GOVERNMENT SPORTS Legislators hear GBHS golfers business concerns smartest in state! State Rep. Clay Ford Gulf Breeze High and his legislative golfers wins state colleagues meet with academic honor, and local leaders to our other teams fare discuss key issues. 4A well, too. 1C A W A R D ● W I N N I N G 50¢ YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER January 14, 2010 Prepaid Sadler College Plan GONE WITH THE WIND retires deadline near Families have less than from three weeks to purchase a Florida Prepaid College Plan at current plan prices. ministry Enrolling children by the Jan. ■ 31 deadline is easy to do Community Life online at www.myfloridapre- Center will be renamed paid.com. in his honor Sunday A recent survey from finan- cial services firm Edward BY VICI PAPAJOHN Jones shows 33 percent of Gulf Breeze News Americans chose ‘increase [email protected] savings’ as their top financial resolution for 2010. After nearly five decades of See PREPAID , Page 2A ministry at Gulf Breeze United Methodist Church, Rev. Herbert Sadler retired Jan. 1. A reception and building WEEKEND dedication in his honor will be Weather held Sunday, Jan. 17 from 2 to THURSDAY 1/14 4 p.m. at the Soundside Partly Cloudy Campus of O GBUMC located high 59 Stoney and Judy Maycock’s fashionable three-story home morning. Officials determined the blaze was an accident, at 4115 low 42O on Calle Hermosa at Pensacola Beach burned Sunday and the loss was estimated at $1.5 million. Details, 1D Soundside Drive in Gulf Breeze FRIDAY 1/15 LEFT: A home at 2387 Sadler built Cloudy Major blazes Bayshore Drive on one of the largest property owned by Jack churches in Sadler high 63O destroy structures Lawrence and Thalia United Meth- low 51O Lemire burned in the odism, shaped countless lives Brutally cold temper- “This year has started early morning hours of and impacted the local commu- atures and high winds off busier than usual,” Jan. 10. nity in immeasurable ways. The SATURDAY 1/16 exacerbated firefighters’ Midway Fire District BELOW: A greenhouse reception is open to all who T-Storms futile efforts to prevent Chief Jonathan Kanzigg located at 3212 Bay would like to express their high 62O several structures from said. “These calls came Street in Gulf Breeze appreciation and bid Sadler farewell. low 51O being destroyed by fire during below-freezing was a complete loss in the past 10 days. temperatures. Personnel after it caught fire Sadler’s career began when Two blazes in Gulf from numerous stations around midnight on he was 20 years old and had SUNDAY 1/17 Breeze and another on had to deal with hoses Monday, Jan. 4. just completed his sophomore Cloudy Pensacola Beach tested freezing to equipment year at Huntingdon (Ala.) high 58O the nerves and persever- failures.” Photos by College when he was assigned to the the Lisman Circuit - six low 45O ance of even the most The public should Steve Clark capable responders. exercise extreme caution. Special to GBN small, country churches in west See SADLER, Page 2A INSIDE News just keeps getting better for GBES’ Vignes Crossword puzzle 3B ■ School’s Teacher of so inspiring and an exciting Classifieds 3D Year named semifinalist TEACHERS OF THE YEAR evening. This year I guess will Community 2-8A be even more fun, and a little Island News 1D for county’s top honor The Santa Rosa Education nerve-wracking,” she laughed. Obituaries 7A Foundation will announce its Teacher Vignes (pronounced ‘vines’) BY PAM BRANNON Opinion 6A of the Year in the coming weeks. has only taught in Santa Rosa Gulf Breeze News Scholar Athlete 5C Nominees and the overall winner will County. [email protected] Finalists Senior Scene 7A Edward Pate, GBHS be honored at the Golden Apple “I grew up in Escambia C Chloe Vignes, GBES County but have always had Sports 1-5 First in a series Valerie Brunn, Rhodes ES Banquet on Feb. 26 at New World family living in Gulf Breeze,” Talk of the Town 5A Chloe Vignes not only is the Kathryn Moore, HNMS Landing in Pensacola. Sherri Ward, Russell ES she said. “I did my first Teacher of the Year for Gulf “Mailing Statement practicum student work out of Breeze Elementary School, but named Teacher of the Year for to take it all in. what is now West Navarre on Editorial Page” this week she was named a the school,” Vignes said. “But “I have always gone to the Elementary, but then did my FOUR SECTIONS, 24 PAGES semifinalist for Santa Rosa then to be told I am a semifinal- banquet to honor the teachers of VOL. 9, NO. 2 student teaching here at Gulf Submitted photo County Teacher of the Year. ist for the county was all too the year since I started teaching JANUARY 14, 2010 See VIGNES Chloe Vignes “It was exciting enough to be much to take in. I am still trying six years ago just because it is , Page 2A 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 January 14, 2010 GULF BREEZE NEWS PREPAID: Only a $50 