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ministrator delivered on Jan. 31 to the mayor, city council and Community Maritime Park Associates his report on the operations of the maritime park. We all thought that was it and waited for Mayor Ashton Hayward to tell the citizens what he will do with the recommendations. Nearly three months later, we learn Oliver has a new final report. Again we wait (thumbs twiddling) for Hayward.

described as an “advocate, surrogate parent and mentor” for youth in foster care is the recipient of the Florida Department of Children and Families’ Visionary Award for exceptional efforts on behalf of the department’s clients. Blizzard is an independent living coordinator for FamiliesFirst Network of Lakeview Center.

She is responsible for ensuring that teens in foster care develop skills necessary for managing their lives when they “age out” of the system.

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was awarded the contract to manage the maritime park. In its proposal, the department projected it would generate $235,000 from concerts, rentals, vendor rentals and miscellaneous. As of March 31, 2013, Neighborhood Services missed the mark by nearly $200,000, taking only $37,115 for those items.

It’s only success was charging for parking for Wahoo games and other events. Oliver failed to mention this in his reports. Hmmm.

with McCallum Sweeney Consulting to develop the Gulf Power Industrial Site Evaluation and Certification Program to partially develop some vacant properties to make it easier for businesses to locate there.

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The Community Redevelopment Agency has lost its director and is doing little to increase revenue to handle payments due on outstanding bonds for the maritime park and to ECUA for relocating its Main Street plant. So, of course, the CRA chairman Brian Spencer and City Administrator Bill Reynolds have suspended any CRA meetings. Only in Pensacola.

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Leroy Boyd gave voice to the voiceless members of this community that felt no one cared. His Movement for Change fought for years to end the excessive force by law enforcement on our streets and in the Escambia County Jail.

He was proud when the Obama Administration announced in January 2009 that it would investigate Escambia County Sheriff ’s Office. Leroy would have been even prouder of the recent U.S. Department of Justice report that cited the decades of problems with the Escambia County Jail.

The Escambia County Commission turned a blind eye to the abuses. The court system never found any of the force—whether it be guns, Tasers, boots or fists—excessive. Death of the victim didn’t matter. Since the victims were either African-Americans, poor whites or mentally ill, the majority of the community ignored it.

Leroy refused to quit. With the help of the ACLU, in 2003 he filed his first complaint with DOJ against Sheriff Ron McNesby’s administration. At the time, McNesby’s deputies had killed two citizens in less than two weeks, David Sean Lewandowski and Lathern Broughton.

Broughton, 64 , was shot and killed on June 16, 2003 after a 2 1/2-hour standoff at his Ensley home. Broughton, who had no

prior criminal record, had barricaded himself in the home and was fatally shot when he fired a 12-gauge shotgun at a SWAT team that stormed his home. A coroner's inquest cleared the deputies.

Lewandowski, 26, was shot 10 days later in a clay pit off Cerny Road. He had been behaving erratically in a nearby convenience store.

Deputies shot him with a Taser at least three times, but he continued on into the clay pit, where he was shot. An autopsy concluded the Air Force veteran, with no prior criminal record, died of acute psychosis and blood loss from a cut suffered when he punched through the window of the home. The deputies involved were cleared.

The first complaint got no response from DOJ. Three years after three men died at the hands of detention deputies, Leroy filed another complaint. However, the Bush Administration wasn’t interested in investigating civil rights cases.

In 2008, everything changed. The voters finally got tired of McNesby’s abuses and booted him out of office. The rest of the nation was tired of Republicans in the White House and elected Barack Obama.

Decades of abuse finally were independently investigated. The voiceless finally were heard.

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A VISION OF SERVICE consists of two halls with room after room of space. North Hall is designated as the site for a Community Development Center, with a tentative August opening date.

As part of the Baptist Hospital Board of Trustees, May has spent time reviewing data related to indigent care, health literacy, rising infant mortality rate, number of uninsured, missed education opportunities, and other issues prevalent in our community, specifically in West Pensacola.

The list that goes on and on.

A major gap in area health services will be met with the extension of the Health and Hope Clinic. Established by the Pensacola Bay Baptist Association, Health and Hope is driven solely by donors and volunteers. The clinic provides health care for the uninsured, with main operations on Chemstrand Road. Having a location in West Pensacola meets a need that May recognized years ago. Although intended to be housed within the new facility, May’s existing church campus on Blount Street remains up for consideration due to its neighboring proximity to Baptist Hospital.

Currently in the North Hall, computer labs and classroom space are in place. Having previously taught at middle, high school and college levels and recently appointed to the University of West Florida Board of Trustees, May has already begun conversations regarding multiple education partnerships and plans to offer GED certificate opportunities.

Next door in South Hall, the downstairs library will be expanded to include a bookstore. Upstairs will house Friendship’s bustling youth population. A Tax Preparation Center is also on the list of inclusions as are wellness areas designated for fitness classes, including Zumba and pilates.

“There are so many needs out there.

You can’t save the world, but it’s great to know you can help save your own community,” said May. “The longer we’re here and identify needs of the immediate area, we’ll address them.”

As an added benefit, most of what is currently within these buildings will be left in tact, including a clothing closet, which May plans to expand upon to help ensure no one is deprived of the basic necessities for survival.

“No one should have to be hungry.

Everyone should be clothed,” said May. “My dad knew what it felt like to be hungry.

And he worked so hard for us to have one outfit.”

May follows in the legacy of his late father, former pastor of Friendship who stood by creating opportunity where opportunity was needed, not only for his family, but also for his entire community.

Speaking of community, in order to fully transform the campus and bring his vision to life, May plans to heavily tap into community resources and partnerships.

“When people find out there’s something credible and meaningful, they want to help out,” said May. “I don’t look at slowing down as far as challenging the community.

In our ministry the community has been such a great support.”

CLOSED DOORS, ANSWERED PRAYERS

This dream to expand Friendship’s service into a fully involved community outreach mission wasn’t born overnight. It was years in the making.

During his time at seminary school in Atlanta, May found himself embracing a greater understanding of what ministry truly encompasses.

At graduation, May and his classmates were challenged to make a farreaching impact regardless of the geographic area they served. Many of the needs he saw through his studies, May recognized in his own backyard of Escambia County.

May selected to return to serve his home area of Pensacola, working in his father’s church, Friendship. May worked diligently to maximize the current facilities of Friendship, establishing community relationships and partnerships. Still, the space couldn’t keep up with the growing needs.

Three years ago, May sought usage of the vacant Brownsville Middle School space.

Despite the community’s support, due to unforeseeable pushback, he was forced to step away. He continued his mission, and didn’t give up his vision.

“We had a clear vision, and we shared it, but unfortunately at the time people didn’t see it,” said May. “A lot of people dream dreams, but very few people are visionaries.

Visionaries see what no one else sees and they don’t allow the opposition of others to stop their vision.”

Today, the discouragement surrounding the Brownsville Middle School building fades into the background. What was then a door slammed, and a dream deferred is now a vision in bloom.

“It’s a testament for people not to give up,” said May. “Sometimes closed doors are answered prayers.” {in}

“You can’t save the world, but it’s great to know you can help save your own community.”

Rev. Lutimothy May

Rev. LuTimothy May / photo by Samantha Crooke

Church Expands Outreach into Brownsville

by Sarah McCartan At a time when the city of Pensacola is battling pushing the largely underserved portion of our population outward, Rev. LuTimothy May of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church is reaching out and drawing them in. Once the purchase of the Brownsville Baptist Church campus is finalized, May will have 50,000 square feet of space in which to carry out his vision of service—10 times greater than his current confines of 5,000 square feet.

The purchase agreement arrived from what May describes as months of praying and talking with Rev. John Pavlus of Brownsville Baptist Church. May was battling how to make use of restricted space.

Meanwhile Pavlus was questioning what to do with expansive facilities he could no longer fully utilize. Both were looking for answers to their prayers.

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“It’s unexplainable, other than God is so much greater and smarter than we are,” said May. “I didn’t come looking for this place. It found me.”

Pavlus worked with May to arrive at a deal that would meet the needs of both congregations and allow May to feasibly purchase his commercial real estate property situated at the corner of T and Cervantes streets. While May and his congregation gradually transition from their current location on West Blount Street, Pavlus and his congregation are set to merge with Circle Baptist Church.

Friendship is not only the name of May’s church and a recurring theme within his ministry, but is telling of the relationship among the three supportive congregations involved.

“Each church is so excited. We just know this is something that God orchestrated,” said May.

A NEW HOME

The ground level of May’s new expansive sanctuary is equipped to hold more than 1,000 people, with two separate balconies each hosting another 200, and offers ample breathing room for the growing congregation. Outside of the sanctuary and administrative office area, the campus

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“I’ve been retained, I’m looking into it,” the attorney said. “From a legal standpoint, the laws are way overbroad and there’s a host of Constitutional issues.”

Mayor Ashton Hayward dropped the proposed ordinances in early May, contending the measures were necessary in the city to “promote the aesthetics, sanitation, public health and safety of its citizens.” City Administrator Bill Reynolds had already prepped council in December that the proposals—originally making an ill-fated appearHomeless advocates watch as the Pensacola City Council ance a year prior, against discusses ordinances. / photo by Jeremy Morrison the backdrop of the Christmas season and recent Occupy PenThe Pensacola City Council recently sacola campout on the city hall passed a trio of ordinances that critlawn—would soon be returning. ics claim “criminalize homelessness.”

“I do hope that we will see that ordinance The new laws prohibit “camping” on public again,” Councilwoman Megan Pratt replied property, washing and other activities in to Reynolds' email. “The timing of it last time public restrooms and public urination and was terrible—energized people who had defecation. been camping in public, cold snap, close to Council muscled the ordinances through Christmas. Let's look at it in May.” weeks of public outcry and hours of public “Deal,” Reynolds told Pratt. comment. During the fi ve-hour marathon The city administrator began the revived session in which the proposals became law, conversation with city council via a presentaPolice Chief Chip Simmons took a breather tion by the EscaRosa Coalition on the Homeoutside city hall just after council passed the less. He said the presentation was meant “no camping” rule. “to kind of educate council” and assured “We are not waiting in the wings to arrest them that the administration also intended people,” Simmons said. “There’s a perception to “educate” the area homeless population that a lot of people are going to be arrested. about resources available locally.

I’m not convinced that that’s the case. Maybe “That’s something that we’ve never I’m an optimist.” done before, that is a piece that has been Simmons exchanged pleasantries with missing from what we do,” Reynolds said, attorney Alistair McKenzie, also standing explaining “proactive steps” the city outside city hall, and headed back into the intends to couple with the “little outreach meeting. McKenzie—already involved in piece” that EscaRosa does. several lawsuits with the city—had a different The EscaRosa presentation, howtake on the ordinances. ever—delivered by Executive Director John

Johnson—ironically highlighted the area’s growing homeless population and dwindling resources to address such a problem.

“This will definitely impact the homeless population,” Johnson commented on the proposed ordinances a week after his presentation.

The coalition director—who spoke out against the ordinances at following council meetings—said he was unaware that his presentation was slated for the same agenda as the ordinances. The administration had never consulted him about the proposals or their impact.

“It probably would have had a better outcome if not only myself, but other homeless providers, were contacted,” Johnson said.

That apparently wasn’t in the plan.

“I spoke to Mr. Johnson this morning and wondered if you would like to meet with him to discuss the homeless community and resources in our area,” Marcie Whitaker, the city’s housing administrator, wrote to Reynolds in mid-April.

“No reason for me to meet with him, Marcie,” Reynolds replied.

