Celebrating Local Happenings and Community Notes
A collage of social memories and notices from a coastal Florida community. Highlights include Valentine box nostalgia, marbles ethics, Klara Vedt DeFuniak’s project recognition, Helen McCall named Woman of the Year, a TV show critique, a cemetery clean-up planned for March 14 with donations urged, and golf classic entries supporting the American Cancer Society. Also mentions a new fence at Bay Elementary, rising winter tourism on County Road 30A, sightings at One Seagrove Place, drug-talk reflections, and a note on whether pineapples ripen after picking.
Brooks Kay Set Wedding
Kay Brooks announces the engagement of Karen Elizabeth Brooks to Ronald Lynn Kay. Karen is a 1980 Choctawhatchee High School and University of Alabama chemical engineering graduate and Delta Zeta member, employed by International Minerals and Chemical Corp in Monroe. Ronald Lynn Kay trained in the U.S. Air Force and works as a control systems engineer for the same company. The wedding is set for March 2 in Monroe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard L. Brooks
Destin
Karen Elizabeth Brooks
Ronald Lynn Kay
Ben W. Kay
Marshall, TX
Choctawhatchee High School
University of Alabama
Delta Zeta
International Minerals and Chemical Corporation
Monroe
U.S. Air Force
International Minerals and Chemical Corp
Also Mentioned on This Page
Klaravedt
DeFuniak
Consumer Reports Magazine
Helen McCall
Coastal Sands
American Business Women
Helen
ABC
Point Washington
Ollie Sue Butler
Santa Rosa Golf and Beach Club
Cancer Society
Sarogachi
SeaScape
Edna Hayes
Edna
Bay Elementary
Seagrove Place
Peggy Bailer
Teen Challenge
Pt. Washington Assembly of God Church
PERM
NEXUS
Benning Dr
Iustorm
Green Acres
Olaf Oldigh
Gulf of Mexico
Jerome's
Shoreline Village Mall
Sandestin
Brooks
Kay
Sara and
Albert Simpson
Indian Trail
Destin Library Guild
Bayfront Antebellum
Ate
Kmart
Sun
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