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Please make sure all staff is alerted to recent passing of $100.00 dollar bills. Long Beach Police Dept. has had some complaints of a couple or pair of couples working the peninsula passing these bills.

The magic pen to determine, if the bill is fake or good, marks that it is good. However it isn’t!!

The bill feels slick, and you need to always hold the bill up to the light and check for face shadow on right hand side of bill.

Also Check the shadow bar on the left had side of the presidents picture for the line stating US 100.00, as well as make sure the picture is Franklin.

We hope that we can stop this from happening to any other merchants, so pass the word around. Also thank you to the merchants bringing it to our attention.

Bob Andrew
Mayor City of Long Beach

Our local shelter, the South Pacific County Humane Society, is currently soliciting donations for their key fundraising event of the year, the “St Patrick’s Auction Dinner Extravaganza”, which includes live and silent, Dutch, Chinese and other types of auctions as well as a fine Irish supper.

The festive event will be held on March 15, 2008. Shelter volunteers are currently seeking donations from individuals and businesses interested in supporting the event. Below is a list of ideas.

Questions & Comments to co-chairs Marie Maulden or Bonnie Teschner
Marie marieemily@beachpets.com Bonnie bonnie@beachdog.com

What Can You Donate?
Alongside the donations we receive from the community, we need individuals to donate items for the silent and live auction. There are endless possibilities here…

A ‘Girl’s Night In’ –
Three daring husbands offer to wait ‘hand and foot’ on 20 ladies. The men cook dinner, serve cocktails and clean up after - what more could you want?

Host a party - a simple cocktail hour in your home, or hors d’oevres on a boat, or a picnic in the woods… anything else your imagination can come up with…

We’d LOVE to have vacations to sell - do you know someone with a beach house or a time-share in Hawaii. Think about backpacking, sailing trips, road trips, ski weekends, fishing vacations, kayaking adventures, camping, flying, and sightseeing… Anyone know how to get hold of airline tickets? What about getting a cruise to Alaska? A trip to Disneyland would raise a fortune!

Are you a great cook? Food always sells, so how about donating a special cake, bread or cookies or even going to someone’s home to cook a gourmet meal.

Do you like Gardening? A few hours work in someone else’s yard is a real money-spinner.

What about those Seahawks / Sonics or tickets ?? Maybe you have Season tickets and would donate a game or two. Or a signed ball?

Know anyone who can get us tickets to the Opera or a Play? How about Gift Certificates for a meal or maybe you have connections with hotels in the Seattle/Portland/Vancouver or another vacation city and could get a room for the weekend? Gas Vouchers?

Can you donate your services? Graphic Design, Accounting, Hard Labor, Construction, Massage, Handyman, Housecleaning, Yard Services. Hair or Nail Beauty Care, Animal Sitting, House Sitting, Child Party Entertainment … the list is never-ending

Other items that are the mainstay of our auction are:
Art, Wine, Vacations, Cars, Makeovers, Kids Stuff, Animal toys and equipment, Jewelry, Sports Equipment, Specialty Food or other Gift Baskets…

The sky’s the limit. Let your imagination run wild. The animals at the Shelter will benefit from any or all that you do to make the auction a success.

Questions & Comments to co-chairs Marie Maulden or Bonnie Teschner
Marie marieemily@beachpets.com Bonnie bonnie@beachdog.com

Download a print-friendly flyer: open-forum-invitation.pdf

Pacific County will be accepting tree debris ONLY, such as trees, stumps, limbs, and Christmas trees at the following locations for free. Please contact Department of Community Development for questions: (360)642-9356.

South County ? 7013 Sandridge Road (this is north of Wirkkala’s on Sandridge - down the long driveway where the new County building will be going in - there’s a large brush pile there - place your debris on it.

Thanks to Shelly Pollock of NW Insurance & Financial Services for the tip!

The regular monthly meeting of the Board of the Long Beach Merchants Association was held on Friday, January 4, 2008, at 8:00 am at Castaways Restaurant.

Present: President Mikel Burns, Vice President Steven Linhart, Secretary Keleigh Schwartz, Board Members Ruth Ann Hocking, Dian Barker Sayce and Jane Holeman, and Long Beach Councilman Jerry Phillips.

Absent: Treasurer Sherry Hash (excused), Board Member Jeff Herrold.

The meeting was called to order at 8:03 am.

There was considerable discussion with the intent to create annual goals. Topics focused on how to better connect merchants to the City and one another and resulted in two key projects which will be pursued for more information and brought to the regular LBMA meeting:

1. An LBMA / City of Long Beach co-sponsored ‘After Hours’ event, in April, at the World Kite Museum.
2. A ‘Business of the Month or Quarter’. This might include a ‘coffee & cookies’ open house, perhaps 4-6 pm, at the place of business being featured, as well as a Chinook Observer article.

No motions were made.

The meeting was adjourned at 9:04 am.