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REED BELL Dr. Bell, who passed away

recently at age 86, is recognized as one of the founders of Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital. He enlisted area physicians and the Daughters of Charity to create a new children’s hospital at a time when there was no facility in the area that specialized in the care of children. Dr. Bell served as its medical director from 1969-1986. He also was a leader in starting the pediatric residency program, and recruiting specialists who developed services such as our NICU, pediatric intensive care unit, and pediatric surgery services.

BUD DAY We lost an American hero to cancer. Col. Bud Day, an Air Force fighter pilot, was a Medal of Honor recipient who served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam, where he was held prisoner for five years and seven months. His cellmate was Sen. John McCain, who ran for president in 2008. Day fought for and won medical care benefits for military retirees after the age 65. He will be missed.

RICHARD STEINERT The Ballet Pensacola artistic director has accepted an offer for membership to the International Dance Council CID UNESCO, the highest international body of dance. Steinart was nominated for his contributions to the international dance community, both choreographically and educationally, and the extraordinary outreach and collaborative programming Ballet Pensacola has developed under his direction.

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of Education (DOE) commissioner resigned on August 1 because of allegations that while he was Indiana superintendent of schools he changed the "A-F" school grading system, so a particular charter school, Christel House Academy, would receive a top A rating. In his resignation letter, Bennett wrote that if he stayed on as commissioner it would "be a distraction to the children of Florida." Bennett had been hired in December 2012. He is the third education commissioner to resign in the past three years.

THOMAS TURNER Escambia County’s hu-

man resources director, Tommy Turner, met with jail medical services employees behind closed doors. What happened in that meeting is yet another point of debate between the county and sheriff ’s office. Some of the employees have said that they felt threatened that if they received any pay off of their accumulated leave from Sheriff Morgan that the county wouldn’t hire them. The county gave the Independent News a statement but refused to allow the paper to interview Turner.

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THREE STRIKE RULE It’s time we take off the blinders and see that the education emperor, Jeb Bush, is buck-naked. We’ve added more bureaucracy and educators are struggling to teach in an environment where the rules are constantly changing.

Since Rick Scott was sworn in as governor, Florida has had three education commissioners.

Jeb Bush and his Foundation for Excellence in Education have had a say in all three appointments.

Eric Smith resigned in June 2011. A holdover from Charlie Crist’s tenure as governor, he left so that Scott and Bush could get a commissioner more aligned to the Bush agenda. A year later, Smith was named a Fellow for Education Reform for the George W. Bush Institute.

His successor was Gerard Robinson who left Virginia where he was that state’s secretary of education. Robinson was a founding member of Chiefs for Change, an organization of chief state education officers that professes to be committed to putting children first through “visionary education reform.” It is an offshoot of the Foundation for Excellence in Education.

Robinson took the Bush education plan and raised the passing requirements for the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT), Bush’s other bright idea. The education commissioner lasted barely a year.

In May 2012, the state Board of Education called an emergency meeting to lower the passing scores on 2012 FCAT writing exams after results tumbled from prior years. There were also problems calculating school grades. By August 2012, Robinson was packing his bag, saying that he missed his family in Virginia.

Robinson was replaced

by Tony Bennett—the educator, not the singer.

Bennett, who was also a Chiefs for Change member, appeared to be a safe choice. He was elected Indiana’s State Superintendent in 2008 on a Jeb Bush-style education reform platform.

Unfortunately for him and Bush, Indiana voters didn’t buy into those “reforms” and Bennett was upset in his reelection bid last fall. Three months later, he was hired by the Florida Board of Education.

The FCAT scores and school grades were even worse under Bennett. He resigned on August 1 after allegations surfaced over him misusing his position to help a private school in Indiana adjust upwards its grade. Jeb Bush wrote a glowing viewpoint praising Bennett’s leadership that appeared in the state’s major newspapers.

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We provide the tools and supplies needed for able-bodied people to maintain or rehabilitate their residential properties, and have volunteers available to assist those with physical or age related challenges.

However, one of the most important roles we are playing in Pensacola is that of a partnership builder, working with other organizations and agencies to create the required blend of materials, manpower and resources required to implement organized and focused neighborhood rehabilitation campaigns.

Our organization came into existence in October 2012, but did not actually start providing services until late December.

Since December, we have already accomplished the following; 1,135 volunteer hours equaling $22,700 in hourly value based on a nationally -accepted value of $20 an hour. Good Works Partnerships has had a direct impact on more than 500 properties throughout the greater Pensacola area.

We most recently partnered with Habitat for Humanity on a “Rebuild Pensacola” campaign that stabilized an entire 12 square block area of one of the oldest neighborhoods in Pensacola.

Good Works Partnerships recently provided Catholic Charities with the tools and resource to begin a community garden at their SixthStreet property.It also lent tools and supplies to Pensacola Young Professionals for a community clean up event, as well as providing painting gear for a multiple house painting project.

Many of these partnerships include working alongside our Clean and Green, Keep Pensacola Beautiful partners and developing an ongoing partnership with Pathways for Change, who provide our most consistent source of volunteers on a weekly basis.

We also are working with the Mission Avenue neighborhood and “The Top of The Bottom Church” to rehabilitate a home and yard to be used as a safe recreation center for summer and after school activities, where they will provide adult supervised recreational activities and nourishing food.

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GULF BREEZE 2.0 Eddy said the plan, which has been in the works for nearly a year-and-a-half, “is not a prescription where we’re saying we have to do it here, from here and move it exactly like you see here,” but rather a vision for the future.

The master plan did raise some concerns when it was unveiled so the city council held last month a Master Plan Public Meeting at the Gulf Breeze Community Center to better explain how the plan was developed and its elements.

THREE CATALYST SITES Proposed US-98 and Pensacola Beach Bridge improvements (northbound) / rendering courtesy City of Gulf Breeze

City Sets Vision for the Future

by Brandy Volovecky The cities of Pensacola and Gulf Breeze are getting a new, wider Pensacola Bay Bridge. The Gulf Breeze City Council has used that game-changing project as a catalyst for developing a master plan for the future of its town of about 6,000 residents.

City Manager Edwin “Buz” Eddy said the plan was created as a way for the city to deal with the additional 15,000 trips a day that are expected on U.S. Highway 98 due to the expansion of the Pensacola Bay Bridge. He said the plan, dubbed the “Most Livable City Plan,” also aims to keep up the city’s momentum in regards to economic development.

“We’ve done a pretty good job with attracting the Andrews Institute to the community, encouraging Baptist to expand in the city, and AppRiver is a great asset to the city,” he said. “We need a plan for traffic and a plan for future economic development.”

A 10-member steering committee worked with VHB MillerSellen, a planning, design and engineering firm based out of Orlando, to develop the plan that identified three catalyst sites, which were selected for market potential, visibility on U.S. Highway 98 and potential for change, to serve as jumping off points for the plan’s implementation.

The sites were named East Gate, Bay Bridge Landing and Town Center. Dan Kopack, chairman of the steering committee, gave a presentation detailing the plan at the public meeting.

East Gate encompasses the eastern entrance into the city from the Gulf Islands National Seashore area. The catalyst site includes everything on both sides of Gulf Breeze Parkway from the Gulf Breeze Hospital to just past the Pensacola Beach overpass. The master plan calls for a new road running parallel to U.S. Highway 98 between McClure Drive and St. Francis Drive and the construction of office buildings and parking garages to increase jobs.

The Bay Bridge Landing site is the northwest entrance in the city. It spans from where the Pensacola Bay Bridge enters Gulf Breeze to near the location of the Breeze Mart Shell station on Gulf Breeze Parkway. The master

plan calls for a new hotel and marina on this site as well as the construction of a breakwater wall on the west side of the bridge.

Kopack said the plan also includes shifting the bridge’s alignment 10 feet to the east and reducing the median sizes from 30 feet to 25 feet, both of which would require the permission and cooperation of the Florida Department of Transportation.

“The reason is, is if we do that then we’re able to capture land [to the west] for parking, for flow-through traffic, and there will still be sufficient room left for picnic pavilions and what not,” he said.

The third catalyst site is the Town Center site, which covers everything from the intersection of U.S. Highway 98 and Fairpoint Drive to the intersection of U.S. Highway 98 and Daniel Drive. This was the most controversial part of the master plan because it called for the relocation of the Gulf Breeze High School football stadium and baseball fields off of Highway 98 to the site that currently has the Sailwind Condominiums on Shoreline Drive.

