March 13th , 2013

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Weekly Update Newsletter
March 13th , 2013
Dear Jessica,
With all this talk about Spring Training and baseball I was intrigued to learn about a
signed baseball collection that a local man began when he was 8 years old. Dennis
Schrader is in the Guinness Book of World Records and has thousands of baseballs
autographed by players in spring training to the Major Leagues. He has signed
baseballs by movie stars, Politian's, and even the last survivor of the Titanic. This
collection can be seen at the St. Petersburg Museum of History. They are raising
funds to build to permanent display which will honor this remarkable collection.
From the #1 Beach,
Darlene Kole
Happy Wednesday!
Lucy and Ethel wrap
chocolates!
SAVE THESE DATES!
March 17:St.Patty's Day &
March 28:Lobster Pot Bistro
Mingle
April 19-28: Frenchy's
Sugar Sand Festival
April 14:Iron Girl
April 25: Holiday Inn and
Suites Clearwater Beach
Mingle
May 10: Restaurant Week
Kick off Event
May 12-18: Restaurant
Week
Social Media Links
Our beautiful new billboard!
Congratulations to:
Sandra with Fun Ride Rentals!
For the best guest of how many people
came into the chamber in February!
His/her guess was 1132 and the actual
number was 929! Holy Cow!
This week's guess for a prize is how many people came to
visit the Visitor Center in Surf Style in February?
E-mail us your guess!!
Look what Frenchy's is doing during Frenchy's
Sugar Sand Festival.
How about you, what specials will you run during
this event?
SPORTS LINKS
Today at Clearwater Main Library!
Echos to the Emerald Isle
Arts &
Entertainment
The free program is open to the public and will be led by
storyteller and Irishman Batt Burns who is returning for a
second year. He will read traditional Irish stories and poetry
by W.B. Yeats, Brendan Kennelly, Patrick Kavanagh and
Oscar Wilde and will include snippets of Irish history and
folklore, and humorous anecdotes. He will close the program
with traditional songs on the concertina.
Capitol Theater
Ruth Eckerd Hall
Straz Center
Sunset Cinema
Dunedin Fine Arts
Center
We need gift basket items for our
kick-off event raffle
The sooner the better!
The Beach Chamber
is proud to have
formed an Elite
partnership with
Clearwater Gas
System. They are a
Sponsor to all of our
2013 events.
Visit Clearwater Gas
website
for details on
environmentallyfriendly natural gas
energy for
appliances, water
heating, cooking,
and pool/spa
heating.
We need your BIG baskets or funky containers!
Please call us if you have anything to
donate to put in the baskets as well!
Visit Website
For more information call: 727.447.7600
or email the Chamber
CHAMBER INFORMATION
Tourism Video
Contact Us:
Darlene Kole,
Pres./CEO
Liz LaJoy, Office
Manager
Jessica Howe, Admin.
Assistant
Peter Vandernoot,
Customer Service
Office Volunteers:
John Cagle
April 19-28, 2013
Maria
Beach Chamber
South of Pier 60 on Clearwater Beach, 1,000 tons of its world
famous sugar sands will be in the Sugar Sand Walk Exhibition,
an artistic walk-through display in a 14,000 square foot tent
accessible for a
Mascot
2013
Executive
Officers
Eric Waltz - Chairman
of the Board
Louie Stavropoulos Vice Chairman
Carol Mears - Secretary
Jason Gibertoni Treasurer
Paul Andrews - Past
Chairman
Frank Dame - Chamber
Liaison
Darlene Kole President/CEO
MEMBER HAPPENINGS!!
small admission cost.
Additional no-cost highlights of the event include Frenchy's
Master Sand Sculpting Competition, sand sculpting clinics,
speed sand demonstrations and a children's play area called the
Sandbox.
For more information please contact:
Lisa Chandler, Sunsets at Pier 60
727.430.5200
Email
Jennifer Mulligan, City of Clearwater Parks & Recreation
727.562.4802 ext. 2904
Email
Are you one of the
fabulous
restaurants that
are signed up for
restaurant week?
If not, do so NOW!
