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GEORGE TOUART The former county administrator is tanned, rested and ready to take back over his old job. Five years ago, Touart resigned under a cloud of suspicion over his business dealings that he hadn’t reported to the county commission.

Rather than fight them, Touart chose to step down. Now he has an at-will contract that will let him hold the job for a year until a new administrator is hired…or the new commissioners let him go.

LARRY JOHNSON According to Rob Larkin, Pensacola’s chief labor negotiator, the city councilman may be the reason the city hasn’t reached agreement with the police union. Johnson has been upset with Mayor Hayward and his chief of staff since they refused to delay a vote on an economic incentive program to encourage Pen Air Federal Credit Union buy an office building and move its operations downtown.

Larkin has told the media that Johnson approached him and said if the city administration fired the chief of staff, Johnson could broker a deal with the police. Since then, the police union has rejected every offer made by the city. Johnson has denied the conversation.

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supervisor was recently awarded the prestigious Barbara Sessa Award by the state Guardian ad Litem program. The award is given annually to the employee in the state who epitomizes the qualities of the award’s namesake, who went beyond the call of duty in her position as a guardian ad litem in Pasco and Pinellas counties.

URAC Mayor Ashton Hayward’s Urban Redevelopment Advisory Committee (URAC) has released its report with recommendations for the mayor on how to guide the continued growth and development of Pensacola's downtown. The 63-page report with a wide range of recommendations was crafted over eight months with 15 public meetings and 40 presentations. Chairman Brian Hooper and his committee deserve kudos for their efforts. It’s now up to Mayor Hayward to implement them.

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ESCAMBIA’S ODD COUPLE Hell froze over and pigs began to fly when Escambia County Commissioner Gene Valentino made the motion to hire George Touart as the interim county administrator. They say politics create strange bedfellows, but this may be the oddest political couple in recent memory.

The Valentino-Touart feud began six years ago.

Valentino is the Connecticut Yankee who moved here to establish his successful technology company, Collector Solutions. Touart grew up in Pensacola. His family is one of the oldest in the community. His father was a Pensacola police officer.

Both have healthy egos and like to hear themselves talk. They have butted heads several times.

When he was county administrator, Touart did not supported Valentino when he first ran in 2006. Touart and his crowd preferred Pensacola native Edwin Roberts.

Valentino beat Roberts in the GOP primary by only five votes, 4,371 to 4,366.

In 2007, Touart lost the county administrator job after newspapers reported on his private business dealings that he failed to disclose to the commissioners and the public.

Rather than let Touart use his accrued leave to extend his employment so that he could become vested in the Florida Retirement System, it was Valentino, along with Commissioners Kevin White and Marie Young, who voted to only give him 90 days.

Touart had thought he was getting a severance package when he retired in September

2007, but he jumped the gun and made his announcement in a meeting before the commissioners voted on the package.

A few weeks later, Valentino participated in a sting operation that tried to catch the county administrator swapping his severance package for land the commissioner wanted for a sports complex in his district. The telephone conversation was recorded by the state attorney’s office, but no charges were made.

In 2010, Commissioner Gene Valentino was indicted for soliciting campaign funds from his commissioner's office. His supporters believed that his opponent in the GOP primary, George Touart, was behind the allegations.

Our paper could find no proof that Touart had anything to with it. However, Touart did use the pending trial as campaign fodder, telling the paper several times that Valentino was unstable and he was confident that the commissioner would be convicted and removed from office before the August primary.

Instead, the judge dismissed the charges days before the primary. Despite spending $65,302 on his campaign, Touart placed last in the four-person race with only 595 votes. He spent about $109.75 per vote he got.

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HOMELESS BUT NOT HOPELESS volunteers survey the homeless for one day in January. This survey helps EscaRosa identify the needs of the homeless in Santa Rosa and Escambia County. Last January, they surveyed 551 homeless clients. This does not count the homeless that refused to be a part of the survey, or those that live under the radar with family and friends.

What the surveyors found in the span of 24-hours was that of the 551 surveyed homeless, 426 were male, 59 were married, 101 served in the U.S. Armed Forces, 144 were a domestic violence victim and 170 said their main reason for being homeless was being unable to find work.

“What we try to do is make the entire community aware of what is happening to the homeless in our area,” said Janis Wilson, volunteer with EscaRosa Coalition of the Homeless.

The number of school-age children is higher due to child advocates—bus drivers, teachers, school administrative staff—who report children they believe are homeless— meaning they have no permanent residence.

“There was a family I met a couple of years ago, an elderly couple in Navarre whose daughter had a child and that child had a child,” Wilson said. “There were five generations living in a two bedroom condo. Pull into a Wal-Mart parking lot any night and you’ll find someone sleeping in their car.”

“There are about 3000 homeless children in Santa Rosa and Escambia County,” said John Johnson, executive director of EscaRosa Coalition of the Homeless. “That outweighs the number of homeless.”

is a resource and referral service that provides information to those in need— whatever the need may be. 211 also creates the Street Survival Guide that EscaRosa distributes, which is a booklet of community resource information.

“Our focus at 2-1-1 is to assist individuals at the level they request,” said 211 Director, Rita Icenogle. “Some need simply the location of shelters, some may need guidance on how to apply for services or defining which programs they are eligible to receive.”

In August, 211 answered 3,091 calls and in September it was 2, 418. Most of the callers from both Santa Rosa and Escambia County were in need of utility bills, the second highest need was housing, whether it was someone needing shelter or help with a mortgage payment.

For Johnson, the challenge in serving the homeless is not finding them a hot meal and a place to rest, but in providing them with meaningful help that will make a lasting impact.

“You think about someone who’s been homeless for a while, without phasedin support by a case manager, you are preparing them to fail,” he said. “They face isolation challenges, mental illness and substance abuse.”

It’s not enough to give a homeless individual a job and a house. You have to teach them how to become a part of society again.

“You can compare that with a child— you have to have progress,” Wilson said.

“What you want to do is give them a hand—to be self-sufficient,” Johnson added. “I’ve got to teach you how to fish and you’ll have a meal for a lifetime. If I continue to serve you, what incentive do you have to be self-sufficient?”

HMIS and collaboration between service providers will help make a significant difference.

“It’s about warm-handoffs,” Johnson said. “If a woman comes to me and I know she may have a mental illness, it’s not enough to give her a phone number, I may need to put in a call to Lakeview,” Johnson explained. “One of my visions is to see more case managers that are dedicated not only to serving the agency, but the clients—engaging homeless clients.”

Johnson points out that agencies, such as EscaRosa, have come a long way, but there are still goals he’d like to meet.

“We still have much to do,” he said. “One, create a community of awareness among social workers. Two, for every homeless, a bed that’s available to that person. Three, resources. I would love, love, love for us to have a

“There’s good people out here. We just don’t have a house or a job.”

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Antonio Smith came to Pensacola for work after the oil spill. He found steady construction work and was renting a home before he had his appendix removed and lost his job.

Now, he has a “very large” hospital bill and little to no job prospects as he lives in a tent praying for a way out.

“I’m trying to find work, but there’s nothing out there full-time. I went through some day-labor places,” he said. “Being homeless plays a big part in unemployment—you don’t have an address.”

Smith has never been homeless before.

He could go back home to South Carolina, but doesn’t want to admit he needs assistance.

“I want to do it on my own,” he said.

“I just turned 52, it’s kind of hard asking momma for help.”

Jessica Tipton was “stranded with nothing” when her now ex-husband left her. The end of the relationship led her through a dark path.

“I was a drug connoisseur and it rendered me homeless,” she said.

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Living on the streets, she began to prostitute herself.

“Women have it harder—they don’t want to give it away, they make you work for it and they don’t care how,” Tipton said.

The valedictorian of her high school went to jail for prostitution, had her three children taken away from her and is now living in a boarding house trying to get a college degree online and get her kids back.

“It’s just a merry-go round,” Tipton said of living on the streets. “How fast can you go before falling down and throwing up?”

SCARY NUMBERS

In 2010, 57,687 men, women and children were reported as homeless in Florida according to a report by the Florida Coalition of the Homeless. In 2009, it was 55,599.

The local numbers tend to stay relatively low, but sometimes it’s hard to tell how many people are homeless since the definition can be broad. Every year, EscaRosa Coalition of the Homeless and about 200

PROVIDING MORE THAN SHELTER

Johnson points out that a lot of the shelters are for single men. And shelters that do take men and women separate the genders, which is why families often sleep in cars rather than seek help.

“There needs to be an emphasis to provide housing for families,” he said.

EscaRosa also hosts a local Homeless Management Information System (HMIS).

