Because of persisting rain showers, this year’s Downtown Crestview Christmas Parade originally set for Saturday evening has been rescheduled to Sunday evening.
Many attendees of today’s Crestview Area Chamber of Commerce Networking Breakfast cheered after city Mayor Pro Tem Doug Capps said design/survey work is in progress on a planned road that will extend from Duggan Avenue to Medcrest Drive.
Nigel Flemen, 49, of the 500 block of Forrest Court, just outside of Crestview’s city limits, was arrested Monday on two counts of lewd or lascivious battery on a victim age 12 to 16 after being served with a warrant by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office.
Members of churches such as CrossWay Community Church in Crestview and First Baptist Church of Milligan played big roles in this year’s Operation Christmas Child campaign.
An Alga Beer Co. tap house and a Brown Bagger food trailer soon might fill the small vacant lot directly north of Coney Island on Main Street in downtown Crestview.
Restoring the butterfly garden at Crestview’s John McMahon Environmental Learning Center and helping a new community garden blossom are among the green-thumb projects being planned by members of the new Crestview Garden Club.
For about 1 1/2 hours before its grand finale featuring Santa and Mrs. Claus in a sleigh, the Downtown Crestview Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 6, will thrill onlookers with well over 100 entries, including marching bands, floats, horses, performers, and siren-light-flashing fire trucks and police cars.
