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Online Book Signing for Key West Photo Journal offered to e-list; Key West residents invited to booksigning/wine tasting Sat. Jan 26
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Key Westers invited to Reef Relief Grassroots Workshop Tuesday Jan 29 at Reef Relief Environmental Center
1. Online Book Signing for Key West Photo Journal offered to e-list; Key West residents invited to booksigning/wine tasting Sat. Jan 26
Reef Relief invites you to participate in this online cyber-signing of the new book Key West Photo Journal. The book signing celebrates the release of Key West Photo Journal, a 64-page hardcover book recently published by Craig and Cheri Howard of Key West. The coffee table format features color photography that captures Key West‚s history, architecture, culture and natural environment. You can purchase a signed copy of Key West Photo Journal by responding to this email alert! Click here to order your signed book to be mailed to you promptly.
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Key West residents are invited to attend the book signing on Saturday, January 26 from 4:30--6pm at the Reef Relief Gift Shop at the foot of William Street at the Historic Seaport in Key West. Craig and Cheri Howard will be on hand to personally sign the books from 4:30 - 6 pm. at the Reef Relief Gift Shop. The book signing will also be featured during a wine tasting beginning at 6pm at the Waterfront Market next door to Reef Relief's Gift Shop. As a thank-you to the community for its continued support, the Waterfront Market is hosting its second wine tasting Saturday, January 26, 2002 from 6à8 pm upstairs at the juice bar at the Waterfront Market, 201 William Street. Sample your favorite wines and discover new ones, and enjoy their fabulous peel and eat shrimp and buy a signed copy of the Key West Photo Journal.
Craig Howard owns and operates Fonts & Film, a business that provides color scans, separations and other printing-related services to advertising agencies and graphic designers. The company has produced several books by local authors, including three for Bone Island Press, Nance Frank's Mario Sanchez: Before & After, Charlotte's Story by Laurel & Herbert, Inc., and Death in a Suit of Lights and The Wallpaper Murder by Jack Royce. His wife, Cheri, has been an avid photographer since childhood and even developed her own film in a basement. The company has produced several books by local authors including three for Bone Island Press.
All proceeds benefit Reef Relief.
2. Key Westers invited to Reef Relief Grassroots Workshop Tuesday Jan 29 at Reef Relief Environmental Center
It's a whole new year, and the high season in Key West is about to kick off. With so many people coming back to town and so many important community issues needing our attention, Reef Relief hopes that you will make a commitment now to participate in the Grassroots Activist Workshop on Tuesday, January 29 at the new Reef Relief Environmental Center on the boardwalk at the Seaport from 5:30-7:30 p.m. It is the first activist meeting of 2002 and an important one; local Reef Relief board members will be there as well.
This promises to be a very special meeting, since we expect Key West Mayor Jimmy Weekley and City of Key West Utilities Director David Fernandez to be there to talk with us about the city‚s plans for stormwater runoff improvements. We need to find out what the city plans to do, when it will act, the costs involved, and how the funds can be raised. This is the next step, after all of our hard work (a big success by the way!!) to get the city‚s sewer problems addressed two years ago, in the ongoing fight to clean up the water, improve the conditions at the reef and protect our community as much as we are able.
The sewage is not draining into the sea as it was a few years ago, but the run-off from the streets, automobiles and local businesses that hose their properties down regularly is going right out to "you guessed it "our precious nearshore waters. At the meeting, you should get some great face-to-face time with key officials who make the decisions that we all have to live with. Not only will they give us the latest information from their side, but they will be there to hear from you on what residents want done on this pressing environmental issue.
Reef Relief staff members will provide information on stormwater and help develop an action plan for members of our workshop over the next few months on the stormwater issue and other Reef Relief priorities. Another reason to come to this meeting is that after much hard work, the Reef Relief team has moved into a beautiful new environmental center just around the corner from the previous facility, where the store will remain. This will be a chance for you to preview this new facility before the official welcoming event in February.
Please mark your calendar now to come on January 29. There will be refreshments (provided as always by the wonderful folks at Waterfront Market), and we‚ll all have a little time to catch up on how we spent the last few months since the last workshop. Everyone is busy but let's be honest: All these clean water issues are a very high priority, and it‚s important for each of us to do our part for clean water. For more information, contact Reef Relief at (305) 294-3100, email reef@bellsouth.net or Theresa Foley, Chair of the Grassroots Workshop at theresa@theresafoley.com.
