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Hall of Fame. After serving in the Vietnam War, Moore returned home and formed the Pensacola law firm Moore Hill Westmoreland in 1969. He received the PSC Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1996 and is a lifetime member of the PSC Alumni Association. Moore also has been involved in the PJC Foundation, serving as a past president of the Board of Governors and a lifetime member of the President's Circle.

CAMERON & HOUSTON KONETZKI The Greater Pensacola Figure Skating Club members Cameron and Houston Konetzki recently shared the ice with two-time Olympian Johnny Weir. Invited to participate in Weir's farewell tour, the skaters traveled to Wilmington, Del., the day after performing in GPFSC's 27th Annual Showcase at the Pensacola Bay Center. Cameron began his ice-skating career at age 3 and Houston at age 5. Both train locally and at Genesis Ice Den in Maitland and the Ice Factory in Kissimmee. Representing U.S. Figure Skating's Baltimore Figure Skating Club, both boys will compete in Ft. Myers, Baltimore, Tampa and Lake Placid this summer to qualify for Nationals in Chicago.

MAMIE HIXON The creator and director of the UWF Writing Lab recently received the UWF Distinguished Faculty Service Award. The honor is awarded to a faculty member who, while in the employment of the University of West Florida, has given outstanding service to the university and community and who contributes her professional talents and expertise to support the UWF public service mission.

$10,000 on top of other scholarships or financial aid. Board trustee Christopher Rufo, a DeSantis appointee, has tweeted, "We will be shutting down low-performing, ideologically captured academic departments and hiring new faculty. The student body will be recomposed over time: some current students will self-select out, others will graduate; we'll recruit new students who are mission-aligned." Sounds like indoctrination, not education.

SENATE ETHICS & ELECTIONS COMMITTEE Midway through the 2023 legislative session, the Republican-controlled committee began advancing a sweeping elections package (SPB 7050) that would impose further restrictions on voter registration groups, create a new crime for harassing elections workers and relax campaign finance reporting rules. The bill will make it harder for organizations to register Black, Hispanic and young voters. It also bans first-time Florida voters who don't have Florida driver's licenses, which will impact out-of-state college students trying to vote.

VIRTUAL DRIVER'S LICENSE Florida has spent $1.5 million to develop an app for users to keep copies of their driver's license on their smartphones, but few Floridians have downloaded the app, according to the Orlando Sentinel. Some who have downloaded it have complained it's useless because Florida law still requires drivers to carry the physical plastic versions of their driver's licenses. Of Florida's 17.9 million licensed drivers, only 142,803 have downloaded the driver's license app from the Apple and Android stores.