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RYAN BERNACCHI During Blue Angel Homecoming Weekend, the U.S. Navy Commander took command of the Blue Angels.

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ESCAMBIA COUNTY AREA TRANSIT

ECAT took home six awards at the 2015 Florida Public Transportation Association Marketing Awards Competition, including the coveted “Best of the Best” Award presented during the annual conference last month. Competing against all other transit systems in the state of Florida, marketing entries were judged by experienced panelists and scored on innovation, production quality and overall effectiveness.

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National Research Corporation recently named Sacred Heart as a winner of the company’s 2015 Consumer Choice Award. This marks the 16th consecutive year that the healthcare system has won the award for its top consumer ratings in the Pensacola area market.

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losers FLORIDA ORANGES The National

Agricultural Statistics Service has adjusted down its orange harvest forecast for the 2015-2016 growing season by about 7.5 percent. It now predicts the state’s orange production, heavily impacted by citrus greening disease, will only be enough to fill 74 million 90-pound boxes, with a grapefruit production also showing a slight decrease from initial projections. The forecast is 24 percent less than last season’s production and the least since the 1963-64 season of 58.3 million boxes.

BILL REYNOLDS When he presented

in 2012 a proposed lease for Divine Word Communication, the former city administrator failed to tell the Pensacola City Council that the old, city-owned radio tower was a non-conforming structure in a Conservation District. He repeatedly told them—incorrectly—that a radio tower was all that was allowed on the site. Even the attorney for Divine Word couldn’t figure out why Reynolds didn’t share all the facts about the tower.

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MORE OPENNESS, NOT LESS This week, the First Amendment Foundation and other members of the Florida Sunshine Coalition met in Orlando to discuss the issues and open government challenges Florida citizens face today and those the Coalition anticipates for the 2016 state legislative session.

The Coalition worked on an open government platform that would remind our local and state officials how far they have strayed from the Florida Government in the Sunshine laws instituted more than 40 years ago. The 2015 Legislature passed few bills before the House abruptly adjourned, but a third of those passed exempted previously public information from disclosure.

"This year alone, we've seen the Legislature acknowledge that its redistricting process was carried out in unconstitutional secrecy," said Barbara A. Petersen, FAF President, who the City invited to train its employees on Sunshine laws in 2013. "That intentional behavior has cost taxpayers $11 million so far."

She questioned the legal, but questionable tactics used by government agencies to delay fulfilling record requests, such as responding to requests in the order they are received rather than taking into account how long each would take. Petersen also challenged agencies charging exorbitant fees in advance.

Both are common practices of the City of Pensacola’s much-heralded Sunshine Center.

The Orlando Sentinel covered the FAF summit and quoted Petersen: "Many agencies,

both state and local, are skating right along the edge of the law, just this side of legality. It's an adversarial attitude, and it's getting worse."

Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet have paid out more than $1.3 million in taxpayer dollars in fees and settlements to rectify violations of our constitutional right of access to their meetings and records. Pensacola City Councilmembers are still trying to get a detailed accounting of the city’s legal bills and the status of its numerous cases.

The Coalition did develop a series of recommendations for its 2016 agenda. It called for strengthening investigative powers, harsher penalties for violations, public shaming of the worst offenders, and the establishment of Jan. 26 as Sunshine Day on for people to remind lawmakers of the open government issues.

The group wants a position created within the statewide prosecutor’s office to investigation Sunshine violations. It asked people to video their public record requests. When they are denied or delayed, post the video on an Open Government YouTube channel.

The Coalition also recommended the creation of a litigation defense fund and to require that court costs for open records violations come out of government officials' salaries or pension, not be paid by the taxpayers.

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COUNCIL DEBATES TRUCKS AND TOWERS

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By Jeremy Morrison The Pensacola City Council held its monthly series of meetings and workshops. After nine hours and 58 minutes, they voted down a food truck ordinance over the protestations of its unlikely co-sponsors, Councilmen Larry Johnson and Charles Bare.

However, rather than splintering apart, the council united to vote to have staff compile records concerning a radio tower constructed in a city conversation district without a licensed general contractor.

FOOD TRUCK ORDINANCE CRASHES

Several times over the course of the conversation during the Nov. 12 meeting, Pensacola City Council members noted how they’d kicked the issue of food trucks down the line for three years. Talked about how they were tired of doing so. Then they did it again.

“I hate being the typical government that just pushes things down the road,” lamented Council President Andy Terhaar, as it became apparent the city’s proposed food truck ordinance was stalling out.

The ordinance was on the table for its second public reading, one step away from finality. But its language lacked the support to get the needed votes on council, leaving it to perish on a 5-2 split.

“I was hoping it’d get to a form where we could support it,” Terhaar said, “but it doesn’t look like that is going to happen.”

The food truck community and brickand-mortar restaurant owners laid out the arguments for and against the proposed ordinance. While proponents painted it as something that “would add a very progressive food scene in Pensacola,” opponents described the 66

potential measure as “unfair,” “unjust,” “not a fair playing field” and “probably illegal.”

Those hailing from downtown’s established restaurants expressed concern about the lack of a buffer zone in the ordinance and said that food trucks given access to the streets would negatively impact their businesses. The sentiment was perhaps best embodied by the Mitchell family, who owns Seville Quarter.

“They’re charming, they’re trendy, they can be good, serve good food, but you have to be careful to make sure it’s fair for everyone— stakeholders,” Wilmer Mitchell told the council, saying he was “stunned” after reading the proposed ordinance and seeing “how far it went.”

“The ordinance that is being considered basically gives the streets away to the trucks,” Mitchell said.

The proposed food truck ordinance would have allowed the vendors to operate on city streets after purchasing a permit, except along South Palafox, from Garden Street to Plaza DeLuna. Seville Quarter is a block off Palafox and outside the exempted area.

Randy Russell, operator of Nomadic Eats, a food truck establishment, meanwhile described critics’ fears as “kind of reaching.”

“I don’t think that brick-and-mortars really understand that food trucks are not that much of a threat,” he said, describing mobile dining revenues as a “drop in the bucket” compared to traditional restaurants.

Despite passing of its first reading, the ordinance found little support on the council. Most members expressed concerns about the lack of protections for established businesses.

“I think they’ll add to the community, I think they’ll add to the fabric, I think they’ll add to the quality of life; however, I think we

need to protect the businesses, as well,” said Councilman P.C. Wu, suggesting a return to a previously-discussed 200-foot buffer concept.

A buffer amendment was made to the original proposal—garnering a reluctant second from Councilman Larry B. Johnson—but even that failed to get the needed votes, with council members contending the proposition “still has some issues.”

“I just think that sitting here saying three years is too long,” said Councilwoman Jewell Cannada-Wynn. “I’d rather have something good.”

Johnson was visibly miffed. Along with Councilman Charles Bare, he has been a primary proponent of food trucks.

As the prospects of actually passing a food truck ordinance began to fall apart, Johnson grasped at any branch he thought might stop the free fall. He evoked Ronald Reagan and Milton Friedman, he waxed poetic about the French Quarter hot dog carts of his youth, but in the end, all he could do was join Bare on the losing side of the vote.