“Some people have said to me it will never happen.

Really? Never? Never is a very long time."

Franklin Farrow

MOVING CITY HALL

In response to concerns about the potential displacement of the current Sailwind property owners, Kopack stressed again and again that the plan was only a “vision” and said that the stadium relocation will only occur if it is beneficial to everyone affected.

“Some people have said to me it will never happen,” he said. “Really? Never? Never is a very long time. Will it? I don’t know. I just don’t know.”

Kopack said the steering committee felt that the relocation of the athletic fields “was really a lynchpin to the overall redevelopment of the city.”

In the event that the relocation does occur, City Hall and the public library will be moved down the road to Shoreline Park.

This suggested move to what is currently a conservation area has also garnered some negative feedback.

“It can be done and it can be done well and it can be done with the preservation of that natural beauty over there and it can be enhanced,” Kopack said.

He also pointed out five acres of land east of the current football and baseball fields that could potentially be developed for residential use or a combination of residential and retail.

The plan also calls for the creation of a multi-use trail system on Shoreline Drive and Fairpoint Drive. Kopack said the paths would be open to pedestrians and bicyclists and would improve their safety.

He said plans for this site would take years to complete but the committee is confident they can be done. The stadium relocation in particular, was presented as being a long term goal that is at least 10 years in the future.

At the meeting, Eddy said the steering committee had done what it was asked to do and presented a well-thought-out plan for the future of Gulf Breeze. He said there was no need for concern, however, as the plan’s actual implementation is “to be determined.”

“The stadium doesn’t get relocated for example, as the city attorney pointed out at a council meeting the other night, unless it’s a beneficial prospect for everybody involved—the people at Sailwind want to see it moved, the people at the school board have decided that the stadium needs to be rebuilt and there needs to be a new location for the stadium—otherwise, it stays where it is,” he said. “We just asked these fine folks on the steering committee to come up with a vision and that’s exactly what they did.”

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BARBERSHOP TALK: MIDDLETON SHOOTING Saturday morning sounds filled

Farrow’s Barbershop. The hum of razors and conversation. Conversation about “triggerhappy police,” about how “Morgan is covering up his boys” and “Escambia is the most racist part of the state.”

“Have you ever been black in this country?” asked a man seated underneath a clock on the wall.

The conversation comes in the wake of the July 27 shooting of Roy Middleton.

Escambia County Sheriff’s Office deputies responding to a possible carjacking shot the unarmed 60-year-old Warrington resident in his own driveway.

The officers unleashed a rain of bullets—17 or 15, depending on whom you ask—hitting Middleton twice in the legs.

From his hospital bed, the man reported that the officers fired as he exited his car with his hands raised.

Sheriff David Morgan, however, has said the officers began firing because Middleton ignored commands, appeared to be holding a “metallic object” and made a “lunging motion.” It’s proving a tough sell, especially at the barbershop on West Gadsden Street.

“Common sense will tell you something,” noted the man near the clock. “If you don’t have a gun, who’s gonna leap on somebody? Maybe it was a broad jump? He was a broad jumper.”

The men in the barbershop crack up, taking a swipe at the tragedy with a joke.

“I bet he’ll give up cigarettes,” laughed another man, alluding to the fact that Middleton was apparently searching for a smoke in his car at the time of the incident.

This hot, July mess of a shooting has laid bare a raw nerve that is always pulsing just beneath the surface in Escambia County—a fear in the black community that pervasive racism within the ranks of local law enforcement leads to incidents such as the Middleton shooting.

Sheriff Morgan’s response—defending his officers and chalking up national attention to a misguided media— have done little to calm such fear.

“For him to blame it on the media, all you want to hear is, ‘I’m looking into it.’ You wonder how committed he is to looking into it when he makes a comment like that,” said one of the customers at Farrow’s. “You don’t expect that from your sheriff. We’re citizens of this town too, he’s supposed to protect us, too, black people.”

At their August 2 press conference at Englewood Baptist Church—just down the street from the sheriff ’s office—a collective of civil rights organizations drew parallels to the killing of Trayvon Martin and described the local shooting as “attempted murder.”

The collective called for the involved officers—Deputy Jeremiah Meeks and Sgt. Matt White—to be fired. Middleton has returned home with a metal rod in his leg and hired a high-profile South Florida attorney.

The ECSO, meanwhile, awaits the findings of the FDLE investigation.

At the barbershop, the Middleton shooting is seen as just the latest incident revealing a deeper issue. It’s a new chapter in an old story.

“We all know what’s going on—this color thing, it’s always been here, it’s not new,” said barber Franklin Farrow. “This is not news, what happened.”

“We all know what’s going on —this color thing, it’s always been here, it’s not new.”

Franklin Farrow

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Ocean Alliance and Sea Shepherd Conservation Society announced recently that preliminary analysis of samples taken from sperm whales in the Gulf of Mexico indicate higher levels of chromium and nickel than in sperm whales anywhere else in the world.

For the fourth consecutive year, Ocean Alliance collected tissue samples from Gulf sperm whales to study the effects of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, a study called “Operation Toxic Gulf.”

“Really, one of the key things we’re trying to do is understand threats to whales, but also the key thing here is [determining], was this massive use of dispersants the right approach to containing and controlling the spill from an ecological perspective,” Dr. Iain Kerr, CEO of Ocean Alliance, explained at a Pensacola press conference on Aug. 5.

As an apex predator, sperm whales are at the top of the food chain and by eating smaller animals ultimately wind up with the most toxins in their system. “Whales are actually quite good bio-indicators, they can tell us about a problem,” Kerr said. “The cautionary signs really are suggesting to us that these whales could be some of the most polluted we’ve found in the world.”

Kerr explained that Ocean Alliance is in an important position as researchers to put the data they collect in the Gulf within the context of sperm whale health globally.

“Ocean Alliance went around the world from 2000 to 2005, and we collected baseline data on sperm whales in 21 countries,” Kerr told reporters. “So we actually have a data set of what sperm whales look like around the world.”

Oil commonly releases metals such cadmium, chromium and nickel, but Kerr said their study is now predominantly focused on data collection, and is only beginning to hypothesize about the causality of what they’re seeing. “The most obvious place to look initially is from the crude oil and from the dispersants. That may not be the case,” he explained.

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Alliance with sperm whale research in the Gulf for the first time this year. Together, the groups collaborated to complete nonlethal biological data collection as well as sampling oil slicks when they were encountered, and documented scarring on sperm whales that Kerr hasn’t seen in 20 years of studying the species.

Kerr would like to return to the Gulf for another six years, but acknowledged that the work is expensive. “I’d like to do a 10year study,” he said. “This year, we couldn’t raise the money, and if it wasn’t for Sea Shepherd, we wouldn’t be here.”

Funding, like time, is critical to understanding the ongoing effects of the spill. “It’s really important now in the years after the spill to collect this data,” said Kerr. “Even if the analysis isn’t done tomorrow or next month or next year, once you’ve got that data you can then use it to understand the problem.”

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HOW BAD IS BAD Escambia County Superintendent of Schools Malcolm Thomas has told the daily newspaper that changes have to be made in his schools after reviewing the district’s poor performance on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Tests this past school year.

The district has some of the lowest graded schools in the state of Florida, according to the Florida Department of Education. The state has 1,805 elementary schools. Escambia County had three schools in the bottom 10—Lincoln Park, A.A. Dixon and Montclair—and three more in the bottom 100 elementary schools—Navy Point, O.J. Semmes and West Pensacola.

Montclair and O.J. Semmes got “C” grades because the DOE wouldn’t allow any school to drop more than one letter grade. Navy Point got off with a “D” for the same reason.

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by Jessica Forbes In their second season, the Pensacola Blue Wahoos are just one of the latest chapters in Pensacola’s baseball history. At the same time Quint Studer was establishing the Blue Wahoos organization and construction of the Pensacola Bayfront Stadium was underway, a couple of other significant projects related to local baseball were also in the works.

In 2010, author Scott Brown and Jill Hubbs, director of education, outreach, and content at WSRE, joined forces to develop a documentary film on baseball in Pensacola, also the subject of a book Brown had been researching.

The result was a full-length documentary and book, both titled, “Baseball in Pensacola.” The projects are the first of their kind to chronicle the complete history of the sport in the city, and have brought much attention to the rich tradition of Pensacolians as fans and participants in America’s Pastime.

