David O’Neal Jordan
April 10, 2011
David O’Neal Jordan passed away Wednesday, April 6, 2011 at his home in Molino at the age of 72. He was a husband, father, grandfather, uncle, and friend and a Brother in Christ.
His is survived by his wife Mavis Garrett Jordan, his son Kenneth Steven Jordan, his daughter Theresa Jordan-Glowasky, his grandson Michawl Glowasky, and his granddaughter Jordan Glowasky, along with numerous other family and friends.
He will be sorely missed, but he would ask us to remember that he is in a better place and that he is rejoicing with those family and friends who have gone on before.
Services will be held at Waters & Hibbert funeral home, in Pensacola on Tuesday, April 12th. Viewing will begin at 10:00 am with services beginning at 10:30.
Interment will be held at 11:45 at Barrancas National Cemetery located on Pensacola Naval Base.
Waters and Hibbert Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
$5 Jewelry Sale Today Benefits Hospital Auxillary
April 9, 2011
A $5 jewelry and accessory sale is going on until 1 p.m. today in the Mayson Auditorium at Atmore Community Hospital. The sale benefits the ACH Auxilary. Cash, credit cards and checks are accepted. The Mayson Auditorium is on the southwest corner of the building, the opposite corner from the emergency room. NorthEscambia.com photo, click to enlarge.
Warm Weekend Weather
April 9, 2011
Here is your official North Escambia area forecast:
- Saturday Night: Patchy dense fog after 1am. Otherwise, increasing clouds, with a low around 63. South wind between 5 and 10 mph.
- Sunday: Patchy dense fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 87. South wind between 5 and 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
- Sunday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 67. South wind around 10 mph.
- Monday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Cloudy, with a high near 83. South wind between 10 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
- Monday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 57. North wind between 5 and 10 mph.
- Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 82. North wind around 5 mph becoming south.
- Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 57. South wind around 5 mph becoming calm.
- Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 81.
- Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 62.
- Thursday: Partly sunny, with a high near 82.
- Thursday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 59.
- Friday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 76.
State Attorney: Deputies Justified In Shooting 25 Times At Suspect
April 9, 2011
The State Attorney’s Office says Escambia County deputies were justified when they fired their weapons during the October hostage standoff that seriously wounded Deputy Jeremy Cassady.
On October 29, deputies responded to a home off Scenic Highway were Phillip Monier was holding his ex-girlfriend Jackie Rosenbloom hostage. According to the State Attorney’s report, Cassady fired the first shot at Monier’s head and missed. Fourteen deputies in all fired a total of 25 shots, none of which hit Monier.
The hostage, Rosenbloom, was struck a number times in the pelvis and leg. She survived her injuries.
Sacred Heart Hospital Stands To Lose $15 Million From State Medicaid Cuts
April 9, 2011
Sacred Heart Hospital stands to lose $15 million in funding it receives for services it provides to low-income patients covered by Medicaid under the state budget proposed by the Florida Senate.
The state Senate’s proposed budget is threatening Florida’s health care safety net by imposing what amounts to a 35 percent Medicaid reimbursement cut on all Florida hospitals, according to the hospital. The funding cuts would have the most impact on 15 safety net hospital systems which deliver nearly half of all charity care and Medicaid care to patients in Florida.
Based in Pensacola, Sacred Heart Health System is one of those 15 hospitals which are now being asked to absorb a large part of the Senate’s proposed Medicaid cuts.
“These cuts in Medicaid funding will severely reduce access to health care services for those who are poor and vulnerable in our community,” Laura Kaiser, president and CEO of Sacred Heart Health System, said.
“Our mission is to care for everyone, regardless of one’s ability to pay. Medicaid payments to doctors and hospitals have always been low – actually less than our cost for providing care,” Kaiser added. “But these new cuts are extreme and will significantly reduce our ability to continue vital services that are life saving and life giving. For example, we provide the only Children’s Hospital in Northwest Florida – if we are forced to cut back our pediatric services or reduce staff, children will have nowhere else to go.”
The $720 million being slashed from just 15 safety net hospital systems represents 45 percent of the total $1.8 billion in program cuts that the Senate is leveling on all 200 hospitals in the state.
“These cuts, which are unprecedented in their enormity, will hurt patients, hospitals and communities across Florida,” said Tony Carvalho, President of the Safety Net Hospital Alliance of Florida (SNHAF), which represents the state’s leading teaching, public and children’s hospitals. “We are urging the Senate to maintain funding for the Medically Needy and Medicaid for the Aged and Disabled programs, similar to what is being recommended by the Florida House.”
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Bake Sale Today
April 9, 2011
How about a dozen doughnuts this morning? Or a yard sale with homemade baked goods? You can find both in North Escambia this morning.
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts
Ray’s Chapel Baptist Church will be selling Krispy Kreme Doughnuts this morning at three locations — at the McDavid Mini Mart (Hwy 29 & Hwy 164), across from the Tom Thumb in Molino (by the peanut man on Hwy 97 at Hwy 29), and at Highway 29 and Detroit Boulevard in Pensacola.
