The Pensacola Today Short List for Feb. 20

  • February 20, 2015
  • /   Mike Ensley
  • /   community-dashboard
Golden Apple roundtable brings teachers together, planning for traffic woes and The Rex is nearly ready in today’s news. The Pensacola Today Short List for Friday, Feb. 20 includes: Golden Apple roundtable helps teachers Thursday, the annual Golden Apple Academy Teacher of the Year Roundtable at the Crowne Plaza in Pensacola was held bringing Teacher of the Year winners representing 44 Escambia County together in a daylong workshop to share their experiences,  learn new things and build better and stronger relationships. Take a look at what the teachers learned in these video interviews: Good teachers learn from each another Gail Husbands talks about the Golden Apple roundtable A room full of teachers of the year inspires Patty Hightower Escambia top teacher Jana Pavlus on her day at Golden Apple   Planning for four years of traffic woes  The $450 million construction of the new Pensacola Bay Bridge poses many challenges for local transportation authorities.
“This is going to be a four-year-long project and it will have a tremendous impact on Gulf Breeze and Pensacola areas,” City Manager Buz Eddy said of the bridge project. Santa Rosa Commissioner Lane Lynchard said the “potential for adverse economic impact on both Gulf Breeze and Pensacola Beach is huge during the four-year construction timetable.”
  Read Carlton Proctor’s story here. Gallery: Harvest Church’s Rex renovation nearly finished The complete makeover by Harvest Church of Pensacola of the historic Rex Theater, a downtown landmark, is nearly complete.
“We’ll be putting the flooring in and getting our final inspections next week,” said Mark Patrick, Greenhut’s construction manager for the project. “Hopefully the Harvest Church people will be able to come in here and start the first of March.”
See the gallery here.   Five films you need to see before Pensacon The Oscars happen Sunday, but for Pensacola, many famous actors and actresses will descend on the city at next weekend’s Pensacon. Pensacon Chairman Mike Ensley looks at five lesser known movies you should see before you see the stars at the convention. Read the story and watch the trailers here.   That’s the Short List for Friday. We start to warm up this weekend, but watch out for rain on Sunday!
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