PLAN YOUR SUMMER
Farmers' Opry favorite to perform at 'Evenings'

The Sawmill Band will perform at "Evenings in Olde Seville" tonight and a fundraising event for Santa Rosa KIds House July 28. The band regularly performs at the Farmers' Opry in Chumuckla.

Get ready for some line dancing at the next Evenings in Olde Seville Square concert in historic downtown Pensacola. The Sawmill Band will bring songs of love and everyday matters to Evenings in Olde Seville Square from 7- 9:15 p.m. today.

Direct from the Opry, that's the Farmers' Opry in Chumuckla, The Sawmill Band is one of Northwest Florida's premier country bands. Their strength is a well-blended mixture of singers and musicians focused on providing fun for the whole family. Each member has their roots in various forms of modern and traditional country, and they also incorporate vocal harmonies into gospel music with live country flair.

At the next Evenings in Olde Seville Square on Thursday, Aug. 2, Holly Shelton will join Don Snowden's Big Band All Stars for some great music from the swing era to modern day.

When attending concerts, bring a lawn chair or a blanket for seating. Also, bring your appetite. Located on Alcaniz Street, concession stands offer sandwiches, wraps, hot dogs, sausage, snacks and the "Evening's" famous freshly popped popcorn as well as frozen desserts, soft drinks and bottled water.

The Northwest Florida Bloodmobile will also be present from 5- 9 p.m. at every concert on the corner of Alcaniz and Zaragoza Streets offering you the chance to give the gift of life by donating blood.

Bear Mobile visits Ft. Walton Beach

The City of Fort Walton Beach Heritage Park & Cultural Center is set to host the Bearheart Native Paths Museum on Saturday, July 28 from noon to 2 PM. The Bearheart Native Paths Museum, or "Bear Mobile," is a traveling museum of Southeastern Muscogee Creek history and culture. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

The mobile museum is a project of the Perdido Bay Tribe, a state and locally recognized tribe of Creek Indians.

The hosting of the "Bear Mobile" is part of Heritage Park's current Campaign for Culture, a public awareness program to increase community participation in the museums' programming and visitation.

Heritage Park & Cultural Center is located at 139 Miracle Strip Parkway SE. For further information please contact Museum Director Laura Bessinger-Morse at 833-9595.

Sawmill Band to host Santa Rosa Kids House charity

Leadership Santa Rosa Class 21 will host a silent auction and prize raffles to benefit Santa Rosa Kids House on Saturday, July 28, at the Chumuckla Farmer's Opry, located at 8897 Byron Campbell Road in the Chumuckla community. The event begins with a southern cuisine dinner served from 4:30-7 p.m, followed by a show featuring Sawmill Band. Cost is $18.50 for dinner and show or $8.00 for show only. Guests must be present to win prize raffles, which will be drawn throughout the show, but attendance is not required to win silent auction items, for which bids open at 4:30 p.m. and close about 15 minutes prior to the show's end.

Santa Rosa Kids House is an organization aimed to lessen the trauma and encourage prevention of abuse for children and their families.

For more information on Kids House, contact Hank Shirah at 850-995-8795 or visit www.santarosakidshouse.org.

For more auction information or to donate a prize, contact Morgan at 850-516-0346.

Superman Musical at PJC

Come enjoy a piece of musical theater history at Pensacola Junior College. "It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman" is the 2007 Summer High School Onstage Workshop show.

All tickets are $12 and can be purchased at the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium box office, Building 8, Pensacola campus, 1000 College Blvd.

The superhero musical runs 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 27-28 and Aug. 3-4, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, July 29 and Aug. 5, at the Ashmore auditorium.

In the production directed by Rodney Whatley, Superman jumps off the pages

of a comic book to sing, dance and fly his way on to the stage. With a tongue-in-cheek script by Robert Benton and David Newman (who went on to write "Bonnie and Clyde" and the blockbuster "Superman" film) and a muchlauded score by Bye Bye Birdie's Charles Strouse and Lee Adams, the musical pokes fun at the American superhero whose unwavering morality, fidelity and loyalty have made him a celebrated hero and favorite through the decades.

For more information, call 484-1847.

The Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) Florida Park Service has released its State Park Passport allowing visitors to document their state park visits by collecting stamps in the full color booklet. The Florida State Park passports are on sale for $7.95 each. Visitors can buy a passport at the ranger station of a Florida state park or on the web at www.FloridaStateParks.org or by calling 352-628-5343.

For more information, visit www.FloridaStateParks.org.