Molino Park PTA Holds ‘Welcome Back’ Lunch For School Staffers
August 10, 2016
The Molino Park Elementary School PTA hosted a “Welcome Back” luncheon for faculty and staff Thursday to help start the new school year right. Courtesy photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
Send Us Your Back To School Photos!
August 10, 2016
It’s the first day of school in Escambia County, and we want to share your photos.
Send us your back to school photos along with the name of your child, grade and school. Submit the photos to news@northescambia.com or upload them to our Facebook page. On Tuesday, we’ll publish as many photos as we can.
Pictured: Three of our submitted back to school photos from last year. NorthEscambia.com file photos, click to enlarge.
Tate Grad Long Named To FCS Preseason All American Team
August 10, 2016
The STATS FCS Preseason All-America Team has been announced and includes a Tate High School graduate.
Fullback Lorenzo Long was named to the third team.
Long was named second team All-Southern Conference last season. He led the team in rushing with 969 yards, which was fourth in the league. For his career, he has 2,055 rushing yards and 25 touchdowns. Long earned a spot on the Preseason All-SoCon second team which was released last week.
Long currently plays for the Wofford Terriers
Wayne Campbell Blanchett
August 10, 2016
Wayne Campbell Blanchett of Cantonment, passed away August 3, 2016. Wayne was born in Abbeville, SC. He was a longtime member of Victory Assembly Church, served in the U.S. Navy for 26 years and retired as a Master Chief. He will be remembered as a loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather.
Wayne is preceded in death by his wife of 53 years, Dot Blanchett; daughter, Joyce LaWayne Blanchett and great grandson, Aiden Riley Henry.
He is survived by his daughters, Deby Slack and Jennifer Jackson; grandchildren, Wayne Slack and his wife Carla, Derek Slack and his wife Shannon; Carlie Severin, Abbie Huff and Cade Jackson; great-grandchildren, Marley and Piper Slack, Emmy and Ethan Severin; three sisters and one brother.
Funeral services were held Wednesday, August 10, 2016, at Victory Assembly Church with Bro. Jeff McKee will be officiating.
Interment to follow at Eastern Gate Cemetery.
Faith Chapel Funeral Home North is in charge of arrangements.
Wahoos Earn 11 Hits In 7-4 Win Over Biloxi
August 10, 2016
This time the Pensacola Blue Wahoos changed up its game script a little bit. Instead of waiting until late in the game to score, the Blue Wahoos jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the second inning.
Behind four players who had multi-hit games and seven of the nine starters getting a hit, Pensacola won the final game of the five-game series over the Biloxi Shuckers, 7-4, Tuesday at MGM Park.
The Pensacola lineup that scored 11 runs in the first four games and hit .236 broke out in the last game of the series with seven runs on 11-36 hitting for a .305 batting average.
Although Biloxi snapped a six series losing streak, beating Pensacola, 3-2, the Blue Wahoos closed out the season with the Shuckers Tuesday with a 13-12 record.
Pensacola, the first half Southern League South Division champions, is now 21-24 in the second half and 7.5 games behind the South Division leader Mississippi Braves that have a 28-16 record. Biloxi fell to 18-27 and are in last place after being neck-and-neck with the Blue Wahoos in the race for the first half title.
Blue Wahoos shortstop Zach Vincej and right fielder Sebastian Elizalde led the Pensacola offense on Tuesday. Vincej was 2-5 with a run scored and three RBIs. He is hitting .309 in the second half, so far, after hitting .258 in the first half of the season. Vincej leads the Blue Wahoos with 22 multi-hit games.
Elizalde went 2-5 with two runs scored and has 21 multi-hit games this season for Pensacola. He has gotten a hit in his last six games.
Also having a good game at the plate Tuesday was left fielder Phillip Ervin, who went 2-4 with a double, solo home run and scored twice. He leads Pensacola with 51 runs scored this season, plus is second on the team in both homers with 10 and RBIs with 36.
