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GULF WINDS FEDERAL CREDIT UNION The credit union has earned BauerFinancial’s 5-Star Superior rating for strength and security. Gulf Winds has earned this highest rating for 87 consecutive quarters, which secures it an even more elite status as a “Sustained Superiority Credit Union.” This designation is only available to the top 10 percent of institutions, including only those that have maintained their 5-Star rating for longer than 90 percent of the industry.

MARY MEHTA Nemours Children’s Health

System has promoted Dr. Mehta to the position of Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for Florida Network Operation, in addition to her leadership responsibilities as CMO for Nemours Children’s Clinic Pensacola. She will oversee the strategic and operational leadership of Nemours Florida network of primary and urgent care offices. She will also have statewide responsibility for business development including promotion of Nemours specialties with new and existing hospital partners. A pediatric cardiologist for more than 20 years, Dr. Mehta has worked with Nemours for more than 12 years, most recently as its CMO in Pensacola.

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ENTERPRISE FLORIDA Less than a month after the Florida Legislature his request for a $250-million business incentive fund, Gov. Rick Scott began a shake-up at Enterprise Florida, the state’s principal economic development organization. Scott has asked the board to cut $6 million from its budget and announced Enterprise Florida CEO Bill Johnson would be “transitioning out” of the agency. The cuts at the state agency could impact Northwest Florida’s business recruitment efforts.

PAM BONDI The Florida Attorney Gen-

eral endorsed GOP front-runner on the eve of the Florida presidential primary. Two years ago, she made the decision not to investigate complaints from Floridians concerning Trump University, which the state of New York recently filed a lawsuit alleging that it had "scammed" people out of millions of dollars. We now know that Bondi’s political action committee, And Justice for All, received a $25,000 from Trump’s foundation. People always say follow the money. Hmmm.

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THE PROMISE OF HOPE Community leaders have begun to think big and look at a more comprehensive strategy in improving our poor, innercity neighborhoods.

Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward and Escambia County Commissioner Lumon May have pulled in the county, city, Escambia County School District, University of West Florida, Pensacola State College and United Way to seek Promise Zone designation by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for a 20-square mile portion of the city and county.

Promise Zones are based on the position that a child's zip code should never determine his or her destiny. However, we know that the neighborhood in which children grow up impacts their odds of graduating high school, health outcome and lifetime economic opportunities.

The Promise Zone designation partners the Federal government with local leaders in developing programs that can lead to crime reduction, neighborhood revitalization and workforce development. Promise Zone designees receive an opportunity to engage five AmeriCorps VISTA members in the Promise Zone's work; a federal liaison assigned to help designees navigate federal programs; and preferences for certain competitive federal grant programs and technical assistance from participating federal agencies. The designation lasts for 10 years.

In 2014, President Barack Obama announced the first round of Promise Zones.

They were located in: San Antonio, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Southeastern Kentucky, and the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Last year, he announced eight more in Barnwell, S.C., Camden, N.J., Hartford, Conn., Indianapolis, Ind., Minneapolis, Minn. Porcupine, S.D., Sacramento, Calif. and St. Louis, Mo. More designations will be announced this spring. HUD intends to designate five urban communities.

The City has acted as the lead organization. The UWF Institute for Innovative Community Learning has agreed to manage the operation should Pensacola receive designation. The application concentrated on six goals: expansion of educational opportunities, job creation, workforce development, economic development, crime reduction, promoting health and affordable housing.

The Promise Zone designation is a long shot. There were 82 applications submitted representing 38 states and Puerto Rico. However, we do need a macro approach to poverty.

As Commissioner May told a PNJ reporter, “There is a multiplicity of issues that need multiple stakeholders to bring about solutions."

Should HUD decide not to bestow a Promise Zone designation on Pensacola, let’s hope community leaders will use the application as a blueprint for future efforts and find other funding sources. {in} rick@ inweekly.net

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CHANGING CLIMATE, CHANGING STRATEGIES

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By Shelby Smithey Climate change and politicians’ stance on the subject have made it an unnecessary tool in politics. However, 350 Pensacola’s upcoming speaker believes that politics will play no part in how the U.S. military will adjust its strategies in order to meet the challenges of climate change and adapt its operations to a new future.

Brigadier General John Adams, (Ret.) served more than 30 years Active Duty in the U.S. Army as an aviator artillery officer, an intelligence officer and deputy military representative, with assignments ranging from Operation Desert Storm to Rwanda, the Balkans and Afghanistan.

He has lived in Gulf Breeze for two years now, where he operates a defense and national security consulting firm, Guardian Six LLC.

He serves on the City of Gulf Breeze Development Review Board and as a director on the board of Florida is for Veterans, Inc. “The U.S. military predicts that climate change will further destabilize already unstable states, creating more demand for existing missions, such as peacekeeping, conflict prevention, and war fighting,” Adams said. “This destabilization can heighten tensions between states, drawing us into wars that we don’t want to fight. The challenges also include addressing the more than 30 domestic Navy bases at-risk from sea level rise and the creation of new missions, such as disaster response and Arctic patrol.”

As a retired Army officer and consultant on national defense, General Adams has studied, and is well aware of, how climate change affects military operations and how the U.S. military is planning for and adapting to the changes.

“A changing climate acts as an accelerant of instability around the world, making tensions related to already existing stresses—whether ethnic differences, economic dislocation, national rivalries, or resource competition,” he said. “Climate change is a fact that the U.S. military must plan for – prepare for the worst, plan for the most likely, and hope that we have over-prepared.”

The presentation is part of a monthly speaker series on climate change sponsored by 350 Pensacola.

“The facts of climate change are overwhelming, and the U.S. military clearly sees climate change as a threat to national security as it destabilizes nations, creates new areas of the sea to be secured, and complicates operations of coastal bases dealing with sea level rise,” said Christian Wagley, 350 Pensacola programs director. “Our community has tremendous respect for our armed forces, and

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Adams said that other problems caused Adams said that he has been engaged by climate change are the deteriorating founon climate change issues for the last four dations of bases in Alaska built on land that years. is permafrost, and the increase of forest fires “I know there’s a political argument on on training lands in California. this, but it distracts from true measures to “Rise in sea levels also affects flora and address it, he said. “I believe that climate fauna in the sea,” Adams said. “When coral change is not about politics, it’s about is destroyed, that effect making sure is on our fishing, and if we we address it don’t have coral beds, that from a comaffects us economically.” mon sense Adams said that the basis, and next sea lane is predicted the military to open within the next understands few years in the Arctic, but that and he is optimistic about the understands military’s ability to address that it’s about the challenges, even with the impending trying to prepare for the future.” presidential election.

Adams said that the basics when it “I care for national security and how comes to addressing climate change is best to protect national security, and I reducing national security risk, focusing on would hope that our next Commander-infacts and preparing for a change in climate Chief believes that climate change is real in the short and long term. and that we need to deal with the situation “The U.S. military is planning for our as it exists today, prepare for the trends we operations in a global environment where see, and ensure that we aren’t taken advanthe climate is changing, sea levels are rising tage of while protecting our harbors and and weather is getting more severe,” he naval bases,” he said. “I hope they undersaid. “The melting of the polar ice caps has stand that this is the reality of it. The good caused the creation of new sea lanes that news is that our defense department gets it weren’t there before.” and is planning for our current climate and Adams said that the U.S. Navy and Air trends we see today." {in} Force especially will have to modify their doctrines to plan for sea lane patrol and control and changes in equipment, including new ships needed to navigate them.

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DOING MORE WITH LESS work with, they're there because they want to invest in others.”

The downsizing was painful for Simmons and his staff. He said, “Corporate change is painful, but change inside an organization like that where people are fighting and skimping to get by so that they can invest (in helping people), that's a whole different kind of hurt or pain.”

The revenue shortfall was at the Waterfront Mission’s Recycling Center. The market for recyclables has fallen off considerably over the past few years. Last October, the Emerald Coast Utilities Authority had to scramble when the Montgomery recycling facility that Photo Courtesy of Waterfront Rescue Mission it used closed abruptly due to poor market conditions and pricing “For what we do, people step up individually, corporately and support us,” said Simmons.

“So general contributions represent about half Devin Simmons is a man of faith. He’s an of what we're able to give away to those in need optimist who loves to help people, particularly and invest in programs.” those who are homeless.

He added, “The other half, however, comes However, the president of Waterfront from our bargain centers, those seven stores Rescue Mission and his board had to make a along with the recycle center, and it's the difficult decision. The faith-based non-profit recycle center that hit the economic woe and that has served the homeless in Escambia and really stretched us.”

Santa Rosa counties for more than 65 years Simmons said that he had been asked simply did not have the funds to sustain its why Waterfront Mission chose to close its many programs.

Women’s Center.

On March 24, an announcement was “It's a fair question. Very painful for us,” he released to the media. The Waterfront Mistold Inweekly. However, the mission began as sion was closing its Women’s Center in Gulf men’s shelter on the Pensacola waterfront.

Breeze. The Men’s Recovery Program would “It's kind of what we're oriented towards. be restructured, and the Career Development That's where we have most of our investment.

Program would end.

We had to determine, how could we do the “You don't show up for a day like that,” most with what we have,” said Simmons.

Simmons said on News Talk 1370 WCOA’s He pointed out that women require a more “Pensacola Speaks.” secure environment, particularly if they have He explained, “When you're faced, really, any children. with the fourth-grade math of we're really “It was not an easy decision at all,” he headed down the road of spending way more said.

“We've done a lot of good things with than we're bringing in, you know you have to the women, but the decision was what can make those decisions. Those people that you

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we sustain and what can we build back to for decades beyond?”

He added, “Unfortunately, our infrastructure only allows us right now to address that side of the equation.”

EscaRosa Coalition on the Homeless (ECOH) has been working with the Waterfront Mission to find help for the homeless women that were served by the Gulf Breeze facility.

“Over the past several years, we've seen a small decline in our homeless population, both nationally and in the state of Florida,” said ECOH executive director John Johnson.

“When it comes to homelessness for women, our data shows that the women represent 3540 percent of our entire homeless population.”

Many of these women are unaccompanied and don't have an addiction or mental health problem.

“They're just homeless by whatever situation that led them to be homeless,” he said.

“They are very vulnerable, and what our data has shown and our research has shown is that many of the women have to, unfortunately, give up their bodies in order to have a place to stay.”

Johnson has placed some of the women with the Salvation Army, but their capacity is only about 52 beds for both sexes.

