December 2017



30a.news

EMS offers to take bedridden ‘Home for the Holidays’

The Okaloosa County Department of Public Safety’s Emergency Medical Services Division will offer free transportation (on a space available basis) to local residents who would otherwise be unable to come home for holiday celebrations.The “Home for the Holidays” program is designed to allow patients in skilled nursing and adult congregate living facilities to go home to family members for holiday dinner. Patients must be self-supporting while at the residence, and [...]
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30a.news

‘Geek Lights’ dazzle again

Performances of the show, which is now in its 10th season, take place at the corner of Bluewater Boulevard and Antiqua Way. Shows begin every 30 minutes starting at 6 p.m., with the last show starting at 9:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 10:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
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Crown Royal holiday effort for troops gets local boost

DESTIN — A regular customer at the Walmart Liquor store is spreading a different kind of warmth this holiday season than she had planned.The woman, whom store personnel know only by sight — and maybe a first name, "Teresa," an employee said  — recently brought more than 400 of the iconic cloth bags that hold Crown Royal whiskey into the store and dropped them into a Crown Royal Bags for the Troops collection barrel.The annual initiative by [...]
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Cops For Kids nets over 800 toys

CRESTVIEW — Almost 250 local kids are going to have a brighter Christmas thanks to Santa’s elves in blue.Friday morning, Crestview Police Community Services Officers Wanda Hulion and Sam Kimmons directed a small army of shoppers who fanned out in the Crestview Walmart to buy toys for the Police Department’s Cops For Kids program.Volunteers included members of the Crestview Citizens Police Academy Alumni group (which also administered the program’s [...]
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