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These Florida military families will finally get a child care center
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Households of the seventh Particular Forces Group at Camp Bull Simons, Florida, will lastly get their want: a baby improvement middle positioned on the compound.
“Working intently with the Air Power, we now have plans to construct a brand new CDC at Camp Bull Simons” in fiscal 2025, Secretary of the Military Christine Wormuth introduced throughout her speech on the annual assembly of the Affiliation of the U.S. Military. She has been personally concerned within the problem.
“It was great to listen to,” mentioned Molly Tobin, household readiness group chief for seventh SFG’s third Battalion, and one of many individuals on the forefront of the trouble to get a CDC at Camp Bull Simons. Households have struggled with little one care since seventh Particular Forces Group was moved to Florida a decade in the past beneath the 2005 Base Closure and Realignment motion.
The camp has few facilities. Barracks, a chapel, a troop clinic, and an AAFES shopette and providers had been constructed, however there’s no little one improvement middle, household housing or commissary. Military households desire a little one improvement middle constructed close to the chapel on Camp Bull Simons, the place it could be handy for troopers.
However the Air Power had pushed again due to security issues. The camp was carved out of an energetic bombing vary utilized in its testing mission.
Households and their advocates level to the truth that there’s by no means been an evacuation of Camp Bull Simons, neither is there even a plan for an evacuation.
“We had been instructed ‘no’ so many instances,” Tobin mentioned. “Our households are very excited. My cellphone has been ringing off the hook…
Sooner or later, she mentioned, “Individuals gained’t dread coming to seventh Group due to the dearth of kid care.”
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The yr 2025 is a methods off, however households have been asking for this little one improvement middle for years. Like many different households at present stationed on the camp, Tobin and her 22-month-old daughter gained’t see the profit. The household is scheduled to maneuver to a brand new obligation station subsequent summer time. “However our future households will profit from this. That’s what issues most to me. So many have needed to put their careers on maintain” due to lack of kid care, she mentioned.
Lack of entry to little one care is an issue in a variety of navy communities. It’s vital that Military households have entry to high quality little one care, Wormuth mentioned, and famous officers have funded 5 new Military CDCs previously few years, with one beneath development.
Baby care is briefly provide within the civilian group close to Camp Bull Simons, and there’s a protracted ready checklist for little one care at Eglin Air Power Base. Households worth the standard, safety and security of navy little one care facilities. About 60% of seventh SFG households reside in Crestview, 20 minutes northeast of Camp Bull Simons and 45 minutes to an hour from Eglin to the south. To get to little one care on Eglin, they have to go the camp.
So households in that space spend three or 4 hours a day within the automobile to drive to and from Eglin, relying on site visitors — if they will get a spot.
“seventh Particular Forces Group has a excessive op tempo. They’re extremely deployed. They’re not residence fairly often, so they should take advantage of their time when they’re residence,” Tobin mentioned.
In the meantime, plans are transferring ahead to assist fill the necessity for little one care sooner. Increased Floor Schooling, the mother or father firm of Guidepost Montessori, is scheduled to open two Guidepost Montessori little one care facilities within the space by the autumn of 2023. One middle will probably be in Crestview and the opposite will probably be in Navarre, Florida, the place a variety of households reside and commute. Army households will get precedence, and Military and Air Power officers are serving to put together the facilities to make use of the navy little one care payment help packages after they open.
Tobin mentioned the Montessori little one care facilities may even be an enormous win for the households. “The extra spots we will have, the higher,” she mentioned.
She credited the International SOF Basis, and its president and CEO, retired Military Particular Forces Col. Stu Bradin, in addition to Florida Republican Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott and their staffs for his or her work to get a baby improvement middle on Camp Bull Simons, in addition to seventh Particular Forces Group command management.
She additionally thanked “the numerous spouses who’ve voiced concern and stood by with religion in us that we’d get this.”
Tobin plans to return again to Camp Bull Simons for the groundbreaking ceremony. “I wish to see shovels,” she mentioned.
“I’ll come again to look at these shovels going into the bottom … simply to ensure it’s actually occurring.”
Karen has lined navy households, high quality of life and shopper points for Army Instances for greater than 30 years, and is co-author of a chapter on media protection of navy households within the e book “A Battle Plan for Supporting Army Households.” She beforehand labored for newspapers in Guam, Norfolk, Jacksonville, Fla., and Athens, Ga.
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Rip Currents Kill At Least Six Florida Visitors | Weather.com
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- At least six people have died in rip currents over two days.
- All six victims were visitors to Florida.
- The parents of six children were among the victims.
