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Freeze Warning For Tonight

Here is your official North Escambia area forecast:

THERE IS A FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT.

Tonight: Patchy frost after 1am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with a low around 30. North wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.

Thursday: Patchy frost before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 60. Calm wind.

Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 40. Calm wind.

Friday: Sunny, with a high near 71. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph in the morning.

Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 51. South wind around 5 mph.

Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 75. Southwest wind around 5 mph.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 50. Northwest wind around 5 mph.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 72. North wind around 5 mph.

Sunday Night: Clear, with a low around 47. North wind around 5 mph becoming calm.

Monday: Sunny, with a high near 74.

Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 54.

Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 79.

Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 55.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 79.

Track: Northview Outruns Blacksher (With Gallery)

Northview defeated JU Blacksher in a track meet Tuesday at Bratt.

For a photo gallery, click here.

Relays

Girls- 1^st 4×800, 4×400, & 4X100- Northview

Boys-1^st 4×800, 4×400, & 4X100- Northview

100 Meters-

Girls- 1^st -Nene Findley – Northview

2^nd- Crystal Douglas – Northview

3^rd- Audriene Odom – Northview

Boys-1^st –Joseph Wright – Northview

2^nd- Brandon Spencer – Northview

3^rd- Keaton Solmonson – Northview

100 Hurdles -

Girls- 1^st -Nene Findley – Northview

2^nd- Crystal Douglas – Northview

3^rd- Audriene Odom – Northview

110 High Hurdles -

Boys-1^st –Joseph Wright – Northview

2^nd- Brandon Spencer – Northview

3^rd- Keaton Solmonson – Northview

200 Meters-

Girls- 1^st -Nene Findley – Northview

2^nd- Crystal Douglas – Northview

3^rd- Myisha Syria – Northview

Boys-1^st –Brandon Spencer – Northview

2^nd- Wooten – Blacksher

3^rd- Keaton Solmonson – Northview

300 Hurdles

Girls- 1^st –Shelby Bashore – Northview

2^nd- Galsby –Blacksher

3^rd- Allison Rice – Northview

Boys-1^st –Daniel Merritt – Northview

2^nd- Tyreese Smith – Northview

3^rd- Jay – Blacksher

400 Meters-

Girls- 1^st –Myisha Syria – Northview

2^nd- Allison Rice – Northview

3^rd- Burgess – Blacksher

Boys-1^st –Daniel Merritt – Northview

2^nd- Kendrell Redmon – Northview

3^rd- Ossie Crusau – Northview

800 Meters-

Girls- 1^st –Mallory Gibson – Northview

2^nd- Shelby Bashore – Northview

3^rd- Lilley – Blacksher

Boys-1^st –Brandon Korinchak – Northview

2^nd- Kendrell Redmon – Northview

3^rd- Copeland – Blacksher

1600 Meters-

Girls- 1^st – Burgess – Blacksher

2^nd- Victoria Grammar – Northview

3^rd- Daysha Kite – Northview

Boys-1^st –Brandon Korinchak– Northview

2^nd- Oscar Rodriguez – Northview

3^rd- Cole – Blacksher

3200 Meters-

Girls- 1^st – Burgess – Blacksher

2^nd- Marissa Rothrock – Northview

3^rd- Catie Clayton – Northview

Boys-1^st –Josiah Stillwill– Northview

2^nd- Cole – Blacksher

3^rd- Jacob Hawkins- Northview

Triple Jump-

Girls- 1^st – Galsby – Blacksher

2^nd- Kirsten White – Northview

Boys-1^st –Kendrell Redmon– Northview

2^nd- Jarius Moorer – Northview

Long Jump-

Girls- 1^st – Mallory Gibson – NeNe

2^nd- NeNe Findley – Northview

3^rd – Victoria Grammar-Northview

Boys-1^st –Wooten – Blacksher

2^nd- Keaton Solmonson – Northview

3^rd –Rayvon Bush –Northview

Discus-

Girls- 1^st – Daysha Kite – Northview

2^nd- Catie Clayton – Northview

3^rd – Shelby Bashore -Northview

Boys-1^st –Tolbert– Blacksher

2^nd- Dustin Bethea – Northview

3^rd –Jacob Hawkins -Northview

Shot put-

Girls- 1^st – Catie Clayton – Northview

2^nd- Phillips – Blacksher

3^rd – Daysha Kite -Northview

Boys-1^st –Dillian Clary– Northview

2^nd- Dustin Bethea – Northview

3^rd – Tolbert -Blacksher

NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.

