Plans Made For Reimagine Flomaton Event; Volunteer Meeting Tonight
October 15, 2015
For two years, Reimagine Century has seen the faithful reach out and touch the lives and hearts of area residents in need, as the Reimagine program has done in numerous other communities. And now, plans are underway for a Reimagine Flomaton event.
The first volunteer meeting for Reimagine Flomaton will be held at 6:30 tonight at the Flomaton Fire Department. The Reimagine Flomaton even is currently set for Saturday, February 20, 2016.
At last May’s Reimagine Century event, there were a wide variety of activities, including a 15,000 pound food giveaway, health screenings, AIDS testing, diabetes information, live music, fishing lessons from Mission Fishin’, free manicures, information from community agencies, a clothing giveaway, free lunch, and more.
Pictured: Last May’s Reimagine Century event. A similar event is now being planned for Flomaton.
Cool Night, Possibly Some Fog
October 15, 2015
Here is your official North Escambia area forecast:
Tonight: Patchy fog after 1am. Otherwise, clear, with a low around 52. Southeast wind around 5 mph becoming calm.
Friday: Sunny, with a high near 89. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 54. West wind around 5 mph becoming north after midnight.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 76. North wind 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 47. North wind around 5 mph.
Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 74. Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 47. East wind around 5 mph.
Monday: Sunny, with a high near 74. East wind 5 to 10 mph.
Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 50. East wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 76.
Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 55.
Wednesday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 79.
Wednesday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 63.
Thursday: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 77.
Clear And Cool Tonight
October 14, 2015
Here is your official North Escambia area forecast:
Tonight: Clear, with a low around 52. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 85. Calm wind becoming northeast around 5 mph.
Thursday Night: Clear, with a low around 54. Southeast wind around 5 mph becoming calm.
Friday: Sunny, with a high near 87. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 55. Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming north after midnight.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 77. North wind 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 48. North wind around 5 mph.
Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 75. Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 48. East wind around 5 mph.
Monday: Sunny, with a high near 75.
Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 49.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 75.
Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 57.
Wednesday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 78.
Want To Become Involved In The Cantonment Community?
October 14, 2015
The Cantonment Improvement Committee will hold a membership drive meeting at 5:00 today.
Those in attendance can enjoy refreshments and win door prizes and they come out to get information on the group, renew a membership or join the group’s community improvement team.
The group will meet at the Carver Park Resource Center in Carver Park on Webb Street.
Pictured: The ribbon was cut on the Carver Park Resource Center in May. NorthEscambia.com file photo, click to enlarge.
Fields of Faith: Student Led Community Worship Tonight At Northview
October 14, 2015
The Northview High School Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) is sponsoring a student led worship event, “Fields of Faith” tonight at Tommy Weaver Memorial Stadium in Bratt.
Northview students, area churches, youth groups and community members will come together to worship, hear student testimonies and enjoy a brief message from a guest speaker.
The public is invited to attend the event at 6:30 Wednesday. In the event of rain, the event will be moved indoors.
Pictured: Last year’s Fields of Faith event at Northview High School was moved into the school gym. NorthEscambia.com file photos, click to enlarge.
Flags At Half Staff Today In Escambia County For Fallen Airman
October 14, 2015
Flags in Escambia County will be at half-staff today in honor of Air Force Senior Airman Nathan C. Satain of Pensacola. Sartain, 29, lost his life in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel when his C-130 aircraft crashed in Afghanistan on October 2, 2015. He was assigned to the 66th Security Forces Squadron of Massachusetts.
Funeral services for Sartain, a graduate of Pensacola High School, were held today at the Naval Aviation Memorial Chapel with burial at Barrancas National Cemetery with full military honors.
While deployed to Afghanistan, the 66th performed fly-away security team, better known as FAST, missions, meaning they flew on aircraft and were protecting the aircraft itself, the aircrew, passengers, and cargo, as these aircraft flew from one location to another.
Today: Supreme Court To Hear Death Penalty Case From 1998 Nine Mile Popeye’s Murder
October 13, 2015
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Today, U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled hear arguments in a challenge to the way Florida sentences people to death — a challenge backed by three former Florida Supreme Court justices and the American Bar Association.
The case, which stems from the 1998 murder of a Nine Mile Road Escambia County fast-food worker, focuses on the role that juries play in recommending death sentences, which ultimately are imposed by judges.
Hurst, now 36, was convicted in the 1998 murder of Cynthia Lee Harrison, who was an assistant manager at a Popeye’s Fried Chicken restaurant where Hurst worked. Harrison’s body was discovered bound in a freezer, and money was missing from a safe, according to a brief in the case.