“It’s just too dangerous to swim right now.” That was the warning Sunday from the Bay County Sheriff’s Office in Florida after announcing double red flag warnings and closing the water to swimmers.
Over the span of two days, at least six people were killed in rip currents along Florida beaches.
Three Alabama men who went for an evening swim shortly after arriving at a Florida Panhandle beach were caught in a rip current and died, authorities say.
The young men had traveled to the Panama City Beach area Friday evening with a group of friends and had just checked into their rental and gone for a swim when they went into distress, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office said in an updated Facebook post Saturday evening.
“The three men were caught in a rip current shortly after entering the water,” the post said.
The sheriff’s office had received the initial emergency call about the distressed swimmers shortly after 8 p.m., officials said. The U.S. Coast Guard and others began rescue efforts. The men were found separately and eventually pronounced dead at area hospitals, authorities said.
The sheriff’s office identified the three as Birmingham, Alabama, residents Harold Denzel Hunter, 25, Jemonda Ray, 24, and Marius Richardson, 24. Earlier this week, single red flags had been posted at the beach, indicating high-hazard surf and rip current conditions.
A Pennsylvania couple died in a rip current on a Florida beach Thursday while on vacation with their six children.
The incident happened about an hour north of West Palm Beach at Hutchinson Island, a barrier island in Martin County on the Atlantic coast.
Brian Warter, 51, and Erica Wishard, 48, were visiting with their six kids, most of whom are teenagers, according to the Martin County Sheriff’s Office.
They were swimming outside of an area farther up the beach that’s protected by lifeguards and where red flags warned of the danger.
The Martin County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that two children were able to break free of the current and tried to help their parents but were forced to swim ashore when conditions became too dangerous.
Also on Thursday, a 19-year-old visiting Panama City Beach from Oklahoma drowned after getting separated from a friend, WJHG.com reported. Fire Chief Ray Morgan said the young man was swimming under single red flag conditions.
Panama City Rescue lifeguards pulled him out of the surf and started CPR but they were unable to save him.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Joe LeBlanc’s Florida District 22 All-Stars Little League Report – Saturday, June 22 – Space Coast Daily
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BREVARD COUNTY • MIMS, FLORIDA – The Florida District 22 All-Star Tournament for 2024 continued Saturday night with the 8/9/10 Baseball Division at Holder Park in Mims.
Game 1:
The All-stars from District 11’s St. Augustine Little League (visitor) met the All-stars from District 19’s Lake Mary LL. St. Augustine’s first 3 batters, Brady Leth, Josiah Engleman, and Liam Drozd reached base and scored. Lake Mary answered back in the 2nd inning with Mason Williams’ solo homer followed by Colton Hallman and Fenn Morin reaching base and scoring to tie the game at 3.
The skies opened up with rain in the 3rd inning with the score still tied at 3-3. After 2 hours of raking, splashing about, several bags of Speedy Dry, and a lot of help from volunteers, the fields were back to playable and the game continued. St. Augustine’s Drozd scored 2 more runs, while Micah Bush, Evan Gaskins, and Colby Frink hit home runs.
Isaiah Holden hit a Grand Slam in the 4th inning helping St. Augustine to capture the win with a score of 19-3. St. Augustine’s win set up the remaining games for the day.
Game 2:
District 22’s Mims LL (visitor) played District 19’s Lake Mary LL. Mims started the scoring in the first inning when Noah Denoro reached base and Mason Selph brought him in with a 2-run homer.
But Lake Mary answered back in their half of the first with runs from Phoenix Hallman and Carter Picard.
Mims’ M. Selph would homer again on a full count in the 6th, but it wouldn’t be enough as Lake Mary’s P. Hallman, Picard, and Jax Padgett would each score twice in their team’s 10-3 victory.
Game 3:
District 11’s St. Augustine LL (visitor) was then matched against District 22’s Mims LL in the final game of the day. The game was close and went into the 5th tied at 1 after St. Augustine’s Brady Leth scored in the 1st and Mims’ Brayden Madison homered in the 2nd inning.
Mims’ Mason Selph would homer in the 6th to break the tie and become the eventual winning run as Mims defeated St. Augustine 2-1.
With all three teams tied at 1-1, Little League’s Runs Allowed Ratio needed to be used to determine a tournament champion.
With only 5 runs allowed throughout the tournament, St. Augustine LL claimed the title and will represent Section 3 at the Florida Intermediate (50/70) Baseball State Tournament starting on Friday, June 28th, and hosted by Palmetto Little League.
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Florida family whose roof hit by debris from space station sues NASA for damages
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