Give the Gift that Keeps On Giving!
Join our Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance (CBA) team with a membership for you, your family, and your friends to help us in the mission of sustaining healthy local waterways through monitoring, education, restoration and research. Go to basinalliance.org for more information on memberships,...
By Peggy Brockman, Author and Speaker, Executive Director, United for a Good Cause, Inc., Hope Squad Master Trainer Certified
On February 26, I received that call no parent or grandparent ever wants to receive. One of my grandsons had attempted to take his own life – he attempted to commit...
The Way; God’s call on an Ordinary Family to His Extraordinary Life
by local author Amy Boykin
Imagine having a life that looks abundant to the outside world. An amazing husband, four healthy wonderful kids, two successful businesses, adoring friends, and a great community and church. To the world it...
By Valerie Burrelle, Impact 100 Communication Chair And Board Of Directors
IMPACT 100 of Northwest Florida awarded five grant recipients $101,600 each for 2019. Since its conception in 2012, IMPACT 100 NWF has awarded 2.7 million dollars to nonprofits in Okaloosa and Walton counties.
Arts and Culture Recipient – Muscogee Nation...
By Dee Cruce
Let’s celebrate and praise the Emerald Coast Children’s Advocacy Center (ECCAC), celebrating 20 years of life-changing service within our community. With a mission of preventing child abuse and neglect, protecting children, and restoring the lives and futures of those impacted, the ECCAC fills a crucial need locally...
By Bill Allison, Director, Strategic Workforce Solutions at Northwest Florida State College
We don’t know much about Steven Hurst’s background, but what we do know is at some point he made a poor decision that landed him in Sheriff Michael Atkinson’s jail in Walton County. Steven’s actions resulted in him...
By Chris Balzar
May this holiday season fill your home with joy, your heart with love, and your life with laughter. We will speak or receive similar sentiments this month. But for many, the holidays bring stress and not good tidings: finding the perfect gifts and wrapping them, baking the...
Some postal tips from your friendly, neighborhood mail carrier, Greta Grumbine Charlton:
1) Be patient. Y’all know it’s Christmas, the busiest time of the year. Your package might not make it on time. It might get bogged down. It happens. Before giving your mail carrier the third degree, diving into...
