Concert goers should expect a full day of music, art, food and fun. Gates open at 11 am with performances running from noon to 10 pm.
In addition to music, the festival will feature local food vendors and artists with selections ranging from jewelry to clothing to refurbished furniture. A bounce house will be on-site for the kids to enjoy.
General admission tickets are $25 for adults and $10 for children (ages 2 to 12). VIP tickets are $125 and include VIP lounge seating, food and drinks. The VIP section sold out last year, so be sure to purchase your pass early.
Leashed dogs are also welcome at this year’s concert. VIP Pooch Passes are available for $20 and include access to the VIP lounge (with human VIP) and a Puppy Pampering Bag with treats. Advance tickets are on sale now and can be purchased online at www.sharetheshelter.org. There will be an additional $5 charge for tickets purchased at the gate.
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The 2011 concert drew more than 500 music fans and brought in over $21,000 for Shelter House and Alaqua Animal Refuge.
Bay County Broker of the Year for 2011, Karen Smith, who also happened to be named one of Panama City’s “Most Influential Women” has teamed up with some powerful players in Walton County real estate to take her signature “Beachy Beach” brand westward to Hwy 30A.
Known for her relentless enthusiasm and “love on them” leadership style, Broker Smith found the yin to her yang in Hilary Farnum, whose negotiating style and die hard dedication to her clients has made her the top producer for Watersound and one of the highest selling Realtors in the area.
The two women, though distinctly different are cut from the same cloth when it comes to their commitment to their customers and decided along with their husbands to join forces and align themselves as business partners so they could bring Beachy Beach to Hwy 30A in Seagrove Beach.
The brand new office space for the Beachy Beach 30A brokerage is in Seagrove Beach, just across from Lakeview Centre where Seacrest Dental is located. The unique design of the space was designed by the talented Jeff Margaretten of Margaretten Architectural, materialized by Jeff Brice of Hemingway Construction and made gorgeous by Roy Calvin Eure, owner of Cerulean Interiors on the west end of Panama City Beach.
Always one to believe in the more the merrier, the Smiths and Farnums reached out to new business owner Brittany Lee of SoWal Pilates, who is their next door neighbor at their 30A location. Brittany is the daughter of John Lee of John Lee Mazda in Panama City and has chosen to combine her love of fitness with her family given entrepreneurial spirit.
As the owner of SoWal Pilates, Brittany Lee is ready to share her passion for Pilates with the area with a state of the art studio full of the latest equipment.
“I’m very excited,” Lee said. “It was always my dream to come back to Florida and open my own business.”
Lee will be providing donation only mat classes the morning of the opening at 9 and 11 am.
When the ribbon falls, the party gets started as guests enjoy live music by Sean Dietrich courtesy of Hemingway Construction, hors d’oeuvres provided by Porath and Associates, P.A. and delectable desserts courtesy of Beach Community Mortgage.
Guests are encouraged to bring their business cards for fabulous drawings and giveaways, which include pet goodies from Bow Wow Meow Pet Company, a gift card from George’s, SoWal Pilates swag, clothing from Lulelemon, Zoom! Teeth Whitening courtesy of Dr. Dennis Lichorwic, and more.
Also in store for attendees, is a chance to help create a one-of-a-kind live art collaboration led by BEMA artists Mary Hong and Beeb Benson whose art will be showcased and available for purchase in both spaces.
As part of the night’s events, both SoWal Pilates and Beachy Beach 30A will be collecting donations for local charities. Beachy Beach will be encouraging attendees to make small donations ($1,$2, $3) to Alaqua Animal Refuge
. SoWal Pilates is partnering with Sinfonia Gulf Coast in support of their new collaboration with Sacred Heart’s Arts in Medicine initiative where Sinfonia musicians perform throughout the hospital’s Walton County campus during the next year.
Attendees will be creating a one-of-a-kind piece of art that will be auctioned off at the night’s end to benefit Sinfonia.
The new Beachy Beach 30A office and their new neighbor SoWal Pilates, which is only 2.5 miles from Seaside, is located at 5410 East County Highway 30A, Unit 102 in Santa Rosa Beach. For more information, the office can be reached at 850-231-3060.
With the grand opening just days away, Karen Smith is ready for the big celebration and elated about the expansion.
“There are lot of people right now shrinking their businesses, but we are growing. Sure, it’s a little adventurous, but if Barbara Corcoran says “expand before your ready” then Hilary and I are going to take her advice!”