“On any given night, they can probably house anywhere from 20-30 women, and that's it. We have about 300 women that I'm aware of on the streets every day that are homeless,” he told Inweekly.

Escambia and Santa Rosa counties have lacked a coordinated effort to help the homeless, but Johnson said that could change shortly. In 2014, the City of Pensacola hired consultant Robert Marbut and formed a task force to study the problem. The city council repealed a few of its ordinances but did not address the recommendation regarding a shelter.

Johnson served on the task force. He said, “We're working on short-term to establish a centralized, coordinated assessment center. In this assessment center, we consolidate multiple providers, whose goal is to either prevent or eliminate home-

lessness, and our organization will have a direct relationship with some of the core providers, like Waterfront, to make direct referrals for clients.”

He said the ECOH had gotten several state grants that will help with consolidating the efforts of several local groups serving the area’s homeless and will engender more collaboration from other providers.

“I think ECOH is going to be looked to as the sort of the homeless administrator, because we understand the client population that most of the providers serve and understand what client is best suited at what program,” said Johnson.

“We will screen clients, triage them, give them the right service, with the right intensity, at the right time and that's going to be very, very critical,” he said. “We know that if we don't help those clients who are on the lower social economic scale, the ones that impact the hospitals, the ones that impact the psychiatric care, if we don't get those housed, then those folks are going to cost the community tens of thousands of dollars.”

Simmons agreed, “I come from a healthcare background, so duplicated services are a nasty word. Anytime that you can streamline, and John and I met early when I came aboard about how do we coordinate the information that's available out there to get people in the right place at the right time.”

He added that the consolidation and coordination of services would have a cost.

“It comes with a price tag; how do you coordinate that with a computer, and a laptop, and a person with the skillset to do that,” said Simmons. “It has to happen, but it does take a community investment so that whether they come from the prison, or they come from Salvation Army, or Waterfront, wherever it is, we are working in the right direction." {in} To learn more about Waterfront Rescue Mission, visit waterfrontmission.org. For the EscaRosa Coalition on the Homeless, visit ECOH.org.

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UNDERSTANDING ISIS THREAT

The United States has made mistakes in dealing with ISIS, according Dr. Jacob Shively.

He said when the U.S. clamped down on the insurgency in Iraq in 2007, an unintended consequence was that several insurgents placed in jail began networking.

“As they left that internment, some of them were able to kind of strike out with a more radical ideology than they had developed previously,” said Shively. “Then later, when the US left Iraq in 2011, there was more open political space for them to begin operating, and they morphed into what now we call ‘ISIS.’”

Another mistake was the Obama administration and other western nations incorrectly categorized ISIS as a terrorist organization like al-Qaeda.

“That was a big mistake, because their ambitions were really to become a state, to control territory,” he said on News Talk 1370 WCOA’s “Pensacola Speaks.”

Dr. Shively is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at the University of West Florida. His research and instruction focus on international relations, with a current emphasis on U.S. foreign policy, security issues and grand strategy.

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a pretty good job since 9/11 keeping out these foreign terrorist organizations. It's not 100-percent, but they've done a good job of that. Maintaining that culture, maintaining that capability is also key.”

A dynamic that has changed domestic political concerns in the U.S. and Europe has been the unprecedented migrant situation. More than a million migrants and refugees, primarily from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, crossed into Europe in 2015.

And millions more are at their borders trying to leave the Middle East and causing a crisis as countries try to cope with the influx.

“What we've seen is a pretty strong domestic political backlash, but on the other hand, what can you really do with these people who are coming over the borders?” said Shively. “The Europeans recently made an agreement with Turkey that they'll bring people in from Turkey rather than receiving them directly as they arrive on boats and so forth. That isn't really a longterm solution.”

He said that the U.S. is in a slightly different position, because the refugees set to come to this country go through an 18-month process.

Shively pointed out the bigger danger may not be the adults. He is concerned about the next generation.

“If you bring in large refugee populations, it's often sometimes the children who feel in-between cultures,” he said.

“They struggle to acclimate sometimes, which is what we're seeing in Europe.”

Shively added, “Sometimes those are the people who become radicalized 20 years later. That may or may not be an issue here, but that's certainly what we're seeing in Europe right now.”{in}

“They want to, in some ways, force a big apocalyptic-style confrontation.

They would like to mire the U.S. in that kind of conflict.” Dr. Jacob Shively

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Shively. With U.S. oil production up and OPEC a little less powerful, that concern has lessened.

“You don't have that direct threat, but of course, what we're all really concerned about is whether or not Isis is a threat to the Homeland, and certainly, we've seen in Europe that is a serious concern,” said Shively.

He said ISIS is more of threat to Europe because its Muslim population is less assimilated in their communities than in this country.

“Part of the reason Europe has a different kind of problem is that they have larger, concentrated populations of Muslim communities who haven't really been able to integrate,” he said. “We have seen some radicalism in the US, but these seem to have been relatively isolated, if somewhat deadly, attacks; but the kind of thing that we've seen in Europe is a more concentrated ability to form terrorist networks.”

If Shively was a presidential advisor, how would he recommend the U.S. deal with ISIS? “That's the tough question. If I was an advisor right now to the president, I would say you're more or less on the only track that you have available to you right now, which is using air power to bomb Isis, trying to support forces on the ground,” he said.

“If the US commits anymore forces directly, in some ways that plays into ISIS' hand.”

Shively warned, “They want to draw in the West. They want to, in some ways, force a big apocalyptic-style confrontation.

They would like to mire the U.S. in that kind of conflict.”

The UWF professor also believed the U.S. needs to remain diligent at home.

“The other element is maintaining our high standards for domestic homeland security,” he said. “We seem to have done

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President Barack Obama / Official White House Photo by Pete Souza OBAMA IN CUBA Cuban-born restaurateur Robert de Varona is cautiously optimistic that President Barack Obama’s recent visit to Cuba will make a positive change in the communist country.

“President Obama gave tremendous hope to the Cuban people, the people out in the street,” Varona told Inweekly. “He won their hearts.”

Over the years, Varona has held a hard line against normalizing U.S. relations with Cuba. As a teen, he fought with the freedom fighters in the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. He was captured and spent nearly two years in a Cuban prison. The U.S. government paid for his freedom, and Varona was brought to this country with $100 in his pocket. Today, his company, Varona Enterprises, has restaurants and gift shops in airports across the country.

Varona said the collapse of the Soviet Union and the decline in the Venezuelan economy has made the Cuban government desperate for funds.

“First they had the Soviet Union in 1960’s, but when the Soviet Union failed, the Castro government went through a horrendous hardship,” he said.

“Then Venezuela came out and rescued them and gave them pretty much free oil,” said Varona. “Then that country fell apart, putting the Cuban economy in shambles.”

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He added, “The socialist communist system does not work, period. Either you are giving them money for free, or they're desperate, and that is what's happening now.”

Varona was impressed that President Obama refused to have the Castros dictate who would meet with him. The president met with Cuban dissidents.

“In his nationally-televised speech, he spoke about freedom and freedom of election in a very diplomatic but very direct way, and he lectured Raul Castro who was in the audience about freedom of expression and freedom of the press,” he said.

How did Varona know that the president’s visit had an impact?

He smiled. “Because Fidel Castro himself came out and wrote an editorial in the communist newspaper just a few days ago attacking Obama big time.”

TOUCHY SUBJECT Want to start a

debate at City Hall? Just ask Pensacola citizens what should be built on the 1.8-acre, city-owned Hawkshaw property.

At a public forum on March 29, renowned design firm Urban Design Associates asked for input on the property that the city has owned for 20 years. The city council rejected proposals for the site in 2004 and 1995. Last year, it rejected $775,000 for the site and a plan for 30

This “listening” meeting was the first of three meetings that Urban Design Associates plans to hold. In 60 days, it will come back with renderings based on the input and seek more public comment. A third meeting will help finalize the direction the CRA plans to take in requesting development bids from private developers.

“This city has changed enormously since the last time we showed up,” said Rob Robinson, Urban Design Associates chairman. “You have a whole different atmosphere here.”

About 30 concerned citizens, many of them Aragon residents, attended the meeting that turned into vigorous debate.

Will Dunaway, a Clark Partington and Hart attorney and the current president of the NAIOP Commercial Real Estate Development Association, pointed out in the past: “There was not enough of a common vision. Just tell us what the rules are.”

Pensacola City Councilman Brian Spencer admitted the city is in a quandary because it lacks the density of bigger American cities. “We want a reality-based project here,” he said. “Until we have the density, unfortunately, we’ll see butcher paper in the windows” of mom-and-pop businesses.

Andrew Rothfeder, Studer Properties president, is in charge of the building of a 260-unit apartment complex in the center of downtown. He reported the waiting list is up to 570 individuals and families for the project.

He argued there was nothing special about the Hawkshaw property. He said, “It’s just another piece of real estate,” Rothfeder said. “Millennials do not want to live here.

They want to be in the center of action.”

Developers pointed out Aragon has had trouble, so far, developing restaurants, shops and other businesses along the Ninth Avenue corridor that residents want to go to.

Whatever it ends up being, Aragon resident Kevin Hagen, a builder, expressed his opinion that in the end he doesn’t want to see a “massive” tower or building. He said, “It has to relate to everything around it.”

—Reported by Duwayne Escobedo

ALL TOGETHER On Feb. 23, 2016, an EF-3 tornado wreaked havoc in Northeast Pensacola. The storm damaged more than 300 homes.

BlabTV will air “All Together: The 2016 Pensacola Tornado”, an original 30-minute documentary detailing how the storm took shape, the immediate aftermath, the first response that helped save lives and the cleanup work that still continues today. The film premieres on BlabTV and BlabTV.com on Thursday, April 7 at 9 p.m.

Filmmaker Mark Schultz discussed his documentary on “Pensacola Speak.”

“That night was one of those nights you will remember if you were there in it,” said Schultz, who lives off of Ninth Avenue near the neighborhoods impacted. “After it had touched down, being the news guy I am, I went down there to find out what's happening because there were so, so many emergency officials going up and down the road. I had to find out what was happening.”

When he got to the Northpointe area, Schultz began filming. He said, “It is really something to see. I'm a weather person myself; it's one thing to talk about it all the time but it's another to experience. The people down there really got hit hard. I just wanted to put together something like this.”

