Spaghetti Supper For Relay For Life
April 12, 2009
A spaghetti supper to benefit Relay for Life is planned for Saturday night at the Walnut Hill Fire Department. A $6 donation to Relay for Life provides a meal that includes spaghetti with sauce, bread, tea and dessert. The supper will take place from 5 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 18 at the Walnut Hill Fire Department at 7760 Highway 97. Advance tickets are available now at Shirley’s Country Collections and the Walnut Hill Farm Supply.
Flomaton Easter Sunrise Service
April 10, 2009
The Flomaton Ministerial Association will hold a Community Easter Sunrise Service at 6:30 a.m. at the Little Escambia Baptist Church. Speaker will be Rev. Glen McCall of the First United Methodist Church in Flomaton. Worship will be led by Br. Buddy Goodman of the Little Escambia Baptist Church. Breakfast will follow. More info (251) 296-2777.
Molino Sunrise Service
April 10, 2009
Molino Community Sunrise Service, Easter morning, 6:30 a.m. at Aldersgate United Methodist Church, Highway 29 just south of Highway 97. Everyone invited. Service on the front lawn, weather permitting. Service will be in the sanctuary if cold or raining.
Century’s 108th Birthday Bash
April 9, 2009
Flomaton Easter Egg Hunt
April 8, 2009
The First Baptist Church of Flomaton will hold their annual Easter Egg Hunt at Flomaton Hurricane Park on Saturday, April 11 from 9 until 10:30 a.m. for children ages 2 through 10. Bring a lawn chair or blanket, an Easter basket and three plastic eggs. Other activities include a sack race and an egg-in-the-spoon race. Call the church at 296-2453 for more information.
Huge Indoor Yard Sale
April 8, 2009
The Student Ministry at the First Baptist Church of Cantonment will hold a huge indoor yard sale on Friday, April 10 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. and again on Saturday, April 11 from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Proceeds will be used for student camp.
Molino Easter Egg Hunt
April 8, 2009
Aldersgate United Methodist Church will host a Children’s Easter Egg Hunt on Good Friday, April 10th at 10 a.m. at the church on Highway 29 just south of Highway 97 in Molino. We welcome all children for a great time finding eggs, refreshments, playing games and hearing the Easter Story. There will also be a contest for the best decorated Easter Egg, (different age groups), so all are invited to bring a decorated egg to enter. For more information call 587-2489.
Vision Church Service
April 3, 2009
Vision Church Palm Sunday service
10:30 AM
Flomaton High School Auditorium
Youth & children will present a human video; special music; nursery and Kids Church provided; free t-shirt for visitors; free ice cream for kids after service; casual dress; call 296-1435 for more information! Everyone Welcome!
Walnut Hill Baptist Spring Fling; Egg Drop & Egg Hunt
April 2, 2009
Walnut Hill Baptist Church will be hosting our annual Spring Fling on Sunday, April 5 from 2pm – until. We will have an Easter egg hunt for toddlers – 5th grade. Students in the 3rd grade – twelfth grade can participate in an Egg Drop if they choose (guidelines for the Egg Drop are below). There will be relay races, food and a church wide softball game. Bring lawn chairs, blankets, ball gloves and Easter baskets for the little ones. The event will be held at the Ruritan Club on Hwy. 97. (Please, no sandals, flip-flops or barefeet in the races or ball game…tennis shoes only.)
Guidelines for the Egg Drop:
The goal of this challenge is to have a raw chicken egg fall approximately 8 feet or higher onto a hard surface and survive the impact uncracked. You must design a container that will protect your egg!
Guidelines for designing containers:
1) The design can not involve liquids, helium, or any other lighter-than-air gasses.
2) The design can not involve glass in any way! (or any other shattering type of material….ceramics, baked clay, etc.)
3) The egg “container” can not exceed one foot in length or width (winged designs need to fall within this dimension).
4) You must be able to place the egg in the container just prior to the drop. (If you need to tape your container closed after placing the egg inside, make sure you supply the tape or material needed to close your container before and after each drop made…we may have to increase the height and drop more than once.)
5) Use of parachutes is allowed, but the chute must deploy itself after the container is dropped. (Dropping with an open parachute will almost certainly result in successful landing. Using other methods within the guidelines will make for a more interesting challenge.)
Eggs will be provided at the time of the drop!
Complete text of Sheriff David Morgan’s letter to Escambia Commissioners:
March 24, 2009
20 March 09
Honorable Chairperson Marie Young
Escambia County Board of County Commissioners
217 North Palafox Street
Pensacola, FL 32501
Dear Chairperson Young,
I am writing you and fellow Commissioners to advise of a change in the staffing policy at the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office. Although I have been in office less than three months, a disturbing pattern has shown itself to be the normal operating procedure for the current Escambia County Administrator, Mr. Bob McLaughlin. Therefore, effective this date, all issues requiring the coordination of my office with the county government will be sent directly to you with informational copies to each commissioner.
The following is offered to substantiate this position;
-The ECSO proposed acquisition of the property located at Fairfield and Mobile Hwy. This project is a direct result of requests from citizens due to the rising crime in Warrington and Brownsville. My staff, Chief Deputy Bill Chavers and Captain Gary Montee, worked directly with the Escambia County Facilities Manager, Mr. Dave Wheeler. This package was staffed prior to its submission before the BOCC. The asking price of this structure is $350K, with an estimate interior restructure of $100K, utilizing prisoner labor as we are and have done in the past. As you may recall, this was not the fact set portrayed to you and the BOCC which was subsequently reported in the local media. It was reported as not having been coordinated, not being a “master plan,” and costing $700K. This is a complete misrepresentation.
-The ECSO (Sheriff) is not going to reduce their budget. Prior to the meeting on 03/13/09 at the County Extension Service on Stefani Road, my staff (I, Commander Aiken, and Mr. Dias) met with Mr. McLaughlin in his office. The subject of the ECSO budget was one of the topics. I advised Mr. McLaughlin that the ECSO had already identified $1.7M in reductions and we were pursuing several other areas, but at that time we did not feel comfortable with giving specific data (numbers) that had yet to be verified. However, we were comfortable in saying that it was currently down in the $76-77M range. As you may recall, Mr. McLaughlin began the meeting with “the Sheriff is not reducing his budget.” (?) As I articulated during the meeting, we are looking at every aspect of our operations and will be presenting a detailed line-item budget to the BOCC. This is another complete misrepresentation.
-The “Leadership Workshop” of 03/13/09. This meeting, as you are aware was not as portrayed (advertised). In point of fact, it was a Budget meeting. Neither I nor any representative of the Sheriff’s Office would have been in attendance had the meeting not been referenced in a separate conversation.
Why? We were not invited nor advised of the actual agenda for the meeting. Can you imagine our surprise to learn that “the Sheriff’s Office budget is one of the agenda items?” What could possibly be the motive of dissecting a constitutional officer’s budget without the courtesy of advising them? So yet again I observe a complete misrepresentation.
This is an unacceptable management style. One of which I will not tolerate nor participate.
Therefore, to ensure that the misrepresentations cease, I will communicate directly with the other duly elected officials in the Escambia County Government, working of course, within the applicable legal parameters.
Respectfully,
David Morgan
Sheriff, Escambia County