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Meeting Notices December 1, 2010 noon Monthly Business Luncheon Apalachicola Seafood Grill Apalachicola January 5, 2011 noon Monthly Business Luncheon TBA Business After Hours January 13, 2010 5:30-7:00 pm TBA Visitor Statistics October 2001 1,095 October 2002 1,008 October 2003 868 October 2004 748 October 2005 712 October 2006 1,746 October 2007 2,364 October 2008 1,956 October 2009 2,389 October 2010 1,807 October Website Statistics Visits 10,838 Page Views 61,104 Pages/Visits 4.36 Time (min) 3:56 mins Bounce Rate 33.55% Chamber Board of Directors PRESIDENT Michael Shuler 653-9226 VICE-PRESIDENT Ginny Griner 653-8853 TREASURER Jerry Hall 653-9510 SECRETARY Kristin Anderson 653-2249 BOARD MEMBERS Kristy Branch Banks 670-1255 Donna Duncan 653-8976 Susan Bassett 323-0092 Mark Friedman 670-1253 Bud Hayes 927-3305 Beverly Hewitt 653-9510 Paul Marxsen 697-2542 Diana Prickett 927-2322 Kevin Ward 899-0669 | New Members Lisa Spooner Welcome Lisa Spooner to the Chamber. Lisa is currently serving as the BP Community Liaison for Franklin and Wakulla County. She is also a CPA and Personal Financial Specialist. She has a MBA from Thomas University, and she also teaches accounting there. Lisa was born in Quincy, Florida, and now lives in Carrabelle. She has her captain’s license and has been fishing here for twenty plus years. Lisa can be reached at (229) 224-7107. Florida Therapy Services, Inc Sandra Lee has joined the Chamber with Florida Therapy Services, Inc. Florida Therapy Services provides affordable quality mental health services to residents in Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Taylor, Wakulla and Washington counties. They have been serving this area for years and in November they opened an office in Apalachicola. Their services include psychiatric services, individual and family therapy, targeted case management, psychosocial rehabilitation services and community based programs.Florida Therapy Services enlists a team of professionals that includes psychiatrists that are board certified to treat adults, adolescents and children, licensed clinical social workers, licensed mental health counselors, licensed marriage and family therapists, certified substance abuse counselors, masters level therapists, targeted case managers, and behavioral health technicians. Their Apalachicola office is located on Avenue E and 11th Street in the Realtors Association building. Hours are by appointment and they also offer in home visits. Call (850) 769-6001 or visit their website at www.flatherapy.com Member News Member News 13 Mile Seafood is now selling White Oak Pastures grass fed organic beef. They have NY Strip, rib eye, tenderloin, round, ground beef, and you can order pasture raised chicken and turkeys. They also have copies of Chris Hasting’s new cookbook that has a section on 13 Mile Oysters and Dwayne Allen, two of our great local food producers. Oyster Radio To get you in the holiday spirit WOYC 106.5 FM will be playing holiday music 24 hours a day until Christmas. Aloha Pest Control Thank You Lois Swoboda with Aloha Pest Management for treating the park for fire ants before Santa arrived. Apalachicola Seafood Grill will be closed from December 2-13 for repairs. They will be selling hot dogs “Downtown Dawgs”at the Soda Fountain. The Owl CafĂ© will be closed the first two weeks until December 17. Exposure The National Trust for Historic Preservation included our Apalachicola holiday celebration on their website Gozaic Erin Florio, Assistant Editor with Travel+Leisure contacted us for fact checking for an article on the area. Long time Apalachicola friend chef Chris Hastings from Birmingham appeared on the Martha Stewart show on November 23rd. He used Tommy Ward’s 13 Mile Brand oysters in his oyster dressing http://www.marthastewart.com/ Freelance writer Kim Roth was here in October and has written several blogs about the area. Check out her latest Holiday Fresh Market Holiday Fresh Market will be held on Saturday, December 4th, from 10:00 am-4:00 pm. Forget traffic, the crowds, and the headaches of going to the mall. Buy local and chose from handmade, truly unique items for your holiday gifts. Handmade chutneys, preserves, Christmas trees, wreaths, jewlery and baked goods. Lighting of the Lights The annual lighting of the holiday lights on St. George Island will take place on December 3th at Lighthouse Park. Santa will arrive on a fire engine for the kids’ at 6:00 pm. The lighting will take place at dark. There will also be a Jingle Joy