He said the idea to create a documentary came the next day when he walked the streets of the damaged neighborhoods. Schultz talked to people who had lost their homes in areas rarely hit by tornadoes.

“They all just wanted to know what happened,” Schultz told Inweekly, "so I just went ahead and thought, why don't I just go ahead and put together something like this?”

The documentary features exclusive interviews with several key leaders who were crucial before, during and after the storm, including Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan, WKRG-5 Chief Meteorologist Alan Sealls, Escambia County Chief of Emergency Management John Dosh and Escambia County Fire Capt. Craig Ammons.

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he gender wage gap is a decades-old, complex problem that has stifled American working women for generations.

That gap may be slowly closing, but today women in the U.S. still earn only 79 percent as much as their male counterparts according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, and that shouldn’t sit well with anyone.

Tuesday is Equal Pay Day, and to dive deeper into understanding the discrepancies between men’s and women’s salaries, Inweekly researched how Pensacola stacks up to the national average and spoke to experts on why some women still get paid less than men for doing the same job.

Today, women who work full time are paid nearly $10,800 less each year than men.

The gap exists in every state, regardless of geography, occupation, education or work patterns. And it is worse for women of color. On average, African American women are paid 60 cents and Latinas just 55 cents for every dollar paid to white, non-Hispanic men.

So, why would someone be paid less for doing the same job?

“That, of course, is the $64,000 question,” said Phyllis Pooley, director of special projects with the University of West Florida Center for Research and Economic Opportunity. “Most who have researched the issue speculate as to a variety of issues—women looking for more flexibility in work hours, spending time out of the workforce for child rearing or women selfselecting into lower-paying careers.”

According to the most recent five-year Pensacola employment data from the U.S. Census Bureau, women who work full-time, year-round make 74 percent as much as their male counterparts. In almost every sector including private and government work in Pensacola, men made significantly more than women. The only sector where men and women made almost equal pay was self-employment.

“It would require a lot more analysis to determine what is happening in Northwest Florida. Although even here, the data show that there are differences,” Pooley said.

The only industries that had a larger percentage of working Pensacola women employed included retail, finance and insurance and real estate, while men dominated the construction and manufacturing industries.

According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), women, on average, earn less than men in virtually every single occupation for which there is sufficient earnings data, even though women account for almost half the workforce and receive more college and graduate degrees than men.

According to IWPR research, if change continues at the same slow pace as it has

done for the past 50 years, it will take 44 years—or until 2059—for women to finally reach pay parity.

“The ACLU is fighting to close the gender wage gap that persists in nearly every industry and profession in the country,” said Sara Latshaw, Director of the American Civil Liberties Union Northwest Region. “This gap varies by state and city, by education level and occupation, and is magnified for women of color despite legislative attempts to combat this inequity.”

Latshaw said that the gap exists for many reasons, including women being paid less for doing the same job as men, job segregation in which woman are concentrated in the lowest-paying fields, and wage loss resulting from childcare and pregnancy.

“Due to lack of transparency in salary scale, woman are largely left in the dark when it comes to discrepancies and are penalized for discussing salary with coworkers,” Latshaw said. “We support legislation that would increase transparency in setting salaries and prohibit retaliation against workers who discuss wages, making it easier to find discrimination where it is occurring.”

Latshaw said that while state legislation is helpful, it creates a patchwork of regulation that leaves women living in some areas of the country unprotected.

“Thus, we need a federal solution that will close the gender wage gap by ensuring that women are paid equally,” she said.

“We need a federal solution that will close the gender wage gap by ensuring that women are paid equally.”

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WHY THE GAP?

Pay equity may be affected by the segregation of jobs by gender and other factors. IWPR’s research shows that, irrespective of the level of qualification, jobs predominantly done by women pay less on

Median income in the past 12 months (in 2014 Inflation-adjusted dollars) Pensacola- Ferry Pass-Brent, FL Male

Female

Total (dollars)

$31,105

$20,028

Worked full-time, year-round in the past 12 months (dollars)

$45,625

$33,577

Other (dollars)

$17,038

$12,280

Private for-profit wage and salary workers:

$42,526

$30,635

Employee of private company workers

$41,996

$30,488

Self-employed in own incorporated business workers

$50,223

$50,221

Private not-for-profit wage and salary workers

$47,023

$35,881

Local government workers

$42,282

$37,403

State government workers

$42,293

$35,353

Federal government workers

$59,482

$42,778

Self-employed in own not incorporated business workers and unpaid family workers

$34,652

$20,424

Source: US Census Bureau American Community Survey 5 year estimate average than jobs predominantly done by men.

Women have made tremendous strides during the last few decades by moving into jobs and occupations previously done almost exclusively by men, yet during the last decade there has been very little further progress in the gender integration of work.

In some industries and occupations, like construction, there has been no progress in 40 years. This persistent occupational

segregation is a primary contributor to the lack of significant progress in closing the wage gap. According to a recent regression analysis of federal data by IWPR, the poverty rate for working women would be cut in half if women were paid the same as comparable men.

Dr. Rosemary Hays-Thomas, retired University of West Florida Psychology professor, has spent her career researching work force diversity and pay equity. HaysThomas is an industrial organizational

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psychologist with expertise in job leadership and management.

“My background is in social psychology, teaching at a university when there were very few women getting Ph.D.’s,” HaysThomas said. “I was worried by the ways in which my male peers were progressing job wise. I experienced that climate. I was a young woman with a couple kids, being a wife and mother but that didn’t apply to men in the same way.”

In the U.S. today, mothers are primary or sole breadwinners in more than 40 percent of families, and about 31 percent of female-headed households have incomes that fall below the poverty level.

“It is true in most cases that faculty women get paid less,” Hays-Thomas said.

“It has to do some with departments, for example, education is seen as a woman’s career so education departments might most likely be women. What also affects pay is rank. The highest percentage of women are assistant professors, not professors, but that is changing.”

Hays-Thomas said that she completed two years of post-doctorate work to become an industrial psychologist, but it was the political climate of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that sparked her interest in the gender wage gap and pay equity.

“The EEOC was gradually trying to bring legal actions that would accomplish pay equity in the 1980s,” she said. “They were slowly trying to get the courts to make decisions, but the politics of the country changed, and the new chair of the EEOC began ignoring issue and the progress stopped.”

In 1989, Hays-Thomas co-edited a compilation of articles focused on the gender wage gap.

“Honestly, not a whole lot has changed since then,” she said. “The wage gap has shrunk a little bit but not very much.”

WORKPLACE DISCRIMINATION

IWPR’s report on sex and race discrimination in the workplace shows that outright discrimination in pay, hiring or promotions continues to be a significant feature of working life.

Hays-Thomas said that women going into an occupation dominated by the opposite sex are often harassed, and those subtle barriers lead to discrimination. These difficulties may account for the lack of women in certain fields.

IWPR, in collaboration with The WAGE Project, Inc. examined consent-decree remedies for sex and race discrimination in the workplace. Consent decrees are courtapproved settlements of law suits where the defendant does not admit guilt but agrees to the implementation of a set of measures to remedy and prevent future occurrence of potentially-unlawful practices.

In employment discrimination cases, in addition to individual relief, consent decrees typically mandate organizational remedies such as sexual harassment training, the introduction of new grievance procedures, supervisory training or revised performance management, and reward schemes.

OCCUPATIONAL SEGREGATION

Glassdoor, the jobs and salary information site, published a recent study examining the patterns of the gender pay gap. According to their statistics, women earn 76 cents for every dollar men earn. Computer programmers, chefs and dentists were the occupations that had the highest wage gaps.

Earnings Ratio (by Race/Ethnicity, 2014) Women's earnings as a percentage of men's earnings within race/ethnicity

Women's earnings as a percentage of white men's earnings

Hispanic or Latina

89%

54%

American Indian and Alaska Native

85%

59%

Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander

88%

62%

African American

90%

63%

White (non-Hispanic)

78%

78%

Asian American

79%

90%

Based on median annual earnings of full-time, year-round workers, ages 16 and older.

Source: American Association of University Women—aauw.org April 7, 2016

According to the study, it’s not education or experience that’s the main driver between men and women’s pay; it’s the occupation one chooses.

Glassdoor indicates that the biggest factor driving the pay gap today is men and women being systematically pushed into differently paying jobs and industries.

The American Association of University Women (AAUW), a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., was founded in 1881 and has been a leading organization on equity and education for women and girls.

According to the AAUW’s February 2016 report, “The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap,” the pay gap is smallest in Washington D.C., and largest in Louisiana, where women were paid 65 percent of what men were paid. Florida comes in at above the national average, with women earning 85 percent of what men were paid. In 2014, a full-time female worker in Florida earned a median salary of $34,768, while a men’s median salary was $40,971.

“There are lots of reasons for the wage gap,” said Hays-Thomas. “One is the type of job, but that is not always a matter of choice.

Differences in salary negotiation skill are a matter of dispute.”

According to AAUW research, after accounting for college major, occupation, economic sector, hours worked, months unemployed since graduation, GPA, type of undergraduate institution, institution selectivity, age, geographical region, and marital status, a 7 percent difference in the earnings of male and female college graduates one year after graduation was still unexplained.

gaps by eliminating loopholes in the Equal Pay Act, helping to break harmful patterns of pay discrimination and strengthening workplace protections for women.

This bill contains several proposed changes to federal law. It would amend the Equal Pay Act of 1963, currently the primary law governing this issue, to limit when employers can pay differently to “bona fide factors, such as education, training or experience.” It would require the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to collect data on compensation, hiring, termination and promotion sorted by sex.

It would also prevent employers from retaliating against employees for inquiring about or disclosing wage information at a company—perhaps the main method employees have of discovering such a gap in the first place. And it would “make employers who violate sex discrimination prohibitions liable in a civil action for damages.”

President Obama has endorsed the legislation, saying “When women succeed here in America, then the whole country succeeds.”

The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was the first piece of legislation President Obama signed in 2009, which extended the length of time women had to file wage discrimination lawsuits.

Currently, both the House and Senate version of the Paycheck Fairness Act have not received consideration since being introduced in March 2015 to their respective committees: Education and the Workforce Committee in the House; Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in the Senate.

“It used to be possible to say that we won’t hire you because you are a woman,” HaysThomas said. “Sometimes women are not well-informed, and the ideas that their parents and school counselors have for them are not very well-informed. Young women should be informed of all possibilities in work that are available to them and the financial consequences of going into a career that is predominantly female.”

