WINE TASTING AWM 5 p.m. Aragon Wine Market, 27 S. Ninth Ave. 433-9463 or aragonwinemarket.com.

WINE & GLIDE SEGWAY TOUR 5:30-7:30 p.m.

This one-hour Segway tour is followed by a stop at the East Hill Yard for a wine tasting. Emerald Coast Tours, 701 S. Palafox. $45. 417-9292 or emeraldcoasttours.net.

THURSDAYS IN THE PARK 6-8 p.m. The Navarre Chamber of Commerce presents this weekly concert series. This week features Shades. Navarre Park, 813 Navarre Pkwy, Na-

Registration is currently underway and caps at 10,000 participants. In addition to receiving a “race” number, registered participants will receive a custom printed white T-shirt (the canvas to soak up the color), a patriotic bandana, wristband and sunglasses. Additional patriotic flare or drag is encouraged—the more color the better. In the spirit of the party, registration includes two Miller Lite (for participants 21 and up) or Pepsi products. {in}

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VEGAN DINNER AT EOTL 6 p.m. End of the Line Café, 610 E. Wright St. 429-0336 or eotlcafe.com.

FLORA-BAMA MEMBERSHIP CARD NIGHT 6 p.m. Flora-Bama Lounge, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-3407 or florabama.com.

EVENINGS IN OLDE SEVILLE 7 p.m. This longrunning summer concert series features this week The Reunion Band with the Palafox Horns. Seville Square, downtown Pensacola. sevilleconcerts.com.

TEXAS HOLD’EM 4 FUN 7 p.m. Paddy O’Leary’s Irish Pub, 49 Via De Luna Dr, Gulf Breeze, FL 916-9808 or paddyolearysirishpub.com.

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ 8 p.m. Four young lovers and six amateur actors get mixed up by magic when they run into a group of feuding fairies one enchanted evening. This is one of the Bard’s most popular comedies, but don’t worry if you’ve seen it before, because you’ve never seen it like this. Pensacola Opera Center, 75 S Tarragona St. $18-$20. 75 S Tarragona St. pensacolashakespearetheatre.org.

live music

NEIL DOVER 3 p.m., Bo Roberts, Mark Sherrill & Rhonda Hart 5 p.m., Jensen Holt Duo 5 p.m., Wes Loper & Thomas Jenkins 9 p.m., Grayson Capps & Lost Cause Minstrels 10 p.m., Wayne Mills & Kyle Wilson 10 p.m., Cornbred 10:30 p.m.

Flora- Bama Lounge, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 4923407 or florabama.com.

THE DAVENPORTS 6 p.m. The Leisure Club, 126 S. Palafox. 912-4229 or tlcdowntown.com.

LUCAS CRUTCHFIELD 6 p.m. The Deck at The Fish House, 600 S. Barracks St. 470-0003 or fishhouse.goodgrits.com.

GREG LYONS & THE LIMOUSINES 7 p.m. Bamboo Willies, 400 Quietwater Beach, Pensacola Beach. 916-9888 or bamboowillies.com.

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happenings

Ears & Fingers

by Jason Leger

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE â€˜â€ŚLIKE CLOCKWORK’

Let’s say, for the sake of the argument, that Hell, as it has been idealized in the evangelical culture that is very prevalent across the South, exists with smoke, fire, sulfur, ashes, screaming and torment. Now, visualize right in the center of downtown Hell, there is a seedy bar, where the worst of the worst hang out. Hell’s biker bar, if you will. In this bar, there is a stage covered in cigarette butts, spilled whiskey and lost dreams. This is the type of environment where Josh Homme and his Queens

of the Stone Age (QOTSA) thrive perfectly.

With their blend of stoner rock and riff heavy ear ringers, QOTSA could be Hell’s house band. The Sulfur Lounge’s main act, and new album, â€œâ€ŚLike Clockwork,â€? has sealed this gig for them. From the dull buzz that opens “Keep Your Eyes Peeledâ€? to the closing line of the title track, “One thing that is clear, it’s all downhill from here,â€? darkness is an everpresent reality on â€œâ€ŚLike Clockwork.â€?