Aggie Classic: Complete Day Two Results, Schedule

Tuesday was day two of the 24th annual Aggie Classic. Scores and Wednesday’s schedule are below.

TUESDAY’S GAMES

• Houston, TN 6, Mustang, OK 4
• Leon, FL 7, Durant, OK 3
• Second Baptist, TX 9, Coweta, OK 3
• Union, OK 24, Presbyterian Christian, MS 7
• Niceville 11, Booker T Washington, OK 1
• Magnolia Heights, MS 8, Southmoore, OK 6
• Edmond North, OK 8, Milton, 5
• Knoxville Catholic, TN 3, Ft. Gibson, OK 1
• Gulf Breeze, 6, Piedmont, OK 0
• Tate 16, Coweta, OK 2
• Berryhill, OK 3, West Florida 0
• Choctaw, OK 13, Washington 2
• Jenks, OK 3, Pace 2
• Bartlett, TN 6, Pryor, OK 5

WEDNESDAY’S SCHEDULE

• At Escambia High – Presbyterian Christian vs. Southmoore, 4 p.m.; Jenks vs. Niceville, 7 p.m.
• At Gulf Breeze High- Gulf Breeze vs. Coweta, 3 p.m.; Berryhill vs. Gulf Breeze 7 p.m.
• At  Milton High- Magnolia Heights vs. Mustang, 4 p.m.; Coweta vs. Milton, 7 p.m.
• At Pace  High- Pace vs. Berryhill, 1 p.m.; Piedmont vs. Houston, 4 p.m.; Union vs. Pace, 7 p.m.
• At Tate High- Durant vs. Tate, 10 a.m.; Barltett vs. Choctaw, 1 p.m.; Knoxville Catholic vs. Pryor, 4 p.m.; Knoxville Catholic vs. Tate, 7 p.m.
• At Washington High- Second Baptist vs. Gibson, 4 p.m.; Washington vs. Durant, 7 p.m.
• At West Florida High- Leon vs. Edmond North, 4 p.m.; Washington, Okla. vs. West Florida, 7 p.m.

Timmy Danny White

Mr. Timmy Danny White, 52, passed away Monday, March 13, 2017, in Bay Minette, Alabama.

Mr. White was a native and lifelong resident of Bay Minette, Alabama. He was a member of the Full Power Holiness Church. He is preceded in death by his mother, Shirley White and his first wife, Jacquelin Michelle Boatwright White.

He is survived by his father, Malcolm V. White of Bay Minette, AL; wife, Janella White of Bay Minette, AL; two sons, T.J. (Jessica) White of Bay Minette, AL and A.J. (Emily) Gardner of Bay Minette, AL; four daughters, Becky (Shawn) Cooper of Bay Minette, AL, Samantha (Jason) Daniels of Bay Minette, AL, Tiffany (Jacob) Clabough of Paxton, FL and Sierra White of Bay Minette, AL; three brothers, Jimmy (Casey) White of Bay Minette, AL, Eugene (Jane) White of Perdido, AL and Mack (Sherry) White of Bay Minette, AL; two sisters, Jan Mosley of Bay Minette, AL and Winona (Donnie) McDonald of Bay Minette, AL; eighteen grandchildren and five great grandchildren.

Funeral services will be Friday, March 17, 2017, at 10 a.m. at the Full Power Holiness Church with the Rev. Joe Welch and Rev. J.P. Lambert officiating.

