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Bizarre Star Andrew Zimmern Comes To The Beach

The Pensacola Beach Chamber has a recipe for success using star power and culinary talents to amp up the Sixth Annual Taste of the Beach, Saturday and Sun-day, September 14 and 15 at Casino Beach. Andrew Zimmern, center, is a James Beard Award-winning TV personality, chef, food writer, teacher and is widely regarded as one of the most versatile and knowledgeable personalities in the food world. He’s the creator, host and co-executive producer of Travel Channel’s hit series, Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, Andrew Zimmern’s Bizarre World, and his new series, Bizarre Foods America. Zimmern will be at Taste of the Beach Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. The festival, which showcases Pensacola Beach’s restaurants includes a dessert contest. Chef John Flaningam of Crab’s, top left, earned fi rst place in 2012. His Bushwacker Pie earned him a spot in the fi nals which will be Saturday at 3 p.m. Tropical birds and racing hermit crabs will delight young guests. Pensacola Beach resident Laken Harvey, top right, has been to Taste of the Beach every year. Look for her in the Mermaid Parade on Sunday and the Hula Hoop contest in the Children’s Area. Rev up your engines! George Smith and his brother-in-law Mike Cook, bottom right, proudly mug the camera next to Smith’s entry in the Life’s A Vette on the Beach car show. The show is Saturday from 10 to 3 p.m. The Sauce Boss lays down some serious blues on the Gulfside Pavilion stage, bottom left. He sings and cooks a giant pot of gumbo. It delicious entertainment. The full list of ingredients for the two day buffet of fun is on Page 2 and in Tasty Times, a special four page festival, pull-out section.

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Strive For Excellence

Sensei Seadog Selak holds a fi fth degree black

belt in Yoshukai karate and will be on the

white sands of Pensacola Beach

at the 35th Annual

Winter Workout, Saturday,

February 21.

For more on this story,

turn to page 2.

Yoshukai Winter WorkoutComes To The Beach

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It’s mind over matter, com-mented Gerry Blanck, a seventh-degree black belt and former World Kickboxing Champion when asked about entering the frigid Gulf water for the thirty-fi fth annual Winter Workout on Pensacola Beach. The Yoshu-kai Karate Winter Workout is set for Saturday, February 21 on the white sand behind Crab’s and the Hampton Inn.

“It’s the annual conver-gence of Yoshukai Karate stu-dents and teachers upon the gulf coast for a day of traditional

Japanese karate training, test-ing, weapons demonstrations, and self-defense that ends with a neck-deep martial arts work-out in the Gulf,” said Blanck.

Blanck, who resides in California, will travel back to his former hometown to partici-pate as an instructor during the two-day event. He hosted the fi rst Winter Workout in 1980 on Pensacola Beach, patterning it after a similar event commonly held in Japan.

“You know how the beach can be in January,” said Blanck.

“It can be a warm, sunny day or a windy, chilly day, but the wa-ter is always going to be cold. People who have participated in a Polar Bear Plunge can relate.”

The fi rst year the event had 40 participants, but nearly tripled in size the second year. This year, Blanck expects 200 students will spend the day in different sessions practicing Yo-shukai karate skills.

Dozens of instructors will bring their knowledge to the beach. Sensei Seadog Selak, who is a fi fth degree black belt, gives private instruction dur-ing the week, but will be on the sand for the anniversary event. He will give nunchaku instruc-tion. This weapon which is comprised of two wooden sticks connected by cord or chain can be wielded with tremendous ve-locity for striking or used in de-fense from other weapons.

Like many locals, Blanck and Seadog are also surfers. They were inspired by the disci-pline and skills in karate.

“Hey, I was a little guy, and saw Bruce Lee and thought it would be great to be able to defend myself,” Blanck said. “I

started in Pensacola, but really got into Yoshukai when I moved to South Florida.”

Blanck returned to Pen-sacola, then his career took him to California, where he cur-rently owns a Yoshukai training center. He returns to Pensacola Beach for Winter Workout this week.

The event, which begins Friday night at the Hampton Inn with Black Belt Testing at 5 p.m., is open to the public. Saturday’s sessions begin at 8:30 a.m. on the beach where adult students are divided into experience levels for work-outs in topics such as Respect and Manners, Nunchaku, Self Defense, Weapons Disarming, Point Sparring, Kickboxing and Full Contact Training. There are separate classes for kids.

The students will be under the watchful eye of eighth-de-gree black belt Hiroaki Toyama of Pensacola, and seventh-de-gree black belt Mike Culbreth of Dothan, Alabama among the two dozen additional instruc-tors. Blanck will instruct a kick-boxing session, but is looking forward to working with the

young students during the Ka-rate games as well.

“We try to keep our training interesting. Yoshukai training encompasses so many aspects,” said Blanck. “You can do it for-ever. I have a student who is in her thirty-third year of training and she started when she was 41-years-old.”

Parents and guests will not be confi ned to the bleachers at this event. There are sessions hosted just for them in Family Member Fitness, Self-Defense and Supporting Your Karate Student.

The morning session is fol-lowed by a lunch break where students and families are treat-ed to a fresh seafood buffet at Crab’s. The afternoon sessions begin at 1:25 p.m. All students will line the beach at 3:15 p.m. to follow Master Mike Culbreth into the Gulf for more training. An assault on the senses, but their focus will be on striving for excellence in the tasks at hand. As Blanck so aptly puts it, “It’s just mind over matter.”

For more information about the Winter Workout and Yoshu-kai, visit www.wykko.com.

Winter Workout founder Gerry Blanck at the event in 1981. The sec-ond workout was well attended on a cold and windy February day on Pensacola Beach.

Yoshukai Students And Instructors Show Power, Strength And Courage At Thirty-Fifth Winter Workout

Can you walk the walk across Via de Luna without getting run over? Your chances are improv-ing. Escambia County installed solar powered fl ashing lights at the core area crosswalks on Febru-ary 7. They had already replaced signage to direct drivers to stop for, rather than yield to, the pedes-trians.

The quest to make the core area of Pensacola Beach more pedestrian friendly began with overwhelming support from both the business and residential com-munities as evidenced in the Mas-ter Plan and the Pensacola Beach Advocates Member Survey. Crosswalks, which are located islandwide, have been diffi cult to traverse. The crosswalks at the traffi c light give pedestrians a clear signal and time to cross, all other crosswalks are use-at-your-own risk. The installation of a pro-totype lighted crosswalk on Pen-sacola Beach Blvd. near Innerlight and Shaggy’s has gotten mixed reviews from locals, noting that the lights embedded in the road-way are visible to the fi rst car only,

and not high enough impact dur-ing the daytime hours. The lights which border the elevated sign on the roadside are not bright enough, according to some drivers.

Crosswalks in the core area along Via de Luna have been identi-fi ed for safe-ty upgrades. In some areas, land-scaping cre-ates a visual impairment for drivers. To that end, crosswalks have re-ceived some striping, and new signage along with lights.

In an effort to assist drivers in seeing pedestrians who wish to cross in the core area, a raised sign with a fl ashing yellow pedestrian activated light have been installed next to the crosswalks.

The project cost between $70,000 and $80,000 and is fund-ed with Local Option Sales Taxes.

The Beach’s Commissioner Grover Robinson, IV, said, “Our goal is to make the entire beach

safer for pedestrians. In addition to the up-grades, we are work-ing with the Escam-bia County Sheriff’s Offi ce for enhanced enforcement to make people aware of the need to stop.”

State law re-quires that drivers stop and allow pe-destrians to cross in the marked cross-walks.

“We have to make the beach more accessible to those

walking and biking,” commented Robinson. “We also want to fi nd ways for both tourists and citi-zens on the island to traverse the beach in other ways than their car, thus the emphasis on trolleys and pedestrian safety.”

County Installs Lights For Safer Crossings

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Forever...Barefoot on the BeachAs a tribute to Jane Waters who passed away January 10, 2012 Island Times will continue to run some of Jane’s favorite columns for your enjoyment

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The Krewe of Wrecks meet-ings are ended now. The three day hoopla which has been months in the planning will now begin. And all too soon, the Mardi Gras of 1982 will be but a memory. A few things can send me into misty eye sentimental-ity…and one of these is the Krewe of Wrecks. I go back in my thoughts to just three years ago, when a few of us banded together to put on a Mardi Gras. I remember that hardly anyone

on the beach had much of an idea what the great Carnival in New Orleans or Rio de Janiero (maybe even Mobile) was like. Beach dwellers do not normally wander off for fun because they have an abundance of revelry right here…however, the winter sometimes grows gray and dull, and the idea of a beach Mardi Gras caught in like a prairie wildfi re in a high wind.

