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See TROPHY, Page 2A6 WEEKEND Paulding Weather Hope for Sudan THURSDAY 9/25 cleared Sunny high 83O on abuse low 66O of power FRIDAY 9/26 Mostly Sunny allegations high 83O Did you know? low 68O Sudan is the front line ■ State Attorney: City of the spiritual battle Council acted within for the continent of SATURDAY 9/27 Africa. Osama bid Florida’s Sunshine Law Mostly Sunny Laden originally BY VICI PAPAJOHN O launched his jihad high 83 against the non- Gulf Breeze News low 70O Muslim world from [email protected] Khartoum, the coun- Gulf Breeze Police Chief Peter SUNDAY try’s capital. The 9/28 Sudanese people live Paulding has been cleared of Mostly Sunny with the constant abuse of power allegations stem- O weariness and tragedy ming from a neighbor’s complaint high 84 that Paulding used the Police O of spiritual battle, low 69 aggravated by violent Department to intimidate him. political factions and a Frank Boykin, Paulding’s next- civil war that has been door neighbor on Hoffman Bayou fought for more than in Gulf Breeze, filed a complaint INSIDE 20 years. More than during the spring with the State 2 million people have Attorney’s Office alleging that been killed and Paulding instructed officers to A Business 8 Calvary Chapel Gulf Breeze another 4 million exercise acts of intimidation after Classifieds 3D Pastor Dale Waltman (center) of Calvary Chapel Gulf Breeze hams it up with Sudanese driven from their he and Paulding clashed over a College Football 8C children who are totally amazed by the advanced technology of digital photography. homes. pier and seawall construction. Community 3-8A In a letter to Boykin, Gregory Crossword 3B A. Marcille, Chief Assistant to State Attorney William Eddins, Entertainment 2B Calvary Chapel delivers message responded to Boykin’s complaints Green Living 1B that Paulding allegedly abused his Island News 1D ■ Nine members of Gulf termed genocide in 2004 by former U.S. power and the Gulf Breeze City OPINION 6A See PAULDING, Page 2A6 Breeze church travel to Africa Secretary of State Colin Powell, who Politics 2A claimed the war to be the worst humani- Seniors 7A to assist oppressed people tarian crisis of the 21st century. Sports 1-6C Caught in the middle are millions of BY JOE CULPEPPER Talk of the Town 5A innocent tribal villagers, including Gulf Breeze Gulf Breeze News children, who struggle daily to fend for [email protected] “Mailing Statement is themselves amid food shortages, star- on Editorial Page” t is regarded as the world’s most vation and malnutrition. Basic health Barnhill’s FOUR SECTIONS dangerous country — even more services, education and jobs are VOL. 7, NO. 39 violent and oppressive than Iraq extremely rare. closes doors SEPTEMBER 25, 2008 I and Afghanistan, countries now at But there is hope for Sudan. Roughly the center of the War On Terror. half of the country’s population is The Republic of Sudan is Africa’s based in Christianity, and numerous abruptly biggest country and the world’s 10th western ministries from many denomi- nations visit the country regularly to largest. Decades-long civil war and BY JOE CULPEPPER conflict between the country’s military provide support and hope. Gulf Breeze News dictatorship and factions bent on con- See SUDAN, Page 4A6 [email protected] trol of the nation of 37 million people Calvary Chapel Gulf Breeze have displaced significant segments of Related inside A Sudanese boy beams with obvious Barnhill’s Buffet, a restaurant home! the population. ■ Coast Community Church sends joy after receiving a backpack of particularly popular among area The highly publicized conflict in disaster relief team to Louisiana to goods from Calvary Chapel Gulf seniors, closed its store at 3075 Darfur, Sudan’s large eastern region, was help Hurricane Gustav victims, 4A Breeze missionaries in July. Gulf Breeze Parkway on Friday, your Sept. 19. The closing came just one day after employees of the restaurant were told that Friday would be their last day of work. The store PJC fast-tracks Gulf Breeze campus first opened in Gulf Breeze in 1992. Call 932-8986 today Call 932-8986 today “It was strictly economic,” BY LISA NEWELL ority list for funding by part- structure on the site and the administrative offices there and Gulf Breeze News nering with Santa Rosa County first building, which will be programs through dual enroll- Don Clifford, a spokesperson for Enjoy your community paper community your Enjoy Brentwood, Tenn.-based Farmers mailed directly to mailed directly [email protected] School District to get $11 mil- used to provide vocational pro- ment, technical or vocational lion to build on 100 acres at grams by Santa Rosa County programs,” said PJC President Buffet LLC, said Monday when Within three years, Gulf U.S. Highway 98 and School District and college Dr. Ed Meadows. “Locklin asked why the restaurant was Breeze will have a center for Nantahala Road in Gulf courses by PJC. Technical School in Milton is abruptly closed. higher education. Breeze, adjacent to Woodlawn “Some of the space will be not very accessible to students “If it was sustaining itself Pensacola Junior College Beach Middle School. reserved for use by the Santa in South Santa Rosa County.” economically, we would still be recently jumped up on the pri- Phase 1 will include infra- Rosa School District, with See PJC, Page 3A6 See BARNHILL’S, Page 8A6 GULF BREEZE NEWS (850) 932-8986 www.gulfbreezenews.com 2A September 25, 2008 GULF BREEZE NEWS Variables affect price of gasoline, availability pipelines for the Gulf Coast of day, which is highly unusual. their price much higher than the BY PAM BRANNON Florida. So we still depend on Price increases on that day alone last gas they were selling - or Gulf Breeze News barges to move the product from from our supplier to us went from even maybe much higher than the Thursday, Sept. 25 Tuesday, Oct. 7 [email protected] the supplier to the distributors. 35 cents to as much as $1 a gal- guy right next door. If they still Santa Rosa County Santa Rosa County And sometimes we have to pay lon increase. Of course, that is have gas and can wait it out until Commission Special - Rezoning Marine Advisory When Hurricane Ike hit the 6 p.m., County Administrative Committee 5 p.m., more to get that product moved passed on to our customers.” the price goes back down - like Center, 6495 Caroline Street, Texas coast two weeks ago, gaso- County Administrative during a storm. So now we are Wolfe said the price increases when the refineries go back on Milton line supplies in northwest Florida Center, 6495 Caroline paying for our white beaches and were due to suppliers either hav- line - then they can keep their suddenly became scarce after Street, Milton the privilege to live in Florida.” ing to take longer delivery routes price steady and not go up sud- Wednesday, Oct. 1 many worried consumers made a Wolfe said price fluctuation around the affected area, or get- denly.” run on the pumps. Gulf Breeze Area Chamber of Wednesday, during a storm week can seem ting gas from a different supplier Wolfe said crude oil goes to Commerce Governmental Affairs Debbie Wolfe, Pensacola-area confounding to the consumer, but in a different part of the country, the refineries, then is sent by Committee noon, Gulf Breeze City Oct. 8 manager of Cougar Oil Co., said Hall, 1070 Shoreline Drive, Gulf it seldom means price gouging or because the refineries had shut barges or pipelines to the termi- Santa Rosa County the Panhandle was the main area Breeze even when it looks like it. During down and the supply became nals to be picked up by the Tourist Development with little or no gas in the pumps South End Committee 9 most weeks, prices usually will tighter.