Huge bridal show at King Center

This Sunday, at the King Center, there will be a HUGE (75 wedding professionals/vendors/experts) bridal show!! Time: 1 - 5 p.m. There will be live entertainment and - of course - a bridal fashion show. The best part are the door prizes and there will be a drawing for a honeymoon. And let's not forget the food and cake samples!!!

There will be vendors representing:
wedding venues (location)
reception venues
caterers
bakers
flower-makers
attendant gifts
goody bag and table decor
tent/table/chair rentals
honeymoon locations
photographers
limo service

Purchase tickets and get more info online HERE. OR order tickets online from King Center!

Melbourne Notre Dame Club

The Melbourne area Notre Dame Club, at least those who aren't in Miami,  will watch tonight's championship game at Meg O'Malley's, 812 New Haven Ave in downtown Melbourne. Nobody cares if you didn't graduate from ND - if you are a fan, that's good enough! Come cheer with peers! Game on 8:30.

Ring in 2013 on the Pier!

Ring in the New Year on the beach as the Cocoa Beach Pier presents the best New Year's Eve party around. In its 24th year, the ROCKIN' THE DOCK is hailed as “5 parties in one” because each of the restaurants and bars on the Pier are in on the party. All them feature live entertainment, champagne toasts, balloon drops, and television screens showing other great parties simultaneously occurring around the world. The fun starts at 7pm! Tickets are $20/person and can be purchased in advance at the pier. Get a room!!!

Pit Bulls get their day in the sun

 Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel walking their dogs - the one on the right is a pit bull.

For the first time, the North Animal Care Center and the SPCA of North Brevard are joining forces for a unique adoption and fundraising event. On Saturday and Sunday, the first-ever “Partners for Paws: For Pit’s Sake,” a pit bull adoption promotion and joint fund raiser, will be held.

The fundraiser includes a Saturday night jazz concert performed by Antoine Knight and Jacqueline Jones.
Participants can enjoy the music while placing bids on one-of-a-kind chair art during a silent auction. There also will be a pit bull adoption event on Sunday, along with a gallery showing from many local artists, as well as the conclusion of the silent auction.

The event will be held at the Stonefire Art Gallery.
Location: 2500 S Washington Ave | Titusville, FL 32780

Pit bulls always get a bad rap and they don't deserve it. Come see how loving they really are. Save a life and see how much better you feel!

BOO !!

Brevard Zoo's annual spooky spectacular, Boo at the Zoo, starts TODAY!! Boo at the Zoo runs  from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. nightly! Last admission is 8 p.m. This is a weekend event only!! (Oct 12-27)

General Admission prices:
$8 Friday and Sunday - Oct. 12 and 14
$10 Fridays and Sundays -Oct. 19, 21, 26 and 28
$12 all Saturdays - Oct. 13, 20, 27
$5 all Fridays for Zoo Members
Children under 2 are FREE



Advance tickets are now only available online. Purchase two or more tickets and receive a discount, online only! Tickets will be available for purchase on-site during Boo at the Zoo nights. CLICK HERE to purchase tickets.


Entertainment will include live acts on stage in front of Paws On. Younger kids can enjoy Ooz Draverb, a special play area with crafts and games in the Nyami Nyami River Lodge. Brand new this year is Professor Wormwood’s Poison Garden. The Haunted Trail is not for the faint of heart and recommended for children 10 and older. The event also features an age-appropriate costume contest, Boo Choo train ride, witch’s lair, and trick-or-treating at more than 25 treat stations each night.

Own a piece of history and help the ocean!

 
Your chance to own a piece of surf history is here! Bid today on a mint-condition Modern/Classic solid redwood surfboard shaped by the legendary Dale Velzy.  Measuring 10’2” x 23” x 2” this is a tremendous example of Velzy’s renowned craftsmanship.

A Velzy-shaped redwood board of this quality has never come up for sale or auction so this is truly a once in a lifetime chance to own a piece of surf history. Click here to bid!

All proceeds from the auction will support the Surfrider Foundation’s efforts to protect and preserve the world’s oceans, waves and beaches. Don’t miss this chance to win a unique treasure while protecting the treasured coasts you love! 6 more days left to bid!

For our oceans, waves and beaches,

The Surfrider Foundation

Let the Oktoberfests begin!

This Sat. - Oct 6, Merritt Island will hold it's first Oktoberfest  Street Party, which will replace the one that used to take place in Cocoa Village. Read more here. Then there is the 4-day event Oct 18-21 at Wickham Park - info on that at same location! Cheers!!

Grant's BBQ Fest

This weekend, Grant - the tiny town with the big heart - will hold it's 11th annual BBQ Fest at the same location as the Seafood Fest and the Frog's Leg Fest. The BBQ Fest will offer:
* Live Entertainment
• Car Show
• Market Place/Crafts
• People's Choice Contest
• Free Admission - Free Parking
* Kid's Zone

 Times:
Friday 3 - 9 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Program your GPS to 4580 1st Street, Grant, FL or get directions from this link.