When I stand up in front of the members of the Krewe of Wrecks now, and I see what they have done to create their

own spectacular festival, my heart almost bursts with love and pride in this unequalled group of people. And I think back to the fi rst meeting with a few scattered, but enthusiastic members, and I remember with so much pleasure the touching effort they put into that first beach parade… the splendid costumes that showed up at the ball, the abandoned, carefree beach bunch who partied on Monday and Tuesday as if it were a four day weekend. These, I said to myself, are my kind of

people. They were born with the energy and spirit it takes to make Mardi Gras. Theirs was no long and painful learning process. The members of the Krewe of Wrecks – now 250 high fl ying souls – have it all together. Doubloons and beads, parties and parades, balls and costumes - all the elements of the Mardi Gras are there. But, more than that, and most impor-tant of all, beach people caught the electrical emotional feeling of the festival…the mystery,

the magic, the wonderful world of make believe always existed within them.

When they put on their sat-ins and sequins this week, all the world will know, the Krewe of Wrecks on Pensacola Beach has come around full circle.

They will abandon all cares in the purest of meaning of the Carnival. This is their thing. They have, within their collec-tive grasp, the power to change their environment into a magical kingdom…at least for one day! Hail the Krewe of Wrecks!

Registration is underway for the 38th Annual McGuire’s St. Patrick’s Day 5K Prediction Run, which takes place March 14, in downtown Pensacola.

The race is the largest pre-diction run in America. It starts and ends at the McGuire’s Irish Pub, a nationally known restau-rant famous for its ceiling of green: Hundreds of thousands of signed dollars bills hang from the rafters.

The run was designed three decades ago as a fun way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and also as an opportunity to raise money for charity. Each year, registration fees go toward local charities and the national Ma-rines Semper Fi Fund.

“Since Molly and I or-ganized the fi rst race 38 years ago, McGuire’s has been able to donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to charity. We never imagined that this event would grow to hundreds of thousands of runners a year, coming from all over the world. Our pub is about family, community, and tradition. The race embodies all

of those things,” says McGuire Martin, owner of the Irish pub. “We are proud to host it each year, and we are particularly grateful for all those who at-tend.”

And, many runners who at-tend won’t leave empty-handed. McGuire’s hands out more than 100 trophies and awards in the following categories:

• Prediction awards: To the fi rst 5 male or females in each age group who fi nish closest to their actual predicted times in the following age groups (Male and Female) 0-9, 10-14, 15-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-59, 60-64, 65-69, and 70+

• Best Costume Awards: Individual, Team and Sharpest Military Formation

• Speed Awards: Even though the McGuire’s St. Pat-rick’s Day Run is the nation’s largest prediction run, we also award speed awards. Open (39 & under): First 10 males & fi rst 10 females; Masters (40 to 49): First 5 males & fi rst 5 females; Grandmasters (50 to 59): First 5

males & fi rst 5 females; Great Grandmasters (60+): First 5 males & fi rst 5 females. All Par-ticipants must be able to run or walk 3.1 miles in under one hour.

• Team Speed Awards: Tro-phies will be awarded to the fi rst 3 teams in each division: Male, Female, and Military (active duty, reserve or ROTC.) A team is at least 5 but no more than 7 runners. The fi rst fi ve fi nishers will score for the team. Teams must submit their registrations together and with the team name and category on the application. No Team Registration or changes will be accepted on Race Day.

Online registration is going on now until March 11. Register online or pick up registration forms at the restaurant located at 600 East Gregory Street in Pensacola.

Estimate How Fast You Can Run To Win Prediction Race The race registration fee

is $30 by mail or online before March 11, or $35 day of the race. Runners with questions may email: [email protected].

The Gulf Breeze Hospital Auxiliary will host a One Stop Shop fundraiser Monday and Tuesday, February 23-24 in the RTC Building on the Hospital campus. The One Stop Shop will be open at 7 a.m. both days and will close at 5 p.m. on Monday and 3 p.m. on Tuesday. The public

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conducted a Super Bowl football fundraiser for the Pensacola Beach Optimist Club. Bettie Lee Sundstrom scored the big win with Sherrie Nelson and Shelley Johnson both getting a piece of the action. The Optimist Club and the Beach Church Ignite Youth Group will each be given $150 from the proceeds. WHO DAT

Photos popped up online of Saints fans like Tina Sarra, Jenny McCrary, Burma Davis and Lisa Busby, who were lucky enough to spend some time at a Super Bowl party with New Orleans Saints lineman Jahri Evans and his wife Takia. Who Dat!PIRATE PRIDE

There’s lot of hardworking pirates at PegLeg Pete’s on Fort Pickens Road. Shasta Adams was recognized as one of the best. She was named Employee of the Year at their annual party, Feb. 3 and got some extra gold coins as part of her reward. LOVE SPARKLES

The Krewe of St. Patrick had more than shenanigans going on at the Shamrock-N-Roll Ball last month. Amid the green shots and Irish dancing, Richard Thomas proposed to his sweetheart Alicia Taylor. The two are planning a private wedding and will an-nounce the date very soon. DESERT FLOWER

Claire Marcey is a former Krewe of Wrecks fi rst mate and a beach fan. She sends a hello and Happy Mardi Gras to all her friends. She keeps up with their antics in the pages of Island Times.MINE’S BIGGER

In a sea of rhinestones and smiles, Mary Samaras’ crown

stands out. Was it the biggest at the February 9 Queen’s Dinner at Flounder’s? No offi cial ruling was handed down. Mayoki’s Sammie Rodgers crown was beautiful and big, too. The Beach’s Queens re-ally know how to sparkle. GO BIG RED

Cheri Dixon is a Nebraska Cornhusker who has embraced Mardi Gras like she’s been part of it for years. She’s Judy L’Oignon’s cousin, so she has a good teacher. Cheri dressed up as a Native American Princess at the Wrecks Ball and fi t right in as a tiara topped royalty at the Queen’s dinner. She has to return home on Ash Wednesday but she takes some good stories back to Lincoln. AHOY POP

Beach resident Pandora de Balthzar entered two floats in the Kids and Kritters parade. It was a family affair. Princess Madison Perez (8), escorted by her big brother Pirate Captain Dylan Evans (16), and her tiny nephew Breydan Evans (3), with his Mother, Courtney Evans led “Poppy’s Pawrates and Princesses Protectors of Paradise” pirate ship. On board POP, pets Coco Chanel (11) and Lucy (8) were escorted by Pandora de Balthazar and her sister Sabrina Evans in full Pirate regalia.

The environmental float (Beads for Trash) was driven by Anthony Perez. The fl oats were escorted by previous Krewe of Kids members of the court Morgan Parrish and Josh Parrish Priest. Float riders and escorts handed out custom designed, hand made beads. COOL TEACH

Stephany Heath’s Beach School art students designed Shoe Box Floats, ready for their own Mardi Gras parade at school. She’s one cool teacher.

“The Fat Tuesday walking parade was the Krewe of Nereids Second Line Parade,” wrote Amy Depew. “Always fun.”

Amy is correct and may also hold the record for the most royal titles of any gal on the Beach. Queen of the Society of Lepre-chauns, Krewe of Brewe, Krewe of Junkanoo, Krewe of Nauga, Krewe of Coma, and the Krewe of Kids Biggest Kid… to name a few. That’s the subject of an-other trivia question for another time. Amy was raised on the Beach and in Gulf Breeze. She knows everyone and remembers everything. If you don’t believe the Trivia Master, hang out with Amy sometime. When she’s not tending bar at the Elk’s Lodge, she’s at every Mardi Gras event on the island.

Krewe of Nereids founding member Sharon Mattair knew right away what the Trivia Master was thinking about. “The Mystic Krewe of Nereids Second Line Parade with Joe's walking band. What fun we had!”

The all female krewe would sashay along the bike path, stop-ping in at the local watering holes to refresh themselves before re-turning to their Tuesday afternoon celebration. When they arrived in the Sandspur Republic the

Krewe of Kids would join them. The spirited parade would wend its way along and disband at the Boardwalk. There were very few spectators, so the Kids threw their beads to the patrons inside the Sun Ray Taco Shop or anyone else who happened to stop to view the spectacle.

