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Tough Mudder results disappointing By Rob Johnson rob@navarrepress.com
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The economic impact of April’s two-day Tough Mudder event, while significant, was far less than the $6 million that the company claimed at its one-day military-style obstacle course in March 2015, according to a new Haas Center study. Santa Rosa Coun- –Liz Horton, Tourism ty’s share of this year’s Development Council estimated $2.75 million impact on the member region was about $1.45 million, as calculated by the economic modeling used by researchers to assess the answers of 371 Tough Mudder participants who responded to survey questions.
“I’d call the results decent, but not what we were promised.”
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Water company leader resigns Staff Reports editor@navarrepress.com Executive Director of HolleyNavarre Water Systems, Billy Sublett has resigned his position with the member-owned company saying in part in an email to Navarre Press,“My work here is complet- Sublett ed.” The position of executive director was created after longtime general manager Ken Walker retired. Walker’s duties were split between the executive director and general manager. The utility’s board of directors hired Sublett in March 2014 to take on the new position of executive director and promoted a 30-year employee, Paul Gardner to the general manager position.
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Escaped inmate apprehended Staff Reports editor@navarrepress.com Fugitive John Wesley Saatio was on the run when he was apprehended by Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies Saatio Sunday evening, July 3. Saatio escaped Saturday when he reportedly fled a private inmate transportation company’s custody at 10:30 p.m. at the I-10 rest area at mile marker 29 in Santa Rosa County. Saatio was extradited last week from Costa Rica after escaping custody last year in Michigan. News reports state that Saatio also escaped custody in Costa Rica after he was initially caught - and then caught again.
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Navarre’s earliest recorded heritage began with Spanish explorers in 1693 By Jon Crider jon@navarrepress.com The neighborhood called “Robledal Estates”on East Bay Boulevard may seem like just another waterfront neighborhood. However, it was the scene the oldest documented history of the area we now call Navarre. Spanish exploration While the story of the land encompassing Robledal
begins long before recorded history, we know that the area first received its name from the Spanish explorer, mathematician and scientist Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora. In Spanish, the word“Robledal” translates to “Oak Grove”- from the word“ Robledo,” meaning “Oakwood.” According to“The Beginnings of Texas and Pensacola” by Dr. William Edward Dunn, University of Texas, Robledal was first encoun-
tered during the expedition of Pez-Sigüenza which set sail fromVera Cruz on March 25, 1693. Captain Jordan de Reina, an officer who had taken part in the Barroto-Romero voyage of 1686 accompanied Pez and Sigüenza. In Reina’s honor, Sigüenza named the river on which they traveled after his first name, calling it the River Jordan, which we know today as East River. According to Dunn, on April 11, 1693, after the dis-
covery of the River Jordan, a group of Native Americans were spotted watching the Spanish ships from a nearby shore. When the Spaniards landed on shore, however, they found only a deserted camp, guarded by a fierce dog. The natives had fled in such a rush from the camp that they had left a fire with pieces of buffalo meat still cooking over it.
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Walmart set to roll out grocery pickup service By Brian Lester brian@navarrepress.com The Florida market is relatively new to online grocery pickup service at Wal-Mart, debuting in the state late last year. Navarre will soon offer the service, rolling it out July 13 at the store location on Navarre Parkway, and store manager Bryan Boney is excited about it. “I think it’s a great opportunity for people to be able to balance life and work by using the service,”Boney said.“We’re excited about it and hope people take advantage of it.”
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The Navarre Walmart is gearing up for the start of online grocery pickup service this month. It is one of two area locations that is adding the service for its customers.
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Photographs courtesy of the University of West Florida Archives and History Center, Axelson Collection (71-4).
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The Spanish explorers named their original campsite “El Robledal” because of the numerous oak trees in the area which were a prevalent part of the landscape.
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This 1698 map of Pensacola Bay by Don Andrés de Arriola y Guzmán clearly shows Robledal.
Above is a photo taken this past weekend. Below is F. F. Bingham’s sketch of Axelson Cove which was drawn when he visited the area by boat on July 18, 1915.
