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SPORTS EDUCATION SCHOOLS Ryals, Dolphins flex Hear ye! Schools announce Pie in the sky winds muscle on links Hear ye! honor roll students up on teachers’ faces Top academic performers Gulf Breeze Middle School Ashleigh Ryals leads Gulf Area school honor teachers get pies in the Breeze girls golf team to rolls recognize named by Gulf Breeze- academic achievement face as students help fourth-place finish in state area principals, see fight cancer. Photos, 4B tournament. 1C Pages 6C & 8C 50¢ YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER November 12, 2009 Project Grad offering $10K to lucky winner Gulf Breeze News Do you need some extra hol- iday cash, or do you want to make a big purchase? Project Graduation organiz- ers are hosting a fundraiser that will put $10,000 in one lucky Tropical Storm Ida winner’s pocket. Project Graduation is a joint effort between students, par- T.S. Ida ents, Gulf Breeze High School PTSO and the community. See GRAD, Page 2A rattles WEEKEND Weather nerves THURSDAY 11/12 Sunny ■ O Tropical storm puts high 70 area on edge 3 weeks low 48O Graphic illustration by Nick Noyes/Gulf Breeze News Dolphins, Raiders square off in Beach Bowl II before season’s end FRIDAY 11/13 BY JOE CULPEPPER The Life’s A Breeze Weekend will kick off when the Gulf Breeze High School Dolphins play host to the Navarre High Raiders Partly Cloudy Gulf Breeze News in the second Beach Bowl at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Dolphin Stadium. The teams will be vying for the Publix Beach Bowl Cup [email protected] high 73O presented by Gulf Breeze News. Navarre won last year’s inaugural Beach Bowl 18-9 at Navarre. The Dolphins enter Friday’s low 54O showdown with an 0-9 record, but a victory over the 2-7 Raiders would go a long way in salvaging the season. Story, 1C Jim Cantore was here, so we knew it had to be serious, right? SATURDAY The popular Weather Channel 11/14 Gulf Breeze has ‘Ticket to Ride’ meteorologist and his sidekick, Partly Cloudy Stephanie Abrams, were at O Pensacola Beach high 75 ■ Beatles tribute band will perform low 59O on Monday morn- concert to support Relay For Life ing as the area braced for landfall SUNDAY 11/15 Any Beatles BY JOE CULPEPPER of tropical storm fan worth their Mostly Sunny Gulf Breeze News Ida, a former high 74O salt knows that [email protected] Category 2 storm O Britain’s Fab that was down- low 56 Four performed their famous Shea Stadium con- graded by 9 a.m. Cantore cert in New York City on Aug. 15, 1965. while Cantore was on the air. What many forget is that the show, performed The tropical storm, which on a baseball field before 55,000 screaming, formed last week off INSIDE shrieking fans, consisted of just 12 songs and Nicaragua, developed just three lasted a mere 30 minutes. Still, it was a defining weeks before the official end of moment in rock and roll history as Beatlemania the 2009 Atlantic Hurricane Crossword puzzle 3B swept the United States and the world. Season. Only the ninth named Classifieds 3D On Saturday night, Nov. 14, music fans of all storm of the previously tame Community 3-8A ages will have the opportunity to sense – albeit Not Quite Fab is, from left: Dickie Williams, Jim Destafney, Jeff Fitzpatrick and season, Ida appeared to be tak- Entertainment 2B See FAB , Page 2A Glenn Vignolo. They play outdoors at Shoreline Park on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. See IDA, Page 2A Felonies 2A Island News 1D Obituaries 7A 5 local teachers selected as area’s best by peers Opinion 6A Sports 1-8C schools and are among 33 Taylor of Oriole Beach BY JOE CULPEPPER Talk of the Town 4A Elementary and Gina Gulf Breeze News nominees for Santa Rosa [email protected] County’s Teacher of the LaVere of Woodlawn Beach “Mailing Statement Year for 2010. Middle were selected by on Editorial Page” Five outstanding educa- Chloe Vignes of Gulf their peers at each school. FOUR SECTIONS tors have been named Breeze Elementary, Heather The Santa Rosa VOL. 8, NO. 46 Teachers of the Year at Barona of Gulf Breeze Education Foundation will NOVEMBER 12, 2009 their respective Gulf Middle, Edward Pate of announce the Santa Rosa Barona LaVere Pate Taylor Vignes Breeze-area public Gulf Breeze High, Alicia See TEACHERS, Page 3A 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 2 A November 12, 2009 GULF BREEZE NEWS Tea Carte building to be demolished ■ Old-timers remember store once housed Thursday, Santa Rosa County Fire Department Western Auto, Greenfields November 12 Executive Group 6:30 Santa Rosa County p.m., Emergency BY VICI PAPAJOHN Commission Reg- Operation Center, 4499 Gulf Breeze News ular/Reorganization Meeting Pine Forest Road, [email protected] 9 a.m., Administrative Center, Milton The old Tea Carte building 6495 Caroline Street, Milton was