Office To Close For Thanksgiving Holiday
The Destin Log office will close on Thanksgiving Day to allow staff to celebrate with families. It will reopen at 8 a.m. Friday November 29.
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27 Nov 1985
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Destin Log
Location
Destin, Florida, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1985
Page
1
Thanksgiving services across Destin area churches this week
Destin churches held multiple Thanksgiving services with more planned today and tomorrow. St. Rita Church hosts a 7 p.m. service at the Santa Rosa Beach Community Center with pastors from South Walton churches. Safe Harbor Presbyterian invites the public to a November 28 service at the corner Road and Mair Street for a community gathering.
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Destin
St. Rita
Santa Rosa Beach
South Walton
Safe Harbor Presbyterian Church
Mair Street
World’s Luckiest Fishing Village Tides & Temperatures
Tide and temperature report for the village notes shoreline fluctuations and daily sea temperatures. Observers log conditions at the harbor and coastal area, recording times and water readings.
Weather forecast includes showers and scattered storms
The forecast calls for scattered showers with a 40 percent rain chance and upper 70s temperatures. It notes mild temperatures with partly cloudy skies later, and possible thunder showers on Thanksgiving Day. A slight rain chance remains for Thursday and Friday, with rain likely on day 4.
Chamber Seeks Transportation Authority for White Point Bridge
The Destin Chamber of Commerce urged the state Legislature to create a transportation authority for Okaloosa and Walton counties to implement DOT findings on the White Point Piney Point bridge. The group tied rationale to the governor’s Resource Management Plan and cited studies praising the site as the most logical cost effective and ecologically sound north south crossing. City leaders welcomed the move as showing local support for the mid day crossing as other groups were to be invited to join.
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Destin Chamber of Commerce
State Department of Transportation
White Point
Piney Point
Transportation Authority
Okaloosa
Walton Counties
Chamber
White Point- Piney Point
Bill Phillips
Nine named to Okaloosa tourism panel to study bed tax plan
Okaloosa County Commissioners appointed three members from Destin, Fort Walton Beach and Okaloosa Island to form a Tourist Development Council. The panel will draft a plan for a bed tax to fund tourist projects, determine district boundaries, and present a voter referendum.
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Okaloosa County
Tourist Development Council
Destin
Fwb
Okaloosa Island
Bill Phillips
Jim Neilson
Sandpiper Cove
Bob Lloyd
Emerald Coast Tourist Development Council
TDC
Florida
Phillips
Fort Walton Beach
Bill Peebles
C Cou
Sok
Tax Reform Seen Helping Local Condo Market This Spring
Local Realtors expect a spring upswing in condominium sales if the Ways and Means Committee passes a revised tax reform bill. They say preserving mortgage interest deductions and other modifications differ from Reagan's proposal and could spur buyers, replacing a recent market lull.
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House
Ways and Means Committee
Reagan
John Cox
Cox and Young Inc
Ken Owen
Destin Shores Condominium
Cox
Insurance Salesman Charged in Destin Senior Consumer Case
The Florida Department of Insurance filed an administrative complaint against Robert Neal Gilbert, an insurance agent and Fort Walton Beach resident, over sales to Destin seniors in August. He allegedly called Old Southern Life Insurance Company financially unstable while pushing a Medicare supplement policy to Evalyne and Harley Rigdon and urged them to drop Old Southern for his Atlantic American policy. Continued on page 5A.
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State Department of Insurance
Robert Neal Gilbert
Old Southern Life Insurance Company
Fort Walton Beach
Old Southern
Atlantic American
Gilbert
Evalyne
Harley Rigdon
Okaloosa County weighs garbage incineration plan
County commissioners eye burning waste to generate electricity as Wright landfill nears capacity in 10 to 12 years. County Engineer says a $35 million Bay County plant shows feasibility but incineration costs, at about $6 per ton for landfill, may be higher.
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Okaloosa County
Mike Mitchell
Wright
Dave Heinrich
Heinrich
Bay County
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