This is QOTSA’s first full-length album in six years, but Homme is not one to rest on his hands. His musical stamp is all over the place. He is a constant networker and smart businessman, often filling in on other band’s works or starting his own side projects, and many of his more prevalent contacts appear on â€œâ€ŚLike Clockwork.â€? Members of Scissor Sisters, Arctic Monkeys, U.N.K.L.E., as well as legends Mark Lanegan, Dave Grohl, and Sir Elton John, make guest appearances on the album, adding not only spots of notoriety, but also regality.

Homme’s “Devil May Care� attitude really takes center stage on this release, but it shouldn’t be confused as arrogance or a lack of concern for the listener. This album

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is very, very polished. Not in the sense that it has been over produced, but in the sense that there is utter, almost machine-like precision. “I blow my load over the status quo,� Homme defiantly growls around the midpoint of the album. At that moment, something is impossible to not realize. While this album is appealing to a broad audience, and will please QOTSA faithful, Homme is being self-indulgent.

When a performer can indulge himself and do exactly what he desires, while at the same time pleasing the people who buy his albums and pay for his art to continue, he has officially “made it.� He is no longer working for a living, but he is actually fleshing out his art, and the general public is consuming it in droves. This is no more prevalent anywhere else than the lead single, “My God Is The Sun.� Catchy, winding and, of course, riff heavy, “My God is the Sun,� is not the traditional radio rotation single, even in QOTSA’s case. There is plenty for the listener to grab on to, but not in the sense that one will be humming this for hours on end or even necessarily remembering it an hour later. In all honesty, it’s probably a forgettable track by

itself. However, placed within the construct of this album, it’s a perfectly placed raging bender helping to connect the pieces of the puzzle. In other words, these tracks have strength in numbers.

Don’t let the fact that this album is rift with riffs and darkness fool you into thinking that there aren’t moving moments or peaceful, engaging moments. “Fairweather Friends� is a middle of the album twisty road of a song that spills over from poignant piano driven moments to angst ridden guitar flares.

The swooning falsetto on “Smooth Sailingâ€? is overtly, wickedly sexual, while “I Sat By The Oceanâ€? rides a borderline between indiepop shimmer and glammy garage rock, and made the case to be my standout track. “The Vampyre of Time and Memoryâ€? is a slow burning, psyched-out apocalyptic vision, adding to the album’s more introspective moments. Sex appeal, stoner glam and the band’s traditional middle finger to contemporary, mainstream rock live and breathe within â€œâ€ŚLike Clockwork.â€? Your ears and your aging punk rock attitude will thank you. â€œâ€ŚLike Clockworkâ€? is out now via Matador Records. {in}

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happenings JAMES & FRIENDS 7 p.m., Hub Stacey's Downtown, 312 E. Government St. 469-1001 or hubstaceys.com.

LATIN NIGHT DJ 7 p.m., Malibu Lounge & Package Store, 1000 Gulf Beach Hwy. 456-2090.

HOLLY SHELTON AND THE CLARENCE BELL BAND 7 p.m. Five Sisters Blues Café, 421 W. Belmont St. 912-4856 or fivesistersbluescafe.com.

THE LACS 7:30 p.m. 2 S. Palafox $10-$15. Vinyl Music Hall, 435-9849 or vinylmusichall.com.

BRAD BARNES OPEN COLLEGE JAM 7:30 p.m. Goat Lips Beer Garden, 2811 Copter Rd. 474-1919.

KARAOKE WITH BECKY 7:30 p.m. Sabine Sandbar, 715 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 934-3141 or dalesbigdeck.com.

DUELLING PIANOS 8 p.m. Rosie O’ Grady’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

RICKY PHELPS 8 p.m. Sandshaker, 713 Pensacola Beach Blvd. Pensacola Beach, 932-2211 or sandshaker.com.

KRAZY GEORGE’S KARAOKE 8 p.m. Lili Marlene’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

DUELLING PIANOS 8 p.m. Rosie O’ Grady’s at Seville Quarter, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

KARAOKE WITH KEVIN SUTTON 8 p.m. Sam’s Lounge, 1225 N. Old Corry Field Rd. 458-0472.

DJ JOHNBOI 8 p.m. Chan’s Nightclub 610 E. Nine Mile Rd. 477-9961 or chanspensacola.com.

NOT TONIGHT JOSEPHINE 9 p.m. The Handlebar 319 N. Tarragona St. 434-9060 or pensacolahandlebar.com.