“We will never have a perfect food truck ordinance,” Johnson said before the vote.

“There will always be someone who has a problem with something in it. I promise you.”

LONG HOLLOW TOWER MYSTERY

During the meeting, the Pensacola City Council made a formal request of the city staff for information pertaining to a radio tower in the Long Hollow neighborhood, despite efforts by the Hayward administration to convince them nothing was out of the ordinary with the recently-permitted, but non-conforming structure in the often flooded Long Hollow area.

“We’ve got 50 pounds of research,” said Melanie Nichols, president of the North Hill Neighborhood Association.

Nichols and a group of concerned citizens had been schlepping their research around town for a while, crying foul over the radio tower located in the Long Hollow Stormwater Basin, an area identified as potentially important to easing flooding issues. They raised questions about permitting and inspections and the legality of leasing the property to the tower owner that allowed an expansion.

The group has laid out its case via information obtained through public record requests and on-site research.

Local media and neighborhood groups have taken a keen interest.

“It sounds pretty good, it sounds legit,” Mike Sheehan, a resident who’d looked over the information during a neighborhood meeting, told the council. “You definitely need to take a good look at this.”

Councilman Brian Spencer, who requested the council officially look into the details surrounding the Long Hollow tower, thanked the group for supplying the council with the information it was formally requesting from city staff.

“Our staff will likely be contacting these points of contact directly,” Spencer said, referencing leads to be had in the volume of information the group had provided.

Hours before the council meeting, City Administrator Eric Olson provided information concerning timelines, engineering particulars and permitting. City Attorney Lysia Bowling distributed her legal opinion, blessing the city’s leasing of the property.

James Scaminaci, among the concerned citizens involved in researching the issue, urged the council to go beyond the information provided by the city.

“They do not have a complete picture,” he said.

Edward P. Fleming, an attorney for the tower’s owner Gene Church, requested that the council only consider issues such as permits, flood control, safety and legality.

“I would ask that you limit your investigation to the things that you have right in your purview,” Fleming said. “And that you don’t try to get into the FAA’s business, or the FCC’s business.”

Olson noted that the points Fleming had identified as pertinent were all addressed in the information and legal opinion the council had been provided earlier in the day.

“You did receive information that addresses these four things,” Olson told them.

Council wasn’t satisfied and asked for all information related to the Long Hollow tower and storm basin. It agreed to review the information provided by Nichols’ group.

“We’ve received a lot of information today,” Council President Andy Terhaar said.

“It’s going to be a lot to go through.”

Bill Caplinger, another member of Nichols’ group, said that efforts to see the tower taken down would not stop with their request for a council investigation.

“We are not stopping or even slowing down,” he said. “We are pressing hard, hard, hard in every way.

Caplinger advised city council to begin thinking about what will happen after it has. He predicted it would conclude the tower is illegitimate and unsafe.

“This is gonna come and this is gonna slap you very, very hard I believe,” he warned, “and the city council would be best served preparing for the healing that is going to be needed afterwards.”{in}

“We are not stopping or even slowing down. We are pressing hard, hard, hard in every way.”

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WSRE’S 27TH ANNUAL WSRE WINE & FOOD CLASSIC A SUCCESS The 27th annual “Savor & Surf Southern” Wine & Food Classic was the most successful yet in terms of funds raised to support educational services and programs delivered by WSRE, the public television station licensed to the Pensacola State College District Board of Trustees. Altogether, separate events raised more than $170,000 for the station’s community outreach initiatives.

Twenty-two local chefs participated in the Grand Southern Tasting, hosted by the Hilton Pensacola Beach, on Friday, Oct. 16. People’s choice awards in three categories were presented to Chef John Smith of Hemingway’s Island Grill for Best Savory Gulf Coast Seafood, Gregg McCarthy of The Grand Marlin for Best Smokin’ Hot Beach Grillin’ and Alex McPhail of Iron for Best Big Easy Southern.

The first Earl Peyroux Culinary Legacy Award for the overall people’s choice winner was presented to Smith for his October Snapper: grilled snapper over sweet potato mash with a mandarin orange butter sauce. The award honors the late Chef Earl Peyroux, host of WSRE’s “Gourmet Cooking” which premiered in 1977 and aired on PBS stations nationwide from 1982 through the early 1990s. The show has returned as a “WSRE Classic” and airs Saturdays at 9:30 a.m.

“This is a special honor for me because Earl and I were personal friends,” said Smith. “He was a mentor to me and an inspiration for my cooking abilities. I fondly remember him telling me, ‘If you can think it, cook it!’”

New Orleans Chef John Besh was the draw on Sunday, Oct. 25. He signed copies of his new “Besh Big Easy” cookbook at So Gourmet, donating a portion of book sales to WSRE. Later, hosted at Jackson’s Steakhouse

by Collier Merrill and Chef Irv Miller, Besh presented an eloquent meal featuring his recipes from the book for event sponsors and special guests.

A Bodacious Family of Shops was this year’s Wine & Food Classic presenting sponsor. Gulf Power Company was the lead event sponsor for the Grand Southern Tasting, and Polonza Bistro was the lead sponsor for Besh’s participation. Wine was provided through Republic National Distributing Company. Honorary event chairs were Will and Jane Merrill.

“The success of this year’s Wine & Food Classic reflects the support and engagement of WSRE’s Board Chair Michael Johnson, the event committee, our board of directors, chefs, sponsors and donors, and it exemplifies the value of WSRE in this community,” said Sandy Cesaretti Ray, WSRE general manager.

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Will and Jane Merrill served as this year’s Honorary Event Chairs Photo Credit: Deanie Sexton

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THE FIGHT FOR 15

By Shelby Smithey Getting paid a fair wage to be able to live above the poverty line isn’t such a radical idea anymore, even for minimum-wage workers. On Nov. 10, low-wage workers participated in walk outs across the country, and rallies took place in hundreds of cities to support the Fight for 15.

The advocacy group, majorly backed by the Service Employees International Union, first launched a series of rallies three years ago to call for higher pay and the right to unionize. The latest wave of walk outs is sparking debate from both sides of the political spectrum, and the Fight for 15 movement is even gaining momentum locally.

The Northwest Florida Federation of Labor held a public forum last week at the IBEW Hall to discuss the advantages of raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. The forum featured a presen-

tation by James Lingley, President of the Northwest Florida Federation of Labor, and a panel discussion with Escambia County Commissioner District 3 Lumon May, Pastor Lawrence Powell with CORE Ministries and two Pensacola residents, Daniel Turner and Sarah Callahan, sharing their experiences with working low wages.

“Raising the minimum wage is the best thing we could do to boost our economy and help those who are living in poverty while they work,” Lingley said.

“Across the U.S., there’s been a push in the last couple years federally to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. It hasn’t gone quite as well in Washington, but several cities have taken it upon themselves to raise the minimum wage.”

Women make up 57.2 percent of minimum wage workers in the U.S., and people of color are disproportionately found to be living in poverty while working minimum wages.

