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HEROISM ARTS SCHOOLS Teen lifeguard springs BETA Children’s Good Shepherd to action, saves pair Theatre plans show graduates 21 kids Lifeguard and recent GBHS Maddie Mateer Lutheran school gets graduate Cayla Platt saves portrays ‘Anastasia’ children ready for next two people from drowning in in local stage step in their education the Gulf of Mexico. Page 1B production. Page 4B process. Page 1B A W Current highend designer apparel A R 20-75% OFF RETAIL PRICES! D ● Men's Women's Children's Clothing W I Shoes Sunglasses Accessories Fragrance N N Open Thursday thru Sunday I N 911-C Gulf Breeze Pkwy. * 934-6764 G 50¢ YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER June 11, 2009 MORE NEWS INFORMATION Hotel To INSIDE report a ■ Local Toastmasters coyote attack, incident club earns top honors. call the Florida Story on page 3A Fish and Wildlife Conservation ■ Several local students Commission at angers 1-850-265-3676. The score perfect grades on regional office is in two subjects on spring Panama City. FCAT tests. visitors Photos on page 8C Coyotes ■ Women in town for GBHS graduation stare down barrel WEEKEND of Gulf Breeze Police shotgun Weather preying BY JOE CULPEPPER THURSDAY 6/11 Gulf Breeze News Mostly Sunny on cats [email protected] O high 89 ■ At least 5 pet cats Two women visiting Gulf Breeze to low 75O witness their grand-daughter/niece’s high thought to have been school graduation were held at gunpoint FRIDAY victimized lately by a Gulf Breeze police officer at a local 6/12 hotel that increasingly is becoming noto- Mostly Sunny BY JOE CULPEPPER rious for unsavory activities. O Gulf Breeze News Lisa Kuypers, 45, and Norma Niles, high 92 [email protected] O 72, of Bradenton were staying at the Bay low 76 In cartoon lore, coyotes have Beach Inn Resort at 51 Gulf Breeze Parkway during the early morning hours SATURDAY been depicted as bumbling, 6/13 dim-witted predators. of Sunday, May 31, when two potential Partly Cloudy In real life, however, coyotes acts of guest-room intrusion resulted in a high 91O are shifty, cunning, calculated See HOTEL, Page 3A low 76O hunters. In recent days, some Gulf Breeze residents have been alarmed by savage coyote SUNDAY 6/14 attacks on pets. House fire claims Iso. T-Storms Faye Hooprich has lost four Gulf Breeze man high 89O cats from her fenced backyard on Ramblewood Drive not far low O ■ Mother, brother manage to 77 from The Club on U.S. Highway 98. escape blaze on Pine Street Karen Jurkowich and her Gulf Breeze Dolphin to play in College World Series Gulf Breeze News A late-night house fire Thursday in the husband, Mike, were awakened Former Gulf Breeze High standout Kameron Brunty played a major role in INSIDE 1200 block of Pine Street in the Oriole during the early morning hours helping propel Southern Mississippi into the 2009 College World Series in of June 2 and startled to witness Omaha, Neb. The true freshman outfielder made several key plays in region- Beach area claimed the life of a Gulf Calendar 2A two growling coyotes playing al wins over Georgia Tech and Florida. Brunty and USM play top-seeded Breeze resident. Classifieds 3D See COYOTES, Page 2A Texas at 6 p.m. Sunday on ESPN2. Related story, 1C See FIRE, Page 2A Crossword puzzle 3B Community 3-8A Entertainment 2B Gas Watch 8A Granse’s career reaches ‘full circle’ Island News 1D Lifestyles 1B ■ “We bought a home here, in Gulf Retiring Gulf Breeze SECOND IN A SERIES Obituaries 7A Middle School principal won’t Breeze, and I had told the real estate Opinion 6A agent I was very concerned about the miss ‘politics’ of FCAT of college with Auto Owners Insurance Senior Scene 7A – and both of us have never stopped schools because I was a teacher. So the real estate agent took me to meet the Sports/Schools 1-8C BY PAM BRANNON working since,” Granse said last week. principal at this school, Walter Carr, so Talk of the Town 4A Gulf Breeze News “He will retire July 1 from Auto Owners. [email protected] It will be interesting.” he could answer any of my questions. I “Mailing Statement When they left college, the Granse See GRANSE, Page 2A on Editorial Page” Gulf Breeze Middle School Principal couple lived near Kalamazoo, Mich. FOUR SECTIONS Jennifer Granse is retiring June 29 after Jennifer taught elementary school there Related inside VOL. 8, NO. 24 41 years as an educator. for 13 years before her husband was ■ Letters to Editor: Patti Triplett Pam Brannon/Gulf Breeze News JUNE 11, 2009 “I got a teaching job right out of col- transferred to Florida with his company laments end of her Gulf Breeze Jennifer Granse has been principal at lege, and my husband got a job right out in 1981. Middle