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Pelican Drop By Sarah Walter
A new year signals letting go of the old and welcoming the new. But, when the last day of the year comes into view, everyone just wants to have a good time. Whether the celebration is a delicious dinner with drinks at a local restaurant or an auditory feast while enjoying the Symphony Orchestra’s yearend performance, Pensacola offers everything a new year celebration could require. Regardless of how you celebrate through the night, all Pensacolians welcome the new year the same way: watching a glittering pelican light up the night. The Pelican Drop became an instant classic for Pensacola in 2008 and draws upward of 50,000 people in attendance annually. With the streets of Palafox and Government closed to traffic, the Pelican Drop is a self-contained celebration, perfect for those who want to celebrate out on the town with the whole family. Street closures will begin the morning of Dec. 31 and continue through 1 am New Year morning. For those who wish to secure good parking spots but not be left waiting for hours for the main party to start, there will be early familyfriendly entertainment
beginning at 3 pm at the Center Stage on Palafox and Garden Streets. An attraction new to this year’s event is a full-size Ferris wheel. Carnival games also will line the streets, and at 5:30 pm, the popular “Characters On The Go” interactive show will return to the Center Stage this year where children and their parents will be able to take photos with the characters. For those who do not want to stay out until midnight, the children’s area will host a special kids’ countdown at 8 pm complete with confetti and a fun bubble stomp. The celebration continues as night falls on the Main Stage. Musical entertainment will begin at 5:30 pm with the Beatles tribute band Not Quite Fab. The ceremonial blessing of Pensacola, honoring the city and giving it fortune in the upcoming year, will commence at 6:45 pm. The bird of the night— the glittering 14-foot-tall pelican—will be hoisted 100 feet above the intersection of Palafox and Government Streets an hour later. The party will be in full swing with musical guests ranging from Vince Vance and the Valiants, who are celebrating 36 years of music making, to the versatile but always fun stylings of
the band Rewind, hailing from Louisiana. Rewind won’t be able to rewind the year as they finish out the party, playing all the way through to 1:15 am on New Year’s morning. Fireworks will serve as the backdrop to the pelican, both of them lighting up the midnight sky as confetti falls on the city.
The party downtown might draw to an end, but there are other New Year traditions to still be had. The Flora-Bama Lounge will host its Polar Bear Dip on Jan. 1, in Perdido Key where they invite you to come wash the old year away in the Gulf of Mexico. A similar event, the Polar Bear plunge, takes place on Pensacola
Beach at Paradise Bar and Grill as well. Those who want to have a good time on the town, do not have to look far to find afun event. For those who wish to stay home and enjoy the night quietly, they are already set. In the end, enjoying the moment is what it is really about. Here’s to 2015!
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Calendar of Events January 1 New Year’s Day Offices Closed: U.S. District Court First Judicial Circuit Court Florida Office of Compensation Claims Santa Rosa County Clerk of Court and Comptroller Escambia County Clerk of Court and Comptroller Escambia-Santa Rosa Bar Association January 2 Day after New Years Offices Closed: Escambia County Board Functions January 19 Martin Luther King Day Offices Closed: U.S. District Court First Judicial Circuit Court Florida Office of Compensation Claims Santa Rosa County Clerk of Court and Comptroller Escambia County Clerk of Court and Comptroller Escambia-Santa Rosa Bar Association
Professionalism Awards Nomination Deadlines Approaching The Florida Bar’s Standing Committee on Professionalism is now accepting nominations for the William M. Hoeveler Judicial Professionalism Award, the Group Professionalism Award, and the Law Faculty/Administrator Professionalism Award. The William M. Hoeveler Judicial Professionalism Award is for either a state or federal judge "who best exemplifies strength of character, service, and competence as a jurist, lawyer, and public servant.” The purpose of the Group Professionalism Award is to find one organization that has an innovative program that can be implemented by other organizations to promote and encourage professionalism within the legal community. The Law Faculty/Administrator Professionalism Award is intended to honor a faculty member or administrator who through teaching, scholarship, and service to the profession best supports or exemplifies the mission of the Standing Committee on Professionalism. The deadline for nominations and all supporting documents for the William M. Hoeveler Judicial Professionalism Award is February 2, 2015. The deadline for nomination packets for the Law Faculty/Administrator Professionalism Award and the Group Professionalism Award is February 16, 2015. All nomination forms can be found on the Center's website at www.floridabar.org/professionalism - under the "Awards" section - and must be submitted to the Henry Latimer Center for Professionalism.
TALLAHASSEE – West Palm Beach attorney David C. Prather and Tampa attorney William J. Schifino Jr. are both running for president-elect of The Florida Bar. Additionally, 19 incumbents on the Board of Governors were re-elected without opposition, one is newly elected, and two seats – in the 11th and 16th circuits – have contested elections. Ballots will be mailed to all eligible voters by March 2, 2015, and must be received before midnight EST on March 23, 2015.
The 19 incumbents re-elected without opposition for two-year terms (2015-17) are: • 2nd Circuit, Seat 1 ......Lawrence E. Sellers Jr., Tallahassee • 4th Circuit, Seat 2 .......Michael G. Tanner, Jacksonville • 5th Circuit, Seat 1 .......Renee E. Thompson, Ocala • 6th Circuit, Seat 2 .......Sandra Fascell Diamond, Seminole • 8th Circuit, Seat 1 .......Carl B. Schwait, Gainesville • 9th Circuit, Seat 2 .......Paul L. SanGiovanni, Orlando • 11th Circuit, Seat 4 .....Michael J. Higer, Aventura • 11th Circuit, Seat 6 .....Steven W. Davis, Miami • 12th Circuit, Seat 1 .....F. Scott Westheimer, Sarasota • 13th Circuit, Seat 2 .....Lansing C. Scriven, Tampa • 13th Circuit, Seat 3 .....Margaret Diane Mathews, Tampa • 15th Circuit, Seat 2 .....Ronald P. Ponzoli Jr., West Palm Beach • 15th Circuit, Seat 4 .....Gary S. Lesser, West Palm Beach • 17th Circuit, Seat 2 .....Diana Santa Maria, Fort Lauderdale • 17th Circuit, Seat 3 .....Lorna E. Brown-Burton, Deerfield Beach • 17th Circuit, Seat 5 .....Adam Rabinowitz, Fort Lauderdale • 19th Circuit, Seat 1 .....John M. Stewart, Vero Beach • 20th Circuit, Seat 2 .....Marcy L. Shaw, Fort Myers • Out-of-State, Seat 3 ....Eric L. Meeks, Cincinnati, Ohio Newly elected for a two-year term (2015-2017) is: • Out-of-State, Seat 1 ........E. Duffy Myrtetus, Richmond, Va. The seat was previously held by Richard A. Tanner, formerly of Montclair, N.J.
Contested races • 11th Circuit, Seat 2 .........Incumbent Dori Foster-Morales, Miami, is being challenged by Marlon Weiss, Miami. • 16th Circuit, Seat 1 .........Candidates Meghan M. Benstead, Key West, and Bernadette Restivo, Key Largo, are running for the seat vacated by Judge Timothy J. Koenig. The Board of Governors is the Bar’s governing body, with exclusive authority to formulate and adopt matters of policy concerning the activities of the Bar, subject to limitations imposed by The Rules Regulating The Florida Bar. The 52-member board is composed of: • The Bar president and president-elect; • The president and president-elect of the Young Lawyers Division; • Representatives elected by members of the Bar from each of the state's 20 judicial circuits; • Four out-of-state representatives elected by Florida Bar members who reside outside of Florida; • And two public members appointed by the Florida Supreme Court.
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