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AAF Pensacola, the local chapter of the American Advertising Federation, will host New Orleans adman Malcolm Schwarzenbach at its latest Luncheon Learn event tomorrow.
Mr. Schwarzenbach is Partner/Director of Brand Study at Trumpet Group, the firm which launched the “Forever New Orleans” campaign, designed to counter popular misconceptions of the city following Hurricane Katrina.
The event will be held tomorrow…
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Escambia County United Against Fluroidation (ECUAF) will host a town hall event this evening at Silver Screen Theatre.
Dr. Paul Connett, director of the Fluoride Action Network, will speak as well as present the short film “The Fluoride Deception.”
The event begins at 7:00 PM at Silver Screen Theatre, located at 7280 Plantation Road behind University Mall. For more information about Dr. Connett, see the ECUAF website.
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According to the Pensacola News Journal, the Pensacola Police Department estimates around 60,000 people attended Saturday’s Pensacola Grand Mardi Gras Parade.
Those who saw Palafox Street littered with beads, trinkets, candy wrappers, and other refuse in the parade’s immediate aftermath should be happy to know that just a short time later, the street looked as if nothing ever happened. Our thanks to the City’s Public Works Department and others who helped to stage and clean up the parade.
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Local group Emerald Coastkeeper will host a forum this evening on the recent Environmental Working Group (EWG) study, which ranked the Pensacola area’s drinking water as some of the worst in the country. The forum will be held at Pensacola Junior College’s Hagler Auditorium (Building 2, Room 252), beginning at 6:00 PM this evening.
Representatives from the federal Environmental Protection Agency, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, the Florida Department of Health, the ECUA…
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New Year’s Eve is just around the corner, and Pensacola has some great events planned.
The highlight of the evening, of course, will be the second annual Pensacola Pelican Drop. South Palafox Street will be host to a street party featuring three performance stages, a children’s area, vendors, and more. As midnight approaches, a half-ton illuminated pelican will drop at Palafox and Government Streets to ring in the New Year, and fireworks will follow.
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Replicas of Christopher Columbus’ ships Niña and Pinta will arrive in Pensacola tomorrow and open to the public for tours Wednesday.
The two ships are scheduled to dock at Palafox Harbor at noon Tuesday. After docking, there will be a private viewing of the ship for members of the media. The ships will be open to the public for walk-on tours from 9 AM to 5 PM daily from Wednesday, December 23 through Sunday, January 3. The ship will depart on the morning of January 4. The cost of the tours…
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The local chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) will hold a Community Forum tomorrow morning at The Village, 615 North W Street.
The forum is meant to serve as a “dialogue concerning various issues and questions.” Panelists will include National SCLC General Counselor Dexter Wimbish, Attorney Tamara Kassabian with the U.S. Department of Justice, Rev. Joseph Wright, Chairman of the Tallahassee Chapter of the SCLC, Rev. Dr. H. K. Matthews, and others…
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Local independent bookstore Open Books will celebrate its second anniversary Saturday with a day-long open house. The event will feature live music, poetry, and documentary screenings, as well as refreshments.
The event will be held Saturday, November 14, from 2-10 PM, with the entertainment beginning at 5:00 PM. Open Books is located at 4115 Barrancas Avenue in Warrington, next to Warrington Hardware and across the street from…
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On this November 11, we give thanks to all of America’s military veterans. We’ve read many tributes, from both local and national outlets. Tributes are nice. Parades are nice.
What isn’t nice, though — in fact, what is unconsionable — is the fact that we aren’t taking proper care of our veterans. So many of them lack food, shelter, and adequate health care. The Veterans’ Administration estimates that on any given night, more than 131,000 veterans…
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This weekend, the documentary Food, Inc. will be screening at the Gulf Breeze Cinema, located at 1175 Gulf Breeze Parkway.
Screenings will be held at 1:00, 4:00, and 7:00 PM today, Saturday, and Sunday. The screenings are sponsored by Ever’man Natural Foods. Tickets are $4 and proceeds benefit WUWF’s RadioLive program.
More about the film…
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As many of you know, the United States Postal Service is considering closing many post offices nationwide, including the downtown Pensacola office at Palafox and Romana Streets.
The Postal Service has scheduled a “town hall” meeting to give customers an opportunity for feedback and to discuss alternative options. The meeting will be held next Tuesday evening, August 18, at 6:00 PM, at the First Baptist Church’s Chipley Center. First Baptist is located at 500 North Palafox Street…
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Here’s a round-up of some of the Fourth of July celebrations going down this Saturday:
As has been the case for the last 20 years, the Pensacola area’s main Fourth of July celebration will be hosted by area Sertoma organisations. Here’s the schedule:
* 11:00 AM—6:30 AM: Arts and crafts, food vendors, a free children’s area, and live entertainment in Seville Square
* 7:30 PM: Free concert by Junior Brown
* 9:00 PM: Fireworks display over Pensacola Bay
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The ZOO Northwest Florida will celebrate 25 years of entertaining and educating Northwest Florida with “Feast with the Beast,” featuring food, live music and animal encounters on Friday, June 19 from 7 p.m. until midnight. Guests will have the opportunity to explore The ZOO’s wild pathways, sample exotic dishes from some of the Emerald Coast’s most celebrated restaurants and caterers, and enjoy live entertainment from Marsha, Marsha, Marsha and the Smart Brothers.