fee Firefighters extricate injured man is due by Jan. 31 cut-off Continued from page 1A Thursday, January 14 Gulf Breeze Area Chamber of Gulf Breeze Area Chamber Increasing savings topped the four flexible plans are avail- Commerce Gala of Commerce Business Committee 9 a.m., list for both men and women, able through Florida Prepaid Development Committee 8 along with other financially- College Plans comprising of Chamber a.m., Chamber Headquarters, Headquarters, 409 focused resolutions. For the tuition plans, the tuition dif- 409 Gulf Breeze Parkway, Gulf Gulf Breeze Parkway, past 21 years, more than ferential fee plan, local fee Breeze Gulf Breeze 917,000 children have been plan and dormitory plan to Leadership Santa Rosa enrolled in the Florida Prepaid help cover the costs of a col- Curriculum Committee 8:30 College Plan and 230,000 stu- lege education. a.m., Santa Rosa County Friday, dents have Once chil- Chamber of Commerce board- January 22 gone to college dren are room, 5247 Stewart Street, Santa Rosa County using their pre- ready for col- Milton Santa Rosa County School District Tropical paid benefits. lege, they Storm Ida makeup day “The earli- have a broad Commission Regular 9 a.m., County Administrative Center, All county schools will be er families selection of in session begin saving universities 6495 Caroline Street, Milton Santa Rosa Island for college, the to choose Authority Board 5 p.m., SRIA better,” says from under Monday, January 25 Headquarters, 1 Via de Luna Santa Rosa County Chairman the Florida Drive, Pensacola Beach Commission Committee 9 Duane Prepaid Santa Rosa County Local a.m., County Administrative Ottenstroer of College Plan. Planning Board 6 p.m., Center, 6495 Caroline Street, the Florida Prepaid College The plans can be used at County Administrative Center, Milton Board. “And, the Florida Florida’s 11 public universi- 6495 Caroline Street, Milton Prepaid College Plan is finan- ties, 28 community colleges Santa Rosa County Utility cially guaranteed by the state (including the nine colleges Board 5 p.m., County Administrative Center, 6495 of Florida. Once your family offering baccalaureate Monday, January 18 Caroline Street, Milton has purchased a Florida degrees) and select technical Martin Luther King Jr. Day Prepaid College Plan, your schools. Or the plan’s full dol- Santa Rosa County Schools payments are fixed and never lar value, what would be paid holiday; Santa Rosa County Tuesday, January 26 Chamber of Commerce closed increase, and you don’t have to a Florida public college, can Steve Clark/Special to Gulf Breeze News Santa Rosa County Growth to worry about the economy be transferred to most private Midway Fire District Lieutenants Lou Jones and Ernie Management Plan Workshop when it comes to college sav- and out-of-state colleges. Johnson use the Jaws of Life to extricate passenger Ben Tuesday, January 19 6 p.m., County Administrative ings.” Only a $50 application fee Longoria, 30, of Kodiak, Alaska, from a car driven by Issac Gulf Breeze City Council Center, 6495 Caroline Street, Prepaid tuition can be pur- is due by the Jan. 31 deadline. Vowell, 32, of Pensacola, after the vehicle crashed at 2:45 6:30 p.m., City Hall, 1070 Milton chased for children and grand- The first plan payment is not a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 5 on Bayshore Road in Gulf Breeze. Shoreline Drive, Gulf Breeze City of Gulf Breeze Board children as soon as they are due until April 20. Families According to the Florida Highway Patrol report, the car was of Adjustments 6:30 p.m., born and up until the 11th can call 1-800-552-GRAD speeding northbound on Bayshore when it left the roadway, City Hall, 1070 Shoreline grade. With college tuition (4723) to order an enrollment hit a boulder, went airborne and crashed into the woods. Wednesday, January 20 Drive, Gulf Breeze representing just 16 percent of kit and paper application and Longoria was transported via helicopter to Baptist Hospital Gulf Breeze Area Chamber the total cost for attending a speak to a customer service in serious condition and has since been released. FHP of Commerce Executive Wednesday, January 27 public university in Florida, representative. stated that alcohol factored into the accident, and charges Board 7 a.m., Chamber were pending against Vowell. A third passenger was not hurt. Headquarters, 409 Gulf Breeze Gulf Breeze Area Chamber Parkway, Gulf Breeze of Commerce Board of Santa Rosa County Directors 11:30 a.m., Emergency Reports Chamber Headquarters, 409 Information provided by Gulf Breeze Fire & Rescue and Midway Fire District Emergency Services VIGNES: Loves teaching Advisory Board 2 p.m., Gulf Breeze Parkway Santa Rosa County Gulf Breeze Fire & Rescue County Administrative Center, 6495 Caroline Street, Milton Affordable Housing Advisory grade level once loathed Committee 3 p.m., County For the week of Jan.