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A great big
WELCOME
to our newest members:
Best Western Lake Okeechobee, Owners: Jay and
Nina Patel, Manager: Cindy Murphy. 3975 Hwy 441 South, phone:
863-357-7100.
David Lee Padgitt of Buckhead Ridge Insurance,
LLC,
1070 6th Street, 863-763-3883.
Okeechobee Main Street membership renewal invoices have been sent
out.
Please get your renewals sent in as soon as possible.
If you
have not received a renewal invoice please call or email me.
Total Car Care and Pressure Washing is so confidant of their work
they are offering Main Street Members 25% off your first car wash,
wax, detail or pressure washing of your building, boat, etc. Call
Tracy at 772-402-5051.
YOUR MEMBERSHIP NEXT YEAR COULD BE FREE!!!
Okeechobee Main Street will kick off the
New Year with a Membership Drive Contest. Those who wish to
participate will be given Okeechobee Main Street brochure
applications. You will stamp your business name on the brochure and
give it to patrons who come into your business. When they are
returned to the Main Street office by the patron for membership the
patron will be given a ticket for a chance to win a monthly drawing
for a prize equivalent to $50.00, they will also be given a
membership decal that has the Main Street logo and the words “MEMBER
– I SHOP OKEECHOBEE on it. The Business Member or Member that
brings in the most new members will receive the following year’s
membership free; the free membership prize will be equivalent to the
current year’s membership.
If
you would like to participate in our 2009 membership drive please
reply to this e-mail
or call me so I can get the brochures to you.
The Okeechobee County Fair has a 10 day pass on sale for the 2009
County Fair for only $30.00! The 2009 Okeechobee County Fair will
be held March 13th through the 22nd. Passes
can be purchased at Okeechobee Main Street 111 NE 2nd
Avenue, call 357-6246 or at Syble’s Flowers and Gifts 119 S. Parrott
Avenue, call 763-2225. This year’s fair will include the 2nd
annual Miss Okeechobee County Fair Beauty Pageant open to girls age
15 – 19, the Seminole Heritage Show, the Okeechobee Cattleman’s
Spring Rodeo, Okeechobee Idol, Bike Show, Livestock Show, Pig Races,
Blue Grass Music, A Demolition Derby and lots of food and rides on
the midway.
One of our members has commercial office space for rent: 1,145
Square feet for $1500 a month which includes utilities.
Call Kathy
Godwin for details at 863-634-7728.
Quality A/C located at 5351 SW 16th Avenue has large 18 X
24 office space for rent.
Rental includes utilities and taxes at
$125.00 per week.
Go by to see it or call 634-3258 for more
information.
IT’S A NEW YEAR…MAKE IT A NEW YOU!!
Physicians Weight Loss
Centers is having a New Years Blowout!! January 2nd and 3rd
with huge savings! Receive free B-12 shots and 40% off your program
fees when you join during these two days only. Go by 414 S. Parrott
Avenue, Suite B for a free consultation.
Financing is also
available, call 863-357-9967.
The Okeechobee Service Center of the American Red Cross will be
holding a
First Aid Basics Class on Tuesday, January 6th,
Infant/ Child CPR/AED on
Wednesday, January 14th and
Adult CPR/AED on Tuesday, January 20th.
All classes will
begin at 6PM at the Service Center, 323 North Parrott Avenue.
Call
863-763-2488 to register or for more information.
CAN YOU OUTSHOOT A CATTLEWOMAN?
Find out January 10th:
Sporting Clay Fun Shoot 100 Targets – Five Stand Ladies and Youth
Contest 25 Targets. This event will be held at Quail Creek
Plantation and will begin at 8:30am. There will be awards and a
raffle for a brand new Beretta AL391 Urika 2II 12 Gauge Semi
Automatic Shotgun(need not be present to win). For registration or
raffle tickets call Melissa Montes DeOca at 634-7712 or Wendy
Petteway at 781-3986.
Mark your calendars, Okeechobee Main
Street’s first mixer of 2009 will be held on
Tuesday, January 13th.
The January mixer will be hosted by Raulerson Hospital and will be
held at their Company Care Office 1930 Hwy 441 North in the blue top
building just north of the hospital. There will be refreshments,
door prizes and a new beginning for the Mega 50/50 raffle that will
be drawn in December 2009. This is a great networking opportunity
for all.
The Governing Board of
the South Florida Water Management District will hold a public
hearing on proposed year round landscape irrigation conservation
measures on Thursday January 15th, 9:00am at the District
Office on Gun Club Road in West Palm Beach.
For more information
call 1-800-250-4200, ext. 3019
Okeechobee Main Street’s Top of the Lake BBQ Affair will be held
Friday and Saturday, January 23rd and 24th at
the Agri-Civic Center on Hwy 70 East.
This year we are hosting the FBA Florida State Championship. For more information or to register
go to our website at
www.mainstreetokeechobee.com or call 863-357-6246.
Raulerson Hospital will present a “Ladies Health Day” luncheon on
January 20th from 12 noon to 1:00 at Indian River State
College in the Raulerson Hospital Auditorium. Guest speakers will be
Raulerson Hospital staff physicians James Bradfield M.D. Board
Certified Gynecologist, Albert Bravo M.D., Board Certified
Gastroenterologist and Internal Medicine and Philip Moyer M.D.,
Board Certified General/Vascular Surgeon and Diplomate American
Board of General Surgery. This seminar will cover many of the new
gynecology and health care services that are now being offered for
women of all ages and the new “State of the Art” surgical procedures
that are opening up regularly at the hospital. Reservations are
required.
Call Bill Casian at 824-2702 to register or for more
information.
The
Okeechobee County Board of Realtors will be having their Annual Fun
Shoot on Saturday, January 24th at Quail Creek
Plantation. Monies raised goes towards scholarships for local
students. For more information and to register call Jim Fowler at
863-634-4497.
The Okeechobee Community Theatre will hold open auditions for
acting roles in its upcoming production of “To Kill a Mockingbird”
in January. There are both speaking and non-speaking parts for
white and African-American performers, with no previous acting
experience necessary. There are also parts for three children of
elementary to middle school age. Auditions for adults will be on
Monday and Tuesday evenings, January 5th and 6th
at 7:00pm. Children’s Auditions will be on Wednesday, January 8th
at 7pm. Auditions will be held at the theatre on SW 2nd
Avenue, one block behind the Golden Corral Restaurant. For more
information call 863-763-1307.
The 2009 Battle of Okeechobee Re-Enactment will take place at the
Okeechobee Battlefield Historic State Park on January 31st
and February 1st from 10:00 a.m. till 4:00 p.m. Mark
your calendars and please join the Okeechobee Battlefield Friends,
Inc. for the commemoration of the largest and fiercest battle in the
Seminole wars fought on Christmas Day 1837. Please visit
okeechobeebattlefield.com for further information and updates.
Seacoast National Bank
will host the 7th Annual Big Lake Bass Fishing Tournament
to benefit the March of Dimes on Saturday, January 31st,
at Okee-Tanti Marina. The tournament will begin at safe light with
weigh in at 3:00pm. Registration is $110.00 per boat, 2 person
team. To register and get more information go to
www.seacoastnational.com or call Kathleen Shatto
at 863-467-4663.
Each week I will be sending out an email “The Main Street Clipboard”
welcoming
new members as well as keeping you up to date on “what’s
happening” with Main Street,
our membership and non-profit partner
organizations.
If you would like to have information included
please send it to me by noon on Mondays and
I will be happy to
include it “in brief” with each emailed “The Main Street Clipboard”.
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