The home of Birger Swen Axelson still stands in Pensacola on South Florida Blanca Street.
Gustaf’s Axelson’s house is on the corner, right down the street from Birger’s home.
John Newton Axelson and Christina Axelson are shown here in personal photographs from the early 1900s.
After erecting a wooden cross and leaving gifts for the natives, the Spaniards continued their exploration upriver. Later, when they returned to the campsite, the explorers noticed that their gifts had been taken. In return, the natives had also constructed a wooden cross and left a buffalo hide as a peace offering. Due to the great number of oak trees in that place, the campsite was called “El Robledal.”The earliest known map of Robledal is dated 1693, the same year of the Pez-Sigüenza expedition. In a map dated 1698 by Don Andrés de Arriola y Guzmán, the first governor of Pensacola after Luna’s colony was abandoned, the Robledal location is also noted.This time however, the cartographer made note of a small house in his drawing, indicating a camp or settlement of some kind. In that 1698 map, the only other similarly drawn structures are located in what is now downtown Pensacola. The first family of Robledal Following the Onis-Adams Treaty of 1819, Spanish control of all Florida lands ended and the Spanish turned Florida over to the American Government. Many more American and immigrant families arrived over the years to settle the new lands in Florida, seeking new beginnings and opportunity. According to“Pioneering in the Panhandle”by William J. Wells, the first family to homestead the Robledal area arrived in Santa Rosa County sometime in the 1850s. In view of the lapping waters of the East Bay and the live oaks of Robledal, Frederick A. Axelson (born in Oland, Sweden on Dec. 29, 1825) and Margaret Hunter Axelson (born in Orkney, Scotland on Oct. 18, 1825) would build their homestead and raise their family. In total, the couple had five children, four sons and one daughter.The Axelson boys were Frederick (born Jan. 11, 1854, in Algiers, New Orleans), Gustaf (born April 10, 1858, in East Bay), Hjalmar (born July 4, 1864, in East Bay), and Birger Swen Axelson (born Dec. 1, 1860, in East Bay). Their daughter, Margareta Axelson, was born June 26, 1856, in Milton according to her tombstone. A shipyard in Robledal Soon after their establishment in Northwest Florida, the Axelsons constructed a large shipyard at Axelson Cove along the southern shore of East Bay which is now part of Robledal Estates.There, the family had a business building and repairing large ships. Many of the oak and long-leaf yellow pine trees so admired by the Spanish in 1698 were put to good use by the family in the creation and repair of multiple seafaring vessels. According to Wells, two large ships are known to have been constructed at Axelson Shipyard, including the Donna Christina and the Hjalmar. According to Dr. Brian R. Rucker, Professor of History at Pensacola State College and local historian, the Axelsons had a broad influence in this part of Northwest Florida over the course of their naval activities. “The Axelson family is representative of many immigrants coming to America in the 1800s,” Rucker said. “The maritime endeavors of several generations of Axelsons were felt in South Santa Rosa County and in Pensacola.” During the Civil War, according to Rucker’s article West Florida’s Unionists, Frederick A.Axelson seems to have been a supporter of the Union, a hazardous political view in West Florida at the time.While many other southern families were hurt by the federal blockade of the Gulf Coast, Axelson was known to trade openly with Union officials. According to Rucker, on one trip Axelson was able to obtain a barrel of flour and 25 pounds of bacon to take home through his trading with the Federalists. Luckily for the family, during the scorched-earth policy of the Confederacy in 1862, while Miller’s mill burned (located at Miller’s Point, across from Robledal), the Axelson shipyard was somehow spared. Like their father before them, Birger Swen, Gustaf and Hjalmar all became captains and skilled shipwrights. According to Wells, their only daughter, Margareta, became a school teacher. Even as a seafaring people, the Axelsons did not hesitate to buy large swaths of land in Santa Rosa County. At one time, the family owned over 500 acres in the area, much of it with forests of valuable lumber. Aided sometimes by his sister, Frederick Axelson seems to have been heavily involved in looking after the family’s lumber and land holdings. According to the 1900 Federal census, he listed his occupation as a carpenter.
