Hello Everyone,
Most of you have heard by now (but in case you haven't) Chili's Restaurant in Yulee is hosting a Family Fun Night for Micah's Place which will be heldon Tuesday, October 6th from 5 - 10 p.m. Chili's will donate 10% ofpurchases made between those hours to Micah's Place, so it is a very nicefundraising opportunity for us. More importantly, it gives us theopportunity to bring awareness to the community that October is DomesticViolence Awareness Month (DVAM). We will have tables set up with lots ofinformation about our services, and staff and volunteers will be there togreet our guests and answer questions. The Fernandina Pirates will bejoining us with their pirate ship float, and we will also have clowns toentertain the children with balloons, face art and giveaways. In order to receive the 10% donation, a special coupon must be presentedwhen paying your bill, and our workers will be there to make sure everypatron receives one. Please join us to show your support of Micah's Placeand the families you are helping to support. And please share thisinvitation with family, friends and neighbors. This is a very simple way tohelp those who need our services, and it is sure to be a truly enjoyabletime for all. If you have any questions, please let me know. Thank you in advance foryour generous support. We look forward to seeing you there!
Ruth Zellers Human Resources / Volunteer Coordinator
Micah's Place, Inc.904-491-6364
John Holbrook - Realtor Amelia Island, Fernandina Beach & Yulee, Florida
Cell: 904-415-0171 Email: holbrook66@msn.com Web: www.nassaumls.net
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Sounds on Center Jazz Concert
Friday, October 2nd 2009 6:00-9:00pm
Sounds on Centre presented by the Historic Fernandina Business Association will cap the 2009 event series with a special three-hour New Orleans style Second Line Jazz and Dixieland Street Celebration. The musical entertainment will feature world renowned jazz musician/drummer, Les DeMerle and a 6 piece, All-Star cast including Bonnie Eisele. In addition, TGIF, a 7-piece Dixieland band will perform with DeMerle and his all stars.
John Holbrook - Realtor Amelia Island, Fernandina Beach & Yulee, Florida
Cell: 904-415-0171 Email: holbrook66@msn.com Web: www.nassaumls.net
www.johnholbrook.blogspot.com
Sounds on Centre presented by the Historic Fernandina Business Association will cap the 2009 event series with a special three-hour New Orleans style Second Line Jazz and Dixieland Street Celebration. The musical entertainment will feature world renowned jazz musician/drummer, Les DeMerle and a 6 piece, All-Star cast including Bonnie Eisele. In addition, TGIF, a 7-piece Dixieland band will perform with DeMerle and his all stars.
John Holbrook - Realtor Amelia Island, Fernandina Beach & Yulee, Florida
Cell: 904-415-0171 Email: holbrook66@msn.com Web: www.nassaumls.net
www.johnholbrook.blogspot.com
Lofton Creek Dock Solution Sought
Looking at marshfront or tridal creek homes? Keep this mind. The state Department of Environmental Protection has agreed to suspend penalties until June 2010 for non-compliant docks in an aquatic preserve in the Lofton Creek area in the hope that a legislative fix can be achieved in the 2010 session.
John Holbrook - Realtor Amelia Island, Fernandina Beach & Yulee, Florida
Cell: 904-415-0171 Email: holbrook66@msn.com Web: www.nassaumls.net
www.johnholbrook.blogspot.com
John Holbrook - Realtor Amelia Island, Fernandina Beach & Yulee, Florida
Cell: 904-415-0171 Email: holbrook66@msn.com Web: www.nassaumls.net
www.johnholbrook.blogspot.com
95352 Douglas Rd
I will be showing this home today. Needs some work but is priced at $119,900. Great for a handy man who is looking for a location close to the Amelia River and public boat ramp. Currently bank owned and being sold "as is". Call me about this home and other bank owned or REO properties in the Yulee area.
