Drop-Off Locations Available for Residential Vegetative Hurricane Debris
October 12, 2020
Escambia County residents that wish to dispose of Hurricane Sally debris can do so at several locations across the county, and there are options for construction and demolition debris.
In addition to curbside removal of debris for residents, drop off sites in Escambia County are accepting trees, branches and other vegetative debris.
Drop off locations are available from 8 a.m. until 7 p.m. seven days a week until further notice for vegetative debris only:
- Escambia County Equestrian Center at 7750 Mobile Highway
- John R. Jones Athletic Complex at 555 East Nine Mile Road
- Oak Grove Convenience Center at 745 North Highway 99
- Baars Field at 13020 Sorrento Road
- Lexington Terrace at 900 S Old Corry Field Road
- Park East at 1233-1235 at Fort Pickens Road
These are free sites for Escambia County residents with identification or proof of residency. These locations are only for private residential use only; no commercial debris will be accepted.
If residents would like to drop off construction and demolition debris, they can do so at the following locations:
- Perdido Landfill (Monday through Saturday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.)
- Oak Grove Convenience Center (Fridays and Saturdays 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.)
Pictured: The Oak Grove Convenience Center. (Note that the fees listed on the sign do not apply to Hurricane Sally vegativative debris). NorthEscambia.com photo.
Ransom Middle School Names Students Of The Month
October 12, 2020
Ransom Middle School has named Students of the Month for October. They are Alyssa Stefanko (pictured left) and Daniel Tourney. Photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
Week Begins Warm, But Turning Cooler By Friday
October 12, 2020
Here is your official North Escambia area forecast:
Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 87. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph in the morning.
Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 65. Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming northwest after midnight.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 84. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday Night: Clear, with a low around 54. North wind around 5 mph.
Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 80. North wind around 5 mph.
Wednesday Night: Clear, with a low around 58. Calm wind.
Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 84. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 58. Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming northwest after midnight.
Friday: Sunny, with a high near 73.
Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 49.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 73.
Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 51.
IMPACT 100 Awards Nearly $1.2 Million To 11 Community Groups
October 12, 2020
IMPACT 100 Pensacola Bay Area, a women’s philanthropic organization, awarded nearly $1.2 million to 11 grant recipients announced on Sunday.
The nonprofit finalists will each receive a grant of $106,000 from IMPACT 100 Pensacola Bay Area. They are:
ARTS & CULTURE
- Pensacola Little Theatre, Inc. - Project: A Stage for all Stages: Restoring the Little Theatre’s Big Rigging
- Pensacola Opera, Inc. - Project: IMPACT Opera: In Perfect Harmony
EDUCATION
- Every Child a Reader in Escambia, Inc. dba ECARE - Project: Get Our Children and Families Ready for Kindergarten
- Gulf Coast Kid’s House, Inc. - Project: Protecting Our Children During a Time of Uncertainty
ENVIRONMENT, RECREATION & PRESERVATION
- Keep Santa Rosa Beautiful, Inc. dba Panhandle Butterfly House & Nature Center -Project: Panhandle Butterfly House and Nature Center
- Veterans Memorial Park Foundation of Pensacola, Inc. - Project: Accommodating Veterans Memorial Park Events
FAMILY
- AMR at Pensacola, Inc. - Project: The Phoenix Project – Tiny Home Communities
- Feeding the Gulf Coast, Inc. - Project: Feeding the Florida Panhandle
- FoodRaising Friends, Inc. Project: FoodRaising Friends Foundational Food for Families
HEALTH & WELLNESS
- Ecomfort, Inc. - Project: Food as a Tool: Impacting lives in the Community Mentally, Physically and Spiritually
- Pensacola United Methodist Community Ministries, Inc. dba Bright Bridge Ministries - Project: Updated Kitchen, Uplifted Lives
“This year has been like none other, in terms of community need from the impact of COVID-19 and Hurricane Sally,” said Brigette Brooks, president of IMPACT 100 Pensacola Bay Area. “Thanks to support from our all-volunteer board including our technology team, the majority of our grant review processes this year were handled virtually to ensure our members stayed healthy and safe, and to ensure social distancing, while still serving our community that we love.”
With 1,166 members this year, IMPACT 100 was able to award $106,000 each to1 1 nonprofit organizations in our community for a total impact of $1,166,000. In the 17 years since its inception, IMPACT 100 Pensacola Bay Area has awarded 120 grants to 84 nonprofits totaling $12,830,000.
Courtesy photo for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
Gulf Power, EREC Crews Helping To Restore Power In Louisiana
October 12, 2020
Crews from Gulf Power and Escambia River Electric Cooperative are assisting with power restoration in Louisiana after Hurricane Delta.
