Category: Caring

Truth For Youth will be sponsoring, along with participation from Pensacola State College Student Nurse Association, the first annual Community Health Fair on Saturday, November…

Press Release: Despite international spellings and a wide variety of tastes and styles, beer-lovers from across Northwest Florida are in for a treat on November…

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…

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…

By Shelby Smithey… The Liberty Foundation is bringing a restored Word War II Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, made famous from the 1990 movie “Memphis Belle,”…

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…

Press Release: The American Advertising Federation (AAF) Pensacola Chapter announces its new fundraiser – AdArt. AdArt supports art programs in local schools while promoting a…

Head to the fairgrounds this weekend for the Pensacola Pirate Festival. This two-day festival will feature live cannon fire, fierce battles, black-hearted wenches, mermaids, pirate…

By Shelby Smithey… Pensacola may have waited over 20 years for Cirque Do Soleil, but it was well worth the wait. Its longest-running production, “Saltimbanco,”…

Due to popular demand, new seats have been added for both performances to the Pensacola tour stop of Saltimbanco at the Pensacola Bay Center, boosting the arena capacity…

By Shelby Smithey… Jocelyn Evans, chair of the University of West Florida Department of Government, will discuss how technological advances and terrorist attacks have affected…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Independent News has received copies the tax returns for 2009, 2010 and 2011 of the Pensacola Veterans Memorial Park Foundation, that built and maintained…

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 former treasurer of the Wall South Foundation says that Commander of the Defense Commissary Agency that raised half million dollars for the ongoing maintenance…

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…