Shelter House held the official ribbon cutting ceremony today for the Kind Heart Kennel, an on-site kennel at its confidential emergency shelter that will allow abuse victims to bring their pets with them when leaving a violent home. With the opening of the Kind Heart Kennel, Shelter House becomes the only center in Northwest Florida and one of only a few in the entire state to provide this service.
The Walton Area Chamber of Commerce will host its Inaugural Business & Health EXPO, sponsored by Sacred Heart on the Emerald Coast, Friday, October 18. This extraordinary networking event will be held at the Embassy Suites from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
After 47 days in the field, 227 threatened gopher tortoises have been spared an inhumane death and 28 gopher tortoise eggs have been saved from a development site in Apopka, Fl. The Humane Society of the United States, Nokuse Plantation, D.R. Horton and Bio-Tech Consulting teamed up to rescue the tortoises and eggs from the Rock Springs Ridge subdivision before relocating them to a permanent home at Nokuse Plantation, a nature preserve in Walton County. The eggs started hatching on Sept. 6.
Café Thirty-A is hosting Kenny Kahn, owner and winemaker of Blue Rock Vineyard - and you are invited! It's an exclusive wine dinner at one of South Walton's most popular restaurants on Oct 17 at 6:30 p.m.
World Paddle For The Planet 2013 is a four-day eco-educational fundraiser festival culminating with a 24-hour paddle on beautiful Lake Powell, the largest coastal dune lake in the State of Florida and designated a "Pristine Florida Waterway". Festival events will be held in Carillon Beach and Camp Helen State Park October 10-13, 2013.
This is it folks! If you want to go to Rosemary Beach Uncorked - enter to win tickets from SoWal.com - because it is sold out! One lucky SoWal beach lover will win two tickets to one of our favorite South Walton events. It's a truly unique, open-air wine and food event in one of the best beach towns on the planet with a collection of amazing restaurants! Tickets are valued $170.
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Dr. Sarah Schindele of Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance (CBA) recently joined Leslie Kolovich on SUP Radio Show to discuss her work, the history and mission of CBA, and environmental and educational programs currently underway to promote the health of our diverse waterways of the Choctawhatchee (chock-tuh-hatch-ee) basin watershed.
Harbor Docks is hosting its 19th Annual Take-A-Kid-Fishing Day on Sunday, November 3, 2013, and has 350 openings for children and chaperones.
For the past 18 years, Harbor Docks has taken hundreds of underprivileged children out for a free day of fishing. The majority of these kids have never been out on the water. After an exciting day of fishing, Harbor Docks treats the families to a fish fry to celebrate. Last year 57 of Destin’s finest charter boats offered their services to take the children out for a fun day of fishing.
Breast cancer patients and survivors are invited to join the next monthly breast cancer support group meeting at Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast on Tuesday, Oct. 15, at 6 p.m. in the Olson Women’s Diagnostic Center.
Fusion Art Glass in Seaside will host its Annual Trunk Show at the Seaside gallery on October 18-20. The event begins with an artist reception on Friday from 4-6 p.m. welcoming award winning glass artist Cal Breed of Orbix Hot Glass in Fort Payne, Alabama. Breed was recently nominated for Martha Stewart's Made in America Award.