Gulf Power
Nearly 40 Gulf Power lineworkers and support personnel will join its sister company, Florida Power & Light Company, which is supporting the same restoration effort with more than 450 lineworkers and support personnel.
“Helping other energy companies and communities in their time of need is part of what makes our industry so special,” said Marlene Santos, president of Gulf Power. “Just a few weeks ago, about 6,000 men and women heeded the call to help us restore power following Hurricane Sally. We know from very recent experience how important that support is, and we are honored to be able to return the favor to others that are recovering from Hurricane Delta.”
In addition to restoring power to our own customers following Sally, Gulf Power crews have traveled to assist other utilities three different times this storm season. Before Sally hit, the team assisted Entergy in Louisiana following Hurricane Laura. Gulf Power crews also traveled south in support of FPL when Hurricane Isaias brushed the eastern coastline of Florida, and then sent a team to New Jersey when that same hurricane hit the Northeast.
Escambia River Electric Cooperative
EREC sent line crews to assist fellow cooperative DEMCO in Greenwell Springs, Louisiana.
DEMCO is one of the largest electric cooperatives in Louisiana, serving 110,000 members in seven southeast parishes of the state. Delta’s path through DEMCO’s service area left numerous broken poles, downed power lines and thousands without power.
“Our cooperative knows how devastating hurricanes can be on a power system and the communities it serves,” said EREC CEO Ryan Campbell. “We are committed to answering the call when our co-op family is in need. Our linemen are always ready and willing to go the extra mile to help communities get back on their feet after these destructive storms.”
EREC will assist DEMCO with power restoration to their members following Hurricane Delta’s damaging winds and rain. Many of these cooperative areas in Louisiana are still recovering from Category 4 Hurricane Laura’s devastation just over six weeks ago.
NorthEscambia.com photo.
Fall Tradition: Pumpkins Have Arrived At Cantonment Pumpkin Patch
October 12, 2020
It’s a sure sign of fall in Cantonment.
The pumpkins have arrived at the Allen Memorial United Methodist Church Pumpkin Patch. The Molino Volunteer Fire Department, along with junior fighters, and volunteers from the Northview High School NJROTC help unload the pumpkin truck on Sunday.
Pumpkins of all shapes and sizes are available under the big tent on Highway 29 near Neal Road from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. Monday-Saturday and 12-6 on Sundays.
The Allen Memorial United Methodist Men have sponsored the Pumpkin Patch since 1995.
Submitted photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
Florida Gas Prices Down A Little This Week
October 12, 2020
Florida gas prices were down three cents last week, even as Hurricane Delta made landfall along the Gulf Coast refinery region.
Florida drivers are currently paying an average price of $2.16 per gallon at the pump. The state average declined 3 cents after reaching as high as $2.19 per gallon eight days ago. Florida gas prices are 27 cents per gallon less than this time last year.
In Escambia County, the average price per gallon was $2.13 Sunday night. In North Escambia, a low of $2.04 could be found on Muscogee Road, while the discount clubs in Pensacola were at $1.91.
“It’s still a little early to know what, if any impacts Hurricane Delta will have on gas prices in Florida,” Mark Jenkins, spokesman for AAA – The Auto Club Group, said Sunday night. “For now, wholesale gasoline prices are at a level that could allow pump prices to drop another 5 cents in the short term. However, prices in the coming weeks will likely be swayed by news coming out of the Gulf Coast, as crews assess any storm damage to refineries and pipelines.”
Preliminary reports suggest the storm had more of a limiting effect on regional demand than supply. Most of the refineries in the storm’s path were already shut down from Hurricane Laura – which blew through the region more than a month ago. However, the storm knocked out power to Colonial Pipeline, which carries fuel from the Gulf Coast oil refineries to markets across the southeastern United States, ending in North Carolina. Line one, which carries gasoline was restored on Saturday. However, Line 2 – which carries Diesel fuel remained shut down as of Sunday night.
Five Additional Deaths, 94 New COVID-19 Cases Reported Over The Weekend
October 12, 2020
THIS IS AN ARCHIVE STORY. SEE NORTHESCAMBIA.COM FOR THE LATEST.
Five new deaths and 94 additional COVID-19 cases were reported in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties for Saturday and Sunday by the Florida Department of Health.
The Florida Department of Health did not issue a daily COVID-19 update on Saturday – the first time in nearly seven months – after a big problem with a private lab.