Marilyn LeNormand would have her parasol. Kathryn Curle, Joy Domm and Patty Bordelon would be dancing along with Sharon Mattair, Elaine Mitchell and Susan Haselton-Barr. Purple, green and gold garb was manda-tory as was lipstick and Mardi Gras spirit.

The question was not easy and Tim Pike thought the TM was looking way back at the fi rst Krewe of Wrecks Mardi Gras parade. It was never a purely walking procession. The Wrecks had a few fl oats, even in the fi rst years, when they tried to parade on Fat Tuesday. Ella Hess fondly recalled the fi rst Krewe of Coma procession when King Tommy Chavis and his Queen Mary Drees walked from the Shaker with their entourage to Flounder’s where they were greeted by the Wrecks Captain Tommy Dennis and First Mate Evelyn Wright. It was a good year for Tommys. The year was 1990. It was an

after dark affair. Fat Tuesday has two events

this year – the Krewe of Coma Lighted Hat Contest and Corona-tion which is at the Sandshaker February 17 followed by the Shoe Box Float Contest at Paradise. Only the best, hardiest and tough-est Mardi Gras revelers make it through to Tuesday. They train year ‘round.

The newly crowned Wrecks court will attend and congratulate the 2015 Coma Court. King Gary and Queen Gail Rick will turn over their crowns about 7 p.m.

Think back a few decades. The culinary scene on Pensacola Beach ranged from a Tiffany’s burger or a fi sh sandwich on the Pier to a full dining experience at Flounder’s, and now The Grand Marlin. A European trained chef named Pete Cooper treated diners to international fare at the Casino Restaurant. Where was the Casino Restaurant located?

Send your answers to [email protected] with Trivia in the subject line. A new Island Times trivia shirt awaits the fi rst person to send the cor-rect answer. Include your name and phone number in your email. The Trivia Master is a stickler for details. Deadline to answer is February 24. Good luck!

PAGE 5 Island TimesFebruary 17, 2015

Smiles all around at the new Pensacola Beach Visitor’s Information Center Grand Opening, February 11. Assisting with the traditional ribbon cutting are (L to R): Pensacola Chamber Amabassador Megan Siefert, SRIA staffers Robbie Lofty and Paolo Ghio, SRIA Board Chairman Tammy Bohannon, SRIA Board Members Dave Pavlock and Karen Sindel, Beach Chamber President Nicole Stacy, Chamber Board Members Chase Cole, Robert Gleim and Chairman Ron Wilson, and Pensacola Chamber’s Leon Ledbetter. The new 17,000 square feet building is located in the Casino Beach Parking lot for easy access. The Center is open daily.

Upland Amenities For Ferry System Run Aground At SRIA MeetingSanta Rosa Island Authority

Board Members balked at sup-porting a request for a $1.7 million palapa structure to provide shade and a ticket sales kiosk for the pro-posed ferry landing to be located at the Boardwalk. SRIA Director of Developmental Services Paolo Ghio presented the information at the February 11 Full Board meet-ing. The SRIA is not responsible for funding this project.

Ghio explained that the dock must be extended, widened and a shaded wait area and ticket kiosk must be constructed. The funding for the three phases is provided from the Department of National Parks Service. Escambia County is writing the grant request with assistance from the West Florida Regional Planning Council.

The pier upgrades were es-timated by the SRIA to cost $2.2 million. SRIA staff initially pro-posed a simple shade structure and kiosk. The passenger ticket-ing and waiting area is located on the Boardwalk, so the master leaseholder, Pensacola Beach Holdings, proposed a palapa structure to include covering the entire Boardwalk amphitheatre.

Vikki Garrett, Planning Council planner, announced that the County had changed the prior-ity of phases to make the length-ening of the pier first, followed by the passenger shade and ticketing areas, and the widening of the pier to be the final phase.

“The application will pres-ent the entire project divided into phases, and if projects meet the spirit of the grant, then the funding is generally allocated in phases,” said Garrett. “The mon-ies are granted to give the public greater access to public lands.”

It was noted that if the road within Fort Pickens washes away in a storm, the ferry system would provide the only access to the Park. The ferry service is slated to begin in early 2017. Each of the two vessels can carry 150 passengers with stops at Fort Pickens, Downtown Pensacola, and the Boardwalk.

SRIA Board Chairman Tam-my Bohannon was concerned with the scope and cost of the upland amenities.

SRIA Executive Director Buck Lee, who has been involved in project discussions for over four years, said that the SRIA has no funds involved.

Board Member Karen Sindel pointed out that the SRIA is re-sponsible for maintenance of the extended and widened pier.

After the lengthy discus-sion and at the urging of former beach resident Jim Cox, the Board voted to empower Chair-man Bohannon to write a letter to Escambia County to state the order of importance for funding be: extending the pier, widening the pier followed by the upland amenities. The letter will include the Board’s objection to the $1.7 million funding request for the shaded area and ticket sales kiosk.

The final grant application will be reviewed by the County Commissioners on March 5 to meet the March 13 Park Service deadline.

Baskerville Donovan En-gineer Mike Langston’s report updated the Board on islandwide projects. Although the construc-tion of the Access Road which will run from Morgan Park to The Grand Marlin will likely be pushed back until Fall 2015, the relocation of utilities continues to move forward in preparation for the project.

When asked about the new surfboard shaped trolley stop benches, Langston commented that they have been redesigned to meet state law standards, and should be sent out to bid very soon.

Ongoing projects include the Via de Luna median landscaping, and parking lot resurfacing near Key Sailing. Extending and sta-bilizing the shoreline where the ECUA Water Tanks are located requires permits be approved by the Florida Department of Envi-ronmental Protection. ECUA is awaiting the FDEP response.

In other business:• The Board voted unani-

mously to grant $5,000 to the Coastal Rowing event. The event which will take place in the Gulf behind the Hilton has been post-poned to October. The funding will be taken from the $35,000 Tourist Development Tax stipend that was awarded to the SRIA from District Four County Com-missioner Grover Robinson.

• Staff recommended the ex-tension of the Landrum services contract for providing seasonal employees. The Board voted to extend the contract for two ad-ditional years, and will begin an RFP process in August 2016.

• During her Chairman Com-ments, Bohannon noted that she officially opened the new Visi-tor’s Information Center with a Ribbon Cutting. The new Center is twice as big as the previous building. Its location should give

visitors easy access. She noted that representatives from Visit Pensacola, Pensacola Chamber and Perdido Key Chamber were on hand to celebrate with the SRIA and Beach Chamber.

• Beach Chamber President Nicole Stacey shared good news with the SRIA Board. The number of guests served at the former Vis-itors Information Center during

January 2015 was up 33 percent over the previous year. Visitors from Florida, Alabama, Wiscon-sin, Illinois, Minnesota, Canada, Germany and Japan represented the largest part of the 1647 guests.

Stacey, on behalf of the Beach Chamber Board, expressed their gratitude for the opportunity to manage the Visitor’s Center. The Chamber has run the Visi-

tor’s Information Center under a contractual agreement with the SRIA since its inception.

• SRIA Directors presented their annual State of the Island reports. The information is avail-able online at www.sria-fla.com.

The SRIA Committees will meet Wednesday, February 25 at 5 p.m. The meetings are open to the public.


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I believe that Mardi Gras is our toughest Season. It calls on every survival skill and hang-over recipe you've ever come across including any you may have overheard at last night's party. Even my poor Baby Jayne (aka Jayne Drees Redmond) slept 'til noon today. She's not only tough, she's younger, too.

I am writing this the day after the Queen's Dinner. And yours truly is sitting on the couch knocked out of commission and participation fi ve long days ago. The worst part being that I'm here not because of too much fun or even any fun at all. I'm here because I pulled a lower back muscle by over-loading my right side (usually the good side) haul-ing groceries upstairs. I don't know about you, but normally I would rather carry 50 pounds of groceries in one haul than make a single extra trip up those stairs. Unfortunately it backfi red on me this time and cost a lot more in pain and aggravation than that extra trip ever would. In my defense, upstairs is only the fi rst level of my house. There’s more stairs to reach the kitchen.

