Christmas Party Highlights and Local Notes from Santa Rosa
Dr Ed and Mary Bell Williams hosted a Christmas party at the Santa Rosa Golf and Beach Club attracting about 60 guests including Rosemary and Cecil Cox with Melanie and Lacey, Constance Sharp and Sam Sharp family, and many locals. The column shares social chatter, garden tips, notes on a Seaside water tower project, and lore on holly varieties in the Panhandle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Bell Williams
Santa Rosa Golf and Beach Club
Rosemary
Cecil Cox
Melanie
Lacey
Fort Walton Beach
Constance
Sam Sharp
Sam Jr
Stephanie
Gulf Breeze
Keith
Didon Comer
Mary Bruns
Arabella Bott
Bob
Nancy Edgar
Jane Fleet
Chester
Emily May
Freeport
Vernon Bishop Honored As South Walton Mosquito District Dedication
About 60 people gathered at the South Walton Mosquito Control District in Santa Rosa Beach on Tuesday December 10 to dedicate a 40000 dollar truck maintenance garage and chemical storage building in honor of Vernon Bishop the district's first director. Bill Opp of the Florida Department of Entomology spoke praising Bishop's leadership and naming him the most dedicated mosquito control and dog fly eradicator in the state. The ceremony also celebrated Hamp Pridgen new district director and reflected on Bishop's 16 years as director ending with retirement in May 1985.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Walton
Santa Rosa Beach
Vernon Bishop
van Ness Butler
Mosquito Control Commission
Pat Wilson
Hamp Pridgen
Bill Opp
Florida Department of Entomology
Opp
Bishop
Pridgen
Dee Albee
L. P. Boone
Hubert Hicks
Curtis Smith
Larry Irons
Ray Raymond
Joanne Gaines
Becky Mitchel
South Walton Mosquito Control District
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Buttershlk
Peggy Bailer
A. L. Mullins
Seagrove
Southeastern
Turco Chemicals
Atlanta
Lee Michele
Santa Claus
Bob Wish
Cane Square
Paul Harvey
Harvey
Black Creek
Eden
Ollie Sue Butler
DeFuniak Springs Country Club
Marie
Hitching Post
McCleans
Glenda
Marie’s
Kate Hines
Bluewater Bay
Marjorie Brown
Col. Brown
South Florida
Tae
Robert Davis
Seaside
Louis Hiett
Norfolk
Virginia
Panhandle
Gene Crawford
Destin Rental Center
St. Destin
CT. T.W
Geverars
Santa Rosa
Mastercard
Visa & AM
Destin
Mountain Drive
Bestway Travel Club
P.O
Panama City Beach
Florida
Epcot Center
Disney World
Epcot
Disney
New Orleans
French Quarter
Jackson Brewery
St. Louis Cathederal
Nassau
Bahamas
Houston
Texas
Eagle Pass
Old Mexico
San Antonio
Alamo
Indianian Bayou
Richard E. Williams Gallery of Fine Art
Palmetto Plaza
North Beal
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