Sunny And Warmer Tuesday
January 19, 2015
Here is your official North Escambia area forecast:
- Monday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 41. South wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
- Tuesday Mostly sunny, with a high near 70. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
- Tuesday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 45. Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming northwest after midnight.
- Wednesday Mostly sunny, with a high near 63. North wind 5 to 10 mph.
- Wednesday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 38. North wind around 5 mph.
- Thursday A 20 percent chance of rain. Partly sunny, with a high near 53. Northeast wind around 5 mph.
- Thursday Night Rain likely. Cloudy, with a low around 39. North wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
- Friday A 30 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 52.
- Friday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 33.
- Saturday Mostly sunny, with a high near 55.
- Saturday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 37.
- Sunday Mostly sunny, with a high near 58.
MLK Day Programs, Parades Planned
January 19, 2015
Parades and special events will honor the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. across the area on Monday.
CENTURY
A motorcade will begin at 8 a.m. at the old Carver Middle School and travel throughout town. It will end with a program at the Century Community Center on West Highway 4 at about 10 a.m.
PENSACOLA
The Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade is scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday in downtown. The parade will begin at Spring and Garden Streets, travel east and turn north on Palafox, then from Palafox to Wright Street, loop around the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Plaza and turn south on Palafox to Main Street. Among the groups in the parade will be he Escambia County School District All-County Band. Grand Marshal for the parade is Mamie Webb Hixon.
CANTONMENT
The Martin Luther King Jr. Parade in Cantonment starts at about 3:30 p.m. at the corner of Washington and Carver off Muscogee Road behind the paper mill. Line up for participants is at 3:00 at the corner of Washington and Carver. Parade will travel Washington, Robinson and Booker before returning to Carver.
MILTON
The Martin Luther King Jr. parade from Milton High School south on Stewart Street to Elva Street beginning at 10 a.m. A program will follow at the Mount Pilgrim African Baptist Church. Afterwards, a MLK Block Party will be held with entertainment, food and games.
FLOMATON
The annual Martin Luther King Jr. walk will begin begin at Highway 31 and Martin Luther King Drive. Lineup will be at 8:30 a.m. and the walk will begin at 9 a.m. A special program will follow at Damascus Baptist Church with guest speaker Minister Thomas Phiefer.
ATMORE
The Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade will begin at 10 a.m. at the Houston Avery Park on Martin Luther King Avenue, travel to Ashely Street, turn south on Main Street and travel to Escambia County High School. A program will follow at the high school with guest speaker Rev. Phillip Brown of Birmingham. Entertainment and a health fair will follow the program.
Pictured top: Last year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Atmore. NorthEscambia.com file photo, click to enlarge.
Sunny Skies Continue
January 18, 2015
Here is your official North Escambia area forecast:
- Sunday Night Clear, with a low around 33. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm.
- M.L.King Day Sunny, with a high near 66. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph in the morning.
- Monday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 42. Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
- Tuesday Mostly sunny, with a high near 66. Calm wind.
- Tuesday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 45. Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming northwest after midnight.
- Wednesday Mostly sunny, with a high near 62. North wind around 5 mph.
- Wednesday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 39. North wind around 5 mph.
- Thursday A 20 percent chance of rain. Partly sunny, with a high near 54.
- Thursday Night A 40 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 38.
- Friday A 30 percent chance of rain. Partly sunny, with a high near 53.
- Friday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 36.
- Saturday Mostly sunny, with a high near 52.
Saturday Family Movie Today At the Molino Branch Library
January 17, 2015
The Molino Branch Library will present a Saturday Family Movie Matinee this afternoon.
At 1:30 p.m., the library will show Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Rated G, 140 mins.). In the movie: “When young Charlie, Carrie and Paul move to a small village during World War II, they discover their host, Miss Price, is an apprentice witch. Although her early attempts at magic create hilarious results, she successfully casts a traveling spell on an ordinary bedknob, and they fly to the fantastic, animated Isle of Naboombu to find a powerful spell that will save England.”
The Molino Branch Library is located in the Molino Community Center at 6450-A Highway 95A.
Sunny Holiday Weekend
January 17, 2015
Here is your official North Escambia area forecast:
- Saturday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 42. Southeast wind around 5 mph becoming west after midnight.
- Sunday Sunny, with a high near 64. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
- Sunday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 32. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
- M.L.King Day Sunny, with a high near 66. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
- Monday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 43. South wind around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight.
- Tuesday Partly sunny, with a high near 65. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph.
- Tuesday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 48. Calm wind.
- Wednesday Mostly sunny, with a high near 65.
- Wednesday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 45.
- Thursday A 30 percent chance of rain. Partly sunny, with a high near 59.
- Thursday Night A 50 percent chance of rain. Cloudy, with a low around 44.
- Friday A 30 percent chance of rain. Partly sunny, with a high near 53.
Kids Program: Apples And Aliens At The Library
January 15, 2015
A special program “Apple Aliens” will be presented this afternoon at the Century Branch Library at 5:00.