The city council maintained a predictably divided vote-line throughout the homeless-ordinance discussion—6-3 in favor, with councilpersons Sherri Myers, Charles Bare and Gerald Wingate opposing—except for the public urination and defecation proposal, which garnered unanimous support. That vote-divide is likely to hold as the council considers one more proposal in June, this one aimed at “aggressive solicitation, begging or panhandling.”

In response to public concern, the council plans to convene a task force

to explore the city’s homeless issues by September. It’s the silver lining homeless advocates are clinging to in an otherwise brutal defeat.

“I want to work with the council in whatever way I can to find solutions,” said Johnson, who plans to sit on the task force.

The passage of these ordinances proved an uncomfortable process throughout. During the first public reading, council defended the morality of its decisions to a group of visiting Boy Scouts. On the night of the second and final reading, Council President P.C. Wu found himself in the awkward position of silencing a visiting Chinese journalist who had caught wind of the proposals.

“I heard about some of the ordinances that are being discussed tonight,” began Jin Rah, through a translator, “and if I may express some personal opinion, which might be unpopular.”

Rah was visiting as part of the Gulf Coast Citizen Diplomacy Council. City council congratulated him on the honorary citizenship earlier bestowed upon him by Mayor Hayward, but was not interested in hearing his views on the proposed ordinances.

“Well, actually, a greeting will be fine,” Wu interrupted the visitor, offering him three words in Chinese: “What I just told them was ‘welcome, hello and goodbye.’”

After returning to his seat, Rah whispered the rest of his interrupted sentiment.

“There should be a more lengthy and careful investigation of what the people that are homeless need—what kind of help they need and want, and what pedestrians want,” the Chinese journalist said. {in}

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FEDS FIND LONGSTANDING ABUSE AT COUNTY JAIL | by Rick Outzen The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has concluded its five-year investigation of the Escambia County Jail and its findings are as bad as Sheriff David Morgan tried to warn the Escambia County Commission.

“I’m reminded of the line from the movie ‘Apollo 13’—‘Houston, we have a problem,’” said Morgan in an interview two days after he received the report. “I have told the county, ‘We have a problem.’”

For those people who fought for years against the abuse of force by the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office and seemingly careless disregard for the constitutional rights of its citizens, both inside in the jail May 30, 2013

and on patrol, the DOJ report was vindication for them and dozens of families that lost loved ones under the administrations of sheriffs Jim Lowman (1992-2000) and Ron McNesby (2001-2008).

For this paper that fought hard against those abuses and survived threats and intimidation to silence our voice, the report affords us the opportunity to say, “We told you so.”

LONGSTANDING PROBLEMS

According to the DOJ report, the Escambia County Jail has longstanding conditions that routinely violate the constitutional rights of prisoners.

Systematic deficiencies at the facility subject prisoners to “excessive risk of assault by other prisoners and to inadequate mental health care.”

“I’m reminded of the line from the movie ‘Apollo 13’—‘Houston, we have a problem.’”

Sheriff David Morgan

While the report commended Sheriff Morgan for his efforts to reform the facility, DOJ found it woefully understaffed, which made the jail unsafe for both prisoners and detention deputies. The report found prisoner-on-prisoner assaults a common occurrence and stated it was caused “primarily because of a shortage of correctional staff.”

In April, Sheriff Morgan requested in his 2013-2014 budget an additional 83 detention deputies and 12 detention assistants at the cost of $6.3 million. The daily newspaper, Interim County Administrator George Touart and Commission Chairman Gene Valentino blasted the sheriff for doing so.

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The DOJ report that was emailed on May 21 to Sheriff Morgan and Touart showed that the sheriff’s budget request for the jail may not be enough to fix the conditions at the jail.

The DOJ report supported the March 2011 staffing study commissioned by the county commission, which also recommended more personnel. The report was never released to the public, because county staff refused to pay the final invoice. When Morgan’s budget was released in April, county staff tried to insinuate that the 2011 data was out-of-date and no longer relevant.

DOJ found those numbers very relevant and demonstrated how the lack of detention and mental health personnel led to unsafe conditions at the jail.

The report also found: • Jail leadership fails to appropriately monitor and track prisoner-on-prisoner violence and staff-on-prisoner uses of force.

•The “decades-long practice” of segregating black prisoners into black-only housing units was discriminatory and fuels racial tensions.

• Jail does not afford prisoners timely and adequate access to appropriately skilled mental health care professionals.

• Jail fails to provide appropriate medications to mentally ill prisoners.

•The mental health program at the Jail is inadequate. “The dearth of mental health professionals led to excessive risks to prisoners’ safety.”

To remedy the situation, DOJ stated that the jail officials “must take reasonable steps to protect prisoners from physical violence and to provide humane conditions of confinement.”

Staffing and supervision levels must be increased to protect prisoners from violence, video surveillance in critical housing units must be increased and prisoner violence must be monitored and tracked.

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skilled mental health professionals and adequate mental health treatment. Better protections against prisoner suicide need to be implemented.

Sheriff Morgan and the Escambia County Commission have 49 days to reach an agreement with the Department of Justice on how it will correct the staffing and other issues at the county jail. Otherwise the Attorney General may initiate a lawsuit.

“We would prefer, however, to resolve all matters by continuing to work cooperatively with you and are confident that we will be able to do so in this case,” wrote the DOJ in the report’s conclusion.

DARK DAYS

politicians and businessmen in Escambia County, including then-Sheriff Ron McNesby and County Administrator George Touart, and nearly put us out of business.

Boggon was arrested after becoming disoriented and knocking over boxes at the Dollar Tree store. Instead of using the Baker Act to have him taken to Lakeview Center for treatment, the deputies jailed him for aggravated assault and criminal mischief.

For 11 days detention deputies used a Taser Gun on him, pepper sprayed him, wrapped pillowcases and towels around his head, gave him shots of drugs to turn him into a zombie, and strapped him into a restraining chair for about 54 hours. On Aug. 29, 2005, while Hurricane Katrina was washing ashore in New Orleans, Boggon was found dead in his cell, naked and strapped to an emergency restraint chair with a towel over his head.

The death became the first of three at the facility over the next 10 months. Sheriff McNesby aggressively fought charges that his staff did anything wrong. The daily newspaper gave him cover. No county commissioners or other elected officials stood up for the victims and their families.

The medical examiner ruled his death a homicide, but no one was prosecuted for his death. The Boggon family filed a civil suit against Sheriff McNesby that was later settled out of court.

McNesby and his hunting buddy Touart did their best to force me to fire Escobedo or they would force me out of business.

Hidden cameras took photographs of us marching with Boyd’s Movement for Change to protest the jail deaths. They showed those photos to whoever would listen to their attacks on our credibility.

Jail officials “must take reasonable steps to protect prisoners from physical violence and to provide humane conditions of confinement.”

Susan Watson, the former executive director of the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, and the late Leroy Boyd, founder and president of Movement for Change, are the ones who filed complaints in 2003 and 2006 with the U.S. Attorney General. Their complaints served as the basis for the DOJ investigation.

“We felt that the sheriff’s office had a lot of ‘cowboys’ acting without thought to the constitutional rights of citizens in this community,” said Watson, who now heads the ACLU in Alabama. “We were practically screaming for someone to pay attention.”

According to Watson, the trigger for the 2006 complaint regarding the Escambia Jail was the death of a 65-year-old AfricanAmerican trucker, Robert Boggon—who died in August 2005 under mysterious circumstances in the Escambia County Jail.

Leroy Boyd tipped us off to the circumstances surrounding Boggon’s death at a meeting at attorney Gene Mitchell’s office.

That meeting set our paper on a course that led to us fighting the most powerful

U.S. Department of Justice

Those were dark days. We were losing as many advertisers as we were adding every week. I put my frustrations in an Outtakes column (Independent News, “Call In The Feds,” May 18, 2006). At that point, there had been two deaths, Boggon and Hosea Bell. A teenager had been sexually assaulted in the jail. I saw the only solution was for the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the jail.

“The end result of a Justice Department investigation would be a set of reports from the expert consultants and a summary letter from the Attorney General,” I wrote.

“The ECSO and the county government would have a period to resolve all the issues and problems discovered or risk a federal lawsuit. We can finally move past the blame game and political maneuverings and focus on making the Escambia County Jail the best corrections facility in the state.”

Less than a month later, another man in McNesby’s custody died. Jerry Preyer had been arrested at a bus stop after claiming to be Jesus and attempting to strangle a man.

He was jailed on May 31, 2006 after failing to appear in court for his arraignment.

Preyer told jail officials that he required medication for schizoid affective disorder.

Without the proper medication, Preyer began to exhibit strange behavior, including removing his clothes, talking incoherently and drinking from a toilet. He was placed in a restraint chair similar to the one in which Boggon died. When he was released from the chair, Preyer began fighting with the officers. After being tased at least four times, he began vomiting and was eventually taken to Baptist Hospital, where he died.

CALLING FOR FEDERAL HELP

On July 12, 2006, Citizens Law Enforcement Oversight Committee (CLEO) filed a compliant with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice “urgently requesting your investigation and action in reference to egregious police patterns and practices and issues of confinement in Escambia County Jail.” inweekly.net

Boyd and Watson formed CLEO to provide some oversight over the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office and investigate claims of abuse and brutality.

In its letter to DOJ, they asserted, “At the hand of sheriff deputies, we have an increase in the number of deaths of citizens in both the field and in the jail. Excessive force complaints have escalated. An alarming number of incidents involve people that are mentally ill.”

The group wrote that McNesby had refused to meet with them and other civil rights organizations over the deaths. It pointed out that since he had taken office there had been 13 deaths.

In the summer of 2006, Boyd was optimistic that DOJ would investigate. We weren’t.

The Bush Administration had showed little interest in civil rights cases. We doubted that a Republican president would investigate a popular Republican sheriff, despite the rising body count.

We were right.

STARS ALIGNED

The Bush administration had no intention of ever coming to Escambia County, except for votes. A 2009 report revealed that the former head of its Civil Rights Division, Bradley Schlozman, routinely violated federal law and department policy by using political and ideological affiliations in hiring several career attorneys.

Schlozman labeled job applicants as good or bad Americans based on their political leanings or his perceptions of whether they were liberal or conservative.

He disfavored applicants with civil rights or human rights experience whom he considered to be overly liberal.

Former Criminal Section Chief Albert Moskowitz, to whom CLEO sent its 2006 complaint, told federal investigators that “the candidates for career positions chosen

by Schlozman rarely had any civil rights background, rarely expressed any interest in civil rights enforcement, and had very little or no federal criminal experience.”

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ment under President George W. Bush were nil.

Then two unexpected things happened in 2008. David Morgan upset McNesby in the Republican primary and the first African-American, Barack Obama, was elected president.

National Public Radio broadcasted after the momentous national election a story on how the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ was waiting on the Obama Administration to take office so that it could tackle investigations that they had been delaying.

“Civil rights prosecutors also say they are dusting off old investigations that have sat untouched for years,” reported NPR. “They hope new leaders will take interest in those old cases, which makes some companies that have long been under investigation nervous.”

They were right and it didn’t take long for the Obama Administration to act.

In January 2009, Grace Chung Becker, Acting Assistant Attorney General, sent the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office notification that it was launching an investigation that would focus on “use of excessive force by deputies of the ECSO” and on “protection of inmates from harm, including providing adequate medical care, mental health care, protection from inmate violence, and sanitation conditions, as well as use of excessive forces against inmates.”

At his first press conference after being sworn into office, Sheriff Morgan said that he would fully cooperate with the investigations.

“We will give the Department of Justice an open and unfettered look at our operations,” Morgan said.

Boyd sat in the audience. With a huge smile, he told me, “We've been waiting for this for a long time."