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A “Baseball in Pensacola” Reunion event will be held at the Pensacola Blue Wahoos game on Thursday, August 15 in which several players and families of those profiled in the book and documentary will be in attendance.

“The nice thing about it was that we decided not only to include locals that had made it to the Major League level, but we also included what I consider legacy family members of men who have passed now,” said Brown of the evening’s scheduled honorees.

The reunion honorees are individuals with World Series appearances and/or wins, awards from the National Baseball Hall of Fame, time spent playing for Negro League teams, and decades of minor and major league play among their experiences—and all grew up and received their fundamental baseball training in Pensacola.

REPRESENTING THE SEAGULLS

The earliest period of Pensacola’s baseball history that will be represented at the reunion is that of one of Pensacola’s former Negro League teams, the Pensacola Seagulls.

Lawrence “Shake” Sampson played with the Seagulls in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Now 72 years old, Sampson continues to play softball in the Softball Players Association league, as he has done for over 20 years.

Ed Coleman, whose father David played for the Seagulls in the late 1940s, remembers his father as a local baseball celebrity who never lost his love of the game.

David Coleman, who passed away in 2011, played for the Seagulls in 1949 before joining the Army in 1950. “In ‘49 was when he actually played professionally and he was making $250 a month,” his son recalled recently. “He said, to him, that was a lot of money for 1949.”

Dr. E.S. Cobb, a local African-American physician, owned the Seagulls, having previously owned the Giants, another of the city’s Negro League teams. “To start a baseball team required funds,” Coleman said. “This is one of the things I remember my father talking about: He said he could play baseball and make more money playing baseball than he could on a job. That’s real for a lot of men during his era. Most of the Negro League players were making a whole lot more money barnstorming than they could have working jobs.”

Sampson recalled his barnstorming days with the Seagulls.

“We used to go to Key West and play. Dr. Cobb had a bus,” Sampson remembered. “We’d play Birmingham, Port St. Joe, Mobile, Andalusia, all parts of Mississippi. We used to travel. We used to leave on a Friday or Thursday night and get back on Sunday.”

Sampson played PONY League baseball as a teenager and got his start with the Seagulls as a result. Dr. Cobb visited his home to talk to Sampson’s mother about the possibility of her son joining the Seagulls. Sampson played for the semi-pro team while in high school and upon returning to Pensacola in the 1960s after attending college.

David Coleman got out of the Army in 1953 and got a job at NAS, but continued playing baseball in local adult leagues and coaching PONY League teams in his spare time in the 1960s.

“He was a superstar,” said Coleman. “I can hear people bragging on my dad all of the time.” Coleman recalls friends and neighbors talking about his father consistently hitting the ball out of the ballpark at the former Kupfrian’s Park, the site of the present-day Baptist Hospital Campus.

“He said he could play baseball and make more money playing baseball than he could on a job. That’s real for a lot of men during his era.”

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L - Ed Coleman / photo by Samantha Crooke R - David Coleman, former Seagull / photo courtesy of the Coleman Family When David Coleman began developing dementia in 2004, Ed became his caretaker; it was during that time that Ed’s interest in his father’s baseball career was piqued and he started researching the history of the local Negro League teams. “I really kind of connected and knew,” he said. “And I was trying to do it for a way of giving him some motivation to continue to live. We’d talk about baseball and that would excite him.”

“I was able to get some pictures and show Dad,” Coleman said of his research at local libraries and conversations with other players’ families. “He would really light up when I would bring him pictures. I would put them in his room and it made him happy.”

Sampson, who played baseball with the Seagulls until the semi-pro league broke up, continues making memories playing slowpitch softball. “I’m still doing that for some reason,” Sampson said of the senior-league tournaments he travels for. “I’m still playing.”

A VOICE FROM PENSACOLA

Very close in age to Shake Sampson was Pensacola native Tom Cheek. Though he played some ball, Cheek from an early age was more interested in announcing the game for his friends.

Like several other of Pensacola’s young men, Cheek pursued and eventually achieved his big league dream. After entering radio broadcasting, Tom later went on to a career

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with the Toronto Blue Jays, for whom he announced over 4,300 games in 27 years.

Tom attended his first baseball game at Pensacola’s Legion Field with his grandfather.

From there, a lifelong passion was set. “He, at 7 years of age—and everybody, if you ever talk to anybody that knows him, would say—they’d be playing stickball out on the street and Tom would have something in his hand pretending he was broadcasting the ball game,” Tom’s wife Shirley remembered. “Everybody will tell you that, so it’s remarkable that his dream came true.”

When she spoke to the IN, Shirley Cheek had just returned from Cooperstown, N.Y., where she accepted the Ford C. Frick Award on her late husband’s behalf. The Frick Award is presented annually by the National Baseball Hall of Fame to a broadcaster chosen from 10 nominees; Cheek, who passed away in 2005, had been nominated for nine consecutive years.

“Tom would be very humbled,” Shirley said of his receipt of the Frick Award and his recent induction into the Vermont Association of Broadcasters and the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.

Tom Cheek graduated from high school in Pensacola in 1957, and met Shirley in her native Canada in 1958 while he was serving in the United States Air Force.

Discharged in 1959, Shirley said Tom worked odd jobs in Canada and upstate New York. One night while driving home from a midnight shift in Saranac, N.Y., he told her he heard a commercial asking, “‘Would you like to be a broadcaster? Why don’t you join the Cambridge School of Broadcasting in Boston?’

And he said he was banging his fists on the dashboard—this was like 3 or 4 o’clock in the morning—saying, ‘Yes, that’s what I want to do!’”

Tom attended and graduated from the broadcasting school, and then worked as a DJ in New York before announcing for the University of Vermont sports teams. A part-time broadcasting job with the Montreal Expos led to his position with the Blue Jays in 1977, the team’s first season.

“He loved Pensacola,” Shirley said.

After Tom’s death, Shirley found a legal pad with his notes for a second book.

One of the stories about his childhood began, “To know my love of the game, you would have to know my grandfather,” and acknowledged the huge influence attending games in Pensacola had on his life.

“He just loved doing his job and it showed in his delivery,” remembered Shirley, who said fans continue to leave memorabilia at a monument for Tom near their home and the Blue Jays Spring Training Camp in Dunedin, Fla. “He was a really folksy kind of broadcaster, you felt like he was your best friend, that he was telling just you that game.”

FROM PITCHING TO SCOUTING

Like many others before him, Kevin Saucier began playing baseball as a child in Pensacola. Like few others, however, Saucier’s career took him not only to the big leagues, but saw him win a World Series ring as well.

Saucier’s earliest memories of baseball are from Warrington, near NAS where his father worked, “I started out there when I was 9-years-old and I remember a coach telling me if I came back the next year he was going to make a pitcher out of me, and that’s what he did.”

At age 10, Saucier began pitching, a skill that he showed a great aptitude for. “I kept working at,” Saucier said, even with his natural ability. “It’s one of those things: You’ve got to have the talent, but you’ve also got to have the desire and willingness to work at it.”

Tom Cheek / photo courtesy Toronto Blue Jays

“He was a really folksy kind of broadcaster, you felt like he was your best friend, that he was telling just you that game.”

Shirley Cheek At Escambia High School, Saucier played under Coach Fred Waters, “who was probably at that time one of the best coaches around and he’s the one that very much influenced my career,” said Saucier.

Saucier remembered a story some of his high school teammates relayed to him, “I didn’t hear him make this comment, but some other players did. When I was a freshman in high school, I was throwing in the bullpen on the side lines and he told some other guys, ‘This guy is going to be a Big League pitcher one day.’” Waters’ words proved true only a few years later.

Saucier graduated from high school in 1974 and was drafted in the second round by the Philadelphia Phillies and played in the Phillies’ farm system until being called up to the majors in 1979. “In 1980, I was with the Phillies when we won the World Series,” a moment Saucier says was unquestionably the highlight of his career.

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“When I was in the minor leagues, Jimmy had made it to Seattle, and you had that inspiration: ‘Hey, if they can do it, I can do it.’”

Greg Litton After the Series win, Saucier was traded to the Tigers and played two seasons for them before retiring in 1982. Saucier began scouting almost immediately after, and is now in his 29th year with the Major League Scouting Bureau. Saucier also works with USA Baseball, a side project that keeps him travelling when needed. “I went to the Olympics in ‘08 doing advance work for Team USA, giving them reports on other countries,” he said, also assisting with their World Baseball Classics.