Everyone thinks their beaches are the best right? Being a native of Northwest Florida’s beaches, perhaps I am a little partial, but I really do think our “Emerald Coast” is the most beautiful, magical coastline in Florida. In fact, I grew up thinking it was magical, for it seemed every aliment I ever had, my mother’s cure was the saltwater, “get in the water Britt, it’s good for you.” There were times I felt her zeal for the ocean was like the father in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” who thought Windex was the cure for everything.
It was no surprise when I started studying holistic medicine, that salt water really was a cure all! Gargling it tempered a sore throat, soaking in it relieved muscle inflammation, and rinsing and scrubbing, especially with a little sand mixed in, exfoliated dead skin cells and cleared up minor blemishes. Perhaps the water lapping at my toes was a wonder drug!
But more than its’ medicinal properties, the warmth of our Gulf Stream and the beauty of our Emerald Coast brings a kind of magic that can not be bottled. For those of us that have had an argument with a loved one or felt a loss that brought us to our knees, the beach was a place of refuge. As a teenager, I was lost, I don’t know if I was anymore lost than the rest of us, but I was lost. I found peace when I walked on our beaches. It was a place of quiet and a place of communion.
Many of us that have grown up in this area or spent any kind of time here feel a special connection to our beaches, and as someone who moved away and came back, I realize how much I took our beaches for granted.
I hope that our residents and all of our visitors take the time to take a walk on the beach and experience her warmth first hand. For any troubles that you might have, if even for a moment, the sea will wash them out.
Let the Sea Wash It Out
By Britt Matthews
Every cut or bruise
No matter what the source
Be it klutz or force
Mother said, Let the sea wash it out
The salt heals wounds
Even the ones we don’t choose
And so into the waves I went
Her wisdom, I was sure, heaven sent
Let the sea wash it out
No matter what your bout
Let the sea wash it out
The salt will work it out
Let the sea wash it out
And so the sea became
Sound for her deaf and life for her lame
No wildness her medicine couldn’t tame
Voodoo magic, mother wouldn’t have it
Old wives tale, any myths she would dispel
This was the gospel
Of a women thoughtful.
Let the sea wash it out
No matter what your bout
Let the sea wash it out
The salt will surely work it out
Let the sea wash it out
I haven’t been to those waters
In a long, long time
But in my heart, I tend to rewind
Memory laps onto the shore
And I hear my mother like I did before
And my head seemed to say
Maybe it wasn’t the waves…
but her faith And grace that kept us a float.
Hot Deal #1 Nicely Appointed Queensberry at Bay Point home priced at $549,000
Professionally decorated, open design with 5BD/3BA with 3100+ sq ft, custom built-ins
Gourmet kitchen w/sub zero fridge, wet bar, formal living & dining area, oversized master suite
Wonderful outdoor entertainment space with in-ground pool with enclosure, lush landscaped yard
(Courtesy of Keller Williams Success Realty)
Hot Deal #2 Fabulous Finisterre Custom Built Home w/carriage house listed at $799,000
Main home offers 3BD/3-1/2BA, grand foyer, welcoming family room & kitchen w/breakfast bar
Carriage house has addtl 2BD/1BA, full kitchen, over 4000+ sq ft total, great outdoor spaces
Gated driveway, private in-ground pool, large covered patio, community tennis courts
(Courtesy of Beachy Beach)
Hot Deal #3 Awesome Opportunity for West End beach home with private pool & gulf views
3BD/3BA + office & 3rd floor bonus room, tile throughout first floor, granite counters, nice cabinetry
Offers 1st floor bedroom that opens to pool, hardwood stairs, oversized Master suite w/balcony
1-1/2 blocks to beach access, covered carport w/outdoor storage, large fenced lot – $275,000!!!
(Courtesy of Beachy Beach)
When the real estate bubble popped a few years ago, a lot of people around here and other places experienced devastating losses. Some of them got back on the proverbial horse and started over with a more renewed spirit, learning from their mistakes, others are still struggling, wondering how it all happened.
And while we are seeing tremendous regrowth, we have not forgotten how we got here.
Property values are ascending, people are buying second homes again for their beach getaways and even more amazing, people are BUILDING again, but there is still the dust of loss in the air.
Some of us blow it away in reaffirmation of our own strength and some of us feel it weighing in on our chests.
