Ashley Carter Published: October 12, 2005 Want to party retro style? The PJC Foundation is throwing an alumni and friends celebration party to commemorate past alumni, and to bring together current students with past students. It’s from 7 to 10 p.m. on Oct. 22 in the Lou Ross gymnasium on the Pensacola campus. The celebration...
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December 21, 2008August 13, 2025Features
Gymnastics program sports
Trenton Willnecker Published: October 12, 2005 The PJC Gymnastics Program is back on its feet after almost a year long hiatus because of Hurricane Ivan. Last September when the storm hit PJC, the gymnasium on Pensacola campus was hit just as hard as the gymnastics program that was housed inside. “$120,000 of equipment was damaged...
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December 21, 2008August 13, 2025Features
FLY Dance sells out Ashmore
Matt Foster Published: October 12, 2005 The cheering, sold-out, Ashmore auditorium on the Pensacola campus played host to the “FLY Dance Company” which performed on Saturday, Oct. 8th. FLY, listed on their website as an “all-male group of street dancers,” is an innovative contemporary dance troupe that merges everything from hip-hop to classical music with...
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December 21, 2008August 13, 20252008 archive, Arts and Entertainment
Review: With this ring, I thee dead!
Ashley Carter Published: October 12, 2005 Tim Burtons’ “Corpse Bride” is dually set in a dreary 19th century European village, and the colorful land of the dead. This claymation film is a story of an unsuspecting groom played by Johnny Depp named Victor, asking a corpse bride, Emily, played by Helena Bohnam Carter to be...
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December 21, 2008August 13, 20252008 archive, Arts and Entertainment
Daily Grind finds new location
Ryan Freeman Published: October 12, 2005 The Daily Grind has made its return to the scene in Pensacola. Owner Jay Marsh reopened the local caf‚ on the site of the old Goofy Golf course on Navy Boulevard after the old Daily Grind building was destroyed by a combination of a massive fire and flooding from...
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December 21, 2008August 13, 20252008 archive, Arts and Entertainment
Luna Mantra to perform at student center
Rachel Strehlow Published: October 12, 2005 World beat, in the form of Luna Mantra, comes to the Pensacola Campus Oct. 13. The concert is part of PJC’s 2005-2006 Lyceum series and begins at 7 p.m. at the student center, bldg. 5 on the Pensacola campus. The Pensacola-area band, composed of current and former PJC students,...
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December 21, 2008August 13, 2025Archived Sports
Lady Pirates defeat two challenging teams at T ourney
Lindsay Spencer Published: September 28, 2005 The PJC Lady Pirates went 2-2 at the Gulf Coast Community College Volleyball tournament held September 23-24. Before the tournament, Coach Pete Pena said there was some work the girls needed to do to prepare for this tournament and it definitely paid off in the long run. There were...
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December 21, 2008August 13, 2025Archived Sports
Delgado’s Fontenot now a Pirate
Morgan Gates Published: September 28, 2005 Since Hurricane Katrina, PJC’s athletic department has accepted a new athlete into the basketball program. Sophomore Ron Fontenot, a 6-foot 8-inch forward, has transferred to PJC from Delgado Community College in New Orleans, La. “Delgado Community College is now under water,” said PJC men’s head basketball coach, Paul Swanson....
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December 21, 2008August 13, 2025Archived Sports
Shotokan offers flexibility, self defense
Morgan Gates Published: September 28, 2005 It’s a late school night and you are approaching a dark area of a parking lot after leaving a night class. You sense an uneasy silence and suddenly begin to feel very alone. In your mind you conceptualize a stranger walking up to you and snatching you right off...
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December 21, 2008August 13, 2025Archived Sports
Women needed for flag football
Morgan Gates Published: September 28, 2005 Only two women participated in the first women’s intramural flag football game on Sept. 22. The event was actually co-ed; eleven men played along with the women. The men’s flag football games started on Sept. 19 and have had a consistent number of about 30 participants play so far,...