Lingley said that a modest cost of living estimate figures that minimum-wage workers in Florida right now only have about $100 left weekly after rent, utilities and food are accounted for. Raising the minimum wage from $8.05 an hour to $15 an hour would equate to about a $10,000 difference in yearly pay.

“Productivity is going up, the cost of living is going up, but wages are not,” Lingley said. “This is about getting everyone on a living wage, no matter your profession.”

Taking a page from Occupy movements, the Fight for 15 campaign highlights the pay

“Raising the minimum wage is the best thing we could do to boost our economy and help those who are living in poverty while they work.” James Lingley

inequalities between the top one percent of Americans making the majority of the country’s wealth, including CEOs and investment bankers, compared to the average worker.

“Income inequality in Florida is at an all-time high,” Lingley said. “Between 2009 and 2012, the top 1 percent of Florida wage earners saw their income rise 39.5 percent, while the bottom 99 percent saw income fall 7.1 percent, according to a recent study by the Economic Analysis and Research Network in Washington, D.C. In 2013, the average CEO made 331 times more than the average worker.”

According to the latest U.S. Census, the average annual per capita income for Escambia County was $23,441, and the median household income was $43,918.

“I represent one of the poorest districts in Florida,” May said. “The average income in Brownsville is $15,000 for a household. A total of Luman May / Courtesy Photo 99 percent of the lowering crime rates and children in District make communities safer.

3 schools have free “If we could pay or reduced lunch, more, it may even be which requires a a deterrent for other maximum income means of illegal ways of of $12,000 per making money,” Powell household. These are working poor famisaid. “If the minimum wage is not providing lies. These are not people sitting around for the basic survival needs, then what you waiting for a check.” have is a working young person perhaps Panelist Daniel Turner recently moved taking part in activity that’s not legitimate to Pensacola and works for a temporary to make up for what they should be getting employment agency. paid. I think there is a correlation there that “I constantly don’t even know if I’ll be if we increase the minimum wage, we might able to work that day,” he said. “Before see a decrease in crime rates stemming moving to Pensacola, I’ve been involved from illegal activities to make money.” with volunteer work for organized labor in May said that out of the 67 counties in Birmingham and Tuscaloosa. It’s absolutely Florida, Escambia has one of the highest immoral that so many of us are living at this rates of poverty. substandard way of life. Low wages trap “Right now, the American Dream has you into this cycle of poverty that’s difficult become a pipe dream,” May said. “You have to escape.” to make sure the American Dream is a realPastor Powell said that raising the miniity. Rising tides lift all boats.”{in} mum wage could have a positive effect on

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EXPANDING NON-DISCRIMINATION LAWS The sprawling hours of discussion

during Pensacola’s workshop on a proposed human rights ordinance provided ample time for everyone to have their say. Late into the night, people talked about love and hate, about discrimination and acceptance, about hopes, fears and concerns. They talked about senior citizen discounts, ladies-night drink specials and God. But one issue in particular seemed to bubble to the surface during the Nov. 9 workshop: where best for transgender individuals to use the bathroom.

“The question I get the most with the transgender community, the question that I get is the bathroom question,” attorney Russell VanSickle had explained early on in the evening.

The Beggs & Lane attorney was brought in to lay out the proposed ordinance for the Pensacola City Council and to explain how it compared to state and federal protections against discrimination. In short, he told them, the proposed local ordinance went beyond its would-be state and federal counterparts.

Brought to the city by the local American Civil Liberties Union, the proposed human rights ordinance seeks to protect individuals from discrimination when it comes to employment, housing and public accommodations.

It defines protected classes — including standards such as race, religion and sex, but also adding sexual orientation and identification — and outlines legal remedies.

VanSickle said that the local ordinance was broader than state and federal protections because of the specification of sexual orientation and identification, (cases of which, he said, normally fall under ‘sex’), and also because it expanded the types of employers and businesses which would be held accountable.

The attorney explained that employers operating just four calendar weeks annually would be impacted (compared to 15 and 20 weeks at the state and federal levels) and raised a point that members of the public would later hone in on: “It’s going to expand

the definition of public accommodation to just about anything open to the public.”

“It would outlaw senior citizen discounts,” VanSickle said, listing off rental-car age restrictions and over-18 strip clubs as other possible casualties. “And it may prohibit ladies’ night discounts if that matters to anyone in the room.”

Sara Latshaw, North Florida Director for the ACLU, assured everyone that senior discounts were safe — “we are not intending to take away senior discounts” — and explained that such human rights ordinances were a national trend.

“We are certainly not inventing the wheel here,” she said.

Latshaw said that the proposed ordinance is based on similar ordinances around the state, specifically Volusia County, and urged the council to be among the first in northwest Florida to pass a local ordinance.

“We know Pensacola values diversity,” she said, “so it makes sense for us to lead the way in the Panhandle.”

“As far as the fear of predators in public bathrooms, that is totally a myth.” Devin Cole

Public sentiment at the workshop was split. While some expressed support for the proposed ordinance — offering up personal stories to back up their beliefs — others voiced concerns about possible abuse of the ordinance, particularly by individuals claiming to be transgender to gain access to public restroom facilities (such an argument preceded the recent defeat of a similar ordinance in Texas).

“As far as the fear of predators in public bathrooms, that is totally a myth,” said Devin Cole, president of the University of West Florida’s Gay Straight Alliance.

Cole explained that UWF dorms now feature unisex bathrooms, sans incidents.

Daniel McBurney, UWF’s student body president, said that the school had also recently passed a resolution in support of the proposed city ordinance.

But other workshop attendees argued that the proposed ordinance would infringe on religious freedoms, overlooked administrative remedies in favor of legal action, or was redundant with state and federal laws. State Rep. Mike Hill also spoke at the workshop, con-

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“This is an ordinance looking for a problem,” Hill said. “If you want to pass this, put it on the ballot.”

For their part, council members appeared ready to discuss the issue further.

“Discrimination is a bad word,” said Vice Chair Larry B. Johnson. “I don’t believe discrimination has a place in Pensacola.”

“I don’t think there’s any way to sit here and hear what people have to say and not be moved and not be transformed,” said Councilman P.C. Wu. Council President Andy Terhaar said he felt the proposed ordinance added some needed protections.

“I think the state and federal statutes cover most of it, but they don’t cover all of it,” the council president said.

But there were concerns as well. Councilman Charles Bare noted that he needed to review the materials provided by VanSickle. Councilwoman Sherri Myers said the 41-page ordinance was too long a read.

But it looks like the council is poised to add Pensacola’s name to the list of locales to adopt such anti-discrimination ordinances. Spencer noted that “time is of the essence”, and Terhaar assured Latshaw they’d be talking further soon.

“I haven’t been ducking you,” Terhaar told the ACLU director. “I look forward to sitting down with you.”

A BIGG DEAL Last week, Attorney Bruce Partington shared a letter with the Pensacola City Council and the media that directly contradicted statements by Gene Church, owner of the radio tower in the Long Hollow Stormwater Basin, that were made to the daily newspaper.