Unfortunately, he would die before seeing the final outcome of the DOJ investigation. On Sept. 15, 2010, the founder and head of Movement for Change passed away after a sudden illness.

Susan Watson also attended the press conference. She contacted the Justice Department about Becker’s announcement.

“They told me that it was a new day,” Watson told the IN. “The Bush Administration wasn’t going to investigate and the local politics were too messy. With the election of Morgan, DOJ saw a clean break [from the past] and made the decision to come in.”

“If something happens as the result of not taking corrective action, then it sets you up for a constitutional lawsuit.”

Gerry Champagne, ECSO attorney

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DOJ first focused on the allegations of excessive force by patrol deputies. In April 2009, investigators informed Morgan of concerns about the lack of supervision over the use of canines by deputies and failure to properly report their use. Sheriff Morgan immediately suspended the K-9 division.

"The DOJ said we needed to bring your training standards up to the standards of the IACP (International Associates of Chiefs of Police)," said Morgan at the time.

"Part of the problem was administrative.

All of our paperwork was not there for the K-9 unit. They told us that we were so far behind everyone else that it created a problem for the unit.”

After taking the dogs off the street, Morgan brought in David K. Kennedy of the Cincinnati Police Department and a U.S. Police Canine Association Level II trainer to evaluate the progress of the unit and make sure it was up to par. Morgan did not redeploy the canine unit until Kennedy finished his work

"He spent two days here and put them through all the drills and new policies and procedures and basically blessed this unit and said they were ready to be redeployed," said Morgan.

In September 2012, DOJ issued a Technical Assistance Letter on the alleged deputy misconduct by the Escambia County Sheriff ’s Office. The letter commended Morgan for “proactively attempting to address the concerns identified by our experts during our tours and in subsequent outreach.”

However, DOJ experts found ECSO’s policies lacked accuracy, detail and clarity and such shortcomings led to inappropriate applications of force. A new set of wellcrafted use of force policies would give deputies a clear understanding of when and how to use force and assist supervisors in guiding the work of deputies, according to the experts.

The report covered the lack of good policies regarding authorized use of Tasers.

DOJ found that deputies were too quick to resort to using them, often employing them in the course of arresting passive subjects.

In 2005, the Independent News reported about such abuse by the ECSO and the Pensacola Police Department (Independent News, “Gotcha! Crimefighters’ New Toy,” Feb. 2, 2005). In 2004 alone, deputies used their Tasers 370 times. The paper was told by ECSO that all the uses were justified.

Attorney Patrece Cashwell, who served on the board of CLEO, disagreed. We reported how her client Harold Fountain, age 47, had trouble seeing after being tasered in June 2004 in his left eye when he refused an Escambia deputy's command to leave his porch.

"Witnesses say they saw flames popping off of him," Cashwell told the paper for the article. "He was tasered eight times by one officer.”

The DOJ Technical Assistance Letter also cited the need for a crowd control policy to avoid unreasonable amounts of force when wading into difficult crowd situations at Pensacola Beach and area bars.

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“In the hierarchy of the notifications you can get as the result of a DOJ investigation, Technical Assistance Letters are the lowest, findings are higher and, of course, they can sue you,” said ECSO Attorney Gerry Champagne.

“Findings require follow-up.”

The Escambia County Jail was issued findings.

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It recommended that deputies complete use of force reports both when using force and when witnessing force used by another deputy.

In conclusion, the DOJ complimented the Morgan administration for its significant progress toward reforming its police practice but warned that further work was needed to better protect the constitutional rights of Escambia County residents.

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For those familiar with the Escambia County Jail, the fact that DOJ found abuse and constitutional rights violations came at no surprise. U.S. Judge Winston Arnow forced the county commissioners in the late 1970s to build a new jail after inmates filed a class action suit charging cruelty and unlawful conditions.

The jail had long been a political football tossed back and forth between the county commission and the sheriff’s office.

In 1977, the commissioners took over the old jail that had been built in the 1950s af-

ter Arnow’s court order. When the new jail was completed in 1981 on L Street, newlyelected Sheriff Vince Seely was given the jail. Four years later, Seely was handing it back to the commission.

In 1994, the county commission almost considered privatizing the jail. Sheriff Jim Lowman objected and offered to take over the jail.

The county commissioners hired in 2007 Justice Concepts Incorporated to study the jail, its staffing and the county’s pre-trial services. The stated goal was to figure out how to transfer the jail back to the county. The plan appeared to be for the county to reassume control of the jail and merge it with the county’s Correction Department and its road camp.

Then McNesby lost the 2008 election.

“I had a lot of people come up to me after the election and tell me that I should turn the jail over to the county,” Sheriff Morgan said. “But I wasn’t going to do that to the citizens.”

Sheriff Morgan said that he wasn’t surprised by the DOJ report and that some of the findings have already been corrected.

“We got an out-briefing every time DOJ came down,” said the sheriff. “When they

found an issue, we corrected it. We’ve done that all along, within our current budget and capabilities.”

Not all of his staff was happy with the DOJ report. Morgan called a command staff meeting to explain the agency’s course of action.

“My folks are saying we fixed that,” said Morgan.

“Yes, but when DOJ came here, we didn’t have those things. That is their finding.

Now we can show them how we corrected the problems.”

Champagne explained the gravity of the DOJ report. “We are on notice here,” he said. “You need to take steps to fix the problem. If something happens as the result of not taking corrective action, then it sets you up for a constitutional lawsuit.”

“This is my notice letter,” said Morgan, holding up the DOJ report. “I’m going to do everything I can to fix this. If I don’t then I could be guilty of not practicing due diligence. That’s how serious this is.”

Morgan has directed Chief Deputy Larry Aiken to take the lead on working out solutions with the county commission, along with Cmdr. Brett Whitlock, who heads the main jail, and Col. Selina Barnes, who runs Central Booking.

“When it comes to violating someone’s constitutional rights, there are no close calls.”

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“We will go down the findings and say here are our answers to each. We will then sit down with the county administrator and commissioners and go over our ‘get well’ plan.”

The sheriff would like to see his agency, the county commission and DOJ work out a contract on how the findings will be corrected, what funding that will be provided and will set the deliverable dates for the corrective actions.

“I’m not looking for a band-aid, I’m not looking for a work-around,” said Morgan. “I’m looking for a permanent fix to these longstanding problems.”

Morgan said that he plans to request at least half of the amount he originally proposed in budget increases for the jail to show “good faith” with the Department of Justice. He would like to add 20-25 correctional officers as soon as possible.

“We are going to propose a three-tofive-year ‘get well’ plan with appropriate oversight from DOJ,” he said. “We’re on the right track. We’ve got the right people. We can make this happen, but the county has got to adequately fund it.”

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“These issues go back as far as Sheriff Lowman,” said LaDouceur. “When it comes to violating someone’s constitutional rights, there are no close calls.

DOJ said in their report that the jail doesn’t pass constitutional muster. That’s serious.”

Susan Watson regrets that Leroy Boyd didn’t live to see the fruit of his efforts in fighting abuses at the Escambia County Jail. She said he was so hopeful of the outcome of the DOJ investigation.

“I really wish he was here,” she said.

“Finally somebody listened. Our concerns have been validated. Our efforts made a difference.” {in}

“Finally somebody listened.

Our concerns have been validated.”

VALIDATION Susan Watson, ACLU Attorney Todd LaDouceur is optimistic. He represented the Boggon family in its suit against Sheriff McNesby.

The suit was eventually settled out of court. LaDouceur told the IN that he is encouraged by the DOJ report and the efforts

by Sheriff Morgan to address fundamental problems that have gone on for years.

LaDouceur got involved in civil rights cases because so few local attorneys were willing to challenge the sheriff’s office.

“I’m a Naval Academy graduate, a Marine officer and as conservative as you can get,” he told the IN, “Only in Pensacola would I be considered a liberal.”

When he represented Mark Bailey's family, the attorney told us when we covered in 2006 the conditions at the jail that he had lost faith in state law enforcement agencies' investigations of the sheriff 's office.

In Bailey's case, Escambia guards severely beat him and broke his neck in January 1999, according to witness statements and an independent autopsy, but no one was ever charged criminally in his death because an Escambia County medical examiner ruled Bailey's bad heart caused his death.

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ONLINE EXTRAS

The Independent News has online article links to the DOJ Jail Report, DOJ Technical Assistance Letter, 2006 CLEO Complaint, 2003 ACLU/Movement of Change Complaint and the IN articles regarding ECSO and the Escambia County Jail. Visit inweekly.net.

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Tackling Community Health

Partnership Strives to Improve Area Ills

by Jeremy Morrison

VIEW FROM THE SUMMIT

Roderick King, M.D., M.P.H / courtesy photo Florida is not a particularly healthy state.

It ranks in the bottom third nationally in key indexes of health and wellbeing.

Within the state of Florida, Escambia and Santa Rosa counties have the distinction of being the least healthy.

“So, yeah, we’re down there,” said David Sjoberg, vice president for Strategic Services at Baptist Health Care.

Sjoberg is also currently serving as the president of the Partnership for a Healthy Community, which is comprised of various regional health care officials and entities. In December, the organization released a health assessment that painted a bleak picture.

The assessment revealed what similar three studies before it had revealed since the mid-90s. We have a lot of issues with diabetes and asthma, there’s a big problem with sexually transmitted diseases and breast cancer, death rates are high for Alzheimer’s Disease and on and on.

Regional health officials are currently working to better the area’s diagnosis. To that end, the Community Health Summit was held earlier this month at the Crowne Plaza Pensacola Grand Hotel.

“If we want to grow as a community,” Sjoberg said, “getting healthy is a part of that.”

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The Community Health Summit provided an opportunity for leaders from the areas of health care, business, government, education and religious-affiliated groups to focus on improving area health. The event was hosted by the Partnership, and speakers included Dr. Roderick King of the Florida Public Health Institute, and University of West Florida economist Rick Harper.

“I don’t think we could have been more pleased with how it went,” Sjoberg said.

One of the focuses of the summit concerned the economics of poor community health.

“I think it’s clear that subpar health conditions impacts the cost of doing business,” explained Harper later.

At the summit, the UWF economist talked about how poor health measures go hand in hand with loss of workforce productivity and absenteeism, an over-utilization of expensive emergency room treatment options, higher insurance rates for the area overall, personal financial burdens and a diversion of health system resources.

Harper views the area’s health and economic ills as two sides of the same coin.

“Communities that face economic challenges tend to face health care-related challenges,” he said. “You have to look at it as pieces of the same puzzle, as threads of the same fabric.”

The economist points to nagging health issues and unhealthy habits—such as diabetes and tobacco smoking—and how they tend to impact lower income segments of the community at a greater rate. He notes that education and access to preventative medical care also play a role in the community’s health.

“I think the long term solution for a healthy community,” he explained, “you need to be healthy in all dimensions.”

Another factor in the area’s health appears to be the community’s attitude and behavior. Think smoking, fried food, obesity, and a lack of exercise.

“We just don’t have good behavior. We don’t tend to focus on living healthy,” Sjoberg

THE HEALTH PLAN

This month’s Community Health Summit is the beginning, not the finale.

“There’s going to be more to come,” assured Sjoberg.

The Partnership, along with its community partners, is intent on tackling the area’s health care inadequacies. They are using the disheartening results from last year’s community assessment as a catalyst and inspiration.

“We just have to make up our mind collectively that we don’t like being last in the state,” Sjoberg said.

At the Summit, the field of issues was narrowed down, with stakeholders selecting three areas to focus on.

“We’ve got to tackle obesity, we’ve got to tackle tobacco use,” explained Sjoberg.