The electric client entry system helps agencies work more fluidly and relieves the stress for homeless families and individuals.

“Seeking services, they [homeless persons] only have to tell their story one time,” said Johnson. “It helps foster partnerships and to better bring our community together to create and enhance access of services to the homeless.”

Another way EscaRosa assesses the needs of the local homeless is through the Northwest Florida 211 line, a service provided by United Way. The 211 line

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community of case managers to quickly take a family, that’s about to have their power turned off and no food in the fridge, and move them to a temporary or permanent place without them being enabled by hand-outs.”

LOOKING PAST APPEARANCE

Building confidence in those who are facing economic troubles can make a difference.

Engaging homeless clients, as Johnson said, and building a trusting friendship can help in assisting the homeless.

One of those in the forefront of building relationships and confidence is Cathy Harris.

“She’s my sweetheart,” Johnson said of Harris.

By day Harris is visiting encampments and parks to dole out lunch and a short discussion from the Bible through the nonprofit she founded, Streets and Lanes Ministries.

By night, she’s a registered nurse working the overnight shift in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Sacred Heart Hospital.

“You get to know people from a different walk of life,” said Ashley Butler, a volunteer with Streets and Lanes. “There’s a lot that’s misunderstood about the homeless. The truth is a lot of people struggle, there’s so much more to the story.”

During the local events honoring National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week (NHHAW) you can get your own sense of the homeless. At Waterfront Rescue Mission’s Thanksgiving Luncheon, City Councilman Brian Spencer presented a proclamation recognizing NHHAW. “We hope people understand who the homeless are,” Wilson said. “They have a great deal to offer as far as talents and abilities.”

Harris knows most of her clients by name.

She jokes, shares pleasantries and while the group eats their lunch—hot dogs, Cheetos and a banana—she shares a story of a lady she helped inadvertently during one of her shifts at Sacred Heart.

“I couldn’t help her, but I could take her to the one who could help,” she said. “You have to open the door to Christ, he’s not going to barge in—he’s a gentleman.”

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Those who need help have to really want it to obtain it. That’s why Tipton and her boyfriend, John Fuqua are working hard to get out of the boarding house they live in and pursue careers in journalism.

Zach Tessier makes light of living on the streets. Having a positive attitude is one of the best survival tactics through any crisis.

“I’m sort of a professional tourist,” he said.

While he has no immediate plans, he does envision a future of owning a large plot of land, getting married and having a “whole lot of kids, horses and dogs.”

Tessier is friends with Tipton and Fuqua, they often let him crash on the couch or shower at their place. There’s a strong bond between the people that share the same hardships.

“We’re like a family out here, we look out for each other,” Smith said. “There’s good people out here. We just don’t have a house or a job.” {in}

LOCAL EVENTS HONORING NATIONAL HUNGER AND HOMELESSNESS AWARENESS WEEK 11.11 FOOD DRIVE KICK-OFF AND VETERANS DAY CELEBRATIONS

Drop off your donations of non-perishable food items at any local business that has collection boxes or at Manna Food Pantry, 116 East Gonzalez St. A full list of participating businesses is online at ecoh.org.

11.12 CANDLELIGHT VIGIL FOR THE HOMELESS OF SANTA ROSA COUNTY Gather at the River Walk in

downtown Milton at 6:30 p.m. to hear live music, enjoy light refreshments and stories of the homeless in the Santa Rosa County community. The annual event is dedicated to remembering those lost and honoring them with a moment of silence.

11.13 NO DINNER AND A MOVIE NIGHT It’s a day of fasting and aware-

ness. At 6:30 p.m., meet at the new Waterfront Mission at 348 Herman St. to watch “My Own Four Walls,” a film about homeless children and meet the local “Faces of Homelessness” speakers. Fast for all or part of the day to experience what the homeless face on a daily basis.

Bring a one-day supply of non-perishable foods as your admission to the movie.

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“It’s just a merry-go round. How fast can you go before falling down and throwing up?”

Jessica Tipton Marts until December 18 and get a list of their desired Christmas presents.

Buy the items and return them to the store with the ornament. There will be a community gift-wrap event December 19 at 10 a.m. at Home Instead Senior Care, 100 N. Spring St. Participating Wal-Mart locations are: 8970 Pensacola Blvd., 4965 Highway 90, Milton, 3767 Gulf Breeze Pkwy., 2650 Creighton Rd., and 2951 S Blue Angel Pkwy. For more information, visit beasantatoasenior. com or call 477-1947.

FILL A CHRISTMAS STOCKING

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“He said, ‘I’m from Tennessee and my dog’s never seen the ocean,’” Lee recalled. “I said, ‘That’s too bad for your dog.’”

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“It does work in other communities in the state of Florida, and other communities in the United States,” Sindel told the SRIA board.

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The plan the dog-beach proponent has put up for discussion involves allowing dogs at Park East and Park West on Pensacola Beach. The pets would be allowed on the beach from sunrise until 10 a.m., and would need to be leashed during turtle and bird nesting seasons.

“I know it’s a brand new concept for this community,” Sindel said recently.

Since that first public hearing, word of the dog-beach proposal has spread.

Sindel has started the PensacolaDogBeach Facebook page and says she is getting a lot of positive feedback from the community.

“It’s been amazing,” she said.

“I’ve gotten a lot of phone calls, which is interesting, because I didn’t publish my phone number.”

Sindel has also continued discussing the issue with area officials. She has spoken with scientists at the University of West Florida and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection about water quality concerns, as well as local health officials.

“We’re trying to respond to whatever questions are being presented,” she said, explaining that she would be presenting information to the SRIA about testing water for any impact from the presence of dogs.

A number of concerns were brought up during the SRIA’s first public hearing.

Some people said dogs could pose a threat to children on the beach—“you always read in the paper about some poor child that’s been attacked”—or would be obnoxious, but most of the questions were geared toward the environmental and health effects dog waste would have.

“I’ll bring some science,” SRIA board member Thomas Campanella said in October. “I’m going to bring some interesting facts for dog owners about what comes out of dog feces.”

Sava Varazo, the new Emerald Coastkeeper, who formerly worked with the DEP, also had questions about the impact of dog waste when Sindel approached him.

“I said that sounds well planned out,” he recalled. “Now, tell me what you’re going to do with the feces and the waste.”

The Coastkeeper said he was impressed with the research Sindel had done on water quality issues. He said the sampling she is proposing—to be done by student volunteers from UWF—would reveal any possible issues and noted that other animals already relieve themselves on the beach.

“I’m going to bring some interesting facts for dog owners about what comes out of dog feces.”

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“ Who’s counting the bird poo? ” Varazo asked. “Nobody says anything about that, nobody’s saying anything about the birds. Nobody’s saying anything about the wildlife.”

Sindel likes to point out that a number of other communities in Florida allow dogs on their beaches without problems. In the panhandle, both Bay and Walton counties allow for dogs on the beach.

More than 20 counties statewide allow them.

When Sindel approached officials at the Escambia County Health Department about the issue, they reached out to other counties where dogs are allowed on the beaches. They wanted to know if those areas were experiencing negative impacts.

“They have not had any significant problems with water or beach contamination,” said Dr. John Lanza, director of the Escambia County Health Department.

Local officials are recommending certain measures—such as water sampling— be taken in the event dogs are allowed at Pensacola Beach. The health department has provided a list of recommendations, which also include requiring dog owners to have proper permits and up-to-date shots, to the SRIA.

SRIA officials have also expressed other concerns. How would the presence of dogs jive with Pensacola Beach’s eco-tourism mission? What are the costs involved, if any? Should they require dog owners to purchase a beach-specific permit? Or fine them if they don’t pick up after their pet.

“I don’t know,” said board member Elwyn Guernsey, “this is all like a let’s-talk-itover-and-see-if-wecan-come-up-withsomething-we’re-comfortable-with.”

At the second public hearing, the SRIA will decide if it will recommend allowing dogs on the beach to the Escambia County Commission. Any changes to the ordinance that bans dogs would ultimately happen at the county level. The county commission is not bound by the SRIA’s recommendation.

The second public hearing will be held Nov. 14 at 5 p.m. at the SRIA’s 1 Via de Luna meeting hall.

If county officials eventually decide to allow dogs on Pensacola Beach, Lee will have to update his answer when visitors inquire about bringing their pet. The SRIA director went ahead and let the man from Tennessee know that his dog may one day be able to play on the beach.

“I told him maybe check back in six months or so,” Lee laughed. {in}

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Randy Oliver / photo by Samantha Crooke ollowing the Escambia County Commission’s termination vote, Randy Oliver stood from his chair and left the chambers. His days as county administrator were over.