“Last night, the Department of Health received approximately 400,000 previously-reported COVID-19 test results from Helix Laboratory – a private lab that is not affiliated with the state of Florida,” FDOH said in a press release on Saturday. “The massive size of the data file and the need to de-duplicate hundreds of thousands of results prevented the Department of Health’s automatic reporting system from processing yesterday’s results as it normally does.”
Here is the latest data that includes Saturday and Sunday:
Escambia County cases:
Total cases: 12,660 (+49)
Non-Florida residents: 1,196
Total deaths: 260 (+5)
Long-term care facility deaths : 122 (+3)
Current hospitalizations: 44 (-6)
Number of tests last day: 1,518
Percent positive last day: 1.2%
Percent positive last week: 2.5%
Escambia County cases by location:
Pensacola: 9,236 (+20)
Cantonment: 948 (+5)
Century: 934
—-including 773 Century prison inmates
Molino: 150 (+1)
McDavid: 74
Walnut Hill: 18
Bellview: 16
Gonzalez: 7
Perdido Key: 8 (+1)
Santa Rosa County cases:
Total cases: 5,559 (+45)
Non-Florida residents: 54
Total deaths: 82
Long-term care facility deaths: 18
Cumulative Hospitalizations: 333*
Number of tests last day: 432
Percent positive last day: 4.4%
Santa County cases by location:
Milton: 2,885 (+22)
Gulf Breeze: 794
Navarre: 698 (+5)
Pace: 468 (+7)
Jay: 156
Bagdad: 12
Florida cases:
Total cases: 734,491
Florida residents: 725,415
Deaths: 15,364
Hospitalizations: 45,924*
*“Hospitalizations” in the statewide and Santa Rosa County totals is a count of all laboratory confirmed cases in which an inpatient hospitalization occurred at any time during the course of illness. Most of these people are longer be hospitalized. The FDOH does not provide a count of patients currently hospitalized. The Escambia County number is current data compiled each day from the local hospitals.
*The Florida Department of Health does not have a clear standard or definition of “recovered” and does not report a number of recovered individuals.
**Data Sources: Florida Department of Health, Escambia County, City of Pensacola, local hospitals.
Amos E. Hill
October 12, 2020
Amos E. “Bud” Hill, 70, passed away unexpectedly on October 6, 2020. He was an avid outdoorsman and lived to fish and hunt. Bud served honorably in the US Army and was a Vietnam Veteran. He was retired from US Civil Service.
Bud is preceded in death by his father, J.C. Hill; mother, Frances Marcena Avery and his sister, Mary Frances Parker and her husband Lewis.
He is survived by his brothers, Mark Avery (Penny) and Matthew Avery (Kathy) and numerous nephews/nieces and great nephews/nieces.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, October 15, 2020, at Faith Chapel Funeral Home North beginning at 11 a.m. with Pastor Bill Flanagan officiating.
The family will receive friends from 10 a.m. until 11 a.m. prior to services.
Faith Chapel Funeral Home North is entrusted with arrangements.
Barney Willard Cash
October 12, 2020
Mr. Barney Willard Cash, age 88, passed away on Tuesday, October 6, 2020, at his home in Century, Florida.
Mr. Cash was a native of Valley, AL, former resident of Brewton, AL and had resided in Century, FL for the past 52 years. He was a devoted husband, loving father, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather. He was owner-operator of Century Motors, enjoyed farming and was a member of the Tabernacle Baptist Church. He is preceded in death by his son, Jimmy Wayne Cash; parents, Willard and Cora Cash; three brothers and three sisters.
He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Irene Odom Cash of Century, FL; one son, Barney (Lisa) Cash, Jr. of Century, FL; one daughter, Kay Cash (Kenny) Hammac of Century, FL; one daughter-in-law, Karen Cash of Flomaton, AL; four brothers, George (Ann) Cash of Bay Minette, AL, Odell (Linda) Cash of Huntsville, AL, Gene (Aggie) Cash of Franklin, TN and Milford Cash of Pensacola, FL; four sisters, Joyce (Al) Erskin of Texas, Shirley (Wayne) Owens of Brewton, AL, Becky Cash of Pensacola, FL and Linda Batte of Brewton, AL; four grandchildren, Beth Ward, Ryan Cash, Kenny Hammac, Jr. and Kristal Hammac; six great-grandchildren, Tyler, Brooklyn, Gavin, Paislee, Emma and Kyler; one great-great-grandson, Linkin and numerous nieces, nephews, other relatives and many friends.
Funeral services were held Saturday, October 10, 2020, at the Petty-Eastside Chapel Funeral Home with Rev. Glenn Johnson and Rev. Doug Odom officiating.
Burial was at the McCurdy Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Ryan Cash, Bill Hammond, Don Cox, Greg Odom, Kevin Odom and William Odom.