Northview Horse Judging Team Wins State Championship, Advances To Nationals
April 7, 2019
The Northview High School Horse Judging Team won a state championship Saturday and will advance to the national competition.
Team members are Destiny Cleckler, Brooke Doolittle, Olivia Porter, Autumn Williams and alternate Leia Grantham. Coaches are Courtney Solari and Stephanie Solari.
Additionally, three members placed individually in the state. Williams placed second, Porter placed sixth and Cleckler placed seventh.
Pictured are (L-R) Coach Courtney Solari, Destiny Cleckler, Olivia Porter, Autumn Williams, Leia Grantham, Brooke Doolittle and coach Stephanie Solari. Photo for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
CatCountry 98.7’s Brent And Candy Receive ACM Personalities of the Year Award
April 7, 2019
CatCountry 98.7’s Brent Lane and Candy Cullerton were awarded Personalities of the Year for their Cat Pak Morning Show during an Academy of Country Music ceremony on Saturday night in Las Vegas.
Lane also won the ACM Personality of the Year in 2009.
Pictured: CatCountry 98.7’s Brent Lane and Candy Cullerton with their ACM Personalities of the Year awards Saturday night in Las Vegas. Photo for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
Escambia County Weekly Meeting Schedule
April 7, 2019
Here is a schedule of Escambia County public meetings this week:
Monday, April 8
Florida-Alabama Transportation Planning Organization-Technical Coordinating Committee – 8:30 a.m., Pensacola City Hall, 222 W. Main St. (Agenda)
Police Benevolent Association Negotiations – 1 p.m., Ernie Lee Magaha Government Building, 221 Palafox Place, Human Resources Training Room, Second Floor
Marine Advisory Committee – 5:30 p.m., Escambia County Central Office Complex, 3363 West Park Place (Agenda)
Tuesday, April 9
International Association of EMTs and Paramedics Collective Bargaining – 10 a.m., Escambia County Public Safety, 6575 N. “W” St.
Environmental Enforcement Special Magistrate – 1:30 p.m., Escambia County Central Office Complex, 3363 West Park Place (Agenda)
Local Mitigation Strategy Group Board & Planning Committee – 2 p.m., Escambia County Central Office Complex, 3363 West Park Place
Florida-Alabama Transportation Planning Organization Citizens’ Advisory Committee – 3 p.m., Pensacola City Hall, 222 W. Main St. (Agenda)
Escambia County Housing Finance Authority – 5 p.m., 700 S. Palafox St., Suite 310
Merit System Protection Board – 5 p.m., Ernie Lee Magaha Government Building, 221 Palafox Place, Fourth Floor Training Room
Affordable Housing Advisory Committee – 5:30 p.m., 420 W. Chase St. (Agenda)
Wednesday, April 10
East Barrancas Neighborhood Cleanup – 7 a.m.
Florida-Alabama Transportation Planning Organization Board – 9 a.m., 1370 Tiger Point Lane, Gulf Breeze (Agenda)
Pensacola & Perdido Bays Estuary Program Technical Committee – 9 a.m., Pensacola City Hall, 222 W. Main St.
Pensacola & Perdido Bays Estuary Program Policy Board-Director Interviews – Noon, Ernie Lee Magaha Government Building, 221 Palafox Place, Board Chambers
Development Review Committee – 1 p.m., Escambia County Central Office Complex, 3363 West Park Place
FloridaWest Economic Development Alliance Board of Directors – 1:30 p.m., 418 W. Garden St.
Santa Rosa Island Authority Lease Discussion Board Workshop – 3 p.m., 1 Via De Luna Drive, Pensacola Beach (Agenda)
SRIA Board Meeting - 5 p.m., 1 Via De Luna Drive, Pensacola Beach (Agenda)
Thursday, April 11
Board of County Commissioners Committee of the Whole – 9 a.m., Ernie Lee Magaha Government Building, 221 Palafox Place, Board Chambers
Pensacola & Perdido Bays Estuary Program Education Committee – 5 p.m., Escambia County Central Office Complex, 3363 West Park Place
Science Hour – Water Safety – 6 p.m., Escambia County Central Office Complex, 3363 West Park Place
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Showers And Storms Sunday Night Into Monday
April 7, 2019
Here is your official North Escambia area forecast:
This Afternoon: Partly sunny, with a high near 81. South wind 10 to 15 mph.