Biggs Construction, Partington’s client, was hired in March 2014 to obtain permits, supervise and coordinate the different trades working on the radio tower construction.

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“Mr. Church paid us a partial deposit, to reimburse us for the permit costs, and was then to contact us when he was ready to proceed,” said George Biggs in the letter.

The general contractor said he followed up with Church several times, “He either did not respond or would say that he was not yet ready to proceed.”

Then in January 2015, Biggs was contacted by the city that the permit was about to lapse because of inactivity. When he contacted Church, Biggs was told he was nearly ready to begin the project and asked the contractor to renew the permit. When pressed about insurance coverage for the work, Church told Biggs that work was nearly complete.

Biggs immediately notified the city that the “owner has started the work…without our supervision” and requested that the permit be suspended.

Biggs said, “As you can see, the statements

by Mr. Church reported by the Pensacola News Journal regarding the party performing the work being a ‘subcontractor’ of ours and that he was ‘unaware’ of it is entire false.”

NEWSOM HIRE Former Escambia County Assistant Administrator Larry Newsom has been hired as the new city manager of Flager Beach, Fla. On Nov. 12, Flager Beach City Commissioners voted unanimously to select Newsom, who beat out former Fernandina Beach city manager Joseph Garrity, Jr. for the job, and will enter negotiations with the city attorney on a contract.

Newsom worked for Escambia County, starting in the engineering department as a survey crew member. He rose to second-incommand, serving under county administrators Bob McLaughlin, Randy Oliver, George Touart and Jack Brown. He was interim administrator during the BP oil disaster in 2010 and the ice storm and flooding of 2014. {in} Contributors: Jeremy Morrison, Rick Outzen

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The Bluffs Could Trigger Job Boom Last week, the FloridaWest Economic Development unveiled The Bluffs, an industrial campus to be developed in Cantonment that will create some 15,000 jobs, both direct and indirect, in its first 25 years.

“The Bluffs will be a ‘game-changer’ for Northwest Florida,” said FloridaWest CEO Scott Luth.

“It will literally put Escambia County, Pensacola and Northwest Florida on the map as a center for manufacturing.”

What makes The Bluffs so exceptional?

Luth said, “What makes the site so unique is the existing infrastructure.

There's a billion plus dollars worth of infrastructure already on the ground up in

that area when you look at the brand new waste treatment facility with ECUA, the Gulf Power generating facility and at the rail line—all in close proximity. Plus, we have access to the inter-coastal waterway with two barge terminals in that area.”

He said, “That is an extremely unique asset not only for our area, but also for the entire State of Florida.”

The Bluff is a publicprivate partnership in the truest sense.

“Florida West is the marketing and support arm of the Pensacola-Escambia Development Commission (PEDC), our development authority which is supported by our city and our county and the private sector,” said Luth. “The development of

“The Bluffs will be a ‘gamechanger’ for Northwest Florida.”

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The Bluffs master plan has really been a joint effort between the public and the private sectors looking at what is our long-term strategy and how do we all work together.”

He further explained, “Our four primary partners on this are the Emerald Coast Utilities Authority and the University of West Florida on the public side and Ascend Performance Materials and Gulf Power Company on the private-sector side. They all came together to look at what is our long-term strategy to support our heavy industry and our heavy manufacturing opportunities.”

THE BIRTH OF FOIL

The master plan for The Bluffs didn’t happen overnight. The search began four years ago when economic development was still handled by the Greater Pensacola Chamber. Fred Donovan, Jr. of BaskervilleDonovan chaired the effort to find potential sites in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties that would support the future growth of current industries as expanded and also attract new companies to the area.

His Commerce Sites and Buildings Committee held its first meeting in April 6, 2011; just months after the chamber an-

“In order to create 3,000 (jobs), we had to have sites to put the companies. Our committee was all about where are we going to put these folks.” Fred Donovan, Jr.

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nounced its Vision 2015 plan that set out to create 3,000 jobs by 2015.

“Our charge was basically what kind of inventory do we have around Pensacola to support economic development activity?”

Donovan told Inweekly. “In order to create 3,000 (jobs), we had to have sites to put the companies. Our committee was all about where are we going to put these folks.”

Because of the pressure to deliver on Vision 2015, the committee chose to meet every three weeks. Donovan divided their efforts into two subcommittees. Sonny Granger of Granger Development headed the Existing Sites subcommittee that developed an inventory of buildings and sites for businesses to purchase or lease.

“We needed to have some sort of formal program where commercial real estate brokers could submit sites and buildings that they thought were suitable for locating people when they came to Pensacola,” said Donovan. “That fell under Sonny’s group.”

Jim Cronley of Terhaar & Cronley General Contractors took charge of the New Sites subcommittee. Donovan explained, “His group sought to find sites if we wanted to be competitive with Biloxi, Charleston and other towns.”

Every meeting, groups made presentations on property that they had available.

Jim Roberts of the Emerald Coast Utilities Authority told the committee about 25,000 acres off of Beck Lake Road, near the ECUA Central Water Reclamation Facility that had opened in December 2010.

“ECUA had so much property, because it thought the utility would have to spray the plant’s effluent out over a lot of area,” said Donovan. “But what happened was instead ECUA did advanced reuse and started piping it over to International Paper for process water and to the Gulf Power Crist Plant for its scrubbers on the plant.

ECUA didn't need the spray fields.”

Meanwhile, Don McMahon, the new chairman of the Greater Pensacola Chamber, was meeting with the Ascend Performance Materials, the successor to Monsanto. The company had a thousand acres of residual property and wanted to work with the Chamber to attract some of its suppliers to the area.

“Donny came back from that and told Sonny and me about it,” said Donovan.

“ECUA and Ascend are practically their next-door neighbors. They both have got a bunch of property that doesn't have anything on it, and they don't have any plans for it.”

Gulf Power heard about it and had land available south of the site, as did the University of West Florida. Both were interested in being a part of the project.

“We formed a new subcommittee to focus entirely on determining the feasibility of the project,” said Donovan, “We named it ‘Project FOIL’ for Forward Operating Industrial Location.”

He said, “We chose that name because Pensacola is way out on the western November 19, 2015

panhandle. Florida is not as involved as a state in the northern Gulf Coast economic development marketplace as it is on the east coast. So picking up market share here has a lot more impact than picking up market share somewhere where we may have market saturation.”

PLANNED APPROACH

Gary Sammons, District General Manager for Gulf Power’s Western District, represented the utility on the Project Foil subcommittee. He currently serves on the board of FloridaWest.

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“We formed a new subcommittee to focus entirely on determining the feasibility of the project.” Donovan, Jr. “Escambia County recognized that it lacked a real product to pitch to industrial prospects,” said Sammons. “Freddie and Sonny’s group took a hard look at the corridor from the University of West Florida up just past ECUA to Becks Lake Road, and said, ‘You know what? This site is rich with opportunity. Let's pursue it.’"