Though he travels for work, Saucier has remained based in Pensacola, raising a family here, “Pensacola has been my life.” Saucier also maintained tied to his high school alma mater and Coach Waters, “I’d always go out there and work out with Escambia High School when he was still coaching out there. He was my mentor.” The two even wound up scouting together, and stayed in contact until the day Waters died. “If it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t have got where I got,” Saucier said.

This type of tightknit relationship extends beyond the coaches to the baseball players themselves keeping them closely connected. “It’s sort of like a fraternity of, ‘We’re from Pensacola, we’re proud we’re from here,’” said Saucier. “Here’s the deal with baseball—once you’ve been in it, it’s in your blood. I’ve got to be around the game.”

MEALS TO-GO Greg Litton / photo by Samantha Crooke

HARD WORK PAID OFF

When Greg Litton’s family moved to Pensacola from Panama in 1978, as a 13-year-old with major league aspirations, Litton quickly realized he had some work to do. “Coming to Pensacola was one of the things that helped drive my career, mostly because of the talent and the level of baseball here was so high,” Litton now says, looking back at a move he credits with helping get him to the majors.

Litton tried out for the Woodham High School team, but didn’t make the cut his freshman year. “That was a huge wake up call,” he remembered.

Learning his son hadn’t made the team, Litton said his father, who had played baseball at Mississippi State, responded by saying, “‘We’ll be ready next year.’ It wasn’t an option to quit. I played summer ball, the next year I practiced, I stayed in shape.” The following year, Litton made Woodham’s varsity team and started

I was going to have to start lifting weights, I was going to have to start running, and working at it, and that’s what I did.”

Litton played for then-Pensacola Junior College and was drafted in January of his sophomore year by the San Francisco Giants.

In 1989, his rookie year, Litton—a utility player—was called up to the Giants early in the season.

“My first home run in the major leagues is a home run I’ll never forget,” Litton said.

“That was the highlight of my career, we had 50,000 people there. To hit a home run and get a standing ovation and a curtain call was pretty neat.”

That same season, the Giants went on to play in the World Series against Oakland.

Though Oakland ultimately triumphed, “Getting to the World Series was just amazing,” Litton remembered. “Hitting a home run in game 4, personally, was a really just— it’s hard for me to describe exactly how cool that was. I remember rounding first base and thinking, ‘Wow, you just hit a home run in the World Series.’ I’d been dreaming of that since I was 6-, 8-yearsold,” Litton said.

Litton went on the play for the Seattle Mariners and Boston Red Sox before retiring in 1997. Since then, Litton has focused on raising his children and recently began announcing Blue Wahoos TV broadcasts with Dan Shugart. In addition, Litton works and speaks with the Studer Group and occasionally mentors younger players. “Those are the guys I really like working with: The guys that really just love the game, no matter how talented they are, that just really want to get better and work at it,” Litton said.

As a Pensacolian, Litton credits local players who preceded him in the Majors— namely Don Sutton and Jimmy Pressley—as encouragements, something he strives to be for younger players, “When I was in the minor leagues, Jimmy had made it to Seattle, and you had that inspiration: ‘Hey, if they can do it, I can do it.’”

“It’s sort of like a fraternity of, ‘We’re from Pensacola, we’re proud we’re from here.’”

Kevin Saucier

Kevin Saucier / courtesy photo

second base every game of his sophomore season.

Litton credits Woodham coach Jimmy Norrell, a football coach assigned to baseball, with teaching him the importance of running and conditioning, which he says put him ahead in college.

“My dream was always to play major league baseball, and I learned real quick that I was going to have to earn it. It wasn’t going to come easy,” he said of his high school experience. “If I wanted it,

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Billy Sadler is part of the most recent generation of major leaguers to return to Pensacola and start giving back to the local community.

“There’s a long line of great ball players and coaches and it’s just one big hot bed here in Pensacola,” Sadler said recently while looking back on his formative years as a player.

Born in Pensacola, Sadler briefly lived in Alabama where he began playing Little League baseball. After moving back to

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At Catholic High School, Sadler tried out for Coach Richard LaBounty. “I tried out as a freshman and I was fortunate enough for him to think that I could play at the Varsity level,” said Sadler, who remained on the Varsity squad for all four years of high school. “I look at my

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Richard LaBounty was another major, major influence that brought me to that next level.”

Between high school and junior college, Sadler was twice drafted by the Seattle Mariners, but opted to play for Pensacola State College and LSU, where he helped win the SEC Championship and played in the College World Series in 2003. In 2003, his junior year at LSU, Sadler was drafted and signed with the San Francisco Giants.

Sadler moved between farm teams and the Giants until 2009 when he became a free agent and signed with the Houston Astros. In 2009, Sadler played 19 farm system games and one major league game for the Astros before right shoulder scapular dyskinesis put him on the disabled list, and he returned to Pensacola for treatment at the Andrews Institute.

Now retired, Sadler is putting his experience to use, training younger players just as Major Leaguers of his childhood did for him.

“Guys like Greg Litton, Jay Bell, Travis Fryman, guys from this area, they did that [Fred Waters Baseball] clinic and that inspired me to make it to the Major League.”

Through Billy Sadler Baseball, Sadler offers lessons regularly and puts on the Billy Sadler Baseball Clinic once a year. “Kids get to come out and be around major leaguers, professional ball players, college players, coaches, and scouts, cross checkers,” said Sadler, who taps into Pensacola’s vast baseball expertise for the clinics. “We’ve got a plethora of great baseball players, scouts, and coaches that are involved and want to give back to the community.”

When speaking of his new direction as a mentor, Sadler sounds every bit as enthusiastic as when he speaks about his own development as a player. “I’ve really enjoyed moving into that career, to train and teach lessons for the youth,” he said. “That’s been a real joy in my life, because I’m seeing results through those players, seeing a smile on their face whenever they get it and do really well.”

Having recently opened a sports management agency, Sadler continues to look for ways to encourage player development.

“Pensacola is my hometown, I love it with a passion,” Sadler said. “My goal and my mission are to really make an impact here in Pensacola. It’s already a hot bed as I said, but I want to do anything and everything I can to make it even better.”

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Scott Brown / photo by Samantha Crooke

“My desire is to see Pensacola know its history of the game the fullest.”

Scott Brown THE FUTURE OF BASEBALL HISTORY

As Pensacola continues to produce Major League caliber players and the city is once again home to a Major League affiliate, it seems baseball fans and historians will have no shortage of experiences to take in.

Though the stories that Brown documented from decades ago are what surprise many at present—the fact that Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, Lou Gehrig played here, et cetera—in the future, the number of successful MLB careers that began in Pensacola could be what astonishes.

Brown hopes the reunion will be one step in a continued effort to present Pensacola’s baseball history. As he points out, each era in his book has numerous individuals and events all worthy of their own detailed study.

“I’ll probably be off to another project at some point, but my desire is to see Pensacola know its history of the game the fullest. I’m willing to dig in and direct and help,” said Brown. “My desire really is and always has been, to spur the imagination and the passion in others where they pick up the baton and go forward.”

Brown’s project has inspired at least one participant to move forward documenting the history. Ed Coleman moved back to Pensacola a little over a month ago and is planning to continue researching Pensacola’s Negro League team histories.

“I really want to develop some archives for the Negro League here in Pensacola. I’d like to develop something people can see and appreciate,” said Coleman noting an important motivation. “When you think in terms of people who went before us, kids need to see that: They need to get a feel for what people actually had to go through to get where they got. It wasn’t easy.”

“Scott just kind of opened up something,” Coleman said of the recent interest in recording Pensacola’s ongoing baseball tradition.

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The following is a list of honorees expected to be part of the Baseball in Pensacola Reunion on Thursday, August 15. Below are quick facts about their ties to Pensacola and careers as players. Several of the Major League players listed also had extensive Minor League experience, and many have also gone on to coach or work in baseball in a variety of capacities. For additional information about these and others that have shaped Pensacola’s baseball legacy, pick up a copy of the “Baseball in Pensacola” book and/or DVD. To meet the players or legacy families, grab a ticket for that evening’s Wahoos game.

