Feb. & Mar. 2012

CALENDAR

Farmer's Market On Canal St.

every Sat. 9am - 1pm

This unique Farmers' Market has been a faithful mainstay of the City. Supporting local family farmers and growers of fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers, plants, juices, dairy products, eggs and seafood. We also offer a diverse selection of non commercial specialty foods, baked goods, art and high quality handcrafted items both local and global

www.canalstreetnsb.com

 

Gallery Walk On Canal St.

every 1st Saturday 4pm - 7pm

is the “go-to” event in New Smyrna Beach !  The galleries located on Douglas and Canal Streets feature monthly solo and group exhibitions, artist talks and live music.  The Gallery Walk has become a community gathering spot for a discerning mix of art lovers, patrons and artists for over 10 years.  Join us for this fabulous free event.

www.canalstreetnsb.com

 

East Coast Cruisers On Canal St. every 2nd Saturdays 4pm - 8pm

The city closes off the street to all vehicle traffic with the exception of the Classic Cars themselves. This is an awesome event for the whole family to enjoy, there is food, a D.J. and most of the merchants are open for business during the event.

www.eastcoastcruisersnsb.com

144th Annual Artists-In-Residence Program  Feb 20 - Mar 11 Atlantic Center for the Arts hosts its 144th Master Artists-in-Residence program with: Elizabeth Hand- noir fiction, Liz Lerman- choreographer, and TJ Wilcox- visual arts and 23 Associate Artists from across the globe.  Selected through a competitive application process, the arriving artists will have the opportunity to work and collaborate with their contemporaries for three weeks.  Please check schedule for receptions and outreach events. www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org

 

Mardi Gras Parade  Feb 21-7pm Come for Fat Tuesday Parade and then stay and enjoy the live music and food. There will be street closure on Flagler Avenue www.flaglerave.com

DixieLand Breakfast   Feb 21- 8:30am – 11am Dixieland Breakfast at the Coronado Civie Center, 223 Flagler Avenue, NSB (behind shuffleboard courts).  $10 Tickets Day of Event, $14 Day of Event, and are available for purchase at Gone Bonkers, SeaLand Real Estate, TUI Pack 'n Ship, The Pennysaver and Buddy Davenport State Farm.     Little Theater "Pajama Game" Feb 24 - Feb 26  8pm  'Pajama Game' Book by George Abbott & Richard Bissell Music & Lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross Director: John Stenko Tickets: Adults - $20, Seniors - $19, Students under 18 - $10 Sunday Matinees start at 2pm!!! The Pajama Game is a musical based on the novel "7½ Cents" by George Abbot and Richard Bissell. It features a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story deals with labor troubles in a pajama factory, where worker demands for a seven-and-a-half cents raise are going unheeded. In the midst of this ordeal, love blossoms between Babe, the grievance committee head, and Sid, the new factory superintendent. The original Broadway production opened on May 13, 1954, and ran for 1,063 performances. It was revived in 1973, and again in 2006 by The Roundabout Theatre Company. The original production won a Tony for Best Musical, and the 2006 Broadway revival won a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical. The music includes "Hey, There," "Steam Heat," "Hernando's Hideaway," "There Once Was a Man," and 20 other Adler and Ross classic tunes from the original production. Tickets may be purchased at The Little Theatre Box Office, 716 Third Avenue, New Smyrna Beach, Beachside Monday through Friday from 1pm to 4pm and two hours prior to each performance. For more information call 386-423-1246 or visit www.nsbplayers.org

At the Lighthouse

Beach Racing Day

Feb 24, 10am – 3pm

 

 Visit us for our annual Beach Racing Day.  See beach racing cars and talk with former drivers, owners and mechanics who were there.  Take photographs and get autographs.  Included in the cost of regular admission, no advance reservations required.
Rain date is Saturday, February 25th.  Regular admission to the lighthouse museum is $5 for adults (12 years and older), and $1.50 for children.
The Ponce Inlet Lighthouse is located at 4931 S. Peninsula Drive, Ponce Inlet, FL   32127.  Open from 10am with the last admission to the grounds at 5pm.