With the help of the PEDC and Luth, who was the Chamber’s vice president for economic development at the time, a request was made of the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity to provide funds for an engineering study of the 6,300 acres to determine the viability of a manufacturing cluster and presenting a planned approach to their development.

The request was approved to examine the land owned by four entities, ECUA, Ascend, Gulf Power and UWF, and to determine if it could be combined into a cohesive, marketable project.

The engineers quickly identified the unique infrastructural assets on the area: •Three industrial high-pressure naturalgas pipelines, •A 900-MW/HR. power generation plant, •Excess process steam, •A 22-MGD wastewater treatment plan producing high-quality reclaimed water, •Inland well field potable water capabilities,

•Class I industrial waterway access via barge terminals, •Access to Interstate 10, and •Proximity to both the Port of Pensacola and Pensacola International Airport.

The land had minimal vulnerability to storm surge and other natural and manmade hazards. Project FOIL also provided sufficient buffering from the academic campus located to its south and from surrounding residences.

The engineers came back with a master plan to develop four industrial clusters under the identity—“The Bluffs: Northwest Florida’s Industrial Complex.”

Live Oak Bluff and Longleaf Bluff are planned for Becks Lake Road, north of the ECUA facility. Live Oak is designed to accommodate up to 13 individual parcels with 210 upland acres, and an estimated building square footage of over 1.76 million sq. ft.

Its existing wetlands are to be preserved and used for a nature trail.

Longleaf has the largest potential parcel sizes on its 340 acres.

The conceptual plan accommodates 11 buildings, averaging about 213,000 sq. ft. each, and an environmental learning center.

Magnolia Bluff is sandwiched between ECUA and Ascend and has access to rail and two barge terminals.

With three potential parcels ranging from 24-55 acres, the parcels could also be combined for one large industrial facility.

Cypress Bluff is situated between Ascend and the Gulf Power Crist Plant. Its 225 acres can be divided into as many as

six parcels. The Conceptual Site Plan accommodates 13 buildings, averaging about 164,020 sq. ft.

The Florida West CEO believes the clustering of industries in each of the bluffs is important.

“What it allows us to do is to look at the economies of scale,” said Luth, “When we want to cluster companies similar to those that we want to target here, it allows us to pool resources. We're not running a rail line out in the middle of nowhere. We're actually able to run a rail line where we have the appropriate site—same thing with the other utilities that are out there.”

Sammons liked the planned approach to development. He said, “It's an approach that you can use and sell to prospects. You can bring in some heavy manufacturing with this plan, the kind of industries that pay better salaries and offer benefits to their employees.”

Luth pointed out other advantages to clustering. He said, “We can better plan for stormwater runoff and build the necessary environmental protections that we all want to have.”

He added, “The Bluffs master plan allows you to do that at one general area.

It allows you to make sure that you're able to maintain the zoning and the compatible use around that entire area as well, and that's what really helps when you look at that from a campus perspective.”

Sammons said that FloridaWest is committed to making The Bluffs an environmental showcase.

“In the case of ECUA, you have access to

"When we want to cluster companies similar to those that we want to target here, it allows us to pool resources.” Luth

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Longleaf Bluff reclaimed water,” he said. “In the case of our power company, we sell our coal ash to use as a concrete product. We sell the gypsum from the cooling tower to be used to make gypsum board. Who knows what other kind of synergies with ECUA, Ascend and Gulf Power Company all right there together?”

He added, “We're going to tap into the look of the University of West Florida and expand the nature trails and make sure there's a community visitor's center, that kind of thing. When you see the renditions of it, it's really doable and it'll be an attractive site.”

The environmental friendliness of The Bluffs should make the campus attractive to prospects, according to Luth.

“We wanted to have something that was appealing to today's advanced manufacturing industry,” he told Inweekly.

“When you look at those types of companies that have sustainable policies and emissions, we wanted to make sure that we had a site that matched what those companies are looking for over the long term.”

Luth added, “You want to build in the amenities to support the employees, you want to build in walking trails, you want to build in appropriate lighting, you want to build in the appropriate recreational amenities, and a lot of that's already in that area.”

He pointed out that the University of West Florida has nature trails that stretch from its campus on Nine Mile Road to the Crist Plant.

“There are golf courses that are already in that region,” said Luth. “Several of the companies in the area have existing amenities. International Paper has recreational areas for its employees. Ascend also has recreational areas already for its employees. What we want to do is master plan this so it ties in and takes advantage of all of those things.”

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OUTSIDE REACTIONS

Luth said the state officials have been very supportive of The Bluffs concept.

“This is one of the things that they've really encouraged,” he said. “You look at the reports, studies and recommendations out there, and there is a very strong effort to continue to diversify the economy for the State of Florida.”

He added, “The state has asked communities to step up and move forward with their own strategic plans and put together assets and the things that are out there,

which then work in partnership with the State and going after these opportunities.

So from that perspective, there's only a handful of sites that have the existing amenities that are in place like this site has, so they're very supportive of seeing communities develop parks like this.”

Sammons said there are no other projects like The Bluffs in our region, maybe even in all of Florida.

“What's attractive about this particular area is first it's large and it has the possibility of 60 different companies or more coming to Escambia County,” said Sammons.

“It has rail service, it has gas transmission, and it has electric transmission. When I say it's got them, I mean it's right there. It's not something you've got to run for miles. You have water and sewer.”

He added, “You have a four-lane highway in Highway 29 that connects directly with Interstate 10. You have two barge terminals. It's away from the coast line, and it's in an area that's between 60 and 120 foot elevation with very little threat of flooding.”

Luth pointed out that adding more manufacturing jobs Escambia County is how we diversify our local economy.

“We have a very strong, wonderful military impact in this area, we've got a great tourism growth, and we've got a lot of jobs in the tourism, military and healthcare industry,” he said. “But a successful community is going to have a diversity of jobs across the board, and so we look at manufacturing as a target. We also look at our information technology, which is another target which requires different assets. We want to focus on both of those equally and make sure that we're staged and set for success in the long term.”

The next step for The Bluffs is to figure how to stage the needed roads, rail connections and other infrastructure.

“We have volumes of information on the site, everything from our environmental impact studies to high-level assessments of where the infrastructure or roads need to go,” said Luth. “What we're looking at

“We have volumes of information on the site.” Luth

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The Bluffs Overview now is how do we stage the project. We are looking at some additional assessments on the placement of the roads, what it's going to cost to actually put some of that infrastructure in place, and obviously we need to identify the resources to make those things happen.”

According to the master plan, FloridaWest will recruit over the next 25 years 10 projects that will occupy more than 3.9 million sq. ft. of building space on 295 acres of land. The construction will have a value of nearly $400.5 million. The companies will create 6,000 jobs in the park, which will pay nearly $2.1 billion in wages.

The new indirect employment, which is caused outside of the park because of the expenditures of those 6,000 employees at The Bluffs, is estimated to total more than 9,100 jobs with aggregate wages of nearly $1.8 billion. Total combined direct and indirect jobs created for the first 25 years is more than 15,000 with aggregate wages of nearly $3.9 billion.