BIG JIM BROWN 9 p.m. End of the Alley, Seville Quarter, 130 East Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

DJ MR. LAO COLLEGE NIGHT 9 p.m. Phineas Phogg’s, Seville Quarter 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

BLACKWATER 9:30 p.m. Chan's Nightclub 610 E. Nine Mile Rd. 477-9961 or chanspensacola.com.

EXTREME KARAOKE WITH G.C.P.C. 10 p.m., Play, 16 S. Palafox, Suite 100. 466-3080 or gulfcoastpartycrew.com.

DJ NEURON 11 p.m. Club Cirok, 15 E. Intendencia St. 549-6855.

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MESS HALL 10 a.m. The Pensacola MESS Hall (Math, Engineering, Science & Stuff) offers hands-on opportunities for children and young people to have a summer of science. Weekly themes, special activities and workshops will captivate curious minds of all ages and inspire a lifetime of discovery. 116 N. Tarragona Street (behind Caldwell Associates Architects). For information visit call 1-877-YES-MESS (1-877937-6377 or visit PensacolaMESShall.org.

QUAYSIDE ART GALLERY 10 a.m. through July 15 ‘Together At Last’ brings together two longtime friends, Darlene Homrighausen and Jerry Lewis. 17 E. Zaragoza St, 438-2363 or quaysidegallery.com.

BLUE MORNING GALLERY 10 a.m. A visiting artist show featuring the work of noted local artist Margaret Biggs will be on exhibit through Saturday, June 15. Composition, color and the play between positive and negative space are hallmarks of Biggs' art as she bridges realism and imagination in art that has been described as both modern and surrealistic. 21 Palafox Place.

429-9100 or bluemorninggallery.com.

DRAGONFLY GALLERY 10 a.m. The gallery’s feature room is a favorite site for artists from throughout Santa Rosa County. 5188 Escambia St., Milton. 981-1100 or thedragonflygallery.com.

ARTEL GALLERY 10 a.m. Artel Gallery presents "Time”, a juried exhibit, through July 12. Works in this exhibit were selected by juror Nicholas Croghan. The placement winners are: Best of Show, Richard Rodriguez; First Place, Chip Spirson; Second Place, Joseph Smith; Third Place, Ann Hemard; Edgiest, Jim Eustace; Honorable Mentions, Sheila Courtney, Bill Silhan and Andrea Sutrick.223 Palafox, Old County Courthouse. 432-3080 or artelgallery.org.

DAUMIER: ART FOR THE MASSES 10 a.m.

Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. 432-6247 or pensacolamuseumofart.org.

COLONIAL COOKING & TRADES 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Learn early 19th century cooking techniques and trade-skills from costumed living history interpreters. $6 for adults; $5 for AAA members, military and ages 65 and older; $3 for children ages 4 to 16; free for UWF students with student ID. Historic Pensacola Village, 205 E. Zaragoza St. historicpensacola.org.

FOLEY FARMERS MARKET 3-6 p.m. Fridays through June 28. Local farmers and vendors offer everything from fruits and vegetables to honey, wine, seafood, farm-fresh eggs, baked goods, ice cream and plants. Foley Heritage Park, U.S. 59 and U.S. 98. Foley, Ala. visitfoley.org.

PLAY HAPPY HOUR 4 p.m. Play, 16 S. Palafox, Suite 100. 466-3080 or iplaypensacola.com.

WINE TASTING AT SEVILLE QUARTER 5 p.m.

Palace Café at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

WINE TASTING AT CITY GROCEY 5:15 p.m.

City Grocery 2050 N. 12 th Ave. 469-8100.

WINE TASING AT EAST HILL MARKET 5:30p.m. 1216 N. Ninth Ave BANDS ON BLACKWATER 6 p.m. Modern Eldorados are performing this week. After a big 2012 with four originally scheduled concerts, the City of Milton Downtown Redevelopment Board and the Milton Parks Department has grown the event into a nine-week free concert series every Friday night during the months of May and June. South of the Milton Riverwalk, downtown Milton. 983-5466 or ci.milton.fl.us.

MARGIE SHORTT DANCERS PRESENTS REMEMBERING THE PAST 40 YEARS 7 p.m.

A celebration of 40 years of dancers. Saenger Theatre, 118 South Palafox. $18-28. 595-3880 or pensacolasaenger.com.

BLUE WAHOOS GAME 7 p.m. Blue Wahoos vs.