Burial will follow at the Pine Grove Cemetery.

Visitation will be Thursday, March 16, 2017, from 6:30 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. at the Full Power Holiness Church.

Pallbearers will be Gary McDonald, Danny White, Brent White, Michael White, B.J. Blackmon and Mickey Moore.

Honorary pallbearers will be J.P. Shivers, Donald Brown and Jackson Porter.

Petty-Eastside Chapel Funeral Homes is in charge of all arrangements.

Melbus Irene Rayborn Roberts

Mrs. Melbus Irene Rayborn Roberts, 81, passed away on Monday, March 13, 2017, in Mobile, Alabama.

Mrs. Roberts was a native of Bay Minette , AL and a resident of Atmore, AL for most of her life. She retired from Vanity Fair with 20 years of service. She is preceded in death by her husband, Erby Lee Roberts; a son, Brent E. Roberts; daughter, Marilyn F. Parker; two sisters; two brothers; and son-in-law, Lawrence Capers.

She is survived by one son, Darrell (Karen) Roberts of Ozark, MO; two daughters, Lettie Marie Capers of Gonzales, LA and Deborah (Michael) Doucet of Prairieville, LA; one brother, Jimmy Rayborn of Thomasville, AL; one sister, Bobbie Pearson of Poarch, AL; 10 grandchildren; and numerous great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be Thursday, March 16, 2017, at 2 p.m. at the Petty-Eastside Chapel Funeral Home with Rev. Joe Welch and Sis. Helen Stewart officiating.

Burial will follow at the Guy’s Chapel Cemetery.

Visitation will be Thursday, March 16, 2017, from 1 p.m. until service time at the Petty-Eastside Chapel Funeral Home.

Pallbearers will be Aaron Roberts, Gregory Capers, Bradley Capers, Erby Parker, Nick Roberts and Dempsey Rolin.

Honorary pallbearers will be Ronald Rolin and Bernard Ledlow.

Petty-Eastside Chapel Funeral Homes is in charge of all arrangements.

Bomb Squad Deals With Explosive Device Found At Hwy 29 Motel

The bomb squad was called to a Highway 29 motel Tueday night after a possible homemade explosive device was found.

The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office called for the assistance of the Bay County Bomb Squad after the device was found at the Key West Inn at 6900 Pensacola Boulevard.

The Sheriff’s Office said the bomb squad deemed the device to be a possible destructive device and a decision was made to use equipment to render the device as safe.

Hotel employees reportedly found the device with wires in a room and moved it to a courtyard before deputies arrived. The Key West Inn was evacuated as a precaution.

Photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.

Arrest Made In Klondike Road Murder

An arrest has been made in a recent murder on Klondike Road.

Dino Ray Reaves, 35, was  charged with the homicide for the death of Tadius Edward Watson. Watson, 29, was shot and killed March 7. Watson was found dead from gunshot wounds in the 8000 block of Klondike Road, south of Wilde Lake Boulevard near the Klondike Kennels. His body was discovered along the edge of the roadway.

During the investigation ECSO deputies discovered the shooting was drug related. Reaves is a documented local gang member who has been arrested multiple times in different states and arrested 21-times  in the state of Florida, according to investigators.

The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office said there are no more arrests expected to be made in this case.

NorthEscambia.com photos by Kristi Barbour, click to enlarge.

Happy National Pi Day! Math Club Celebrating With Moon Pie Sale

The math-inspired Pi Day was observed Tuesday,  3/14.

In case it’s been a few years since your last geometry lesson…remember Pi ( π ) is the number than begins with 3.14 and represents the mathematical constant of the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.

At Northview High School, members of the Math Club celebrated Pi Day by selling Double-Decker Moon Pies, both banana and chocolate flavors, as a fun fundraiser.

Pictured: Members of the Northview Math Club selling Moon Pies for Pi Day Tuesday morning were: (front, L-R) Lexi Broadhead and Charleigh Parham; (back) Cassidy Boutwell, Ashlan Harigel, Cloe Smith, Teriana Redmond, Abi Mascaro, Savannah Spence and Addison Albritton. NorthEscambia.com photo, click to enlarge.