As evident from notebooks kept in the Axelson Collection at the University of West Florida Archives, the family was highly educated and had a great love of literature, especially poetry. In that collection is one of Gustaf’s personal copybooks. In this notebook which he took with him during his times at sea, he recorded and copied many great works of poetry and literature, along with his own personal thoughts. A very thoughtful man, the following is a quote from the preface to one of his books as an answer to those who would say his writings were a waste of time:“Life at its longest is composed of but a few years, therefore let us with the useful mingle as much of the agreeable as we can. Of course we cannot exist by contemplating the flowers or the stars or by listening to the music of the birds on a summer morning, but an hour thus spent ever once and awhile will cause us to forget our cares and make us conscious that life is not all a warfare.” Through Gustaf, the Axelsons became connected to another prominent area family, the Newton family of Mary Esther. According to the notebook of the Rev. John Newton, Gustaf was married to Esther Newton on Jan. 17, 1883. Esther Newton and her sister, Mary, were the individuals for whom the town Mary Esther was named. Tragedy In 1883, Frederick A. Axelson passed away at the age of 58 in Robledal. He was followed into the afterlife by his son Hjalmar on June 16, 1890, in Milton. Hjalmar, who died from tetanus resulting from a wound he received while working in the shipyard, was much mourned by the family. As an added trauma, soon after Hjalmar’s death and burial, his body was stolen. According to Wells, it is supposed that some of the Axelson’s neighbors did so in order to sell his remains to a doctor in Milton for the doctor’s study. On Nov. 16, 1909, Birger Swen Axelson passed away in Tampa, Fla. Aboard a ship initially bound for Cuba, he left Pensacola thinking his illness was only minor. Contrary to Wells’ book, he did not die lost at sea. Instead, according to the Pensacola News Journal, dated Nov. 18, 1909, Birger stopped his ship in Tampa once his illness became serious. In the time that it took his message to reach his family, he had already lapsed into a coma. At 4 o’clock on Tuesday, he breathed his last. Marked by tragedy, the family was doomed to suffer yet another loss. On Dec. 8, 1910, Gustaf Axelson was swept off the deck of his ship Doris during a fierce storm near “Belize, Honduras,” according to his headstone. His body was never recovered. Surviving him were his wife, Esther and his two children John Newton and Christina. In Pensacola, John Newton Axelson would become a name of prominence. As the owner of the Pensacola Excelsior Company, he was a prominent businessman in the community. He would also go on in his life to marry Marjorie R. Quina. After her affair with a married man, Guy H. Wyman (a man who at one time owned much of Navarre), John and Marjorie Axelson would divorce in 1931. A veteran of both world wars, John Newton attained the rank of major in the U.S. Army Reserve as an artillery officer during World War II. He has only a humble military grave marker as his headstone. While the family cemetery was originally located on their land in Robledal, the graveyard was later relocated. Due to the frequent vandalism and disruption of the graves in the family cemetery at Robledal by those nearby, John Newton chose St. John’s Cemetery in Pensacola as the new resting place for his loved ones. Today, all of the Axelson family is buried there. A short drive away from the family plot, the old Axelson home in Pensacola on South Florida Blanca Street still stands today. It is among the houses listed in the Historic American Buildings Survey begun by Charles E. Peterson in 1933. Preserving the past While the Spanish explorers, the Native American camp of Robledal, the Axelson family, and their homestead on East Bay may be gone, evidence of their existence all remain. When Navarre Press interviewed current residents of Robledal Estates Jerry Merritt, Susan Curran, and Max Weger, they all described artifacts of Robledal’s history found on their properties. “Almost any digging you do here results in the discovery of Indian pottery and other artifacts,”Merritt said. “When our house was being constructed, my wife and I were even able to recover pieces during the digging by the builders.” See Timeline on page 8
Members of the Axelson family can be seen enjoying time out on one of their schooners in this photo.
Christine Axelson back) stands with (third from the left, in the year at Pensacola her classmates in her junior High School 1909 -1910.
