The printed t-shirt is a Florida invention, when back in the 50's several companies started to decorate T-shirts with Miami resort names. ("We copied and pasted the sentence you just read from Wikipedia and all we got was a lousy t-shirt!"). Today, you can get nearly anything printed on a t, including Charlie Crist (another Florida invention but born in Altoona, lives in Tallahassee and wants to move to D.C. And how is it that Charlie Crist's hair has gone almost completely white, but his eyebrows have stayed completely black? Is this some kind of underground signal to a Just for Men eyebrow-tinting group? Have those eyebrows been cleared by Homeland Security?) But we digress ... raise some eyebrows when you sport the astoundingly colorful Bands on the Sand t-shirt, available this Saturday, May 23rd for just $10 at Treasure Island's 11-hour rockin' country, funky-bluesy, island-jammy beach concert.

Flood Mitigation only sounds dull. (It's probably a federal requirement to give a pedestrian name to something exciting. Like those spacewalking astronauts fixing a telescope whirling around our planet at five miles per second? Are they on a "Screaming Space Rocket Repair Ride"? No. They're on what is federally called an "Extra Vehicular Activity." Dull, dull, and dull.) Flood Mitigation (zzzz) is actually flood protection and prevention, an extremely progressive program (with money and everything!) to keep your home or business, in the event of a flood, high and dry. We'll remind you again about the community flood meeting coming up Wednesday, June 17th at 1pm at TI City Hall, as the date gets closer, on the who, what, why, when, where and the how come. 

Outstanding in its field are the field trips, part of TI's Summer Camp for Kids. Parks and Recreation Director Cathy "Fun Queen" Hayduke says the kids this summer will go bowling, ice skating, spend a day at the Museum of Science and Industry, hit Lowry Park Zoo, check out some cool flicks, take in a couple of Rays games and be humming Johnny Cash's "I've Been Everywhere" by summer's end. Camp registration is now, Mom and Dad, at the TI Recreation Office. Download the proper forms here. Camp runs June 8th thru August 14th.