Fun Run at 5:00 pm. For more information call (850) 927-7744 or go to www.sgilights.com Oyster Cook Off Pull out your best recipes and enter the first annual Apalachicola Oyster Cook Off on January 15th, 2011. Open to all, the cook off will raise funds for the Apalachicola Volunteer Fire Department and show off one of our best assets, our fresh Apalachicola Bay oysters. The festivities begin at 1:00pm. There will be music, great food and fun for the kids. To register go to www.oystercookoff.com Gulf Coast Claims Facility Releases Final Protocol Outlining Final & Interim Payment Stage Kenneth R. Feinberg, Administrator of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (www.gulfcoastclaimsfacility. With the Emergency Payments ending yesterday with approximately $2 billion paid to 125,000 individuals and businesses in the Gulf, today begins the Final Payment stage which will last until August 23, 2013. Because of a huge flood of last minute emergency claim submissions, the GCCF will need until December 15 to handle all emergency claims that were filed. The GCCF will then turn its attention to the Final Payment phase. In order to receive a final or interim payment, claimants must complete an interim or Final Payment Form. Claimants do not need to resubmit documentation. Claim forms can be submitted via the internet through the website at www.gulfcoastclaimsfacility. In order to receive a final payment, which is completely voluntary, claimants must sign a release which, according the Final Protocol: “will waive any rights the claimant may have against BP and any other potentially liable parties to assert additional claims, to file an individual legal action, to participate in other legal actions associated with the Spill, or to submit any claim for payment by the National Pollution Funds Center.” Interim payments cover only substantiated, past damages. An Interim Payment does not cover any future damages. An interim claim may not be submitted more frequently than once per quarterly period, unless the claimant can demonstrate the presence of pressing circumstances, in which case an Interim Claim may be submitted more than once every quarter. An interim claim for the first quarter may be submitted up to and including December 31. An Interim Claim for the second quarter may be submitted up to and including March 31, third quarter submitted up to and including June 30 and fourth quarter, up to and including September 30. There will be a limited nonbinding GCCF appeals process for those claimants who receive compensation in excess of $250,000 but believe it was inadequate. All claimants will be able to appeal their GCCF awards, regardless of amount, to the Coast Guard and the Federal Court pursuant to existing law. Also released today is a comprehensive Memorandum of Law by noted Harvard Professor John C.P. Goldberg (available at www.gulfcoastclaimsfacility. | Directors Column Anita Grove, Executive Director The Downtown Oyster Roast was wonderful this year! The setting at Gardens on Commerce Street was enchanting. We would like to thank everyone who helped make it a success: Amanda and Bill Kollar, Shirley Pace, Leo Bebeau, who transformed their space into an incredible setting; Dackie Ward and Smokey Parrish of Buddy Ward & Son's Seafood for donating the delicious fresh local shrimp; Tommy and TJ Ward for the oysters; Danny at Tamara’s for preparing the soup, Joe Hutchison for providing excellent music; Jerry Hall & Bev Hewitt of the Apalachicola Seafood Grill for helping us get the wine and set up for the event, plus providing the fish dip and pork; Freddy Flowers for the wonderful cakes and Lulu’s Bakery for the desserts; George and Pam Mahr for letting us use their space; Centennial Bank and Gulf State Community Bank for the use of their grills; Mike & Debbie Keller and the great staff of That Place Off 98 for preparing and serving the food, and Cindy Clark with Bay Media for the posters and tickets. As always we would like to thank the many volunteers who made the event possible by setting up, cleaning up, cooking and serving the food: PJ Trowell, Paulette Moss, Susan Bassett, Ginny Griner, John Gore, Mark Friedman, Ed Springer, Ginny Cole, Dixie Partington, Jerry Hall, Derrick Lolley, Jackie Lucy, Anna Carmichael, Angel and Tony Feliciano, Laura Barney, Nancy and Russ Petrucka, Kathy and Don Ford, Jeanne Rodgers, Tina Scarpa, Valerie Kidney, Vince Bishop, Dixie Partington, Debbie Flowers, Bud and Gen Hays, Lois Swoboda, and Marc Grove. | ||
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