The third aspect the stakeholders selected was health care management, or what Sjoberg describes as having people seek “the right care at the right place at the right time.”

“As opposed to going to the emergency room,” he said. “We have to do a better job of directing traffic.”

As a follow-up to the Summit, stakeholders are forming community work groups to concentrate on each of these three fields of priorities. The group working on obesity will focus on access to proper nutrition and improving opportunities for physical activity.

The group charged with tackling tobacco use will work with area employers, with the goals of curbing smoking in the workplace and also providing improved access to programs that aid in smoking cessation. The health-management group will be determining how best to ensure that residents receive the appropriate care (at the right place, at the right time), and also how to help individuals become more proficient at managing their own health problems.

Finally, the Partnership is encouraging businesses and organizations to participate in a community health improvement compact. Thus far, about 30 organizations have signed up.

As part of the pact, participants commit to engage in initiatives to improve the health status and quality of life of residents of Escambia and Santa Rosa counties. For more information on participating in the compact, visit the Partnership for a Healthy Community’s website, at pfahc.org. {in}

“Health care is more than treating someone that is sick. Health care is preventing someone from getting sick.”

Dr. John Lanza said, noting that Mobile, Ala. has garnered similar health results. “Is it maybe a regional, cultural thing with behavior? It may be.”

This portion of the equation is ripe for improvement.

“These are the things we can control,” said Dr. John Lanza, director of the Escambia County Health Department and also a Partnership board member.

Lanza referenced a pie chart presented at the Summit. It illustrated the varying factors contributing to an individual’s health. While human biology and genetics play a part, perhaps more important are front-end factors: stress, nutrition, exercise, alcohol and drug use, as well as environment.

It is the front-end factors that are within a person’s ability to address. Lanza feels the health care community should put more effort into helping individual’s address these aspects.

“Health care is more than treating someone that is sick,” he said. “Health care is preventing someone from getting sick.”

And then, of course, there’s the simple dollar-and-cents math. This area of Florida is rife with economic disparity. Many people do not have health insurance, or the wherewithal to seek appropriate medical care.

“We don’t publicly invest a lot in healthcare up here,” Sjoberg said.

That end of the equation is not set to improve. Florida lawmakers appear intent on rejecting the new federal Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid and the funds that accompany it.

“I don’t think that will have a good impact at all,” the Partnership president said. “They’re just leaving a whole lot of federal money on the table, which would have helped people get health care services.”

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Escambia’s Doctor: Dr. John Lanza’s Prescription for a Paradigm Shift

by Jeremy Morrison

As the director of the Escambia County Health Department, Dr. John Lanza oversees an area of the state that is riddled with health issues.

The issue on his mind at the moment happens to Dr. John Lanza be infant mortality.

Lanza is particularly concerned about the infant mortality rate among the area’s minority community.

“It’s almost three times as much,” the doctor explained. “We’ve seen this issue for many, many years. It just seems to go up and go up.”

Lanza can’t explain the higher rate of infant mortality among minorities. No one can, yet.

“That’s what we’re trying to figure out,” he said. “There are a number of theories out there.”

One theory that the medical community is looking at is called “weathering.”

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The term describes psychological wear and tear, and Lanza is currently exploring the theory with a professor at the University of West Florida.

But the high rate of infant mortality in the minority community is only one health issue with which Lanza has to grapple.

There’s also the area’s high rate of sexually transmitted diseases.

“Regardless of education, regardless of what we’ve tried to do in the community to combat that—we’ve done billboards, advertising, education and whatever—we’re still at high levels,” Lanza said.

To be frank, Escambia County has a myriad of health issues. Often times, such issues are linked to other aspects of the community.

“We have a high poverty level here. We have an education level where not everybody graduates from high school. Poor

“We do not think of ourselves as a choices,” Lanza rattled off a few contributhealthy community, we need to change that,” ing factors. “It’s not one thing.”

Lanza said. “We need to think of ourselves in As a board member of the Partnership a different way, sort of a paradigm shift.” for a Healthy Community—which released The health department director pointed yet another in a stream of dismal commuto several locales in Colorado that are nity health assessments last year—Lanza is considered examples of healthy communialso particularly foties. He explained that residents of those cused on three areas communities tended to think of themselves identified as targets as healthy, and in turn they tended to strive for improvement: to keep themselves in a healthy condition— curbing tobacco use, they exercise, pay attention to their diet and fighting obesity and seek out appropriate medical care. helping individuals “We need to have a culture change, we better manage their need to think of ourselves as a culture that health care. wants to have good health,” Lanza said.

“There are many “That’s something that’s not going to hapissues, but you can’t pen over night, it’s going to take a couple of address 20 issues at generations.” {in} the same time,” the doctor said. “You’ve got to pick one, two and three.”

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CELEBRATING CANCER SURVIVORS The Baptist Cancer Institute is hosting a cancer survivor celebration, “Hope Grows Here,” in recognition of National Survivors Day. The event runs from 9 to 11 a.m., at New World Landing, 600 S. Palafox in downtown Pensacola, and will feature a hands-on gardening exhibit, jazz music and a light breakfast buffet. To register call 434-4080.

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NON-GMO SUPPORT GROUP Come join like-minded individuals in the discussion of genetically modified foods and learn about some of the research currently being conducted on the potentially harmful side effects. Hosted by Amy Leikness, at 3 p.m. at Ever’man Natural Foods, 315 W. Garden St.

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SANDSHAKER RUN Described as a “Rave Run,” the 2013 Gary McAdams Sandshaker 5k Run/Walk routes runners along Pensacola Beach and concludes at the Casino Beach Pavilion. There’s an after-race celebration at the Sandshaker. Race begins at 7:30 a.m.

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PRANIC HEALING INTRO Join Pranic healer Lori Thomas and learn techniques to calm the mind and create a sense of wholeness. Learn how to feel prana or chi life force, the basics of energy anatomy, how to feel the energy body or the bio-plasma energy field, and how to stop negative people from draining you. Begins at 10 a.m. at Ever’man Natural Foods, 315 W. Garden St. Must RSVP by calling 438-0402.

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INTRODUCTION TO HOMEOPATHY Dr. Becky Jones presents Introduction to Homeopathy and Natural First Aid, beginning at 3 p.m. at Ever’man Natural Foods, 315 W. Garden St. STROKE SUPPORT GROUP The group will begin at 1:30 p.m. in Community Rooms A&B at West Florida Rehabilitation Institute, 8391 N. Davis Hwy. For more information, or to sign up, call 494-3212.

SPINAL CORD INJURY GROUP The Spinal Cord Injury Reunion Group meets at 2:30 p.m., in Community Rooms A&B at West Florida Rehabilitation Institute, 8391 N. Davis Hwy.

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CHILDBIRTH PREPARATION CLASS The free class provides essential research based information to help you become better prepared for the birth experience. The class begins at 5:30 p.m. and is held is West Florida Hospital, 7th Floor Ancillary Building, Classroom 1, 8383 N. Davis Hwy. For more information or to sign up for the class, call 494-3212.

YOGA Tuesday night yoga at Ever’man Natural Foods, 315 W. Garden St., begins at 6 p.m. and costs $2 for non-members.

TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP The group will meet at 3:30 p.m. in Community Rooms A&B at West Florida Rehabilitation Institute, 8391 N. Davis Hwy. For more information, or to sign up, call 494-3212.

BREASTFEEDING CLASS The free class teaches attendees the anatomy of the breast, valuable benefits of breastfeeding, diet for the pregnant and postpartum mother, common concerns and breast feeding techniques, pumping/storage of breast milk, bonding and skin-to-skin. The class will be held at 5 p.m. in West Florida Hospital, 3rd Floor Family Birthplace Classroom, 8383 N. Davis Hwy. For more information, or to sign up, call 494-3212. ▶For more H&W calendar items visit inweekly.net

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STILL WATERS DAY & MEDICAL SPA 20 N. Tarragona St., 432-6772, stillwatersmedspa.com Still Waters Day & Medical Spa offers world class spa treatments and medical aesthetic treatments to enhance the appearance of your skin and body. The spa menu includes a blend of medical aesthetic and laser, skin and body services designed to help you escape.

Still Waters also offers spa gifts and home spa accessories.

Eye Specialists

DR. GENE TERREZZA – TERREZZA OPTICAL 113 Palafox Place, 434-2060, terrezzaoptical.com The practice, which includes Dr. Gene Terrezza and Dr. Ruben E. Carlson, offers services in complete family eye care, including routine vision exams, glasses and contact lenses, therapeutic interventions, dry eyes and preoperative and post-operative management of cataract and refractive surgery patients.

Health Care Organizations

BAPTIST HEALTH CARE 434-4071, ebaptisthealthcare.org Baptist Health Care is a community-owned, not-for-profit health care organization serving Northwest Florida and South Alabama. Baptist Health Care includes four hospitals, two medical parks, Baptist Manor, Baptist Home Health Care and Durable Medical Equipment, Baptist Leadership Institute, Andrews Institute for Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine and Lakeview Center.

SACRED HEART HEALTH SYSTEM 416-7000, sacred-heart.org More than 600 primary and specialty physicians practice at Sacred Heart, a not-for-profit healthcare organization. Its main services include Sacred Heart Medical Group, a network of primary care physicians, a 24-hour Emergency Trauma Center, a Pediatric Trauma ReFerràl Center and centers of excellence specializing in women’s health, cardiac care, orthopedics, cancer care and the care of children.

WEST FLORIDA HEALTHCARE 494-3212, westfloridahospital.com West Florida Healthcare is proud to offer the only local hospital featuring all private rooms.

The West Florida campus also offers the area’s only comprehensive rehabilitation hospital and a mental health facility. West Florida also provides services in cardiovascular surgery, oncology, neurosurgery, orthopedics, emergency care, behavioral health, obstetrics and many other medical specialties.

Health Clubs and Fitness

ANYTIME FITNESS 100 S. Alcaniz St., 469-1190 6301 N. 9th Ave. #4, 969-1348 anytimefitness.com Anytime Fitness is open 24-hours all year long. The gym membership can be used at any Anytime Fitness location. Each new member May 30, 2013

receives a free personal fitness orientation, including an explanation and demonstration of basic exercise principles and a quick, safe and effective exercise program. Training continues throughout membership with online tools such as a diet tracker, workout planner and virtual coaching.

FIXED ON FITNESS, INC. 554-1648, fi xedonfitness.com Fixed on Fitness boot camp provides an ideal combination of personal training, accountability, camaraderie and hard work, which results in a dynamic approach to total fitness.

Throughout the six weeks of boot camp, you are introduced to a variety of workout techniques, exercises and challenges. Each workout is different, so campers experience 24 new workouts.

YMCA ymcanwfl .org, Downtown Location: 410 N. Palafox St., 438-4406. Northeast Location: 3215 Langley Ave., 478-1222. Pullum Location: 2379 Pawnee Dr., Navarre, 936-0049 The YMCA of Northwest Florida has been a leader in youth development, adult wellness and community support in the Florida panhandle for nearly 130 years. Fitness programs include: dance, gymnastics, martial arts, swim lessons and sports for kids and aquatics, personal training, SCUBA, senior programs and martial arts for adults. At the Y, everyone belongs.