Mobile Baybears. Fireworks. Pensacola Bayfront Stadium, W. Main St. 934-8444 or milb.com.

‘THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH’ 7:30 p.m. A Southeastern Teen Shakespeare Company Production. In this chilling tale of witchcraft, four evil hags inspire Macbeth to plot the murder of the king and thereby gain the throne of Scotland and immortality. Conscience-stricken once the deed is done, he is haunted by ghosts and hounded by enemies. Pensacola Little Theatre, 400 S. Jefferson St. $10. 434-0257 or pensacolalittletheatre.com.

GHOST HUNT 8 p.m. Bring your own equipment or share ours (some items available for purchase in the Gift Shop before tours commence.) Tours are two hours in duration. This tour does include a trip to the top of the Lighthouse for a look across Pensacola Bay, weather permitting. Per Coast Guard Safety Regulations backless/open toed shoes are not permitted to climb the tower stairs. We recommend this tour for children 12 and over only.

Pensacola Lighthouse and Museum, 2081 Radford Blvd. 393-1561 or pensacolalighthouse.org.

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happenings ‘A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM’ 8 p.m. Four young lovers and six amateur actors get mixed up by magic when they run into a group of feuding fairies one enchanted evening. This is one of the Bard’s most popular comedies, but don’t worry if you’ve seen it before, because you’ve never seen it like this. Pensacola Opera Center, 75 S Tarragona St. $18-$20. 75 S Tarragona St. pensacolashakespearetheatre.org.

STARGAZING AT FORT PICKENS Sunset to 10p.m. at the Battery Worth Picnic Area at Fort Pickens Area. Weather permitting, volunteers from the Escambia Amateur Astronomers' Association will set up several telescopes for public viewing of the stars, planets and constellations.

Fort Pickens, 1400 Fort Pickens Rd. The program is free; however, there is an $8 entrance fee to the Fort Pickens Area 934-2600 or nps.gov.

SWING DANCING 8:30 p.m. $5. American Legion, 1401 Intendencia St. 437-5465 or pensacolaswing.com.

‘STAND UP COMEDY SHOW’ 9:30 p.m. Big Easy Tavern, 710 N. Palafox. 208-5976 or Bigeasytavern.com.

COSMIC BOWLING 11 p.m. DeLuna Lanes, 590 E. 9 Mile Road. 478-9522 or delunalanes.com.

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DOUBLE DEE & TAYLOR CRAVEN 12 p.m., Neil Dover Band 12 p.m., Smokin' Elvis' 12 p.m., Troy Brannon 1 p.m., Fatty Waters 1:45 p.m., Cowboy Johnson & Jon Cook 2 p.m., Ken Lambert 2:30 p.m., Sam Glass Band 3 p.m., Beachbillys 3:30 p.m., John Joiner, Nick Branch & Josea 3:30 p.m., Shawna P. & Earthfunk Tribe 3:30 p.m., Dave Johnson 4 p.m., Brent Burns 5 p.m., Wes Bayliss & Ricochet Creek 5 p.m., Larry & Gale Book 5:15

p.m., The Big Earl Show 5:15 p.m., Stephen Lee Veal 6 p.m., Foxy Iguanas 7 p.m., Gove Scrivenor 7 p.m., Taylor Hicks 7 p.m., Rebecca Barry with Bust 7:30 p.m., Ben Stack 8 p.m., Harvest Band 10 p.m., Mario Mena 10 p.m., Albert Simpson 11:30 p.m, Lee Yankie & Hellz Yeah 11:58 p.m.

Flora-Bama Lounge, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 4923407 or florabama.com.

LUCAS CRUTCHFIELD 5 p.m. The Deck at The Fish House, 600 S. Barracks St. 470-0003 or fishhouse.goodgrits.com.

BUBBA AND THEM 6 p.m. The Original Point Restaurant, 14340 Innerarity Point Rd. 492-3577 or point-restaurant.com.

JOHN HART 6 p.m. Paradise Bar & Grill, 21 Via de Luna, Pensacola Beach 916-5087 or paradisebar-grill.com.

DOWNTOWN BIG BAND 6:30 p.m. Gregory Street Assembly Hall, 501 E. Gregory St. 307-8633.

NICK PERAINO & THE OVOROLS 7 p.m. Bamboo Willies, 400 Quietwater Beach, Pensacola Beach. 916-9888 or bamboowillies.com.

