Category: Caring

the Pensacola Foo Foo Festival returns for its thirteenth iteration this Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026! For 12 days, Pensacola’s arts & culture scene comes alive…

Puppies at the ballet. Mirrored spheres on Artel Gallery. A first-ever beach show. Foo Foo Fest turns 13, and Pensacola’s showing off.

1,313 women. 13 nonprofits. $1.313 million. IMPACT 100 just made Pensacola Bay Area history with its biggest grant class ever. See who won grants.

Ascension Sacred Heart’s new CEO started as an OR orderly, became a nurse and now leads it. Hear his plans for access and mental health at ricksblog.biz

Sen. Rick Scott donates his Q3 Senate salary to BRACE to help Panhandle families rebuild after Hurricane Isaias. Details at ricksblog.biz

DeSantis came to Milton for applause. Parents asked about Henry Mack’s reported FHP threat to the Santa Rosa superintendent. His answer: “That is in the past.”

After 37 years working hurricanes, she thought she’d seen it all. Then the storm hit her own street in Gulf Breeze. The oaks are gone. Read her story.

Banana Ball is coming to Pensacola! ? Blue Wahoos Stadium lands a 2027 World Tour stop May 21-22. Ticket lottery closes Oct. 31, so don’t wait.

The Blue Wahoos are turning Saturday’s Alabama vs. Georgia Tech game into a thank-you to the people rebuilding after Hurricane Isaias.

The following feeding locations have been established for Thursday, Oct. 15 in Escambia County to provide food to residents following Hurricane Isaias. Please note that…

ECUA Lifts Precautionary Boil Water Notice for Most of Mainland Escambia County, All of Perdido Key; Some Addresses Remain Under Notice. See addresses.

Community Health reopens locations on Jackson St. in Pensacola, Trinity Pediatrics on N. 9th Ave. and Caroline St. in Milton.

The event is rescheduled for Sunday, October 25, provided the community does not experience extensive storm damage. The location and times remain unchanged.

Socks are the most requested item at shelters. Socktober’s goal is 3,500 pairs, and for the first time, local veterans will get them too. Learn how to help.

Nine Pensacola nonprofits are vying for five $25,000 grants. Sunday’s Child members vote Oct. 18 to split $125,000. See the finalists.

Katie Dineen won 2026 Best of the Coast Best Musician, married at the Handlebar and just dropped Simmer. Hear her story on Rick’s Blog Live.

ECAT cut off disabled riders Oct. 1 with no notice. One advocate stood waiting for her ride to work. It never came. Why was no one told?

Community At the Rafferty Community Center ribbon-cutting, the former Seahawk credited coaches, parents and a grandfather for who he became, then asked Northwest Florida’s leaders…

Florida Humanities director Dr. Nashid Madyun: Gulf Coast community radio stations are already connected by culture — his pitch: build a story-sharing network.

Navy commandant to fair CEO: Gil Clark Jr. left 28 years of military life to run Pensacola’s 91-year-old fair — and rebuild its future.