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SPORTS: PACE BOY’S BASKETBALL PAGE B2 Santa Rosa’s Press SHERIFF’S REPORT, Gazette PAGE B3 Tweet us @srpressgazette and like us on facebook.com Saturday, January 4, 2014 Find breaking news at www.srpressgazette.com 75 cents MPD: Hungry man apologizes after theft By PAMELA HOLT after police said he more and damage to prop- Packard laptop computer didn’t own a computer. He said he never went in- 623-2120 broke into a busi- erty, criminal mischief fi rst at the time. He told the of- While checking several side the business, just took [email protected] ness and took a degree over $200, accord- fi cers the laptop belonged businesses in the general the computer through the laptop computer ing to police reports. to his mother. Milton police area, the offi cers made a broken window. He asked A man who said at Paws Here 2 on He was questioned said they asked Cheatham discovery of a broken win- if he could apologize to the he was hungry Berryhill Road. by Milton Police Offi cer his mother’s name, and he dow at Paws Here 2. Re- business owner of Paws asked to apologize Cheatham, 34, Dwayne Smith and Offi cer answered Danielle. After ports say glass was strewn Here 2. after he broke a has been charged Yolanda Spears in front checking the log on page of across a desk located in the Milton business owner window and took a ROBERT with burglary, sec- of Paradise Furniture on the computer, which read front offi ce. According to Gene Petrie was contacted laptop, according to CHEATHAM ond degree of an Stewart Street following the name Gene with a pho- offi cials, Cheatham told the and accepted Cheatham’s police reports. unoccupied dwell- the incident. to of a kitten, offi cers made offi cers he needed money apology. Petrie stated noth- Robert Victor Cheatham ing and unarmed, third Reports say Cheatham contact with the suspect’s because he was hungry ing else was taken from the was charged on Tuesday degree larceny of $300 or was holding a Hewlett mother to fi nd out she and had no one to help him. building. HORSE ASSISTANCE COUNCIL CLOSES GBPD: Milton man fi ghts all the way to jail By PAMELA HOLT 623-2120 [email protected] A Milton man arrested in Gulf Breeze is accused of fi ghting with offi cers all the way to jail, injuring two and con- tinuing to be combative even after he was incarcerated, according to reports. Just before midnight on New Year’s Eve, Donald Ste- ven Hammett, 25, man was arrested for becoming vio- AFTER PHOTOS SPECIAL TO THE PRESS GAZETTE DONALD lent after being questioned Maureen Cleveland took extra care with foster horses. This horse, Star was HAMMETT by Gulf Breeze police, caus- adopted in 2007 to become a hunter-jumper pony. Cleveland considers ing an offi cer to be cut and Star’s adoption a success. slapped. See A3 Horse Assistance Council closes FIGHTS for lack of volunteer effort Baby Ezra makes By PAMELA HOLT ers during diffi cult times. She said 623-2120 the webpage will stay up to help with timely arrival [email protected] education. “Volunteering is very important to On Dec. 20, the Santa Rosa County me as are horses are very important Horse Assistance Council (SRCHAC), to me,” she said about continuing be- at SRMC shut its doors as a 501(c)3 corporation. ing available to those who need help With the slogan of “neighbors helping with their horses. “But it’s not feasible By PAMELA HOLT neighbors,” Maureen Cleveland said to keep it going with just a few to keep 623-2120 it’s surprising, but the lack of volun- it together.” [email protected] teer effort caused the organization to halt its efforts of assisting horse own- See A3 BEFORE The New Year’s baby, Ezra Whyatt HORSE Campbell, born at 10:30 a.m. at Santa Rosa Medical Center, is the caboose of the family. He’s the youngest of fi ve and seems to be fi ne with that. ACCIDENT ON I-10 Ezra is the son of Matthew Campbell and Stephanie Pickard. He weighed in at 5 lbs and 3 oz., and 18.5 inches long. Dr. Sue George delivered the baby with- out complications. Mom says she and her son are doing fi ne. Members of the Santa Rosa Medical Center Auxiliary presented the family with an array of baby products, ranging from bottles to blankets. Aleta Hoodless, direc- tor of Community Marketing and Volunteer Services for Santa Rosa Medical Center, says the auxiliary brings in gifts for the fi rst baby born at the medical center by donation for the annual event. PHOTO BY THOMAS WEAVER | Special to the Press Gazette SPECIAL TO THE PRESS GAZETTE On New Year’s Eve, about 4 p.m., a tractor trailer Baby Ezra Whyatt Campbell, born at and a truck crashed on Interstate 10, near Highway 10:30 a.m. on January 1, 2014 is the 87 South. Offi cials say the brakes on the trailer newest edition to the Campbell-Pickard locked up and had to be disconnected before the 18- family. Ezra has four siblings: Brianna, wheeler could be moved. 