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Get more customers from your neighborhood ... Advertise in Gulf Breeze News! Call (850) 932-8986 for pricing to fit your budget January 23, 2014 YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER 75¢ Former tax collector exec. gets jail time BY JASON THOMPSON 2007 Gulf Breeze High gradu- Gulf Breeze News ate. BY MAT PELLEGRINO [email protected] The former Stanford Cardinal Gulf Breeze News had the game of his life Sunday [email protected] It was only seven and a half in the NFC title game, where years ago, when a couple of Baldwin amassed 215 all-pur- The former Santa Rosa County Chief thousand eyes were watching pose yards in the Seahawks’ 23- Deputy Tax Collector who was charged Doug Baldwin play football on 17 win over the San Frnacisco with multiple counts of sexual battery Fridays at Gulf Breeze High. 49ers. on several juveniles was sentenced to A couple of billion eyes His 106 receiving yards on jail time last week. around the world will be watch- six catches marked only the sec- Edward Collinsworth, 46, was sen- ing a week from Sunday, when ond time this season he’s had a tenced to serve 11 months, 29 days in Baldwin and the Seattle Se- jail along with 15 years of probation af- 100-yard game. Either on kick Collinsworth ahawks will face the Denver return or a catch, Baldwin fac- ter pleading no contest in a Santa Rosa Broncos in Super Bowl XL- tored in to 20 of the Seahawks’ County courtroom via an arrest made VIII at Met Life Stadium in 23 points. Four of his six recep- back on October 10, 2012 where individuals came for- East Rutherford, N.J. Kickoff is tions ‘moved the chains,’ giving ward alleging Col- See Collinsworth Page 3A » scheduled for 5:30 p.m. and will Seattle a irst down. linsworth sexually be televised on FOX. Baldwin’s irst kickoff re- “It’s just a blessed feeling turn of 16 yards came after the – a surreal feeling. I don’t know 49ers took a 3-0 lead. But the how to put it into Seahawks would go ‘three and Adams Homes words,” said the See Baldwin Page 3A » founder dies of cancer BY LISA NEWELL Gulf Breeze News [email protected] Cancer felled a large man last week, a man not Doug gets yards after the catch at PHS 2005 only large in stature but also in impact. Doug and little brother Devon 06’ Wayne Adams succumbed Sunday, Jan. 12 at age 60. Adams founded Adams Homes in 1991 with a couple of employ- ees. The first year, they built a few houses but after several years of Former Hooters workers jailed 40 percent growth, the company was producing nearly 5,000 homes per year in seven southeastern Doyon, 43, of Pace, and Marquis R. Seals, sacola Beach and stated they lost money FROM STAFF REPORTS states. The Adams Homes website 34, Bernard Cook, 39, and Tremayne C. due to the oil spill in their GCCF claims. Adams Gulf Breeze News says the company is one of the larg- Jamison, 42, of Pensacola, were sentenced Martin, then general manager of Hooters, [email protected] est privately held homebuilders in the nation, having last week in federal court. and Seals, then assistant manager, aided built 35,000 homes. The cases were investigated by the U.S. and abetted their co-workers by providing Five former employees of the Hooters The company’s corporate headquarters at the in- Secret Service. fraudulent employment documentation for on Pensacola Beach recently plead guilty tersection of Highway 98 and Rosa Del Villa is the Martin, Seals, Doyon, and Cook admit- their claims. to mail fraud and filing false claims related nerve center for all the company activities, employ- ted to submitting fraudulent claims to the Jamison filed a false claim with the Na- to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill ing nearly 250 people and earning multiple millions Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF). Ac- tional Pollution Funds Center of the U.S. and will be forced to pay back more than of dollars each year. cording to a release from the state attor- Coast Guard, which included a letter from $85,000 in restitution to the Deepwater “Wayne’s desire was always to operate under the ney’s office, they falsely inflated their Horizon Oil Spill Trust. See radar,” Don said. income as employees of Hooters of Pen- Workers Page 3A » Charles C. Martin, 40, and Joseph B. He loved the See Adams Page 2A » Mailing Statement Calendar ..........2A Lifestyles ..........1B on Opinion Page FRI 01/24 SAT 01/25 SUN 01/26 Classiieds . 