John Holbrook - Realtor Amelia Island, Fernandina Beach & Yulee, Florida
Cell: 904-415-0171 Email: holbrook66@msn.com Web: www.nassaumls.net
www.johnholbrook.blogspot.com
John Holbrook - Realtor Amelia Island, Fernandina Beach & Yulee, Florida
Cell: 904-415-0171 Email: holbrook66@msn.com Web: www.nassaumls.net
www.johnholbrook.blogspot.com
Monday, September 28, 2009
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John Holbrook - Realtor Amelia Island, Fernandina Beach & Yulee, Florida
Cell: 904-415-0171 Email: holbrook66@msn.com Web: www.nassaumls.net
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John Holbrook - Realtor Amelia Island, Fernandina Beach & Yulee, Florida
Cell: 904-415-0171 Email: holbrook66@msn.com Web: www.nassaumls.net
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JP Morgan & Chase
Trying to get a deal done at North Hampton involving a property that is held by Chase & JP Morgan. Communication has taken several months and they are now telling me that the property will be moved to the REO department if a contract for $310,000 is not in hand October 5th, 2009. For more details on this great buy call me:
John Holbrook - Realtor Amelia Island, Fernandina Beach & Yulee, Florida
Cell: 904-415-0171 Email: holbrook66@msn.com Web: www.nassaumls.net
www.johnholbrook.blogspot.com
John Holbrook - Realtor Amelia Island, Fernandina Beach & Yulee, Florida
Cell: 904-415-0171 Email: holbrook66@msn.com Web: www.nassaumls.net
www.johnholbrook.blogspot.com
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Salt - Amelia Island Ritz Carlton
9/24: Salt Signature Wine Dinner at Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island
written by craig 23 September 2009
Salt, the grill at the Ritz-Carlton on Amelia Island will be hosting an evening with wine specialists, who will share their knowledge on Spanish wines while Chef de Cuisine Richard Gras prepares a four-course menu to compliment. Dinner is at 6pm, and tickets are $115 per person, plus taxes and gratuity. Call 904-277-1028 for reservations.
John Holbrook - Realtor Amelia Island, Fernandina Beach & Yulee, Florida
Cell: 904-415-0171 Email: holbrook66@msn.com Web: www.nassaumls.net
www.johnholbrook.blogspot.com
written by craig 23 September 2009
Salt, the grill at the Ritz-Carlton on Amelia Island will be hosting an evening with wine specialists, who will share their knowledge on Spanish wines while Chef de Cuisine Richard Gras prepares a four-course menu to compliment. Dinner is at 6pm, and tickets are $115 per person, plus taxes and gratuity. Call 904-277-1028 for reservations.
John Holbrook - Realtor Amelia Island, Fernandina Beach & Yulee, Florida
Cell: 904-415-0171 Email: holbrook66@msn.com Web: www.nassaumls.net
www.johnholbrook.blogspot.com
Amelia Island Jazz Festival
Amelia Island Jazz Festival
Amelia Island Jazz Festival 20090
Les DeMerle Amelia Island Jazz Festival is scheduled from October 2 – 11, 2009 in Fernandina Beach, Florida. This is one of the most popular festivals in Fernandina Beach, and this year’s festival promises to be one of the best ever.
The festival kicks off early this year with a free concert outdoors. Les deMerle All-Star Band will perform at the Sound of Centre already on Friday October 2nd. This is the last and final Sound on Centre for the season, so let’s hope for beautiful weather.
Then on Saturday, October 3rd, “Street.Runnin’ Wild,” with Amelia Island Jazz Festival Scholarship winner Jawren Walton performs at the Palace Saloon.
The second free concert will feature the U.S. Navy Big Band Southeast at Amelia Park on Sunday, October 4.
Grammy Award-winning saxophonist, David Sanborn is scheduled to appear as the headliner in the festival. Sanborn will perform October 9th and 10th with Les DeMerle’s All-Star band and vocalist Bonnie Eisele. This concert takes place at the brand new 1,000-seat auditorium at First Baptist Church on Eighth Street.