Attorneys representing Death Row inmate Timothy Lee Hurst, including former U.S. Solicitor General Seth Waxman, contend that Florida’s unique sentencing system is unconstitutional. Supporting that position in friend-of-the-court briefs are former Florida Supreme Court justices Harry Lee Anstead, Rosemary Barkett and Gerald Kogan, along with the American Bar Association and seven former Florida circuit judges.
Part of the argument centers on what are known as “aggravating” circumstances that must be found before defendants can be sentenced to death. Hurst’s attorneys argue, in part, that a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court ruling requires that determination of such aggravating circumstances be “entrusted” to juries, not to judges.
Also, they take issue with Florida not requiring unanimous jury recommendations in death-penalty cases. A judge sentenced Hurst to death after receiving a 7-5 jury recommendation.
“Florida juries play only an advisory role,” Hurst’s attorneys wrote in a May brief. “The jury recommends a sentence of life or death based on its assessment of aggravating and mitigating circumstances, but that recommendation has no binding effect. Moreover, the jury renders its advisory verdict under procedures that degrade the integrity of the jury’s function. Unanimity, and the deliberation often needed to achieve it, is not necessary; only a bare majority vote is required to recommend a death sentence.”
But in an earlier brief, attorneys for the state argued that the U.S. Supreme Court and the Florida Supreme Court have repeatedly denied challenges to the sentencing process, including the Florida Supreme Court rejecting Hurst’s challenge. The state attorneys argued that a jury, in recommending the death penalty, has found facts that support at least one aggravating factor — which can be the basis for sentencing a defendant to death.
“Therefore, because the jury returned a recommendation of death, this court may infer the jury did find at least one aggravating circumstance beyond a reasonable doubt,” state attorneys wrote in a January brief in the U.S. Supreme Court.
In sentencing Hurst to death, a judge found two aggravating circumstances — that the murder was committed during a robbery and that it was “especially heinous, atrocious or cruel,” according to the brief filed by Hurst’s attorneys. That brief, along with others in the case, were posted on an American Bar Association website and on SCOTUSblog, which closely tracks U.S. Supreme Court proceedings.
Much of the hearing could focus on how to apply the 2002 U.S. Supreme Court decision — a major case known as Ring v. Arizona — to the Florida law. Hurst’s attorneys contend that the 2002 decision held that “findings of fact necessary to authorize a death sentence may not be entrusted to the judge.” They said Florida’s system undermines the juries’ constitutional “functions as responsible fact-finder and voice of the community’s moral judgment.”
The brief filed on behalf of Anstead, Barkett and Kogan raised similar arguments and said there is “no assurance that Florida death sentences are premised on a particular aggravating circumstance found by the jury.”
“And because jury unanimity is not mandated during the sentencing process, there is no assurance that a Florida jury’s death recommendation represents a reliable consensus of the community,” the brief said. “As a consequence, (the former justices) believe that the jury’s role is impermissibly denigrated and that there is an unacceptable risk that Florida death sentences are erroneously imposed, in violation of the Sixth and the Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States.”
by Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida
Clear, 49 Tonight
October 13, 2015
Here is your official North Escambia area forecast:
Tonight: Clear, with a low around 49. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 84. Calm wind becoming north around 5 mph in the morning.
Wednesday Night: Clear, with a low around 50. Calm wind.
Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 85. Calm wind becoming east around 5 mph in the morning.
Thursday Night: Clear, with a low around 53. Calm wind.
Friday: Sunny, with a high near 85. Calm wind becoming southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 56. Calm wind becoming northeast around 5 mph.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 76. North wind 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 51. North wind around 5 mph.
Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 73.
Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 50.
Monday: Sunny, with a high near 73.
Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 54.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 77.
Escambia Students Get The Day Out Of School
October 12, 2015
Student s in the Escambia County (FL) School District have the day off — today is a non-student, teacher plan day in the district.
Students will return to school at their regular time on Tuesday.
The day out of school will be Wednesday, November 11 for Veterans Day. Students will also be out of school November 25-27 for Fall/Thanksgiving break.
Mostly Clear, 61 Tonight
October 12, 2015
Here is your official North Escambia area forecast:
Tonight: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1am. Mostly clear, with a low around 60. Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Tuesday: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 83. West wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 52. Calm wind.
Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 82. Calm wind becoming north around 5 mph in the morning.
Wednesday Night: Clear, with a low around 50. Calm wind.
Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 82. Light northeast wind becoming east 5 to 10 mph in the morning.
Thursday Night: Clear, with a low around 53. Calm wind becoming east around 5 mph.
Friday: Sunny, with a high near 82. Northeast wind around 5 mph.
Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 56. East wind around 5 mph becoming calm.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 79.
Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 54.
Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 75.
Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 52.
Monday: Sunny, with a high near 75.