Pensacola scored five runs in the second inning when it sent all nine batters to the plate with four hits, including three doubles by Phillips, Vincej and second baseman Alex Blandino, and two walks.
Blue Wahoos left fielder Ervin started the big inning when he doubled in Elizalde to put the Blue Wahoos ahead, 1-0. Vincej doubled in both catcher Joe Hudson (2-4, one run scored) and Ervin to give Pensacola a 3-0 lead. Vincej then scored when center fielder Brandon Dixon grounded out to second base to make the score, 4-0. The final run of the inning scored when Blandino doubled in first baseman Chad Wallach for a 5-0 lead.
Meanwhile, Pensacola starter Nick Travieso pitched for the first time since July 18 and threw 3.1 scoreless innings with three hits, three walks and two strikeouts. Pensacola reliever Barrett Astin relieved Travieso and got the win (7-3) working 3.2 scoreless innings, allowing two hits, two walks and striking out two. Astin lowered his ERA to 2.37.
Biloxi did earn four in the bottom of the eighth inning when catcher Jacob Nottingham singled back up the middle to knock in both pinch hitter Tom Belza and left fielder Johnny Davis to trail Pensacola, 7-2.
Pensacola sent in its top closer Alejandro Chacin to rescue reliever Carlos Gonzalez, who loaded the bases with one out by walking first baseman Dustin DeMuth and hitting right fielder Clint Coulter.
Chacin then promptly walked Biloxi second baseman Javier Betancourt to score Nottingham making the score, 7-3, Pensacola. Shuckers third baseman Gabriel Noriega than hit a sacrifice fly to right field that scored DeMuth to pull the Shuckers within, 7-4.
Chacin, who has a 1.76 ERA, settled down in the ninth inning setting down the Biloxi side with two strikeouts. He ended up working 1.2 innings with a walk and three strikeouts to earn his Southern League-leading 22nd save of the season.
Charles Wayne Seal
August 10, 2016
The exceptional life of Charles Wayne Seal ended on August 7, 2016. He was born in very modest beginnings to the late Wiley and Dora Seal in Picayune, MS on May 15, 1938. After high school graduation he attended Louisiana State University where he completed a Bachelor of Science degree followed by an enlistment in the US Army as second lieutenant. He returned to LSU to gain a Master of Science and began a lifelong career in education. In 1977, he completed his Doctorate from Auburn University. He retired in 1995 from Pensacola Junior College where he was a Professor of Biology. Both as a student and teacher, he received numerous honors and recognition which he mostly chose to dismiss. He considered his time in the classroom and success of his hundreds of students his greatest professional accomplishment.
Through his life as with most, there was change, ebb and flow, that brought him to his marriage to Julia Nelson Seal in 1976. With his two daughters and her two sons, they created a family that has continued to grow. Together, Rhonda Effron Brown, her husband, Ryan Brown, of Kalispell, MT, her children, Charla Vail Effron, Tanner Effron and Connor Effron; Charla Quaranta, her husband, Sam Quaranta of Milton, their children Spencer Quaranta, Max Quaranta and Zachary Quaranta; Matthew Seal, his wife, Teri of Gulf Shores, and Micah Seal, his daughters, Annalise Seal and Ashley Seal of Alexandria, LA, they have made the very full life Chuck so richly deserved.
Retirement was filled with travel, mostly grand adventures, some rather ordinary and planning the next one. Mixed in with lots and lots of books, LSU football, a Tanqueray martini, good tunes and there was always Julia.
Chuck is also survived by his mother-in-law, Mildred Nelson of Pensacola; brothers, Sam Seal of Augusta, GA, James Seal of Ocean Springs,MS; and sister, Theodosia Mitchell of Pass Christian, MS.
In keeping with his wishes and the family’s, there will be no formal service. We ask that he be remembered in sunsets and sunrises. Always in our hearts.
“Darling, save the last dance for me.”
Faith Chapel Funeral Home South is entrusted with arrangements.
