LOCAL & DISTRICT UNVEILS HALF-CENT TAX PRIORITIES STATE | A3 PANAMA CITY LOCAL & STATE | A3 MINI GOLF A HOLE IN ONE FOR GLENWOOD CHILDREN Thursday, August 9, 2018 www.newsherald.com @The_News_Herald facebook.com/panamacitynewsherald 75¢ Bay lands second TDC planning $703,500 for aerospace facility sports events Events bring The breakdown thousands of visitors to PCB each year, but Much of the budget is dedi- come at a price cated to bids and fees for hosting events, which ring By Tyra L. Jackson up to $301,500. Offi cials also 850-522-5121 | @TyraJackPCNH have allocated a hefty por- [email protected] tion of the budget, $204,000, to the sponsorship of sport- PANAMA CITY BEACH ing events that promote — Tourism officials dis- tourism in the city. About cussed money, sports 29 percent of the funds are and more sports, as they related to conferences and approved the Fiscal Year pulling in different events 2019 sports marketing to the area throughout the budget and the new sports year. park budget at a combined Tourist Development Council and Convention and Visitors Bureau meet- Much of the budget is ing Wednesday. dedicated to bids and fees “This budget is an inte- for hosting events, which gral part of marketing ring up to $301,500, Feeney the destination, and has said. proven itself throughout “For example of that the years. These events $301,500, about 45 percent bring visitors throughout of that goes to bringing the year, specifically in IRONMAN and IRONMAN the non-summer months. 70.3 to the destination Panama City Beach plans alone,” she said. “Events to continue to hit the such as IRONMAN bring industry standards within competitors and their The Bay Economic Development Alliance announced Wednesday that aerospace manufacturing company this market in 2019,” said families from across the ACMT is coming to Bay County. [KATIE LANDECK/THE NEWS HERALD] Catie Feeney, Visit Panama world for longer periods of City Beach public relations time to attend this event; manager. therefore, providing more ACMT credits GKN, The FY 2019 sports mar- visitors and more spending EDA chief, Gov. Scott keting budget is $703,500, in the destination through- for opening Lynn up from FY 2018’s out the year.” Haven plant $686,500. Feeney said the The sports marketing increase is to help support budget is funded through By Katie Landeck the new sports complex by tourist development tax 522-5114 | @PCNHKatieL increasing exposure and dollars. [email protected] revenue for the facility as Tourism officials also well as to support other have allocated a hefty PANAMA CITY — Fol- locations. portion of the budget, lowing in the flight path of “As the sports market $204,000, to the spon- GKN, a second aerospace grows for the destination, sorship of sporting events manufacturing company has we needed to increase that promote tourism in the announced it is opening shop funding to support it,” she in Bay County. said. See EVENTS, A11 Officials with Advanced Composites & Metalform- Advanced Composites & Metalforming Technologies Inc. announced ing Technologies Inc., better Wednesday it is turning the former Honeywell building in Lynn known as ACMT, announced Haven, shown here, into a manufacturing facility. [JOSHUA BOUCHER/ BUSINESS | A9 Wednesday they will be ren- THE NEWS HERALD] ovating the old Honeywell ANIMAL ACTIVITY CLOSES building in the Lynn Haven Industrial Park to become $20 million investment TWO BAY RESTAURANTS their newest manufacturing facility. The Connecticut- Offi cials with Advanced Composites & Metalforming Technologies based company makes parts Inc. announced Wednesday they will be renovating the old Honeywell for commercial and military building in the Lynn Haven Industrial Park to become their newest jets. manufacturing facility. The Connecticut-based company makes parts for The move represents a $20 commercial and military jets. The move represents a $20 million invest- PCB gunman gets million investment in the ment in the region and 105 new jobs with an average pay of $43,700. region and 105 new jobs with an average pay of $43,700, time served in ’17 according to the Bay County Economic Development Alli- ance (EDA). The company shooting of trio already has started hiring. Negotiations to bring the company here started about a By Zack McDonald no contest Wednesday year ago, but ACMT officials 747-5071 | @PCNHzack to charges of shooting a set their eyes on Florida long [email protected] deadly missile and resist- before that when company ing arrest without violence. President Michael Polo met PANAMA CITY — A He was arrested in April Gov. Rick Scott at the Paris Georgia man accused of 2017 after a daylight argu- Air Show four years ago. shooting three people in a ment in a parking lot near “Our Connecticut booth Panama City Beach parking the Ocean Towers, 11211 was right next door to Florida, lot shootout in broad day- Front Beach