As a group, the wage gap costs women who are employed full time in the U.S. nearly $500 billion every year. These lost wages mean families have less money to spend on goods and services that help drive economic growth.

Hays-Thomas said that being informed is one way to support closing the gender wage gap.

“Be observant and ask questions,” she said.

“If you have a business, look at your pay scale.

If you’re around young people, make sure they are aware of all their options and the financial consequences of certain job trajectories.” {in} To learn more about Equal Pay Day— which is Tuesday, April 12 this year— and the gender wage gap in general, visit payequity.org.

“It used to be possible to say that we won’t hire you because you are a woman.” Dr. Rosemary Hays-Thomas

THE PAYCHECK FAIRNESS ACT

The landmark Equal Pay Act of 1963 made it illegal for employers to pay unequal wages to men and women who perform substantially equal work. The Equal Pay Act and the civil rights laws that followed helped change the workplace and began to combat wage inequality, but these laws have not closed the persistent gap between women’s and men’s wages.

Hays-Thomas said that she hopes to see the Paycheck Fairness Act signed into legislation.

“The biggest factor that accounts for the wage gap is that women are not working in the same jobs or settings,” Hays-Thomas said. “For example, there are more women in nonprofits which accounts for lower pay scales. However, this is a very superficial and wrong interpretation of occupational segregation.”

Introduced by Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) in the Senate and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT3) in the House, the Paycheck Fairness Act would help to close these

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Arts & Entertainment art, film, music, stage, books and other signs of civilization...

A Night of Improv

by Jennifer Leigh

5 THINGS YOU (MAYBE) DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE 1. One of the first UCB theatres in New York City was an old strip club. According to her book, “Yes, Please” co-founder Amy Poehler remembers finding “old bikinis and Prince mix tapes” in the lockers when she was cleaning.

2. In 2010, Upright Citizens Brigade became an accredited theatre school.

3. The improvisation form known as The Harold is performed by house teams every week at UCB. It was developed in Chicago by teachers Del Close and Charna Halpern (known as grandfather and grandmother to long form improv). It’s a competitive audition process to be on a Harold Team with hundreds vying for a spot.

Performers with Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) are experts at winging it.

Each show, in comedy clubs across the country, groups from UCB get up on stage and create 90 minutes of comedy without scripts or rehearsals. This week, one of those groups will be in Pensacola.

“UCB does long form improv … it starts with a single suggestion, and we create a 25 to 30 minute show off of just that one thing,” explains Josh Sharp, one of the UCB performers. “There are a lot less gimmicks and rules.”

UCB was founded in the 1990s when comedians Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, Matt Walsh and Ian Roberts took long form improv to New York City. The company expanded from doing regular shows, to TV shows, to becoming the training ground for names like Aubrey Plaza, Aziz Ansari and Donald Glover.

Sharp is one of those lucky enough to graduate of sorts from the UCB training center in New York City to one of the touring groups, but that can’t always be the expectation of signing up, he said.

“It’s like a community,” he said of UCB. “They’re big on you making your own stuff; lots of people run popular independent shows in the hopes of making it in a UCB show. It should be fun and a place to meet people who are also interested in comedy.”

Sharp saw his first UCB performance in college.

“They came down for a festival, and I knew I wanted to be a part of that community,” he said.

“I started performing at the theatre when I moved to New York in 2009 and about three years later, I was touring.”

Sharp has been performing on stage since college and is a stand-up comedian— he was mentioned in Vulture’s 2015 list of “Comics You Should Know.” Comparing the

“As a performer, everything is new to you, it’s only going to be done once and never done again.” Josh Sharp

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4. The Del Close Marathon is sometimes- repetitious nature of stand up, in honor of the late Del Close he says he appreciates how unique improv who died in 1999. The marathon can be. has nothing to do with running, “As a performer, everything is new to but instead is a 52-hour improv you,” he said. “It’s only going to be done marathon in June with non-stop once and never done again. And when performances across several New things go well, it feels good; we were all in York City venues. on this joke together.”

The two biggest lessons learned at UCB 5. Want to learn UCB techniques, is the motto “listening and acceptance.” without going to New York or Los “It’s the core belief,” Sharp said. “That’s Angeles? You can read “The Upright how scenes are built. Don’t think—that’s Citizens Brigade Comedy Improvisahow good scenes happen instead of caltion Manual,” which was written by culating. The biggest compliment is when some of the original members. someone says (after a show) ‘I thought you planned that.’”

Often three or four performers are in a show. Sometimes they’ve been touring for a whole week or a short weekend tour.

And since it’s improv, each show is completely different, which is how it stays fun for performers like Sharp.

“Even the late and early shows WHEN: 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. Sunday, April 10 are completely different,” he said.

WHERE: Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox “It’s impossible to recreate. Each COST: $10-$40 show feels like its own contained DETAILS: vinylmusichall.com thing, which is why it’s so fun. I would do it for 12 hours.” {in}

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Baseball games aren't just about baseball. They are also about free swag and hitting up the snack bar.

Thankfully for us fans, the Blue Wahoos more than get that. In addition to regular weekly promotions like Throwback Thursday and Fat Tuesday, they’ve also got lots of “FANtastic” Friday giveaways planned for the 2016 season to keep you in the game all summer long.

Here’s the complete season schedule and promotion night lowdown to get you prepped for Opening Day and beyond. Game on!

PENSACOLA BLUE WAHOOS OPENING DAY WHAT: Pensacola Blue Wahoos and Jacksonville Suns Home Opener WHEN: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 12 WHERE: Pensacola Bayfront Stadium, 351 W. Cedar St. DETAILS: bluewahoos.com FOLLOW: facebook.com/PensacolaBlueWahoos or twitter. com/BlueWahoosBBall

PENSACOLA BLUE WAHOOS OPENING DAY ROSTER The Pensacola Blue Wahoos revealed their first roster of the 2016 Double-A Southern League season. It includes 10 members of the 2015 team, while 11 players will make their Double-A debuts with the Blue Wahoos.

The Blue Wahoos roster includes 14 pitchers, two catchers, six infielders and five outfielders.

Pitchers (14): Barrett Astin, David Chacin, Rookie Davis, Amir Garrett, Carlos Gonzalez, Kyle McMyne, Evan Mitchell, Jimmy Moran, El’Hajj Muhammad, Wandy Peralta, Sal Romano, Nick Routt, Jackson Stephens, Nick Travieso

Catchers (2): Joe Hudson, Chad Wallach

Infielders (6): Ray Chang, Calten Daal, Brandon Dixon, Eric Jagielo, Tony Renda, Zach Vincej

Outfielders (5): Beau Amaral, Pin-Chieh Chen, Sebastian Elizalde, Phillip Ervin, Donald Lutz

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APRIL

•Tuesday, April 12 vs. Suns Promotion / Event: Magnet Schedule Giveaway •Wednesday, April 13 vs. Suns Promotion / Event: Happy Gilmore •Thursday, April 14 vs. Suns Promotion / Event: Throwback Thursday •Friday, April 15 vs.

Suns Promotion / Event: FANtastic Friday Hat Giveaway (First 2,000 fans) •Saturday, April 16 vs. Suns Promotion / Event: Fireworks Saturday •Friday, April 22 vs.

Generals Promotion / Event: FANtastic Friday; Fur Circus Performance (First 2,000 fans) •Saturday, April 23 vs. Generals Promotion / Event: Fireworks Saturday, Fur Circus Performance, Girl Scout Night •Sunday, April 24 vs. Generals Promotion / Event: Fur Circus Performance, McDonald's Family Sunday, Team Photo Giveaway (First 2,000 fans) •Monday, April 25 vs. Generals Promotion / Event: Giveback Monday, Milton Night •Tuesday, April 26 vs. Generals Promotion / Event: Fat Tuesday—Pretzel Night

MAY

•Wednesday, May 4 vs. Shuckers Promotion / Event: Star Wars Night •Thursday, May 5 vs. Shuckers Promotion / Event: Cinco de Mayo, Gulf Breeze Night, Three Amigos Night,

Throwback Thursday •Friday, May 6 vs.

Shuckers Promotion / Event: FANtastic Friday Drawstring Bag Giveaway (First 2,000 fans) •Saturday, May 7 vs. Shuckers Promotion / Event: Boy Scout Night, Fireworks Saturday •Sunday, May 8 vs.

Shuckers Promotion / Event: Bark in the Park, Little Pirate Day, McDonald's Family Sunday, Mother's Day •Saturday, May 14 vs. Braves Promotion / Event: Fireworks Saturday, Justin Gatlin Bobblehead (First 2,000 fans) •Sunday, May 15 vs.

Braves Promotion / Event: BBoy McCoy Performance, McDonald's Family Sunday •Monday, May 16 vs. Braves Promotion / Event: Giveback Monday •Tuesday, May 17 vs. Braves Promotion / Event: Fat Tuesday—Kevin Bacon Night, Fitness Night •Wednesday, May 18 vs. Braves Promotion / Event: Office Space Night •Wednesday, May 25 vs. Barons Promotion / Event: Hurricane Preparedness Night, Perdido Key Night •Thursday, May 26 vs. Barons Promotion / Event: Jersey Auction, Throwback Thursday •Friday, May 27 vs.

Barons Promotion / Event: FANtastic Friday •Saturday, May 28 vs. Barons Promotion / Event: Cup Giveaway (First 2,000 fans), Fireworks Saturday

•Sunday, May 29 vs. Barons Promotion / Event: BirdZerk! Performance, McDonald's Family Sunday

JUNE

•Friday, June 10 vs.

Biscuits Promotion / Event: FANtastic Friday Beach Towel Giveaway (First 2,000 fans) •Saturday, June 11 vs. Biscuits Promotion / Event: Fireworks Saturday •Sunday, June 12 vs. Biscuits Promotion / Event: McDonald's Family Sunday, Russian Bar Trio Performance •Monday, June 13 vs. Biscuits Promotion / Event: Fort Walton and Navarre Night, Giveback Monday •Tuesday, June 14 vs. Biscuits Promotion / Event: Fat Tuesday–Darryl Strawberry and Halle Berry Night •Wednesday, June 15 vs. BayBears Promotion / Event: Christmas in June, Faith Night, Out-ofSchool Fireworks •Thursday, June 16 vs. BayBears Promotion / Event: Pace Night, Throwback Thursday •Friday, June 17 vs.