Today, the headstones of Birger and Gustaf Axelson rest in St. John’s Cemetery in Pensacola.
Interesting Robledal tidbits According to Commission Minute records of Santa Rosa County, the first voting precinct for the East Bay area was established in 1869. The site of elections was the Axelson home in Robledal. For the November 2, 1869 vote to determine whether or not Alabama would annex West Florida, Frederick A. Axelson was one of three inspectors of the local election. According to Susan Curran, a resident of Robledal, ballast stones from the ships of Axleson shipyard still sit at the bottom of East Bay off the shore from the neighborhood. One known sketch of the old Axelson house in Robledal is featured in Dr. Brian Rucker’s book, The Log of the Peep O' Day: Summer Cruises in West Florida Waters, 1912-1915. Through comparison of this sketch with current photographs of Axelson Cove, the original location of the Axelson house seems to have sat on property that is now between the addresses of 6451 and 6455 Avenida de Galvez Street. One of these properties is proudly owned by Debi and Stephen Rojecki. According to Jerry Merritt, the old Axelson Road, which was used for transporting lumber and supplies to Robledal, can still be seen today. Though most of it is submerged under a small lake west of Calle de Hidalgo Street, Merritt stated that the remaining part of the road can be seen clearly on the west side of the lake. The exact location, according to Merritt, is off of Avenida de Galvez Street about 100 yards inland from the benches near the levee. In 1974, Carl Barnard was the man responsible for subdividing the old Axelson homestead property. He is also credited for giving the area back its Spanish name of “Robledal.” Also according to Merritt, multiple evidence of the Axelsons’ shipbuilding presence have been uncovered over the years. “I have heard that there was a large anchor in someone's front yard for a time many years ago.” Merritt said. “They apparently discovered the anchor while digging the foundation for their house.” There are two houses still standing in Pensacola which belonged to members of the Axelson family. The house at 318 South Florida Blanca Street was owned by Gustaf Axelson and later his son, John Newton Axelson. His brother, Birger Swen, owned the house at 314 South Florida Blanca Street. Both were probably built around the same time in the 1890s.
Max Weger holds up a hand iron which he found, most likely once belonging to the Axelsons.
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According to the Green Bay Press Gazette, Saatio was handcuffed when he escaped from Houghton County deputies following a June 19, 2015, court appearance on charges of home invasion and destruction of police property. Police said he stole a car and headed south, running out of gas on Green Bay's west side. He was apprehended in Santa Rosa County after a citizen called SRSO regarding a suspicious person walking in a wooded area.The description provided fit Saatio. Deputies arrived a short time later at approximately 5 p.m. with a K-9 unit near Antietam Road in Milton to track down Saatio. Other K-9 Units were called in including Santa Rosa Correctional Institute, Okaloosa, Century, and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.The K-9 units continued to track Saatio south for approximately 2 miles where he was approaching the Yellow River. Saatio was apprehended approximately four hours later without incident. When deputies searched him, they found two makeshift handcuff keys in his sock. Saatio was transported to the Santa Rosa County Jail where he remains under close watch. Charges include escape and possession of a handcuff key. Additional charges are pending at this time. Criminal records show that Saatio was: ■ Charged in Clark County, Nev., in 2014 with failing to follow sex-offender registration laws. Saatio listed a Las Vegas address at that time.There may be warrants for his arrest in Nevada. ■ Imprisoned in Florida for about three years for a 2009 burglary and failing to register as a sex offender. ■ Jailed in Michigan for 72 days in 1998 for breaking and entering.
