Glenn “Bama” Rolin
July 18, 2018
Glenn “Bama” Rolin, 55, of Baytown was born August 29, 1962, in Atmore, AL and passed away Thursday, July 12, 2018, in a Houston hospital. He was a member of the I.U.O.E. Local # 450 and was of the Baptist faith. He was proud of his Native American Indian heritage and was a member of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians. Glenn loved being with his family and friends and hosting crawfish boils and he was a prankster who loved to make people laugh. He was also an avid (some would say rabid) University of Alabama fan.
He was preceded in death by his father, Frankie Lee Rolin and mother, Willie Lois Rolin. He is survived by his wife, Teri Rolin of Baytown; children, Kaitlyn Rolin of Baytown, Ryan Jordan and fiancé, Christa Taylor of Highlands, Sara Jordan and fiancé, Bryan Ralls of Highlands, Chris Rolin of Dickinson, and Jessica Rolin of San Leon; brothers and sister-in-law, Jerry and Tammy Rolin and Tommy Rolin, all of Atmore, AL; granddaughter, Brinley Ralls; and numerous other family members and friends.
Funeral services will be Thursday, July 19, 2018 at 2:00 PM at the Petty-Eastside Chapel Funeral Home with Rev. Bubba Rolin officiating.
Burial will follow at the New Home Cemetery.
Visitation will be Thursday, July 19, 2018 from 12:30 PM until service time at 2:00 PM at the Petty-Eastside Chapel Funeral Home.
Pallbearers will be Danny Malone, Robert Malone, Lamar Andrews, Kevin Rackard, Wayne Jackson and Rodney Rackard.
Honorary Pallbearers will be Ronnie Rolin and Bradley Rolin.
In lieu of usual remembrances, contributions may be made to the American Heart Association, 10900-B Stonelake Blvd. Suite 320, Austin, TX 78759
www.heart.org
His family would like to say a special “thank you” to Dr. Nadia Fida for going above and beyond what was expected and for her amazing care to Glenn.
ECSO: Two Women Fight It Out In Century Store, One Hit In Head With 12 Pack Of Beer
July 17, 2018
Two Century women have been charged after allegedly getting into two fights inside a local convenience store — one hitting the other with a 12-pack of beer and the other returning for a blow with a single can of beer.
Jalisa Faye Jackson, 25, was charged with affray and disorderly conduct, and Crystal Christine Ellis, 27, was charged with disorderly conduct.
Ellis was inside the Century Food Mart on North Century Boulevard buying cigarettes when Jackson hit her in the back of the head with the 12-pack, according to the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office
Surveillance video showed Jackson was leaving the counter with the 12-pack as Ellis approached the clerk to pay for her items, the report states. After the attack, both women got into a fight until being separated by store customers. Once broken apart, the video showed Ellis pick up what appeared to be a beer can and hit Jackson with it before both women began fighting again until separated a second time by customers.
Jackson told deputies that she may have hit Ellis with the 12-pack unknowingly, not realizing it was still in her hand, the report states.
Jackson was released from the Escambia County Jail on a $1,500 bond. Ellis is being held without bond after her bond was revoked in a pending child neglect case.
Cantonment Man Gets Jail Time For Nightclub Burglary
July 17, 2018
A Cantonment man has been sentenced to time in the county jail for burglarizing a nightclub.
River Sewell was sentenced to 120 days for criminal mischief, burglary of an unoccupied structure and petit theft.
Sewell burglarized the Red Baron Lounge across from Walmart on Pensacola Boulevard, according to prosecutors. He entered the business using force by pulling on the front door until the locks failed, causing $50 in damage. He then pulled the business’s alarm off a wall before stealing liquor, tobacco and other products worth $100.
The burglary was captured on video.
Century Donates $1,600 For Youth Football Uniforms, More Help Needed
July 17, 2018
The Town of Century voted Monday night to contribute $1,600 towards new uniforms for the Century Sports Association, but the group is still about $800 short of the amount needed.
Century’s donation includes $1,450 earned when the nonprofit Urban Development Center rented the town’s Century Business Center to hold workforce training classes; the remaining $150 was money leftover from their Independence Day fireworks.
According to an invoice submitted to the town, the Century Sports Association ordered 75 new youth football uniforms for $4,860. A $1,500 deposit was paid, and the youth league has secured donations to pay all but $800 of the bill.
Century Sports President Amanuel Dobose said program participation is growing steadily and is a positive influence for Century’s youth.
Anyone wishing to help the Century Sports Association can email centurysportsassociation@gmail.com or mail a donation to P.O. Box 1252, Century, FL 32535
School District Educational Support Personnel Job Fair Wednesday
July 17, 2018
The Escambia County School District will hold and educational support personnel job fair Wednesday from 8 a.m. until noon at the J.E. Hall Center at 30 East Texar Drive.
Positions are available in food services, custodial, transportation and exceptional student education. Computers will be available on site for applicants to apply for positions and schedule fingerprinting to continue the application process. Applicants will be responsible for the fingerprinting fee. Human Resources personnel will also be present to assist with the application process and to answer questions.
More Scattered Showers And Thunderstorms Likely Today
July 17, 2018
Here is your official North Escambia area forecast:
Tuesday: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 89. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 75. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Wednesday: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 91. Heat index values as high as 105. Calm wind becoming northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Wednesday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 75. Calm wind.
Thursday: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 92. Calm wind becoming northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 75. Calm wind.
Friday: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 93. Calm wind becoming north around 5 mph.
Friday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 76. Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm.
Saturday: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 93.
Saturday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 76.