KARAOKE WITH BECKY 7:30 p.m. Sabine Sandbar, 715 Pensacola Beach blvd., Pensacola Beach. 924-3141 or dalesbigdeck.com.

ARIEL PINK, KIRIN J CALLINAN, PURPLE PILGRIMS 8 p.m. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox $15-$17. 435-9849 or vinylmusichall.com.

JAMES ADKINS 8 p.m. Hopjack’s Nine Mile, 204 E. Nine Mile Rd. 497-6076 or hopjacks.com.

SCOTT KOEHN 8 p.m. The Grand Marlin, 400 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 6779153 or thegrandmarlin.com.

CHARLIE ROBERTS 8 p.m. Tippy's Tavern, 3790 Barrancas Ave. 549-3268.

DUELLING PIANOS 8 p.m. Rosie O’Grady’s at

Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St.434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

GREG LYONS DUO 8:30 p.m. The Tin Cow, 102 S. Palafox. 466-2103 or thetincow.com.

THE OFFER, CRAZII INC, CATHERCIST 9 p.m.

The Handlebar, 319 N. Tarragona St. 434-9060 or pensacolahandlebar.com.

LIVE MUSIC 9 p.m. The Deck at The Fish House, 600 S. Barracks St. 470-0003 or fishhouse. goodgrits.com.

TRUNK MONKEY 9 p.m. Sandshaker, 713 Pensacola Beach Blvd. Pensacola Beach, 932-2211 or sandshaker.com.

RAVEN MAD & BLACKWATER 9 p.m. Chan's Nightclub 610 E. Nine Mile Rd. 477-9961 or chanspensacola.com.

CHRIS RICKER 9 p.m. McGuire's Irish Pub, 600 E. Gregory St. 433-2849 or mcguiresirishpub.com.

DJ MR. LAO 9 p.m. Phineas Phogg’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

JIG 9 p.m. Bamboo Willies, 400 Quietwater Beach, Pensacola Beach. 916-9888 or bamboowillies.com.

BIG JIM BROWN 9 p.m. End of the Alley, Seville Quarter, 130 East Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

KARAOKE WITH ANGIE & SHAGGY 9 p.m. The Blind Mule, 2937 N. New Warrington Rd. 3326533 or theblindmule.net.

KARAOKE WITH KEVIN SUTTON 9 p.m. Sam’s Lounge, 1225 N. Old Corry Field Rd. 458-0472.

KNEE DEEP BAND 9:30 p.m. Hopjacks Pizza Kitchen & Taproom, 10 S. Palafox. Free. 4976076 or hopjacks.com.

DJ J. ROCK 9:30 p.m. O’Riley’s Irish Pub, 3728 Creighton Rd. 474-0522.

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DJ BUNNIE HOPSON midnight, Top of the Town, 15 E. Intendencia St. 434-8779.

SATURDAY 6.15

PALAFOX MARKET 8 a.m. Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza, N. Palafox St. Palafoxmarket.com.

DOGGIE BATHE-IN 9 a.m. The Humane society of Pensacola continues its Bathe-In Schedule for 2013.

The Bath-ins offer low-cost dog bathing, grooming, nail clipping and flea dips during the warm weather season. Charges for baths and grooming are based on the dog’s weight. Groomings are done on a firstcome, first-served basis. Humane Society, 5 N. Q St. humanesocietyofpensacola.com.

COLONIAL COOKING & TRADES 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Learn early 19th century cooking techniques and trade-skills from costumed living history interpreters. $6 for adults; $5 for AAA members, military and ages 65 and older; $3 for children ages 4 to 16; free for UWF students with student ID. Historic Pensacola Village, 205 E. Zaragoza St. historicpensacola.org.

MESS HALL 10 a.m. The Pensacola MESS Hall (Math, Engineering, Science & Stuff) offers hands-on opportunities for children and young people to have a summer of science. Weekly themes, special activities and workshops will captivate curious minds of all ages and inspire a lifetime of discovery. 116 N. Tarragona Street (behind Caldwell Associates Architects). For information visit call 1-877-YES-MESS (1-877937-6377 or visit PensacolaMESShall.org.

