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‘Heroes’ Rinke unveils GBHS changes foster Portofino final football ticket homeless pets Page 5A phase 4B procedures 1B Subscribe to Gulf Breeze News Senior Subscription Discount $52 Available! per year Call 850-932-8986 or subscribe online www.gulfbreezenews.com/subscribe P.O. Box 1414 I 913 Gulf Breeze Parkway I Harbortown Unit 35 I Gulf Breeze, FL 32562 July 26, 2018 YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER $1.00 County OKs Cracks bear-wise found trash cans BY PAM BRANNON on Gulf Breeze News © 2018 [email protected] Several commercial facilities in the county bridge that generate food waste may soon get some new bear resistant trash containers, at no cost to BY GLENDA CAUDLE the facilities. It will cost the county an average Gulf Breeze News © 2018 of $500 per container to get the trash contain- [email protected] ers modifi ed, but only if they get approved for a grant the county is applying for from Florida Yes, cracks have been dis- Wildlife Commission. Approval to submit the covered in some of the concrete grant application was passed at the Santa Rosa decking on the new Three Mile County Commission committee meeting Mon- Bridge (Pensacola Bay Bridge). day morning and will get fi nal approval today No, they will not be hazard- (Thursday) during the consent agenda vote. ous to those utilizing the bridge “We were notifi ed by Florida Wildlife about when it opens next year or to some additional money coming on board,” Pax Cheng (right) with his longtime friend, Marcia, currently lives in Tiger Point and is an accomplished artist. As a those working on it now, be- county engineer Roger Blaylock explained to child, he was able to assist the pilots known as the “Doolittle Raiders” when their planes glided into areas near his cause they are related solely to school after the raid on Japan. durability of the bridge and not the commissioners. “So this is a request to sub- BELOW: Pax as a small boy. mit an application for those funds. The grant to structural integrity. would be for $64,500. Santa Rosa County is Yes, there were two separate ranked seventh in number of bear complaints in incidents in which the cracks the entire state.” At age 11, – described as just about wide The county would need to make a match of enough to slip a credit care into $6,450. and ranging from about 3-18 The documentation from FWC presented to Chinese inches in length and between ½- commissioners shows 82 percent of Santa Rosa inch and ¾-inch in depth – were County calls concerning bears involve bears discovered in routine inspec- getting into garbage/trash and bears being re- tion. sponsible for property damage. boy helped No, payment amounting to He said the environmental department and $606,775 will not be made to the engineering staff worked together to look Skanska, the bridge contractor, at different possibilities on how to spend the until the problems are corrected. money, if they get the grant. Doolittle Yes, such cracks are common “The two departments came up with the in bridge construction. proposal of spending it for commercial facili- These questions and more ties that generate a lot of food waste. That list Raiders were answered for media at a Tuesday, July 24, session fea- See Commercial Page 2A » BY GLENDA CAUDLE Gulf Breeze News © 2018 See Many factors Page 2A » [email protected] He was born on the night of Sept. 1, 1931, when the League of Nations was celebrating the signing of a la- between World War II vets Dick Cole and Frank Emond bor treaty its members thought would help in the effort at a local business. to secure peace for all people. Pax Cheng grew up, nev- It was a meeting he would love to have attended him- ertheless, in a chaotic period of history during which that self in order to come face to face with Cole, who was fragile dream was not only threatened repeatedly, it was, Lt. Col. James Harold “Jimmy” Doolittle’s co-pilot on fi nally, destroyed on a global scale in a nightmare that the historically famous Doolittle Raid. It was for the sake went on and on. of American fi ghter pilots whom he and his friends had Pax, himself, would play an unforgettable role in World never met – U.S. airmen including Cole, Doolittle, their Glenda Caudle | Gulf Breeze News War II while still a child. It occurred because of a daring crew and that of 14 other B-25B Mitchell bombers – that Jared Perdue (left) and Brett Pielstick bring the media up raid and subsequent rescue operation only he and one oth- young Cheng organized and successfully carried out a to speed on cracks discovered er person still living today experienced fi rst hand. secret