Destin Community Center hosts annual Christmas Eve party
Destin youths from infants to 12 years gather this evening at 5 30 at Destin School for the citys Christmas Eve party. Santa arrives around 6 with gifts for every child as Cyron Marler leads the music and Betty Najarian plays piano for familiar carols and the Jingle Bells chorus.
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Destin Community Center
Destin School
Santa
Cyron Marler
Betty Najarian
Santa Claus
Fort Walton Beach Woman Wins Playhouse in ACS Drawing
Fort Walton Beach resident Janice Vaughn won a two story playhouse in a Monday drawing conducted by the South Okaloosa Unit of the American Cancer Society. Volunteers sold $1 tickets, with over 1,000 tickets purchased. Mayor John Shortall drew the winning ticket, the display had been at Florida Pottery in Mariner Plaza.
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Janice Vaughn
Fort Walton Beach
South Okaloosa
American Cancer Society
Cancer Society
Florida Pottery
Mariner Plaza
John Shortall
Eden State Park Hosts Christmas Eve Candlelight Open House
Eden State Park hosts a candlelight open house tonight from 5 to 7 p.m. at the mansion on park grounds. Park manager David Streeter says area church choirs will perform carols on the mansion porch while local high school band members accompany, spelling the carolers. The park is on C.R. 395, north of U.S. 98 in South Walton.
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Eden State Park
David Streeter
C.R. 395
U.S. 98
Walton
Destin employees share extravagant holiday city wish list
A Destin poll reveals city staff hopes for a new harborfront city hall, high tech industry, and various personal wishes. Harbormaster Mitch Dudley imagines a glassed-in solarium city hall with harbor docking facilities to attract business. Other staff hope for a healthy year, Publisher's Clearinghouse, fewer potholes, shorter meetings, and total city computerization.
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Santa
Germany
Mitch Dudley
U.S. 98
Destin
Dudley
Herb Brown
Brown
Nicole Dunn
Ed McMahon
Fran Beaird
Civic Groups Drive Christmas Cheer With Jesus Cares '86
Fort Walton Niceville area churches joined to aid 285 families with turkey ham clothes and toys. Don Williams Abundant Life Church said funds were scarce three weeks prior, but the drive succeeded with churches Kiwanis and Rocky Bayou Christian School distributing gifts. Families selected items every 15 minutes at one gift center run by volunteers and the Department of Health and Rehabilitation coordinated recipient lists.
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Jesus Cares
Bob
Grete
Rocky Bayou Christian School
Department of Health and Rehabilitation
Sandestin's Bos Launches Clock Tower Fund for Families
Sandestin resort executive Peter Bos announced The Clock Tower Fund to aid families of inmates at Eglin Federal Prison. The fund, named for The Market's Clock Tower feature, begins with a $5,000 pledge and will assist with housing, clothing, and food. Administered by the prison Sunday School, the fund targets emergency needs for inmates' wives and children year round.
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Peter Bos
Eglin Air Force Base
Bos
Sandestin
Emerald Coast
Clock Tower Fund
Bos Group
Keith Howard
Market and Sandestin Resort
Eglin
Louie Tidwell
Tidwell
Fort Walton Beach
Martha
Highway Fatalities Expected To Rise This Holiday Travel
Florida Highway Patrol predicts more deaths during the longer holiday travel period in Okaloosa and Walton counties despite no fatalities last year. Officials say 44 lives may be lost during the 102 hour period beginning with the holiday drive.
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Okaloosa
Walton
Florida Highway Patrol
FHP
Time Right For Birth Of Christ
Pauls famous comment that in the fullness of time reflects a view that God chose a ripe moment for Christianity. Old Testament messianic prophecy plus a Greek world of universals aided spread. The Roman Pax Romana unified the Mediterranean, allowing the faith to flourish across the empire.
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Mediterranean
Rome
When Was Jesus Born The First Christmas Was Hinted By History
The article weighs Roman census records and biblical clues to date Jesus birth. It suggests a window between 7 and 5 B C based on Caesar Augustus census timing and Acts references, with Luke noting John the Baptist beginning his ministry in the 15th year of Tiberius.
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B.C
A.D
Caesar
Augustus
Jesus
Luke
John the Baptist
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