Making something to eat can be fun and creative. Children will have the chance to use their imagination to make their very own “Apple Alien”.
The program is free. The Century Branch Library is located at 7991 North Century Boulevard. For more information, call (850) 256-6217.
Showers Likely Today
January 15, 2015
Here is your official North Escambia area forecast:
- Thursday Showers likely. Cloudy, with a high near 51. North wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
- Thursday Night A 20 percent chance of rain before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 33. North wind around 5 mph.
- Friday Sunny, with a high near 56. North wind around 5 mph.
- Friday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 31. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming northeast after midnight.
- Saturday Mostly sunny, with a high near 61. South wind around 5 mph.
- Saturday Night A 20 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 45. South wind around 5 mph becoming southwest after midnight.
- Sunday Partly sunny, with a high near 62. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
- Sunday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 37. Northwest wind around 5 mph.
- M.L.King Day Sunny, with a high near 60.
- Monday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 40.
- Tuesday Mostly sunny, with a high near 64.
- Tuesday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 46.
- Wednesday Partly sunny, with a high near 65.
Escambia Man Set To Be Executed Thursday For 1993 Murder
January 14, 2015
An Escambia County man is set to be executed Thursday for first-degree murder and sexual battery during a home-invasion robbery in 1993 in Escambia County.
Johnny Shane Kormondy, 42, to set to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Thursday. The execution will be the 21st since Gov. Rick Scott took office in January 2011, equaling the number overseen by former Gov. Jeb Bush, which is the most for any Florida governor since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
Kormondy was found guilty in 1994 in the death of Gary McAdams, a local banker who was shot in the back of the head during a home-invasion robber in the Thousand Oaks subdivision off Chemstrand Road. McAdams and his wife, who was repeatedly raped during the attack, had returned home from a Woodham High School school reunion when confronted at the front door by Kormondy and his two accomplices.
Kormondy was the leader of the attack, recruiting the accomplices, providing transportation and casing the McAdams’ neighborhood. Kormondy’s accomplices, Curtis Buffkin and James Hazen, received life sentences. Law enforcement was able to close the case when a person to whom Kormondy confessed went to police seeking a $50,000 reward for information. Kormondy also threatened to kill witnesses who testified at his trial, including Mrs. McAdams, if he were ever released.
The robbers reportedly left the house with $20.
The News Service of Florida contributed to this report.
Pictured below: The death warrant for Johnny Shane Kormondy signed in November by Gov. Rick Scott.
Slight Rain Chance Tonight, Foggy Too
January 12, 2015
Here is your official North Escambia area forecast:
- Tonight A 20 percent chance of showers. Patchy fog. Otherwise, cloudy, with a low around 49. North wind around 5 mph.
- Tuesday A 20 percent chance of showers. Areas of fog before 9am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a steady temperature around 53. North wind 5 to 10 mph.
- Tuesday Night Mostly cloudy, with a low around 39. North wind around 5 mph.
- Wednesday Mostly cloudy, with a high near 57. North wind around 5 mph.
- Wednesday Night A 40 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 41. North wind around 5 mph.
- Thursday A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly before noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 56. North wind around 5 mph.
- Thursday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 33. North wind around 5 mph.
- Friday Sunny, with a high near 56. North wind around 5 mph.
- Friday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 36. North wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
- Saturday Sunny, with a high near 61.
- Saturday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 43.
- Sunday Partly sunny, with a high near 64.
- Sunday Night Mostly cloudy, with a low around 47.
- M.L.King Day A 20 percent chance of rain. Partly sunny, with a high near 65.
World Renowned Educator, Author To Present Workshop At Ernest Ward
January 12, 2015
The Escambia County School District is sponsoring three identical parental involvement workshops Tuesday and Wednesday with a world-renowned educational consultant, including a Tuesday evening event at Ernest Ward Middle School.
The workshops, “Preparing Children for Success in School and Life,” will be led Marcia L. Tate, the former executive director of Professional Development for the DeKalb County School System in Georgia. During her 30-year career with the district, she was a classroom teacher, reading specialist, language arts coordinator, and a staff development executive director.
As an educational consultant, she has taught more than 350,000 administrators, teachers, parents, and business and community leaders throughout the world, and she is the author of five bestsellers. Participants in her workshops refer to them as “some of the best ones they have ever experienced” since Tate uses the 20 brain-compatible strategies outlined in her books to actively engage her audiences.
The workshops will be held:
- Tuesday, January 13 — 5:30 p.m to 7:30 p.m., Ernest Ward Middle School Gym, 7650 North Highway 97, Walnut Hill.
- Wednesday, January 14 — 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., Woodland Heights Community Center, 111 Berkley Drive, Pensacola.
- Wednesday, January 14 — Noon to 2 p.m., West Florida Main Public Library, 239 North Spring Street, Pensacola.
The public is invited and parents are encouraged to attend any of the three sessions. For more information, call The School District of Escambia County Title I Office at (850) 595-6915, ext. 235.