I know I just said lack of fun was the worst part, but y'all know that it's having to miss the Mardi Gras parties. And I've missed two of the biggest Par-ties of Mardi Gras: the Krewe of Wrecks Grand Costume Ball and the Krewe of Wrecks Queen's Dinner. (As I write this, I am still praying that I heal before the biggest weekend!) Of course I am determined to ride our Krewe of Nereids fl oat if I have to crawl to it and on it. In the meantime I wonder how a single, but appar-ently precisely placed, muscle can effect so many other areas and muscles not even in close proximity to the damaged one? I know...neck bone connects to the whatever else bone and so I'm guessing that happens with muscles, too. Doesn't mean I have to like it though.

Missing the KOW Grand Ball caused me to host a Pity Par-ty for One on Sunday. No vodka beauty treatment involved; just a whole lotta feeling sorry for my-self. It's a rare thing for me be-cause I'm generally an optimis-tic soul. I always know there's someone that has it a lot worse than me because my Mama and Daddy drummed that into all fi ve of us. So on the rare occasion

I do allow myself to have a Pity Party, I keep it limited to a Party of One and nobody else even knows I'm partying. I also tend to keep it short; usually a couple of hours is enough.

Even now, I'm still a lucky person. I have my Baby Jayne staying here so she can give me all the details of the fun I am missing. And Jayne doesn't miss much since she was also well taught by her Mama, the late Mary Drees who was the Head Wreck for ten years. So Jayne was basically raised in the Krewe of Wrecks. Jayne's hus-band Johnny comes over (from Destin where they reside in their normal lives) for the big events. He's our “secret weapon.”

Johnny is well known in Destin where he grew up but lo-cals here see him just a few times a year; usually during Mardi Gras Season. Since he's not as quickly and easily recognized as Jayne, Johnny gets the “under-cover” reports for me. I'm not including a photo of him because I don't want him to have to re-sort to wearing a disguise. Jayne has joked with her darlin' hubby for years about attending a Mas-querade Ball as “Tarzan and Jane.” Y'all remember the TV show about a zillion years ago with Johnny Weissmuller star-ring as Tarzan. He was the King of the Jungle. Johnny (Redmond not Weissmuller) jokes back that he plans to go as Cheetah, the beloved monkey of Tarzan and Jane.

That won't change even if Jayne's Daddy Morrie Drees broke the barrier with his "GeroniMOrrie" costume at the Krewe of Wrecks Ball. We all know that's just Morrie having fun and doing what he loves; which is clever costume ideas. "GeroniMOrrie" would have won prizes if he had been in the city claiming the birth of Mardi Gras, New Orleans. Here on our mostly quiet little beach some people have apparently forgot-ten the outrageous costumes of our past Mardi Gras years or the antics of our legendary heroes like Harry Gowens and the Rev-erend Doctor Papa Joe Reynalds (whose names were printed on the sides of his old wreck of a truck). Yeah, I know we're all a lot older now, but I've always heard that as we age, we all re-gress back to our younger selves.

I, for one, cannot wait! Maybe I've already started or I'm there, who knows? Who cares?

Don't forget: “Judge not; lest ye be judged” and I have never been, nor will I ever be, the one who throws the fi rst stone; in fact I refuse to throw any stones at all. All our sandcastles are made of glass. And maybe it's a simple case of the right costume in the wrong place.

Don't worry 'bout it. John-ny's gonna write us an equally clever song that we'll all sing and laugh about for (hopefully) many years. For right now, this one's for you: "GeroniMOrrie" my dear friend who I love with all my heart and all my soul.

This recipe was pulled from my archives and comes from Kim Cole; way back when she was just known as Sister of the Beach Kim-O-Sabe and Lunch Room Lady from GB Elemen-tary School (and who my grand-children dearly love). It came from the Jellyfi sh Cafe created and sponsored by Kim; a pro-gram designed to bring children into the kitchen. I've always loved letting the little one's help and no child is too young for the kitchen. It's the heart of our home and they should be right in the middle of it.

You're probably too tired to cook anyway and by now, you've just had some free Red Beans and Rice cooked by the Krewe of Wrecks Bean Team. So here's a perfect recipe to let your chil-dren cook for you.

So, let them cook....

Chef Kim's Chicken Spaghetti1/2 lb. spaghetti, cooked1/2 lb. diced chicken (canned chicken is perfect)1 - 16 oz. jar Alfredo Sauce1 small jar diced Pimentos1 small can diced Green Chilies1/4 cup white wine (optional)

In a saucepan combine ev-erything except the spaghetti. Bring to a boil then simmer, stirring often, add spaghetti, ap-proximately 30 minutes. This is a simple version since Kim makes her own Alfredo Sauce using roasted red bell peppers instead of pimentos. I've also cut the original recipe in half.

Enjoy, share and join the fi -nal Mardi Gras events. There's still the Coma Coronation and Shoebox Float Contest to enjoy.

See ya in the kitchen....

Susie and Mike Mardis won the grand prize at the February 7 Krewe of Wrecks Ball Costume Contest with their Sunburned Tourists ensem-bles. The theme was Fort Pickens.

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Traveling down busy Route 98 on a crisp February morning, anticipation was in the air. I was off to meet some Optimist friends at the Beach Elementary School to listen to the students give their speeches for the preliminary oratorical contest conducted each year. Arriving in the Library of the school, assignments were handed out and we were off to hear our students present their speeches under the theme, “How my optimism has helped me press on to greater achievements of the future.”

We were not disappointed! It was impressive to see the poise and confidence of these third, fourth,and fifth grade students, to say nothing of the very creative manner in which they were able to express themselves.

At this early stage in their development, many of them had already decided what they wanted to do with their lives, although we know that is subject to change multiple times over the next years. It was still impressive

that they had these strong desires. Their speeches were fortified by quotes from persons who had achieved success in their chosen fields. Some stood behind the lec-tern, while others had the lectern moved and stood and delivered their words in front of the judges.

You might be interested in knowing that the fields of inter-est were varied and included meteorologist, dancer, pro base-ball player, veterinarian, marine biologist, violinist, competitive fencing, saving animals from ex-tinction, world leader and to make better laws, explorer to Mars, can-cer researcher, artist, NFL player, and surfer. There was no question in their minds that they would achieve what they set out to do because their optimism would serve them in making their goals.

Some even had their col-leges picked out and felt free to poke fun at other schools – generally along the lines of sports.

And I think we Optimists went home feeling that in the Beach Elementary School there are some great leaders who will make significant differences in our world, beginning right there in their classrooms, and later in our world. There is great reason for optimism and confidence that our world will be in good shape at the hands of these future leaders. If we could just box up this confidence, understanding, determination, and creativity and spread it among all the schools in our Nation, what a great future we would have!

The VFW Voice of Democracy audio-essay competition was open to all students in grades 9-12. The essay theme for this year was “Why Veterans are Important to Our Nation’s History and Future.” Students from Gulf Breeze High School earned the top three places. At the Awards Ceremony are (L to R): R.C. Hallada VFW Post 4407 Quartermaster and judge, Jares Doverspike, first place; Bayla Bessemer, second place; Karol Rodriguez, third place; and Thomas Zima, Vice Commander and judge. Winners were presented certificates, medals and scholarship money.

The Pilot Club of Pensacola will host their thirty-fifth an-nual Pancake Breakfast, Saturday, March 7 at Cokesbury United Methodist Church on Ninth Av-enue in Pensacola. Local celebri-ties and officials will greet guests beginning at 7 a.m. The cost for breakfast is $5 for adults and $3 for children.

There will be baked goods, casseroles and soups for sale, as well.

For more information email [email protected]

Pilot Club Hosts Pancake Breakfast

In its first major concert of 2015, the Pensacola Children’s Chorus welcomes special guest conductor Francisco J. Núñez, the artistic director and founder of the award-winning Young People’s Chorus of New York City, to take part in its concert celebration of cultural diversity through song, “One World Many Voices,” on Sunday, February 22, at 2:30 p.m. at the Saenger Theatre.

Tickets, at $15, $20, and $25, are available at the Saenger Theatre, 22 East Intendencia St.

Children’s Chorus Goes International


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playing a stringed instrument? If it’s guitar, give Nate Smith a call at Arc Music and Sound in Gulf Breeze. If violin, violo or cello is your child’s thing, then Christina Clark Frierdich is ready to get them started. She’s at 850-776-5459.