Many people that you know here lost thousands, even millions of dollars. People gave back their homes, their cars, and put their designer shoes for auction on Ebay. You know people in your neighborhood that held off on a divorce because they could not afford it, or asked their children to consider community college instead, or even moved in with their seventy year old parents.
So when we ponder all this lost……what did we really lose?
What is it truly a loss if we learned from it?
If it made us better?
Is it a “loss” only when we quit?
A certain Vince Lombardi quote comes to mind, “We didn’t lose the game…..we just ran out of time.”
We still live in an amazing place. There is still sunshine to be had, from Panama City Beach to Destin. There are still waves to be surfed….okay so only during tropical storms. 🙂
My point is our panhandle coastline is still a beautiful, glorious place. We have lost nothing. If anything we have gained.
Those of us that gave our possessions back to the bank learned to appreciate what really mattered, our relationships with our loved ones, with our God, with our inner self, all items that interest rates and the stock market index can not commandeer , unless we let them.
Those of us that experienced material loss had an amazing opportunity to look deep inside ourselves and tap into our own abundance, our own power to create and manifest. We gained spiritually.
So we went back to school. We picked up new skills, we changed careers. We started to write that business plan, that song, that piece of art we always dreamed about. We rolled up our sleeves and job or no job, we got back to work. I watched my mother start over at nearly fifty years old. I watched her build a company and then help start another. She chose not to relive, but to rebuild. A choice, that many people in this community have made.
This is an area that is used to rebuilding. When a hurricane is coming, we put boards on our windows until the storm passes. We do what is necessary, but we do not stop living.
And living we are, as occupancy rates are up, houses are selling and 2012 is on point to be a record breaking year for visitors, all proving that the Florida panhandle is resilient and ready for the next chapter of her adventure.
1. Deal #1 is a Wild Heron Foreclosed bungalow for only $279,900
SEVERAL OFFERS ON THE TABLE AT TIME OF FILMING.
2,496 square feet, 3 bedrooms and 2.5 baths
Gated neighborhood of Wild Heron located on Lake Powell with amazing amenities
Fitness center, Kayaks, canoes, fishing, swimming pool, boat house, walking trails and 24 hour security
2. Deal #2 is a beautiful Gulf front community home for only $765,000
Summertime Dreaming is an amazing beach home with a guest house
Pool with beautiful architecture and landscape
Over 2,000 square feet and total of 4 bedrooms and 3.5 baths
Several walk overs to the beach with 3 pools and playground, tennis courts and 24 hour guarded gate
3. Deal 3 is move in ready GREAT investment condo for $224,900
EXCELLENT rental potential with a fully furnished Beachy Beach FUN
Beautiful pool with murals and great access to your beach front with excellent views
Near the water park making it a family fun spot
Are statistics exciting or what? To some, me included, it is like watching grass grow, unless it happens to be about a subject dear to my heart or perhaps my wallet.
Recently there has been a lot of buzz in the area about how the market is going up and the doom and gloom is over. With that in mind I decided it was time to just take a look at the facts and see where things stand.
The area that I am concentrating on is the roughly 18 miles of the Hwy. 30A corridor. I am comparing the first 2 quarters of 2012 to the same period in 2011 (January 1 to June 30th). These numbers were generated from the Emerald Coast Association of Realtors and do not include properties that were handled outside of that format.
These are simply the facts and I will let you draw your own conclusions, but I do have a couple of observations.
It is apparent that sales activity is up as far as single family homes and residential land is concerned. Prices are also up in those 2 categories with 5.6% in price per square foot for homes and 10% for residential land. Time will tell if these increases are sustainable. Condominiums are a different matter, while sales have gone down the prices have gone up 7.3%. It’s possible sales have been affected by the financial market. Condominium mortgages continue to be problematic.
Well, the grass has grown a little since you’ve been contemplating this information. I hope you find it useful and welcome any suggestions you may have for additional research on this topic that affects all of our wallets.
*Statistics were compiled by Hugh Smith using data provided by the Emerald Coast Association of Realtors.
We interrupt our regualar Beach Show to bring you an emergency HOT DEAL! But stay tuned…The Beach Show will return next week with another exciting episode filled with awesome opportunities!
Wild Heron $279,900
3 Bedrooms, 2.5 baths. Gourmet kitchen with granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances. Gorgeous master bath. 2 car garage. All the great amenities of Wild Heron. Won’t last long.
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