A cumulative amount of nearly $59 million in ad valorem tax revenue could be November 19, 2015

generated for Escambia County, but the amount will likely be reduced by incentives offered to attract companies.

The potential land sale value is over $8.2 million, although this could be reduced due to special prices negotiated for a highly-desirable project. The revenue will go to the current Phase 1 landowners, ECUA and Ascend.

According to the master plan, the potential economic benefit of every 10 acres of The Bluffs developed during the first 25 years: •134,000 sq. ft. of taxable new building space, •Nearly $13.6 million in construction value and related costs, •Nearly $2 million in ad valorem property tax revenue paid to the County, •More than 200 direct and 310 indirect jobs, and •Nearly $132 million in wages from direct and indirect jobs in Escambia County and the regional economy.

Gulf Power is excited about The Bluffs, because its commitment is to be a good

citizen wherever they are and to help communities prosper. The utility sees the project as a generational one that will improve education, reduce poverty and provide good-paying jobs.

“From that perspective, it's just the kind of thing that makes the community better, provides good jobs and gives people opportunity,” said Sammons. “We have the prospect of, maybe one day, bringing 15,000 manufacturing jobs into that corridor, with the spin-off possibilities.”

For Sammons, The Bluffs is important for a personal reason.

“For many years I lived in the Pensacola area, and I have five grandchildren in this community,” he said. “These kinds of prospects mean that they may be able to stay in this community when they graduate from

college or they go through trade school and do whatever it is they want to do to make a living. That's exciting to me. There's possibility in that.”

Sammons added, “I do see this as the kind of project that will keep on giving for a number of years.

A few years to get it started, but I think the potential's really there.”

The FloridaWest CEO said that The Bluffs could be that gamechanger that will truly diversify our economy and protect us from the economic turmoil created by a natural disaster or cuts in federal defense funding.

Luth said, “This is the very first step on a very long journey to make sure that we are successful as a community, and so I think the community and FloridaWest will continue to work this project over the long haul.”{in}

“From that perspective, it's just the kind of thing that makes the community better, provides good jobs and gives people opportunity.” Gary Sammons

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A C E L E B R AT I O N O F D I F F E R E N C E M A K E R S I N P E N S ACO L A Pensacola has been blessed with families who have helped to mold our community, generation after generation.

This series of stories celebrates the 1st generation to come to Pensacola and the legacy of contributions they started. Here’s a look back at the 1st generation of difference makers.

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Adolph Greenhut FAMILY

Adolph Greenhut was born in Germany in 1851, and like the Bear and Kugelman families, he fled the unrest in Europe for a better life in America. He began working with Lewis and David Bear in their wholesale trade in Alabama, and eventually wed Sarah Bear, daughter of David and Julia Kugelman Bear.

Adolph and Sarah had two children, Edna and Herman. The family moved to Pensacola in 1885, and Adolph entered into a partnership with the Lewis Bear Company. Sarah died in 1890 at only 31 years of age. In time, Adolph married Eva Forcheimer, and they had three children— Beulah, Bernard Irvin (B.I.) and Frederick.

Adolph Greenhut

Onward & Upward In 1907, Adolph established his own grocery firm, A. Greenhut & Company, on East Government Street. He became a charter member of the Citizens National Bank, and was active in The Progress Club and Temple Beth-El. In 1913, Adolph became the Pensacola’s first mayor under a new 3-member commission system. During his tenure, the Daughters of Charity established Sacred Heart Hospital, Newport Industries began operations, and NAS Pensacola succeeded the Navy Yard. Adolph passed away in 1921, having been instrumental in bringing Pensacola and our local military into a new era.

The Greenhut family honors Dudley at the Sacred Heart Hospital dedication ceremony for the Greenhut Auditorium, named in honor of their dad.

Adolph’s descendants continued his success. All three sons worked to broaden the family business, and B.I. Greenhut served as Pensacola’s mayor, 1965-1967. Herman’s son Jack Greenhut became an attorney and respected judge. Another son, Dudley, became a self-educated general contractor and established his own firm.

Dudley Greenhut

Building Upon A Legacy From the 1950s to the present day, Greenhut Construction Company has broadened and brightened the landscape of Northwest Florida with landmark projects that include hospitals, military facilities and the Pensacola Airport. Bill Greenhut succeeded his father as the head of the construction company and furthered the family’s tradition supporting civic and charitable organizations. Today, Bill’s son Ryan is establishing a fifth generation of Greenhuts who are deeply committed to making a difference in our community.

Bill Greenhut

Ryan Greenhut

When Adolph Greenhut chose to settle in Pensacola, he laid a solid foundation for the Greenhut Family to build a better, stronger Pensacola, both in substance and in spirit.

Saluting 1st Generation Difference Makers: If you have a suggestion for a family to feature, email Quint@studergroup.com.

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frequently for meals and parties,” she said. tifacts and images that inspired the design.

“It was the best of both worlds.”

“This collection was born out of an Each piece will be displayed next to appreciation for ‘old world’ artistry and the cultural artifact or photograph that traditions native to the Philippines and inspired the design. A brief background on the country's natural landscape,” she said.

“There is such historical value behind practices like woodcarving and fabric production. We wanted to create a space where creativity, craftsmanship and culture meet.”

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“The jewelry is meant to ground and connect the wearer to nature and the environment, one of the main goals of the collection,” she said.

Calaycay has been designing and makthe item will be provided as well, which adds an interesting educaing jewelry for over 15 years. She is formally tional element to the show. trained in Cultural Anthropology.

“I spent a few years working for the “I took a few metalsmithing classes State of Louisiana documenting folk artists and workshops in college, and as soon as in the region and learned the value in apI learned how to use a torch and a saw, prenticeships, as well as being inspired by I was hooked,” she said. “It wasn't until diversity and the richness it brings to life,” years after graduation, working as a folkCalaycay said. “This experience taught me lorist and starting graduate schoo,l that about the role that culture and tradition I committed to an intensive apprenticeship can play in passing down art forms.” {in} with a master jeweler.”

While she was born in the U.S., both of Calaycay’s parents are from the Philippines.

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Woodcarving Teardrop / Photo Courtesy of Calaycay Design Inspired by her Filipino roots, Pensacola native Christie Calaycay set out to find a way to tie together a passion for jewelry making with an appreciation of her culture.

Her handcrafted jewelry collection “Disenyo,” the Filipino word for design, will be on display this Sunday at First City Art Center.

Calaycay, who is now based out of Asheville, N.C., said that she collaborated on the collection with her sister Cheryll Calaycay on marketing and product development. They both wanted to be a part of something that would honor their Filipino roots.

"I’ve always found the natural beauty of the Philippines and its exotic arts and traditions inspiring,” Calaycay said. “My sister and I wanted to craft a collection that honored our culturally-rich ancestral heritage.”

Calaycay said that she wanted to do something different from the typical retail art shows she had been doing.

“The more we delved into its historical nature, it became evident that there was so much inspiration to draw from, in terms of the old world craft and production,” she said.