“I’d like to thank the board and thank the citizens of Escambia County for the opportunity to serve them,” Oliver said before exiting.

The Escambia County Commissioner chairman Wilson Robertson, vice chairman Gene Valentino and outgoing Commissioner Kevin White had voted to terminate his employment with one year remaining on his three-year contract.

When Randy Oliver came to visit the November 8, 2012

Independent News on Friday, Nov. 2, which was his last official day on the job, the bespectacled, red-head with a touch of grey on his temples was still somewhat at a loss as to why he was canned.

“The sad part about this is you're kind of like a baseball manager,” Oliver said.

“The only difference is the winning percentage doesn't matter.”

He has a point. Escambia County has a history of running off its county administrators about every two years. In the 14 years since this paper was first published, the county has had seven county administrators.

Commissioners Grover Robinson, Marie Young, Valentino and White have had four since 2007—George Touart, Bob McLaughlin, Larry Newsom (interim) and Oliver.

NEW MANAGEMENT STYLE

Oliver was hired in September 2010. His engineering and accounting backgrounds were a good fit for a county that was recovering from the BP oil disaster, real estate market collapse and shrinking revenues. He was a professional administrator, not a fishing, hunting or golfing buddy of the developers and county vendors.

Oliver had served as the city manager of Greenville, S.C., Peoria, Ill. and Surprise, Ariz.

He had helped with the consolidation of the City of Augusta and Richmond County, Ga. Many thought interim administrator Larry Newsom would have been chosen, but Oliver offered a fresh approach, an outside perspective. Newsom’s predecessor had been Bob McLaughlin, a 13-year county employee

who had reorganized county government by giving nearly 40 supervisors and department heads severance packages and had gotten caught up Commissioner Valentino’s efforts to take economic development away from the Pensacola Bay Chamber of Commerce.

Before McLaughlin, there was George Touart whom many considered the sixth commissioner for his tight-fisted hold on the county government. Under him, the county’s budget nearly doubled. There were constant rumors of inside deals, although grand juries and the ethics commission always cleared him.

Oliver knew that he had to create a new culture with county government when he arrived. He felt that the county had good personnel but that they had not been encouraged to speak freely.

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Former county administrator Randy Oliver discusses the budget with the Escambia County Commission in April. / photo by Jeremy Morrison “I'm a firm believer in that you sit down and discuss ideas, because anybody's idea can be made better by having more people involved," Oliver said. “Don't tell what I want to hear, tell me what I need to know.”

Staff needed to learn that they were not going to be fired for bringing issues and different opinions.

“My style was to solicit input and make it the best possible outcome that we could think of, based on the talent,” he said. “They came to a point that there was a freedom to think.”

Oliver firmly believed that a good organization couldn’t have all decisions made at the top when you have 1,100 people.

“When I came here I signed every form of everybody whom the county hired or if somebody quit,” he explained.

“I was signing paper about something I didn't know anything about. A lot of what I was forced to do over the first two years was to improve and create systems that had good checks and balances.

"Because it was absolutely useless to have somebody sign a form that six other people had already signed and didn't even know if it was right or not.”

Under Oliver, the county moved to all electronic payroll and banking. Vendor payments will be done electronically by the end of the year.

He said, “What we've tried to do is take a lot of the paper out of this and it has taken a period of time to do it.”

Oliver also had a system to monitor the progress of his staff.

“I had a hot sheet for all the department heads that we passed out every Monday morning,” he said.

“Essentially it had all the open items, who was responsible, when it started, when it would be done and it tracked it the whole way through so that we kept those issues moving forward and didn't get dropped.”

He added, “A collaborative environment is what works in business and it needs to work in government, but most people in government are too scared to do that.”

“The sad part about this is you're kind of like a baseball manager. The only difference is the winning percentage doesn't matter.”

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COMMISSIONERS AND STAFF

One issue that had caused problems in the past had been county commissioners circumventing the county administrator and going directly to staff with issues and directives.

Oliver had no problem with commissioners speaking with department heads.

“It's not realistic for the county commissioners to solely deal with the county administrator on issues,” he said.

“It won't work, don't have that kind of time. What I tell them is I don't have any problem with them going to a department head. I expect my department heads to interface with county commissioners. I expect

them to provide answers, help with solutions that they think are reasonable and prudent.”

However, he didn’t like commissioners going below that level because it could create confusion.

“For a county commissioner to go out and ask a guy working on a road project when is it going to be done, I tell them I'm not going to guarantee them that answer is going to be right,” he said.

“If the department director tells them, then I'm going to stand behind it because that's their job. “ When the commissioners go below department heads, then it can put the employees in a bad situation.

“I don't have problem with them saying, "Hi, how are you?" but when they get to the point of asking for specific information or you do this for me—that is problematic because it puts an employee in a really bad situation because they want to please, they really do,” Oliver said.

Initially the commissioners asked him to call constituents that had contacted them about minor operational issues like overgrown weeds. He let his staff handle those problems.

“They didn’t pay me to do that, “ he said. “I had great administrative support to handle that. They are going to be releasing shortly 494 CARE, which will take care of all joint service requests and keep everything in a single database. It will tell you who is calling you repeatedly about the same thing.

"For example, the person who started building a swimming pool in the backyard and never finished it, they call and say they have a drainage problem. You will have all that in common database so that you will know what the history was.”

HARD CALLS

During Oliver’s two-year tenure, county revenues continued to shrink. He cut the budgets of his direct departments by $3.86 million and restructured the county’s bond issues for a $14 millions savings.

“You've got to able to make the tough decisions and calls in order to balance that budget,” he said. “There are a lot of moving pieces as it relates to the budget.

They need to continue to make sure that revenues match expenses.”

Oliver refinanced nearly $100 million in bonds and completely eliminated the bonds on the Pensacola Civic Center that were absorbing a significant portion of the county’s bed tax.

“Because the county is viewed as a very solid credit, we were able to refinance at some pretty spectacular rates,” Oliver said.

“We took some that were at 5.5 percent and got them down to 3 percent. We were able to use the savings to eliminate all the debt on the civic center.”

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Oliver also restructured the management contract for the civic center. SMG’s contract had the company being paid a percentage of the gross revenue regardless of expenses.

“We restructured that contract and the subsidy to the civic center dropped by half million dollars in the first year alone,” he said.

The future of the facility, which was recently renamed “Pensacola Bay Center,” is a policy decision for the commissioners.

“In my opinion, I think the best picture that you're going to see with the civic center is a loss of about a million dollars a year,” Oliver said.

“The question from a policy standpoint is what is the value of a civic center to a community. Because with a community of this size, if you don't have places for commencements, large events like that, the quality of life in the community suffers.

The policymakers have to decide is that worth that million dollars.”

Oliver didn’t agree with closing the facility and building a new center on the campus of University of West Florida.

“Moving it out to UWF doesn't make sense, because you're going to hollow out the downtown,” he said.

“It will essentially become a multisport facility for the university. Anything else that comes into there will be what I call ‘gingerbread.’”

KNOWING ROLES

When Oliver came onboard, the Pensacola chamber was also going through

reorganization. Jim Hizer was hired the prior month as its new president and CEO. In January 2011, the chamber launched its Vision 2015 initiative to bring 3 ,000 new jobs to the area in four years.

Economic development became much of the focus of the county, City of Pensacola and the chamber.

With so many entities sharing responsibility for economic development, there has been some confusion over roles. The chamber, Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward and Commissioner Valentino made trips in the past year to visit aerospace conferences in Europe in hopes of landing vendors tied to the huge Airbus facility being built in Mobile, Ala. Valentino, who was recently given, by his fellow commissioners, the lead role on their economic development efforts, would still like to see an independent economic development authority tied to the county commission.

“One of the things that still needs to done is everybody pull together and recognize their roles,” Oliver said.

“There are a lot of different structures that work as long as everybody recognizes their role and executes their roles to make things come to make a success.”

He laughed and said slowly to provide added emphasis, “The key is you can't have everybody wanting to be the pitcher on the baseball team.”

Oliver said he had worked both with the chamber in charge of economic development and with independent authorities.

“Both structures work as long as everybody understands what their roles are,” he said.

“It needs to be a matter of taking leads and everybody falling in line and supporting it, not falling over themselves to get credit for it.”

When communities don’t do this, it can be detrimental to attracting businesses, according to Oliver. When a company has reduced its options to the final couple of places, the financial incentives are nearly the same. The decision is based on where the business will be the most accepted and comfortable.

“If they are a foreign firm, for example, do they feel they will be well received in the community?" Oliver explained.