deemed unsafe and con- Santa Rosa County Local Thursday, demned by the Gulf Breeze City Planning Board 6 p.m., County Administrative Center, November 19 Council in August, and the 6495 Caroline Street, Milton building is slated for demolition Gulf Breeze Area no later than Nov. 20. Chamber of Commerce Mitchell Rice, Chief Monday, November 16 Breakfast 7 a.m., Andrews Performance Executive Officer, RMC TEAM Santa Rosa and Research Pavilion, Property Group LLC, con- Economic Development Gulf Breeze firmed the scheduled demo Council 11:30 a.m., TEAM Santa Rosa County Local late last week in an e-mail to Conference Room, 6491 Mitigation Strategy Meeting Breeze Community Services Caroline Street, Milton 1:30 p.m., Conference Room, and Code Inspector Shane Gulf Breeze City Council 6051 Old Bagdad Highway, Carmichael 6:30 p.m., City Hall, 1070 Milton Carmichael said the Shoreline Drive, Gulf Breeze process was delayed by Joe Culpepper/Gulf Breeze News Saturday, asbestos removal. Concern The old Tea Carte building recently was cordoned off so workers could remove dangerous Tuesday, November 17 November 21 for public safety and poten- asbestos from the interior of the condemned structure. The building is scheduled to be demol- Gulf Breeze Area Chamber Santa Rosa County School tial adverse health impact ished this month after years of neglect and disrepair. of Commerce Pet Fest 2009 Board 6:30 p.m., District 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Gulf from the abandoned and old Western Auto structure,” Prior to the sale of the Benson tually it will all have to come Headquarters, 5086 Canal Breeze Elementary School, derelict wooden building Carmichael said. “We have also estate property, it housed down, and something consistent Street, Milton heightened when a plate- advised them to finish up mow- Graphic Arts. The original with CRA guidelines will go 549 Gulf Breeze Parkway, Gulf glass window was broken ing and tidying up the area.” Benson Building fronting Gulf in,” Carmichael said. “Right Breeze in late September. The building originally was Breeze Parkway is not yet con- now we have prioritized taking Wednesday, “We are not talking about the built as a Western Auto. It later demned but remains part of an down the unsafe structure.” November 18 Monday, November 23 historic Benson Building became a Greenfields, then the ongoing analysis. Efforts to reach Rice were Gulf Breeze Area Chamber Santa Rosa County Flood fronting Highway 98; this is the popular Tea Carte gift shop. “There is no doubt that even- unsuccessful. of Commerce Executive Mitigation Strategy Meeting Board 7 a.m., Chamber 1:30 p.m., County Headquarters, 409 Gulf Breeze Administrative Center, 6495 FAB: Parkway, Gulf Breeze Caroline Street, Milton Numerous events planned for Saturday, Sunday Santa Rosa County Tourist Development Council Board Continued from page 1A Friday, Nov. 13 at 7 p m. with Quite Fab show, which histori- weekend.com. 2 p.m., Visitors Center, 8543 Tuesday, November 24 Beach Bowl II, the highly antic- cally lures the biggest crowds of Additional community par- Navarre Parkway, Navarre City of Gulf Breeze Board on a smaller scale – what the ipated, season-ending football the summer concert season to ticipants and event hosts Santa Rosa Island of Adjustments 6:30 p.m., excitement of 44 years ago was game between the Gulf Breeze Bands on the Beach at include: Alec Kessler Authority Committee 5 p.m., City Hall, 1070 Shoreline like. Not Quite Fab, a popular High School Dolphins and the Pensacola Beach. Foundation, Emerald Coast SRIA Headquarters, 1 Via de Drive, Gulf Breeze local Beatles tribute band, will Navarre Raiders. At stake will Not Quite Fab consists of Disc Golf Club, Gulf Breeze Luna Drive, Pensacola Beach perform a live 6:30 p m. outdoor be the Publix Beach Bowl Cup local musicians Jim DeStafney Area Chamber of Commerce, Santa Rosa County Thursday, November 26 concert on a baseball field at trophy presented by Gulf (George), Glenn Vignolo Gulf Breeze High School Band Aviation Advisory Shoreline Park in Gulf Breeze. Breeze News. (John), Dickie Williams (Paul) Boosters, Gulf Breeze High Committee 5 p.m., County Santa Rosa County It’s the highlight event of the On Saturday and Sunday, and Jeff Fitzpatrick (Ringo). School Quarterback Club, Administrative Center, 6495 Commission 9 a.m., County Administrative Center, 6495 first Life’s A Breeze Weekend Nov. 14-15, a variety of sports Their performance, which the Optimists Club of Gulf Breeze, Caroline Street, Milton Caroline Street, Milton celebration, which starts Friday and family events will be offered band is donating, is dubbed the Panhandle Cake Crumbs, Pillars and runs through Sunday at the by local Gulf Breeze civic and ‘Concert for a Cure’ and is for Promise, Pensacola Young Gulf Breeze Recreation Center, charitable organizations.