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Hypnotherapy

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Skin Care

DR. KEVIN WELCH Pensacola Office: Medical Center Clinic, Dermatology and Laser Center 8333 N. Davis Highway, 474-8386 Gulf Breeze Office: 2874 Gulf Breeze Parkway, 916-9969, kevinwelchmd.com Dr. Kevin Welch offers Botox, Dysport, fillers such as Restylane, Perlane, Juvederm, Radiesse and Sculptra, laser services, including Fractional CO2 laser resurfacing and IPL. Also, Dr. Welch has the only local Zeltiq Coolsculpting to “freeze your fat away”, and the only local non-surgical skin tightening procedures including both Ulthera and Thermage. The Skin Care Center offers physician-dispensed products, including Skin Medica, Obagi, Jane Iredale cosmetics, Tilley Hats and the only area outlet of “My Body” skin care products. Dr. Welch won Best Skin Care again in 2012.

Not only does WUWF provide my main source of news and entertainment, it also offers special support within the community. Starting in 2011, WUWF began airing SightLine, a radio reading service for the vision impaired. The station’s display of community spirit is one important reason why

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Signing Books, Making History

by Jessica Forbes

Local baseball fans and history enthusiasts will have an opportunity this weekend to meet and greet the author of the first book detailing the history of baseball in Pensacola.

Author Scott Brown will sign copies of his latest work, “Baseball in Pensacola: America's Pastime & the City of Five Flags,” at Barnes & Noble Booksellers on Saturday afternoon.

“I can’t remember a time when I haven’t been interested in baseball,” says Brown, who grew up outside of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Brown played Little League and, being a devoted Reds fan, followed the game throughout his childhood and teen years, and “loved it, loved the history.”

Brown moved to Pensacola in 1979 with family, where he met his future wife and began playing baseball in the Southwest Men’s League. The idea to write about the history of baseball in Pensacola first occurred to Brown many years later while watching a Pensacola Pelicans game.

“The history of baseball in Pensacola is so rich, so vast, so deep,” said Brown, who

had heard “snippets” of the history from local players and history devotees, but realized among the many stories, “there was not a concise chronicle of [baseball] history.”

“I’ve always enjoyed writing … I’ve always been a story-teller. It’s something I think has always been a part of me,” said Brown, whose first publication was a 2008 biography of Hall of Famer Mordecai Brown, which he co-authored.

Brown also serves as the president of the Mordecai Brown Foundation, which Brown was instrumental in founding.

While collecting information for the Pensacola baseball project at a Pelicans charity function, Brown met Jill Hubbs of WSRE, who had been tasked with developing a documentary of baseball in Pensacola.

“We realized we weren’t too far off in our process, so it was a natural fit,” Brown recalls of he and Hubbs’ first working meeting.

From there, Brown says he began working on the two projects concurrently. “While writing the book, I was able to do interviews for WSRE, which was again collecting info for the book which fed back into the documentary, and it was a very unique synergy.”

The documentary “Baseball in Pensacola,” for which Brown wrote the script, first aired on WSRE in November 2012. At two and half hours in length, the feature met with positive response and served as a precursor to the book’s release in March 2013.

The film and book trace the history of baseball in Pensacola in the late 1800s until the opening season of the Blue Wahoos in 2012. Both look at the various minor league teams, Negro League teams, and the famous Major Leaguers—including Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Jackie Robinson—who traveled through and played on Pensacola’s fields.

“We purposely stretched [the release] a little bit so we could capture the first part of that [Wahoos] season, both with the

documentary and with the book. We all felt that it was extremely important that that be the period to the story.”

in the sun again,” said Brown, who will do book signing that day as well.

Brown will be accompanied at this Saturday’s book signing by Blue Wahoos’ mascot Kazoo, who will lead a children’s storybook reading at 11 a.m. Barnes & Noble ordered over 100 books from the publisher due to public interest.

Looking forward to the signing and future projects, Brown says his book is the first of what he hopes is many more history treatises on Pensacola baseball to follow. “My end hope is, because there is no way I could have covered every aspect of Pensacola history, is that I spur somebody on in the future to pick up where I left off and further the chronicling of our history,” he said.

With publication of Brown’s work—a historic milestone in and of itself—there will now, at long last, be a starting point for future historians delving into the city’s continuing baseball legacy. {in}

“I think that’s been the overall theme of this project: the disciplined, hard work of Pensacola people.”

Scott Brown Brown lectures regularly on the subject of baseball, in the past with local groups at UWF and the Pensacola Historical Society, and saw, “One of the unique things about this project, was there was a whirlwind of interest for it before it ever came out.”

Over the course of his research, Brown noticed given its size, Pensacola had a large number of locals who went on to have careers in the Majors. The former players he spoke with credited their success to a work ethic instilled in Pensacola’s young people. “I think that’s been the overall theme of this project: the disciplined, hard work of Pensacola people,” he said.

Brown also discovered over the course of the project, “We have a good many of our former major leaguers still living here in town.”

Like other retirees, many former Major Leaguers return home to the beaches of Northwest Florida, so Brown found he usually didn’t have to travel far for interviews.

A group of former players will participate in a Baseball in Pensacola Reunion on Thursday, August 15 during that day’s Blue Wahoos game. Many of Pensacola’s former Major League players and legacy families will be at the stadium for pre-game events and autograph signings throughout the afternoon.

“Some of the major leaguers that are not known to this particular generation will have a kind of day

Scott Brown / photo by Dawn Brown

BASEBALL IN PENSACOLA: AMERICA’S PASTIME & THE CITY OF FIVE FLAGS

WHAT: Book Signing with Author Scott Brown WHEN: 1 p.m. Saturday, June 1 (Story Time with Kazoo begins at 11 a.m.)

WHERE: Barnes & Noble, 1200 Airport Blvd.

COST: Signing is free to attend, book itself will be available for purchase DETAILS: facebook.com/BaseballIn Pensacola

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by Jason Leger

DAFT PUNK ‘RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES’ I feel I should apologize to at least three parties. First of all, to you, my readers, I misspoke and was flippant with your trust. I’m sincerely sorry. I also feel I should apologize to Cayucas for giving them a title before all the entries were

THURSDAY 5.30

BAGDAD ELEMENTARY BOOKFAIR 9 a.m.

Come out and support Bagdad Elementary during their bookfair. Barnes & Nobles, 1200 Airport Blvd. 969-9554 or barnesandnoble.com.

QUAYSIDE ART GALLERY 10 a.m. Quayside hosts the First City Art Show, Pensacola's premier juried art show with local artists, on exhibit through Saturday, June 1. The show brings together some of the best area artist and their recent artwork. 17 E. Zaragoza St, 438-2363 or quaysidegallery.com.

BLUE MORNING GALLERY 10 a.m. A visiting artist show featuring the work of noted local artist Margaret Biggs will be on exhibit through Saturday, June 15. Composition, color and the play between positive and negative space are hallmarks of Biggs' art as she bridges realism and imagination in art that has been described as both modern and surrealistic. 21 Palafox Place.

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in. Lastly, my most heartfelt apology goes to Daft Punk. The French duo’s new album, “Random Access Memories,” is so smooth, funk-driven, danceable, and breezy; it just has to be the album of summer 2013. Sorry to bump you, Cayucas, you put up a solid effort, but there’s really no contest.

Every song here exudes sunshine, relaxation, and gloss, and could honestly provide a backdrop to most—if not all— summer activities. A couple of months ago, Daft Punk released the single “Get Lucky,” featuring Pharrell Williams, which, with its free spirited composition and infectious hook, gave us a taste of what was to come. The song also displayed one of the album’s impressive cameos, which also includes Julian Casablancas from the Strokes, Nile Rodgers from Parliament Funkadelic and Panda Bear from Animal Collective.

The duo had a very big vision for this album, noticeable from the onset, as they vowed to limit themselves to a more organic sound, removing the use of drum machines and, for the most part, samples,

429-9100 or bluemorninggallery.com ART EXHIBIT-LOCAL ARTIST 11:30 a.m. Joan Blackburn will exhibit her art. Southwest Branch Library, 12248 Gulf Beach Hwy. 453.7780 or mywfpl.com.

HISTORIC PENSACOLA TROLLEY TOUR 10 a.m. & 2 p.m. Pensacola Visitor Center, 1401 E. Gregory St. 941-2876 or beachbumtrolley.com.

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

WINE TASTING AT AWM 5 p.m. Aragon Wine Market, 27 S. Ninth Ave. 433-9463 or aragonwinemarket.com.

MEET A CIVIL WAR SOLDIER 5:30 P.M. Families with children age 7 and older are invited to join Price Legg as he dons his Confederate re-enactor’s uniform. Phil Duryea, Volunteer Coordinator for the National Naval Aviation Museum, will share artifacts from his extensive personal collection of Civil War memorabilia and authentic maps of the era. Downtown

which have both been bread and butter for Daft Punk to this point. Thankfully, Daft Punk have kept true enough to themselves to overdose us on vocoder, otherwise this entire venture would be nearly unrecognizable.

Perhaps, the most important thing to realize about “Random Access Memories” is how much of an attempt it is to rescue a dying art. The art of the full length album is something that is by and large being replaced by the EP or the single—a trend which Daft Punk are battling against with the release of this long player.

The album is an entire work, an entire journey that winds and moves and lives.

If one makes the mistake of listening to bits and pieces without immersing in the entirety, then one risks missing the bigger picture and will not fully realize Daft Punk’s vision of grandeur fulfilled with layers of lush instrumentation, rapidly shifting moods, and sharp rhythms which demand movement even down to a head nod or a toe tap. Resistance is futile.

More upbeat numbers like “Lose Yourself to Dance” and grandiose opener

Public Library, 239 North Spring St. 436-5060 or mywfpl.com.

VEGAN DINNER AT EOTL 6 p.m. End of the Line Café, 610 E. Wright St. 429-0336 or eotlcafe.com AFRICAN DRUMMING CLASSES 6:30 p.m. Gull Point Community Center, 7000 Spanish Trail. $2-$5. For more information contact, 291-2718, 324-4928 or hurreyupstageandfilmworks.com EMMANUEL SHEPPARD & CONDON FIESTA DAYS CELEBRATION 7 p.m. The Emmanuel Sheppard and Condon Fiesta Days Celebration kicks off the 64th annual Fiesta Celebration with hundreds of guests in attendance. Historic Seville Quarter comes alive with entertainment, decorations and delicious food in five rooms, each saluting our history under the flags of the five governments that have flown over our city.

Be sure to join the Surrender of the City at 7:30 p.m. Local dignitaries will surrender the City of Pensacola and its citizens to DeLuna and his Queen for the Fiesta season. Seville Quarter, 130

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

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THE DAVENPORTS 6 p.m. The Leisure Club, 126 S. Palafox. 912-4229 or tlcdowntown.com LUCAS CRUTCHFIELD 6 p.m. The Deck at The Fish House, 600 S. Barracks St. 470-0003 or fishhouse.goodgrits.com.

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

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

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

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“Give Life Back To Music,” lead way into more introspective moments like “The Game of Love” and “Within,” creating an aural landscape for the listener to ebb and flow through. The absolute high point, and I think this is easily agreeable possibly even for the band themselves, is the nine-minute roller coaster, “Georgio by Moroder.”

Moroder is a musician and producer who was a visionary and pioneer during the era of disco. Daft Punk asked Moroder to speak about his life and work briefly and so they could record his story and add a soundtrack reminiscent of his work.

The result is an almost 10-minute tribute to Moroder narrated by his own words and laid out in his spirit. It’s a very moving track and proves the high point of “Random Access Memories.”

That being said, however, does not serve to discount the rest of the album.

There is enough energy, fervency, passion, depth, soul, emotion, and heart to make this a Daft Punk classic and rank it with, if not above, previous efforts.

“Random Access Memories” is out now via Columbia Records. {in}

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

OPEN MIC NIGHT 8 p.m. Chan’s Nightclub, 610 E. Nine Mile Rd. 477-9961 or chanspensacola.com BUCK NASTY BAND 8 p.m. Sandshaker, 713 Pensacola Beach Blvd. Pensacola Beach, 9322211 or sandshaker.com.