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In an email to Navarre Press, Sublett said,“I have resigned from the Holley-Navarre Water System, Inc. We fought hard to provide direction by defining the need for re-use water disposal. We brought forward the method of financing the upgrades by making rate changes, although unpopular, necessary to pay for the system's future. We also ensured that our growth could be measured by controlling our future debts. The current Five Year Capital Improvement Plan will be used as a map to a fully compliant and healthy water system for all who are serviced by it. My work here is completed.” Board president Bien May responded via email that the Board of Directors and HolleyNavarre Water System have accepted Sublett’s resignation effective July 1, 2016.“We appreciate Mr. Sublett’s time, efforts and accomplishments while working with our company,” May relayed.“We wish him the very best in his future endeavors.” The Board of Directors is not planning to fill the open position at this time. In the interim, General Manager Paul Gardner will oversee all operations within HNWS. Phil Phillips will head the engineering group and Jim Morgan will be the general manager overseeing all operations within The Club at Hidden Creek with all three of these managers reporting directly to the Board of Directors according to May. Sublett’s tenure with the utility was not without controversy when he purchased a new insurance package for the employees of the company, effectively doubling the company’s health savings account payments for employees and their family members. Shortly after the purchase the water company raised its rates to customers by 17.5 percent. More recently the utility has come under fire for seeking to build two Rapid Infiltration Basin Systems (RIBS) on land in the Williams Creek area, which is prone to flooding.
Sacred Heart refuses homeowners’ plea on clinic By Rob Johnson rob@navarrepress.com Although a member of the Sacred Heart Health System’s development team finally agreed to meet with the leader of several homeowner groups in Tiger Point East, the controversial entrance to a new clinic won’t be relocated. “They listened.They heard our ideas for an alternate access point that we feel would be safer and smooth the flow of traffic,”said Stan Shaw, president of the Oak Point Homeowners Association. “But they think the current
plan is the best for everyone.” The meeting came last week and followed a June 16 article in the Navarre Press which reported that Sacred Heart hadn’t responded to an invitation by a group of 10 area homeowner associations who are protesting the clinic’s planned entrance/exit on Tiger Point Boulevard. Fearing traffic congestion and danger to pedestrians on the two-lane Tiger Point Boulevard, area residents had requested that Sacred Heart move the access to nearby U.S. Highway 98. Sacred Heart has resisted
that change, pointing out that it would require a right-turn lane located uncomfortably close to the traffic light at the intersection of 98 and the Tiger Point arterial road. Boulevard bottleneck Shaw offered a compromise during a meeting: keep the clinic entrance on Tiger Point Boulevard but move it about 150 feet south, which would relocate it from directly opposite the only entrance/exit to the Oak Pointe subdivision. That location would allow more vehicles to line up
between the clinic’s access and the traffic light at the arterial road’s intersection with U.S. Highway 98. “Right now you can only get nine passenger vehicles in there before people won’t be able to drive out of the clinic parking lot or leave Oak Pointe until the light changes,” Shaw explained. The results of a study done by an independent engineer hired by Santa Rosa County indicate that the new clinic will increase traffic on Tiger Point Boulevard by about vehicle 800 trips a day, or 26 percent. Still, Sacred Heart has
repeatedly said that its engineers and those of Santa Rosa County think the clinic access now under construction on the two-lane Tiger Point Boulevard is the best plan. Shaw asserted that the homeowner groups haven’t given up on their quest to change the clinic’s construction plans.“We’ll talk this over among ourselves before we think about bringing in a third party or some other action.” Some homeowners have floated the idea of boycotting the $6 million clinic, but others dismiss that strategy as unlikely to succeed.
Robledal Estates’ Historical timeline 1561– Don Tristan de Luna’s colonization attempt at Pensacola is abandoned.
1843 – Britain outlaws gibbeting - 1882 – Robert Koch discovers that the public display for the bodies of a rod-shaped bacterium causes executed criminals. tuberculosis.
1693 – The Pez-Sigüenza expedition arrives and Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora draws his map of Robledal.
1845 – Florida is admitted to the Union as a State.
1698 – The Pensacola colony is reestablished with Andrés de Arriola as its first governor. 1740 – British commander James Oglethorpe invades St. Augustine, Florida. 1763 – The French and Indian War ends, and Florida is seceded to England. 1775 – The American Revolution begins. 1789 – George Washington becomes the first President of the United States. 1804 – Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned as Emperor of France. 1810 – West Florida rebels and declares independence from Spain. 1821 – Florida becomes a U.S.owned territory. Andrew Jackson is established as first governor. 1824 – Tallahassee becomes the state capital.