School teaching career, 6A GBMS for the past nine years. home! your Call 932-8986 today Call 932-8986 today Enjoy your community paper community your Enjoy mailed directly to mailed directly GULF BREEZE NEWS (850) 932-8986 www.gulfbreezenews.com 2A June 11, 2009 GULF BREEZE NEWS FIRE: Investigators still trying to determine cause Continued from page 1A arrived on scene within four minutes. The house was fully Michael Skaggs, believed to involved. Thursday, June 11 Thursday, be in his late 40s, died when a Backup support was provided Santa Rosa County June 18 blaze broke out in a two-story, by units from Gulf Breeze Commission 9 a.m., County 1,500-square foot house owned Volunteer Fire Department, Administrative Center, 6495 Senior Officials by his mother shortly before Pensacola Beach Fire Caroline Street, Milton Training Workshop at midnight on June 4. Skaggs’ Department and Holley-Navarre Santa Rosa County Budget Emergency mother and brother were able to Fire Department. Twenty-one Workshop for Constitutional Operations Center 9 escape the fire, which burned firefighters battled the blaze. Officers 1:30 p.m., County a.m., EOC Headquarters, 4499 into the early morning hours of “It’s a wood-frame house Administrative Center, 6495 Caroline Street, Milton Pine Forest Road, Friday. with wooden floors, walls and City of Gulf Breeze Milton The state Fire Marshal’s ceilings,” Midway Fire District Beautification Committee 6 Office was investigating the Chief Jonathan Kanzigg said. p.m., City Hall, 1070 Shoreline cause of the blaze, and the med- “When units arrived, it was too Drive, Gulf Breeze Monday, June 22 ical examiner was on scene to hot to get up to the house. It Santa Rosa County Local Santa Rosa County begin an investigation into took about an hour to bring it Planning Board 6 p.m., Utility Board 5 p.m., Skaggs’ cause of death. under control. Steve Clark/Special to Gulf Breeze News County Administrative Center, County Administrative Midway Fire District “Several thousand gallons of Fire fighters Lt. Rick Barberi and Michael McKenzie battle a 6495 Caroline Street, Milton Center, 6495 Caroline Street, received a 911 call from an area water were required to put out blaze in the 1200 block of Pine Street early Friday morning Fire Department Executive Milton resident at 11:55 p.m. and the fire.” that claimed the life of a Gulf Breeze man, Michael Skaggs. Group 6:30 p.m., Santa Rosa County Emergency Management headquarters, Tuesday, June 23 Weekly Activity Report Navarre and Avalon FD responded 4499 Pine Forest Road, Milton City of Gulf Breeze Board Midway Fire District Emergency Report to assist. (rescheduled from June 2) Information provided by Midway Fire District. of Adjustments 6:30 p.m., For the week of May 29 The second house fire was a mutual aid call to Navarre for a City Hall, 1070 Shoreline Drive, through June 25, Midway Fire injuries, 1 water rescue, 3 haz- Street. The fire was reported to be house fire in Holley By The Sea on Monday, June 15 Gulf Breeze District was called for 49 emergen- ardous conditions, 3 public service fully involved upon arrival by the Jasper Street. Gulf Breeze City Council cies. The incidents included 2 calls, 2 canceled en route and 1 first fire crews that arrived on To learn more about Midway Fire 6:30 p.m., City Hall, 1070 house fires, 2 grass fires, 33 med- false fire alarm. scene with in 4 minutes. Gulf District, log on to www.midway Wednesday, June 24 One house fire was on Pine Shoreline Drive, Gulf Breeze ical, 2 motor vehicle accidents with Breeze, Pensacola Beach, Holley fire.com. City of Gulf Breeze IDR Meeting 11:30 a.m., City Hall, Wednesday, June 17 1070 Shoreline Drive, Gulf COYOTES: Typically eat mice, rats, squirrels, lizards Gulf Breeze Area Chamber Breeze of Commerce Executive Santa Rosa County a meal. “I don’t see how they Board 7 a.m., Chamber Affordable Housing Advisory Continued from page 1A Headquarters, 409 Gulf Breeze could leap back over a fence Committee 3 p.m., 6051 Old Parkway, Gulf Breeze Bagdad Highway, Milton tug-o-war with a neighborhood with a cat in their mouth, Santa Rosa County Tourist cat in Villa Venyce. though.” Santa Rosa Island Development Council Board Authority Committee 5 p.m., Both women want Gulf Kirkland said the public 3 p.m., Santa Rosa County SRIA Headquarters, 1 Via Breeze residents to be more can hire a professional trap- Chamber of Commerce, 5247 DeLuna Drive, Pensacola diligent in protecting their out- per to try and apprehend the Stewart Street, Milton Beach coyotes. The FWC partners Santa Rosa County door pets. Santa Rosa County Parks with a number of profession- Aviation Advisory Committee “I just feel guilty,” and Recreation 5:30 p.m., Hooprich said.