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Island News December 21, 2006
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Christmas
What is it, really?
      Christmas is in full tilt and the stores are full. It is driving me nuts. Every time I go shopping I find something that is one-tenth the price that I paid for it last week. I think there should be a law that says that “all merchants should charge the same price for a thing until after Christmas a...
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Vision
New SRIA member seeks plan for Island
BY LISA NEWELL Gulf Breeze News lisa@gulfbreezenews.com
      New Santa Rosa Island Authority Board Member John Peacock wants his stint on the panel to have purpose, and he wants to know what the goal is of the SRIA. “What are the performance measures for the SRIA?” Peacock asked. “What is our vision ... and what are the actions to support our vision?” he ad...
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Christmas memories
      Pensacola Beach Optimist Club members Bettie Lee Sundstrom, Dave Sundstrom, and Marilyn Sundstrom, help Christmas parade attendees at the beach Boardwalk remember the day, taking Polaroid photos of the kids for them to keep.
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Corvette Club helps Covenant Hospice
      The Miracle Strip Corvette Club presented Covenant Hospice with a check for $1,000 from their “Life is a Vette” car show that was held in October on Pensacola Beach. The money will go to help the special programs offered by Covenant Hospice.
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After Christmas, the work of helping others begins
      Howard Thurman, American Theologian, wrote a poem, “The Work of Christmas”: When the song of the angels is stilled, When the star in the sky is gone, When    the    kings    and   
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Doing a holiday ‘Favor’ ...
      The Pensacola Beach Optimists worked to bring Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings to representatives of Favor House.
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The cat’s out of the bag – people flock to experience Pensacola Beach lifestyle
      Getting business in the offseason is undoubtedly harder than it once was. When the beach was just a small little island community, people lived there, people visited; I grew up with that. After the hurricanes of 1995, I noticed something was different. There were more people flocking to the beach...
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