Doughnuts will be $6 per dozen, with proceeds to benefit a church mission trip to Guatemala.
Yard/Bake Sale
A bake and yard sale will be held at Byrneville United Methodist Church today from 7 a.m. until noon. The church is located at 1351 Byrneville Road.
18th Annual 4-H and FFA Youth Livestock Show And Farm Expo Today
April 9, 2011
The 18th annual Gulf Coast Agriculture and Natural Resources Association annual Spring Livestock Show will continue today at the Langley Bell 4-H Center on 9 Mile Road in Beulah.
4-H and FFA members in Escambia, Baldwin, and Mobile counties in Alabama, and Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, and Walton counties in Florida will show their breeding heifers, preview steers, goats, sheep, rabbits, and poultry during the event.
The show will conclude with an auction at 5 p.m., where market animal participants will be selling their steer, swine, and goat projects.
The schedule of events is as follows:
- Swine Show: 9:00-11:00 a.m.
- Poultry & Rabbit Show: 9:30-11:00 a.m.
- Goat & Lamb Show: 11:00-11:30 a.m.
- Lunch
- Market Steer Show: 12:00-1:30 p.m.
- Preview Steer Show: 1:30-2:00 p.m.
- Beef Breeding Show: 2:30-5:00 p.m.
- Livestock Sale: 5:30 p.m.
The Langley Bell 4-h Center is located at 4810 West 9 Mile Road, one mile west of I-10. The public is invited to attend.
GCA and NRA is a nonprofit organization that provides opportunities for youth with livestock projects. All sponsorships, sales proceeds, and donations are returned to participants through award premiums.
Navy Drops Dismissal Of Tate Grad Sailor Found In Bunk With Another Male
April 9, 2011
The Navy has dropped dismissal proceedings against a Cantonment sailor who was facing unprofessional conduct charges after being found in bed with another male.
Petty Officer Stephen Jones, stationed at the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command in Charleston, S.C., learned Friday that the Navy was rescinding his discharge orders.
Jones, a Tate High School graduate, was reportedly found asleep in a bunk in February with another male soldier. The two men, who were both clothed, claimed they simply fell asleep while watching The Vampire Diaries on a computer, but their commander ruled that Jones “willfully failed to exhibit professional conduct” and discharge proceedings began.
His attorney claimed that the Navy wanted to discharge Jones because the Navy suspected his was gay, but there was no proof or admission of homosexuality.
“We strongly suspected that his command was trying to find a round about way to discharge Jones because it suspected him of being gay, and we simply were not willing to stand by and watch a new version of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ emerge under the new label of ‘unprofessional conduct,’” a statement from Servicemembers United Executive Director Alexander Nicholson said. Servicemembers United is the nation’s largest organization of gay and lesbian troops and veterans.
Woman, 78, Shoves Gun-toting Robbers Out The Door
April 9, 2011
A 78-year-old woman threatened at gunpoint in attempted home invasion fought back, and two suspects were in jail within about an hour.
Mary Collins, 78, was home alone at her residence in the 900 block of Twinbrook Ave., when three juvenile males came to her door asking if they could cut her grass. When she told them no, she closed the door and the juveniles walked away. About an hour later, while Collins was in another part of her home, she heard a noise and went to investigate. She found one of the juveniles armed with a gun standing in the residence.
Collins, according to a sheriff’s report, yelled at the suspect and shoved him toward the door. The startled suspect ran out of the house.
At around 12:07 p.m. Thursday deputies were dispatched to the incident and by 1:30 p.m. they had two suspects in custody. Arrested were 17-year-old Maurice Antoron Atkins, of Pensacola, and 13-year-old Luis Beuno Martinez, also of Pensacola. A third suspect, described as a light skinned black male wearing a grey shirt and jeans, was able to escape capture.
“We are working on identifying the third suspect in this case,” said sheriff’s spokesperson Deputy Chris Welborn. “We’re asking anyone with information concerning him or his whereabouts to contact us.”
Anyone with information about this case is asked to call the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office at (850) 436-9620 or Gulf Coast Crime Stoppers at (850) 433-STOP.
Molino Man Pleads Not Guilty To Torching His Foreclosed Home
April 9, 2011
A Molino man charged with setting fire to his home that was in foreclosure last fall has pleaded not guilty.
George Thomas Alexander, 49, entered the not guilty plea this week on a charge of felony first degree arson in Escambia County Circuit Court. The charge is in connection with the fire in the 3500 block of Molino Road on October 6, 2010.
The Florida State Fire Marshal’s Office believes Alexander torched the home that was in foreclosure.
“The fire obviously started with human intervention,” Lt. Kevin Fiedor with the State Fire Marshal’s Office said. Damage to the brick home was estimated at about $65,000. The home had no power or gas at the time of the blaze.
Alexander is due back in court for trial in July.
The Molino, Cantonment, McDavid, Century, Walnut Hill and Beulah stations of Escambia Fire Rescue worked for hours to fully extinguish the blaze.
For more photos from the blaze, click here.
NorthEsambia.com file photos, click to enlarge.