Sunday: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 93.
Sunday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 75.
Monday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 93.
Court Moves Forward With ‘Jane Doe’ Issue In Florida Gun case
July 17, 2018
A federal appeals court Monday cleared the way for considering a dispute about whether two teens can remain anonymous in a challenge to a new Florida law that raised the minimum age to buy rifles and other long guns.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a two-page document that said it “appears that this court has jurisdiction to consider this appeal,” though it said a final determination on that jurisdiction will be made later by a panel of judges who will hear the anonymity issue.
The appeal stems from a ruling in May by U.S. District Judge Mark Walker that a 19-year-old Alachua County woman, identified as “Jane Doe,” could not remain anonymous as a plaintiff in a National Rifle Association challenge to the gun law. The NRA also sought to add to the case a 19-year-old man, identified as “John Doe,” who could be affected by the law.
After Walker’s ruling, the NRA went to the Atlanta-based appeals court seeking to allow the teens to remain anonymous. The appeals court, however, raised a question about whether it should consider the anonymity matter and said that if “it is determined that this court is without jurisdiction, this appeal will be dismissed.”
The NRA contended the appeals court has jurisdiction over the anonymity issue. Also, Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office, which has objected to the teens remaining anonymous, agreed that the appeals court could take up the dispute.
The anonymity issue is rooted in a federal lawsuit that the NRA filed March 9 after Gov. Rick Scott signed into law a sweeping school-safety measure that included new gun-related restrictions. The legislation was a response to the Feb. 14 shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 students and faculty members dead. In part, the law raised from 18 to 21 the minimum age to purchase rifles and other long guns.
After filing the lawsuit, the NRA moved to add the two teens to the case but sought to keep their identities private. NRA attorneys argued in a brief filed June 27 in the appeals court that the teens feared “that being publicly named in and associated with the case would subject them to harassment, intimidation, threats, and potentially even physical violence.” It also pointed to numerous harassing and threatening emails and phone calls received by prominent NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer since the shooting in Parkland and the filing of the lawsuit.
“The context of this case — and of Jane Doe and John Doe’s request to remain anonymous — cannot be understood apart from the tragic February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and its aftermath,” the NRA’s lawyers wrote in the brief. “That event not only led to the enactment of the ban (on people under 21 buying guns) challenged in this case; it was the catalyst for a nationwide effort to restrict the possession and use of firearms. Funded by a group of anti-gun organizations, activists have barnstormed the country advocating restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms.”
In ruling against the anonymity request in May, Walker wrote that if “it were entirely up to this court, this court would not hesitate to grant the NRA’s motion.” But Walker indicated he was bound by previous legal decisions.
Based on precedent, “this court finds that mere evidence of threats and harassment made online is insufficient to outweigh the customary and constitutionally-embedded presumption of openness in judicial proceedings,” Walker wrote. “This is especially true where the targets of such threats and harassment are not minors and where the subject at issue does not involve matters of utmost intimacy.”
While the NRA and state await action from the appeals court on the anonymity issue, the underlying challenge to the law signed by Scott has largely remained on hold. After the anonymity issue is resolved, Walker will consider the legality of the gun restriction.
Meanwhile, Hammer filed lawsuits Friday in state and federal courts against five men she says have targeted her with harmful emails and phone calls since the massacre in Parkland.
by Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida
Northview Quarterback Club Meets Tonight, Seeks Members
July 17, 2018
The Northview High School Quarterback Club meets tonight at 6:30 in the school gym meeting room. The Chiefs Kickoff Classic at home is August 17 against Vernon, and the regular season will open at Lighthouse Christian on August 24. The Quarterback Club is looking for members and volunteers to work toward successful season.
Wahoos Series Finale Against Braves Washed Away
July 17, 2018
Mother nature simply did not want Pensacola and Mississippi to play one last time. Monday’s series finale—and final matchup between these two teams this season—was cancelled due to rain.
Heavy rain rendered the field unplayable prior to Monday’s scheduled first pitch. Pensacola won 16 of the 25 regular season matchups with the Braves this season. With the cancelled game, the Blue Wahoos have split each of the last two series, having won twice against the Mobile BayBears earlier in the week.
Pensacola hopes to return home to drier pastures when they open up a five-game set against their divisional foes from Jacksonville, beginning on Wednesday night. RHP Vladimir Gutierrez was expected to Wednesday’s opener, but due to the weather, the rotation could be altered. The Jumbo Shrimp are expected to start one of their premier pitching prospects in RHP Nick Neidert (8-5, 2.75).
Kenneth “Kenny” Peterson
July 17, 2018
Mr. Kenneth “Kenny” Peterson, age 60, passed away Tuesday, July 17, 2018 in Jay, Florida.
Mr. Peterson was a native and life long resident of Bogia, Florida. He was a former employee at IGA & Piggly Wiggly at Century and worked at Bradley Masonry Company in Pensacola as a masonry. He was a member of the Christian Home Freewill Baptist Church. He is preceded in death by his parents, Walker and Genie Peterson and two brothers.
He is survived by his four daughters, Wendy Armstrong of Michigan, Casey Rice of Century, FL, April White of Bratt, FL and Katie Jones of Tennessee; two brothers, Malcolm Peterson of Georgia and Terrell Peterson of Jay, FL; four sisters, Shirley Ingram of Bogia, FL, Glenda Kelley of Bogia, FL, Martha McCann of McDavid, FL and Edna Darby of McDavid, FL and seven grandchildren.
Memorial services will be held at a later date.
Petty-Eastside Chapel Funeral Homes, LLC in charge of all arrangements,