Category: Caring
Daily Outtakes: Trust meets today
The Escambia Children’s Trust meets at 9 a.m. today in the Escambia County Commission chambers. This will be the first meeting for the new executive…
Real New – Super Bowl version
Sena and I talked with ABC News Jason Nathanson and Alex Stone about the upcoming Super Bowl in Las Vegas. ABC News Jason Nathanson reviews…
Parkrun celebrates five years
This Saturday marks the five-year anniversary of Parkrun on the University of West Florida’s Pensacola campus. Every Saturday morning, parkrunners gather to walk, jog, run…
Ronald McDonald House gets new kitchen
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Northwest Florida is pleased to announce a comprehensive kitchen renovation project in the Spring of 2024, made possible by a…
Harrison named new CHS head
Children’s Home Society of Florida (CHS) has appointed Leah Harrison as its new Executive Director, serving the Pensacola to Panama City communities. Harrison was named…
Portside Pickleball coming to downtown Pensacola
Warehouse 4 Sports Launches First Phase of Construction With Portside Pickle The development team converting a Port of Pensacola warehouse into a sports facility is…
2024 Rising Stars
We’ve published the Rising Star issue every winter, maintaining the high standards established in the beginning. Over the past 17 years, the Rising Stars have…
Daily Outtakes – More Downtown Remotes coming
Nearly 98 years after its first broadcast, WCOA returned to Pensacola City Hall – now the Pensacola Museum of History, thanks to the help of…
Cox employees buy glasses for kids
Cox Communications employees have awarded a total of $7,000 in grants to local non-profits, through Cox Charities Community Investment Grants. The program provides employee funded…
Remembering Bobby
On “Real News,” we often talk about Sena Maddison’s great-uncle, a WWII pilot killed on a bombing mission. This article was first published in Inweekly…
IP awards $66K to 30 local charities
International Paper’s Pensacola Mill has awarded $66,450 in International Paper Foundation grants to 30 local organizations, demonstrating the company’s commitment to education, hunger, health and…
Daily Outtakes: How to better spend $5 million
The community is divided over the Escambia Children’s Trust, especially since last Tuesday’s program committee workshop regarding the Out-of-School Time grants. Other nonprofits have questioned…
Children’s Theater Company called out for ‘blatant lies’
When the Escambia Children’s Trust’s program committee met this morning, the leaders of the Children’s Theater Company (CTC), Eric Dozier and Mehr Mansuri, tried to…
Daily Outtakes: Important meetings today
Escambia County, City of Pensacola, Opening Doors Northwest Florida have been on the path to revamp the Continuum of Care, which receives federal and state…
Fill the Mayflower on Friday
The 16th Annual Fill the Mayflower food and funds drive – presented by Coastal Moving & Storage and benefitting Manna Food Bank – is 5…
Foo Foo celebrates
In celebration of the 10-year anniversary of the Pensacola Foo Foo Festival, the event’s inaugural Committee members and grant recipients from 2014 recently gathered with…
Gulf Breeze Will Do awards grants
Gulf Breeze Will Do (GBWD), a women’s philanthropic group, awarded $37,000 in grants at its annual meeting on Nov. 5. A group of Gulf Breeze…
Daily Outtakes: Foo Foo heats up
Week in the Park Pensacola and Veterans Memorial Park will showcase and celebrate all the park has to offer during a weeklong Veterans Day celebration…
Ret. Vice Adm. Robin Braun new NAMF Board chair
The Naval Aviation Museum Foundation (NAMF) is honored to announce the appointment of retired Vice Adm. Robin Braun as the NAMF Board Chair. A groundbreaking…
Gulf Coast Veterans Week
Gulf Coast Veterans Week, along with Rep. Michelle Salzman, UWF Military and Veteran Resource Center, Veterans Memorial Park, Veterans Upward Bound at PSC, and VetCV,…