JAY BELL

Tate High School Cleveland Indians, 1986-1988 Pittsburgh Pirates, 1989-1996 (Played in 1993 All-Star Game) Kansas City Royals, 1997 Arizona Diamondbacks, 1998-2002 (2001 World Series Champions) New York Mets, 2003

BERNIE CARBO

Pensacola Pelicans, Field Manager, 20032005

TOM CHEEK

Born and Raised in Pensacola Announcer, Toronto Blue Jays, 1977-2004 Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame 2012 National Baseball Hall of Fame’s Ford C. Frick Award 2013 Represented by wife, Shirley Cheek; daughter, Linda Cheek Hall; and sister, Elizabeth Cheek-Jones

DAVID COLEMAN

Washington High School Pensacola Seagulls, 1949 Local amateur adult leagues and Pensacola PONY League Coach, 1950s-1970s Represented by his son, Ed Coleman

BILL HAMILTON

Head Coach, Pensacola Junior College, 1990-2010

FRANK HARDY SR.

Official photographer of the Pensacola Dons (1957-1960) Represented by his son, Frank Hardy, Jr.

PHIL HIATT

Catholic High School Kansas City Royals, 1993-1995 Detroit Tigers, 1996 Hanshin Tigers (Japan) in 1997 Los Angeles Dodgers, 2001

JIM HUTTO

Pensacola High School Philadelphia Phillies, 1970 Baltimore Orioles, 1975

JOHNNY JOE LEWIS

Booker T. Washington High School Pensacola Seagulls, 1950s St. Louis Cardinals, 1964 New York Mets, 1965-1967

GREG LITTON

Woodham High School San Francisco Giants, 1989-1992 (1989 National League Champions) Seattle Mariners, 1993 Boston Red Sox, 1994

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Owner, Pensacola Angels (1960-1961) Owner, Pensacola Senators (1961-1962)

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Woodham High School Minnesota Twins, 1978-1981 Toronto Blue Jays, 1982-1983

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Washington High School Pensacola Seagulls, late 1950s and 1960s PSA Softball, 1990s-present

KEVIN SAUCIER

Escambia High School Philadelphia Phillies, 1979-1980 (1980 World Series Champions) Detroit Tigers, 1981-1982

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Pensacola Fliers, 1940s Represented by his son, Cliff Szuch

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‘Baseball in Pensacola’—A REUNION AND MULTIMEDIA EXPERIENCE Over two years ago, a meeting at a Pensacola Pelicans fundraiser began a project that has ignited public interest in Pensacola’s baseball history.

Author and baseball historian Scott Brown was at the Pelicans’ fundraiser that night to meet potential interview subjects for his research on “America’s Pastime” in Pensacola. A friend introduced him to Jill Hubbs, the director of education, outreach, and content at WSRE, who had been assigned to developing a documentary about Pensacola’s baseball history.

From there, Brown and Hubbs met, realized their visions were similar, and Brown began working on the two projects concurrently. “While writing the book, I was able to do interviews for WSRE, which was again collecting info for the book which fed back into the documentary,” Brown said.

The film and book trace the history of baseball in Pensacola in the late 1800s until the opening season of the Blue Wahoos in

2012. Both look at the various minor league teams, Negro League teams, and the famous Major Leaguers—including Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Jackie Robinson—who traveled through and played on Pensacola’s fields, as well as Pensacolians who have gone on to play in the Major Leagues.

The documentary premiered on WSRE in November 2012; the book was released in March 2013.

“We’ve had great response. I get comments all the time from people, former players,” said Brown. “It’s just been phenomenal.”

In addition to fan compliments, the documentary is also meeting with critical acclaim.

In July, the film was awarded a National Telly Award, and Brown said the film is looking at a potential Emmy nomination.

Brown, WSRE, and the Wahoos management have all continued to conceive ways to share Pensacola’s baseball history with the public.

In April, WSRE’s Imagination Station opened at the stadium. In addition to the free children’s activity area, the center houses a historical exhibit displaying baseball artifacts dating back to 1908. “There’s memorabilia there that’s enormous,” Brown said.

During a break for a WSRE telethon focused on “Baseball in Pensacola,” Brown recalled, “Quint Studer who is ever the

will be there. Fred Waters’ daughter will be a visionary said, ‘Scott, you know what I’d part of this—Fred probably put more of our like to do during the season? Wouldn’t it be local boys into professional baseball than fun just to present a baseball in Pensacola anybody else. Of course, the Cheek Family,” reunion, with as many guys that have made Brown said. “It’s just wonderful that we can it to the major leagues?’ From there the idea include these people before the Wahoos was hatched.” fans to give them more of a snapshot about Brown met with Bruce Baldwin and the incredible legacy that we have here in Jonathan Griffith, the Blue Wahoos’ Pensacola from the diamond.”

President and Vice President, respectively, For Brown, the reunion will serve as just to connect the team’s staff to those who one more avenue for sharing Pensacola’s rich participated in the book and documenbaseball tradition and will hopefully spark tary research. Whether they appeared on additional interest in the topic. “I’ve said all camera or off, Brown acknowledges that all along that the documentary, the book—neiof the honorees assisted him by providing ther could cover the totality of the history information for the book, documentary, or that we have here,” he said. “So this is one both, “Somehow, they’ve all contributed to more component in allowing the people of the success of what this has been.”

Pensacola to know who they are in the hisThe reunion events will include on-field tory of baseball.” {in} honors and presentations, and autograph opportunities for fans. Clips of the documentary will run throughout the game, and both Brown and Hubbs will be there with copies of the books and documentary to sell and sign.

WHEN: 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 15, during Blue Brown is excited about including Wahoos vs. Mississippi Braves game not only players themselves in the WHERE: Pensacola Bayfront Stadium, 351 W. reunion, but family members of Cedar St. those who have passed on, as well.

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a greater part of it. The WFLF seeks to engage the local writing community through a series of programs, workshops and events.

One recurring event DeMarko is especially enthusiastic about is the WFLF’s open mic night, held every third Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. on the second floor of the Pensacola Cultural Center. This monthly event brings together a diverse mix of ages and nationAlthough the South, and the alities. Individuals are invited to mountains of North Carolina influattend to read their poetry, or to simply ence many of the recipes, the heart of socialize and listen. the influence comes from the country of DeMarko also teaches a workshop of her Spain, where DeMarko previously lived. own, titled “Wild Writing.” This workshop Since this first cookbook, again at the serves as a weekly time designated to the encouragement of supporters, DeMarko free flow of ideas, not restricted to poetry, has written a follow up titled, “Practically followed by a time of sharing. Rather than a Perfect: 46 Years of Hijinks in the Kitchen typical critique, the atmosphere is one that with Juliet.” The book is what she describes highlights the positives of one another’s as an “odyssey of catering and cooking” inwriting, in turn, allowing participants to grow cluding humorous mishaps that tend to go confident in writing freely and honestly. untold, serving as more of a food memoir.

Not only does DeMarko inspire her “Every recipe has a complete story,” fellow community members to write, she she said. has inspired her own immediate family, all In addition to her poetry, DeMarko will of who have been published in some form. be sharing readings from her cookbooks at When asked what she would say to aspirSaturday’s event. To accompany the reading poets, or writers in general, DeMarko ings, DeMarko has offered to bring along responded with simple yet pointed tips, Sangria as well as authentic hors d'oeuvres including the following. for the evening, so that individuals are “Write every day. Roll over and write able to get a true taste of both her poetic before you even get out of bed.” reflections, as well as her inspired cuisine.

“Start noticing. I don’t think there’s This event is free and open to the anything more important than to notice public. Donations are accepted for both the every little thing.”

Open Books Bookstore Prison Book Project “If you have a routine, you can get and WFLF. For more information on WFLF, something done.” visit wflf.org.

Aside from her active presence as a DeMarko’s books can be purchased oncommunity-centered, poetic writer, DeMarline at gulfcoastauthor.com. Her cookbooks ko is even better known for her expertise as are also sold locally at Artesana, Celebraa seasoned area restaurateur and caterer, tions, Seville Quarter Gift Shop, Pensacola and generously shares her passion for both Hardware and Apple Market. {in} storytelling and food through two applauded cookbooks.

In the early 2000s, DeMarko and her daughter, Mari Josephs of Carmen’s Lunch Bar operated “Juliet’s World Café” located within Apple WHEN: 6:30 p.m. Saturday, August 10; readMarket’s Olive Road site. After closing begins at 7 p.m. ing operations in 2006, at the enWHERE: Open Books Bookstore, 1040 N. couragement of dedicated patrons Guillemard St. who were eager for their recipes to COST: Free; donations accepted live on, DeMarko and Josephs wrote DETAILS: openbookspcola.org or 453-6774 a collaborative cookbook titled,

“I don’t consider myself a great poet. I consider myself someone who has loved poetry always.”