THE UNKNOWN 8 p.m. Paddy O'Leary's, 49 Via De Luna, Pensacola Beach. 916-9808 or paddyolearysirishpub.com.

SCARS AND STRIPES, THE OFFER, VILLAIN, THE GONERS 9 p.m. The Handlebar, 319 N. Tarragona St. 434-9060 or pensacolahandlebar.com.

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

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

EXTREME KARAOKE WITH G.C.P.C 10 p.m.

Play, 16 S. Palafox, Suite 100. 466-3080 or guilfcoastpartycrew.com.

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

ACOUSTIC TRAVELERS 6 p.m. The Oar House, 1901 Cypress St. 432-9620 or the-oar-house.com.

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

KNEE DEEP 7 p.m. Hub Stacey’s Downtown, 312 E. Government St. 469-1001 or hubstaceys.com.

MYSTIC SPRINGS 7 p.m. Hub Stacey’s at the Point, 5851 Galvez Rd. 497-0071 or hubstaceys.com.

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

SCOTT KOEHN 8 p.m. The Grand Marlin, 400 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 6779153 or thegrandmarlin.com.

TRIBE ZION 8 p.m. Paddy O'Leary's, 49 Via De Luna, Pensacola Beach. 916-9808 or paddyolearysirishpub.com.

HEATHER LUTTRELL 8:30 p.m. The Tin Cow, 102 S. Palafox. 488-2103 or thetincow.com.

BUZZ CUT 9 p.m. Sandshaker, 713 Pensacola Beach Blvd. 932-2211 or sandshaker.com.

FRIDAY 5.31

TAI CHI AT FLORIDA BLUE 8:30 a.m. Free.

Florida Blue, 1680 Airport Blvd. For information, call 202-4188.

BLUE MORNING GALLERY 10 a.m. A visiting artist show featuring the work of noted local artist Margaret Biggs will be on exhibit through Saturday, June 15. Composition, color and the play between positive and negative space are hallmarks of Biggs' art as she bridges realism and imagination in art that has been described as both modern and surrealistic. 21 Palafox Place.

429-9100. bluemorninggallery.com.

QUAYSIDE ART GALLERY 10 a.m. Quayside hosts the First City Art Show, Pensacola's premier juried art show with local artists, on exhibit through Saturday, June 1. The show brings together some of the best area artist and their recent artwork. 17 E. Zaragoza St, 438-2363. quaysidegallery.com.

DAUMIER: ART FOR THE MASSES 10 a.m. through June 30. Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. 432-6247 or pensacolamuseumofart.org.

BREWERY TOUR 3:30 p.m. Take a behind the scenes tour of the Pensacola Bay Brewery with Brewmaster Mark Robertson. No reservations required. 225 E. Zaragoza St. 434-3353 or pbbrew.com.

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

WINE TASTING AT SEVILLE QUARTER 5 p.m.

Palace Café at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

WINE TASTING AT CITY GROCERY 5:15 p.m.

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

WINE TASTING AT EAST HILL MARKET 5:30 p.m. 1216 N. Ninth Ave. 469-1432.

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

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

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

SWING DANCING 8:30 $5. American Legion, 1401 Intendencia St. 437-5465 or pensacolaswing.com.

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

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

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

Centennial Imports Fiesta Boat Parade LOCAL MULLET 9 p.m. The Deck at the Fish House, 600 S. Barracks St. 470-0003 or fishhouse.goodgrits.com.

HIGH HORSE BAND & BLACKWATER 9 p.m.

Chan’s Nightclub, 610 E Nine Mile Rd. 477-9961 or chanspensacola.com.

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

A FLOCK OF SEA MONKEYS 9 p.m. End O’ The Alley at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

CHRIS RICKER 9 p.m. McGuire’s Irish Pub, 600 E. Gregory St. 433-2849 or mcguiresirishpub.com.

SATURDAY 6.1

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

LEARN TO READ AT NW FLORIDA BOOKFAIR 9 a.m. Come out and support Learn to Read of NW Florida. Barnes & Nobles, 1200 Airport Blvd.

969-9554 or barnesandnoble.com.

BLUE MORNING GALLERY 10 a.m. A visiting artist show featuring the work of noted local artist Margaret Biggs will be on exhibit through Saturday, June 15. Composition, color and the play between positive and negative space are hallmarks of Biggs' art as she bridges realism and imagination in art that has been described as both modern and surrealistic. 21 Palafox Place.

429-9100. bluemorninggallery.com.

QUAYSIDE ART GALLERY 10 a.m. Quayside hosts the First City Art Show, Pensacola's premier juried art show with local artists, on exhibit through Saturday, June 1. The show brings together some of the best area artist and their recent artwork. 17 E. Zaragoza St, 438-2363. quaysidegallery.com.

DAUMIER: ART FOR THE MASSES 10 a.m. through June 30. Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. 432-6247 or pensacolamuseumofart.org.

STORYTIME: THAT IS NOT A GOOD IDEA 11 a.m. The tale of a hungry fox who invites a plump goose to dinner. The funny details in the full-color illustrations by three-time Caldecott Honoree Mo Willems will bring nonstop laughter to Storytime. Barnes & Nobles, 1200 Airport Blvd. 969-9554 or barnesandnoble.com.

NOOK HD/HD+ WORKSHOP 12 p.m. Whether you're a new NOOK HD/HD+ owner or are just curious about what they can do, we have all the information you need to get started. We'll also share some of our favorite tips and tricks for getting the most out of your NOOK HD/HD+.

Barnes & Nobles, 1200 Airport Blvd. 969-9554 or barnesandnoble.com.

BASEBALL IN PENSACOLA AUTHOR SCOTT BROWN 1 p.m. Sunshine, loyal fans and pristine beaches have attracted baseball's best athletes to Pensacola -- stars like Babe Ruth and Ted Williams to the Blue Wahoos. Scott Brown will be in-store signing his book. Barnes & Nobles, 1200 Airport Blvd. 969-9554 or barnesandnoble.com.

CENTENNIAL IMPORTS FIESTA BOAT PARADE 1 p.m. Decorate your boat and come be a part of one of the largest boat parades on Pensacola Bay. Boat Parade departs from the mouth of Bayou Chico at 1 p.m. Lands at Portofino Boardwalk, Pensacola Beach.

433-6512 or fiestaoffiveflags.com 2ND ANNUAL CARVER HUMMINGBIRDS PLANT GIVEAWAY 2:30 p.m.

The Westside branch library presents The 2nd Annual Carver Hummingbirds Plant Giveaway in honor of George Washington Carver. Carver Hummingbirds providing educational materials, demonstrations, exhibit, seeds, and plants. Also, there will be Food, Hibiscus Tea, Entertainment and Exhibits. Westside Library, 1580 West Cervantes St. 595-1047 or mywfpl.com.

DELUNA LANDING CEREMONY 3 p.m. Join in the merriment of this light hearted parody of what might have happened when Don Tristan DeLuna landed on Pensacola Beach. Portofino Boardwalk, Pensacola Beach. 433-6512 or fiestaoffiveflags.com BEGINNING GLASSBLOWING INTRO 3:30 p.m.

This three-hour class is designed to give beginners an introduction to basic glassblowing. 1060 N. Guillemard St. $150. 429-1222 or fi rstcityart.org.

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

PENSACOLA BLUE WAHOOS 6:30 p.m. versus Jacksonville Suns. Pensacola Bayfront Stadium, 300 W. Main St. 934-8444 or bluewahoos.com.

EVENING UNDER THE STARS sunset to 12:00 a.m. The Department of Environmental Protection’s Big Lagoon State Park along with the Escambia Amateur Astronomer Association would like to invite you to spend an evening gazing at the skies.

Clear skies permitting, members of the Association will set up telescopes and binoculars to capture views of the moon, planets and other celestial objects. The gaze will be held at the East Beach Picnic Area near the observation tower. All participants must have entered the park prior to closing time. At sunset, the front gates will be locked and visitors will not be permitted to enter the park after then. As sunset times do change throughout the year, please contact the Ranger Station at 492-1595 ahead of time to fi nd out when the front gates will be locking for the evening. Event is free with paid park admission. fl oridastateparks.org.

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Twerking While You’re Working

by Sarah McCartan

Take a break from working to do a little bit of twerking? The IN ladies say, “Yes please. Count us in!” Just as we arrived at Sluggo’s Vegetarian Restaurant for lunch last week, we spotted an intriguing marker-drawn flyer posted on the community board, advertising a midmorning booty shaking dance class. Naturally, we knew we had to jump on it.

Beginning Tuesday, June 4, Sluggo’s back room will be transformed into “Sqeeky Cheeks’ Asstastic Twerkercise.”

This dance class will be held every week on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. The cost is $4 per class.

But what exactly is twerking? Good question. Remember those high school students that got suspended recently because their school just couldn’t quite handle their dance moves? That’s twerking. Big Freedia? That girl is twerking. Juvenile’s “Back That Azz Up” video? That’s

live music

JORDAN/MITCHEL 5 p.m. Lillo's Sound Side Bar & Grill 5 Via de Luna Dr., Pensacola Beach.

934-5456.

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

LIVE MUSIC 6 p.m. The Oar House, 1901 Cypress St. 432-9620 or the-oar-house.com.

KRAZY GEORGE KARAOKE 9 p.m. Hub Stacey’s Downtown, 312 E. Government St. 4691001 or hubstaceys.com.

HEATHER LUTTRELL 8 p.m. Hopjack’s Nine Mile, 204 East Nine Mile Rd. 912-6181 or hopjacks.com.

GULF COAST HARD ROCK & METAL SHOWCASE Doors: 7:30 p.m. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox. $5. 435-9849 or vinylmusichall.com.

DAVE POSEY & FRIENDS 8 p.m. The Grand Marlin, 400 Pensacola Beach Blvd. Pensacola Beach. 677-9153 or thegrandmarlin.com.

RAISING KARMA 8:30 p.m. The Tin Cow, 102 S. Palafox. 488-2103. thetincow.com.

KRAZY GEORGE KARAOKE 9 p.m. Hub Stacey’s downtown, 312 E. Government St. 469-1001 or hubstaceys.com.

TIMBERHAWK 9 p.m. The Break Beach Bar, 65 Via De Luna Dr., Pensacola Beach. 932-0864.

CHRIS RICKER 9 p.m. McGuire’s Irish Pub, 600 E. Gregory St. 433-2849 or mcguiresirishpub.com.

ROBERT WAYNE & BLACKWATER 9 p.m.

Chans Nightclub, 610 E Nine Mile Rd. 477-9961 or chanspensacola.com.

LARRY MITCHELL BAND, CHAINSAW KELLY 9 p.m. Handlebar, 3119 N. Tarragona St. 4349060. pensacolahandlebar.com.

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

A FLOCK OF SEA MONKEYS 9 p.m. End O’ The Alley at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

KEITH JONES & THE MAKESHIFTS 9:30 P.M. Hopjacks, 10 South Palafox. Free. 497-6076 or hopjacks.com.

twerking. Twerking is booty bouncing with ample twisting, and even more jerking.

“Twerking (twist and jerk) has more of a sexual element than your run of the mill booty dancing—more floor and wall dancing, and booty clapping,” explains the class leader, who goes by “Sqeeky Cheeks.”

Her twerkercise class is geared toward individuals who want to have fun, shake their stuff and enjoy learning new dance skills. The class also aims to promote body acceptance. Sqeeky C. stresses that all shapes and sizes can twerk. No big booty required. All you really need are legs.