One of last year’s most popular evenings, Latin Night with Impacto Latino, will return on Thursday, October 8, and then on Sunday, October 11, there is a New Orleans Jazz Brunch at the Beech Street Grill
John Holbrook - Amelia Island Realtor
904-415-0171
Amelia Island Jazz Festival 20090
Les DeMerle Amelia Island Jazz Festival is scheduled from October 2 – 11, 2009 in Fernandina Beach, Florida. This is one of the most popular festivals in Fernandina Beach, and this year’s festival promises to be one of the best ever.
The festival kicks off early this year with a free concert outdoors. Les deMerle All-Star Band will perform at the Sound of Centre already on Friday October 2nd. This is the last and final Sound on Centre for the season, so let’s hope for beautiful weather.
Then on Saturday, October 3rd, “Street.Runnin’ Wild,” with Amelia Island Jazz Festival Scholarship winner Jawren Walton performs at the Palace Saloon.
The second free concert will feature the U.S. Navy Big Band Southeast at Amelia Park on Sunday, October 4.
Grammy Award-winning saxophonist, David Sanborn is scheduled to appear as the headliner in the festival. Sanborn will perform October 9th and 10th with Les DeMerle’s All-Star band and vocalist Bonnie Eisele. This concert takes place at the brand new 1,000-seat auditorium at First Baptist Church on Eighth Street.
One of last year’s most popular evenings, Latin Night with Impacto Latino, will return on Thursday, October 8, and then on Sunday, October 11, there is a New Orleans Jazz Brunch at the Beech Street Grill
John Holbrook - Amelia Island Realtor
904-415-0171
Amelia Island Beach Erosion
Amelia Island Beach Erosion
Because of federal and state budget shortfalls, an $11 million Duval County beach restoration project that had been planned for next year has been cancelled.
Now the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which oversees restoration of the area's beaches every five years, is seeking funding for 2011, said agency spokesman Barry Vorse.
The program is intended keep beaches at a sufficient width and elevation to reduce storm damage to oceanfront buildings and other structures, and to sustain tourism.
Meanwhile, no beach renourishment project is planned for Ponte Vedra Beach, Vorse said.
However, a replenishment study has begun for projects in Vilano Beach, Anastasia Island and Summer Haven, and public hearings will be scheduled in late 2010 to discuss them, he said. In addition, beach renourishment is planned next year around the St. Augustine fishing pier to replenish sand that has washed away since a 2005 restoration.
Vorse said Jacksonville's beaches are in "better than average shape" based on an assessment done in June and July, especially since it's at the end of the latest five-year restoration cycle.
That's due to the lack of storm damage since the last project in 2005, when contractors widened the beach from the Mayport jetties south to the St. Johns County line with about 700,000 cubic yards of soft, white sand from an offshore site. That project cost about $6.5 million and included some "sacrificial sand" added as a protective buffer until the next beach restoration project.
But hurricane season doesn't end until Nov. 30, and northeast winter storms sometimes cause more beach erosion than hurricanes.
The 2010 project was expected to cost roughly $11 million, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, which shares the cost with the corps and Jacksonville. The corps was to contribute about $6.8 million and Florida and Jacksonville were each supposed to give about $2 million.
Jacksonville has set aside its share of the contribution, which it's required to do by ordinance, said Tom Heal, an engineer in the city's Public Works Department who handles beach renourishment.
"We were positioning ourselves to do it again in 2010," Heal said.
But he learned in a meeting with corps officials last month that the federal funding wasn't available.
He was also upbeat about the beach's profile, saying wave action has swept some of the 2005 sand to a sandbar just offshore.
"That sand is still there and still functioning to protect the shore," he said.
The expanse of beach hasn't eroded, although it may appear that way because the sand dunes have grown taller and wider and expanded eastward, he said.
"The water line is pretty much where it was before," Heal said.
The subject came up in a conference Friday at Amelia Island hosted by the Florida Shore and Beach Preservation Association, where Al Pantano, commander of the corps' Jacksonville district, explained how the shore protection program reduces storm damage and the need for federal relief money following a significant storm.
On average, for every $1 of tax money spent on federally restored beaches, $4 is saved in reduced damages to homes, businesses and the government, Pantano said. In addition, he said, the government earns about $320 in tax revenues for every $1 spent on beach nourishment.