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Juliet DeMarko / photo by Sarah McCartan As we sat together in her living room, Poet Laureate of Northwest Florida Juliet “Julie” DeMarko warmly read aloud to me an excerpt from her poem titled, “Quarantine,” nestled within her maiden book of poetry, “Blue Ridge Childhood.”

“In Cashiers Valley, North Carolina, I was sitting in Miss Elaine Norton’s fourth grade class, listening while she read to us the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.”

Having grown up in the Appalachian Mountains, amid a region where the art of storytelling was as natural and magnificent as her surroundings, DeMarko considers herself a narrative poet.

“My poems almost always tell stories,” she said.

Although her poems have been published in several journals, “Blue Ridge Childhood” is the first book of poetry that DeMarko calls entirely her own. Sprinkled within this book of thoughtful reflections are black and white photographs of her childhood, offering visual snippets of life in the Carolinas in the 1950s.

“The first half is all nostalgia about my childhood as it was then,” she said. “The second half is more retrospective, looking back on my feelings toward it as an adult.”

Saturday, August 10 at Open Books, DeMarko will be reading excerpts from “Blue Ridge Childhood” along with passages from a second untitled book of poetry that remains currently in progress. This one she describes

as a collection of all kinds of poetry, heavily influenced by her Florida habitat.

“This event is the first time I have ever read for the sole purpose of sharing my poetry and writing,” she explained.

DeMarko comes from a line of poets, including both her mother and grandmother. Although she can recount beginning her own relationship with introspective poetic journaling as early as the fifth grade, she notes that it wasn’t until 2000 that “everything came together.”

“I don’t consider myself a great poet.

I consider myself someone who has loved poetry always,” she said.

In 2009, DeMarko was appointed as Poet Laureate of Northwest Florida.

According to DeMarko, “Poet Laureate doesn’t mean that you are a brilliant poet.

What it does mean is that all of your life you’ve been dedicated to not necessarily the writing of poetry, but to the loving of it.”

As part of her service, she speaks to book clubs, library crews, and local school children.

“I consider the mission of a Poet Laureate to be one of both passing on the love of poetry and encouraging others to explore the understanding of life through writing their own poetry,” she said.

DeMarko works tirelessly alongside fellow board members of the West Florida Literary Federation (WFLF), utilizing her passion for and knowledge of the literary world to encourage others to become

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Burlesque Busts Into Vinyl

Miss Stormy Gayle / photo by Derek Jackson Burlesque, to some extent, is all about the mystery. The intrigue. The exposure of the dancer is always drawn out, and the crowd never quite gets to see it all. The women are glamorous and the costumes are elaborate.

People are nostalgic for that kind of entertainment again. And for a time when some things were still taboo—a time when you couldn’t just watch the show on YouTube, or learn the performance yourself on Wikihow in seven easy steps.

Burlesque is having a moment. Not a comeback, but there’s definitely a resurgence underway.

“This is a 1950s style burlesque show,” said Rick Delaup, creator and producer of Bustout Burlesque. “It’s the kind of show you would have seen on Bourbon Street in the ‘50s, with a comic emcee, the striptease, which has kind of become the main attraction, a few singers—all backed by a live jazz band.”

Bustout Burlesque has been running in New Orleans at the House of Blues since 2005 and has been named by the Travel Channel as one of the “Top 10 Burlesque Shows in the Country.” The show also hosted a special performance with Dita Von Teese a couple of years ago.

A good burlesque show has many important elements, but the dancers are undoubtedly key. A glorious band and good lighting isn’t going to fix a second-rate strip tease. Luckily, Bustout has some of the very best ladies in the business.

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“It’s the kind of show you would have seen on Bourbon Street in the ‘50s, with a comic emcee, the striptease, which has kind of become the main attraction, a few singers—all backed by a live jazz band.”

Rick Delaup “We’re bringing a cast of award-winning dancers with us,” Delaup said. “We usually bring in several headlining dancers from around the country, as well as some from New Orleans.”

There are over two dozen burlesque festivals around the world each year, and these festivals serve as a way for producers Ginger Valentine / photo by POC Photo and dancers to interact and figure out if a performance would benefit from bringing shorter if you want,” Delaup said. “Somesomeone new to the act. times one of the girls will be really into it Bustout, since its debut in March of and decide they want it to go on a little 2005, has been a strictly New Orleans longer—with a live band, you can do that.” based show, with the exception of two perThe shows are practiced and reformances in Las Vegas for the annual Viva hearsed, but not to the point of having Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend. every single moment planned.

“It’s such a big show to travel with that “The show in Pensacola will probably we never perform outside of New Orleans, be a couple hours or so, with an intermiswith the exception of one weekend a year sion in the middle, but a nice full show.” in Vegas,” Delaup said. “If the show goes Come and see the show while it’s hot over well in Florida, we’d love to do more of and people are still idealizing the golden them. Pensacola seems like a good market days of life around the time of WWII. {in} for burlesque.”

The performances on Friday and Saturday night at Vinyl will host the same live jazz band that usually accompanies the shows at the WHEN: 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 9 and Saturday, House of Blues, an aspect that gives Aug. 10 the show a more engaging tone.

WHERE: Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox “Well we don’t use recorded COST: $15-$50 music, so with a live band, you can DETAILS: vinylmusichall.com make something a little longer or

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happenings THURSDAY 8.8

HISTORIC PENSACOLA TROLLEY TOUR 10 a.m. & 2 p.m. Pensacola Visitor Center, 1401 E. Gregory St. 941-2976 or beachbumtrolley.com.

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 St. 877937-6377 or PensacolaMESShall.org.

QUAYSIDE ART GALLERY 10 a.m. Exhibits include Diane Brim, Marilyn Givens, Kate Owens, Geoffrey Powers. 17 E. Zaragoza St, 438-2363 or quaysidegallery.com.

BLUE MORNING GALLERY 10 a.m. The Blue Morning Gallery's Spotlight on Art focuses on the third of the Visiting Artist shows, "August Ash," the work of well-known potter and instructor Larry Manning. August Ash is a study in woodfired pottery, specifically form, surface and firing techniques. Works are fired in local kilns patterned after Japanese design and are looser, heavier and have organic forms more like those found in nature. 21 S. Palafox. 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 p.m. Artel Gallery presents "Line and Form", a juried exhibit. Works in this exhibit were selected by juror Wayne McNeil.

The placement winners are: Best of Show, Donna O'Neal; First Place, SAP; Second Place, Pat Hayes; Third Place, Ian Oliver; Edgiest, Maria Hoch; Honorable Mentions, Pat Hayes, Maria Hoch, Don Manderson and SAP; Judge's Recognition Award, Lyda Toy. 223 Palafox, Old County Courthouse. 432-3080 or artelgallery.org.

‘LANDSCAPES’ 10 a.m. Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. 432-6247 or pensacolamuseumofart.com.

PUPPET MANIA 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. The Pensacola Children’s Museum is pleased to announce a free arts and crafts program for summer. The arts and crafts programs will be in Party Central at 11 and 2 on select dates. These programs are for children 4 years and older.

Exclusions apply: no schools, summer camps, daycares or community groups. Please note regular admission applies if you wish to tour the museum after the program. 115 East Zaragoza St. historicpensacola.com PLAY HAPPY HOUR 4 p.m. Play, 16 S. Palafox, Suite 100 466-3080 or iplaypensacola.com.

WINE TASTING AT 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.

DISCOVER EARTH-BLUE ANGELS-NOTHIN’ BUT BLUE SKIES 6 p.m. Discover Earth, a traveling exhibit for libraries, is part of the star Library Education Network led by the Space Science Institute’s National Center for Interactive Learning. Exhibit partners include the Lunar and Planetary Institute, the National Girls Collaborative Project, and the American Library Association.

Discover Earth is supported through a grant from the National Science Foundation. Also, made possible by the Friends of the Library. Main Library, 239 North Spring St. Free. 436-5060 or mywfpl.com.

EVENINGS IN OLDE SEVILLE 7 p.m. This long-running summer concert series features this week Swingin’ Dick Tracys Seville Square, downtown Pensacola. sevilleconcerts.com.

PENSACOLA BLUE WAHOOS 7 p.m. versus Jacksonville Suns. Pensacola Bayfront Stadium, 300 W. Main St. 934-8444 or bluewahoos.com.

‘THE WIZARD OF OZ’ 7:30 p.m. Pensacola Little Theatre, 400 S. Jefferson St. $14-$30. 434-0257 or pensacolalittletheatre.com.

