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FOOTBALL: MILTON FINISHES SEASON 4-6 SPORTS, A10 Santa Rosa’s Press Let Santa Rosans know what you think Speak Out Inside | Page A2 srpressgazette.com Gazette 623-5887 Tweet us @srpressgazette and friend us on facebook.com Wednesday, November 9, 2011 Find breaking news at www.srpressgazette.com 75 cents Santa Rosa eager for courthouse Some say old building doesn’t meet security, accessibility needs By Dusty Ricketts rate hallways, inmates are escort- have metal detectors … you just updating a needs assessment. Florida Freedom Newspapers ed down the same hallways as the walked in. It’s a different world. A new judicial center likely general public and judiciary staff, Things have changed.” would cost about $30 million, Paint is chipping off walls. De- leading to safety concerns. Santa Rosa County Commis- based on previous estimates. humidifiers fight a losing battle After nearly 85 years, the Santa sioners have discussed building Commissioners have said that against mold seeping through Rosa County courthouse is show- a new courthouse for more than asking voters to approve a half- vents and cracks in the ceiling. ing its age. a decade, but past attempts have cent or one-cent sales tax to fund Some areas are completely in- “Courthouses are built now always failed because of a lack of the project probably is their only accessible to anyone in a wheel- with security in mind,” said Bren- funding. option. chair. da Van Brussel, court operations Commissioners are again try- While past efforts to ap- And those are just the surface manager for Santa Rosa County. ing to convince the public of the prove a sales tax have failed, problems. “Back (in 1927), it wasn’t the first need for a new judicial center, and With no holding cells or sepa- thing on their mind. They didn’t county staff is in the process of See COURTHOUSE A4 Honoring veterans ‘11’By Mathew Pellegrino [email protected] PRESS GAZETTE FILE PHOTOS If there’s one number that will always stick with Olivia Williams-Smith, it’s the number 11. The eleventh child in her family was born on November 11, 1941, during the 11th hour of the night. Santa Rosa County residents are encouraged wreaths and rifle salute follows the parade. A When Olivia turned to honor those who have served our country in the Veterans Day picnic hosted by Santa Rosa the big 11 in 1952, a family armed forces by participating in local Veterans Day County 4-H and a brick dedication for doctor made a call to activities. The annual Veterans Day Parade, sponsored new additions to the Veterans Memorial Ripley’s Believe it or Not. by the Veterans Community Planning Committee, is Plaza will follow the ceremony. Days later, Olivia’s face scheduled for Friday, Nov. 11. Incoming NAS Whiting In the event of severe was plastered over every Field Commanding Officer Capt. Matthew Coughlin weather, the Veterans Day major news outlet in the will serve as both the parade grand marshal and ceremony will be held in United States, including ceremony keynote speaker. the Milton High School Hawaii. auditorium at 11 a.m. “She keeps everything Veterans Day Parade - 9:30 a.m. In observance of that happens on 11/11,” Veterans Day, the U.S. said her sister Bobbie The parade begins at Milton High School parking lot Post Office will be closed on Matlock-Kee of Milton. and ends at the Santa Rosa County Veterans Memorial Friday and no mail will be Bobbie lives a few Plaza located at 5178 Willing Street in Milton. delivered. houses down from her Organizations wishing to participate in the parade at Also closed will be the sister, who was born no cost are asked to contact Ralph Nesenson at 626- in Bonifay, Fla. Olivia 7292 or 313-6637. Milton City Hall and Santa Rosa County Offices. purchased a house near Trash routes in Milton her sister in Milton back Veterans Day Ceremony - 11 a.m. will see Thursday’s routes in 2004 and resides in the house about six months Ceremony in front of the Santa Rosa County picked up on Wednesday out of the year. Veterans Plaza with city and county proclamations, and Friday’s routes picked Olivia moved with her keynote speech by Capt. Matthew Coughlin, laying of up on Thursday. husband to New England soon after she was married and has a second home in New Hampshire she lives in during the Aviation Park one step closer to reality other half of the year. She has two children and two grandchildren. By Mathew Pellegrino Santa Rosa, the county’s eco- almost ten years to acquire. more industry and jobs into the Currently retired, Olivia [email protected] nomic development council spoke “We started talking about Whit- county. is celebrating a milestone with Thomas Roda with Atkins, an ing Aviation Park in 2002,” said Roda brought concepts for the this year when she will The Whiting Aviation Park is engineering firm, about the mas- county commissioner Don Salter. airport master plan to the table at turn 70 in her home away moving closer to a reality, as com- ter plan of the park and how much “This has been a long process.” the Monday county commission from home in Milton. missioners looked at proposed commercial and industrial plots Salter has been working on meeting about what the Aviation Born in Bonifay, Fla., concepts of what types of busi- they could squeeze in the plots that the Whiting Aviation Park project Park may look like, how much it she was delivered at nesses will go in the 265-acre lot were granted to them in the Lim- since it was brought up in 2002, will cost, and how long it would home by a doctor who her next to Whiting Field. ited Access Use Agreement with and helped secure the land and Cindy Anderson with TEAM the Navy, which took the county the project in an effort to bring See AVIATION A4 See “11” A4 TABLE OF CONTENTS Jim Fletcher Printed on Publisher recycled Speak Out ..................................A2 Obituaries ..................................A7 623-2120 paper Sudoku ......................................A2 Sports ........................................A10 [email protected] Opinion .....................................A6 Classifieds .................................B6 Volume 103 Issue 90 A2 | Santa Rosa’s Press Gazette Local Wednesday, November 9, 2011 Area Military get a Speak OUT Sunday, 9:01 a.m. raise to offset their Texas-size thank you retirement contribution. I called about someone Sounds to me like they stealing my grand are more worried about MAKE YOUR on Veteran’s Day daughters bicycle in the employees vote than Marlborough Village on what is right for the rest the same day people were of us. Special to the Press Gazette product, sweet tea/ice tea robbed at the cemetery. VOICE HEARD or coffee, during lunch. I woke up the other day Texas Roadhouse in To participate, you must and within five minutes, Editor’s note: That Milton invites military provide proof of service someone had stolen 3 percent contribution veterans and active duty including military or VA another bicycle. I am the state is taking from military from around the card, or discharge papers. letting the perpetrator employees does not Do you have a question or concern about area to enjoy a free lunch This free meal for know I am going to put benefit their retirement, a article? Need help or advice from you in celebration of Veteran’s military personnel only; a sign in my yard for a but goes into the general neighbors? Want to share some interesting Day. free meal offer does not free bicycle. Come and fund according to a information with your community? Call the Every Texas include spouses or other get it and when you statement from Sen. Greg Speak Out line and let us know! Roadhouse location family members. do you will be playing Evers. If you have a short comment you would like across the country will Texas Roadhouse Russian Roulette. I called to make, call the Speak Out line at 623-5887. participate in the free supports the U.S. Military the Santa Rosa County lunch event to honor the in a variety of ways Sheriff and they are going Sunday, 6:44 a.m. men and women of our throughout the year. From to investigate this. Thank Hi, this is Wallace. armed forces. Nov. 1-30, the restaurant you Speak Out. 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