PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

This week at Chick-Fil-A is Customer Appreciation Week – Each night during the week of June 15th, Chick-Fil-A is offering it’s customers something exciting for Customer Appreciation Week. Even more exciting is that on Thursday night at the Carolina Beach Boardwalk, Chick-fil-A will be hosing the Extreme Tailgating Event from 7:30 – 9:00 p.m. They will have FREE Chick-fil-A Sandwiches (while supplies last) and FREE kid’s games and photos with the Chick-fil-A Kid Cow. If you can’t make it out to the Boardwalk, there are other events taking place in the store each day. For more information contact Chick-fil-A at 794-9008 or visit their website at www.cfamonkeyjunction.com

Rip Current Awareness– In light of the recent tragedies on Pleasure Island due to Rip Currents, Bob Lewis from The Last Resort is starting the Pleasure Island Rip Tide Awareness Campaign to educate the public on Rip Currents. Bob is challenging the local businesses to pitch in and help get enough Rip Tide Awareness Posters printed so that each business, real estate company, property rental company and individual owners of condo/beach house rentals can display and educate the public on a daily basis. While our lifeguards, fire and safety rescue personnel and the police department are doing a wonderful job, we need to do our part to help educate the public immediately. Bob has volunteered to organize, collect donations for printing expenses and will also go around to the local businesses and distribute the information. If you would like to donate your time or money to this incredibly valuable campaign, please contact Bob at 599-2879 or visit him at The Last Resort at 600 N. Lake Park Boulevard. We need your help to avoid any further loss of life on our Island. www.carolinabeachbar.com

Aquarium Camp for Teen Coastal Crusaders – The NC Aquarium at Fort Fisher will be holding a Coastal Crusaders Summer Camp on June 29th through July 3rd. This camp is specially designed for young adults, ages 13-14. Throughout the week, teen campers hit the beach, go crabbing in the salt marsh, tour behind the scenes of the Aquarium, canoe at Holly Shelter, conduct underwater archaeology at Fort Fisher Historical Site, visit the Sea Turtle Hospital in Topsail Beach and try out surfing. Space is also available for Aquarium summer camps for kids ages 5-12 with various dates and themes. For more information about camp dates, themes, and fees, visit the Aquarium website at www.ncaquariums.com/fort-fisher/programs/summer-camp or contacct the Aquarium at 458-7468.

The 4th Annual Pro/Am Silvagni Benefit Surf Contest is Coming August 1st and 2nd – Here is your chance to enter to win a custom made surfboard by Perfection Surfboards. Tickets are $1.00 each or 7 for $5.00. All proceeds benefit the Lyme Disease Foundation and Andrew Silvagni. Tickets are available at Beach Dogs located at 304 N. Lake Park Boulevard in Carolina Beach. The Drawing will be held at the end of the Surf Contest on August 2, 2009. Watch for more details. www.SurfSchoolNC.com

Chamber of Commerce Film and Fireworks Series Continues this Week – Just a reminder to everyone that our film and fireworks series continues this week with the Fireworks by the Sea on Thursday night at 9:00 p.m. Also that evening, starting at 6:30 at the Boardwalk Gazebo, come out and listen to Painted Man playing Funk and Rhythm and Blues. On Sunday, June 21st, bring your family and your blankets and come out to the Carolina Beach Lake Park for our Free Movies at the Lake. This week we will be showing The Tale of Despereaux a tale of three unlikely heroes - a misfit mouse who prefers reading books to eating them, an unhappy rat who schemes to leave the darkness of the dungeon, and a bumbling servant girl with cauliflower ears - whose fates are intertwined with that of the castle's princess. This film stars the vocal talents of Matthew Broderick, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Watson, Tracey Ullman and Kevin Klein. The movies start at 8:45 p.m.