Independent News‘Caring’ Archives
Holiday Hero Blood Drive
With the Thanksgiving holiday just around the corner you can be a Holiday Hero and help save lives by making a blood donation. Patients are counting on you to give the gift of life this season. Donate Friday, November 16 at the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office and you could help save three lives [...]
Relay for Life Pep Rally
Relay for Life of Pensacola 2013 is set for May 10-11, 2013 at Booker T. Washington High School. To celebrate the start of Relay season and commence event fundraising efforts, 2013 Pensacola Relay for Life Chairman Buzz Ritchie invites community members, supporters, cancer survivors and prospective [...]
Education Foundation awards $42,000 in grants
By Shelby Smithey... Over $42,000 was awarded to local teachers from 45 schools and departments last night at the J.E. Hall Educational Services Center as part of the Grants for Excellence program. Checks up to $500 were given out to each teacher by the Escambia County Public Schools Foundation [...]
AAF Pensacola supports art programs in local schools
Press Release: The American Advertising Federation (AAF) Pensacola Chapter announces its new fundraiser - AdArt. AdArt supports art programs in local schools while promoting a variety of local artists and raising funds to support the local advertising industry. AAF Pensacola has teamed up [...]
Lunch at Waterfront Rescue Mission
Waterfront Rescue Mission has had a pretty eventful year. Opening a brand new, beautiful facility and then, when the flood came through leaving the building in waist-deep water, having to renovate. But within a record amount of time, clients of the Waterfront Mission rebuilt it. A testament to [...]
Ghosts of Ole Miss airs on ESPN
ESPN aired "Ghosts of Ole Miss" last night, as part of its "30 for 30" sports-based documentary series. it explores James Meredith's enrollment at Ole Miss and the school's undefeated football team that finished ranked no. 3 that same year. Read more - the photo will look familiar (IN cover).
Be a Santa to a Senior
Press Release: Please join volunteers and program sponsors for the official kick-off of this year’s Be a Santa to a Senior program. Home Instead Senior Care is teaming up with local non-profit agencies and area retailers to sponsor this year’s program that collects, wraps and delivers [...]
Sponsorship Needed for “Pancakes with Santa”
Press Release: Cordova Rotary is seeking sponsorships of all levels for its third annual Pancakes with Santa breakfast. Local businesses can support this worthwhile event for as little as $250. At this signature fundraiser, children of all ages are invited to enjoy a morning of holiday fun [...]
Halloween Hosted by YMCA
Press Release: The Y will host its annual Halloween at the YMCA, which provides hundreds of special needs kids with a unique trick or treating experience, on Wednesday, Oct. 31, at the Crowne Plaza/Grand Hotel. About 275 children with developmental disabilities will visit the Grand between 10 [...]
Pensacola Veterans Memorial Park Foundation shows no receivable or income from VFW Post
In 2004, the Vietnam Veterans Wall South Foundation filed a report with the state to change its name to Pensacola Veterans Memorial Park Foundation (Wallnamechange). The website GuideStar shows the Form 990 financial statements of non-profits. The Pensacola Veterans Memorial Park Foundation [...]
Exclusive: Military feared Wall South funds would be diverted to a drinking hooch. They were right
The former treasurer of the Wall South Foundation says that Commander of the Defense Commissary Agency that raised half million dollars for the ongoing maintenance of the Wall South project in Pensacola feared that some of the Pensacola veterans involved in the project would "build themselves a [...]
Friends to run marathon for Wounded Warrriors
By Shelby Smithey... Two friends will be among nearly 1600 people running the 8th annual Pensacola Marathon on Nov. 11, but they won’t be wearing Nike’s. Brad King, an Army veteran, and his best friend Alan Moses will be running the 26.2 mile race in military boots and carrying a 50-pound [...]