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SEVILLE QUARTER WILD TURKEY TROT 5K RUN 8 a.m. Join the Seville Quarter Milers

for a family oriented 5K race-walk. Proceeds will help Seville Quarter’s employees prepare and deliver Thanksgiving dinners to needy families. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com SANTA ROSA FARMERS MARKET 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Fresh local produce, honey, baked

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goods and live music. PARA Football Complex, 5400-555 Limbaugh Lane, 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

will be at the Old Hickory Whiskey Bar in Downtown Pensacola with some of their adoptable dogs, free goodies and drink specials. Come by for a “pawsome” good time. Old Hickory Whiskey Bar, 123 S. Palafox. pensacolahumane.org WINTERFEST 2015 PREVIEW NIGHT 5 p.m.

Winterfest premier tour features 16 performances along a 60-minute trolley trip through Downtown Pensacola. Singing guides will accompany you into a world of wonder with scenes from your favorite

holiday memories. Downtown, Palafox and Government St. $7-$10. pensacolawinterfest.org BLACK TITAN 9 p.m. With Acorns. The Handlebar, 319 N. Tarragona St. $6. pensacolahandlebar.com MAHABHUTA YOGA FESTIVAL 10 a.m. -5 p.m. Improve your practice, meet fellow yogi, and watch performances at this yoga festival. Sanders Beach Community Center, 913 S I St. $30-$270. Mahabhutayogafestival.com

MONDAY 11.23

COUNTRY & WESTERN DANCING 6:30 p.m.

Learn the country two-step at this weekly class, which is followed by a social dance at 8 p.m. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. $10. dancecraftfl.com

TUESDAY 11.24

TUESDAY NIGHT POETRY NIGHT 7 p.m.

Free open mic poetry event every Tuesday.

Sluggo’s Vegetarian Restaurant, 101 S. Jefferson St. facebook.com/TNPN

WEDNESDAY 11.25

ICE HOCKEY 6:35 Come out and support

Pensacola’s Ice Flyers against Louisiana.

Pensacola Bay Center, 201 E. Gregory St. $15-$29. pensacolabaycenter.com JOHN HART PROJECT 6 p.m. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox. vinylmusichall.com

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≥Exhibits

LIFE FORMS Local

By Jennifer Leigh

In a fast-paced world fueled by caffeine and technology, it’s important to know when to take a break.

The 4th Annual Mahabhuta Yoga Festival gives you that much-needed break.

“It’s really restorative,” said Stacey Vann, co-owner of Breathe Yoga and Wellness Center and organizer of the Mahabhuta Yoga Festival. “This is the year of the Wood Sheep — a time for gentleness and time of restoring.”

The meaning behind Mahabhuta is “the great element” referencing the four elements: air, fire, water and earth. Vann began the

festival to bring together yoga instructors, artists, healers and musicians from around the southeast to educate and inspire.

“The timing was right,” Vann said of the festival’s inaugural year. “There’s been a renaissance in the area since Hurricane Ivan. If I didn’t do it, someone else was going to. It’s really great for the community.”

The three-day festival is filled with workshops for all levels of practitioners; evening concerts from Sean Johnson & the Wild Lotus Band, HuDost and Shantaya to name a few.

“It’s about bringing like-minded people from the whole region together,” Vann said. “In the past few years, we’ve seen people traveling here.

There’s so much connecting happening here, and a lot of inspiration happens as a result.”

There’s even plenty for kids to do in the Galactic Child Yoga Tent with free yoga classes for kids, face painting and arts and crafts.

You don’t have to be a contortionist to enjoy the festival. Yoga workshops are open to all skills and levels.

You can also just attend the festival and check out the vendor village featuring organic and vegetarian cuisine, jewelry, paintings and essential oils.

“The festival is about mindful and holistic living,” Vann said. “It’s setting an example in a myriad of ways.”

Whether you take in the full weekend retreat or are just curious, it’s a festival that not only has elements of fun, but a lot of education.

“It has the tools to live a conscious life,” Vann said. “I hope it brings more balance to our lives.” {in}

MAHABHUTA YOGA FESTIVAL WHEN: Friday, Nov. 20 – Sunday, Nov. 22 WHERE: Sanders Beach Community Center, 913 S. I St. COST: Free admission. Workshops are $30 (single), $108 (day pass) or $270 (three-day pass) DETAIL: mahabhutayogafestival.com

Artist Don Manderson uses the term “Simultaneity” to encapsulate the body of work displayed within this exhibition.

Simultaneity refers to the simultaneous and insistent nature of the daily sensory experience in an increasingly technical society. On display from Nov. 20 through Jan. 2. Museum hours and location: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. pensacolamuseum.org

ISAAC BURNS MURPHY: PRINCE OF JOCKEYS The African

American Heritage Society will host a traveling exhibit about the life of Isaac Burns Murphy: Prince of Jockeys. Born

during slavery and coming to prominence at the end of the Reconstruction, Murphy was an example of African American success and achievement.

The exhibit explores the life and career of Murphy, as well as the significance of African American men in general, to the development of horse racing as America’s first spectator sport.

On display until Dec. 15. Museum hours: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Coulson House, Historic Pensacola Village, 200 E. Church St. MUCHA: MASTER ARTIST OF ART NOUVEAU On

display from through Jan. 2. Museum hours and location: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. pensacolamuseum.org

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In a photo exhibit by area students, as well as students from Pensacola’s sister cities including Gero, Japan; Macharaviaya, Spain, and Miraflores Peru, student photographers discover the beauty in their communities. On display through Dec. 4. Museum hours and location: TuesdaySaturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Artel Gallery, 223 S. Palafox. artelgallery.org

Classes & Workshops

“MAKE-YOUROWN-GLASS” CLASS

10a.m.-3 p.m. Friday, November 20 and Saturday November 21. Held weekly on Friday and Saturday, First City Art Center offers weekly “MakeYour-Own-Glass” classes, no previous glassblowing skills necessary. The classes are open to anyone age 8 and older and range in price from $25-$45. Pre-registration and pre-payment are required and can be made by calling 429-1222. First City Art Center, 1060 N. Guillemard St. firstcityart.org

INTRODUCTION TO POTTERY ON THE WHEEL 6-8:30 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 23.

During this weekly workshop held on Monday evenings at First City Art Center, instructor Pearl VanHoove works individually with students to develop consistency in throwing on the wheel. Participants receive an introduction to materials, equipment and throwing techniques.

Each session begins with a brief demonstration followed by hands-on time at the wheel. The class is $40 and open to individuals age 14 and up. Pre-registration November 19, 2015

and pre-payment are required and can be made by calling 4291222. Class is limited to two participants.

First City Art Center, 1060 N. Guillemard St. firstcityart.org

bars & nightlife

≥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 Fridays

9 p.m. Hopjacks. 10 S. Palafox. hopjacks. com

Wednesdays

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

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 Mondays

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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 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

≥karaoke Thursdays

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

130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com 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

The Sandshaker Lounge, 8 p.m. 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker.com Play, 9 p.m. 16 S. Palafox, Suite 200. iplaypensacola.com

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FRIDAY 11.20

FREEWAY 98 6 p.m.