Doctors Lawyers Weekend Warriors Surf Fest

This weekend is the 20th - and LAST surf fest/fund-raiser for the Doctors Lawyers Weekend Warriors. The group has raised over a quarter of a million dollars for charity, and this year, their earnings go to the Mama G scholarship and Satellite Beach High's Surf Team. Unless you have a kid in school, you don't know that schools pay for nothing when it comes to extra-curricular (whoops, this is Brevard, so football is excluded in that statement) activities. Even if you didn't enter, go support them at Sebastian Inlet! Details HERE!

Cocoa Beach Air Show

This weekend the action will be at Lori Wilson Park in Cocoa Beach.  It's the "Year of Extreme Flight" at the 2012 Cocoa Beach Air Show!  This year's event will feature full the most extreme and diverse line up of military and civilian aircraft in the nation headlined by the F-22 Raptor and V-22 Osprey Demos! Most of the action will take place from 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. There are Happy Hours and other adult activities and the place to find out about them is HERE!

Endeavour fly-out path a mystery

NASA is keeping very mum on the path Endeavour will take when it leaves the Space Center tomorrow at sunrise. Perhaps all the tickets to the Rocket Garden aren't sold yet, or perhaps the weather is iffy enough that if it gets much closer to the Friday starting date for the Titusville Air Show (who has begged for a flyover because it will draw more people to the show AND they need the $$ with all the layoffs) - maybe the 747 will go to the north instead of the usual loop south to Pineda. Either way, unless a specific northerly flight path is announced, you can bet there will be a real traffic snafu on A1A in the morning. Heck - after how many decades of watching shuttles and piggybacks, who is gonna miss the very last one????? Not I !!!!!!!!!

Coastal Clean-up

Saturday, Sept 15 - 8a.m. - noon! Come help us de-trash the beaches and waterways!
Join Surfrider, Keep Brevard Beautiful - and more caring individuals who want to keep our coast clean and healthy! Bags and gloves will be provided but you need to bring your own sunscreen and water. FREE t-shirts while they last, too!!

Gators are swimmers

Go Gators!! Congratulations to Ryan Lochte of Daytona Beach and 2007 Gator grad - GOLD is sweet! Wiping the smug look off someone else's face is even sweeter!

Sour grapes?

While most of the opening ceremony for the London Olympics was great fun to watch...quite impressive...

Well, for most of us anyway....
(Wow - I wouldn't want to be the Palace PR person in charge of damage and repair...)

I couldn't help but be angered by the fact that paid professional athletes could compete at what they earned millions for doing anyway...and air shooting was considered a sport...but women's softball isn't good enough for the Olympics. I hope wherever the team is, they were watching and throwing eggs at the TV screen - they deserve to be hostile! Kelly K - you deserve better.

WOB Olympics

 

World of Beer is still accepting individuals and or teams for the WOB Decathlon. Opening ceremony is this Saturday, July 28th, with the torch run by the Ragnar Relay group from the greek restaurant Grecian Garden Cafe on the Pineda Causeway at 1pm. The race will continue north on  Wickham Rd, Jordan Blass Rd, Pinehurst (North), Holiday Springs (North), Viera Blvd (West), Stadium Parkway (South), Judge Fran Jamison (East), Lake Andrews (South) to WOB. If you would like to come out and support our runners, click here for the torch exchange points.

The torch will arrive 2-3 pm and the start of the WOB Decathlon events will begin. The team or individual will have 2 weeks to complete all ten events and the medal rounds will be completed on Saturday, August 11 along with the closing ceremony where the medals will be rewarded. For a complete list of events click here. To sign up a team or individually, go to World of Beer at The Avenues in Viera.

International Surfing Day

 Surfrider Foundation Sebastian Inlet Chapter!!!

Tomorrow, on International Surfing  Day, we will be having our monthly meeting, Wedesday, June 20, 2012 at  Paradise Beach at 6 pm (on the beach).
 Come out and see how you can get involved in the upcoming activities. 

Meet the group and enjoy the beach, music, raffles and some FREE BEER courtesy of our friends at Kona Brewery.

 Also, Saturday, June 23rd, join us at Long Doggers in Indialantic to continue the ISD celebration.
We will be celebrating at the restaurant and at the beach across the street.
Billy Chapman will perform, raffles, surf movies..don't miss out on the fun!! 

You don't have to be a surfer to join - it's all about the sea, whether you swim in it, ride on it, or just walk along the shore. If you love it, you've got to protect it. Come join and see how you can help!!

Bark in the (Baseball) Park

Sunday night's game between the (Milwaukee Brewers) Manatees and Ft Meyers will be take place from 5:05 - 8:05 p.m. at Space Coast Stadium. This is also one of three "Bark in the Park" games where you can bring your best friend! For details about the dog deal, follow this link. For more about the stadium and it's promos, follow this link!

Sunset-Moonrise

 Saturday, May 5 - for those who weren't knee-deep in Margaritas - was the night when the moon would be at it's fullest at any time this year. Friday night was cloudy and when Saturday was clear, and the sunset glorious - you knew you were in for a treat!

Was it worth getting up for? Hell, yeah!!

Thank you NASA !!!!

Discovery's swan song

Waiting patiently while watching the sun rise out of the sea...
Makes one forget how awful the traffic was getting here...
And how creepy it will be getting back...but considering there was a change of flight plans and there were actually two flyovers - well, you couldn't be in a better spot than Main Gate!