If any of our
members have
something interesting
that is happening or
coming up and they
want it mentioned in
the newsletter, please
e-mail it
to:
Jessica
SURF STYLE VISITOR
CENTER
Restaurant Week Kick Off Event brings out
thousands of locals to our beautiful beach. This is
your chance to show off the wonderful food your
business makes and bring in some new regulars!
Click here to sign up for Restaurant Week Kick-Off
Event
It's the count down of the year!
Our Visitor Center at
Surf Style
Donna Dennis,
Manager
Kathy Murray,
Concierge
Donna also does "House
Calls" to businesses
that have groups of
people wanting to learn
more about our
beautiful piece of
paradise. She puts
together welcome bags
filled with all kinds of
useful information for
our visitors.
Visitor Center
Volunteers:
Nancy Gardinier
Ed Patch
Helen Curwen
Christie Hanna
Amanda Hanna
Chuck Kilbride
Lynne Dagg
Tell Your Guests:
Our Visitor Centers Sell
JOLLEY TROLLEY
All Day Passes
and
All Day
PARKING PASSES!
Watch Shephard's in action as they remodel and
become a beautiful brand new 144
roomed resort!
Get all the latest updates,photos,
and blue prints to see what the
new Shephard's will look like!
Click here to go to the website
The Fair Is Coming To Tropicana Feild!
The Beach Chamber
sells discounted
Busch Gardens
tickets
(half day tickets too)
F.Y.I.
Spring Break Dates
Click here to watch
safety video for
spring break
Spring Break Dates:
2013
State Colleges and
Universities
March 9 - 17: FSU,
USF
Regional High Schools
March 9-17:
Hillsborough County
March 23-31: Pinellas
County,
Polk County, Pasco
County,
Hernando County
Lisa Chandler's
daughter did an
amazing video on
why there should be
better protection
from guns in
schools. She won
third place! Check
Schedule:
March 20-24, 2013
Hours:
Wednesday the 20th &
Thursday the 21st: 5-11pm
Friday the 22nd: 3pm - midnight
Saturday the 23rd: noon to midnight
Sunday the 24th: noon to 10pm
Be Sure To Come Out and Play!
For more Information please visit :
Pinellas County Fair Website
Or Call 813-714-0274
The Beach Chamber Becomes an Eagle
Sponsor for the Caladesi Discovery
Center!
They need your support too!
out here video here!
Please Welcome
our
Newest
Members!
Xtra Medium
Productions
Bill McArdle
E-mail
Website
727.584.4500
Caladesi Island
Ferry
Phil Henderson
E-mail
Website
727.734.5263
Bobby's Bistro &
Wine Bar
Sheri Heilman
E-mail
Website
The Caladesi Discovery Center will be an open air, ADA
compliant, interpretive facility rising from the old observation
tower site at Caladesi Island State Park.
An observation deck at a height of approximately 25 feet
above ground level will provide visitors a panoramic view of
this undeveloped barrier island.
In addition to offering a magnificent bird's eye view of the
topography and plant communities of one of the last
undeveloped barrier islands on Florida's Gulf Coast, the CDC
will provide hands-on exhibits where park guests will be able
to investigate aspects of Caladesi's history, habitat and
wildlife.
At the Caladesi Discovery Center every person will have an
opportunity to experience the nature of "Real Florida."
But in order to make this wonderful tower happen we need
727.446.9463
SoBiz Network
support for our wonderful members! Please click here to
download the sponsorship level form.
For more information
E-mail Please Contact: Friends of the Island Parks
Phone:(727) 738-2903
Website
Email
Alyssa Backus
727.808.2033
Things To Do
Around Here
Discovering New
Places
Kim Ward
E-mail
Website
813.784.5822
Peyton Bolin,PL
Jane Bolin
E-mail
Website
Party on the Paddy-O
at Shephard's!
All weekend long!
From Donna's corner of the
beach....
I've been on the road the last ten
days, and the word is out:
Clearwater Beach is being
recognized NATIONWIDE as
THE Florida beach to visit! I
chatted with locals in Phoenix,
AZ, friends from Michigan and
Illinois as well as acquaintances from other parts of FL, and they
loved hearing about our beach and all that's going on here.