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JOHN WHEELER 12 p.m. Peg Leg Pete's, 1010 Fort Pickens Rd, Pensacola Beach, 932-4139 or peglegpetes.com.

J. HAWKINS 2 p.m., Bo Roberts, Rhonda Hart, Mark Sherrill 5 p.m., Al & Cathy 5:30 p.m., Dave & Joe Show 6 p.m., Jay Williams Band 10 p.m., Rez & the Solutions 10:30 p.m., Flora-Bama Lounge, 171401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-3407 or florabama.com.

THE OAR HOUSE LIVE MUSIC 5 p.m. The Oar House, 1000 S. Pace Blvd. 549-4444 or theoar-house.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 BEN PRESAGE 6 p.m. Paradise Bar & Grill, 21 Via de Luna, Pensacola Beach, 916-5087 or paradisebar-grill.com.

JOHN WHEELER 6 p.m. Peg Leg Pete’s, 1010 Fort Pickens Rd. 932-4139 or peglegpetes.com.

AL MARTIN 6 p.m. Quality Inn & Suites, 7601 Scenic Hwy. 477-7155.

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

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

MICHAEL VINCENT BAND 8 p.m. Bamboo Willie's, 400 Quietwater Beach Rd. Pensacola Beach, 916-9888 or bamboowillies.com.

BUCK NASTY 8 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. Pensacola Beach. 9322211 or sandshaker.com.

KARAOKE WITH HEATHER & MOMMA 8:30 p.m. Woodsie's Hilltop Lounge & Package, 5204 Mobile Hwy. 455-9791 or woodsieshilltop.com.

COLLEGE DANCE NIGHT: MR. LAO 9 p.m.

Phinease Phogg’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

MARIO MENA BAND 9 p.m. End o’ the Alley at Seville Quarter, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

BLACK WATER 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.

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Ears & Fingers

by Jason Leger

THE POLYPHONIC SPREE ‘YES, IT’S TRUE’ “It’s not your party girl yell, it’s not the way that you spell, it’s not the way that you dance, it’s the way that you’re holding my hand. Bear in mind, you’re golden. Bear in mind, you’ve stolen my heart.” It was probably about seven years ago. I had developed a real affinity for the show “Scrubs,” and had inherited the

DVDs from one of my good friends. With the power to watch as much as I wanted to, I began to watch episode after episode, not being able to get enough. For me, at this point in my life, the show was absolute perfection. One episode in particular will always stand out to me. A patient had been admitted and had gone through surgery.

Once he was out of the woods and recovering, he began talking about his band leaving for Europe in a couple of days, and wanting to jam with them one more time before they left. This brought on an argument between his surgeon and his attending physician about whether or not to let him go and return. In the end, they compromised and brought the band to him. I remember vividly the scene where the band walked into the hospital room. A seemingly endless number of band members, all dressed in white robes and carrying instruments, entered and began to play underneath one of JD’s famous dramatic monologues, which tied the episode together. I couldn’t pay attention to Zach Braff ’s summation and prognosis, as I was far too busy listening to the song in the background and watching all these people

dance around in white robes, while throwing balloons and glitter into the air. I was enthralled. This was my first encounter with the Polyphonic Spree.

I immediately threw myself into their catalog, which at that point only consisted of two albums, a few EPs, and the soundtrack to the movie “Thumbsucker,” but this was more than enough to give me a strong fondness for the band. Their last effort was 2007’s “The Fragile Army,” which considering the amount of hype I recall being behind it, along with my newfound devotion to the band, proved disappointing. It was just lackluster in almost every way possible.

Now it’s 2013, and it’s a brand new day for you, for me, and, yes, for the Polyphonic Spree. This month sees the release of “Yes, It’s True,” the Spree’s long-awaited fourth full-length album.

Honestly, after the release of “The Fragile Army,” I went into a bit of a ho-hum state over the band. They rose and fell quicker than any other who stole my heart. So when I heard of the impending album release, I met it with minimal excitement.

Last week, I put the album on for the first time in the background while I was working. My attitude was adjusted very quickly. Pomp, flair, symphony, drama, urgency, optimism, and, of course, mass choir vocals all sprang at me and I was captivated. I listened to the album all the way through, and I wasn’t satisfied. I listened four times in a row, and even now, I can’t get enough. The album is catchy, but unpredictable, raucous when it needs to be, but emotionally balanced, and, as always, singer Tim DeLaughter finds ways to exude honesty, chivalry, and positivity, while basically instructing a three ring circus worth of people. Highlights for me are opener “You Don’t Know Me,” the spry “Hold Yourself Up,” and elegant closer “Battlefield.” The absolute stand out track is the shimmering ballad “You’re Golden.”

From my very first listen, it stirred me, as portrayed in the lyrics at the beginning of this article. The album is full of symphonic wonder and effervescent glee. I enjoyed every second of it, and if your heart and soul are intact, you will too. “Yes, It’s True” is out now via Good Records. {in}

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happenings QUAYSIDE ART GALLERY 10 a.m. 17 E. Zaragoza St, 438-2363 or quaysidegallery.com.

BLUE MORNING GALLERY 10 a.m. 21 S. Palafox.

429-9100 or bluemorninggallery.com.

DRAGONFLY GALLERY 10 a.m. 5188 Escambia St., Milton. 981-1100 or thedragonflygallery.com.

ARTEL GALLERY 10 p.m. 223 Palafox, Old County Courthouse. 432-3080 or artelgallery.org.

‘LANDSCAPES’ 10 a.m. Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. 432-6247 or pensacolamuseumofart.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 A A A 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.

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

VIVA FLORIDA 500 RECEPTION 5-7 p.m. The artists of the Studios and Gallery at First City Art Center (FCAC) are proud to host the exhibition, "Artifacts", a celebration to promote 500 years of Florida’s history – its people, places and cultural achievements – and this important milestone in American and Florida history. "Artifacts" features work from the resident artists of the FCAC Studios as well as the work of the FCAC Pottery and Glass Guilds. First City Art Center Studios and Gallery, 1060 N. Guillemard St. 429-1222 or FirstCityArt.org 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 GROCERY 5:15 p.m.

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

WINE TASTING AT EAST HILL MARKET 5:30 p.m. 1216 N. Ninth Ave. PENSACOLA BLUE WAHOOS 7 p.m. versus Jacksonville Suns. Pensacola Bayfront Stadium, 300 W. Main St. 934-8444 or bluewahoos.com.

‘THE WIZARD OF OZ’ 7:30 p.m. Pensacola Little Theatre, 400 S. Jefferson St. 434-0257 or pensacolalittletheatre.com.

AUTO RACING 8 p.m. The demo derby with Modifieds, Sportsmen, Bombers Five Flags Speedway, 7451 Pine Forest Rd. 944-8400 or 5flagsspeedway.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.

3 GAME SPECIAL 8:30 p.m. $12, includes shoes.

DeLuna Lanes, 590 E. 9 Mile Road. 478-9522 or delunalanes.com.

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

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

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LEE MELTON 12 p.m. Peg Leg Pete’s, 1010 Fort

Pickens Rd. 932-4139 or peglegpetes.com.

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

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

DAVE & JOE SHOW 6 p.m. Peg Leg Pete’s, 1010 Fort Pickens Rd. 932-4139 or peglegpetes.com.

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

ROBERT WAYNE 6 p.m. Shaggy’s, 701 Pensacola Beach Blvd. 934-4852 or shaggys.biz.

AL MARTIN 6 p.m. Quality Inn & Suites, 7601 Scenic Hwy. 477-7155.

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

RAISING KARMA 7 p.m. Hub Stacey's at the Point, 5851 Galvez Rd. 497-0071 or hubstaceys.com.

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

MIKE BOCCIA 7:45 p.m. Goat Lip’s Beer Garden, 2811 Copter Rd. 474-1919 or goatlipsdeli.com.

JENSEN HOLT 8 p.m. Hopjack’s Nine Mile, 204 East Nine Mile Rd. 497-6076 or hopjacks.com.

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

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

TRAIN 45 8:30 p.m. The Tin Cow, 102 South Palafox 466-2103 or thetincow.com.

THE BLENDERS 8:30 p.m. Hub Stacey's

Downtown, 312 E. Government St. 469-1001 or hubstaceys.com.

THE MAINSTREAM 9 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. Pensacola Beach.

932-2211 or sandshaker.com.

