Author: Rick Outzen
Give it one more (flu) shot, baby
Community Health Northwest Florida has come up with a creative campaign to promote flu shots and has another new location opening on North Palafox in…
Salvation Army focuses on Florida Disaster Relief
Fourth Disaster Response Center Deployed This Week in Venice; 40 Mobile Feeding Units Now in Operation Throughout Southwest Florida VENICE, FL – Hurricane Ian has…
Molly McGuire scholarship tops $500K
Pensacola State College’s Molly McGuire Culinary Arts Endowed Scholarship fund has reached an impressive mark. A $32,000 donation from the Irish Politicians Club (IPC) and…
City awarded $500,000 grant for Alice S. Williams Library Restoration Project
The City of Pensacola has been awarded a $500,000 African American Cultural and Historical grant from the State of Florida for the Alice S. Williams…
Lakeview has new parent and brand
Press release: Lakeview Center celebrates a milestone today in its journey as an independent nonprofit, one year after separating from Baptist Health Care. After a 25-year…
Community Health Palafox Two opens
Community Health Northwest Florida’s Behavioral Health & Wellness and Optometric Vision Care departments have a brand new home. Familiarly dubbed “Palafox Two” among Community Health…
Florida United Ways respond to Hurricane Ian
Escambia and Santa Rosa counties escaped the devastation of Hurricane Ian. But many people are looking for ways to assist communities hit by the storm….
Real News podcasts: Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022
Banker Bruce Vredenburg explains why we should renew the the Economic Development Ad Valorem Tax Exemption (EDATE) program. The University of West Florida Haas Center…
Gulf Breeze Will Do has $130K+ in grant requests
Gulf Breeze Will Do (GBWD), a women’s philanthropic group, received more than $130,000 requests in grant applications for 2022. Grant review committees are set to…
Sheriff focused on finding suspects in Bellview shooting [podcast]
On WCOA this morning, Sheriff Chip Simmons repeated his request for any video taken by fans at the Bellview Park football on Saturday where one…
First City Art Center Pumpkin Patch [podcast]
First City Art Center’s 16th annual Glass and Ceramic Pumpkin Patch takes place on Saturday, Oct. 8 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Blue…
Triumph: Our ‘golden ticket’
Laura DiBella, the deputy secretary of the Florida Department of Commerce, was in Pensacola yesterday to speak with local business leaders about Enterprise Florida. “We…
Elizabeth Eckford shares her story
Yesterday, I posted the podcast of my interview with Elizabeth Eckford, who recounted her experience as she and eight other students desegregated Little Rock Central…
Real News podcasts: Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022
County Commissioner Jeff Bergosh discusses the shooting at Bellview Park while a youth football was being played and how the county will make the parks…
West Pensacola Elementary celebrates ‘Socktober’
West Pensacola Elementary School will kick off its annual “Socktober” service project this month, with a goal of collecting 900 pairs of new socks this…
Help with city transportation plan
The City of Pensacola is seeking the public’s input to help develop a forward-thinking Active Transportation Plan, with a goal of gathering input on walking, biking and other…
Elizabeth Eckford: Profile in Courage
On Thursday night, The Equity Project Alliance, in partnership with the Delta Iota Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., and the Diocese of…
Quint on the road to Southern League championship [podcast]
Sixteen years ago, Quint Studer, Mort O’Sullivan and I celebrated city voters passing the referendum for the Community Maritime Park at the Waffle House on…
Real News today: Bellview shooting, Studer, Soul Bowl, Little Rock Nine
We have a full slate of guests on WCOA’s “Real News with Rick Outzen” today. We will discuss the Bellview Park shooting and what the…
PPD also steps up security at youth football games
Press release: In response to a fatal shooting on Saturday, Oct. 1 at the Bellview Athletic Complex in Escambia County, the Pensacola Police Department will have an…