7C Movie Listings .....2B WEEKEND MOSTLY SUNNY MOSTLY SUNNY SHOWERS Crime Report ......2A Schools.........5A, 8A THREE SECTIONS, 20 PAGES hi 47/lo 37 hi 53/lo 46 hi 59/lo 45 Crossword Puzzle...3B Sports ..........1-7C VOL. 13, NO. 04 Weather-plus rain: 10 % rain: 10 % rain: 30% Arrests and DUIs ...2A Talk of the Town....4A JANUARY 23, 2014 Classic,Trendy & Coastal home! 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THURSDAY, JANUARY 27 and driving a 10-year-old ter working there for many company, which is experi- “He was happy to have vehicle. years. encing an upturn after the the company and afford County Commission Regular Meeting, 9 “He always said the se- Adams Homes has 21 of- recession and is expected people the opportunity to a.m., Board of County Commission Chambers, cret to his success was hav- fices located in Alabama, to close nearly 2,000 homes advance,” Don said. Milton Commission Special Rezoning Meeting, 6 p.m., Board of County Commission Chambers, Milton City aims to change police pension plan WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29 taxpayers, who now pay 30 ket is soaring, pension plans we have to make concessions, BY LISA NEWELL Executive Committee Meeting, 6:30 p.m., Gulf Breeze News percent toward retirement must have a ratio of stocks to but it’s not just money. There Gulf Breeze City Hall, Council Chambers [email protected] will pay the reduced amount bonds. “And the bond market is a lot more involved in it.” of 17.5 percent. is not doing so well.” Twelve city policemen will The sluggish economy City Manager Buz Eddy Actuarial tables show that be affected by the proposed is affecting police pension said the city has $2 million people are living longer, tak- changes, which could reduce plans, and the City is asking invested with the assumption ing benefits for a longer pe- an average policeman’s pay for changes to the amount that it will earn an average riod of time and draining the by $66 per week or $3,432 policemen contribute to their return of 7.5 percent each pool for those coming behind per year. retirement. year. However, due to the them. Four other staff members Under the city’s plan, pen- downturn in the economy, the Sgt. Mark Lyster is the have their pensions calcu- sion benefits will be calcu- return has been less than that pension board chairman and lated on a state retirement lated on base pay and not in- projection and the city has a 14-year member of the program which was in effect clude overtime pay. The cost had to put in an additional force. He wants to see a pub- when they joined the force. of living adjustment will be amount to make up the short- lic hearing on the matter be- Eddy said the police force calculated on the third anni- fall. fore any changes are made to know that changes must be versary of retirement rather “There are rules that gov- the pension plan. made to the pension plan. than every year; and employ- ern how you invest pension “We want to bring in an ex- “They have got a stake to ees must put in an additional plans,” Eddy said, adding pert from Tallahassee,” Lys- make sure the pension is sta- 3 percent of their pay. City that although the stock mar- ter said. “Of course, we know ble,” Eddy said. Navarre man charged with sexual assault on minor Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office Report uary 16 and Behavior on a victim under the The minor told the inves- Information provided by the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office. FROM STAFF REPORTS Gulf Breeze News c h a r g e d age of 12. tigator that Small asked the [email protected] with two According to the Santa child not to tell law enforce- counts of Rosa County Sheriff’s arrest ment about what he did to her. FELONIES property A Navarre man is behind Capital report, the victim told investi- The Navarre man had previ- 1/16/2014 1/20/2014 bars after a minor came for- Sexual As- gators that she had been sexu- ously been charged with Bat- Small, Paul Frank, 70, Herbek, Laura Elizabeth, ward telling law enforcement sault on ally abused by the man for tery and Cruelty Towards a 3000 block of Ranney Dr, 25, 11000 block of Chemstrand that the 70-year-old man mo- a victim years and that Small would Child back in 2012, and had Navarre, sexual assault victim Road, Pensacola, Drug lested her for years.