Call 386-761-1821, extension 18 for more information.

http://www.ponceinlet.org/

 

Art Fiesta

Feb 25 - 26,  9am – 5pm

 

The 50th Annual Art Fiesta will be held  in Old Fort Park, across from City Hall at 210 Sams Avenue, New Smyrna Beach.
Admission is FREE! 

For more information please call the City of New Smyrna Beach Parks and Recreation Department at 386-424-2175, or log on to www.cityofnsb.com

 

Daytona 500 

Feb 26

Forty-three of the top drivers in the world compete in "The Great American Race," NASCAR's biggest, richest and most prestigious motorsports event.
www.

daytonainternationalspeedway.com

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New Smyrna Speedway

located at the intersection of

SR 44 & SR  415.

February 16th-25th 46th Annual World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing
(Tentative Schedule – Subject to Change)

Thursday, February 16,  Parking / Practice / Tech
All Divisions

Friday, February 17, Night #1
Super Late Models / NASCAR Tour-Type Modifieds /
Pro Late Models / ‘SK’ Modifieds / FL/IMCA Type Modifieds

Saturday, February 18, Night #2
Super Late Models / NASCAR Tour-Type Modifieds /
Pro Late Models / ‘SK’ Modifieds / FL/IMCA Type Modifieds

Sunday, February 19, Night #3
TBARA Winged Sprint Cars
Super Late Models, Pro Late Models,
FL/IMCA Type Modifieds

Monday, February 20, Night #4
TBARA Winged Sprint Cars
NASCAR Tour-Type Modifieds / ‘SK’ Modifieds /
FL/IMCA Type Modifieds

Tuesday, February 21,  Night #5
‘SK’ Modifieds 50
Super Late Models / NASCAR Tour-Type Modifieds /
Pro Late Models / FL/IMCA Type Modifieds

Wednesday, February 22,  Night #6
5th Annual John Blewett III Memorial
NASCAR Tour-Type Modifieds 50
FL/IMCA Type Modifieds 50
Super Late Models / Pro Late Models / ‘SK’ Modifieds

Thursday, February 23, Night #7
Super Late Models 50
NASCAR Tour-Type Modifieds / Pro Late Models /
‘SK’ Modifieds / Pro-Trucks

Friday, February 24,  Night #8
27th Annual Richie Evans Memorial
NASCAR Tour-Type Modified 100
Super Late Models / Pro Late Models / ‘SK’ Modifieds /
Pro-Trucks

Saturday, February 25,  Night #9
Bright House Challenge Series – Super Late Models 100
Pro Late Models 50
Pro-Truck 50
NASCAR Tour-Type Modifieds

For more information call: 386.427.4129 or visit:

http://www.newsmyrnaspeedway.org/.

 

Art Walk/ 10am - 5pm Wine Walk 1pm - 6pm Flagler Ave. Feb 25  10am – 7pm

Flagler Avenue Wine Walk 1pm - 7pm explore interesting wines as you walk Flagler Avenue Saturday, November 26th. The cost of the wine passport is $20. For more information on the progressive wine tasting, please log on to http://www.partyonflagler.com Flagler Avenue Art Walk Artists will offer fine art exhibits from 10am to 5pm along Flagler Avenue in New Smyrna Beach. Admission is FREE! For more information please log on to http://www.flaglerave.com/ or call 386-428.1770.

Sea Coast Owners and Guests

Owners & Guests---

Welcome Back!

...to our newsletter

hopefully I'll be sending them on a regular basis again

...to our winter residents

hope you are enjoying our unseasonably warm florida weather, the condo you have chosen, and the many treasures and events in New Smyrna Beach

And ...to our website:

HOORAY!!

Recently our website dissappeared, but we have found it!!

Our webite is back up and running, and now you can check availability of all condos in the rental pool! Just select the 1 or 2 bedroom tab, select a condo unit, scroll down just a little and you can select each photo that has been provided (inside & balcony) of that particular condo, also on that page is the rates and policies. Then select availability and you can quickly see the calendar showing when that condo is available. At that point you can book directly by phone, e-mail or on-line.

