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Jenny Weber of Panhandle Butterfly House & Nature Center talks about the nonprofit s move to Milton.
After more than two decades in Navarre, the Panhandle Butterfly House & Nature Center is planning to re-open this summer in a new location with more space and a mission to teach “beyond the butterfly.”
“We’re coming back out of our chrysalis, we’re gonna fly,” said Jenny Weber, president of the Panhandle Butterfly House & Nature Center. “This is so exciting it’s ridiculous.”
Weber is the “volunteer in charge,” as she calls it, spearheading the efforts to create a permanent home for the nonprofit.
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The months-long protests and counter-protests outside American Family Planning Clinic have come to an end, with businesses up and down Village Oaks Drive signing trespass orders.
“We’re happy about this,” said Allison, who declined to give a last name. She is one of the counter-protesters who have been out nearly every weekend in front of the clinic to help shield clients from abortion protesters.
Protesters have always been a common sight outside the American Family Planning Pensacola’s only abortion clinic. But in December, a clinic staff member reached out on a local Facebook group asking for volunteers to help escort patients as protesters were harder to ignore.
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Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdict was a small step toward progress, but organizers say the work to unravel systemic racism and police brutality is just beginning.
Wednesday evening, Pensacola Dream Defenders held a Vigil for Black Lives at Seville Square. Dozens came to the park to hear speakers and look back on the past year of protests sparked by the death of George Floyd.
“The Dream Defenders took the lead making sure there was a grieving space a safe space,” said Hale Morrissette, North Florida organizer for Dream Defenders.
Dream Defenders is planning a vigil for each chapter in Florida. Pensacola had one of the first.
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Organizers who have led local protests in the past year say they are disappointed, but undeterred by House Bill 1, otherwise known as the anti-riot bill.
“We’re never going to stop protesting,” said Haley Morrissette, North Florida regional organizer for Dream Defenders. “It’s the American way. We won’t stop taking to the streets to build people power.”
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill into law Monday. The bill was introduced last year as protests carried out throughout the state and country in response to the killing of George Floyd
. Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis, Minnestota police officer charged with murder and manslaughter for causing Floyd’s death, was convicted Tuesday and is scheduled to be sentenced in June.
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