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Monday we will have the honor of meeting and hearing from CAPT Chandra "Mamasan" Newman, the first woman to serve as Commanding Officer of NAS Pensacola. Learn more about our guest speaker at: cnrse.cnic.navy.mil/About/Leadership/Bio-Detail/Article/2947911/co/
(Bay Center, noon)
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Congratulations and Godspeed to member Steve Brice as he leaves the Pensacola Blue Wahoos to serve as CEO of the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Kernels, a high-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins. We’ll miss you, Steve! (You do know there’s no beach where you’re headed, right?)
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Steve, we will miss you! Congratulations!
Best wishes on your next adventures.
Congrats, Steve 🙌🏻👏🏻🙌🏻
Downtown Improvement Board Executive Director Walker Wilson brought us the latest news about Downtown Pensacola–Palafox Market growth, plans for a Foo Foo Festival art installation in November, projected start for South Palafox beautification construction–and answered questions about (no surprise!) downtown parking.
In celebration of "National Bubba Day," member Bubba Peters got a standing ovation (well, we were already standing for the pledge)!
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Walker Wilson, Executive Director of the Downtown Improvement Board, joins us Monday to fill us in on all the great things happening in Downtown Pensacola! (Bay Center, noon)
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When Tracey Saxon, who manages and administers Warrington Preparatory Academy for Charter Schools USA, asked the students at Warrington’s middle school what they most wanted at the school, the surprising reply was "an oven." 100% of the scholars, as the students are called, at what is now Warrington Preparatory Academy receive free lunches. The food they used to get was barely edible; now they have properly cooked meals and all the fresh fruit and vegetables they want.
That is just one of the improvements that our speaker noted as she talked about the success-in-progress turnaround at what was a badly failing school. "We are relentlessly committed to student greatness in school and life. We strive to unleash each student’s potential by building strong minds and good hearts ensuring they develop lifelong future-ready skills that will lead them to success as they pursue their dreams and aspirations. " Learn more at www.warringtonprep.org/
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Happy Birthday on May 28 to Aaron West and May 29 to Ron Tuttle!
She is amazing!
Tracey Saxon, Director of School Support/Florida State team for Charter Schools USA, will talk about Warrington Preparatory Academy at our meeting Monday. (Bay Center, noon)
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The story of Operation Helo–the subject of our program yesterday–can’t be summed up in a sentence or two. Here is a link to a short documentary video of what caring, compassionate, and competent Americans did to rescue disaster victims and save lives: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lMMYneqVms&t=28s . Many thanks to speakers Matt McSwain and Harry O’Nan for their stirring account of this phenomenal effort by 150+ volunteer pilots flying over 4,000 missions in the mountains of Western North Carolina.
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Happy Birthday to member David Scott! And Happy Five Flags Anniversary to Gus Silivos (32 Years) and Tim Kinsella (3 years)!
Great story. Helo Heroes.