RAD GRADProject Graduation is an

all-night party extravaganza designed to give the graduating class a super send off in a safe,

quality environment. Each stu-dent who attends pays an entry fee, but organizers are currently looking for sponsors. Donations, of any size, are needed. Log on to www.gbhs-projectgrad.org to make your donation. The Gulf Breeze High School Project Graduation is May 23.

FINE ORATORSThe preliminary round of

the Pensacola Beach Opti-mist Club’s Oratorical Contest was February 10 at the Beach School. Event Chairman Dave

Sundstrom commented, “The contestants did a great job. Their speech content was good and they are all developing real speaking skills.” The winners from each grade level will compete in the fi nals, Tuesday, February 24 at 6 p.m. at the

Beach Church. They are:Third Grade

First place - Isaac Braun Second place - Nicholas CollinsThird place- Parker Cote

Fourth Grade:First place - Katie TurkSecond place- Eliza Abston

Third place- Kate AllenFifth Grade:

First place - Kacie MaySecond place- Natalia DadismanThird place- Madeline JohnsonThe topic is “ How my optimism will help me press on to greater achievements in the future.”

The heavens will be the star of the show at the Pensac-ola Beach Elementary School’s Dinner Under The Stars event, Thursday, February 26 at 5 p.m. The Beach School in conjunction with the Escambia Amateur As-tronomers Association will host the evening of star gazing and refreshments. The event is open to the public.

We a t h e r permitting, the Astronomers will have tele-s c o p e s a n d binoculars set up for views of the Moon, Jup i t e r and other Celestial Objects.

“ W e ' l l have Jupiter rising in the East and as it gets darker the 4 Galilean Moons; Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, will become vis-ible,” commented Dewey Barker, A s t r o n o m y Associa t ion member. “If the position of the planet is favorable, we may get to view the Great R e d S p o t . The Crescent Moon will be high in the sky and well visible, even in the day-light. Attendees should be sure to bring cell phones for taking photos of the Moon and possibly Jupiter through the telescope eyepiece. Several members have invested in brackets designed to

hold a cell phone to the eyepiece.”The Astronomy Association

also hosts Sidewalk Star Gazes at the Gulfside Pavilion and at Fort Pickens.

In addition to viewing the stars, there Pensacola MESS Hall will have “hands-on” science tables and some of their travel-

ing science ex-hibits available in the Cotton Center on the Beach School campus.

T h e School PTA is taking ad-vance orders for a chicken dinner for $6. That is avail-able through pre-order only.

T h e J u -nior Optimist Club members will have plenty of fresh baked goodies and hot beverages for sale throughout the event.

Third Grade Teacher Joy M c L a u r i n e , event coordi-nator said, “We would love for c o m m u n i t y members to join us that evening. It’s going to be out of this world.”

The event i s f r e e a n d

open to the public. For more information, contact McLaurine at [email protected].

For more information about the Astronomy Club or for sched-uling a star gaze, contact Dewey Barker 850-450-7767.

Cresent Moon, Jupiter Headline At Beach School

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Nature Notes ...................

It’s Coyote Time Again… Last year I had a couple of

contacts from Beach residents about encounters with coyotes. I wrote an Island Times article Sep-tember 2014 that presented some background on their natural history, why they are attracted to people, and a few suggestions on how to reduce encounters with them.

Coyotes have been in Florida since the 1960s and can survive in almost every habitat found in our state. Unlike wolves, they tend to hunt alone or with one other animal. Family units can develop territories hunting rodents, snakes, and birds, but will hunt domestic pets as well. They are thin and have a gray-brown coat (though some are black) weigh-ing between 20-30 pounds. They differ from dogs in that their paw track is longer and narrower and they run with their tails at “half-mast” (straight behind them). They hunt day or night but are most active at dawn and dusk. They breed in late winter.

Encounters with humans are rare due to their timid nature towards us; they could be near-by, but keep their distance. They will hunt pets and only become a problem for us when people feed them; intentionally or not. It is recommended that you not al-low your cats to roam free in the evenings and keep your dogs on a short leash when walking. Attacks

on humans, though rare, have oc-curred; more often on children. In almost all cases the animals had been fed by humans and had lost their natural fear.

What should you do if you encounter a coyote?

Make yourself in-timidating; loud noises, waving your hands, opening your jacket are all threats to the animal and will usually end with it running away. Coyotes who do not act this way could be a threat. If you observe threatening behavior from coyotes, you should report it to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commis-

sion, 850-265-3676 or 888-404-3922.

I am again hear-ing about coyote en-counters, and not just on Pensacola Beach. I am currently doing research to determine behavior patterns of coyotes that lead to

problem encounters. There is a lot of information out there, some good… some not so good, and I am trying to compile it all

into a fact sheet that I can make available to island residents. I am also considering hav-ing a program out at the beach to discuss this

issue. In order for that program to cover information that will be use-ful to you, I need to know what is-sues you are currently having with coyotes. I have drafted a survey that will help me better understand that point. If you are interested

in completing the short survey, please contact me at [email protected] or log onto www.MyIslandTimes.com. The survey is posted for your convenience.

I can tell you at this time of year the females are in heat, which

could lead to different be-haviors in the males. Until the fact sheet is ready and the program planned you can contact Florida Fish and Wildlife Conserva-

tion Commission, 850-265-3676 or 888-404-3922 , if are having problems with these animals.

[Ed. Note: Thank you to Colleen Kilpatrick who shared these photos taken by her friend. The coyote was photographed crossing Pensacola Beach Blvd., and running across the Shaggy’s parking lot prior to 7 a.m. The photos were lightened so the coyote would be more visible to our readers.]

No training necessary for the first ever Pensacola Beach Kidney Walk. The 5K is set for Saturday, February 28 with a 10 a.m. start time. The route is the customary 5K on Pensacola Beach, beginning and ending near the Gulfside Pavilion at Casino Beach.

The event, according to or-ganizer Savanna Pitard, can be as leisurely as walkers want it to be.

“They can even turn around and shorten the route,” said Pitard. “It’s not a race. There will be an awards ceremony at 11 a.m. but that is to recognize the top fundraisers.”

There is no entry fee to par-ticipate but walkers are encour-aged to make a donation. Kidney Walk is the nation's largest walk to fight kidney disease. Held in nearly 100 communities, the event raises awareness and funds lifesaving programs that educate and support patients, their fami-lies and those at risk.

Officials expect about 200 entrants but would welcome more. Pre-registration and fun-draising tips are available at KidneyWalk.org. Anyone who wants to join the fun can sign up at the Walk between 8:30 and 10 a.m. on February 28.

“Every walker who raises at least $100 will receive an official Kidney Walk T-shirt on walk day and those who reach $250 or more in their personal fundraising will be eligible for additional rewards after the 2015 Pensacola Beach Kidney Walk,” commented Pitard. “Many of our walkers strive to become mem-bers of the Top Fundraisers Club, an honor reserved for those who personally raise $1,000 or more for Kidney Walk.”

Walking is good exercise. With the increase in diabetes and high blood pressure -- two major kidney disease risk factors -- kidney disease is on the rise.

“We’re working to reach the 1 in 3 American adults at risk with important prevention mes-sages before it's too late,” said Pitard. “Each year, more than 75,000 walkers join the National Kidney Foundation to raise over $8 million to help kidney patients and their families. Your participation in our events has never been more critical.”

More than 80 cents of ev-ery dollar donated directly sup-ports programs and services. To learn more visit, www.kidney.org or email Pitard at [email protected].

Walkers Seek Donations To Aid Kidney Research

Learn To Raise ChicksEscambia County UF/IFAS

Extension, the Panhandle Poultry Club and the Florida Panhandle 4-H Clubs will host an Chick Rais-ing 101 program on Wednesday, February 18, at 7 p.m., at the Es-cambia County Extension office, 3740 Stefani Road, Cantonment. For more information call 850-475-5230.

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Fat Tuesday, February 17

Krewe of Coma Royal Coronation and Lighted Hat Procession, 6 p.m. at the Sandshaker Lounge, No charge, open to all. The grand fi nale of Mardi Gras on the Island is the crown-ing of the King and Queen of Coma. This evening event requires participants to bring, wear, or otherwise possess lighted and glowing adornments.

Anything goes as long as it glows. Clever and cre-ative types can enter the free Lighted Hat Contest to win fame but not much fortune.

Shoe Box Float Con-test, 8 p.m. Paradise Bar and Grill. No charge, open to all. The competition starts days in advance as artists and wanna be fl oat build-ers begin carefully crafting mini floats out of empty shoe boxes. There is no entry fee. Open to all ages.

