Impact 100 Awards 12 Grants Totaling Over $1.2 Million
October 14, 2024
Impact 100 Pensacola Bay Area on Sunday announced 12 grants totaling over $1.2 million to area nonprofit organizations.
The grant recipients of $100,670 each were:
ARTS, CULTURE & HISTORY
Parent Booster USA, Inc., dba Navarre Band Parent Association, Inc.
Bands are Instrumental
West Florida Historic Preservation, Inc., dba UWF Historic Trust
Pensacola Children’s Museum: Our Town: A Space for All
EDUCATION
Capstone Adaptive Learning and Therapy Centers, Inc.
Destination Independence
Pyramid, Inc.
Driving Innovative Opportunities for People with Disabilities
ENVIRONMENT & RECREATION
Dixon School of Arts and Sciences, Inc.
IMPACT 100 Natural Wonders Park at Dixon School of Arts and Sciences
Friends of Pensacola State Parks, Inc.
Inclusive Playground in Big Lagoon Park
FAMILY
My Father’s Arrows, Inc.
Rolling On to a Bigger Vision
Northwest Florida Guardian ad Litem Foundation, Inc.
Cases for Kids
Society of St. Vincent de Paul Council of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Inc.
From Paris to Pensacola “Let us go to the Poor”
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Escambia County Healthy Start Coalition, Inc.
Healthy Start Mobile Stork Stock
Ministry Village at Olive, Inc.
Tender Hearts Caring Hands Building
Vision of Hope, Inc.
Journeying to Independence
With 1,208 members this year, Impact 100 was able to award 12 grants of over $100,000 each to nonprofit organizations in the community for a total impact of over $1.2 million. Since its inception, Impact 100 has awarded 165 grants totaling more than $17 million to worthy nonprofits serving area communities.
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Tickets On Sale Now For SEC Soccer Tournament At Ashton Brosnaham Park
October 14, 2024
Twelve nationally ranked Southeastern Conference soccer teams will be competing for the SEC Championship title from Sunday, Nov. 3, through Sunday, Nov. 10, at Ashton Brosnaham Soccer Complex off East 10 Mile Road.
Tickets are now one sale at pensacolasports.org. All-tournament passes are $45. Individual session tickets for the first round, quarterfinals and semifinals are $12 for adults and $7 for students/military. Tickets for the championship game on Sunday, Nov. 10, are $17 for adults and $12 for students/military. Taxes and service fees are included in the listed ticket prices. Kids 12 and under wearing a soccer jersey get in free with a paying adult on Sunday, Nov. 3 and on Tuesday, Nov. 5. A clear bag policy is in effect for this event. Admission is free for children 5 and under at all games.
This is the third year that Pensacola will host the tournament. Pensacola first hosted the tournament in 2022 and set SEC records for attendance.
“I’m so excited to host all of our friends from the SEC again this fall at the beautiful Ashton Brosnaham facility. I ask all sports fans in Escambia County to come to at least one game while the SEC tournament is here and see the elite play from these extremely talented student athletes,” Escambia County District 5 Commissioner Steven Barry said recently.
“The Pensacola community has embraced and welcomed our staff, the teams and the players over the last two years,” said SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey. “The SEC Soccer Tournament is an outstanding experience for SEC soccer fans from across the region and will provide our student-athletes with lasting memories.”
On championship game day, Nov. 10, there will be a free Fan Fest from 11:30 a.m. until the start of championship game. There will be music, food trucks and interactive activities for all ages to enjoy.
Over the last seven years, the SEC has earned 52 NCAA Tournament bids – an average of more than seven per year – with all 14 member institutions making at least two appearances during that span. Eight different SEC teams have advanced to the Round of 16 since 2013 and the league has placed teams in the NCAA quarterfinals in nine of the last 10 seasons.
Pictured: The first record-setting SEC Women’s Soccer Tournament at Ashton Brosnaham Soccer Complex in October 2022. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
Former Car Wash on Nine Mile Road Eyed For Drive-Thru Coffee Shop
October 14, 2024
A former car wash on Nine Mile Road could become a coffee shop soon.
A proposal set for an Escambia County Development Review pre-application meeting this week shows the nearly 30-year old building at 500 East Nine Mile Road being converted into a drive-thru coffee shop.
The plans (pictured left click to enlarge) were filed by Blue CPM, a commercial real estate firm. The name of the coffee shop has not been announced.
The building, which was constructed in 1997, was previously used as a car wash. The proposal shows using the existing structure and drive-thru section already in place inside the building. There will be no additional or expansions to the existing structure, according to the proposal, but there will be interior modifications. There will be no outside seating, and 12 parking spaces are in the proposal. Two small non-attached structures on the half-acre property will be removed.
The existing owner, Phoenix Fairfield LLC, bought the building in November 2023 for $395,000, following the closure of the car wash in mid-2023.
Estimated traffic of the drive-thru is around 40 vehicles per hour at its busiest.
The Escambia County Development Review Committee has not yet set a public hearing on the proposal.