BayBears Promotion / Event: FANtastic Friday Cooling Towels Giveaway (First 2,000 fans) •Saturday, June 18 vs. BayBears Promotion / Event: Fireworks Saturday •Sunday, June 19 vs. BayBears Promotion / Event: Father's Day, Mad Chad Performance, McDonald's Family Sunday, Princess Night, Special Jersey Auction

•Wednesday, June 29 vs. Lookouts Promotion / Event: Harry Potter Night, Out-of-School Fireworks, Wahooloween Night •Thursday, June 30 vs. Lookouts Promotion / Event: Throwback Thursday

JULY

•Friday, July 1 vs. Lookouts Promotion / Event: FANtastic Friday Keychain Giveaway (First 2,000 fans) •Saturday, July 2 vs. Lookouts Promotion / Event: Fireworks Saturday •Sunday, July 3 vs.

Lookouts Promotion / Event: Fourth of July Celebration, McDonald's Family Sunday •Saturday, July 9 vs. Shuckers Promotion / Event: Fireworks Saturday, Special Jersey Auction, Top Gun Night •Sunday, July 10 vs.

Shuckers Promotion / Event: McDonald's Family Sunday, Myron Noodleman Performance •Monday, July 11 vs. Shuckers Promotion / Event: Destin Night, Giveback Monday •Tuesday, July 12 vs. Shuckers Promotion / Event: Fat Tuesday—National French Fry Day •Wednesday, July 13 vs. Shuckers Promotion / Event: Ghostbusters Night, Out-of-School Fireworks •Wednesday, July 20 vs. Shuckers Promotion / Event: Out-of-School Fireworks, The Price is Right Night •Thursday, July 21 vs. Shuckers Promotion / Event: Throwback Thursday

•Friday, July 22 vs.

Shuckers Promotion / Event: FANtastic Friday Sand Koozie Giveaway (First 2,000 fans) •Saturday, July 23 vs. Shuckers Promotion / Event: Fireworks Saturday •Sunday, July 24 vs. Shuckers Promotion / Event: Bucket Ruckus Performance, McDonald's Family Sunday •Sunday, July 31 vs.

Braves Promotion / Event: McDonald's Family Sunday

AUGUST

•Monday, August 1 vs. Braves Promotion / Event: Giveback Monday, Jay Night •Tuesday, August 2 vs. Braves Promotion / Event: Fat Tuesday—Jerry Rice and Condoleezza Rice Day •Wednesday, August 3 vs. Braves Promotion / Event: Back to School Bash, Out-of-School Fireworks •Thursday, August 4 vs. Braves Promotion / Event: Olympic Wahoo Waddle, Throwback Thursday •Thursday, August 11 vs. Smokies Promotion / Event: Throwback Thursday •Friday, August 12 vs. Smokies Promotion / Event: FANtastic Friday Seat Cushion Giveaway (First 2,000 fans) •Saturday, August 13 vs. Smokies Promotion / Event: Fireworks Saturday •Sunday, August 14 vs. Smokies Promotion / Event: Beach Night, McDonald's Family Sunday, ZOOperstars Performance

•Monday, August 15 vs. Smokies Promotion / Event: Cantonment Night, Football Night, Giveback Monday •Monday, August 22 vs. BayBears Promotion / Event: Giveback Monday •Tuesday, Aug 23 vs. BayBears Promotion / Event: Fat Tuesday—Mr. T/ Ice-T/Ice Cube/Vanilla Ice Night •Wednesday, August 24 vs.

BayBears Promotion / Event: Willy Wonka Night •Thursday, August 25 vs. BayBears Promotion / Event: Throwback Thursday, Wizard of Oz •Friday, August 26 vs. BayBears Promotion / Event: FANtastic Friday Drawstring Bag Giveaway (First 2,000 fans) •Saturday, August 27 vs. Suns Promotion / Event: Fireworks Saturday, Ice Flyers Jersey Auction •Sunday, August 28 vs. Suns Promotion / Event: McDonald's Family Sunday, Russian Quick Change

by Alexander & Evgenia, Team Photo Giveaway (First 2,000 fans) •Monday, August 29 vs. Suns Promotion / Event: Giveback Monday •Tuesday, August 30 vs. Suns Promotion / Event: Fat Tuesday— Ichiro(ll) Day •Wednesday, August 31 vs. Suns Promotion / Event: Best of 2016, End of Year Fireworks

*All giveaways, promotions and event dates are subject to change

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calendar THURSDAY 4.7

WORK ON FLORIDA TRAIL 8 a.m. Regular

meet up of Western Gate Florida Trail Association to work on National Scenic Trail and side rail. Meet at Blackwater River State Park, 7720 Deaton Bridge Road. meetup.com/ftawesterngate.

BACH'S LUNCH: GUITAR ORCHESTRA 12 p.m.

Bring your lunch and enjoy a pleasant afternoon at Pensacola State College gazebo, 1000 College Blvd. lyceum.pensacolastate.edu WINE TASTING AT AWM 5 p.m. Try something new every week at Aragon Wine Market’s regular wine tasting, only a few blocks from downtown. Aragon Wine Market, 27 S. 9th Ave. aragonwinemarket.com ISRAEL'S CHALLENGES IN AN UNSTABLE MIDDLE EAST 5:30 p.m. Deputy Consul

General Ron Brummer leads lecture hosted

by Pensacola Jewish Federation. Free and open to the public. Palafox House, 196 N. Palafox.

2016 SYMPHONY GALA 6 p.m. Fine dining and cabaret-style entertainment with jazz singer and pianist Tony DeSare. $150 per person. Crowne Plaza Grande Hotel, 200 E. Gregory St. pensacolasymphony.com JAZZ CONCERT 7 p.m. Wind and Jazz ensembles directed by PSC performing arts department head Don Snowden. Free and open to the public. Pensacola State College, Ashmore Auditorium, 1000 College Blvd.

MAGGIE KOERNER 7 p.m. With Nick & The Ovorols. $10. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox. vinylmusichall.com

FRIDAY 4.8

CREATE A BUTTERFLY GARDEN 10 a.m. UF/ IFAS Extension Santa Rosa County teaches about the plants used by adult butterflies for nectar and those used by caterpillars for food. Admission is free. Gulf Breeze Library, 1060 Shoreline Dr. WINE TASTING 5-7 p.m. Out and about in East Hill on Friday night? Stop by City Grocery for their free weekly wine tasting before settling in or heading out for the night. City Grocery, 2050 N. 12th Ave. SUNSET TOAST AT THE TOP 6:30 p.m. $50 per couple. Pensacola Lighthouse, 2081 Radford Blvd. pensacolalighthouse.org THE MOWGLIS 7 p.m. With The Rebel Light. $15. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox. vinylmusichall.com DATE NIGHT DANCING 7:15-8:15 p.m. Learn the basics of several romantic ballroom and country dance styles in a unique group class that keeps partners together. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. $10. dancecraftfl.com ON THE VERGE 7:30 p.m. University of West Florida theatre production. $5-$16. Free for UWF students. UWF, Center for Performing Arts, 11000 University Pkwy. events. uwf.edu

SATURDAY 4.9

SECOND SATURDAY TRAIL WORK 7:30 a.m.

Meet at Milton Whataburger and go to Juniper Creek Trail. Wear closed-toe shoes, bring work gloves and lunch/snacks/water.

April 7, 2016

Sunscreen and bug spray are recommended. Milton Whataburger, 5346 Stewart St. FIELD TRIP TO FORT PICKENS WITH FMW AUDUBON SOCIETY 7:30 a.m. Meet at

Office Depot. Bring binoculars and water.

Free. Office Depot, 1155 Gulf Breeze Parkway.

SANTA ROSA FARMERS MARKET 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Fresh local produce, honey, baked goods and live music. Pace Presbyterian Church, Woodbine Road, Pace.

PALAFOX MARKET 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Fresh produce, live plants, baked goods, fine art and antiques are just a few of the items offered at the weekly Palafox Market.

Items originate directly from participating vendors, including dozens of local farmers, home gardeners and area artists. Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza, N. Palafox. palafoxmarket.com MYTHS IN PLATO REVISTED 10:30 a.m.noon. Explore several myths from Plato's dialogues. Free and open to the public.

West Florida Public Library, meeting room C. 239 N. Spring St. WILDLIFE SANCTUARY OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA ANNUAL BABY SHOWER 12-3:30

p.m. Support Wildlife Sanctuary with supplies and donations. Event is free and includes arts and crafts for kids. Wildlife Sanctuary of Northwest Florida. 105 N. S St. pensacolawildlife.com WALK MS 5 p.m. Fundraiser for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. No fee to participate, but those who raise $125 will receive a t-shirt.

Bayview Park, E. Lloyd St. walkMS.org SUNSET TOAST AT THE TOP 6:45 p.m. $50 per couple. Pensacola Lighthouse, 2081 Radford Blvd. pensacolalighthouse.org G. LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE 7 p.m. With Bones of J.R. Jones. $25-$93.20. Soul Kitchen, 219 Dauphin St., Mobile, Alabama.

ON THE VERGE 7:30 p.m. University of West Florida theatre production. $5-$16. Free for UWF students. UWF, Center for Performing Arts, 11000 University Pkwy. events. uwf.edu 24 HOUR THEATRE 7:30 p.m. Six one-act plays cast, written, directed and performed within 24 hours. $10. Pensacola Little Theatre, 400 S. Jefferson St. pensacolalittletheatre.com

Society will be at PetCo, 1670 Airport Blvd. pensacolahumane.org 'ELIIJAH' PREVIEW 2 p.m. An informal preview of Pensacola Choral Society's "Eliijah" and conversation with society's director, Charlie Smoke. Admission is free. West Florida Public Library, 239 N. Spring St. ON THE VERGE 2:30 p.m. University of West Florida theatre production. $5-$16. Free for UWF students. UWF, Center for Performing Arts, 11000 University Pkwy. events. uwf.edu UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE 6:30 & 9:30 p.m. $10-$40. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox. vinylmusichall.com

MONDAY 4.11

SEVILLE QUARTER MILERS 5:30 p.m. Runners meet in front of Seville Quarter for a run around downtown Pensacola. Free pasta and drink specials after the run at Fast Eddie's. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com DANCE LESSONS 6:30 p.m. Swing, Country, and Ballroom. Professional partner dance instruction for all skill levels. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. $10. dancecraftfl.com

TUESDAY 4.12

BLUE WAHOOS VS. JACKSONVILLE 6:30 p.m.

