Pensacola Sister Cities International

04/09/2026

Beach Renourishment Teams continuing their 24-hour shifts! Professionalism is evident: careful measuring and consistent repetitions as the crystals of sand gleam in the sunlight!

11/20/2025

Attention Northwest Florida Educators!! Please help us spread the word about the new Essay Contest by sharing this post with everyone you know. Thanks, Nan Harper for the Flyer and everything you do for Pensacola Sister Cities International!

05/22/2025

Pensacola Sister Cities International announces 2025 winners in its twelfth General Bernardo de Gálvez Essay Contest, “Yo Sólo.” The competition is open to 4th grade students in Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties. The winning student and sponsoring teacher each receive $200.00, and the student presents the essay at the annual Gálvez Day Luncheon. This year as a result of the excellent quality of presentations, in addition. To the award of Overall Winner, Outstanding Avhievement Awards were granted to a student from each participating school.

The 2025 overall winner is William Sadowski, a student at The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart. Pictured are Lola Hogeman, Chairman, Gálvez Essay Contest 2025, with William Sadowski, the overall winner, with his teacher, Deborah Garland, of The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart.

05/20/2025

Pensacola Sister Cities’ 2025 Gálvez Essay Contest was a success! Fourth Grade students displayed their writing skills and their knowledge of Pensacola’s history, specifically dealing with General Bernardo de Gálvez, hero of the Battle of Pensacola. 1781.
There are many skillful writers among our community’s fourth graders! Some essays were presented in perfect cursive, and all included students’ learning and witticisms: “many people at age 16 are working at Macdonald’s, but Gálvez was already a soldier.”

William Sadowski of Cathedral of the Sacred Heart was selected as 2025 winner; he is a student of Deborah Garland. This is the second year one of Mrs. Garland’s students was chosen as winner.

Outstanding achievement awards were presented to Lennox Shaddix from Creative Learning Academy; Cam Densmore is her teacher, and to
Calvin Burgoon, Pensacola Beach Elementary School. Erin Olsen is his teacher.

04/13/2025

04/13/2025

Gero students’ annual visit to Pensacola and friends at Brown Barge School: Mayor’s welcome at Pensacola City Hall; traditional luncheon at iconic McGuire’s.

03/05/2025

2024 Sister Cities Gálvez Essay Contest Winner with Noted Historian Nancy Fetterman. Fetterman was named Honorary Citizen of Macharaviaya, birthplace of Gen. Bernardo de Gálvez, and Pensacola’s sister city.