| Tourney benefits cancer patient | | Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 2:58:26 PM by Blog57 Team | | Small-boat anglers will have a rare opportunity to compete for cash and help a gravely ill Cooper City girl in Harbour Towne Marina's St. Patty's Day Tournament on March 17 in Dania Beach. The contest, now in its 17th year, is limited to boats 35 feet and under fishing for dolphin, kingfish, cobia and wahoo, with a top prize of $3,000. The beneficiary is 6-year-old Emily Adamson, who has a rare, aggressive childhood cancer called neuroblastoma in which a tumor stemming from the nervous system is lodged in her lower abdomen. Emily, who was diagnosed when she was 3, received more than $48,000 from the tournament in 2004 and 2005 to help defray her medical bills, according to Michelle Van Lenten of Helping Hands of Harbour Towne, the charitable arm of the Westrec Marina company.... | |
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| | | Water Ways | | Posted Tuesday, February 06, 2007 12:57:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | If you have ever thought to yourself, 'There ought to be a law,' then you have plenty of company this time of year as our state Legislature begins to hear more than a thousand bills that will create or modify the laws we all live by. In recent columns I have written about a couple of proposals that, if passed into law, would substantially alter the Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation's responsibilities for our public boating facilities. However, there is at least one bill that will be heard on Feb. 12 by the House Committee on Water, Land, Ocean Resources, and Hawaiian Affairs that would instead affect the responsibilities placed on boat owners. House Bill 1914 would prohibit anyone from mooring a boat in a state Small Boat Harbor without first obtaining sufficient liability insurance to cover the costs of its removal should the vessel be abandoned, sunk, or run aground.... | |
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| | | Pugster Enamel Paint I Heart My Sailor Stainless Steel Italian Charm Link | | Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2007 12:45:15 PM by Blog57 Team | | Use this Pugster I Heart My Sailor Italian charm to let everyone see what you are thinking even when you aren't saying a word. Featuring "I heart My Sailor" over a white backdrop and between navy themed horizontal blue lines, this charm is a great way to express the love you feel for your sailor away at sea. Whether you keep it for your own bracelet or give it to a friend who also collects Italian charms, this Italian charm, like all Pugster Italian charms, is a fun addition to anyone's dynamic charm collection. Made from the highest quality stainless steel, each charm's face is soldered on to its base, rather than the lower quality glue used by some other manufacturers. Crafted and authenticated by Pugster (TM) Inc., these I Heart My Sailor Italian charms are available for both retail and wholesale purchase in our store and are compatible with charms from all major brands.var ww = document.body.clientWidth;var wh = document.body.clientHeight;document.write('');... | |
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| | | The Five Things You Must Know Before Buying Boat Insurance | | Posted Thursday, November 23, 2006 12:58:59 PM by Blog57 Team | | Too often, people don't realize that they need coverage for their boats. Some don't even realize that boat coverage is available. Many know it is available, and they think about it – they just decide that this type of coverage isn't something that they need. In most cases, they are wrong! You do need boat insurance, and you need to know what you are looking for when you start shopping for the coverage. Here are five things you must know before buying boat insurance. 1. Many states now require you to carry watercraft liability coverage. This coverage will should protect you against any damage that you do to other people or other people's property with your boat. The insurance should also cover you for losses due to theft, vandalism, storms, fire, capsizing, stranding, sinking, explosion, and collision.... | |
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| | | New player looking for answers from OCC | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:01:56 PM by Blog57 Team | | Seven weeks ago, Suzanne Penna hardly knew anything about Ocean County College. She had never heard of the school's president, Jon Larson, and she couldn't have picked the trustees out of a lineup with a scorecard. She wanted to go to nursing school. That was it. She'd heard good things about OCC years ago, when she was a student at Toms River High School North. Now, as a resident of Pine Beach and the widowed mother of four young children, she was inclined to think of OCC as an ideal place for her to resume her education. Then she picked up a copy of the Viking News, the student newspaper. Soon she would find herself immersed in research. Penna says she is not the kind of person who believes everything she reads, and she wasn't predisposed to believe what she was reading in the Viking News, which has been openly critical of the administration at the college for some time.... | |