1847 – Members of the Donner Party spend the winter in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. 1854 – Frederick Axelson is born in New Orleans. (Jan. 11, 1854 – Jan. 21, 1933) 1855 – The Third Seminole War is fought.
1842 – Santa Rosa County is formed.
Walmart
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Walmart has been offering the online grocery pickup service for the past five years and the popularity of it has risen significantly in that time. In this area, the service is already offered at the Creighton Road location in Pensacola and at the Walmart on Highway 90 in Milton. “Our customers have told us that grocery pick up is a game changer, and due to its recent success in the Pen-
1884 – The post office location in Eagan, Florida (now Navarre) is established. 1886 – The Apache Geronimo surrenders to U.S. forces. 1889 – The Florida State Board of Health is founded.
1856 – Margareta Axelson is born in Milton. (June 26, 1856 – 1890 – Indians are massacred at July 2, 1937) Wounded Knee. 1858 – Gustaf Axelson is born in Robledal. (April 10, 1858 – Dec. 8, 1910)
1892 – Christine Axelson is born in Pensacola. (Sept. 25, 1892June 8, 1971).
1860 - Birger Swen Axelson is born in Robledal. (Dec. 1, 1860 – Nov. 16, 1909)
1893 – Colorado is the first state to allow women to vote in state elections.
1861 – On Jan. 10, Florida votes to leave the Union. On April 12, the Civil War begins. In October, Confederate forces attack Fort Pickens on Santa Rosa Island.
1896 – John Newton Axelson is born. (Aug. 19, 1896 – Sept. 10, 1964) 1897- William McKinley is elected President of the United States.
1864 – Hjalmar Axelson is born in Robledal. (July 4, 1864 – 1898 – The Spanish American July 16, 1890) War begins.
1867 – Alfred Nobel patents his 1825– Frederick A. Axelson is born invention of dynamite. in Oland, Sweden. (Dec. 29, 18251869 - The Courthouse at Milton Oct. 19, 1883) on Berryhill Street burns. – Margaret Hunter is born in 1872- Voting rights for white Orkney, Scotland. (Oct. 1, 1825southerners in formerly ConfederAug. 31, 1887) ate States who were denied rights 1829 – Andrew Jackson is elected States are restored. as President of the United States 1876 – Custer makes his last stand and is killed at Little Big 1835 – The Second Seminole Horn. War of Florida erupts. 1838 – The Cherokee people march the Trail of Tears.
1883 – Gustaf Axelson marries Esther Newton of Mary Esther. Rev. John Newton charges Gustaf $10 for the ceremony.
1877 – Rutherford B. Hayes is elected as President of the United States.
1900 – The World Population reaches 1.7 Billion. 1903 – The Wright brothers construct their first plane. 1905 –Theodore Roosevelt is elected as President of the United States. 1908 – The first Model T automobile is produced by Henry Ford. 1909 – Gustaf Axelson is swept off the deck of the Doris during a fierce storm near Honduras.
1912 – The Titanic sinks in the Northern Atlantic, and 1,503 1879 – Thomas Edison invents the people lose their lives. first incandescent light bulb.
sacola area, our customers will have access to this new service at even more locations,” said Phillip Keene, the director of communications for Walmart. Walmart’s grocery pickup service features 30,000 items, with 90 percent of the customers choosing to add fresh meat, dairy or produce to their baskets. All of the items selected by online shoppers are offered at the same low prices customers find in their local Walmart stores. In addition to the location in Navarre, the Walmart store on Pensacola Boulevard in
Pensacola is also starting up the service July 13. The service is simple to use. Customers go to Walmart.com/grocery and enter their zip code. Once they choose their items, they choose a designated store to visit and select a time slot to pick up their order. There is a $30 minimum purchase for grocery orders and pick up is free. Pick ups can be scheduled seven days a week, up to three weeks in advance. With the service expanding to Navarre, even more people will be able to use the service. “Now, even more of our
customers are able to complete their grocery shopping in a matter of minutes – between errands or on their
way home from an afterschool activity – without even unbuckling their seatbelts,” Keene said.
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