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Florida man pays past-due utility bills for 114 families: ‘This year, it’s more meaningful’

December 19, 2020December 20, 2020 Jake Newby, Pensacola News Journal Comments Off

Gulf Breeze’s Mike Esmond nearly doubled his 2019 holiday donation. Hurricane Sally and the COVID-19 pandemic meant more struggling families in 2020.

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‘He’s daddy’s hero’: 9-year-old saves injured dad from drowning after diving accident in Florida

August 5, 2020 Jake Newby, Pensacola News Journal Comments Off

A 9-year-old Pensacola boy is being lauded as a hero by his family after helping to pull his father out of the water after a serious diving accident at Quietwater Beach.