John Holbrook - Realtor
904-415-0171
Because of federal and state budget shortfalls, an $11 million Duval County beach restoration project that had been planned for next year has been cancelled.
Now the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which oversees restoration of the area's beaches every five years, is seeking funding for 2011, said agency spokesman Barry Vorse.
The program is intended keep beaches at a sufficient width and elevation to reduce storm damage to oceanfront buildings and other structures, and to sustain tourism.
Meanwhile, no beach renourishment project is planned for Ponte Vedra Beach, Vorse said.
However, a replenishment study has begun for projects in Vilano Beach, Anastasia Island and Summer Haven, and public hearings will be scheduled in late 2010 to discuss them, he said. In addition, beach renourishment is planned next year around the St. Augustine fishing pier to replenish sand that has washed away since a 2005 restoration.
Vorse said Jacksonville's beaches are in "better than average shape" based on an assessment done in June and July, especially since it's at the end of the latest five-year restoration cycle.
That's due to the lack of storm damage since the last project in 2005, when contractors widened the beach from the Mayport jetties south to the St. Johns County line with about 700,000 cubic yards of soft, white sand from an offshore site. That project cost about $6.5 million and included some "sacrificial sand" added as a protective buffer until the next beach restoration project.
But hurricane season doesn't end until Nov. 30, and northeast winter storms sometimes cause more beach erosion than hurricanes.
The 2010 project was expected to cost roughly $11 million, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, which shares the cost with the corps and Jacksonville. The corps was to contribute about $6.8 million and Florida and Jacksonville were each supposed to give about $2 million.
Jacksonville has set aside its share of the contribution, which it's required to do by ordinance, said Tom Heal, an engineer in the city's Public Works Department who handles beach renourishment.
"We were positioning ourselves to do it again in 2010," Heal said.
But he learned in a meeting with corps officials last month that the federal funding wasn't available.
He was also upbeat about the beach's profile, saying wave action has swept some of the 2005 sand to a sandbar just offshore.
"That sand is still there and still functioning to protect the shore," he said.
The expanse of beach hasn't eroded, although it may appear that way because the sand dunes have grown taller and wider and expanded eastward, he said.
"The water line is pretty much where it was before," Heal said.
The subject came up in a conference Friday at Amelia Island hosted by the Florida Shore and Beach Preservation Association, where Al Pantano, commander of the corps' Jacksonville district, explained how the shore protection program reduces storm damage and the need for federal relief money following a significant storm.
On average, for every $1 of tax money spent on federally restored beaches, $4 is saved in reduced damages to homes, businesses and the government, Pantano said. In addition, he said, the government earns about $320 in tax revenues for every $1 spent on beach nourishment.
John Holbrook - Realtor
904-415-0171
Amelia Island Plantation Golf Course
Amelia Island Plantation Golf Course
We learned the news within a week's time and the golf community here, loaded with good people, has lost two of the best. Of course one will still be around and we hope one comes back in the future. But for now, it's our loss, ranging from local events to the richest tournament in golf.
Henry Hughes announced his retirement from the PGA Tour, after 25 years of service that included Tour business affairs, marketing, Championship Management and the operation of The Players Championship and the Senior Players. Also, Robert Dugger will be moving back to his native Fort Worth, Texas, after nine years as director of golf at the Amelia Island Plantation. Dugger also served as the head pro at the TPC Sawgrass.
Hughes helped run The Players in two eras, in the 1980s when it became the Tour's marquee event and in the past couple of years, assisting in the transition of the event to May. Hughes was always a steady hand and a cool head, and the good news is that he and his wife Patty will maintain a home in Ponte Vedra after he retires next July.
The circumstances involving Dugger are a little tougher, and have everything to do with the economy. His position at AIP was eliminated, with the pros at the four courses there answering now to the general manager of the property. He embodied all that goes into the makeup of a good club professional -- including integrity.