"Can they rely on, whether it's the city or county government, to deliver the commitments that they've made? Things like permitting, not just the incentives. Can they count on those assurances so that they will invest in this community?”

“The key is you can't have everybody wanting to be the pitcher on the baseball team.”

Oliver

He believed that the county is a fairly easy place in which to do business. ”You've got to remember the answer to economic development is not throwing money at things,” Oliver said.

“There's more to the equation. The key to figure what your industry sectors and focuses are and go after those, because you can create some synergies.”

He does believe that the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition is an underutilized asset. He would like to see a high-tech incubator in the Technology Park on Ninth Avenue so that it could be heavily integrated with IHMC, a model that he has seen work in other communities.

“Manufacturing jobs are good, but we need to raise the quality of jobs in the community,” Oliver said. “Tourism talks about all its jobs.

Well fine, but they won't support a family. “ According to Oliver, people who invent things aren’t typically very good at commercializing.

“They like to invent something and then go on and invent something new so they need somebody who will take on to commercialization,” he said.

“The people who do the commercialization have a whole different set of talents. It's like the difference in being a city manager in town with a 100 employees who can know where everybody is at the same time and when you get up to 1,100 or 2,000 you've got to have a structure in place so you know how it works.”

He added, “IHMC is tremendous asset and we need to start building on that synergy.”

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LOSING THIRD VOTE

With Oliver’s accomplishments with the budget, refinancing the bonds and raising the professionalism of county government, it might seem that he would have no trouble completing his three-year employment contract. However, there was always a cloud over the former county administrator.

He was chosen by a 3-2 vote with Commissioners Wilson Robertson and Gene Valentino opposing his selection.

Robertson often told the Independent News, “I don’t know why a man would take the job knowing that two commissioners voted against him.”

For much of Oliver’s first two years in the job, the three-vote coalition held. Commissioners Marie Young, Kevin White and Grover Robinson appeared to like him and tended to vote together on most issues. Robertson and Valentino were in the minority.

Robinson and Robertson often butted heads. Especially when it came to hiring Forrest Gibbs at the county’s equestrian center.

White appeared to take delight in taunting Valentino. He appointed Valentino’s 2010 opponent, Karen Sindel, to the Escambia County Planning Board. Young was often the mediator on the board.

Then in August, that Young-WhiteRobinson coalition fell apart. Commissioner White stopped coming into the office and talking with Oliver. White had decided not to run for a third term and had applied for a supervisor position with county code enforcement, which he did not get. It was White who pushed for the evaluation of

Oliver’s contract before a newly elected commission took office.

“Kevin White just stopped coming in,” said Oliver. “I tried to talk to him and meet with him. He wouldn’t, but I did regularly meet with Gene Valentino and Commissioner Robertson.”

POINTS OF CONTENTION

Both Robertson and Valentino had issues with the county administrator.

In fall of 2010, the Pensacola News Journal reported that Forrest Gibbs, a friend and supporter of Commissioner Robinson, had been hired as the marketing director for Escambia County Equestrian Center and given a higher salary than advertised for the job due to pressure from Robertson. Oliver later fired Gibbs and the county commission, including Robertson, called for a state investigation into the process. The State Attorney found no wrongdoing.

Randy Oliver was the first person to report the issue to the State Attorney’s office, weeks before the newspaper article.

"Before they discussed it at the board, I felt I had a responsibility to go the authorities. Because of my being the county administrator and my background as an accountant, if there was something questionable, or I believed may be inappropriate, I had the responsibility to go to whomever,” he said.

“I had given certain information to the state attorney about it four weeks before. And the state attorney told me that there's nothing here so they didn't do anything with it. And that was before anything came up.”

He added, “I did that because I thought that was my ethical responsibility.”

Dealing with Commissioner Valentino was more problematic. In 2009, County Administrator Bob McLaughlin had run afoul with some of the commissioners and the business community. He got too involved in pushing Valentino’s economic development authority.

“I tried to explain to elected officials,” said Oliver. “They work for their constituents which is very true. Once they get elected their goal is to have three votes among the commission to get anything done.”

“To call a state agency or somebody in a state agency criminally negligent, in my opinion, has a distinct connotation which I feel very much that you've got to be able to prove.”

Oliver

However, Oliver didn’t believe it was his job to sell one commissioner’s ideas to the others.

“I just frame the issues for them,” he said. “It's not my job to sell an issue to the five of them. It's my job to provide the options, the alternatives and the best professional recommendation, then they make a decision. As long as it's a legal decision, then it's my job to implement that decision.”

The big breaking point for Valentino concerned a letter to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection that Commissioner Kevin White, who was chairman at the time, and Oliver wrote.

In his written evaluation of the county administrator, Valentino had chastised Oliver for being “unethical and insubordinate” in how he handled the DEP incident.

In late March 2011, tar balls washed up on beaches on Perdido Key. Emails were exchanged between residents, Florida Department of Environmental Protection and the county about why the BP clean up crews weren’t working during the daytime. In one email, Commissioner Valentino described the efforts of the state, BP and federal government as “criminally negligent.”

This email made its way to Mimi Drew, special advisor to the DEP secretary, and she was not amused. She wrote a letter to Oliver in which she said that her staff had been “as responsive as humanly possible to the continuing issues you are facing.”

Drew went on to describe how she had

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personally arranged a teleconference for Commissioner Valentino with the DEP lab team to help understand DEP testing and how to interpret the results.

Oliver and Commissioner responded with a letter in which they assured Drew that Valentino’s email did not reflect the position of the commission or county administration. They wrote, “While we do not condone what was said, Commissioner Valentino’s district was impacted greatly by the oil spill. Consequently, he is passionate about the issue.”

White and Oliver told Drew that the county had a good relationship with DEP. “We look forward to continued agency and staff goodwill, cooperation and support.”

“I know he had a bit of an issue with the DEP letter, but as a practical matter we wouldn't have gotten any NRDA money from the state,” Oliver told the IN. “To call a state agency or somebody in a state agency criminally negligent, in my opinion, has a distinct connotation which I feel very much that you've got to be able to prove. If you believe it's criminally negligent then you should go to the proper legal authorities and ask them to investigate it.”

He added, “If someone wanted to say they handled it poorly or they were negligent, that's different but when you say criminally negligent, to me, that's problematic.”

When asked about the two other commissioners, Marie Young and Grover

Robinson, Oliver had nothing but praise.

“Marie is a great stabilizing force on the commission and is very methodical in the way she views things,” he said. “I have the highest regard for Marie. She is probably one of the most forthright people that I've worked with in my career. I just have the upmost respect for her.”

He praised Commissioner Robinson’s personal skills. He said, “Grover has this uncanny ability to work with other people from other counties and people of other political persuasions and weave together coalitions that you sometimes think aren't possible.”

UNCERTAIN FUTURE

As far his future, Oliver said he would like to stay in the area. “I really like this community,” he said. “Of all the communities I've been in, I really like the community. For its size, the community offers a great blend of cultural opportunities and amenities that you don't see in communities that are substantially larger than this without all the hassle and aggravation as the cities get bigger.”

He is keeping his options open. “I'm candidly sizing up a couple opportunities here,” he said. “I'm toying with doing some consulting work, but the issue with that is you're on the road. I've got my hat in the ring in a couple other places. As I say, I'm going to have to think long and hard.” {in}

Touart’s Return

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or weeks, members of the Escambia County Commission casually brushed aside speculation that former county administrator George Touart would be brought back to the helm following the firing of mostrecent county administrator Randy Oliver. They continued to do so right up until they approved him as interim county administrator by a 3-2 vote.

“There’s been a lot of talk in the media and the community lately,” noted Commissioner Gene Valentino just before nominating Touart for the interim position.

“It’s hard to react to some of the scrutiny in the press when I can’t, or choose not to—I know what the media doesn’t know.”

Valentino’s motion to hand the interim position to Touart silenced the chambers. Eventually, outgoing Commissioner Kevin White seconded, though he too was interested in the position—“seriously, I brought my resume.”

Valentino indicated that Commission Chairman Wilson Robertson’s first choice—Assistant (Acting) County Administrator Larry Newsom—didn’t want the top slot, that it would be “just a little too much.” That was a surprise to Commissioner Grover Robinson.

“When I communicated with Larry,” said Robinson, “he commented he would be more than happy to take the responsibilities until we can get somebody.”

“Larry, can I ask you a few questions?” Valentino turned to Newsom.

The assistant administrator clarified that he had indicated to Robinson that he could continue in the position—“the answer was clearly yes”—but that he would serve at the pleasure of the board.