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news of the weird VERY PERSONAL HYGIENE Orestes De La Paz's exhibit at the Frost Art Museum in Miami in May recalled Chuck Palahniuk's novel and film "Fight Club," in which lead character Tyler Durden's principal income source was making upscale soap using discarded liposuctioned fat fetched from the garbage of cosmetic surgeons (thus closing the loop of fat from rich ladies recycled back to rich ladies). De La Paz told his mentor at Florida International University that he wanted only to display his own liposuctioned fat provocatively, but decided to make soap when he realized that the fat would otherwise quickly rot. Some visitors to the exhibit were able to wash their hands with the engineered soap, which De La Paz offered for sale at $1,000 a bar.

THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT As recently as mid-May, people with disabilities had been earning hefty black-market fees by taking strangers into Disneyland and Disney World using the parks' own liberal "disability" passes (which allow for up to five relatives or guests at a time to accompany the disabled person in skipping the sometimes-hours-long lines and having immediate access to the rides). The pass-holding "guide," according to NBC's "Today" show, could charge as much as $200 through advertising on CraigsList and via word-of-mouth to some travel agents.

Following reports in the New York Post and other outlets, Disney was said in late May to be warning disabled permit-holders not to abuse the privilege. ĆˇÉ†Çœ ) 1( * !Ć– $ /%*#ǜɆ( 35!./Ɇ .!Ɇ less the cliche than they formerly were because of bar association crackdowns, but fire truck-chasing contractors and "public adjusters" are still a problem—at least in Florida, where the state Supreme Court tossed out a "48-hour" time- out rule that would have given casualty victims space to reflect on their losses before being overwhelmed by home-restoration salesmen. Consequently, as firefighters told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in May, the contractors are usually "right behind" them on the scene, pestering anxious or griefstricken victims. The Sun-Sentinel found one woman being begged to sign up while she was still crying out for her dog that remained trapped in the blaze.

UNCONVENTIONAL TREATMENTS Researchers writing recently in the journal PLoS ONE disclosed that they had found certain types of dirt that contain antimicrobial agents capable of killing E. coli and the antibiotic-resistant MRSA. According to the article, medical "texts" back to 3000 B.C. mentioned clays that, when rubbed on wounds, reduce inflammation and pain. ơɆ !/! . $!./Ɇ3.%0%*#Ɇ%*Ɇ 5Ɇ%*Ɇ0$!Ɇ journal Pediatrics found that some infants whose parents regularly sucked their

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babies' pacifiers to clean them (rather than rinsing or boiling them) developed fewer allergies and cases of asthma. (On the other hand, parental-cleansing might make other maladies more likely, such as tooth decay.)

LEADING ECONOMIC INDICATORS Until recently, apparently, gene mutations were considered merely freaks of nature, but that was before Myriad Genetics obtained binding U.S. patents for mutations it discovered—now known as BRCA-1 and BRCA-2. Those mutations were in the news in May when actor Angelina Jolie announced that she had chosen to have a double mastectomy based on the presence of the cancer-causing mutations, which she had learned of through a Myriad Genetics test costing about $4,000. There is no price competition for the test, due to the patent, and Jolie, along with oncologists and OB-GYN doctors, fret that the test is too expensive for tens of millions of women around the world whose lives could be saved by knowing their status. ơɆɆ . $!+(+#%/0/Ɇ %/ +2!.! Ɇ%*Ɇ 5Ɇ0$ 0Ɇ a construction company had bulldozed 2,300-year-old Mayan ruins in northern Belize—simply to mine the rocks for road fill to build a highway. A researcher said it could hardly have been an accident, for the ruins were 100 feet high in an otherwise flat landscape, and a Tulane University anthropologist estimated that Mayan ruins are being mined for road fill an average of once a day in their ancient habitats.

Said another, "(T)o realize" that Mayans created these structures using only stone tools and then "carried these materials on their heads" to build them—and then that bulldozers can almost instantly destroy them—is "mind-boggling."

FINE POINTS OF LAW A woman in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood reported to a local news blog in May that she had seen (and her husband briefly conversed with) a man who was operating a "drone" from a sidewalk, guiding the noisy device to a point just outside a third-floor window in a private home. The pilot said he was "doing research" and, perhaps protected by a 1946 U.S. Supreme Court decision, asserted that he was not violating anyone's privacy because he, himself, was on a public sidewalk while the drone was in public airspace. The couple called for a police officer, but by the time one arrived, the pilot and his drone had departed, according to a report on the Capitol Hill Seattle blog. {in}

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