First home game of the season. Tickets are $6.97 and up. Community Maritime Park, 351 W. Cedar St. bluewahoos.com STRUT YOUR MUTT 6:45 p.m. Join fellow dog walkers for a 45-minute stroll in East Hill. Dogs must be leashed and wellbehaved. Walkers meet at entrance to Bayview Dog Park at 20th Ave and E. Lloyd St. PLANNING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE: A STRA-

TEGIC IMPERATIVE FOR U.S. MILITARY 7

p.m. Brigadier General John Adams (Ret.) outlines how the most powerful military in the world is adjusting its strategy in order to meet the challenges of climate change, both at home and across the globe. Presentation is sponsored by 350 Pensacola.

Bayview Senior Center, 2000 E. Lloyd St. BANDS ON THE BEACH 7-9 p.m. Emerald Coast Blues Brothers. Gulfside Pavilion, Pensacola Beach. visitpensacolabeach.com ALTON BROWN LIVE: EAT YOUR SCIENCE

7:30 p.m. Songs, multimedia presentations and food demonstrations. $58-$99.

Saenger Theatre, 118 S. Palafox. pensacolasaenger.com ROAR, DULL ACTORS & TBA 9:30 p.m.

Sluggo’s, 101 Jefferson St. facebook.com/ sluggospensacola

WEDNESDAY 4.13

BLUE ANGELS TOUR 11 a.m. Pensacola Lighthouse, 2081 Radford Blvd. $20 per person. pensacolalighthouse.org DANCE LESSONS 6:30 p.m. West Coast Swing. Professional partner dance instruction for all skill levels. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. $10. dancecraftfl.com TRIBAL SEEDS 7 p.m. With Fear Nuttin Band and EN Young. $15-$18. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox. vinylmusichall.

WINDSYNC 7:30 p.m. Pensacola State College, 1000 College Blvd. Tickets are $7-$11. Free for PSC students. lyceum.pensacolastate.edu DANCE PARTY 8-10 p.m. A mix of swing, country, and ballroom music for partner dancing on the best wood dance floor in the area. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. $10. dancecraftfl.com

PENSACOLA CIVIC BAND PRESENTS 'SOUSA WITH A TWIST' 7:30 p.m. Experience a

re-creation of the performance the Sousa Band performed at Pensacola High School in 1924 with euphonium player Adam Frey.

Tickets are $10. Saenger Theatre, 118 S. Palafox. pensacolacivicband.org LOU GRAMM: THE VOICE OF FOREIGNER

7:30 p.m. Ballet Pensacola Fundraiser. $125-$5,000. Vinyl Music Hall. 2 S. Palafox. vinylmusichall.com GHOST HUNT 8 p.m. $20 per person.

Pensacola Lighthouse, 2081 Radford Blvd. pensacolalighthouse.org

SUNDAY 4.10

PETCO ADOPTION EVENT 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Adoptable dogs from Pensacola Humane

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calendar arts & culture

≥Exhibits

JASMINE HOLMES

Watercolors, winner of Blue Morning Gallery scholarship. On view through April 23. Blue Morning Gallery, 21 Palafox. bluemorninggallery. com MORPHOMETRIC

Photography by Christopher White.

On view through April 16. TAG, 11000 University Pkwy., Building 82, Room 206. uwf.edu MIXED BREEDS Watercolor, photography, acrylics, mixed media.

On view through April 29. Quayside Art Gallery, 15-17 E. Zaragoza. 438-2363 or quaysidegallery. com UPTOWN DOWNTOWN Bringing

contrasts together visually. On view through April 15. Artel Gallery, 223 S. Palafox. artelgallery.org ABSTRACT ARGO

From the Artel gallery vault. On view through April 15. Artel Gallery, 223 S. Palafox. artelgallery.org MIXED MESSAGES

From the Artel gallery vault. On view through April 15. Artel Gallery, 223 S. Palafox. artelgallery.org A SAMPLING OF ART

BY TERRY COVINGTON On view through

April 30. Open Books Bookstore, 1040 N.

Guillemard St. openbookspcola.com DO PROCESS An examination of process and method. On view at the First City Art Center gallery through April 15. 1060 N. Guillemard St. firstcityart.org ANNUAL MEMBERS' JURIED EXHIBITION

Selected works from Pensacola Museum of Art Members. On view through April 15.

Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. pensacolamuseum.org TSCHACBASOV: INNER VISIONS Selec-

tion of etchings from Russian-born Nahum Tschacbaso. On view through June 4. Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. pensacolamuseum.org FUNKY TURNS 40

40th anniversary of 1970's Saturday Morning cartoons that featured positive black characters for the first time in television history. On display until April 9.

Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. pensacolamuseum.org THE WAY WE WORKED 10 a.m. to

3 p.m. Smithsonian Institute traveling exhibit about history of American workers.

The exhibition will be on display at the Lillian F. King Museum, located in the Molino

Community Complex, 6450 Highway 95A North, Molino, Florida until April 30.

≥Call For Art

TAKE ME HOME

Artists can submit up to three works for Artel's exhibit "Take Me Home."

The exhibit is meant to explore where we came from. "Our past has brought us to who we are today and you can go home again, at least in your memory thoughts and imagination.

Where do we hail from, treasures from our past, memories of youth...explore that other time, family, friends, joys and tragedies from your past," it states on the website." Works must have been done within the past two years and not previously shown at Artel. Drop off art April 16 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and April 17 1-4 p.m.

Entry fee is $25 for members and $35 for non-members. For more information, visit artelgallery.org.

GREAT GULFCOAST ARTS FESTIVAL

Artist applications are now open for the Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival, to be held November 4, 5 & 6, 2016 in Seville Square, in historic downtown Pensacola. Cash prizes totaling $25,000 will

be awarded. Jury fee is $40. The deadline for entry is May 31.Artists can apply at: ggaf.org/apply. For more information, visit ggaf.org.

WATERBOYZ ART SHOW

Artists of all mediums are invited to decorate a blank skate deck for the Waterboyz Art Show and Silent Auction on May 21. All entries are eligible for silent auction. Proceeds will benefit the nonprofit First Ride Foundation. Cost is $15-$20. For more information, visit waterboyz.com.

GRANT FOR EMERGING ARTISTS

The Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival, in partnership with Artel Gallery, is offering a new grant for emerging artists. As the inaugural event, this will be available to Escambia/ Santa Rosa County full-time residents.

We are looking for artists that have been practicing their craft for a minimum of two years and a maximum of five.

The grant waives all GGAF entry fees ($40 jurying fee, $300 booth fee). Please contact Suzanne at hatchingartists@gmail.com for more information.

CELEBRATING BROWNSVILLE MU-

RAL COMPETITION

Artel Gallery in partnership with the Escambia County Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) is looking for artists for the annual mural competition.

The theme this year is “Empowerment.”

The organization is seeking local art pieces which feature positive representations of diverse urban communities. Selected works will be reproduced as large scale images and will become part of an ongoing outdoor art gallery. Media is limited to 2D only and may not exceed 24” X 36." No profanity, nudity or raciallyoffensive art will be accepted. Winners of the competition will be announced on the day of the event and have their work reproduced as a building installation and displayed on a local building.

Artists may submit up to three works.

Artists must submit a physical art piece to be considered for a building installation and exhibited at the Celebrating Brownsville Arts & Cultural Festival on Saturday, April 30. For assistance contact Suzanne Robbert at CelebrateBrownsville@gmail.com.

≥Fundraisers

JEWELRY RAFFLE TO BENEFIT QUAYSIDE ART GALLERY

Pieces from Bere' Jewelers will be raffled off to help preserve the Quayside Art Gallery's building. The jewelry is now on display at the gallery, located at 15-17 E. Zaragoza in downtown Pensacola: a beautiful diamond pendant with adjustable chain, a diamond and sapphire ring and a yellow gold pearl bracelet. And what's great..."It's Your Choice" which item you will win. Each of these items was carefully chosen, and each is valued at over $1,200. Tickets are for sale for $10 each, and all proceeds go to Quayside's building preservation fund. You will not need to be present to win, and the winning item can be shipped anywhere in the United States. Drawing will take place May 6.

FUNDRAISER TO BENEFIT PENSACOLA MUSEUM OF ART

PMA is selling 200 tickets for a chance to win $7,400 of Roberto Coin jewelry.

Tickets are available for a $50 donation.

Drawing will be held at the PMA 6 p.m. on April 22. Winners need not be present

to win. For more information, visit pensacolamuseum. org.

≥Classes & Workshops

SIMPLY ORNATE 9

a.m.-4:30 p.m. A. Blair Clemo will share his unconventional pottery making techniques, which combine hand building, press molding, and wheel throwing. $125 for First City Art Members, $155 for non-members. First City Art Center, 1060 Guillemard St., firstcityart.org.

LEVEL II COILED PINE NEEDLE BASKETRY INSTRUCTION 10 a.m.-12:30

p.m. offered on two consecutive Saturdays, April 9 and 16. Cost is $50 per student. For more information, bluemorninggallery. com.

THE ARTISTIC AFFAIR A series of

mini-workshops that will be held the first and third Wednesday of each month. April 6, Bird Nest Painting on Wood; April 20, Natural Found Objects Collage; May 4, Layered Tree Skin Mixed Media; May 18, Highly Textured Fiber Painting and June 1, Heavy Layered Painting on Cardboard. Cost

is $40. For more information, contact 429-1222 or visit firstcityart.org.

POTTERY ON THE WHEEL Six-week

workshops are held Tuesdays from 6-9 p.m., Wednesdays from 9 a.m.-12 p.m., Thursdays from 6-9 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. at First City Art Center, 1060 Guillemard St. Cost is $157.25 for members and $185 for non members.

For more information, visit firstcityart. org.

INTRODUCTION TO POTTERY ON THE WHEEL Every

Monday from 6-8:30 p.m. at First City Art Center. Classes are $40. For more information, visit firstcityart.org.

CLAY HAND BUILDING Six-week

workshops are held Tuesdays from 6-9 p.m. and Thursday from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. at First City Art Center. Cost is $157.25 for members and $185 for non members. For more information, visit firstcityart.org.

CLAY SCULPTURE

Six-week workshops held Saturdays from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. at First City Art Center. Cost is $157.25 for members and $185 for non members. For more information, visit firstcityart.org.