New Log Jam Once Again Blocking The Escambia River

In 2015, a log jam blocking the Escambia River south of Century was removed, but now a new log jam appears to have formed, once again blocking the river.

The new log jam is about a half mile downriver from the previous log jam, or about a half mile feet upriver from the entrance to Cotton Lake.

Under a contract with Escambia County, Southern Forest Recyclers removed the old log jam in 2015 at a cost of $68,498. The company reportedly had a multi-million dollar contact to sell the reclaimed wood.

Pictured above and below: Photos for NorthEscambia.com show a new jog jam blocking the Escambia River north of Cotton Lake. Pictured bottom: A map of the log jam location. NorthEscambia.com images, click to enlarge.

Viewpoint: What’s A Fair Share Of $1.5 Billion?

submitted by Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward

On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded, caught fire, and eventually sank, resulting in the largest offshore marine oil spill in U.S. history.  Six years later BP reached a settlement agreement that resolved claims worth more than $20 billion, with Florida receiving a total of $2 billion for economic damages alone.

As we approach the seventh anniversary of the spill Pensacola is finally seeing some projects that were funded from early damage claims start to take shape, but the lion’s share of the settlement has yet to be distributed.   The City has submitted applications for additional funding from the different BP settlement funds, but in every case, instead of being able to control a certain percentage of the money from City Hall, we have to join the parade of supplicants in Tallahassee or at the county office building.

We have an opportunity to do things differently with the $2 billion economic damages settlement commonly known as Triumph Gulf Coast.  What’s at stake is potentially more money in one year than the entire amount Escambia County will receive over fifteen years from RESTORE Act Direct Component funds (aka Pot 1).

There is $300 million in Triumph money in the bank today that belongs to what are known as the eight disproportionately affected panhandle counties (Escambia to Wakulla coastal counties). Politicians in Tallahassee are debating how that money should be distributed and how projects should be approved by the state.  So far they have made no effort to decide how much money each county should get, instead they have focused on who should control it, and as you can imagine, the focus of the discussion has been on everything but local control.

For all the talk about the importance of local decision-making by the people and firms adversely impacted the disaster, it seems some politicians are bent on building a monolithic state structure to oversee spending. One has to ask, whose interests are they serving? And, how would they respond to action by the federal government to limit state level decision-making? Not favorably, to say the least.

The current process for distributing BP settlement funds is slow, inflexible and fraught with uncertainty.  In fact, the only thing certain is that meetings will be held, consultants will be paid and we will wait a few more years to see who gets the money and what it can be used for.

There’s a better way to handle this, and it starts with a distribution formula that would guarantee some share of the revenue to the counties and the cities.  In 2013 the eight panhandle counties jointly agreed to a formula for allocating RESTORE Pot 1 funds.  Based on that formula, Escambia County is guaranteed 25.334% of Florida’s RESTORE Pot 1 allocation, or about $69 million.  I am asking our representatives in Tallahassee to apply the same distribution formula to Triumph.  Doing so would guarantee Escambia County more than $75 million of the money that is already in the bank and more than $375 million of the $1.5 billion total.

More importantly, I am asking that a guaranteed portion of the counties’ revenue be distributed to the cities.  The simplest way to do that would be to give the cities a percentage of the revenue based on their percentage of the counties’ population.  In Pensacola’s case that would mean about 17% of Escambia County’s share, or $12.75 million and $63.75 million respectively.

It goes without saying that the formula could be adjusted, and some amount could be set aside for regional projects.  What is important is that cities get a seat at the table. Without guaranteed local control over some percentage of revenue, cities will be left waiting for scraps to fall from the table and real progress will come at a snail’s pace.

Vernon Stewart, spokesman for Mayor Ashton Hayward, told NorthEscambia.com Monday that Hayward also supports the Town of Century receiving a share of the funding based upon their population.

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