Category: health-fitness

MILTON — The American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life of Milton-Pace is set for May 14 on Pensacola State College’s Milton Campus.
The event begins at 11 a.m. on the PSC outdoor track and will end …

MILTON — The Healthy Start Coalition of Santa Rosa County Inc. will have a general board meeting on Monday May 9.
The meeting is set 4 p.m. at the Healthy Start office located at 5505 Stewart Stree…

PENSACOLA — Sacred Heart Health System has appointed Roger Poitras as its chief strategy officer for the Gulf Coast.
Poitras will further the Health System’s efforts to provide high-quality, low-co…

MILTON — The Tobacco Free Santa Rosa Coalition will host the Sustaining Our Future Workshop from 12-6 p.m. Thursday, May 26 in the main conference room of the Florida Department of Health in Santa Ro…

PACE — Summertime’s coming, and many residents are considering getting into shape, if they have not begun doing so already.
Robert Hazewinkel, of Max Fit Sports Nutrition in Pace, said he has a way…

MILTON — Blood bank staffers ask those with every blood type to donate, but the most crucial type for traumatic situations, when seconds count, is the most rare, O negative.
For May, Trauma Awarene…

PACE — Pace High School’s Student Government Association raised almost $150 for cancer research during an April 28 kickball tournament.
Six teams, each paying $24 to enter the tournament on the sch…

MILTON — All Santa Rosa County residents are eligible for a free program to save on prescriptions.
The National Association of Counties Prescription Discount Card Program provides an average of 24 …

MILTON — Locally grown, fresh produce is now available at a farmers market sponsored by the Florida Department of Health in Santa Rosa County’s WIC program.
The market is open 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. M…

PANAMA CITY — Dermatology Specialists of Florida has joined the fight against skin cancer by offering free and potentially life-saving skin cancer screenings May 2-6 at eight of its Florida locations…