Sanders Beach Community Association

Rebuilding Sanders Beach Community Center #1

Aug 16, 2005

Parks & Recreation Director Jodie Skelton has advised the first date for community input for the reconstruction of Sanders BEach Community Center. It will be held on Wednesday, July 27, 2005. Time is 6 pm. Location is city council chambers of city hall downtown. Committee members Bob Neiger and Dixie Chancellor will of course be in attendance, but since the meeting will be open to the public we encourage any and all interested parties to be in attendance to express your own opinion, whatever it may be. At SBCA?’s April general meeting, first among the items discussed was discussed:

Retain the name Sanders Beach Community Center

It is time to advise City staff and management that not everyone shares their ?“vision?” for what is best for city neighborhoods.

The editor of this newsletter will reiterate her suggestion for one and all to consider: take 21,500 square feet of ?“new?” community center and build it on the new Trillium Maritime Park. Name it Corrine Jones Pensacola Community Center and the City can host every event from Mardi Gras balls to proms and graduations and other social events formerly held at the to-be-demolished Bayfront Auditorium. In Sanders Beach build a Community Center similar in size and design to East Pensacola Heights Club House, providing room for Jazzercize classes, a weight training room, a small free lending/swapping library, some ballroom dancing, and outside grounds containing several more outside shelters and gas barbeque grills. Put beachside picnic grounds back at Sanders Beach.

Sign the Petition
We?’re still collecting signatures on our petition. If you?’d like to add your voice to ours regarding the name of any new community center that might be built, here?’s a mini version of the petition form to sign. Neighbors and friends can sign it as well. Bring it to the next Association meeting, call Nancy Neiger or Pat Suchy to pick it up, or mail it to Bob Neiger at the address given below.

Sanders Beach Community Association C/O Robert Neiger, President - 1400 Cypress St. - Pensacola, FL 32501 - (850) 439-1136

We, the undersigned City of Pensacola citizens, residents, and property owners of the Sanders Beach Community, and their supporters and friends, request City Manager Tom Bonfield, Mayor John Fogg and the Pensacola City Council , and City of Pensacola Parks and Recreation Department, cease and desist any plans for changing the name of the pre-Hurricane Ivan Sanders Beach Community Center. The community center, if and when it is rebuilt, should retain the name of the Community in which it stands. The name, honoring city commissioner, fireman and police officer Frank Dent Sanders, dates to his death in 1925. Our Historic Sanders Beach Community strongly identifies with that name for a community center; it has been, and should remain, part of west Pensacola?’s heritage and identity.

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