Tonight: A slight chance of showers between 10pm and 1am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1am. Patchy fog after 9pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 66. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. High near 75. South wind 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Monday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 61. South wind around 10 mph becoming west after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Tuesday: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 75. West wind around 5 mph.
Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 57. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 81. Calm wind becoming southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 59. South wind around 5 mph.
Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 79. South wind 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with a low around 61.
Friday: A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 80.
Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 58.
Saturday: A 30 percent chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 79.
Tate Showband Holds Annual Spring Car Wash At Five Locations
April 7, 2019
The Tate High School Showband of the South held their annual Spring Car Wash Saturday at five locations — Advance Auto Parts in Cantonment, O’Reilly Auto Parts on Pine Forest Road, Pizza Hut on Nine Mile Road and Tractor Supply. Photos by Tami Skipper for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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Lady Aggies Take Second In Kissimmee Klassic In Lightning Coin Toss
April 7, 2019
The Tate Lady Aggies finished second in the annual Kissimmee Klassic Tournament Saturday night — due to lightning.
The Lady Aggies went undefeated through three games, scoring 21 runs while allowing only one earned run through the weekend. The championship game was decided by a coin toss due to lightning.
Earlier in the day, the Lady Aggies shut out Keystone Heights 5-0.
Abbie Burks earned the win in the circle. She surrendered no runs on five hits, had no errors and had two strikeouts.
Ryleigh Cawby and Gabby Locke had three hits each for Tate.
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Wahoos Get Shutout Win Over Mobile
April 7, 2019
After Blue Wahoos starting pitchers Jorge Alcala and Brusdar Graterol combined to allow just one run over 9.2 innings and strike out 12 batters during Friday evening’s doubleheader sweep in Mobile, Devin Smeltzer had a tough act to follow during his Saturday night start at Hank Aaron Stadium.
If the bar was set high, he raised it.
The 23-year-old lefty opened his season with one of the finest outings of his professional career, carrying a perfect game into the fifth inning and finishing the night with nine strikeouts over 5.2 two-hit innings.
Smeltzer was sharp from the beginning, striking out BayBears’ top prospect Brandon Marsh to open the game in a 1-2-3 first inning. The strikeouts kept coming in the second inning, as he struck out the final two batters of the inning before opening the third with two more strikeouts.
After another K in the fourth, he opened the fifth having not allowed a baserunner to reach. The leadoff hitter in the inning, Jhoan Urena, quickly ended the no-hit bid with a ground ball single through the right side, but Smeltzer was unfazed, striking out two more to strand Urena.
Opposing Smeltzer, BayBears starting pitcher Patrick Sandoval was also strong, striking out four in the first two innings. The Blue Wahoos manufactured a run against him in the third, with Jordan Gore reaching on a dropped third strike and then coming all the way around to score from first on a throwing error by Mobile third baseman Roberto Baldoquin.
The 1-0 score held until the fifth inning when the Blue Wahoos offense broke out. Jimmy Kerrigan led off the inning with a towering home run to left, his second in as many days to make it 2-0 in Pensacola’s favor. The Wahoos then strung together a walk and hits by Caleb Hamilton, Gore, Brian Schales, and Taylor Grzelakowski to score twice more.
With a 4-0 lead, Smeltzer cruised into the sixth inning. He allowed his second hit of the game with one out in the inning but struck out Jahmai Jones for the second out before turning the ball over to reliever Adam Bray.
Smeltzer finished with a line of 5.2 innings pitched, two hits, no runs, one walk, and nine strikeouts. With the strong effort by the lefty, Blue Wahoos starting pitchers now have a 0.59 ERA through three games, having allowed just one run in 15.1 innings while striking out 21.
Pensacola extended their lead to 5-0 on an RBI single by Jaylin Davis in the seventh inning while Bray combined with Ryan Mason to throw 2.1 scoreless innings of relief to secure the victory and the second shutout of the year by the Wahoos.
With the win, the Blue Wahoos improve to 3-0 on the season. Pensacola and Mobile will continue their five-game series at Hank Aaron Stadium Sunday.