Floats may be delivered to the Paradise Bar and Grill.

Ash Wednesday, February 18

Ash Wednesday Ser-vices at area Churches. Pen-sacola Beach Community Church, TheBeachChurch.com, Ash Wednesday ser-vice begins at 7 p.m. Every-one is welcome at the Beach Church.

Our Lady of the As-sumption Catholic Church, stanngulfbreeze.org, will host Mass at 6:30 p.m. on Ash Wednesday. Begin-ning Friday, February 20 through April 3, Stations of the Cross will be presented each Friday at 6:30 p.m. Don’t forget Monsignor Hunt will pray the Mass at Paddy O’Leary’s on March 17. Plan to stop by Our Lady for their annual Corned Beef and Cabbage Dinner, March 17 at 6:30 p.m. Five bucks per plate. Eat in or take it home.


CROWNS~ all hail Krewe of NereidsKing Nereus: Charlie Tawney

The entire Krewe of Nereids will serve as the royal court this year to honor Jeanne Tawney who passed away.

Krewe of Bananimal ChicksQueen Melia Wright

Krewe of KidsQueen Savannah SmokerKing Joey Pearson

Krewe of BananimalsKing Robert HenleyQueen Melissa Wright

Krewe of St. PatrickLord Jeff ElbertLady Kris Wilkins

Krewe of WrecksCaptain Charlie Switzer

First Mate DJ Zemenick

Krewe of ComaKing Gary Rick

Queen Gail Rick

Krewe of BreweMaylyn Kualapai ...Beach Babe

Kathy Videl....QueenKrewe of NaugaQueen Tuesday Marsh

HOW TO MAKE A SHOE BOX FLOAT1. Find a shoe box, with lid2. Let your imagination run wild. 3. Decide on a theme. 4. Gather paint, construction paper, left over ribbon, beads, glitter, small toys, etc.5. Glue, glue gun6. Use an Island Times newspaper to cover your workspace, or if you are saving that edition, use some other rag7. The shoe box is the body of the fl oat, the lid can be attached, like a roof, or snugged up to the end of the box, like a back splash. 8. Wheels, yes if you want to. They can be made of cardboard, tinker toys, Oreo cookies, poker chips, pretty much whatever you'd like.

Shoe Box Floats from previous Contests

Kings representing over half a dozen krewes gathered at the Pensacola Beach Elk’s Lodge, Monday, February 9 for the an-nual King’s Supper. Photographer and Krewe of Wrecks Ship’s Offi cer Harry Purcell submitted this photo of the rulers of the area’s Mardi Gras krewes. Back row, center, 2014 Krewe of Wrecks Captain Dan Smith is the offi cial host of the party which included, among others, kings and members from Krewe of Seville, Krewe of Warriors, Krewe of LaFitte, Krewe of Coma, Krewe of de Feet, Krewe of Bananimals; and one Krewe of Nauga Qu-king.

Krewe of Wrecks First Mate 1996 Edie Draper at the Feb. 9 Queen’s Dinner at Flounder’s.

Denise Keever, left, holds the honor of serving as the Krewe of Wrecks First Mate II. She helped steer the newly minted krewe in 1981. Paulette Provost, center, was the First Mate crowned in 2009 and Deb Friedman carried the crown during the tenth anniversary of the krewe in 1989. They gathered, along with one hundred ladies to toast the Krewe of Wrecks First Mates and all Mardi Gras queens at the annual Queen’s Dinner at Flounder’s February 9.

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Seeing Stars...................this week’s horoscopes

ARIES (March 21 to April 19) There could be some nega-tive reaction to your tough stance when making a recent decision. But overall, your efforts result in well-earned recognition and all that can follow from that.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Your financial situation seems confusing, even for the fiscally savvy Bovine. Maybe it's the conflicting advice you're getting. Check it out before things get too tangled to unknot.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) A relaxed attitude goes a long way in helping you deal with any of life's irritants that might be popping up this week. You're also a reassuring role model for others in the same situation.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Your aspect favors creativity, which should persuade you to work on your artistic projects. If time is a problem, prioritize your commitments so that your work isn't compromised.

LEO (July 23 to August 22) Scrutinize all the job offers that interest you. Most are honest and worth considering. But a few might not be completely forth-coming about what the job is and what the salary and benefits are.

VIRGO (August 23 to Sep-tember 22) An unexpected snafu could delay the completion of a project you're eager to finish. Find out what's causing it, fix it, and if you need help, don't be shy about asking for it. Good luck.

LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) An idea that could be helpful to you comes from an unlikely source. Listen to it. Discuss it. If necessary, adjust it. If it looks as if it might work out quite well, go ahead and use it.

SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Be careful about allowing someone to share a very personal secret with you. This could cause problems down the line with others who are involved in that person's private life.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) A cooling down of a relationship could be the result of neglect, unintended or not. To save it from icing over, you need to warm it up with a large dose of hot Sagittarius passion.

CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) This is a good time to get involved with a number of family matters that involve money and other issues that might jeopardize the closeness between and among family members.

AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Cheer up. That dif-ficult person who appears to be deliberately stalling your project might just need to be reassured of the value she or he brings to it.

PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Good news! Expect to feel re-energized now that you've gone through that stressful ener-gy-depleting period involving a lot of changes. Now, go out there and show them what you can do.

Jambo (Hello Everybody) To Chap or not to Chap?

That is the question. With cold weather rattling our bones this winter, my mind encourages me to welcome people into my home. Providing friends and family with shelter from the harsh and windy conditions must be a real mother thing. I guess we can also apply these principles into other areas of our life.

So with all the Keyboard Courage I can muster I propose the following: When newcom-ers arrive in our group of closely guarded friends, try a new ap-proach. Instead of tightening the circle like a western bound wagon train, enlarge the area. I have observed people rearranging everyone’s position in meetings quite frequently. We simply need to widen our circle and graciously welcome everyone in.

Years ago, I was attending my local church. Sitting in the pew on Sunday morning some-one tapped me on my shoulder. I looked up to see a beautifully coiffed woman with family in

tow. She addressed me with a stern voice, indicating that I was sitting in her pew and I would have to move. Quite frankly I did not realize we had assigned seating in church. Maybe she could have done with a little more welcoming spirit and widen her area of entitled easement.

TIP: The main cause of chapped lips are: dehydration, (I know back to my drinking water speech), allergic reaction, smok-ing, excessive licking of lips, sun exposure and harsh weather.

Protect your lips with a lu-bricating lip cream or balm that contains sunscreen. Avoid licking your lips saliva evaporates quick-ly, leaving lips drier than before. Stay hydrated, enough said.

Breathe through your nose. Breathing through your mouth can cause your lips to dry out.

Avoid allergens. Avoid con-tact with irritants or allergens, such as fragrance or dyes, in

cosmetics or skin care products. Keep those wagon trains roll-

ing and always invite new people and ideas into your life. Head ‘em up, move ‘em out, Rawhide! Quaharini (Until we meet again)

Keep Looking Up! Free Star GazeThursday, Feb 26 • 5 PMBeach School CampusOpen to the Public


The Fifth Annual Kids and Kritters Parade, Saturday, February 7, was hosted by the Krewe of Wrecks and sponsored by Gulf Breeze Animal Hospital and Island Times.

The grand prize winner in the Float division was The Galbreath Family pirate ship captained by Catalina Galbreath and constructed by her dad John. Mom Mayela and sister Vivianna were part of the crew, too.

Holiday Inn Express’ Poison of the Sea float earned second place in the Float division with Eric Furrow as Capt. Trashy. Laura Jansen guided the float around the parade route.

Third place in the Float division was awarded to Poppy’s Pawrates and Princesses Protectors of Paradise. Pandora de Balthazar and family created the float. Pets Coco Chanel and Lucy crewed aboard the float.

Hunter Manning wrangled Nina the Donkey at the parade. He was part of the Black Pearl crew which included Burma Davis, Tina Sarra, Lisa and Buzz Busby and a barnyard full of kritters.

Eight-year-old Jasper the Golden Retriever Pirate won the Best Costumed Kritter Award. He is part of Lynn Beeson’s family.

Melody rode her pirate float with her packmate Nicki. They belong to Larry and Diane Deewaard. This is their third Kids and Kritters parade.