Joseph Salvador De Seno
August 10, 2016
Joseph Salvador De Seno 72, of Atmore, passed away August 9, 2016. He was born on December 11, 1943, in Mobile to the late John S. and Ruth Welsh De Seno. He served in the United States Army.
He is survived by his wife, Ronee De Seno of Atmore; three sons, Shawn Mark (Sara) of Lillian, AL; Mason Barett (Tabitha) Frazier of Birmingham, AL. and Joseph Carson De Seno of Atmore; one daughter, Bethany De Seno (Neal) Tindol of Enterprise, AL; siblings, Daivd Turner, Pat Maine, Debbie Roberson, and Diane Van Dusen, all of Florida and nine grandchildren.
Memorial services will be held Saturday, August 13, 2016, at 3 p.m. from the Johnson-Quimby Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Eddie Seales officiating. The family will receive friends from 2 p.m. until service time at 3 p.m. from the Johnson-Quimby Funeral Home Chapel.
In lieu of flowers family request donations to be made to the Lymphoma Research Foundation (www.lymphoma.org)
Johnson-Quimby Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Cantonment Man Critically Injured After Hitting Pillar At Shopping Center
August 9, 2016
A vehicle driven by a Cantonment man collided with a shopping center building on in the 300 block of East Nine Mile Road Tuesday morning.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, 66-year old James Maddox of Cantonment was parked at Nine Mile Plaza at 312 East Nine Mile Road when he began to travel in the parking lot and veered into a brick pillar. He was transported to Sacred Heart Hospital in serious condition. The crash was not alcohol related, per the FHP.
Any charges against Maddox are pending as the FHP continues their investigation. The Ensley Station of Escambia Fire Rescue and the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office also responded to the crash.
Both restaurants near the crash location are expected were open for business as usual.
NorthEscambia.com photos by Kristi Barbour, click to enlarge.
Century Mayoral Candidate Spending Lots Of Own Money; Others Running On Empty
August 9, 2016
Incumbent Century Mayor Freddie McCall is spending thousands of his own money in an attempt to get re-elected, while his opponents are running with campaign accounts holding balances of less than $75 each.
According to campaign finance reports filed last Friday:
- Incumbent Freddie McCall loaned his campaign $5,000 and received no contributions. He spent $800 to Bill Salter Outdoor Advertising for a “campaign sign”, $825 for yard signs and $121 for the qualifying fee, giving him a cash on hand balance of $3253.11 as of last Friday.
- Ben Boutwell contributed $100 to his campaign and received $450 in additional contributions, including $150 from his wife. he spent $356 on campaign signs and paid his $121 qualifying fee, giving him a balance of $72.32 as of Friday.
- Felic Fussner loaded his campaign $152, had no contributions and paid his qualifying fee of $121 for a balance of $30.56.
- Henry Hawkins contributed $50 to his campaign and received $100 in contributions. He paid his $121 qualifying fee for a cash balance of $28.56. Hawkins also received an in-kind contribution of yard signs worth $200 from Russell Fountain of Century.
Both council candidates are running without opposition:
- Ann Brooks contributed $100 to her campaign, paid her $50.36 registration fee and returned the $49.64 balance to herself.
- Annie Savage contributed $100 to her campaign, paid her $50.36 registration fee and has a balance of $49.64.
The part-time job of Century mayor pays $9,836.88 per year, while a member of the Century town council is paid $3,606.88.
Editor’s note: Some numbers used in this story were averaged to the nearest whole dollar.
Northview, Tate Parents: Complete Chromebook Contract Online
August 9, 2016
High school students in Escambia County, including Tate and Northview, will have access to a Chromebook to use at school and home, allowing students to be connection to available education resources at both locations.
Parents and students are required to view the district Chromebook Contract Video and must review and complete the online Chromebook Contract.
In order for a student to receive the Chromebook as soon as possible, parents and students can:
For more information, refer to information sent home from the school or call your child’s school.