Peg Leg Pete’s, 1010 Fort Pickens Rd, Pensacola Beach. peglegpetes.com THE BLENDERS 8:30 p.m. Hub Stacey’s Downtown, 312 E. Government St. hubstaceys.com

CAT RHODES & THE TRUTH 9 p.m. Seville

Quarter, 130 E. Government St.

SATURDAY 11.21

PLATINUM PREMIER

6 p.m. Peg Leg Pete’s, 1010 Fort Pickens Rd, Pensacola Beach. peglegpetes.com CAT RHODES & THE TRUTH 9 p.m. Seville

Quarter, 130 E. Government St.

SUNDAY 11.22

ADAM HOLT 6 p.m.

Peg Leg Pete’s, 1010 Fort Pickens Rd, Pensacola Beach. peglegpetes.com

MONDAY 11.23 ROBBIE WALTON 6

p.m. Peg Leg Pete’s, 1010 Fort Pickens Rd, Pensacola Beach. peglegpetes.com

PAPER STREET SOAP CO. 8 p.m. Seville

Quarter, 130 E. Government St.

LUCAS CRUTCHFIELD

TUESDAY 11.24

NICK & THE OVOROLS

6 p.m. The Deck, 600 S. Barracks St. fishhousepensacola.com MIKE VAN 6 p.m.

Peg Leg Pete’s, 1010 Fort Pickens Rd, Pensacola Beach. peglegpetes.com MIKE QUINN 9 p.m. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St.

6 p.m. The Deck, 600 S. Barracks St. fishhousepensacola.com RONNIE LEVINE 6 p.m. Peg Leg Pete’s, 1010 Fort Pickens Rd, Pensacola Beach. peglegpetes.com GREG LYON 7 p.m.

Hub Stacey’s Downtown, 312 E. Government St. hubstaceys. com

WUWF Presents

LUCAS CRUTCHFIELD

9 p.m. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Govern-

Join WUWF in Celebration of Our 35th Anniversary With a Visit From

The Capitol Steps in Concert Friday, January 15, 2016, 7:30 p.m.

Pensacola Saenger Theatre Tickets available beginning December 1 through Ticketmaster 800.745.3000.

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LATEST RELIGIOUS MESSAGES American Sharia: (1) U.S. parents have a right to homeschool their kids, but are subject to varying degrees of regulation, with Texas the most lax, and one El Paso family will have a day before the Texas Supreme Court after one of its kids was reported declining to study because education was useless since he was waiting to be "raptured" (as described in the Bible's Book of Revelation). (2) U.S. courts increasingly allow customers to sign away state and federal rights by agreeing to contracts providing private arbitration for disputes rather than access to courts­—even if the contract explicitly requires only religious resolutions rather than secular, constitutional ones. A November New York Times investigation examined contracts ranging from Scientology's requirement that fraud claims by members be resolved only by Scientologists—to various consumer issues from home repairs to real estate sales limited to dockets of Christian clerics.

CULTURAL DIVERSITY Before the terrorist murders gripped Paris, President Francois Hollande and Iran's President Hassan Rouhani had been trying to arrange a formal dinner during Rouhani's planned visit to the city to celebrate the two countries' role in the recent accord limiting Iran's nuclear development. France's RTL radio news reported that "dinner" is apparently more vexing than "nuclear weaponry"—as Rouhani demanded an alcohol-free meal, which was nixed by Hollande, who insisted that the French never dine without wine.

COMPELLING EXPLANATIONS Skeptics feared it was just a matter of time, anyway, until the "political correctness" movement turned its attention to dignity for thieves.

San Francisco's SFGate.com reported in November on a discussion in an upscale neighborhood about whether someone committing petty, nonviolent theft should be referred to by the "offensive" term "criminal" (rather than as, for example, "the person who stole my bicycle," since "criminal" implies a harsher level of evil and

fails to acknowledge factors that might have caused momentary desperation by a person in severe need).

THE CONTINUING CRISIS U.S. and European entrepreneurs offer extreme "games" in which liability-waiving "players" volunteer for hours of kidnapping, pain and death threats, but the cult-like, under-the-radar "McKamey Manor" in Southern California (said to have a waiting list of 27,000) is notable for the starkness of its threats of brutality—and the absence of any "safe word" with which a suddenly reluctant player can beg off. (Only Russ McKamey himself decides if a player has had enough.) The "product" is "100 percent fear," he said. "We're good at it," he told London's The Guardian in an October dispatch from San Diego (whose reporter overheard one of McKamey's thugs promise, "I'm going to tear that girl (player) apart" and "No one is leaving with eyebrows today").

LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS Nicholas Allegretto, 23, was convicted of shoplifting in Cambridge, England, in October (in absentia, because he is still at large). The prosecutor knows Allegretto is his man because, shortly after the February theft, police released a surveillance photo of Allegretto leaving the store with the unpaid-for item, and Allegretto had come to a police station to complain that the suddenly public picture made him look guilty.

In fact, he claimed, he intended to pay for the item but had gotten distracted (and besides, he added, his body language often looks somewhat "dodgy," anyway).

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THE PATIENT WILL SEE YOU NOW Professional patients now help train would-be doctors, especially in the most delicate and dreaded of exams (gynecological and prostate), where a becalming technique improves outcomes. One "teaching associate" of Eastern Virginia Medical School told The Washington Post in September that the helpers act as "enthusiastic surgical dummies" to 65 medical colleges, guiding rookie fingers through the trainer's own private parts. The prostate associate might helpfully caution, "No need for speed here," especially since he will be bending over for as many as nine probings a day. A gynecological teaching associate, mentoring the nervous speculum-wielder, might wittily congratulate pupils on having a front-row sight line the "GTA" will never witness: an up-close view of her own cervix.

by Chuck Shepherd

RECURRING THEMES Lowering the Bar in Zero Tolerance: The 6-year-old son of Martha Miele was given an automatic three-day outof-school suspension at Our Lady of Lourdes in Cincinnati in October after, emulating actions of his favorite Power Rangers characters, he pretended to shoot a bow and arrow at another student. Principal Joe Crachiolo was adamant, insisting that he has "no tolerance for any real, pretend or imitated violence." An exasperated Martha Miele confessed she was at a loss about how a 6-year-old boy is supposed to block out the concept of a super-hero fighter (and instead imagine, say, a superhero counselor?).

A NEWS OF THE WEIRD CLASSIC (JANUARY 2011) Name in the News: Sought as a suspect in a convenience store killing in Largo, Florida, in December (2010) (and an example of the highly revealing "Three First Names" theory of criminal liability), Mr. Larry Joe Jerry—who actually has four first names: Larry Joe Jerry Jr. (He was convicted in 2013 and sentenced to 42 years in prison.) {in}

From Universal Press Syndicate Chuck Shepherd’s News Of The Weird © 2015 Chuck Shepherd

Send your weird news to Chuck Shepherd, P.O. Box 18737, Tampa, Fla., 33679 or weirdnews@earthlink.net, or go to newsoftheweird.com November 19, 2015

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