letter from the Puublisher
PUBLISHER
GREG ALEXANDER
ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER
VERLA PRICE
MANAGING EDITOR
STEVE BARBER
PRODUCTION EDITOR
JESSICA GRAÑA
ADVERTISING
BETH MANGUM
ERIC SANDERS
TRICIA WIBLE
SENIOR DESIGNER
PRISCILLA ATKINS
DESIGN
SHEILA MACDIARMID
CONTRIBUTING
WRITERS/PHOTOGRAPHERS
ALEX MASON
COURTNEY MURRAY
CATHERINE ROWAN
LIESEL SCHMIDT
KRISTINA WRIGHT
VIP FOUNDER
JEFF WATSON
VIP PENSACOLA MAGAZINE
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VOLUME III • ISSUE 12
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December has arrived, which means we have
a new year looming just around the corner. This
anticipated month that bookends the year brings
so many special celebrations surrounding the
Christmas and New Year’s Eve occasions. It is
an extra busy time for many and
VIP Pensacola
is excited to capture and share some of your
favorite events to help you cherish these great
times, even if you could not attend.
Our magazine content enables us to attend
many varied functions, including social,
charitable, business, and professional. It is a
great privilege to get to meet so many people
from various backgrounds and professions. It is
with great pleasure that we get to interact with
so many professionals, especially in the health,
beauty, and wellness community, that we wanted to share some with our readers.
Although still considered a relatively small city, the Greater Pensacola Area has
incredible health and wellness offerings that rival larger, more cosmopolitan
areas.
This issue will help get you into the holiday spirit with the
Pensacola Style
feature on Ugly Christmas Sweaters (or are they!) and coverage of Junior
League’s Market Basket fundraising event. If you are not sure how you will
be celebrating the season, be sure to check out
Save The Date for some festive,
upcoming events.
The new year will be here soon and many people consider that a time of fresh
starts to refl ect and make changes and improvements.
VIP Pensacola will be
joining in that trend as we freshen up some of our standard features and will
launch some new ones that we have been working on for you. We expect you will
be delighted with those and you can still count on the same great event coverage
as always.
Year’s end also starts bringing thoughts about the upcoming Mardi Gras
season and we are so excited to be partnering with Pensacola Mardi Gras, Inc.,
again this year to bring you the second annual
Pensacola Mardi Gras Magazine.
Be sure not to miss this publication as it will be rife with Pensacola’s rich history
and traditions that have evolved into today’s Mardi Gras season, with more
Krewe’s than ever and the various ways in which they choose to celebrate.
All of us here at
VIP Pensacola wish the most delightful of Christmas seasons
to each and every one of our readers. We appreciate the opportunity to be
immersed in your lives, in your homes, in your businesses, and in this most
wonderful of cities.
Greg Alexander
Publisher
Greg@VIPMag.com
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