DOWNDAY BAND 9 p.m. Bamboo Willie's, 400 Quietwater Beach Rd. Pensacola Beach, 9169888 or bamboowillies.com.

GRAND THEFT AUDIO 9 p.m. The Fish House, 600 S. Barracks St. 470-0003 or fishhouse. goodgrits.com.

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

BIG JIM BROWN & THE SPEED KINGS 9 p.m.

End o’ the Alley at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

PETE O’ DEA 9 p.m. McGuire's Irish Pub, 600 E. Gregory St. 433-2849 or mcguiresirishpub.com.

WHYTE CAPS 9 p.m. Apple Annie’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

THE FIRST CITY BLUES BAND 9:30 p.m. Hopjack’s, 10 South Palafox. 497-6076 or hopjacks.com.

TIMBERHAWK 10 p.m. The Break Beach Bar, 65 Via de Luna, Pensacola Beach, 932-0864 .

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PALAFOX MARKET 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza, N. Palafox St. Palafoxmarket.com.

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Over the Causeway and Through the Tunnel

by Sarah McCartan

It’s not just that we live to hold our breath while driving through the tunnel, although that’s certainly part of it. Ultimately, it’s the diverse mix of music and the community’s steadfast dedication to up-and-coming local and regional artists that keeps us returning to Mobile for more.

In addition to special events such as SouthSounds Music Festival held in the spring, local flagship venues—including the Alabama Music Box and Callaghan’s Irish Social Club—consistently host a variety of artists.

While the Alabama Music Box setting is that of a more typical venue, it is a locale that allows for up-close stage standing, hosts a capacity that is manageable, offers a balcony view, and even a quaint back patio. Situated nearby, just outside of the heart of downtown, is Callaghan’s.

The pub offers a close-knit setting, allowing patrons to be entirely immersed, both within the pub’s relaxed environment, and the music at hand.

Here are a few acts worth lending your ears to this weekend and next. And who knows, maybe if Pensacola makes a showing, next time the bands will venture a little bit further east. Fingers crossed.

ST. PAUL AND THE BROKEN BONES

Rooted both in the gospel and glory of the South is Birmingham, Ala. six-piece, St. Paul and the Broken Bones. Frontman Paul Janeway’s Pentecostal roots are said to shine through on stage in the form of healthy shaking and soulful shouting. Although their debut EP "Greetings from St. Paul & The Broken Bones," has only been out for a matter of months, the band has shared their gospel quickly. Their first full-length album—a primarily live performance recorded with friend and keyboardist for the Alabama Shakes, Ben Tanner—is pending release in the foreseen future.

WHEN: Doors at 7:00 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 10 WHERE: Callaghan’s Irish Social Club, 916 Charleston St. COST: $12 DETAILS: callaghansirishsocialclub.com or (251) 433-9374

THE UNDERHILL FAMILY ORCHESTRA

Although their painted faces make them easy to spot, the Underhill Family Orchestra’s bonds run far deeper than these unifying signature marks. The Mobile-based band began as an acoustic project but has grown into an orchestra of electrifying instruments—tambourine,

mandolin, drums, guitars—sustained by a melodious family of vocals.

The band kicked off the New Year with a bang, performing on stage at the Alabama Music Box while friends and fans danced in a rain of confetti. They have since kept their momentum going and have recently launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise funds to record their new album. They have just released a video for their first single from the upcoming album, “The Showdown at St. Lawrence.” To watch the video and learn more about the new album and Indiegogo campaign, visit www.theunderhillfamilyorchestra.com.

WHEN: Doors at 8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 11 WHERE: Alabama Music Box, 455 Dauphin St. COST: $5 DETAILS: alabamamusicbox.net or (251) 441-8934

THE TONTONS

If you happened to make it to Hangout Fest this year, you more than likely spotted this Houston indie quartet floating about between one of their multiple performances. Not only does the leading lady strikingly resemble the delightfully talented and stylish Solange Knowles, but she is equally as charming—as is the rest of the band. The band’s upbeat, welcoming demeanor allowed them to quickly earn the undivided attention of festivalgoers.

The Tontons are making Mobile one of the first stops of their Summer 2013 tour. For their upcoming appearance at the Music Box, they are joined by 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. WHEN: Doors at 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17 WHERE: Alabama Music Box, 455 Dauphin St. COST: $8 DETAILS: alabamamusicbox.net or (251) 441-8934

GREAT PEACOCK

All it takes is seeing Great Peacock once and you will walk away bellowing, “Take Me to the Mountain,” the leading track on their first EP. The Nashvillebased band, consisting of best friends Blount Floyd and Andrew Nelson, soothingly tell its story through both word and sound. The duo carries with them the free spirit of birds, and the charm of the South.

This engaging act thrives off of feeling like they are one with the crowd; making a return to Callaghan’s more than warranted.

WHEN: Doors at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 18 WHERE: Callaghan’s Irish Social Club, 916 Charleston St. COST: $8 DETAILS: callaghansirishsocialclub.com or (251) 433-9374 {in}

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August 8, 2013

news of the weird GOVERNMENT IN ACTION The National Security Agency is a "supercomputing powerhouse," wrote ProPublica.org in July, with "machines so powerful their speed is measured in thousands of trillions of operations per second"—but apparently it has no ability to bulk-search its own employees' official emails.

Thus, ProPublica's Freedom of Information Act demand for a seemingly simple all-hands search was turned down in July with the NSA informing ProPublica that the best it could do would be to go one-by-one through the emails of each of the agency's 30,000 employees—which would be prohibitively expensive. (ProPublica reported that companywide searches are "common" for large corporations, which must respond to judicial subpoenas and provide information for their own internal investigations.)

RECURRING THEMES To commemorate its 500th "deep brain stimulation" surgery in May, UCLA Medical Center live-Tweeted its operation on musician Brad Carter, 39, during which he was required to strum his guitar and sing so that surgeons would know where in his brain to plant the electrical stimulator that would relieve his Parkinson's disease symptoms. Carter had developed hand tremors in 2006, but the stimulator, once it is properly programed and the surgery healed, is expected to reduce his symptoms, restore some guitar-playing ability, and reduce his medication need. (And, yes, patients normally remain conscious during the surgery.)

• Americans stage dog shows, and MiddleEasterners stage camel beauty contests, and in June, the annual German Holstein Show took over the city of Oldenburg, with the two-day event won by "Loh Nastygirl," topping bovine beauties from Germany, Luxembourg and Austria. The event is also a showcase for the cow hairdressers, who trim cows' leg and belly hair (to better display their veins). Said one dresser, "It is just like with us people—primping helps." Groomed or not, cows with powerful legs, bulging udders and a strong bone structure are the favorites.

• First-World Crises: It is not quite to the level of the $15,700 Japanese melons, but the behavior of women descending upon New

by Chuck Shepherd

York City stores in June for the annual "sale" on designer shoes is nonetheless a spectacle.

The event makes the city's upscale commercial district look like "an insane asylum of very well-dressed women," reported The New York Times. The shoes' everyday prices require, wrote the Times, "the willful suspension of rational thinking." The average transaction at Barneys is $850, still far below, for example, a pair of wicker-basket-like sandals ($1,995

by Charlotte Olympia) or a certain Christian Louboutin pump ($1,595—$4,645 if in crocodile). Prices are so unhinged, according to the Times, that standards from the iconic "Sex and the City" designer Manolo Blahnik are now lowprice leaders, holding at about $595.

• Among the oldest classic stories in News of the Weird is the hapless burglar or bank robber who inadvertently incriminates himself at the scene of the crime. Recently, (1) Korey Harris, a defensive lineman for West Virginia University's football team, was arrested in July for a home invasion he allegedly committed while wearing his practice sweatpants emblazoned with his jersey number (96). (2) Police in Boston are confident that Zachary Tentoni is the man who robbed a woman in the yard of Harbor Middle School in June because, as he grabbed her purse and fled, he dropped two bags he was carrying. Among the contents: Tentoni's birth certificate and a letter from his mother.

• Zero-Tolerance Alive and Well: Secondgrader Josh Welch's two-day suspension in March was upheld on appeal in June by Park Elementary School officials of Anne Arundel County, Md., even though his offense was that he had nibbled a pastry into the shape of a gun, which he then waved around. Said Josh's attorney: "If this (school system) can't educate a 7-year-old without putting him out of school, how are they going to deal with 17-year-olds?" {in}

From Universal Press Syndicate Chuck Shepherd’s News Of The Weird © 2013 Chuck Shepherd

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