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APRIL 30,
2010
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COMMISSION MEETING
5/4/10
As the massive oil spill
began washing ashore in Louisiana today, the water
was aptly described as the "color of tea." The oil is,
after all, British Petroleum. The British love
tea. (If it were American Petroleum, the water
would likely be described as the "color of bacon."
Americans love bacon.)  Right now, we're a bit on edge, so to speak,
wondering if we're in for goo-covered Stinko-de-Mayo beaches
and fresh seafood brimming with hydrocarbony goodness.
The edge of the bacon slick is 285 miles west of Treasure
Island (you can look at tracking
maps here) and with our narrower beaches (the erosion
this winter was brutal) we're even further away. Come
August, we should be back to fat and sandy again when the
Corps of Engineers begins
pumping sand on Sunshine and Sunset
Beaches.
 Back in the old
days (last weekend) when you parked at the beach,
you had to feed the meters. Now, with everybody's 50-state
quarter collection completed, who needs quarters anymore? Not
you, Mr. Beach Bod, flexing your Don
Knotts-like muscles in your Mom's basement mirror ...
we now have parking pay stations at four Treasure Island
lots - and they accept credit cards! The $6 rate gets you a
whole day of beach parking or a buck-fifty an hour (you
do the math on this - we were never good at math). Just
remember your space number, enter that number, swipe your card
and ... oh, you'll figure it out. It's pretty darn easy. The
four lots (with pay station upgrades planned for other lots
later) are at 104th & Gulf, 82nd & West Gulf,
80th & West Gulf and the Community Center lot. They do
accept coins, too.
 Now that we're just 29 days away from
Bands on the Sand 2, the biggest Memorial Weekend
beach concert in Pinellas County, it's high time you reserve
your tables in Ricky T's Sandbox. $150 gets a table for
six and a big bucket of snacks, beer, wine and water for the
May 29th beach concert in Treasure Island. Show starts at noon
with continuous live music until 10pm, when we light up the
skies with fireworks. Click the clicky
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Beach
Graffiti
YOU BRING THE POT, WE'LL GET THE
LUCK: A good ol' fashioned
community potluck dinner, complete with that funny
old guy from down the street who looks like he caught his
necktie in a margarita  blender, comes to the TI Community Center on
Saturday, May 8th. Bring a side dish like a salad or some
butter beans (you can keep the canned artichokes at home,
though) and we'll provide the main course. Dinner
and a Movie starts at 6:30; around 8:30,
we'll show a big movie on a big outdoor screen:
The Blind Side, starring Sandra Bullock and her
Oscar... SHE'S FOUR SCORE AND 15: When we
wanted to take Sunshine Beach's Maudie Gurak out for
lunch last week to celebrate her 95th birthday, she
said she had to check her schedule first. Her
schedule! Maudie said our people should call her people. Gawd,
we love this woman ... BARK AT THE
MOON: Coyote traps have been set at a couple
locations on Isle of Palms after residents there last week reported
seeing a coyote in one of the canals. Later the next
day, Wiley Coyote was spotted near 115th Avenue
... The flags around Treasure Island were at half-mast on
Wednesday in honor of Dorothy Height, the leading
female voice of the Civil Rights Movement, who died last week
at the age of 98 ... IF YOUR GRASS IS BLUE: Then
the Lions Club on Sunset Beach is the place for you on
Memorial Day, May 31st. From Noon until 6pm 5 bluegrass bands
play while you noodle around in the warm Gulf of Mexico
(assuming it's not ablaze with oil) and kick around on the
beach. Serving up hot brats, cold beer and spicy bar-b-q, this
promises to be one fine capper to the three-day weekend.
Tickets are $15 and available at 727-768-1121 or e-mail Bluegrass
on the Beach at bookwiz123@yahoo.com
.... SMILE ALL YOU WANT: Those cameras mounted on the
new traffic signal mastarms at 107th & Gulf are not red
light cameras, to answer the burning question we've been asked
by some (and some not-so) alert motorists. They're Florida
Department of Transportation cameras since Gulf Boulevard is a
state highway...
THE FINE PRINT: Produced by the
City of Treasure Island Public Information Office since 2006,
e*ti is back after a lapse in our extended warranty on old
software on an old computer. Hence, this sparkling new design,
still typed by the same old finger. Back issues of e*ti (we
call them "The Funny Years") available here.
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