“I have a feeling most people that love to twerk don’t do it in public because they feel it will bring them unwanted attention, especially in a dance club,” she said. “The class will provide a safe place to get loose, feel safe and get an amazing workout.”

Participants are encouraged to wear comfortable, movement friendly attire and

SUNDAY 6.2

PERDIDO KEY RUBBER DUCKY RACE 2-4 p.m. Hub Stacey's is hosting the inaugural Perdido Key Rubber Ducky Race to benefit Camp S.K. A .M.P. (Special Kids And Meaningful People). The camp allows children with physical disabilities the opportunity to experience the joy and wonders of summer camp. Hub Stacey's at the Point, 5851 Galvez Rd. $25 per rubber duck. 497-0071or hubstaceys.com.

BLUE MORNING GALLERY 4 p.m. A visiting artist show featuring the work of noted local artist Margaret Biggs will be on exhibit through Saturday, June 15. Composition, color and the play between positive and negative space are hallmarks of Biggs' art as she bridges realism and imagination in art that has been described as both modern and surrealistic. 21 Palafox Place. 429-9100 or bluemorninggallery.com.

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

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JEZEBEL’S CHILL’N 1 p.m., RHYTHM INTERVENTION 2 p.m., LUCKY DOGGS 5 p.m.., TONY BROOK TRIO 5 p.m., HERITAGE BAND 6 p.m., JENSEN HOLT DUO 9:30 p.m., NIC STURMS 9:30 p.m., Flora-Bama Lounge, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492.3407 or florabama.com.

BROOKS HUBBERT III 3 p.m. Paradise Bar & Grill, 21Via de Luna Pensacola Beach. 916-5087 or paradisebar-grill.com.

RONNIE LEVINE 3:30 p.m. The Oar House, 1901 Cypress St. 432-9620 or the-oar-house. com.

MIKE BOCCIA’S OPEN JAM 7:30 p.m. Goat Lips Beer Garden, 2811 Copter Rd. 474-1919.

THE ALMOST 7:30 p.m. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox. $15-$17. 435-9849 or vinylmusichall. com.

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

KARAOKE WITH DEBI 9 p.m. Paddy O’ Leary’s. 49 Via De Luna Dr. Pensacola Beach.

916-9808 or paddyolearysirishpub.com.

bring a yoga mat, a towel (things are going to get sweaty), two small weights (or water bottles) and a small pillow. Shoes that readily slip on and off are also a plus as many like Sqeeky C. opt to twerk barefoot.

And after you cool down from twerking you can stick around, rest your hot buns and grab some Potstickers or a Sweet Thai Chili Bowl lunch treat before heading back to work. {in}

ASSTASTIC TWERKERCISE

WHAT: Sqeeky Cheeks’ Asstastic Twerkercise Kickoff Session WHEN: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 4 WHERE: Sluggo’s Vegetarian Restaurant, 101 S. Jefferson COST: $4 DETAILS: 791-6501

MONDAY 6.3

BLUE MORNING GALLERY 10 a.m. A visiting artist show featuring the work of noted local artist Margaret Biggs will be on exhibit through Saturday, June 15.

Composition, color and the play between positive and negative space are hallmarks of Biggs' art as she bridges realism and imagination in art that has been described as both modern and surrealistic. 21 Palafox Place. 429-9100 or bluemorninggallery.com.

BODACIOUS LEARNING LUNCH 11:30-12:30 p.m. $20. The Bodacious Olive, 407-D.S. Palafox. 4336505 or bodaciousolive.com.

DIG INTO READING 12 p.m. Stories, weird noises, shadow puppets, magic, reptiles and more. Downtown Public Library, 239 North Spring St. Free.

436-5060 or mywfpl.com PLAY HAPPY HOUR 4 p.m. Play, 16 S. Palafox, Suite 100. 466-3080 or iplaypensacola.com.

SEVILLE QUARTER MILERS CLUB 5 p.m. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

OYSTER NIGHT AT ATLAS 5 p.m. First dozen are 25 cents apiece and $2 Budweiser, Bud Light and Michelob Ultra drafts until close. Atlas, 600 S. barracks St. 470-0003 or atlas.goodgrits.com.

HALF-PRICE BEER 5-10 p.m. All Craft Beers & Domestic Beers are Half Price All Night. The Leisure Club, 126 S. Palafox. 912-4229 or tlcdowntown.com.

TAI CHI AT FLORIDA BLUE 6 p.m. free. Florida blue, 1680 airport Blue. For information, 202-4188.

BURGERS & BEER NIGHT AT SURF BUGER 6 p.m.

Surf Burger, 500 Quietwater Beach Rd., Pensacola Beach. 932-1417 or thesurfburger.com.

JAZZ JAM 6:30 p.m. The monthly Jazz Jam, presented by the Jazz Society of Pensacola, brings in a full house of musicians and music lovers, and the music is exciting and spontaneous. Full menu service is available, as well as a full bar. $8 for JSOP members with Membership Card, $10 for non-members, $5 for students with ID, to cover cost of paid rhythm section and support Jazz Society programs. Performing musicians are invited to sit-in and they are admitted free (drummers, please bring your own sticks). The Unique Café, 51 Gulf Breeze Parkway, Gulf Breeze. 932-8638 or jazzpensacola.com.

AUDITIONS: THE WIZARD OF OZ 6:30 p.m.

Auditions will be spread out over 5 nights; each night will be designated for specific roles. You will only audition on one night, so pick the largest role you would like to be considered for. For example if you would like to be either Dorothy or a Munchkin, audition for Dorothy, if you indicated on your audition form that you will accept other roles you will be considered for the Munchkins or any other part that is suited to your skills. Pensacola Little Theatre, 400 S. Jefferson St. 434-0257 ext. 102 or pensacolalittletheatre.com.

TEXAS HOLD’EM 4 FUN 7 p.m. Sandshaker Lounger, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd, Pensacola Beach.

932-2211 or sandshaker.com.

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COWBOY JOHNSON 5 p.m. OPEN MIC WITH CATHY PACE 5 p.m., TONY BROOK TRIO 9 p.m., NIC STURMS 10 p.m. Flora-Bama Lounge, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

MONDAY NIGHT BLUES 8 p.m. Lili Marlene’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

BRIAN SHORT DUO 8 p.m. End O’ The Alley at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

KARAOKE WITH DEBI 9 p.m. Paddy O'Leary's 49 Via De Luna 916-9808 or paddyolearysirishpub.com.

MOONRAKER, ALTERED STATES 9 p.m. The Handlebar, 319 N. Tarragona St. 434-9060 or pensacolahandlebar.com.

TUESDAY 6.4

BREAKFAST AND A MOVIE 8 a.m. doors, 9 a.m. movie. $8 IMAX Theatre-Naval Aviation Museum, 1750 Radford Blvd. navalaviationmuseum.org.

BLUE MORNING GALLERY 10 a.m. A visiting artist show featuring the work of noted local artist Margaret Biggs will be on exhibit through Saturday, June 15. Composition, color and the play between positive and negative space are hallmarks of Biggs' art as she bridges realism and imagination in art that has been described as both modern and surrealistic. 21 Palafox Place. 429-9100 or bluemorninggallery.com.

DAUMIER: ART FOR THE MASSES 10 a.m. Through June 30. Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. 432-6247 or pensacolamuseumofart.org.

DIG INTO READING-TUESDAY SPEICAL 4:30 P.M. Stories, weird noises, shadow puppets, magic, reptiles and more. Westside Public Library, 1580 West Cervantes St. free. 595-1047 or mywfpl.com.

TWO FOR ONE 5-10 p.m. 2 for 1 Tuesday Nights features 2 for 1 House wines, 2 2 for 1 Domestic Beers and 2 for 1 Ice Cream Scoops All Night. The Leisure Club, 126 S. Palafox. 912-4229 or tlcdowntown.com.

PRIME TIME TUESDAYS 5:30 p.m. Jackson’s, 400 S. Palafox. 469-9898 or jacksons.goodgrits.com.

YOGA EVER’MAN 6 p.m. $2 for non-members.

Ever’man Natural Foods, 315 W Garden St. 438-0402 or everman.org.

AUDITIONS: THE WIZARD OF OZ 6:30 p.m.

Auditions will be spread out over 5 nights; each night will be designated for specifi c roles. You will only audition on one night, so pick the largest role you would like to be considered for. For example if you would like to be either Dorothy or a Munchkin, audition for Dorothy, if you indicated on your audition form that you will accept other roles you will be considered for the Munchkins or any other part that is suited to your skills. Pensacola Little Theatre, 400 S. Jeff erson St. 434-0257 ext. 102 or pensacolalittletheatre.com.

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it happened here

by Jessica Forbes

It’s Going to Happen Here:

Time Portal in Downtown Pensacola On Saturday, June 1, downtown Pensacola’s concentration of history museums are holding their 22nd annual Open House, where admission to all parts of the complex—the T.T. Wentworth Jr. State Museum, Children’s Museum, Museum of Industry, Museum of Commerce and Historic Pensacola Village—is free.

This year, the event’s organizers at West Florida Historic Preservation, Inc. (WFHPI) have created a theme of “Time Portal,” which starts in 1559 with Tristan de Luna’s landing on Pensacola Beach. “We’re going to have re-enactors that are going to go through key points of Pensacola history all the way through 1945,” says Jim McMillen, WFHPI’s Museum Educator and Educational and Private Tour Coordinator.

“We want to incorporate Viva Florida 500 so we’re going to show the whole history,” said McMillen, “of course we have limitations, because we can only go so far back.”

The Viva Florida 500 celebration, a statewide initiative marking the 500th anniversary of Juan Ponce de Leon’s voyage to Florida in 1513, celebrates the quincentennial—and how often do you get to use that word?—of the first documented European expedition in North America, which landed near St. Augustine.

Spanish explorer Don Tristan de Luna and crew found their way to Pensacola Beach in 1559, setting up the first European settlement in North America, the starting point of this year’s Open House Time Portal.

“We will have 1559 featured, along with the French, British, Spanish during the American Revolution, Native American representations, the War of 1812, the Civil War, Spanish-American War, flappers in the 1920s, and World War II,” said McMillen.

Stations throughout the village will showcase the various eras, interpreted by guides in period clothing. The 1920s house, for example, will feature flappers overseeing the delivery of a Model-T Ford to their home. For the Spanish-American War vignette, one of Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders will be represented, posted on the side porch of the Leer House, which, along

with the other historic houses in the Village, will be open for tours.

Guided tours of the homes, which were constructed during various time periods in Pensacola’s history, begin at 10:30 a.m. and run every 30 minutes until 3:30 p.m.

Visitors can tour houses individually, said McMillen, “It won’t be our traditional guided tour, which gives you everything in an hour and a half, you’re going to get a small taste, and it’s going to be per house.” Each house tour will be no more than 20 minutes long.

Along with the tours, re-enactors will conduct cooking, musket firing and woodworking demonstrations throughout the event, which will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The only Village building that will not be open to the public during the Open House is Old Christ Church, the site of several weddings that day.

WFHPI is creating a map for the event, which will be available at an Information Booth located at the corner of Tarragona and Zaragoza streets.

For those who have ever wondered about the boardwalk located behind the Wentworth Museum, archaeologists will be there—the colonial Commanding Officer’s Compound archaeological site—to explain the site and its history.

The Children’s Museum on Zaragoza Street, which opened in 2012, will have sheriff’s car, an ambulance, and fire truck, and an inflatable obstacle course to explore.

There will also be a dunk booth on premises, but McMillen assured, “It will be a staff member [in the booth], they can’t put their parents up there.”

The museum will have stroller parking area for families exploring the two floors of exhibits within the Children’s Museum.