Pretty Girl and Teddy were Pomeranian Pirates. They traveled from Gautier, Mississippi with their parents, Diane and Steve Plummer to attend the Kids and Kritters parade.

Burma Davis and her horse Arwin served as the Grand Mar-shalls of the Kids and Kritters Parade. They were followed by the Black Pearl crewed by the beach famous Boston Terriers Mikey, Calvin and Emma.

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Technically, it’s still winter and there is no better time to visit the Jane Waters Little Free Library. No telling what you will fi nd on the JWLFL shelf as this little free library has been embraced by her community. A huge thank you to beach residents, to the snow birds, and to the occasional tourist who have fi lled her shelf to the brim with maga-

zines and books. Now there is always something exciting to pick up. So stop on by. Remember, no library card needed and no limits on what you can take. The Jane Waters Little Free Library is always open even when the winds howl and it’s not the perfect 75 degrees.

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“How Fast Is My Internet Connection?”

The companies that provide high-speed service in our area are the cable company and the phone company. Using their wired cable services, which include the standard cable, telephone line, and fiber optic cable, you can have multiple levels of service. Your connection speed when ac-cessing the Internet depends on the price you pay for services. It could range from less than 1 megabyte of data per second to more than 50 megabytes per second. At the highest speeds, Internet pages appear instantly. At the lower speeds, the connection may seem to be as slow as with the old dial-up system. Also, be aware that wireless connections are somewhat slower if you are too far away from your wireless router.

There is an easy way to de-termine your actual speed on the Internet. Use the website called “speedtest.net.” Use the site to test your wired and wireless com-puters. On that site, click only on “Begin Test.” Clicking on any-thing else might allow malware to enter your computer. It provides good information, but there are a lot of ads on that page too. With that information you can compare your actual speed to the speed for which you are paying. The speed test will show you the download speed. Your monthly bill should

indicate your level of service, but you may have to call your pro-vider to get the download speed for which you are paying.

Another method for con-necting to the Internet is with the phone company’s “air card.” That device connects you directly to the Internet in a manner that is similar to your cell phone connec-tion. It does not use your home Internet service. Your speed with that service depends on the qual-ity of the signal in your area, but it always seems slow (3 to 4 mb per second), compared to high speed home cable and fi ber optic services.

I know one person who is still using a dial-up connection, but that method is so slow that it is like not being connected at all.

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The Krewe of Brewe crowned Kathy Videl as their 2015 Queen at their Mardi Gras Ball, January 31 at The Dock. Kathy represents the Brewe at the Queen’s Dinner, Wrecks parade, Fiesta celebration, Veteran’s Day and Christmas parades on Pensacola Beach.

SHAGGY’S PROMOTERThe Shaggy’s gang has wel-

comed Marcella Richardson into their family. She is the new Mar-keting and Promotions Director for the three restaurants. Laura Ladner, Shaggy’s co-owner said, “We're really excited to have Marcella on board. She has al-ready visited the Pensacola Beach restaurant to meet Elaine and her crew.” JERE’S SMOKIN’ HOT

Follow the delicious aroma of tender ribs slowly smoking in-front of Crab’s. Chef Jere and his crew are out there tending to the grill when the weather permits. It’s all happening under the red roof at Casino Beach. CHAMBER CHATTER

The Taste of the Beach Com-mittee is fi nalizing festival plans. The VIP ticketed event is set for Friday, September 18 and the open air festival will be from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, Septem-ber 19. More details to follow.




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THE ISLANDER LOUNGE AND PACKAGEA bit of history. The oldest

lounge on Pensacola Beach lo-cated in the Via de Luna Shop-ping Center, about one mile east of the traffi c light. Specials, daily. Dance on the pole. drink a shot. Shuffl eboard. Upstairs Cypress Room and Sundeck. Live music. Just steps away from The Break., our sister establishment. Open everyday for fun. 850-932-9011.

SHAGGY’S WATERFRONT BAR & GRILLFresh seafood served overlooking Little Sabine Bay.

Breezes are free to fl oat through the open air din-ing room and side bar. Laid back, funky, family friendly. Arrive by boat or car, bike or on foot. Open everyday at 11 a.m. in the big red building on Pen-sacola Beach Boulevard. 850-934-4852. www.shag-gys.biz

PADDY O’LEARY’S IRISH PUBMay the luck of the Irish be with you as you enter

the Beach’s authentic Irish Pub. Happy bartenders serv-ing Happy Hour priced drinks Monday thru Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Have you tried a Car Bomb? Electronic Darts. Texas Hold ‘Em 4444 Fun. Live music. All kinds of shenanigans. Located in the historic district of Pensacola Beach, 49 Via de Luna. Call 850-916-9808. www.PaddyOLearysIrishPub.com.

FLOUNDER’S CHOWDER HOUSECelebrating 30 years of Floundering ‘neath the moon and

stars. Offering fresh Seafood including Tuna, Mahi and of course Flounder! Award winning chowder, po boys, burgers and Pen-sacola Beach Style baked oysters. Sample our Fresh catch includ-

ing the Shrimp Boat Platter- loaded with shrimp cock-t a i l , B B Q shrimp, fried shrimp, pop-

corn shrimp and U-peel ems. Kids love our Pirate Ship play-ground located on our beach - well within view of dining parents. For late night revelers- Flounder’s is host to the world’s fi nest beach bands. Dance all night on Flounder’s beach to the most popular bands from across the south.

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CRABS ON THE BEACHOnly restaurant on Pensacola Beach offering breath taking

views of the Gulf while dining directly on the beach. Come as you are straight off the sandy beach and enjoy our indoor/outdoor

bar and gulf side deck. Crabs has the largest se-lection of Crab on the beach, was voted Best Crab by News Journal readers. She Crab Soup,

Stuffed Blue Crabs, Alaskan Snow, King or Dungeness - you’ll fi nd them all! We have many other seafood favorites on our menu as well as a great assortment of chicken, steaks and pasta dishes. Don’t forget to try one of our signature drinks like ‘The Crab Trap’ which come with a souvenir glass to keep!

Open 7 days a week. Sunday Brunch with live Steel Band. Look for the Red Roof. 850-932-0700 www.crabswegotem.com

MCGUIRE’S IRISH PUBOne of America’s great steakhouses; proudly serving USDA

Prime Steaks, seafood and Irish specialties including Irish fi sher-man’s bouillabaisse, Corned Beef and Cabbage and Shepherd’s

Pie all inside a turn of the century New York Irish Saloon themed pub. McGuire’s is celebrated for its atmosphere, boast-

ing more than 750,000 signed dollar bills hanging from the ceilings of the pub. Live entertainment coupled with great food and warm and friendly service by Employees who Give a Damn! Visit our on-site brewery and the O’Tolf Wine Cellar featuring the complete vertical collection of the Chateau Mouton Rothschild Artist Series. Featured on NBC’s ‘Today’ Show, highly recom-mended by Fodors, Frommers and AAA travel guides, Florida Trend Magazine Hall of Fame Member.

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SANDSHAKER LOUNGEThe “World Famous Sandshaker”- a Pensacola Beach

Tradition since 1973. Home of the Original Bushwacker. Been selling this signature drink for over 30 years. First bar on the Beach to offer this tasty frozen concoction. Something’s always shakin’ - Monday half price BARE 10 a.m. til close; TX Hold’Em & Trivia at 7 p.m.,

Tuesday is Karaoke with Becky, Thursday half price T-Shirt Nite. Live Entertainment Year Round Wednesday thru Sunday. Check out the Gift Shop. Across from the Boardwalk. Open 10 am - 3 am. 850-932-2211. www.sandshaker.com

PARADISE BAR AND GRILLA little bit of paradise at this open air, island style bar with

its own private white sand beach. Pull up a rattan stool. Cold beer. Live Music. Exotic Liba-tions. Friendly locals. Lunch and Dinner everyday. Sand-wiches. Salads. Fresh Catch of the Day. Renee’s Famous Shrimp Salad. Happy Hour 11-7. Live Bands. Poker on Monday and Wednesday.

Tucked away in the parking lot of the Paradise

Inn, it’s directly on Santa Rosa Sound. Boat and Bicycle parking. Open 7 days. 850-916-5087.

PEGLEG PETE’SAhoy, Matey. You’ve found a Pensacola Beach treasure.