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≥bar games

Thursdays POKER 8 p.m. The Ticket 1, 7250 Plantation Rd., ticketsportsbar.com POOL TOURNAMENT

8 p.m. The Ticket 2, 2115 W. 9 Mile Rd., ticketsportsbar.com COLLEGE NIGHT 10 p.m. Drink specials, beer pong tournament starts at 10 p.m.

Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com.

Fridays WINE TASTING

5-7 p.m. Informative wine tasting in Seville Quarter Wine and Gift Shop. No charge for the tasting.

Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com DRAG BINGO 6-8 p.m. Ages 21 and over.

Emerald City’s The Other Side, 406 E. Wright St. emeraldcitypensacola.com POOL TOURNAMENT

8 p.m. The Ticket 1, 7250 Plantation Rd., ticketsportsbar.com Saturdays

MEMBERSHIP APPRECIATION NIGHT

8 p.m. Seville Quarter Membership Card Holder Appreciation Night at Phineas Phogg's. 130 E. Government St., sevillequarter.com Sundays BAR AND RESTAURANT EMPLOYEE (B.A.R.E. NIGHT) 7

p.m. Special prices for B.A.R.E. Card membership holders.

Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St., sevillequarter.com Mondays

TEXAS HOLD ‘EM FOR FUN AND TRIVIA 7

p.m. The Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker.com TRIVIA NIGHT 7-9 p.m. World of Beer, 200 S. Palafox. wobusa.com/locations/ Palafox April 7, 2016

BAR BINGO 8 p.m.

Apple Annie’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com

MONDAY NIGHT TRIVIA 9:30-10:30

p.m. Mugs and Jugs, 12080 Scenic Highway. facebook.com/ MugsJugs Tuesdays TUESDAY TRIVIA 8 p.m. The Bridge Bar and Sunset Lounge, 33 Gulf Breeze Parkway. facebook.com/ thebridgebargb

TICKET TEAM TRIVIA

8 p.m. The Ticket 1, 7250 Plantation Rd., ticketsportsbar.com POKER 8 p.m. The Ticket 2, 2115 W. 9 Mile Rd., ticketsportsbar.com TEAM TRIVIA 9 p.m.

Hopjacks. 10 S. Palafox. hopjacks. com Wednesdays WINE DOWN WEDNESDAYS 11

a.m. Half- priced bottles of wine every Wednesday. Jackson's Steakhouse, 226 S. Palafox. jacksonsrestaurant.com

LADIES NIGHT ON THE DECK 5 p.m. $2

drinks and music.

The Deck Bar, 600 S. Barracks St. fishhousepensacola.com

PUB TRIVIA NIGHT

7-9:30 p.m. Goat Lips Beer Garden, 2811 Copter Road. facebook.com/ goatlipsdeli

WEDNESDAY QUIZ TRIVIA 8 p.m. The

Cabaret, 101 S. Jefferson St. cabaretpensacola.com TICKET BAR BINGO

8 p.m. The Ticket 1, 7250 Plantation Rd., ticketsportsbar.com BAR BINGO 10 p.m.

Play, 16 S. Palafox, Suite 200. iplaypensacola.com

≥karaoke

Thursdays Lili Marlene’s at Seville Quarter, 8 p.m.

130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com Saturdays

Krazy George 9 p.m.

Hub Stacey's 312 E. Government St. hubstaceys.com Sundays The Sandshaker Lounge, 9 p.m. 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker.com Mondays The Cabaret, 9 p.m.

101 S. Jefferson St. 607-2020 or cabaretpensacola.com Tuesdays Sandshaker Lounge, 8 p.m. 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker.com Play, 9 p.m. 16 S. Palafox, Suite 200. iplaypensacola.com

≥live music

THURSDAY 4.7

AL MARTIN 6-11 p.m.

The Piano Bar, Quality Inn, 7601 Scenic Hwy.

LUCAS CRUTCHFIELD

6 p.m. The Deck, 600 S. Barracks St. fishhousepensacola.com JOSH TYRONE 6-10 p.m. Peg Leg Pete's, 1010 Fort Pickens Road, Pensacola Beach. peglegpetes. com MICHAEL WHEELER

7 p.m. Hub Stacey's 312 E. Government St. hubstaceys.com TBA 8 p.m.-midnight Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker.com DUELING PIANOS 8 p.m. Rosie O' Grady's Dueling Piano Show.

Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St., sevillequarter.com MAX HAY 8:30 p.m.

McGuire's Irish Bar Pub, 600 E. Gregory St. mcguiresirishpub. com

FRIDAY 4.8

JOSH TYRONE 12-4

p.m. Peg Leg Pete's, 1010 Fort Pickens Road, Pensacola Beach. peglegpetes. com

LUCAS CRUTCHFIELD & JOHN HART PROJECT 5 p.m. The Deck,

600 S. Barracks St. fishhousepensacola. com 3 BEAN SOUP 6-10

p.m. Peg Leg Pete's, 1010 Fort Pickens Road, Pensacola Beach. peglegpetes. com AL MARTIN 6-11 p.m.

The Piano Bar, Quality Inn, 7601 Scenic Hwy. TYLER MAC 6 p.m.

Paradise Bar & Grill, 21 Via De Luna Dr., Pensacola Beach. paradisebar-grill.com DUELING PIANOS 8 p.m. Rosie O' Grady's Dueling Piano Show.

Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St., sevillequarter.com MAX HAY 8:30 p.m.

McGuire's Irish Bar Pub, 600 E. Gregory St. mcguiresirishpub. com THE BLENDERS 8:30 p.m. Hub Stacey's 312 E. Government St. hubstaceys.com MARIA MENA BAND

9 p.m. Lili Marlene's.

Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com TBA 9 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker.com BAD HABITS 9 p.m.2:30 a.m. Apple Annie's. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com TONY JOHNSON 9 p.m.-2 a.m. End o' The Alley. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com

SATURDAY 4.9

DAVID DUNN 12-4 p.m. Peg Leg Pete's, 1010 Fort Pickens Road, Pensacola Beach. peglegpetes. com AL MARTIN 6-11 p.m.

The Piano Bar, Quality Inn, 7601 Scenic Hwy. PLATINUM PREMIER

6-10 p.m. Peg Leg Pete's, 1010 Fort Pickens Road, Pensacola Beach. peglegpetes. com TYLER MAC 6 p.m.

The Deck, 600 S. Barracks St. fishhousepensacola.com POST PLUTO 6 p.m.

Paradise Bar & Grill, 21 Via De Luna Dr., Pensacola Beach. paradisebar-grill.com DUELING PIANOS 8 p.m. Rosie O' Grady's Dueling Piano Show.

Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St., sevillequarter.com.

Pensacola Beach. peglegpetes.com

9 p.m. Lili Marlene's.

Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com TBA 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker.com BAD HABITS 10 p.m. Apple Annie's.

Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com

8 p.m. End O' the Alley. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com MAX HAY 8:30 p.m.

McGuire's Irish Bar Pub, 600 E. Gregory St. mcguiresirishpub.com

MARIA MENA BAND

SUNDAY 4.10

SEVILLE QUARTER JAZZ BRUNCH 11

a.m.-3 p.m. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com GREG LYON 11 a.m.

Hemingway's Island Grill, 400 Quietwater Beach Rd. DIEDRA THE BLUES DIVA 3 p.m. Paradise

Bar & Grill, 21 Via De Luna Dr., Pensacola Beach. paradisebargrill.com TBA 4-8 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker.com RAUL RAMIEREZ 12-4 p.m. Peg Leg Pete's, 1010 Fort Pickens Road, Pensacola Beach. peglegpetes. com ADAM HOLT 6-10 p.m.

Peg Leg Pete's, 1010 Fort Pickens Road, Pensacola Beach. peglegpetes.com MAX HAY 8:30 p.m.

McGuire's Irish Bar Pub, 600 E. Gregory St. mcguiresirishpub. com

MONDAY 4.11

MIKE VANN 6-10 p.m.

Peg Leg Pete's, 1010 Fort Pickens Road,

MONDAY NIGHT BLUES 8 p.m. Blues

Society of Northwest Florida presents and open jam at Lili Marlene's. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com

SCOOT AND JEREMY

TUESDAY 4.12

RONNIE LEVINE 6-10 p.m. Peg Leg Pete's, 1010 Fort Pickens Road, Pensacola Beach. peglegpetes. com

LUCAS CRUTCHFIELD

6 p.m. The Deck, 600 S. Barracks St. fishhousepensacola.com AN EVENING OF GREAT JAZZ 6:30-10

p.m. Lili Marlene's in Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com MIKE QUINN 8 p.m.

End O' The Alley Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com MAX HAY 8:30 p.m.

McGuire's Irish Bar Pub, 600 E. Gregory St. mcguiresirishpub. com

WEDNESDAY 4.13

GREG LYON 4-8 p.m.

Hemingway's Island Grill, 400 Quietwater Beach Rd.

BIG AL & THE HEAVYWEIGHTS 6

p.m. Paradise Bar & Grill, 21 Via De Luna Dr., Pensacola Beach. paradisebar-grill.com

MIKE MAGAZZINI

6-10 p.m. Peg Leg Pete's, 1010 Fort Pickens Road, Pensacola Beach. peglegpetes.com

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Put your hands up, reach to the Lord.

No luck, man overboard.

You can spend your life doing all you can for the file and ranking.

But it takes everything you have to be an honest man and the work is thankless.

And blindness is surely a curse, but seeing everything is so much worse.

The lines that divide up the earth, rarely what we’ve seen and usually what we’ve heard.

So the divine and the blessed may be the silence and the death.

Well time to head home and point to the wind.

Then fall off, it’s gusting again.

You know you can’t sail straight into the truth, you just sort of zigzag.

The wind and the tide may favor you, but you shouldn’t predict that.

They say blindness is surely a curse, but seeing everything is so much worse.

The lines that divide up the earth, rarely what we’ve seen and usually what we’ve heard.

So the divine and the blessed may be the silence and the death.

You got to let go, open your hand.

And sink low, sleep in the sand.

Well the madman across the water seems helter skelter.

But a board on the reef with a broken back still offers shelter.

And blindness is surely a curse, but seeing everything is so much worse.

The lines that divide up the earth, rarely what we’ve seen and usually what we've heard.

So the divine and the blessed may be the silence and the death.

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by Shelby Smithey

Guide to SouthSounds

Sweet Crude / Courtesy Photo If you’re looking to get your music fix this weekend, consider taking a trip across state lines for the fifth annual SouthSounds Music and Arts Festival in downtown Mobile.