I'm always going to remember the day in the Cup Matches when his opponent, Alan Henderson, was lining up a 50-foot putt at the 18th green at Timuquana, and Dugger quietly reminded Henderson's caddie that it might be a good idea if he tended the flagstick. Henderson made the putt to win the match and give the Amateurs a half-point victory. As I wrote at the time, Henderson won heroically and Dugger lost honorably.
We know we'll see Henry Hughes around town after he retires. Here's hoping Robert Dugger finds a way to get back here another day.
We learned the news within a week's time and the golf community here, loaded with good people, has lost two of the best. Of course one will still be around and we hope one comes back in the future. But for now, it's our loss, ranging from local events to the richest tournament in golf.
Henry Hughes announced his retirement from the PGA Tour, after 25 years of service that included Tour business affairs, marketing, Championship Management and the operation of The Players Championship and the Senior Players. Also, Robert Dugger will be moving back to his native Fort Worth, Texas, after nine years as director of golf at the Amelia Island Plantation. Dugger also served as the head pro at the TPC Sawgrass.
Hughes helped run The Players in two eras, in the 1980s when it became the Tour's marquee event and in the past couple of years, assisting in the transition of the event to May. Hughes was always a steady hand and a cool head, and the good news is that he and his wife Patty will maintain a home in Ponte Vedra after he retires next July.
The circumstances involving Dugger are a little tougher, and have everything to do with the economy. His position at AIP was eliminated, with the pros at the four courses there answering now to the general manager of the property. He embodied all that goes into the makeup of a good club professional -- including integrity.
I'm always going to remember the day in the Cup Matches when his opponent, Alan Henderson, was lining up a 50-foot putt at the 18th green at Timuquana, and Dugger quietly reminded Henderson's caddie that it might be a good idea if he tended the flagstick. Henderson made the putt to win the match and give the Amateurs a half-point victory. As I wrote at the time, Henderson won heroically and Dugger lost honorably.
We know we'll see Henry Hughes around town after he retires. Here's hoping Robert Dugger finds a way to get back here another day.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Amelia Business Network
Yesterday's Amelia Business Network meeting offered a full 90 minutes of action. Topic of the day was successful sales people and traits that define them. As a group we found the importance of being truthful, knowing the benefits of your product, treating customers with excitement and making them feel important. Negatives included: putting the sale ahead of the client, not returning messages, poor follow up, bad support staff and rushing your delivery.
We also spoke about the importance of recording our group referrals and keeping business within the community. Club 14 Fitness was a new guest and spoke about their gym/facility on Amelia Island and Cross Fit training programs.
Lunch was provided by the new chefs at Wicked Davy's Saloon in downtown Fernandina Beach. The Chocolate Chip cookies were incredible!
John Holbrook - Realtor Amelia Island, Fernandina Beach & Yulee, Florida
Cell: 904-415-0171 Email: holbrook66@msn.com Web: www.nassaumls.net
www.johnholbrook.blogspot.com
We also spoke about the importance of recording our group referrals and keeping business within the community. Club 14 Fitness was a new guest and spoke about their gym/facility on Amelia Island and Cross Fit training programs.
Lunch was provided by the new chefs at Wicked Davy's Saloon in downtown Fernandina Beach. The Chocolate Chip cookies were incredible!
John Holbrook - Realtor Amelia Island, Fernandina Beach & Yulee, Florida
Cell: 904-415-0171 Email: holbrook66@msn.com Web: www.nassaumls.net
www.johnholbrook.blogspot.com
Amelia Business Network
Yesterday's Amelia Business Network meeting offered a full 90 minutes of action. Topic of the day was successful sales people and traits that define them. As a group we found the importance of being truthful, knowing the benJohn Holbrook - Realtor Amelia Island, Fernandina Beach & Yulee, Florida
Cell: 904-415-0171 Email: holbrook66@msn.com Web: www.nassaumls.net
www.johnholbrook.blogspot.com
Cell: 904-415-0171 Email: holbrook66@msn.com Web: www.nassaumls.net
www.johnholbrook.blogspot.com
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