JULY 25- DEADLINE
Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival sponsoring poster contest The Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival is sponsoring a design competition to select the official GGAF poster for 2005. The winning artist will receive a cash award. Creative artists of all ages are encouraged to submit their designs. Entries should be appropriate for replication for posters, silk screened T-shirts and other GGAF promotional items. Judging criteria will include viability of sales potential and submissions should be thematically related to the Arts Festival and the region. Guidelines are available at www.ggaf.org or by writing to GGAF, P.O. Box 731, Pensacola, FL. 32594. Design entries must be received by noon, July 25, 2005. The Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival will be Nov. 4, 5 and 6, 2005 in Pensacola’s Seville Square.

ONGOIING Pensacola Beach Optimist Club meets

The Pensacola Beach Optimist Club welcomes all interested in joining to attend the regular meetings on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m. at Our lady of the Assumption Mission beach church on Via De Luna Drive. Milton High Class of ’85 Reunion seeks mates

The MHS Graduation Class of 1985 is holding its’ 20 Year Reunion July 23 & 24, 2005. If you haven’t heard from the Reunion Committee, please contact MHS at 983-5603 or visit www.classmates.com and read the message board. Elk Lodge hosts Bingo The Holley-Navarre Elks Lodge No. 2787 holds Bingo every Friday night at 6 p.m. across from Baptist Health Center in Navarre, with 30 percent of funds benefiting local charities. For more information, call (850) 939-2787. Holley-Navarre Elks Lodge serves breakfast The Holley Navarre Elks Lodge No. 2787 will serve a full breakfast from 8 - 11 a.m. at their lodge across from Baptist Health Center in Navarre for $3 every Sunday beginning April 3 to raise money to support community projects.

Habitat for Humanity

meetings scheduled

Pensacola Habitat for Humanity

holds orientation meetings on the

1st Thursday of each month at the

Community Life Center east of

Wal-Mart in Gulf Breeze on the

corner of Soundside Drive and

Highway 98 at 6:30 p.m. Led by the

South Santa Rosa Family Selection

Committee for Pensacola Habitat

for Humanity, meetings are to

determine if you qualify for a

Habitat project. For more info or if

you have questions, call Terrye

Takacs at 932-3594.

Trauma Program

seeks Volunteers

The Trauma Intervention

Program (TIP), a group of citizens

who provide emotional and practical support to victims of traumatic

events and their families immediately following a tragedy, is in need

of volunteers. No experience is

necessary. For more information,

call Tommy Carter at 934-6654. Belmont Arts Center hosts Open Mic Night

The Belmont Arts & Cultural

Center (401 North Reus Street,

Pensacola) holds Open Mic night

every Thursday for songsmiths,

musicians, poets and performance

arts from 7 -to 11 p.m.

South Santa Rosa

Writing Group meets

Tuesdays

The South Santa Rosa Writers

meets each Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at

the St. Augustine Episcopal Church

Parish Hall located at 7810 Navarre

Parkway, Navarre adjacent to Lewis

Funeral Home. All writers, beginners or experienced, published or

non-published, are invited to share

their writing, get advice and find

out where to submit for publication. For more information, contact

Nancy at 936-6889 or email

lilysmom49@aol.com

PUBLIIC

MEETIINGS

Gulf Breeze City

Council

All City of Gulf Breeze Council

Meetings and other city department meetings are held in the City Hall Council

Chambers, 1070 Shoreline Drive in Gulf

Breeze at 6:30 p.m.,

unless otherwise indicated. For a list of

individual department

and committee meetings,

visit www.cityofgulfbreeze. com. Phone (850) 934-5100. July 13- GB City Council executive committee

Santa Rosa

County

Commission

All Board of

County Commissioner

Meetings and other

county department

meetings are held in the

County Administrative

Center’s Commissioner's

Board Room, 6495

Caroline Street in Milton

at 9 a.m., unless otherwise

indicated. For a list of individual department and committee meetings, or to watch or

listen to a meeting online visit

www.co.santa-rosa.fl.us. Phone

(850) 932-1340.

No meetings scheduled for the

first week of July

Santa Rosa County

District School

Board

All Santa Rosa County School

Board Meetings are held in the

SR County School District

Office building, 5086 Canal

Street in Milton at 6:30 p.m.

unless otherwise indicated. For

a list of individual department

and committee meetings, visit

www.santarosa.k12.fl.us. Phone

(850) 983-5000.

July 7 - Regular Board

Meeting, 10 a.m.

Gulf Breeze

Chamber of

Commerce

409 GULF BREEZE PARKWAY

PHONE: 850-932-7888

Wednesday, July 06 @ 12 p.m.

Governmental Affairs Meeting

Santa Rosa Recreation Center,

800 Shoreline Dr. Reservations

Requested.

Thursday, July 07 @ 5:30 p.m.

Art and Wine Committee

Meeting Harbourtown

Courtyard. Reservations

Requested