And, of course, the Wentworth Museum will be open to the public, with three floors of exhibits in an air conditioned building.

“It’s definitely growing,” said McMillen of the Open House event, which last year hosted between 2,500 and 3,000 guests in its six-hour timeframe. WFHPI also hosts a Fall Festival each October—the only other time all attractions are free, although there are plans to add a third event in 2014. {in}

“We’re going to have re-enactors that are going to go through key points of Pensacola history all the way through 1945.”

Jim McMillen

Jessica is a Pensacola resident with a Master’s degree in Public History.

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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT: “WHY?”

As PYP approaches the end of its first quarter of 2013, I wanted to take this time to update our members, leaders, and our community on what the Pensacola Young Professionals have accomplished already and also give some insight into what we have planned for the coming months.

First off, what an incredibly beautiful city we live in! Certainly, as with anything else, Pensacola is not without its opportunities to improve and grow, but let’s not forget just how lucky we are to live here in paradise. PYP believes in Pensacola now.

We exist to share this passion for and belief in Pensacola and to act as a catalyst for positive change in this community. We encourage and challenge each of you to also share your enthusiasm for Pensacola with your friends, family, and coworkers. Positive change takes a shared vision and belief in what can be achieved. As Winston Churchill once said, “The empires of the future are empires of the mind.” So, how do we take that shared vision and make it reality?

As in previous years, PYP board members and team chairs attended our annual retreat. During the day, we discussed “Why?” Why do we spend our most valuable resource—time—in service to PYP? Why do each of you spend the finite amount of time you have doing the things that you do? What emerged from our retreat are the goals we intend to accomplish by our year’s end, and hopefully be on our way to accomplishing our long-term vision. What’s a destination without a roadmap, right?

We have worked to refine those goals and supplement them with quantitative measures that will allow us to track our progress throughout the year. PYP will reveal these goals on June 13th at 5:15 PM at our next Quarterly Meeting. The meeting will be held at one of Pensacola’s many bright spots: the Pensacola MESS Hall. We hope you all can join us in our mission to be that catalyst for positive change.

PYP has also been quite busy with many community projects. Our Governmental Affairs and Economic Development Teams, led by Alan Gray and Bethany Hill, have already held a candidate forum for the State House District 2 seat left vacant by the untimely and unfortunate passing of Rep. Clay Ford. And with the help of the Belmont-DeVilliers Neighborhood Association and various city council members, PYP transformed that neighborhood by cleaning up debris, weed-eating, and mowing all along Belmont. We even managed to put a new coat of paint on three houses as well as adding picket fences. Our Quality of Life Team, led by Crystal Barrett, has already amassed a ridiculous number of volunteer hours through various projects including a

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Habitat for Humanity build. Lastly, we are rapidly approaching our first charity fundraiser of the year, the “Midsummer Night Soiree.” Some proceeds are going to help the Health & Hope Clinic and we are holding the event at the Museum of Commerce on the 28th of June.

This is such an exciting time for Pensacola and for the Pensacola Young Professionals. I can actually feel the wave of forward momentum approaching. PYPers are not the only ones in Pensacola with this same passion. It’s all around us. Please join us in making the community around you better.

JOIN PYP FOR A MIDSUMMER NIGHT SOIREE TO BENEFIT THE HEALTH AND HOPE CLINIC

Come celebrate in themed attire for a good cause and join PYP as they team up with the Health and Hope Clinic for the Midsummer Night Soiree on Friday, June 28th! Guests will enjoy an evening of enchantment, complete with delicious hors d'oeuvres, live entertainment and performances, as well as a silent and live auction.

A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Health and Hope Clinic in their task to help meet the needs of the uninsured and medically under-served here in Escambia County. The clinic is an entirely volunteer and donor-driven clinic and was established in June of 2003 by the Pensacola Bay Baptist Association. Over the last nine years, the Health and Hope Clinic has provided over $8.5 million in healthcare services to over 12,000 patient/provider visits. The clinic strives to provide accessible and equitable primary and preventative care to those in need and they rely on the generosity of their contributors and volunteers to accomplish their mission of providing health and hope to the hurting in our area.

Show your support and help the Health and Hope Clinic in fulfilling its mission by attending the soiree held at the Pensacola Museum of Commerce. Tickets are available online at www.pensacolayp.com at a rate of $45 a person. The registration deadline for the event is Friday, June 21 at 10:00 p.m.

Guests are encouraged to dress in themeinspired attire, so bring out your summer suits and finest fairy wings and join us for an evening of great fun as we strive to make the Pensacola Bay Area a healthier and happier place for our neighbors in need!

planned outcomes, visitors get to work like real scientists, developing questions and creating experiments, engaging in complex reasoning and learning science just through tinkering. It’s all hands-on science.

The goal of the quarterly meeting is to go over the recent and upcoming PYP events and activities that involve our leadership and members. This first portion of the meeting will take about 45 minutes and then we will have a tour of the MESS Hall and get a chance to see how this new feature of Pensacola works. The meeting should be over around 7:30 PM. We hope to see a lot of people at this event, and if you have any questions about PYP or this quarterly meeting, please contact the chair of Membership for PYP, Matt Peacock, at 850-418-0179.

EVENT CALENDAR

June 11 Economic Development and Government Affairs Teams Meeting CAVU at the Crowne Plaza 5:30-7:00 June 13 Quarterly Meeting #2 Pensacola Mess Hall 5:15-7:00

MEMBER OF MONTH: CERYS HEROMAN

Cerys Heroman has been very instrumental in helping plan the PYP Networking Team events. She is very creative and has helped make the Networking Nights different and unique - a goal that we are pursuing this year. Even though she is very new to PYP, Cerys seems like she's been a part of the organization for a long time. We look forward to working with Cerys this year and are excited to see more of her great ideas to improve the PYP Networking Nights.

Thanks Cerys for all of your hard work and dedication to PYP!

June 17 PYP’s No Obligation Happy Hour Book Club 5 ½ Bar 6:00-7:00 June 18 PPDI Team Meeting Sluggo’s 12:00-1:00 June 26 Quality of Life Team Meeting Fish House 5:15-6:30 June 27 “Speed” Networking Night!

Florida Blue Center 5:30-7:30 June 28 PYP’s “A Midsummer Night Soiree” Pensacola Museum of Commerce 6:30-11:00

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PYP’S QUARTERLY MEETING AT THE MESS HALL

Pensacola Young Professionals is holding a “quarterly meeting” on June 13th at 5:30 PM at the MESS Hall. This event is open to the public. The MESS Hall is not a typical science museum. Rather than exhibits with

“leader of the month.” Bethany has long been involved with our PPDI program, and when the VP of Programs spot unexpectedly opened in late March, Bethany courageously accepted the nomination for the job. In just her first two months as VP, she has done amazing work with the PPDI and IP programs, and has brought countless new and exciting ideas to the PYP board of directors. Bethany was instrumental in the overwhelming success of the PYP-hosted Chick-fil-A Leadercast on May 10, which had over 200 community attendees! PYP is lucky to have Bethany as our programs leader, and she is a very welcome addition to our board.

LEADER OF MONTH: BETHANY KNIGHT

Bethany Knight, our VP of Programs, is PYP’s

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news of the weird CULTURE CLASH Low Fashion Meets Islam on Turkish TV: Five self-proclaimed devout, conservative Muslim women host the TV series "Building Bridges" on channel A9, presenting the seemingly contradictory case against both the female headscarf and Turkey's turn to secularism. A report on Slate. com in May noted that the five are "mostly bottle blonds ... (with) neon lipstick" wearing "brightly colored satin pantsuits and T-shirts with designer brand names that stretched over their chests." "Building Bridges" in principle supports interfaith dialogue, but guests (noted Slate) "often appear ... with their eyebrows arched in the manner of a serious person certain he is the victim of a practical joke."

RECURRING THEMES Creative Smuggling: Abdullah Riyaz, 50, was arrested at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, India, in April after he appeared to be uncomfortable sitting in the waiting area.

Officials found four "biscuits" of solid gold in his socks but obviously thought there might be more, and after nature took its course, found Riyaz to be one of those rare humans with the ability to brag that he once excreted gold (eight more "biscuits").

• A report circulated in April that an apparently Orthodox Jewish man (likely a "Kohen") had tied himself up, head to toe, in a plastic bag while seated on an airline flight—likely because his teachings told him that flying over a cemetery would yield "impurities." News of the Weird mentioned a similar report in 2001. Airlines have made accommodations in the past, even in the face of criticism that a man in a plastic bag is a safety hazard. (Exceptions to the Kohen belief: Accidental tears in the bag are excused, but pre-punched air holes not; Kohenim unaware of the cemetery overflight in advance do not need protection; and deceased family members yield no impurities.)

• Accountability: The chairman of the National Showcaves Center in a Welsh national park, aiming to halt a recent downturn in tourism business, threatened in April to sue the U.K. National Weather Service for its "all too (frequent) ... gloom and doom reports." The NWS had called for snow and cold weather over Easter weekend, but no snow fell, and the cold weather was tempered by sun and blue skies. (He also suggested adding "health"type warnings to forecasts, e.g., beware that weather reports might be wrong.)

• In New Haven, Conn., in March, police had trapped two car-theft suspects in a multifamily building whose occupants were hiding from the suspects, thus necessitating urgency in ending the siege. Officers ordered a K-9 unit but were told it would be delayed.

In a tactic departments occasionally employ, officers still threatened to release the dogs immediately, and to make the threat credible, available officers began barking. The suspects quickly surrendered rather than face the vicious canines.

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• Herbert and Catherine Schaible, members of the First Century Gospel Church in Philadelphia and believers in faith-healing rather than medical care, were convicted in 2011 in the bacterial-pneumonia death of their 2-year-old son, Kent. As a condition of probation, they promised medical care for their remaining eight children, but in April 2013, their youngest son, Brandon, died after severe diarrhea and pneumonia, again treated only by prayer, and they were arrested—and the other children removed from the home.

The medical examiner called Brandon's death a homicide, and the couple also face five to 10 years in prison for violating probation.

• Detectives' New Best Friend (Facebook): Christopher Robinson, 23, became just one of many recent suspects whose addiction to Facebook did him in. Robinson had never made a single child support payment in the three years since a court order was issued in Milwaukee, Wis., and the case had languished over how to prove that he was hiding money.

Using other evidence for probable cause, the prosecutor got a warrant to search Robinson's private Facebook information and discovered a candid photograph of him, laughing over a pile of cash.

• The annual Chinese "tomb sweeping" celebration has been mentioned several times in News of the Weird, but has experienced a resurgence since 2008 when the government reinstated it as an official holiday. The theory is that people bring valuable items (such as jewelry) to ancestors' gravesites and bury them with the body, which will upgrade the relative's afterlife. Now, however, practitioners seem convinced that paper images of items are sufficient (and, of course, less expensive).

Many simply leave signed (and generous!) checks for the dead, according to an April New York Times dispatch, and others bury representations of "mistresses" to accompany presumably frisky corpses.

UPDATE News of the Weird first learned of kopi luwak in 1993—coffee beans sold as gourmet because they had been swallowed by certain Asian civet cats and recovered from feces and washed. Since then, as Internet news of kopi luwak has spread, it has become no longer obscure, and in April, the environmental-activist website MongaBay.com warned that, based on increased demand, civet "farms" had sprung up in Indonesia and that civets were being caged for their entire lives solely for access to their poop. While none of the main kopi luwak civet species is formally "endangered," activists warned that populations are dwindling for, said one, "the most ridiculous threat ... to any wildlife I have seen yet." {in} From Universal Press Syndicate Chuck Shepherd’s News Of The Weird © 2013 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

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