Commissioner White initially voiced concerns about naming an interim when the board was poised to seat two new members, but then warmed to the notion— “it is an interesting idea, George”—as did the chairman. Robinson and Commissioner Marie Young objected.

Before bringing back Touart—at a $130,000 salary, plus benefits—Valentino, who becomes chairman this month, stressed that he wanted to take as much time as needed to find a permanent replacement.

“Frankly, I don’t have a clue if we can get the candidate we want in six months,” he said. “But I don’t want to be rushed. I want to get it right.”

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‘A ROADTRIP THROUGH FLORIDA ARCHAEOLOGY’ 10 a.m. DARC, 207 E. Main St. 595-0050, ext. 107 or flpublicarchaeology.org/darc.php.

‘JULIA KAY’S PORTRAIT PARTY ROADSHOW’ 10 a.m. through Nov 10. Artel Gallery, 223 S. Palafox, 432-3080 or artelgallery.org.

‘THE HEART GALLERY PROJECT OF THE GULF COAST’ 10 a.m. through Nov 26. Artel Gallery, 223 S. Palafox, 432-3080 or artelgallery.org.

‘INTEGRATE. REPLICATE. GENERATE’ 10 a.m. through Dec 22. Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. 432-6247 or pensacolamuseumofart.org.

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BRAD BARNES OPEN COLLEGE JAM 7:30 p.m.

Goat Lips Beer Garden, 2811 Copter Rd. 474-1919.

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL – SALTIMBANCO 7:30 p.m.

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DON & KAREN MCNATT 1 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

MAC WALTER 5 p.m. Franco’s Italian Restaurant, 25241 Perdido Beach Blvd. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

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CLIFF COLLIER 6 p.m. Lillian’s Pan Pizza, 14514 Perdido Key Dr. 492-7664 or fbisf.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.

STEVE FLOYD 6 p.m. Peg Leg Pete’s, 1010 Fort Pickens Rd., Pensacola Beach. 932-4139 or peglegpetes.com.

OTTAR JOHANSEN, TORE ANDERSEN 6:30 p.m. Tacky Jacks Gulf Shores, Ala. 240 E 24th Ave. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

HURRICANE WARNING 7 p.m. Vinyl Music Hall, 5 East Garden St. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

MICHAEL SMOTHERMAN 7 p.m. Sunset Corkroom, 225 E 16th Ave. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

JEREMY DEAN, RICHARD TREST 7 p.m. Shipp’s Harbour Grill, 27842 Canal Rd. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

BACKROAD BOOGIE BOYS 7 p.m. Rhythm and Ribs, 2420 E 2nd St. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

SASSAFRASS 7 p.m. The Oyster Bar Restaurant and Marina, 13700 River Rd. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

CHARLIE DAY, CLYDE SMITH 7 p.m. Lillian’s Pan Pizza, 14514 Perdido Key Dr. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

ARLOS SMITH, EARL BUD LEE, RUSTY TABOR 7 p.m. The Hangout, 101 W. Beach Blvd. 4927664 or fbisf.com.

ROBERT SPANBURGH 7 p.m. Ginny Lane Bar and Grill, 4780 Wharf Pkwy. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

BRITTANY GRIMES 7 p.m. Franco’s Italian Restaurant, 25241 Perdido Beach Blvd. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

HOLLY SHELTON 7 p.m. Five Sisters Blues Café, 421 W. Belmont St. 912-4856 or fivesistersbluescafe.com.

CW COLT 7 p.m. Flipper’s Seafood and Oysters, 5749 Bay La Launch Ave. 251-981-3547.

JOHNNY BARBATO, SMOKEY JOE PEOPLES, WAYNE CARSON 7 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

‘AMBUSH!, YOUNG LUNGS, COLD HEARTED AND MORE’ 7:30 p.m. The Handlebar, 319 N. Tarragona St. 434-9060 or handlebarpensacola.com.

HITS AND GRINS 7:30 p.m. Tin Top Restaurant and Oyster Bar, 17240 Bon Secour Hwy. 4927664 or fbisf.com.

MARC-ALAN BARNETTE 7:30 p.m. Tacky Jacks Gulf Shores, Ala. 240 E 24th Ave. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

CJ WATSON, COURTNEY YOVICH 7:30 p.m.

The Oar House on Bayou Chico, 1000 South Pace Blvd. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

JIMBO SALES, WOOD NEWTON 7:30 p.m. The Jellyfish, 13700 Perdido Key Dr. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

Getting Messy in the Museum

by Jennie McKeon

McBride usually has a personal inBlame it on the economy or your adterest in the classes and workshops and diction to Pinterest, most of you are tries to attend most of them, but they’re planning to present some homemade geared for everybody, from PMA memgoodies this holiday season. bers to non-members, even for people The next two workshops at Penwho have never been to the museum. sacola Museum of Art feed that DIY “They help fit a different market,” addiction with classes in collage and McBride said. “Like cookie decorating— cookie decorating. it’s not something you think of when “In our changing economy, people you think of an art museum.” are more inclined to make something for The classes are also an incentive the holidays,” said Raven McBride, direcfor PMA members since they receive a tor of education and outreach at PMA. discount on classes and workshops.

PMA strives to offer classes and “But people can sign up for a class, workshops that are unique to the area, then join,” McBride said. “There’s no giving locals a new experience. pressure.”

“You can’t find these classes anyIf you have a great idea for a class or where,” McBride said. “We try to presworkshop, McBride is ready to hear them. ent ideas that aren’t locally obtainable.”

“We’re always open to new ideas,” The first class up is called “The she said. “Call and let us know.”

Line, The Mark, Black Gesso and You: A Preregistration is required due to Love Affair.” Presented by artist Linda limited spaces, sign up for the classes Kernick, the class teaches you to use sooner than later. {in} nontraditional tools and monoprinting to make your own collage paper to adhere to a canvas.

Once McBride decides the kind of class for PMA to present, she hunts for knowledgeable teachers.

WHEN: 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. November 12 “I find them at art shows or 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. December 8 and everywhere,” she said.

WHERE: Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. “The teacher from the collage Jefferson St. class is from Panama City. I DETAILS: Raven McBride at 432-6247 or ask around if people like the raven@pensacolamuseumofart.org idea for the class and then I find the teacher.”

The next upcoming class WHEN: 12 to 3 p.m. November 17 or 12 to 3 p.m. is Holiday Cookie DecoratDecember 15 ing. Wendy Hauman leads a WHERE: Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. three-hour, hands-on course Jefferson St. that teaches you to make and COST: Members-$30; Nonmembers-$40 color the perfect royal icing.

DETAILS: Raven McBride at 432-6247 or Hauman’s students will raven@pensacolamuseumofart.org practice decorating on her sugar cookies and, of course, take them home to enjoy.

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

AVENEDA 16 8 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 9322211 or sandshaker.com.

BEVERLY JO SCOTT 8 p.m. Rhythm and Ribs, 2420 E 2nd St. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

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

JON COOK, REILY YIELDING 8 p.m. Flipper’s Seafood and Oysters, 5749 Bay La Launch Ave. 251-981-3547.

DJ MR LAO 8 p.m. Phineas Phogg’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

JASON JUSTICE, WADE REEVES, KEITH STEGALL, JERRY SALLEY, JIM MCBRIDE, SONNY THROCKMORTON 8 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com DOUG GILL, LYNN LANGHAM 8:30 p.m. Sunset Corkroom, 225 E 16th Ave. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

JIM FEMINO 8:30 p.m. The Hangout, 101 W. Beach Blvd. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

KEVIN DENNEY 9 p.m. Rhythm and Ribs, 2420 E 2nd St. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

COLLEGE DANCE NIGHT 9 p.m. Phineas Phogg’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

MAGGIE KOERNER 9:30 p.m. Vinyl Music Hall, 5 East Garden St. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

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

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

BUZZ KIEFER, CHRIS NEWBURY, NICKEY SPRINGSTON, BILLY DEAN 9:30 p.m. Flo-

rabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

CW COLT, RED LANE, RUSTY BUDDE, DANNY GRIEGO 10:30 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com MARC-ALAN BARNETTE, CRYSTAL SHAWANDA, DEWAYNE STROBEL 11:30 p.m.

Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com

FRIDAY 11.9

‘PENSACOLA STATE ART FACULTY EXHIBITION’ 8 a.m. through Dec 14. Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts, Bldg 15, Pensacola State College, 1000 College Blvd., Bldg 15. 4842550 or pensacolastate.edu.

‘A ROADTRIP THROUGH FLORIDA ARCHAEOLOGY’ 10 a.m. DARC, 207 E. Main St. 595-0050, ext. 107 or flpublicarchaeology.org/darc.php.