In addition to food and music, there will be a live auction…
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I started off the day at the Palafox Market, which takes place each Saturday morning from May through September. The market, which started last year, seems to get better each week. This week I saw strawberries, blueberries, squash, snap peas, potatoes, crowder peas, onions, jalapeños, herbs, and more, all locally grown. I took home a nice haul and can attest to the fact that it’s all been delicious. Local farmers markets are win-win. They provide you great food, that’s fresher than grocery store produce because it hasn’t been shipped cross-country before it gets to you. Your patronage supports local farmers and, in turn…
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The Friends of the Pensacola Public Library will hold their semiannual book sale this weekend at The Wright Place (First United Methodist Church), 80 East Wright Street.
The sale starts today with a “pre-sale” from 4:00 PM-8:00 PM. The book sale continues Saturday from 9:00 AM-5:00 PM, and finishes off on Sunday with a “bag sale” from 12:05-4:00 PM. For the presale only, there is an entrance fee of $5 for those who are not Friends of the Library members.
Proceeds from the book sale benefit the library’s summer reading programs.
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The waterway watchdogs at Emerald Coastkeeper will celebrate their 10th anniversary with a gala this Friday night. The event, a fundraiser, will feature live music from the Smart Brothers, food and drink, and silent auctions for an array of trips, artwork, food, and more.
The event will be held this Friday, March 13, at MySpayce, located at 212 East Garden Street; doors open at 6:30 PM. See Pensacola City Councilman and Coastkeeper board member Larry B. Johnson’s blog, or the Emerald Coastkeeper website, for more information…
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Busy week in the City of Pensacola:
Tuesday, February 17
City Council workshop: The Pensacola City Council will hold a special workshop to discuss the review of the City’s Small Business Enterprise (SBE) program, as conducted by MGT America, Inc. MGT’s full report available here.
The meeting will be held in the Hagler/Mason Conference Room, Second Floor, City Hall.
Palafox two-way transition: The transition of South Palafox Street from Garden south…
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Here’s some of what’s going on in Pensacola this week:
Monday
11:00 AM-2:00 PM: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Parade.
2:00 PM: MLK Jr. Day Commemoration service.
3:00 PM: MLK Jr. Day Commemoration service.
5:00 PM: Sandy Sansing Spelling Bee.
6:00 PM: Pensacola Jazz Society program.
7:00 PM: Pensacola Historical Society program.
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As many of you know, Pensacola is dropping a pelican, Times Square style, to ring in the new year in downtown Pensacola. I’m excited. Thad Cohen and the CRA did an excellent job of putting the project together (and of getting sponsors to pay for a lot of stuff), and I applaud them for their [...]
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City Council’s Enterprise Operations Committee voted Monday 3-1 to extend the Halcorp lease at the Port of Pensacola. Full Council vote is Thursday. The City’s Charter Review Commission will meet today at 4:00 PM in the Hagler/Mason Room, second floor, Pensacola City Hall. Today is Escambia Superintendent of Schools Jim Paul’s final day on the [...]
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As we mentioned earlier, Michelle Obama will hold a rally in Pensacola on Tuesday. The rally will be held at the Pensacola Civic Center. Doors open at 10:30 AM. No tickets are needed, but folks are encouraged to RSVP at http://fl.barackobama.com/PensacolaChange. For security reasons, do not bring bags or umbrellas. No signs or banners allowed.
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Rick beat me to it. I’ve been over at the Movement for Change fish fry all day. I don’t have much more information than Rick does, but I can confirm it’s true. Update: More information here.
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Pensacola Young Professionals will host a candidate forum this evening at the Pensacola Cultural Centre, located at 400 South Jefferson Street (SE corner Jefferson and Zaragoza). The event starts at 5:30 PM. The forum will focus on contested seats for County Commission, City Council, Mayor, State Representative, Superintendent of Schools, Sheriff, and ECUA. Each candidate [...]
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I wanted to highlight two events taking place tomorrow (Saturday): Crime Stoppers Safety Day Bartram Park, 8AM-4PM From the PNJ: The free event, which will be from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, will feature fun with a side of a safety-conscious activities. Events include free fingerprinting, face painting, a NASCAR simulator, free DNA kits [...]
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The Northwest Florida Young Democrats together with the UWF College Democrats will host a Democratic candidates forum on Wednesday, August 13. The forum will be held in the UWF Commons Auditorium, located on the first floor of the UWF Commons, Building 22. Doors will open at 5:30 PM and the forum will commence at 6:00 [...]
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The Tate Band Boosters are hosting an “old fashioned political rally” at the Tate High School Stadium tonight. The rally will begin at 5:30 PM, with candidate speeches beginning at 6:00 PM. Regional, county-wide, and District 5 candidates of both parties will be given five minutes apiece to speak. Concession sales will benefit the Tate [...]
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For any who didn’t know, UWF is hosting an Earth Day symposium all day tomorrow. Symposium culminates with a keynote address from Mike Papantonio and a screening of the short film Sacred Planet. More info at earthdaypensacola.org.
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