Immanuel Baptist Church in Pace has offered its Backpacks for Hope ministry for years; nobody at the Aug. 5 event was quite sure how many. “Do you know?” missions leader Dixie Peterson asked security volunteer Paul Peaden. “A lot,” Peaden said. Peterson went to ask someone else.

Robert Foil was fly-fishing in Mongolia when he realized only two games enjoy global popularity – soccer and chess.

“The first thing I noticed were his eyes, he had steel, clear blue eyes.” Norm Chapman, a former Pensacola Police chief and detective, is probably best known for interrogating one of America’s most famous serial killers, Theodore Robert Bundy. Better known as Ted.

All eyes from the inline speedskating community are on Milton with the completion of the track at Weber’s Skate World. The governing body of inline speedskating came out with new designs for parabolic tracks that fits in with the new technology as well as the speeds now reached in skating.

Thirty women met to create the Milton Garden Club at 3:30 p.m. Friday, May 7, 1948; it was incorporated May 28 and by April 1949 it had joined the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs, Deep South Region Garden Clubs and District 1 of the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs.

The National Association of Town Watch – a nationwide network of law enforcement agencies, neighborhood watch groups, civic groups, state and regional crime prevention associations and volunteers – introduced the first National Night Out in August 1984. Two-and-a-half million people in 400 communities across 23 states participated.

A cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean was off to her right. And the opportunity of a lifetime was right in front of her. Sarah Edwards stepped into the tee box on the 10th hole of the famed Pebble Beach Golf Course feeling every nerve and emotion imaginable as she readied herself to tee off at the LPGA’s U.S. Women’s Open Championship for the first time in her life in early July.

Alexis Parker remembers her time as a first-year cadet and going through the week-long Pace NJROTC NS1 camp that gives newcomers a feel for what life will be like in the program and what it takes to be successful in it. Three years later, Parker, a senior, is the commanding officer of a unit that has won the last three national championships, and she’s come a long way and is ready to embrace her new responsibilities.

If you have ever enjoyed a peanut M&M, then you can likely thank Ryan Jenkins for growing that peanut in his fields in Jay. Recently, Jenkins received recognition as the 2023 Farm Press Peanut Efficiency Award winner for the lower Southeast. Jenkins, whose family has been farming in north Santa Rosa County for generations, was named the award winner for using farming practices that manage resources such as water and seed more efficiently.

For Rashelle Stewart, executive director of Tiny Acres Northwest Florida, Inc., helping horses is the ‘mane’ thing. Tiny Acres Northwest Florida, Inc. is a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to supporting and rehabilitating abused or neglected horses in Santa Rosa County.