rescue plan one unforgettable dark April night in in the concrete decking of the Two weeks ago, Cheng, who lives in the Tiger Point China in 1942, 11 years after his birth. new Pensacola Bay Bridge at a area, read a story in Gulf Breeze News about a meeting Tuesday morning informational See Quiet Page 3A » session. County employees are getting a raise his presentation, “This budget is balanced, sus- fi scal year, since Oct. 1, 2017, from several sourc- BY PAM BRANNON Glenda Caudle | Gulf Breeze News Gulf Breeze News © 2018 tainable and responsible.” es. Bed tax collections from tourist development [email protected] He said it also met the priorities set out by the was up 12.36 percent over the year to date, as of Learning to code commissioners this year, including public safety July, which Schebler reported added $230 million Everyone who gets a paycheck from Santa and salary upgrades for personnel, while keeping to the county economy this year and supported Rosa County will be getting raise in the upcom- Lukas Aung (7) and Sabrina Dickes (5) get the same millage rate. The design costs for the 5,257 jobs. ready to code at the Wednesday, July 18, Gulf ing fi scal year budget. The county commission new courthouse are also included in this budget Increased property values brought more ad va- Breeze Library session called Coding Robotics held two budget workshops in one day last week proposal. The total tentative budget proposal for lorem taxes, and increased shared revenues from for Kids: The Moving Robots! Teams of two for the fi nal budget proposals for fi scal year 2019, the FY 2019 adds up to $162,192,282, which is the state also helped. There were some local in- and three children learned the importance which starts Oct. 1, 2018, from County Adminis- of giving robots specifi c directions through an increase of almost $17 million from this fi scal creases in revenue, also, such as housing of fed- coding and then had an opportunity to do just trator Dan Schebler and some county department year’s budget of $145,704,842. eral prisoners. that with little blue robots of their own. representatives. Schebler told commissioners in Schebler reported an increase in revenues this See Survey Page 2A » Mailing Statement Arrest Report . 2A on Opinion Page FRI 7/27 SAT 7/28 SUN 7/29 Calendar . 2A & 3B T-STORMS T-STORMS T-STORMS Classifi eds/Legals. 7C THREE SECTIONS, WEEKEND Crossword Puzzle. 3B 20 PAGES Movies. 2B Weather-plus hi 87/lo 82 hi 88/lo 81 hi 87/lo 81 Opinion . 6A VOL. 18, NO. 30 rain: 50% rain: 40% rain: 30% Sports . 1-8C JULY 26, 2018 2A July 26, 2018 GULF BREEZE NEWS gulfbreezenews.com Many factors affect concrete curing Calendar of Meetings Thursday, July 26 » Continued from Page 1A with six of those completed. Of those nine small and diffi cult to see and the solution spans, one showed 26 cracks and others had has already been addressed by Skanska, Santa Rosa County Commissioner Regular turing Jared Perdue, P.E., the Florida De- more, up to 1,300 in one. with no new problems reported. The crack 9 a.m., 6495 Caroline Street, Milton partment of Transportation District Three The good news is, Florida insists on was sealed with an approved commercial Director of Transportation Development; decking that is about ½-inch thicker than sealant and repainted and it became “self- Santa Rosa County Engineering Interviews and Brett Pielstick, CEI Program Director/ the fi nal surface. So the 8 1/2-inch-thick healing” when the load resting on it pro- 1:30 p.m., 6495 Caroline Street, Milton Principal for Eisman & Russo Consulting decking will automatically be milled down vided the correct compression. Engineers. The latter is an engineering and as work draws to a close on the bridge, to Pielstick and Perdue also noted that an Santa Rosa County Commission Special - Rezoning inspection business. ensure as smooth a ride as possible, and addition has been approved for the second 6 p.m., 6495 Caroline Street, Milton Two to four inspectors are kept busy as most of the cracks (about 99 percent, the phase of bridge work, which will com- part of what was described as a “rigorous authorities say) will be automatically elimi- mence soon after the fi rst phase is fi nished. Friday, July 27 oversight and inspection” process that is nated in that fashion. The concern is that That fi rst phase date is Feb. 5, 2019. Gulf Breeze Optimist Club ongoing for Florida’s largest bridge project. water will seep into the cracks over time FDOT has agreed to address traffi c con- 7 a.m., 1110 Gulf Breeze Parkway, Gulf Breeze When inspectors fi rst noticed the cracks, and force them open wider, so both FDOT gestion at the 17th St.