Then at the Safety Harbor Seafood Festival, I got to talking
with a couple from PA who winter in Clearwater and never come
down to the beach. I invited them to park in the lot above Surf Style,
come to the Visitor Center, and discover their own beach.
Who have you invited to the beach lately? And if not this
very month, how about next month for the Frenchy's Sugar Sand
Festival or May for Restaurant Week? After all, we ARE the
Number One Beach in Florida!
If you have any comments or suggestions, just call 447-7600
or email me
With sand between my toes, Donna
Cooters St.Patty's Day
Party!
We Need A New Fridge!
Sunset Cinema Movies!
Sunset Cinema
Website
March Movies
Friday 15th: Cat in
the Hat
Saturday 16th:
We need
a new
fridge!
Unfortun
ately,
our little
fridge is
having
some
mechanic
al issues
and we
are in
need of a
new one! If anyone could donate a new or used mini fridge
that anyone would like to donate would be wonderful!
Call us 727.447.7600
or
e-mail
Anchorman
Friday 22nd: How to
Eat Fried Worms
Saturday 23rd: The
Lord of the Rings:
Return of the King
Friday 29th: Hoot
Saturday 30th:
F.Y.I.
Water restrictions modifications
effective
today for water shortages
Skyfall Edited
The President's
Plate
Modifications to the phase III water
shortage restrictions in Clearwater,FL.
Please click on the link below to read
who and when water can be used.
Water Shortage Announcement
(Dessert upstairs in the
Dessert Room at Bern's
Steakhouse)
Ann Farrell from
We have heard from many folks that this book is
the perfect gift after closing a sale or encouraging
a large group to choose Clearwater Beach as there
destination. It has been signed by the staff at the
Pink A Marketing,
Inc. has added a
"President's Plate"
Album to the
Chamber's Facebook
Page. Check out
what Darlene is
enjoying for lunch
or dinner!
Hyatt Regency recently as a going away gift to one
of their own that was leaving. What ideas do you
have?
The Clearwater Beach Art Book is perfect for so
many reasons.
Member Spotlight
This beautiful and artistic book is the most talked about
book on the beach, the number #1 beach is the State of
Florida. Each picture is creatively done through a special
process that only Dan and Ryan Friese do at Waterfront
Gallery. You can see many of the prints hanging in the lobby
of the Hilton Clearwater Beach!
The Books are $75 per book with
Belleair Images
special pricing for members.
Wayne Cathel
Email
Come by the Beach Chamber office and purchase yours today
Website
while they last:
727.686.1455
333C S. Gulfview Blvd.
Clearwater Beach
(727) 447-7600
Presented by
The Armed Forces
History Museum
Friday March 22
Stars And Strips
U.S.A.
Spirit of America
Show
Enjoy dancing to the
10 O'Clock Swing
Band Orchestra,
singing sensation
impersonators, show
hostesses, re-enactors,
paparazzi, a red carpet
welcome and more!
Click here to purchase
tickets!!
Island Dog
Outfitters 6-Year
Anniversary Party
at Clearwater
Wine
Bar and Bistro!
Acoustic Guitarist
Jayne Kelli Live in
our Heated
Outdoor Courtyard
from 7 - 11 pm
Adventure
Island Is Now
Open!
It's getting hotter
here in the
sunshine state and
what better way
to cool off than at
Adventure Island
Water Park in
Tampa! Don't forget that we sell discount tickets at the
chamber to the park!
Clearwater Marine
Aquarium
is having their 2nd
Annual
"Go Green" Coastal
Cleanup
Saturday March 16th from
8am-11am
Clearwater Marine Aquarium is having their 2nd annual
coastal cleanup for the Memorial Causeway! Please help
and join in on the fun! light refreshments,bags,gloves, and
pickers will be provided. There will also be St.Patrick's
Day Themed games.
For every bag of trash picked up the participant will
receive a free ticket to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium!
For more information please contact :
Lauren Dellert
E-mail
727.441.1790 ext 252
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