The five-floor glass building on Bayfront Parkway is Gulf Power Co.'s corporate headquarters. The Bayfront side is actually the back of the building. The identifying sign is on 10th Avenue. A. Escambia County voters have said no to a referendum calling for an appointed superintendent five times since November 1967. Santa Rosa County also has an elected superintendent.
Election officials say there has been no move in recent years to change that system.
Forty-five of Florida's 67 counties have elected school superintendents. The sand is 90 percent pure silica or quartz, believed to have come from northern Georgia and Alabama in the Appalachian Mountain region. Over the past 200 million years, the mineral, was beaten by rocks as it tumbled downstream and eroded as it was stacked during sea level rises and falls. Only that rock most resistant to physical and chemical destruction survived to become white beach sand. If they are in town, they practice at 8 a.m. on Tuesdays All of the Blue Angels jets on display around Pensacola were once used in shows.