DISCOVER🔅 P'COLA

Pensacola, Florida.

January 27, 2025

Together With
Haiden Shemer, Trusted Real Estate Advisor at Lokation Real Estate

Good morning, Pensacola.

This is DISCOVER 🔅 P’COLA your daily update for local news, events, and things to do, after the snow melts.

In this issue:

  1. Paper Park Ribbon Cutting ✂️

  2. Pensacola Lighthouse ⛯

  3. Pensacola State College Casting Call; Auditions for “The Crucible." 🎭

In every Issue:

  • THE DIGEST

  • THE WEATHER

  • CIVIL, PARK & BUSINESS NEWS

  • FESTIVALS, PARADES & EVENTS

  • HAPPENIN’ THINGS TO DO

  • LIVE MUSIC LOWDOWN

  • SPORTS

Cheers!

 DISCOVER 🔅 P’COLA’s Editorial Staff

HAPPY MONDAY!

e-DAY

🗓️ January 27th, 2025

An unofficial & clearly made-up holiday, January 27th or e-Day celebrates the mathematical constant e, The first three digits of this date - 27/1 - match up with the first three digits of e (2.71).

THE DIGEST

PAPER PARK ✂️

The ribbon cutting for the new Paper Park (former golf course) will be held at on Thursday, January 30th at 10am. Paper Park has a walking path, a playground, an 18-hole disc golf course, and a 704 sq.ft. covered pavilion including tables to enjoy a picnic after the snow.

PENSACOLA LIGHT HOUSE 🔅

The FIrst Light House. Pensacola Light house and Maritime Museum. In 1823, Congress authorized $6,000 for the Pensacola Lighthouse. The lighthouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is an active U.S. Coast Guard aid to navigation.

Snow ❄️ in PCOLA, another historic event 2025, see it here at the Pensacola Lighthouse IG page. Wanna make the climb? General admission guests can climb the historic lighthouse tower, and explore exhibits in the Richard C. Callaway Museum (housed in the restored 1869 keeper’s quarters). Or if you prefer to see the moon over the Gulf of Mexico, Feb 14th is the next upcoming event, Sunset & Full Moon Tour.

THE CRUCIBLE 🎭

Pensacola State College Performing Arts Department casting call! Auditions will be held on January 27 & 28 (7 p.m. each night) for their upcoming production of "The Crucible." Show ‘em what you've got, even if it's just your killer dance moves!

DISCOVER P’COLA sponsored by Haiden Shemer, Trusted Real Estate Advisor at Lokation Real Estate

P’COLA WEATHER 

5 Day Forecast powered by HomeStretch TC ~ Saving Home buyers & sellers $1000’s. HomestretchTC.com 

  • Today's Pensacola Beach sea temperature is a refreshing 65 °F.

  • Wind: WSW 7 mph 💨

  • Sunrise: 6:42am ☀️

  • Sunset: 5:21pm 🌜

  • Daylight Hours: 10h 37min

  • Fishing Guide: Good 🐟🐟 out of 🐟🐟 🐟

  • Tides: 🔼 7:55am 🔽 9:15pm

  • Looking Ahead: 70’s this week and next! 👏

CIVIL, PARK & BUSINESS NEWS

5 Feb 📆 Chamber of Commerce Orientation for New Members

27 Feb 🪴 2025 NPMTI Annual Meeting - National Predictive Modeling Tool Initiative 2025 Annual Meeting.

FESTIVALS, PARADES & EVENTS

30 Jan 🤵🏻‍♀️ 3rd AlltogetHer: Women's Event 2025

11 Feb 💃🏻🕺🏿 Krewe of Wrecks 45th Anniversary Ball 

14-16 Feb. PENSACON Pop Culture Convention

9-12 JUL ✈ BLUE ANGELS RED, WHITE & BLUE’S Pensacola Beach Air Show

17-8 Nov ✈ BLUE ANGELS NAS Homecoming Air Show

HAPPENIN’ THINGS TO DO  

#20 on the Historic Pensacola Walking Tour Fountain Park

Jan 🍿 IMAX AMC Bayou 15 Theatre Movie Night! or Matinee

MONDAY

21 Jan 💋 Mardi Gras Mingle ~Speed Dating Event  Find your date for Krewe Ball, Parade Buddies, or Fat Tuesday Partners

WEDNESDAY

23 Jan 🐦 10th Annual Snowbird Beach Bash Pensacola Beach

23-29 🥗🍗🍔 Winter Restaurant Week Great Southern Restaurants

THURSDAY

24 Jan 🥾 Restoration Ramble Perdido River Nature Preserve  Guided Walking Tour 11-12pm Waterproof Hiking boots recommended

24 Jan 🎨 Pensacola Love Painting With A Twist

FRIDAY/SATURDAY

25 Jan 🥊 Island Fights 86 at Pensacola Bay Center 7-9pm

25-26 Jan 📙 Grown-Up Book Fair Odd Colony Brewing

UPCOMING THINGS TO DO 

23 Jan 🚙 Pensacola Jeeps Freeze Out Garage 850 Pensacola

2025 🏄🏾‍♂️ Innerlight Surf Camp & Lessons Coming Soon! Fort Pickens Rd. 

LIVE MUSIC LOWDOWN  

WEDNESDAY

23 Jan 🎵 TOBYMAC Hits Deep Tour Pensacola Bay Center

FRIDAY/SATURDAY

25 Jan 🎵 Brandon Giles Moonshine Saloon

24 & 26 Jan 🎵 Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro Pensacola Opera

UPCOMING MUSIC EVENTS

28 Feb 🎵 An Evening with Roger McGuinn for Songs and Stories

30 Jan 🎵 Creed FIsher Wild Gregs Saloon

31 Jan 🎵 Brandon Giles The Sports Bar

14 & 16 Mar 🎵 Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci Pensacola Opera

SPORTS  

2025 🏒 ICE FLYERS Schedule  Pensacola Bay Center  

2025 ⚾️ BLUE WAHOOS April - let the games begin!

COLLEGE SCHEDULES

2025 ⚾️ UWF Baseball

2025 🥎 UWF Softball

MORE SPORTS

4 Feb 🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏿‍♀️Double Bridge Run 2025 1k and 15k races / Pensacola Sports

4 Feb 🏄🏾‍♂️ Surfrider Social 6pm @ Cafe Single Fin

Thru 23rd Feb Ice Zone Public Ice Skating

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