10 years old; Nicholas, 7; Elijah 4, and Ethan 3. Jim Fletcher TABLE OF CONTENTS Publisher Community ..................................... A2 Sheriff’s Report ............................... B3 623-2120 Opinion ........................................... A4 Sports .............................................. B2 [email protected] Diversions ........................................ A8 Classifi eds ........................................ B4 Volume 106 Issue 2 A2 | Santa Rosa’s Press Gazette Local Saturday, January 4, 2014 Press Gazette Become a Panhandle Roll with the changes I’m one for change. But things are not fine Adjustments to big when I don’t have time to BIrthdAY CLUB Butterfly Tour Guide changes have always been bake. Are you interested in completing the course, fine with me. Baking is sort of like Nathan Dixon- January 4 educating and helping new volunteers will have Perhaps it’s my therapy for me. It’s a slice Dustin Land- January 4 visitors gain a better the tools and knowledge optimistic attitude, maybe of life I’d rather not do understanding of to extend awareness of it’s my genetic make up without. Put a rolling pin Jerrid Davis- January 5 butterflies, gardening, and these wonderful creatures — I’m not sure why — but in my hand and a dusting Paul Pridgen- January 5 the natural habitat in which to our community and it’s exciting to do things of flour on my counter and differently in a I’m in heaven. I Rhonda Blackmon- January 6 butterflies thrive? Then visitors. Class size is you might enjoy joining limited to ensure individual big way. Move to love the smell Marshall Byerley- January 8 the Tour Guide Team at attention and training can another city, take of freshly baked Ryan Hanks- January 8 the Panhandle Butterfly be provided, so advance a different job, bread and even House. registration for the training start a new hobby, though I’m now William Saxton- January 9 Tour guides are is required. be challenged by gluten free, this trained volunteers who The next training class a new sport, all of is something I’ve educate visitors about is Thursday, January 23 this is great. done for my family Florida butterflies, from 10 a.m. to noon at Challenging. PAMELA HOLT for twenty years. butterfly gardening, the Panhandle Butterfly Exciting. Keeping It Simple My grandmother their importance in the House. The Panhandle I’m a rose taught me to ecosystem and their Butterfly House is located colored glasses bake bread over natural habitats. Volunteers at 8581 Navarre Parkway person. the telephone after I left will guide groups of (Hwy 98) in Navarre Park But it’s going a bit too home. She painstakingly mostly children on tours just west of the Navarre far when I’m too busy to explained how to activate and school field trips on Bridge. make a pie crust. Just yeast and exactly how Mondays, Tuesdays or For more information sayin’. to knead the dough to Wednesdays, usually two to about becoming a tour When one has an elasticity. When I’m three hours at a time. New guide or register for an idea about oneself, baking, I concentrate and volunteers are teamed with upcoming training class and circumstances create. It’s like I’m in the experienced volunteers, please email grouptours@ change to bring about a zone. Obituary and continue to support panhandlebutterflyhouse. different ideal, it can be My baking revelation involvement by providing org. tough to ‘roll with the came about recently when new, updated information For more information changes’ (quoting REO I had to purchase a pie Stanley Randolph “Randy” Hagy when needed. about the Panhandle Speedwagon). Images for a get together instead Oct. 8, 1938 – Dec. 25, 2013 The key to being a Butterfly House, form in your mind as to the of taking the time to bake successful tour guide is please visit http://www. way things should be and it from scratch. Staring Randy Hagy, 75, Wolfe of Milton; attending the free required panhandlebutterflyhouse. when this fact changes, it at the pie in the plastic of Milton, passed Michael (John) training course. After org. can disturb the psyche. and aluminum container away unexpect- Gibbs of Jay; six Within 2013, my caused stress for me. edly on Dec. 25, grandchildren; 9 youngest graduated high It’s symbolic of time I no 2013. He retired as great-grandchil- school, my granddaughter longer have, time I took for a Chief Petty Of- dren; and many celebrated her first granted to serve my family.