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Andrea Kay Byars
April 7, 2019
Mrs. Andrea Kay (Harmon) Byars passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by family and friends, on April 7, 2019, at the age of 53.
Kay is survived by her husband, Perry Byars; her mother, Evana Harmon of Huntsville, AL; two children, Andrea (Zach) Huff of Huntsville, AL and Micah (Heather) Byars of Waycross, GA; three brothers, Alan (Thelma) Harmon of Ridgeway, VA, Grady (Margret) Harmon of Huntsville, AL, and Stephan (Betsy) Harmon of Killen, AL; as well as 13 nieces and nephews, Dakota, Raney, Clarke, Kara, Aeryn, Jackson, Preston, Nathaniel, Zachary, Scott, Sean, Spencer, and Samuel.
Kay is preceded in death by her father, Jack Harmon, of Huntsville, AL.
Kay was born on December 22, 1965, in Hammond, Indiana to Jack and Evana Harmon. She graduated from Hardin County High School in 1984 and received her Associate of Business Education from Florida College in 1986. On June 26, 1987, she married the love of her life, Perry Byars. They lived in Lakeland, FL for 12 years before moving to Oak Grove, FL. Kay was a stay at home mother who was active in the PTA and the community. She also worked as a substitute teacher for six years and as a health technician at Northview High School for eight years.
Kay was a generous, loving, and caring individual with an infectious laugh. She cared deeply for her family and friends and would do anything to help those around her. Kay was a dedicated Northview FFA mom. She faithfully worked with the students and chaperoned various trips and competitions that the students attended. She was an active and dedicated member of Oak Grove Church of Christ.
Her funeral is scheduled for Monday, April 8, 2019, at Johnson-Quimby Funeral Home in Atmore, AL.
Visitation will be from 1 pm until 4 pm with service to follow. Brad Sullivan will officiate the ceremony.
Interment will be at Oak Grove Cemetery following the service.
All are welcome to attend and celebrate Mrs. Kay’s life.
In lieu of flowers, Mrs. Kay requested that donations be sent St. Jude Children’s Hospital.
The family would like to thank Emerald Coast Hospice for their care and dedication.
Carol Lynne Vanderhoff
April 7, 2019
Carol Lynne Vanderhoff, age 77 of Cantonment, Florida passed away Thursday, April 4, 2019. She was born July 12, 1941 in Rockford, Illinois to Wendell William Hoel and Doris Pauline Buckles Hoel. Lynne was a devout and active member of The First Christian Church Pensacola (Disciples of Christ). After retiring as an insurance claims representative at Lakeview Center she enjoyed spending time working in her yard, outings with the Red Hats Society, taking care of others and loving her precious Chihuahua “Angel”.
Lynne was preceded in death by her husband Albert Vanderhoff and her parents. She is survived by her daughters Lisa Vanderhoff (Theresa) Sherry Vanderhoff, and Kimberly Clanton (Scott), her brother Wayne Hoel (Anita), her sister Doris Hoel (Jerry), and grandchildren Garrett Bourdon, Shawn Vaughn (Lowell), Kiley Hudson and Bryston Hudson.
A service celebrating her life will be held Monday, April 8, 2019 at Pensacola Memorial Gardens Funeral Home. The family will receive friends for visitation from 1-2:00 PM. The funeral will begin at 2:00 PM with Rev. Glenn Vaughn officiating. Interment will follow in the Pensacola Memorial Gardens Cemetery.
Cantonment Man Climbed Through Window, Sexually Battered Woman, Police Say
April 6, 2019
A Cantonment man has been charged in connection with allegedly climbing through a window and sexually battering a woman last year.
Teremis Marchristopher Boykin, 27, was charged with sexually battery, false imprisonment, battery and burglary with assault or battery.
The victim attended a party thrown by Boykin last November, and he asked to go home with her but she refused, according to an arrest report. At some point after the party, Boykin allegedly climbed through the victim’s apartment window and sexually assaulted her. He then “snuggled” with her before leaving the apartment, according to Pensacola Police.
The victim did not report the incident until February because she was thinking if she didn’t tell anyone it would all go away and she would forget about it, the arrest report states.
Boykin told police the two previously had a romantic relationship, and they had planned before the party for him to spend the night.
Boykin was arrested this week. He remained in the Escambia County Jail with bond set at $302,500.