Fort Walton Beach Council agenda — 06-12-2007 regular agenda — reading text

group organized a " scavenger hunt" throughout downtown, that David Braithwaite Vice Chair - onelong time owner said " I never seen so many people on the streets of Downtown in the Government 21 years I have been here". Division Compass Bank The Chamber has also assisted in the creation of a special Life' s a Beach publication, Lynn Dominique which features a Historic Downtown Fort Walton Beach cover and the 5 introductory Vice Chair - Business pages. Another Downtown section is located on Pages 78- 80. There are 500,000 issues Development Dave' s Bayside printed for this summer season! Shuttle We have just finished creation and distribution of Fort Walton Beach Historic Downtown Jackie Pilcher Vice Chair - Special Area 2007, which includes the first ever- accurate Downtown map, as well as the entire Events CRA district. An initial run of 10, 000 has been distributed to our Okaloosa County Rosewood Realty Welcome Center, most condominiums on Okaloosa Island and all downtown businesses. Board of Directors: Clarke C. Bell On behalf of The Greater Fort Walton Beach Chamber of Commerce, and the Historic Bobby Bess James Breitenfeld Downtown Fort Walton Beach Business Owners, we thank the City of Fort Walton Beach Wayne Campbell Council members for your continued support of this important part of our community. Catherine Rodriguez Dick Marks Tammy McDaniel Jan Pooley Michelle Sears snre , Chris Sehman Sandy Sims 13k oran ~ S Paul Singleton, Sr. President/ CEO ~. Ginger Walker Vicki Wamer Sabu Williams 34 Miracle Strip Parkway, S. E. · P.O. Box 640 · Fort Walton Beach, Fl 32549 · Office: 850-244- 8191 www. fwbchamber.org  ge C6 I DaiIy News I Tuesday, October 24, 2006 Jt:, H' or- -, .",', " c", '''', ', 0",: ,;::">~ f", i~,._.'."~.. '_'.," _> . . s~sBRIEFS From' wirt! Clnc(!> ti3.nl; fPorts . 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IBM says the technolo- To register, call 833- 9400. gies covered by the patents gov-  JUNE 1, 2007 " RIDAY_ n' s A BLOCK PARTY NICK TOMECEK I Da;ly New, Jarrod Thrasher (right) and Kyle McAulay play buckets Thursday on Miracle Strip Parkway in Fort Walton Beach during a block party hosted by downtown merchants. Store owners will also sponsor a treasure hunt Saturday. Pirates arrive a day early Stores in downtown Fort Walton Beach get a jump on Billy Bowlegs Pirate Festival By JILL NOLIN I've been downtown for sv,years jilIn@nwfdailynews. com and I have never seen a turnout like Bltly~~~~ legs this for anything," said Sheila Diaz, WALTON BEACH - Ju- who owns Emerald Coast Dance FORT nior pirates took over the city Sport. " It' s exciting." a day early this year as the VIDEO ON THE NET Other merchants also seemed im- 52nd Annual Billy Bowlegs Pi- pressed with the number of people The Billy Bowlegs rate Festival kicked off Thursday. who showed up for the inaugural But instead of storming Fort Wal- block party rocks event. ton Landing, where the invasion tra- And they look forward to seeing downtown Fort ditionally takes place, the pillagers everyone again at the booty hunt took to the streets of downtown. Walton Beach in a video that will take place from 10 a.m. to 6 For the first time, merchants at nwldailynews. com. p.m. Saturday. threw a block party to draw people The goods won't be so easy to get downtown. .