Pirates welcome. Fresh Gulf seafood served in the galley or outside on the awning covered deck. Glass front bar overlooks LaFitte Cove. All kinds of oysters. Live lobster. Gumbo. Dinner specials nightly. Size-able sandwiches and burgers for Landlubbers. Take home a t-shirt.

Look for the Jolly Rogers fl ying over the west end of the Island at 1010 Fort Pickens Road. We’re here everyday at 11. 932-4139. www.peglegpetes.com

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It was a record fi eld for the 2015 Double Bridge Run (DBR) as over 3,000 athletes were reg-istered for the 15K race and over 1,300 signed up to compete in the 5K. Throw in perfect running weather (sunny and 48 degrees at the start warming up to the 60s) and a great post-race celebration along The Boardwalk and you have a huge success.

Pensacola Sports Associa-tion (PSA) Event Manager Jason Libbert said the many volunteers, sponsors and runners were re-sponsible for this year’s DBR being a great race.

“We couldn’t have pulled it all off without everyone’s dedi-cation to making it a memorable experience for the participants” he stated. “Thanks to the Pen-sacola Beach businesses and residents for welcoming the run-ners and adding to the event” he concluded.

My responsibility for this race for the past six years (after being Race Director in 2009) has been handling the elite athletes. That’s been a challenge and a lot of fun. It’s challenging because I get to interface with a lot of foreign athletes, many of whom speak little or no English. My Spanish is not good and I don’t know any Kenyan, Ethiopian or Russian. Somehow we get through registration, directions, logistics, transportation and the race itself with few issues.

It’s been fun because of the pure joy and exhilaration of watching talented athletes run that fast up close. For a race with a relatively small amount of prize money, we’ve been very lucky to have some amazing athletes show up at our Start line. We’ve had four Olympians, multiple national champions and several runners who have qualifi ed for the Olympic trials and have many race victories on their resume’.

I will say that all of these great athletes have been great people as well – dedicated, ac-complished, humble and ap-preciative. This is also my ex-

perience in triathlon as well. The professionals have been very down-to-earth athletes who are personable and great ambassadors for their sport.

This year’s winners are no exception. Tyler McCandless, Boulder, and Allie Kieffer, New York City, are outstanding young runners that we can be proud to have as our champions. Tyler, who has Bachelor and Masters degrees, is a recipient of the NCAA’s post-graduate scholar-ship awarded to excellent athletes and students. He is currently finalizing his PhD dissertation and should achieve that distinc-tion this summer. Allie ran for Wake Forest and received her undergraduate degree there. She earned her master’s degree from Arizona State University. They both really love their sport and the exuberance of going all out in competition.

I see continued growth and success for the DBR in the future. The course is one of the most beautiful in the country. It starts at the Community Maritime Park in downtown Pensacola, winds along the amazing Bayfront, goes across two bridges with great views and ends up on beautiful Santa Rosa Island. We should have at least 10,000 athletes in this outstanding event.Triathlon Season Is Almost Here

I hope you have been training semi-seriously for weeks. Yes, I know you’ve been running, but remember, triathlon has three disciplines. The Bluewater Bay Duathlon is coming up on Feb-ruary 21 as kind of a “training race.” You’ll be able to stretch out your biking and running legs and get your heart rate way up in competition. Then it’s on!

On the immediate horizon are the Red Hills Triathlon in Tallahassee (April 4), the Mullet Man Triathlon at The Florabama (April 18) and the Beach Blast Triathlon in Mexico Beach (April 25). There are others, but the fi rst signature race is a little further out

there – The Grandman Triathlon in Fairhope on the fi nal Saturday in May (May 30).

Another Trail Another RaceActually, it’s not just another

trail run. The Pensacola Runners Association (PRA) Bay To Break-fast 8K Cross Country Challenge (February 28) is a classic. Over the years this race has been held all over Northwest Florida, but it seems to have found a home at the scenic Big Lagoon State Park.

The race distance is 8K. What’s 8K, you ask? Well, tech-nically it’s 8,000 meters and a meter is a little over 39 inches. 8K is 4.97 miles so just think of it as a 5-mile trail run and you’ve got it. It starts off on a road in the park and soon turns in the “wild” areas. The trails are wide, which is great, and are semi-soft or soft sand. That’s the hard part – soft sand – but it’s defi nitely a challenge.

After you’ve experienced all the great views and sprinted down the road to the Finish line, the PRA will be putting on a cookout and handing out all the awesome awards. A great long-sleeved race shirt will go to all registered run-ners. For more information go to www.pensacolarunners.com.

The reigning champion of the Double Bridge Run Tyler McCand-less of Boulder, Colorado, as he passed the seven-mile marker on his way through Gulf Breeze. His time was 45:18 for the 15K distance. The fi nish line was at the Boardwalk on Pensacola Beach.

Melinda Hinkson was having a great time as she ran through Gulf Breeze on her way to the fi nish line of the Double Bridge Run February 7. The Gulf Breeze resident fi nished 20th out of 55 runners in her age bracket with a time of 1:34:35 in the 15K distance.

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The Greater Pensacola Ladies Tennis League awards ceremony was held at the Hilton last month. Photographer Pete Rand submitted this photo of the Flight One Team comprised of Beach and Gulf Breeze residents. Despite being without a court to call home after the April fl oods destroyed theirs, the Flight 1 Team of (Front, L to R) Co-Captain Liz Champlin, Sherlyn Waghalter, Jane Farmer, Captain Suzanne Hutson, Jennifer Hawkins and Neicy Olson; and back row, (L to R): Michelle Petersen, Edie Brodie and Ross Sakey (pro) took top honors. Their home courts are at the Shoreline Park in Gulf Breeze. Not in photo: LeeAnn Pugh, Janet Mabry, Miriam Rowland, Cheri Krohn, Shannon Gardner.

I was ready for another blus-tery winter morn, but when I opened the door last weekend I couldn't believe my eyes; sunny and 64 degrees. Was this a trick from Mother Nature? Who cares! The rest of this week the temps are going to be perfect with upper 60's. Looks like it's time to wipe the dust off of your tackle and hit the water.

Typically, it's a little cooler this time of year,and later this week it will be, but right now just enjoy this burst of spring.

Before you rush out to your favorite fi shing hole, don't forget the fi sh will still be in their winter-time mode. Keep your techniques slow and watch the tides, and you'll more than likely have a productive day.

Right now the Trout are still on the fl ats in the upper bay estu-aries near the mouth of the rivers. You can fi nd some Trout and Reds but they are in the deeper holes until the sun comes out and then they will move up on the fl ats to warm up.

Redfi sh and Trout are tuned in to the tides and they wait for high tide to fi ll up the fl ats. Let them move up, so they can root out crabs and worms. On the warmer days of winter, fi sh will

lay on the muddy bottom warm-ing themselves.

If you like Sheepshead and Black Drum fi shing, then Febru-ary is your time to get your fi ll. Hit the bridges with live shrimp or small fresh cut shrimp.

The past few days the Sheepshead bite has been off the charts. The bite was so good it felt like it was late March, since late March and early April are typi-cally the best time for Sheepies and Black Drum.

In the pass, stop over at the jetties and you'll have some fun with Sheepshead, Drum (both red and black), and even a few Black Snapper to fi ll in the mix.

Spring Break is right around the corner, and that means warmer temperatures, big Sheepshead, hard fi ghting Redfi sh and much more. Cobia and Pompano are on the way!

What on earth are you wait-ing for? Grab a kid and go fi shing!

C a p t a i n R u s t y S m i t h aboard The En-tertainer snapped this photo of one of his happy cus-tomers with a big haul of Amber-jack caught off-shore in January. Check ‘em out. They tie up at the Pensacola Beach Marina located at Innerlight.

Anglers are competing for the biggest fi sh in the Gulf Breeze Bait and Tackle Sheepshead Tournament. The event, continues through March 31. The entry fee is $10 and fishermen must be registered before weighing a fi sh.

The following anglers are on the leaderboard:

1st Place: Tuan Khuu - Fish Weight: 6.17 lbs.

2nd Place: Sang Bok Lee - Fish Weight: 5.50 lbs.

3rd Place: Greg Benton - Fish Weight: 5.24 lbs.

4th Place: Justin Tran - Fish Weight: 5.23 lbs.

The winning angler will receive a $200 Gulf Breeze Bait and Tackle Gift Card and Pair of Costa Del Mar Sunglasses. For more, go to gbbtonline.com.

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