Also on the web-site you can select the newsletter tab, here anyone can sign up to recieve our newletter and check out archived newsletters, for events photos and articles.

You'll find a link to our web site at the top of this page.

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Guests — 

When visiting Sea Coast you MUST hang a yellow Sea Coast parking tag on the rear view mirror. These yellow tags are available in the office, as are our new wrist bands which must be worn poolside.

We welcome your comments, suggestions, recommendations  and commendations to the management and don't forget, if you have a guest book in your unit please leave a note.

Thank you

Owners ---

Our maintenance man, Clyde, has finished the laundry room sink and faucet installations. He has also finished renovating the ladies restroom in the club house. He will be painting the hallway. Good Job, Clyde!

PLEASE be sure that when you come to Sea Coast your small red and white Sea Coast sticker is visible on your car. We ask also that you remind your friends, family and guests that when visiting Sea Coast they MUST hang a yellow Sea Coast parking tag on the rear view mirror. These yellow tags are available in the office, as are our new wristbands which must be worn poolside.

This will help us control uninvited guests and to assure that your own parking space is always available for you.

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

June Hardee

Sea Coast Manager
 

From Our Resident Feature Writer...

The Seagull

Friday was a cold day in beachtown, leaving the water and wind-stirred stretches of sand for hardier specimens. A long part of the afternoon was washed in clear sunlight common to colder months along the east coast and I took advantage of it to wander off on a walk. It was one of those times when the sand was clean and hard packed, easy for walking and free of anything to turn you from a straight line. At first were a couple of gulls standing a good distance apart, an everyday sight of normally social birds having some solitary time away from the colony.

And then there was a huge gathering of them, all facing north at the water’s edge. For reasons beyond me, they suddenly took off in a fluttering cloud, made one low circular swoop out over the water and returned to settle again in the same spot. A moment after touching down every bird was once more stationary in a northward gaze. Gulls are very aware of attention, and when one of us large flightless creatures stops to watch them, they become nervous and edge farther away. Several times in my picture taking, bird or birds felt threatened by my ‘stare’ and scuttled away.

Where numbers of gulls have gathered for their cryptic rituals at surf’s edge, there is always a scattering of left-behind tokens of their temporary stay, and if luck is on your side, a shed feather untrammeled and still dry makes a delicate and naturally beautiful picture. Too often the harsh setting makes quick work of these dropped plumes, quickly turning them into crusted, splintered leavings denuded of their beauty.

A few more yards down the beach and I came upon a near-perfect set of gull footprints, looking in their webbed shape like two tiny kites waiting for lift-off. Not quite sure how these isolated and static prints are left in the sand, but they appear with no beginning or end, a stamped image telling that one bird stood here looking north.

Whatever we may imagine about the presence of seagulls on a beach, one fact is certain: they are forever and always on the lookout for the next tasty bite of food. And obviously they do pretty well in their established habitat or we wouldn’t see them for long. Eating means eventual defecation, and if you pay any attention to it, seagull excrement is not the unsightly and malodorous discharge common to many land animals. More often than not it is a pure white splash on the sand, with now and then a dark speckle. The best thing about is that it’s gone in the next wash of surf.

Gulls are typically a coastal or inland species, rarely venturing far out to sea. In size they are generally medium to large birds, typically grey or white, often with black markings on the head or wings. They have thick, longish bills and webbed feet. The larger gulls take four years to attain full adult plumage, but two years is typical for smaller birds. Most are ground nesting carnivores, which will eat live food—crabs and small fish—or scavenge opportunistically. Like snakes, gulls have unhinging jaws, which allow them to consume large prey. As strange as it sounds, gulls have been observed preying on live whales, landing on the whale as it surfaces to peck out pieces of flesh. Some gulls rely on what scientists call kleptoparasitism, a form of feeding where one animal takes prey from another.

The larger species in particular are resourceful and highly intelligent birds, demonstrating complex methods of communication and a highly developed social structure, with typically a harsh wailing or squawking call. They nest in large, densely packed noisy colonies, lay two to three speckled eggs in nests composed of vegetation and the young are born with dark mottled down, are mobile upon hatching and able to feed themselves almost immediately.

January 14, 2012

William Leet

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