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Tate Cheerleaders Hold Lil Aggies Fall Clinic
October 14, 2024
The Tate High School Cheerleaders held their annual Lil Aggies Fall Clinic over the weekend.
The Lil Aggies were able to show off their new skills during a parent’s showcase.
They will cheer during the home football game this Friday night, October 18.
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Northview High School Names Students Of The Month
October 14, 2024
Northview High School recently named their Students of the Month for October. They are Mileigh Clifford and Charles Waters, pictured with Principal Michael Sherrill. Photo for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge. Photo for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
AAA: Prices Hold Steady As Florida’s Gasoline Supply Chain Recovers From Hurricane Milton
October 14, 2024
Florida gas prices are holding steady as the fuel supply chain recovers from the effects of Hurricane Milton, according to AAA. Sunday’s state average was $3.10 per gallon. That’s the same as last week, 5 cents less than last month and 27 cents less than last year.
Surging demand and power outages contributed to temporary gasoline outages across Central Florida and along evacuation routes. However, state officials say conditions are improving. Florida’s ports and all but two gasoline terminals are back open for tanker trucks to fill up and make round-the-clock deliveries.
As of Sunday night, state officials told AAA that 20% of gas stations in Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas counties did not have gasoline. Meanwhile, there are others who id have fuel, but did not have electricity to power the pumps. State reps expected 85% of Florida filling stations to have gasoline by Monday night and supplies to be back to normal by Wednesday morning.
In Escambia County, there were no gas supply problems, and the average price per gallon was $2.90, which was 20 cents cheaper than the state average.
In North Escambia, prices were as low at $2.77 at one station on Highway 29 in Cantonment, while a Pensacola low of $2.69 was available on Nine Mile Road.
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Walnut Hill Heritage Festival Celebrates The Community’s History (With Photo Gallery)
October 13, 2024
Under beautiful blue skies with an 1880’s log schoolhouse as a backdrop, the Walnut Hill Heritage Festival on Saturday celebrated the community’s history Saturday.
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The day, sponsored by the Walnut Hill Ruritan Club, featured dozens of vendors, daylong live music and entertainment, food vendors, hayride, bouncy houses, arts and crafts, the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office Mounted Posse, and much more.
The one-room log schoolhouse was built around 1880 at a cost of $40. It was flattened by Hurricane Ivan in 2004 and rebuilt at its current home by the Walnut Hill Community Center on Highway 97.
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Molino 7U Falcons Win Eastern Shore Fall Brawl
October 13, 2024
The Molino Ballpark 7U Falcons recently won the championship from the Eastern Shore fall Brawl.
Head coach for Falcons is Tanner Brooks.
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Family Hopes To Find Owner Of Bible, Photos Found At Park In Bratt
October 13, 2024
A local family is hoping to a find the owner of a Bible that left in a Bratt Park.
The Bible was in the free little library in the Travis Nelson Park on West Highway 4. It contained the photo of two adults and several children, and the finder hopes to return the photos and Bible to the owner.
The New Testament in Spanish and English was published for free distribution by Gideons International, much like those distributed by the organization in hotels rooms for decasdes.
If you have information, email news@northescambia.com, and we will put you in touch with the family that has the Bible and photos.
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Peanut Butter Challenge To Help The Hungry Going On Now
October 13, 2024
The Peanut Butter Challenge, an annual jar collection for local food pantries hosted by UF/IFAS Extension and Florida A&M University Cooperative Extension, is going on through the end of the month. Launched in the Florida Panhandle counties in 2012, the challenge is again spreading statewide this year.
Unopened jars of peanut butter can be donated to the following locations throughout Escambia County now until Oct. 31:
- Escambia County Extension, 3740 Stefani Road, Cantonment
- Escambia County Farm Bureau, 153 Hwy. 97, Molino
- Escambia County Public Safety, 6575 N. “W” Street, Pensacola
- Holy Spirit Catholic Church, 10650 Gulf Beach Hwy., Pensacola
- Gilmore Services, 31 E. Fairfield Dr., Pensacola
- Escambia County Administration, 221 Palafox Place, 4th Floor, Pensacola
Coordinated by UF/IFAS Extension and FAMU faculty, staff and volunteers, the competition among counties – for bragging rights only – was conceived as a way to feed hungry families ahead of the holidays in addition to promoting a Florida-grown crop. The peanut, which is produced mainly throughout the northern regions of the state, contributed $137 million to the state economy in 2023, according to the Florida Agricultural Statistics Service.
Peanut butter is an ever-popular item in food pantries because of its nutrient density and shelf stability. The project took on new meaning in 2020 as it spread statewide for the first time as demand for food bank assistance had increased as an economic effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest numbers from the United States Department of Agriculture shows food insecurity affected roughly 12 percent of Floridians in 2023.
In addition to the community donations, the Florida Peanut Producers Association and Florida Peanut Federation have partnered with the project for years. These organizations are based in the northwest and northeast peanut-producing regions of the state and will again contribute to the totals distributed to food pantries in those regions.
Last year’s Peanut Butter Challenge collected a total of 27,769 pounds of peanut butter from 44 Florida counties.