Road, erupted and so Gov. Scott was at the light has been sentenced into gunfire, leaving three Florida booth. Our governor to time served and felony people suffering from non- very rarely comes to these probation after arguing that life-threatening gunshot shows,” Polo said. “So, the Advanced Composites & Metalforming Technologies Inc. is he was the victim. wounds. While initially renovating the former Honeywell building in Lynn Haven for its new Damarcus Ingram, 22, See FACILITY, A4 manufacturing facility. [JOSHUA BOUCHER/THE NEWS HERALD] of Lawrenceville, pleaded See SENTENCE, A4 Panama City News Herald Business .........................A9 Obituaries ...................... A5 TODAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Want to subscribe? Diversions ......................B6 Sports.........................B1-4 Stray t-storm T-shower T-storms Call 850-747-5050 Local & State .............. A3-6 Viewpoints .....................A8 88° / 75° 89° / 73° 88° / 75° * ** A2 Thursday, August 9, 2018 | The News Herald GO AND DO CELEBRATE COMMUNITY TODAY IN HISTORY Today PICTURE PERFECT The Associated Press GRAND SLAM FISHING TOURNAMENT: Aug. 9-11 at We want your photos: Post your photos to the News Herald Facebook page with your name, city of Today is Thursday, Aug. 9, Lighthouse Marina on Grand residence and information about the photo. You can email photos to [email protected]. the 221st day of 2018. There Lagoon, 5325 N. Lagoon are 144 days left in the year. Drive, Panama City Beach. PAINT PARTY THURSDAYS: Today’s highlight 5-7 p.m. at Sheraton Bay in history Point, 4114 Jan Cooley Drive. Cost $35 per person. All sup- On August 9, 1974, Vice plies provided. For details, President Gerald R. Ford beachartgroup.com became the nation’s 38th PLEIN AIR SKETCHING WITH chief executive as President DON TAYLOR: 6-8 p.m. at Richard Nixon’s resignation Sheraton Bay Point, 4114 took effect. Jan Cooley Drive. For details, www.beachartgroup.com On this date “CALLIOPE MUSICALS” CONCERT: 7-9 p.m. at Aaron In 1902, Edward VII was Bessant Park, 500 W. Park crowned king of Britain Drive, Panama City Beach. following the death of his Free; open to the public. mother, Queen Victoria. For details, 850-233-5045 or In 1944, 258 African-Amer- PanamaCityBeachParksAn- ican sailors based at Port dRecreation.com Chicago, California, refused to load a munitions ship Friday following a cargo vessel explosion that killed 320 “PAINT THE TOWN” EXHIBIT: men, many of them black. On display through Aug. 30 (Fifty of the sailors were at The Artist Cove Studio convicted of mutiny, fi ned Gallery, 36 W. Beach Drive, and imprisoned.) Panama City. Area artists In 1945, three days after document the historical and the atomic bombing of changing landscapes of the Hiroshima, Japan, a U.S. region through paintings. B-29 Superfortress code- For details, 850-215-2080 Nikki Cummings emailed this Picture Perfect submission of a double rainbow taken by the Donald Penny boat named Bockscar dropped a CANDIDATE MEET AND ramp in Southport. [CONTRIBUTED PHOTO] nuclear device (“Fat Man”) GREET: 5:30 p.m. at Dr. Holly over Nagasaki, killing an Hale Center, 135 Harrison estimated 74,000 people. Ave., with Democratic In 1969, actress Sharon Tate gubernatorial candidate HAPPY BIRTHDAY and four other people were Chris King. found brutally slain at Tate’s BACKSTAGE PASS — Actor Sam Elliott is 74. Pro and College Football 48. Rock musician Arion Capshaw is 42. Actress Los Angeles home; cult GHETTO PALACE NIGHT Singer Barbara Mason Hall of Famer Deion Sand- Salazar is 48. Actress Ashley Johnson is 35. leader Charles Manson and WITH FEW MILES SOUTH: is 71. Actress Melanie ers is 51. Actress Gillian Nikki Schieler Ziering is Actress Anna Kendrick a group of his followers were 6:30 p.m. at the Marina Civic Griffith is 61. Actress Anderson is 50. Actor 47. Actress Liz Vassey is is 33. later convicted of the crime. Center, 8 Harrison Ave. Tick- Amanda Bearse is 60. Eric Bana is 50. Producer- 46. Actor Kevin McKidd is In 1982, a federal judge in ets $5. Doors open at 5:30 Rapper Kurtis Blow is 59. director McG (aka Joseph 45. Actress Rhona Mitra Send your birth- Washington ordered John p.m. For details, BayArts.org TV host Hoda Kotb is 54. McGinty Nichol) is 50. is 43. Actor Texas Battle day information to W. Hinckley Jr., who’d Actor Pat Petersen is 52. Actor Thomas Lennon is is 42. Actress Jessica [email protected]. been acquitted of shooting Saturday President Ronald Reagan and three others by reason GRAND SLAM FISHING of insanity, committed to a TOURNAMENT: Aug. 9-11 mental hospital. at the Lighthouse Marina CATCH In 1995, Jerry Garcia, lead on Grand Lagoon, 5325 N. singer of the Grateful Dead, Lagoon Drive, Panama City OF THE died in Forest Knolls, Cali- Beach. fornia, of a heart attack at SUMMER NIGHTS AT DAY age 53.
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