‘JULIA KAY’S PORTRAIT PARTY ROADSHOW’ 10 a.m. through Nov 10. Artel Gallery, 223 S. Palafox, 432-3080 or artelgallery.org.

‘THE HEART GALLERY PROJECT OF THE GULF COAST’ 10 a.m. through Nov 26. Artel Gallery, 223 S. Palafox, 432-3080 or artelgallery.org.

‘INTEGRATE. REPLICATE. GENERATE’ 10 a.m. through Dec 22. Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. 432-6247 or pensacolamuseumofart.org.

‘BILL MAULDIN: A SELECTION OF PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS AND PRINTS FROM THE ROWE COLLECTION’ 10 a.m. through Jan 10.University of West Florida Center for Fine and Performing Arts, 11000 University Blvd, Bldg. 82.

474-3247 or uwf.edu.

‘COLLABORATING WITH NATURE’ 10 a.m. through Nov 10. Blue Morning Gallery, 21 S.

Palafox. 429-9100 or bluemorninggallery.com.

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

WINE TASTING AT DK 4:30 p.m. Distinctive Kitchens, 29 S. Palafox. 438-4688 or dk4u.com.

WINE TASTING AT SEVILLE QUARTER 5 p.m.

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

‘LIMITED DINNER AND HAPPY HOUR AT GREGORY STREET’ 5 p.m. $16-$20. Slow Roasted Prime Rib, Baked Lemon Pepper Grouper, Chicken Cordon Blue. Gregory Street Assembly Hall, 501 E. Gregory St. 607-8633.

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

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

WINE AND GLIDE SEGWAY TOUR 5:30 p.m. $45. Emerald Coast Tours, 701 S. Palafox. 4179292 or emeraldcoasttours.net.

WINE TASTING AT EAST HILL MARKET 5:30 p.m. 1216 N. Ninth Ave. Meter Rentals $5. T.T. Wentworth Museum, 330 S. Jefferson. 595-5985 ext 111.

RECEPTION FOR: ‘BILL MAULDIN: A SELECTION OF PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS AND PRINTS FROM THR ROWE COLLECTION’ 6 p.m. University of West Florida Center for Fine and Performing Arts, 11000 University Blvd, Bldg. 82. 474-3247 or uwf.edu.

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

‘BUBBLES AND BRAWLS’ 7 p.m. $25-$30. Jaco’s Bayfront Bar& Grille, 997 S. Palafox. 261-2200 or artonthebayfront.com/series/shakespearechampage.

ICE FLYERS VS. FIREANTZ 7 p.m. Pensacola Civic Center, 201 E. Gregory St. 432-0800 or pensacolaiceflyers.com.

FREE PUBLIC TALK ON MODERN BUDDHISM 7:30pm, Free. Breathe Yoga, 505 Adams St. MeditationInPensacola.org or 450-1878 ‘9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL’ 7:30 p.m. Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium, 1000 College Blvd. 484-1847 or lyceum.pensacolastate.edu.

SWING DANCING 8:30 p.m. American Legion, 1401 Intendencia St. $5. 437-5465 or pensacolaswing.com ‘STAND UP COMEDY SHOW’ 9:30 p.m. Big Easy Tavern, 710 N. Palafox. 208-5976.

live music

DON & KAREN MCNATT 1 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com TROY BRANNON 2 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com ANDI ZACK, KEN JOHNSON 5 p.m. Lulu’s at Homeport Marina, 200 E 25th Ave. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

SAM MORGAN, TONY BROOK 5 p.m. Legends Grille at Perdido Bay Golf Club, 1 Doug Ford Dr. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

JOE BLANDA, SMOKEY JOE PEOPLES 5:30 p.m. Tacky Jacks Gulf Shores, Ala. 240 E 24th Ave. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

CHRIS NEWBURY, DAVE DUNCAN 6 p.m. The Sports Bar of Perdido Key, 13700 Perdido Key Dr. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

KARLA PERRETA 6 p.m. Shipp’s Harbour Grill, 27842 Canal Rd. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

EARL BUD LEE, RUSTY TABOR 6 p.m. Rhythm and Ribs, 2420 E 2nd St. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

CHARLIE DAY, CLYDE SMITH 6 p.m. Rafters Restaurant and Sports Bar at The Wharf, 4725 Main St. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

KEVIN DENNEY 6 p.m. The Oyster Bar Restaurant and Marina, 13700 River Road. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

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Wine Festival Returns for Second Year

by Hana Frenette

Greenberg said.

“It’s definitely not just for the 40-50 age group—we want to include the 20-somethings too!”

The courtyard in Seville Quarter will also be open, so people can sit outside if they’d like, or walk through the seven or so rooms that will be taken over for the festival.

Throughout the many rooms, people will find a champagne sampling, an oyster bar, several cooking demonstrations, samples from Harris Ranch Natural Beef, and Italian Specialties by Enzo.

“Grand Reserve from Palafox Street will also be hand-rolling cigars during the festival,” Greenberg said.

There will be a lot to look at, eat, sample, and buy.

“This festival really does cater to all budgets,” Greenberg said.

Tickets are on sale early for $35 inside the Seville Wine Shop, or $40 the day of the festival, and each ticket also includes a coupon for $5 off any purchase. {in}

Wine festivals don’t have to be stuffy or pretentious.

Seville Quarter’s Second Annual Wine Fest is aiming to please and entertain, while educating festival patrons on various wines and feeding them delicious cheeses and samples of microbrews.

And of course, the holidays are just weeks away, so the festival experts can help you choose the perfect wine for a gift, or just help you select some things for yourself.

“Think of this as a ‘Stock the Bar Party,’” Scott Greenberg, PR Representative for Seville Quarter said. “Or, if you are choosing a present, the distributors will walk you through your selections.”

The festival will have over 200 hand-selected wines from all over the world. All of the wines have been chosen WHEN: 2-5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11 individually by a variety of WHERE: Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. distributors and vendors and COST: $35 prior to event, $40 the day of will be offered at discounted DETAILS: sevillequarter.com prices for the festival.

“There are plenty of wines in the $5 to $10 range,”

SEVILLE QUARTER WINE FESTIVAL

BACK ROAD BOOGIE BOYS 6 p.m. Lulu’s at Homeport Marina, 200 E 25th Ave. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

J. HAWKINS 6 p.m. Lillian’s Pan Pizza, 14514 Perdido Key Dr. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

GALE & LARRY BOOK 6 p.m. Legends Grille at Perdido Bay Golf Club, 1 Doug Ford Dr. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

RILEY YIELDING 6 p.m. The Jellyfish, 13700 Perdido Key Dr. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

AMANDA PEARCY 6 p.m. Ginny Lane Bar and Grill, 4780 Wharf Pkwy. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

OTTAR JOHANSEN, TORE ANDERSON 6 p.m.

Baumhower’s Restaurant, 4851 Wharf Pkwy.

492-7664 or fbisf.com.

TIM SPENCER 6 p.m. Peg Leg Pete’s, 1010 Fort Pickens Rd., Pensacola Beach. 932-4139 or peglegpetes.com.

JOSH CASE 6 p.m. Franco’s Italian Restaurant, 25241 Perdido Beach Blvd. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

CRYSTAL SHAWANDA, DEWAYNE STROBEL, KYLIE SACKLEY, BRUCE WALLACE 6 p.m.

Flora-Bama, 17401 Perdido Key Drive. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

SASSAFRASS, T-BONE MONTGOMERY 6:30 p.m. Tacky Jacks Gulf Shores, Ala. 240 E 24th Ave. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

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Dr. Dog

by Hana Frenette

always quickly taken over with people The Pennsylvania band Dr. Dog esrolling in from Pensacola, dancing and sentially started out when two of the singing along. Now we don’t have to original members where in 8th grade. waste the gas or the drive over to MoTheir nostalgic, easily danceable music bile. Dr. Dog is playing Vinyl on Nov. 11 is slightly reminiscent of eras gone by with guests Cotton Jones, an indie-folk and good days to come. They’ve been pop duo that’s worth the ticket price putting out albums and touring steadily alone. If you’ve missed the chance to since 2001 and the past few months see them before, now is the time. {in} have been no exception. Their new EP, “Wild Race,” was released in early October and they’ve been touring the country in support of it, releasing new videos and furiously adding WHAT: Dr. Dog with Cotton Jones more dates to their already WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11 bustling tour.