SouthSounds will be held at nine different venues with over 50 southeastern bands and artists from Mobile and other cities including Atlanta, Charleston, New Orleans, Nashville and even Pensacola. To satisfy every corner of the Southeast music scene and its fans, Southsounds encompasses a wide array of genres including electronic, rock, soul and indie pop in one weekend.

As in the past, SouthSounds venues consist mostly of downtown clubs like Alchemy Tavern, The Blind Mule, The Brickyard, The Merry Widow, Moe's Original Bar-B-Que and O'Daly's Irish Pub. Festival sites also include one outlier in the Oakleigh Garden District, Callaghan's Irish Social Club, plus free public performances in Cathedral Square, some coinciding with downtown's April Art Walk on April 8.

The weekend also will feature an array of visual arts activities presented by the Mobile Arts Council, as well as some Southern food-related events and the launch of the new LoDa Squares sidewalk chalk art competition. SouthSounds functions as a nonprofit under the sponsorship of the Mobile Arts Council and the Downtown Mobile Alliance.

Representing Pensacola at the fest is Lil Gaucho, an experimental electronic project from musician Geoff Peck.

“Lil Gaucho is an experiment in sounds,” Peck said. “It’s endlessly tweaking knobs on a synthesizer, sampling a dusty old soul record, or playing a guitar through so many effect pedals the original sound is indistinguishable. I’m beginning to realize there are no limitations on electronic music. My music is the photocopy of all the sounds I create or collect, collaged together to make a bigger organized noise.”

Peck said that Lil Gaucho started when he made a career change that had him on the road a lot.

“With an unpredictable schedule, it’s hard to plan rehearsals and gigs,” he said “This started to shape the way I was making music. I bought loop pedals to jam alone, then bought a drum machine where I learned to program beats and bass lines.”

Peck said that he grew up on gospel, bluegrass, and country, started getting into punk rock and hardcore in middle and high school, and then moved to folk, psychedelic and classic rock in college.

“Lately I’ve been into soul, electronic, and R&B,” Peck said. “I try and take it all in and draw from everything.”

Peck’s first time playing SouthSounds was four years ago with a band called Johnny Apple-Eyes from Pensacola. These days, Peck’s wife Jennifer usually makes an appearance on stage to sing and play piano during Lil Gaucho shows.

“Festivals are interesting because you can tell right away if people are interested,” he said. “There is always so much going on

“My music is the photocopy of all the sounds I create or collect, collaged together to make a bigger organized noise.” Geoff Peck

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Lil Gaucho / Photo by Hana Frenette “We played last year in the middle of at a festival. If you aren’t keeping people’s Cathedral Square, and it was super great,” attention, they will head to another stage Craft said. “This year we will be playing at to check out what else is going on.”

Callaghan’s, which I love.”

After Lil Gaucho, be sure to catch New Sweet Crude will be playing with New Orleans’ Sweet Crude at Callaghan’s on Orleans-based Motel Radio, who Craft said Sunday. The seven-piece ensemble utilizes are friends of theirs.

Cajun French dialect in a fresh medium of “We are working on releasing a new catchy pop music. album, and we are excited to play that ma“We do half our songs in English and terial at SouthSounds,” Craft said. {in} the other half in Louisiana French,” said Sam Craft, Sweet Crude’s violinist and songwriter. “We keep the Louisiana language alive, but put it in a different context; indie pop. It’s not the language’s traditional medium, but it’s fun, exuberant music.

There are a lot of drums and a lot of singing.”

WHEN: Friday, April 8-Sunday, April 10 Craft grew up in New Orleans WHERE: Various venues, Mobile (Ala.) and speaks fluent Cajun French.

COST: $20—$100 He shares songwriting responDETAILS: southsoundsfest.com sibilities with vocalist Alexis Marceaux, who also speaks the language. They’re currently on a busy touring schedule.

WHEN: 10 p.m., Saturday, April 9 “We’ve been tearing up the WHERE: The Merry Widow, 51 S. Conception St. Southeast,” Craft said. “It’s been DETAILS: soundcloud.com/lilgacuho pretty steady, and now we’re going into fest time.”

Craft said that having a sevenpiece band makes song writing WHEN: 8:30 p.m., Sunday, April 10 an interesting process and that WHERE: Callaghan’s Irish Social Club, 916 it’s what makes the band’s sound Charleston St. so eclectic. Sweet Crude played DETAILS: sweetcrudeband.bandcamp.com last year’s SouthSounds and look forward to playing again.

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LIL GAUCHO AT SOUTHSOUNDS

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DIFFERENCE MAKERS Navy Federal honors Dr. Bense

Navy Federal Credit Union recently presented Dr. Judy Bense, president of the University of West Florida, with its inaugural ‘Partner of the Year’ award. Dr. Bense accepted the award from Navy Federal CEO/President Cutler Dawson during the credit union’s annual President’s Award ceremony at its campus in Beulah.

In March of 2008, UWF and Navy Federal established an educational partnership for employees to participate in UWF classes offered at the credit union. Over the last eight years more than 1,100 program participants have been able to continue their education conveniently where they work.

“Judy Bense has been tremendous in helping educate and develop Pensacola’s youth and our employees. It was my pleasure to recognize her today and thank her for all of her hard work,” said Cutler Dawson, president and CEO of Navy Federal. “Our employees are our greatest asset and with Dr. Bense’s help we’re able to give them even more opportunities for career training and advancement.”

Under Dr. Bense, UWF has established the “Navy Federal Scholarship for the Military” and “Sons and Daughters of the Military” which provides monetary assistance to the military and their dependents attending the university. UWF has also developed new curriculum for students and credit union employees to meet the ever-changing financial industry.

“Dr. Bense has been a game changer for Pensacola,” said Debbie Calder, executive vice president for Greater Pensacola Operations. “She’s always been willing to offer a helping hand and that willingness to serve has allowed our credit union and our community to become more successful each year.”

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by Chuck Shepherd

THE POWER OF PRECEDENT Department of Veterans Affairs employee Elizabeth Rivera Rivera, 39, was fired after her arrest (followed by a February guilty plea) for armed robbery, but when she was sentenced only to probation, an arbitrator ordered the VA to rehire her—and give her back pay she "earned" while sitting in jail awaiting trial.

(She had been the driver for a man arrested for a street robbery in San Juan, Puerto Rico.)

Rivera's union had demanded the reinstatement without salary penalty—for "fairness"— because the same Puerto Rico VA office had earlier hired a convicted sex offender, and the office's hospital director, recently charged with DUI and drug possession, avoided VA discipline because of technicalities about the traffic stop.

searcher (a woman), "They are a very modern family." Said another biology professor (also female), "Burying beetles are supercool."

EVOLUTION OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE Turmoil in Selma, Alabama, March 1965: The historic "Bloody Sunday" at the Edmund Pettus Bridge ultimately became a turning point in the battle for voting rights.

Turmoil in Selma, Alabama, March 2016: The town is riven by demands for stricter enforcement of the ordinance requiring horses on the street to be wearing diapers— a campaign led by Ward 8's Councilman Michael Johnson (an African-American): "I'm tired of it because there's other things I could be doing than dealing with horses."

IRONIES (1) Ervin Brinker, 68, pleaded guilty to Medicaid fraud as CEO of the Summit Pointe health care provider in Michigan and was sentenced in January to 32 months in prison. He had embezzled $510,000 in "mental health" payments and apparently spent it all on a Florida fortune teller. (2) Two of the three candidates for the Republican nomination for county property appraiser in Erwin, Tennessee, in November died before the election, leaving Rocky McInturff the only survivor. However, he is ineligible for the nomination because he lost badly on election day by one of the two dead candidates.

COMPELLING EXPLANATIONS Urges: (1) Ms. Ashton Barton, 33, charged with shoplifting a vibrating sex toy from a CVS pharmacy in Largo, Florida, in February, tried for police sympathy by explaining that she was in a troubled marriage. "My husband doesn't want to touch me anymore," and "I would rather do this than be unfaithful." (2) Neighbors of a loudly frisky couple in a Stockholm, Sweden, apartment building were so frustrated by the noise that they reached out to the country's health minister, Gabriel Wikstrom—who took the side of the randy couple (according to a translation by Stockholm's The Local): "Sounds nice for them, I think. Good for their wellbeing and thus public health as well."

UNDIGNIFIED DEATHS (1) An 86-year-old woman died in February in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, when she tripped and got her medical alert necklace caught on her walker, strangling herself. (2) A 25-year-old offduty New York City police officer was killed on a highway near Elizabeth, New Jersey, in March. According to the police report, the officer had rear-ended another car and had gotten out to "discuss" the matter, then suddenly pulled his service revolver and threatened the driver using road rage-type language. As the officer backed up while pointing the gun, a passing driver accidentally, fatally struck him. s is observed actually helping with child care. The females apparently release a chemical "anti-aphrodisiac" to the father's antennae. Said the lead re-

FINE POINTS OF THE LAW Joe Vandusen said he has had no contact whatsoever with his estranged wife for "16 or 17 years" and that both moved long ago to other relationships (Joe currently living with a woman, raising both his two children and her two, as well).

Nonetheless, Vandusen's "real" wife recently gave birth, from another father, and, without claiming Vandusen as the father, filed in February for child support from him. In the Vandusens' home state of Iowa (like the law in many states), he must pay, irrespective of any DNA test (unless he gets an expensive court order to "de-establish paternity."

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LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS Albuquerque police encountered Leonard Lopez, 26, inside a Chevy Cobalt car (that was not his) just after midnight on March 30 after neighbors reported a man screaming inside, flashing the car's headlights. A panicked Lopez was upside down, with his feet on the dashboard and his head and shoulders wedged under the steering wheel, hands and arms tucked inside his sweatshirt.

He was charged with burglary, and police guessed he was probably going through opiate withdrawal.

RECURRING THEMES (1) Yet Another Way to Tell If You're DUI: Maryann Christy, 54, was arrested in Roselle, Illinois, in January when police spotted her driving through town with a 15-foot-tall tree firmly lodged in the grille of her car, sticking straight up. She was apparently too intoxicated to recall where she "acquired" the tree or how many minutes earlier that was.

(2) Peak Truck-Spill Karma: On March 23 on Interstate 95 near Melbourne, Florida, two tractor-trailers collided, spilling their contents on the road. One truck was carrying Busch beer and the other various Frito-Lay products.

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