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THINGS TO DO Sailors race to fund Sacred Heart Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
The festivities will begin today, April 24, with a silent auction, heavy hors d'ouvres and a cash bar at the Fish House Outdoor Deck, 600 South Barracks Street in downtown Pensacola, from 6 to 9 p.m. The silent auction will feature trips to various Southeastern resorts, jewelry, spa treatments and more! Registration for the regatta will take place on Friday, April 25 at the Pensacola Beach Yacht Club at 6 p.m., with the skippers meeting to be held directly after registration at 7 p.m. The fun continues the next day, Saturday, April 26, with a double handed, spinnaker, nonspinnaker, and Laser sailing race. The race will be followed by a great post-race meal and awards ceremony at 5 p.m. Tickets for Thursday's food and auction are $30 per person and $50 per couple. The registration fee for Saturday's regatta is $50, which includes two tickets for the Thursday night silent auction and two regatta T-shirts. In 2007, over $28,000 was raised by the Preemie Cup Regatta to benefit children's hospital. The Sacred Heart Children's Hospital 55-bed NICU is the area's only level III intensive care nursery and is staffed 24 hours a day by neonatologists, neonatal nurses, developmental specialists and respiratory therapists dedicated to the care of premature and critically newborns. Nearly 80 percent of NICU babies are there because of premature birth - born anywhere from 2 to 16 weeks early. For more information on the race or the NOR, call William Paden at 850-968-8796 or email him at pcolabaypro@aol.com. For more information and tickets to the Thursday dinner party, call Sacred Heart Foundation at 850-416-4660 or visit www.sacred-heart.org. Elton John performs Friday Elton John and his band will appear live at Pensacola Civic Center in Pensacola, on Friday April 25. The concert is part of the 2008 Tour: Rocket Man • Number Ones. Elton John and his band, including members Davey Johnstone on guitar, Guy Babylon on keyboards, Bob Birch on bass, John Mahon on percussion and Nigel Olsson on drums will play his greatest hits and more recent songs from his latest release, Rocket Man • Number Ones.Elton John has sold more than 200 million records and continues to add innovative work to his personal repertoire of 29 consecutive Top 40 hits, 35 gold and 25 platinum albums. Rocket Man • Numbers Ones, released in March 2007, debuted in the top 10 and features newly compiled and digitally mastered greatest hits spanning the first three decades of the singer songwriter's career. Sheryl Crow at Pensacola Civic Center Saturday Nine-time Grammy winner Sheryl Crow will breeze into the PensacolCivic Center on Saturday, April 26. The celebrated singer/songwriter has sold over 30 million albums and boasts a string of universally recognizable tunes: "Every Day is a Winding Road," "Soak up the Sun," "My Favorite Mistake", "If It Makes You Happy," "A Change Would Do You Good," and "All I Wanna Do" to name a few. This tour comes on the heels of Crow's 7th studio album, "Detours". Tickets on sale Friday, February 29 at 10 a.m. Ticket price is $52.50. Tickets are available at The Pensacola Civic Center Box Office, Ticketmaster outlets, Charge By Phone 850-434-7444, or www.ticketmaster.com. You can't go wrong with Artel Gallery Artel Gallery presents "You Can't Go Wrong With Red," a juried exhibit, April 15 - May 16. An opening reception will take place on Friday, April 25, from 6-8 p.m. Juror Cheryl Fox selected the following winners: Geri Nettles, Best of Show; Wendy Cresswell, first; Michael Boles, second; Donna O'Neal, third; Kyla Mucci, Edgiest; and Lisa Kirkman, Sally Miller and Alan Moore, Honorable Mention. For more information call the gallery at 850 432-3080 or visit Artel's website at artelgallery.org. Shower your favorite animal with gifts The Wildlife Sanctuary of Northwest Florida is inviting everyone to the Sanctuary's Annual Baby Shower and Open House Saturday, April 26, from noon to 3:30 p.m. The center is open seven days a week as a wildlife hospital for injured and orphaned wildlife. The facility relies mainly on donations to support the care of the wonderful animals in need of a second chance Enjoy shopping for wildlife gifts and tee shirts; buy native plants and trees at the plant booth; feed the pelicans; enjoy the face painting booth; have the children learn about native animals at the two puppet shows; hot dogs, chips, sodas and bake sale items will be available for sale so plan to eat here. Bring your cameras, bring your kids and bring your friends. You'll see pelicans, fox, bald eagles, owls, bobcats, opossums, turtles, skunks, deer and much, much more. Special guests will be Sweet Prospect Celtic Band, Escambia County Extension Service and Master Gardener volunteers, National Park Service, UF/IFAS Santa Rosa County Sea Grant, UF Academic Science Programs, Florida Trail Association and Steve Neitzel's Wildife Photography booth. And don't forget that if you want to bring baby shower gifts the sanctuary can use any of the following items: paper towels, tissues, liquid laundry soap, bleach, first class stamps, peanut butter, suet cakes, canned or frozen peas and corn, fresh or frozen small minnows, jars of meat baby food, 45 gallon trash bags, fresh or frozen berries, grapes, sweet potatoes. PJC Wind Ensemble presents final concert The PJC Wind Ensemble's final concert of the school year is 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 28 at the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium, Building 8, on the Pensacola campus. The event is free, but tickets are required. The wind ensemble's program features music by composer Frank Ticheli - "Blue Shades," "Cajun Folk Songs" and "An American Elegy." Get free tickets at the PJC Lyceum Box Office at the Ashmore. For more information, call 850-484-1847. |
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