WHERE: Vinyl Music Hall Dr. Dog has played in MoCOST: $18-$20 bile several times in the past DETAILS: vinylmusichall.com few years, and the venues are

DR. DOG

JOURDAN PACE 6:30 p.m. The Oar House on Bayou Chico, 1000 South Pace Blvd. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

CJ WATSON, COURTNEY YOVICH 7 p.m. Sunset Corkroom, 225 E 16th Ave. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

CHRIS MCCUNE 7 p.m. The Sports Bar of Perdido Key, 13700 Perdido Key Dr. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

JOHN BIORD, LARRY HENLEY 7 p.m. Shipp’s Harbour Grill, 27842 Canal Rd. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

‘GO RADIO, PARADISE FEARS, STAGES AND STEREOS AND MORE’ 7 p.m. The Handlebar, 319 N. Tarragona St. 434-9060 or handlebarpensacola.com.

ARLOS SMITH, JIM FEMINO 7 p.m. Rhythm and Ribs, 2420 E 2nd St. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

TED JONES 7 p.m. Rafters Restaurant and Sports Bar at The Wharf, 4725 Main St. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

KAREN E REYNOLDS 7 p.m. The Oyster Bar Restaurant and Marina, 13700 River Road. 4927664 or fbisf.com.

WEBB DALTON 7 p.m. Lulu’s at Homeport Marina, 200 E 25th Ave. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

SCOTT KOEHN 7 p.m. Lillian’s Pan Pizza, 14514 Perdido Key Dr. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

MARK SHERRILL, MICKEY SPRINGSTON 7 p.m. Legends Grille at Perdido Bay Golf Club, 1 Doug Ford Dr. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

COWBOY JOHNSON 7 p.m. Ginny Lane Bar and Grill, 4780 Wharf Pkwy. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

SAM GLASS 7 p.m. The Hangout, 101 W. Beach Blvd. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

KAMUELA KAHOANO, RUSTY BUDDE, DANNY GRIEGO, RED LANE 7 p.m. Flora-Bama, 17401 Perdido Key Drive. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

ROBERT SPANBURGH 7 p.m. Franco’s Italian Restaurant, 25241 Perdido Beach Blvd. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

BRENT MOYER, JOE SUN 7 p.m. Baumhower’s Restaurant, 4851 Wharf Parkway. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

THE CHRISTOPHER DEAN BAND 7 p.m. Paradise Bar & Grill, 21 Via de Luna, Pensacola Beach.

916-5087 or paradisebar-grill.com.

JEREMY DEAN, RICHARD TREST 7:30 p.m.

Tacky Jacks Gulf Shores, 240 E 24th Ave. 4927664 or fbisf.com.

MAC WALTER, STEPHEN LEE VEAL 7:30 p.m.

The Oar House on Bayou Chico, 1000 South Pace Blvd. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

‘KREAYSHAWN PRESENTS GROUP HUG TOUR’ 7:30 p.m. $18-$20. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox. 607-6758 or vinylmusichall.com.

JON COOK 7:30 p.m. The Jellyfish, 13700 Perdido Key Dr. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

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

MIKE BOCCIA 7:45 p.m. Goat Lips Beer Garden, 2811 Copter Rd. 474-1919.

JERRY SALLEY, JIM MCBRIDE 8 p.m. Rhythm and Ribs, 2420 E 2nd St. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

ARTI PORTILLA 8 p.m. Rafters Restaurant and Sports Bar at The Wharf, 4725 Main St. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

WADE REEVES 8 p.m. Lulu’s at Homeport Marina, 200 E 25th Ave. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

JEFFREY HUDSON, HEINO MOELLER, SCOTT SOUTHWORTH, WIL NANANCE, STEVE WILLIAMS 8 p.m. Flora-Bama, 17401 Perdido Key

Drive. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

NICK BRANCH, RYAN BALTHROP 8 p.m.

Baumhower’s Restaurant, 4851 Wharf Pkwy.

492-7664 or fbisf.com.

CW COLT 8 p.m. Franco’s Italian Restaurant, 25241 Perdido Beach Blvd. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

HOT SAUCE 8 p.m. Five Sisters Blues Café, 421 W. Belmont St. 912-4856 or fivesistersbluescafe.com.

HOLLY SHELTON AND DAVID SHELANDER 8 p.m. Ragtyme Grille, 201 S. Jefferson St. 4299655 or ragtyme.net.

DENTON HATCHER ‘THE SOAP BOX BLUES’ 8 p.m. The Grand Marlin, 400 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 677-9153 or thegrandmarlin.com.

BRENT MOYER, JOE SUN 8:39 p.m. Sunset Corkroom, 225 E 16th Ave. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

DOUG FORSHEY, THE LEAVIN BROTHERS 8:30 p.m. The Hangout, 101 W. Beach Blvd. 4927664 or fbisf.com.

NEWBURY SYNDICATE 8:30 p.m. Flora-Bama, 17401 Perdido Key Drive. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

MARC-ALAN BARNETTE 9 p.m. Seville Quarter - Lili Marlene’s, 130 East Government St. 4927664 or fbisf.com.

JIMBO SALES, WOOD NEWTON 9 p.m.

Baumhower’s Restaurant, 4851 Wharf Parkway.

492-7664 or fbisf.com.

BUZZ CUTT 9 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 932-2211 or Sandshaker.com.

MO JILES 9 p.m. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

JOEY & RORY 9:30 p.m. Rhythm and Ribs, 2420 E 2nd St. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

PETTY CASH 9:30 p.m. Hopjacks Pizza Kitchen & Taproom, 10 S. Palafox. 497-6073 or hopjacks.com.

ANDI ZACK, KEN JOHNSON, DONNA SLATER, JOHN JOINER 9:30 p.m. Flora-Bama, 17401 Perdido Key Drive. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

REGGAE NITE 10 p.m. $5. Heritage Museum, 407 N DeVilliers St. Contact 281-1270 for more details.

MATT HOGGATT 10:30 p.m. Rhythm and Ribs, 2420 E 2nd St. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

BACKROAD BOOGIE BOYS, ROCK KILLOUGH, DARREL ROBERTS, SONNY THROCKMORTON 10:30 p.m. Flora-Bama, 17401 Perdido Key Drive. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

CRYSTAL SHAWANDA, DEWAYNE STROBEL 11 p.m. Seville Quarter - Lili Marlene’s, 130 East Government St. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

ARLOS SMITH, BUD EARL LEE, RUSTY TABOR, BEVERLY JO SCOTT, BO ROBERTS, RICK WHALEY 11:30 p.m. Flora-Bama, 17401 Perdido Key Drive. 492-7664 or fbisf.com.

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news of the weird DISGRACED BUT NOT CONTRITE Chutzpah! The former police chief of Bell, Calif., Randy Adams, had resigned in disgrace after prosecutors charged eight other city officials with looting the municipal budget. Adams had been recruited by the alleged miscreants (at a sweetheart salary twice what he made as police chief of much larger Glendale), and his resignation left him with a generous state pension of $240,000 a year. Rather than quietly accept the payout, Adams immediately appealed to a state pension panel, claiming that his one inexplicably rich year in Bell had actually upped his pension to $510,000 a year.

In September, with a straight face, Adams pleaded his case to the panel, but 20 times during the questioning invoked his right not to incriminate himself.

THE CONTINUING CRISIS Doctors Just Want to Have Fun: (1) Navy medical examiner Dr. Mark Shelly was notified of disciplinary action in July after admitting that he let his children handle a brain (and pose for photos with it) that he was transporting for autopsy to Portsmouth, Va. (2) A 15-year-old Swedish student, working at Malmo University Hospital on a “practical work-life” internship, was allowed by a doctor to make part of the incision for a cesarean section childbirth and to examine the patient vaginally. One alarmed cesarean patient alerted news media after reading about the orientation program in May and wondering if she had been a “hands-on” patient.

• IRS agents, investigating tax-fraud suspect Rashia Wilson, 26, turned up “thousands” of identification numbers in a September home search in Tampa. Wilson had already laid down a challenge in May, when she wrote on Facebook: “I’m Rashia, the queen of IRS tax fraud. (I’m) a millionaire for the record. So if you think that indicting me will be easy, it won’t. I promise you. I won’t do no time, dumb (expletive unpublished).” The search also turned up a handgun, and since Wilson is a convicted felon (with 40 arrests), she was jailed, and denied bail in part because of the Facebook post.

• Many visitors to San Francisco’s historic Castro neighborhood are shocked at the city’s culture of street nudism (virtually all by males). Only if the display is “lewd and lascivious” (with the purpose to arouse) is it illegal, but a September report in SF Weekly suggests that the nudity must be total—that calling any attention at all to the genitals may suggest lewdness, such as by rings worn around the scrotum.