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| | | Ride On | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 11:12:49 PM by Blog57 Team | | Although it's just past noon on a Monday and she's at work, Heather Birdwell pours herself a glass of wine. "I'm not a heavy drinker at all," she says, half apologizing, "but I think I need to relax a little bit." We're in Lakewood, Calif., in the house where Heather used to live; it's now headquarters for Damzl, a seller of women's motorcycle clothing that Birdwell founded with her sister, Holly, in 2005. The living-room window looks out on a quiet street of modest bungalows and purple jacaranda trees. Out back is a garage filled with $50,000 worth of inventory. In the driveway squats the pink Damzl trailer, just back from a parking-lot promo at a nearby bike shop. Birdwell, 35, is 6 feet tall, strong, and blond; she's also restless, a maker and a doer - an athlete, not a student. Holly Gorrell, Heather's sister, was blond too, but you wouldn't have known it; she dyed her hair so often that her boyfriend said it was like having a new girlfriend every month.... | |
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| | | Press Release: NANCY MICHELMAN APPOINTED PRESIDENT OF BOATU.S | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 1:19:17 PM by Blog57 Team | | Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatU.S.) Chief Executive Officer, Bill Oakerson announced today that BoatU.S. Senior Vice President of Membership Nancy Michelman has been promoted to President of the nation's largest recreational boat owners advocacy group. Michelman succeeds Jim Ellis who has decided to retire after 24 years with the organization. Michelman joined BoatU.S. as Manager of Membership in 1989 after working for the American Automobile Association in new product development and holding other marketing and management roles in the public relations and international education fields. Over her tenure she is credited with growing BoatU.S. membership from 300,000 members to over 670,000 today, giving the organization a bigger voice on Capitol Hill as well as providing boaters with more valuable benefits.... | |
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| | | Bob Barker announces retirement plans | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 7:10:44 AM by Blog57 Team | | Come on down, "Price is Right" fans. Or is that People fans? Either way, Bob Barker is heading toward his last showcase, his final "Come on down." The silver-haired daytime-TV icon is retiring in June, he told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "I will be 83 years old on December 12," he said, "and I've decided to retire while I'm still young." Though he has been considering retirement for "at least 10 years," Barker said he has so much fun doing the show that he hasn't been able to leave. "I'm just reaching the age where the constant effort to be there and do the show physically is a lot for me," he said. "I might be able to do the show another year, but better (to leave) a year too soon than a year too late." Barker began his national television career in 1956 as the host of "Truth or Consequences." He first appeared on "Price" on Sept.... | |
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| | | Yacht burns in Lake Pontchartrain | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 2:58:50 AM by Blog57 Team | | A $500,000 yacht featured at the Madisonville Wooden Boat Festival this past weekend burned and sank in Lake Pontchartrain near the Causeway on Sunday night, less than a year after the 78-foot vessel had been restored following a devastating 2002 fire. A dozen people on board the Ocean Lover, including six children, were rescued by a 38-foot vessel that the yacht was towing to Slidell after the two-day festival ended Sunday afternoon, authorities said. The yacht was eight miles from the north shore and about a mile east of the Causeway about 7 p.m. when exhaust from a generator apparently started the fire, said Capt. George Bonnett, a spokesman for the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office. Causeway officials said they monitored the burning vessel with radar and binoculars as winds from the west pushed it away from the bridge.... | |
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| | | Don't miss the boat on this homebuying boom | | Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 6:58:44 AM by Blog57 Team | | Living on a river boat might seem the preserve of bohemians or nature lovers but a growing number of city dwellers are trading brick walls for barges. More and more first-timebuyers are turning to houseboats as an alternative to getting on the housing ladder while at the opposite end of the spectrumretirees are raking in substantial profits from their homes and taking to the waters. .... | |
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