BRIGHT IDEAS Way Too Many Apps: (1) The Swiss company Blacksocks offers an iPhone app that utilizes radio frequency identification chips inserted into socks so they can be automatically sorted. (2) The iPoo app, reported Wired magazine in November, “(l) ets you chat with your fellow defecators from the comfort of your own toilet.” (3) “In development” now, according to Harvard freshman Olenka Polak, is a “Code Red” app that

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creates an exchange network so that women and girls who find themselves unexpectedly spotting can locate an emergency source for a tampon or pad.

LATEST RELIGIOUS MESSAGES The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that an insane person cannot be executed, no matter how heinous the crime, because he cannot understand why he was being killed. Notwithstanding that, Florida Judge David Glant has ordered John Ferguson, 64, to death for a 1978 multiple-murder conviction, despite evaluations from 30 doctors that Ferguson is an insane paranoid schizophrenic. (At press time, the U.S. Court of Appeals is considering Ferguson’s lawyers’ last-second challenge.)

Judge Glant acknowledges that Ferguson is delusional, but found that he nevertheless understands why he is being executed.

Ferguson’s belief in a Jesus-like resurrection upon death, with a glorious afterlife, is not, Glant said, “so significantly different from beliefs (that) other Christians may hold so as to consider it a sign of insanity.”

• Spare the Rod: Former Arkansas state legislator Charlie Fuqua is running again after a 14-year absence from elective office. In the interim, reported the Arkansas Times in October, he wrote a book, “God’s Law: The Only Political Solution,” reminding Christians that they could put their super-rebellious children to death as long as proper procedure (set out in Deuteronomy 21:18-21) was followed. “Even though this (capital punishment) would rarely be used,” Fuqua wrote, “if it were the law of the land ... it would be a tremendous incentive for children to give proper respect to their parents.”

• Evangelicals’ Nightmare Come to Life: A city official in nominally Catholic Tupa, Brazil, granted, for the first time, official “civil union” status to a man and two women, who thus enjoy all the legal benefits of marriage (as per a recent Brazilian Supreme Court decision). A CNN reporter, translating Portuguese documents, said the union was called “polyfidelitous.”

FAMILY VALUES “Why You Little ...!” (1) A teenager, apparently fed up with his parents’ commandeering of their home’s basement for an elaborate marijuana-growing operation, turned the couple in in August.

The Doylestown Township, Pa., couple (a chiropractor mom and software engineer dad) had sophisticated hardware and 18 plants. (2) Police in Athens, Ga., searching for Homer Parham, 51, at his house in September, came up empty, and his wife said he wasn’t there.

But as officers were leaving, the couple’s young daughter said, “Mommy locked Daddy in the closet.” Parham was found hiding in a high-up crawl space. {in} From Universal Press Syndicate Chuck Shepherd’s News Of The Weird © 2012 Chuck Shepherd

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BET TER PENSACOL A Pensacola Habitat for Humanity Annual Dinner Honors Volunteer of the Year, Board Members Pensacola Habitat for Humanity held its Annual Dinner on Monday, Oct. 29. More than 275 supporters, Habitat homeowners and community members gathered for the event held at the Betty and James Salter Center, Habitat’s main office and warehouse named for longtime volunteers who retired from full-time volunteer service in 2011.

The evening began with an open house and continued with a catered dinner and program. The program included interviews with several Pensacola Habitat homeowners conducted by board member Shirley Henderson and a ‘unique’ musical performance by Pensacola Habitat’s Global Village volunteer build team. The 19 member team returned home just over a week ago after traveling to Nepal for Everest Build II, held from Oct. 7-13. The volunteer team from Pensacola Habitat joined with 500 volunteers from around the world to build 37 homes in Nepal.

A particular highlight was the awarding of a scholarship to PSC, named to honor the Salters, to a young man from Pensacola Boys’ Base, a juvenile corrections program which has a longstanding relationship with the construction program of Pensacola Habitat. Their work with Habitat provides the young men in the program job skills training as well as mentoring through their relationships with Habitat’s staff and volunteers.

The evening’s activities culminated with the presentation of the Volunteer of the Year Award, presented to Charlotte Crane. Crane is a longtime supporter of and advocate for Habitat. Recently she has volunteered her time and journalistic skills researching and writing a book detailing the 30-year history of Pensacola Habitat for Humanity. “The story of Pensacola Habitat for Humanity, which today is one of the most successful Habitat organizations in the country, is an incredible true story about thousands of dedicated and creative volunteers who in 31 years have built more than 1,000 homes in our community,’’ said Charlotte Crane. “I was thrilled to be asked to record what made history happen.”

Crane is the Northwest Florida correspondent for Florida Trend magazine, and had formerly worked 26 years at the Pensacola News Journal as a reporter and business editor.

Gerald Adcox, chairman of the Pensacola Habitat Board of Directors, then closed the event by recognizing the following board members who will complete their respective terms of service to Pensacola Habitat’s governing board at the end of this year: ·Betty Salter served on Habitat’s Board of Directors for more than 25 years. Salter is well-known locally for her decades of work with Habitat, and has received national recognition for her service to Habitat; ·Carolyn Appleyard served as Board Chairman from 2006-2011 seeing the organization through one of its largest periods of growth and achievement; ·Sharon Kerrigan served eight years on Habitat’s Board of Directors holding various committee positions including roles in family support and faith relations; ·Joanne Perry’s service included eight years on the Board as well as full-time volunteer work as one of the few female construction crew leaders in the organization’s history.

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When I have time to sit down and relax, Jackson’s has the most amazing Prime Rib. The Grits A Ya Ya and the Bulgarian Roll at the Fish House are two of my favorite things, with the Rack of Lamb at O’Brien’s a close runner-up. The steaks and the hamburgers at McGuire’s are always fabulous. I try to only go to locally-owned restaurants as I believe in supporting “Eat Local!”

my week is Saturday and Sunday mornings at the beach. I love to grab my breakfast and a good book and head out to the beach by 6 or 630 a.m. and I am home by 10 a.m. I tell people it is my therapy for the week. The Blue Wahoos have given me a new reason to be outside after work enjoying the beautiful evenings at the ballpark even though I am not a huge baseball fan. You don’t have to love baseball to love going to the stadium. You will find me wandering around at almost every outdoor Pensacola event, from the Interstate Fair to the Arts Festival. I convinced myself that it counts as exercise.

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I love the Boutique at Steinmart because their salespeople are the best at helping me coordinate outfits and accessories—combinations that I would never be creative enough to do myself. I have always been a Chico’s fan but thanks to An Hayward I am now a total groupie. I almost believe that when I wear Chico’s clothes I look like An. I love to find bargains at TJ Maxx, Ross, and I can’t wait till Marshall’s opens. For dress up occasions I always go to Renee’s because I feel like a princess when I wear her dresses.

Watering Holes:

The Fish House Deck Bar is the perfect spot for a glass of wine after work and McGuire’s makes the best Cosmo Martini in Pensacola. I have spent a great deal of time researching this so I can speak with authority. The Oar House, Shaggy’s, and the Bridge Bar are my favorites for a sunset cocktail with out of town guests.

Global Grill on Gallery Night is the best place to see everyone you know.

Night Life:

I am a go anywhere, do anything type of person. When I am out at night it is usually at an event, a festival or a restaurant downtown. I love our downtown and it keeps getting better and better.

Outdoors:

I am a beach girl at heart! The best part of

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What a wonderful city to live in to enjoy the arts. I support the Saenger Broadway series, the Pensacola Opera, the Symphony, the Ballet, and I am working on learning to appreciate art more and more. I go to most of the concerts that come through Pensacola so that I can stay on top of what is going on in the music world…it helps me in my day job.

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Never Miss Events/Festivals:

I am a festival and event junkie. I feel so blessed to live in a community where there is always something wonderful to do or go to. My favorite event is the Cat Country 98.7 Free Summer Salute Concert—an event that I am proud to have our radio station support every June aboard NAS Pensacola. There is nothing better than Tuesday Evenings at Bands on the Beach. I am at every Fiesta event to celebrate Pensacola’s history. I have been at every 4th of July Sertoma fireworks since moving to Pensacola and you’ll find me at the upcoming Interstate Fair all 11 days.

The Pelican Drop is a blast on New Year’s and I haven’t missed a Christmas Parade, Mardi Gras Parade or a Blue Angels performance yet. You can always count me in for Beulah Fest, DeLuna Fest, and Bonfire Jam. The event that I brag about the most to my out of town friends and family is Gallery Night. It is so much fun to walk up and down Palafox and visit with people.

Downtown is just alive and I love it! {in}

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