THE THREE QUARTER TIMES

Delaware Seashore Parrot Head Club Newsletter

AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2007

President:           Debbie Auld:  likeicare57@verizon.net (302) 674-5250

Vice-President:   Mike Ohr:  MFOHRSR@verizon.net (302) 475-1144

Secretary:           Tanya Hammel:  Parrotheadtan@yahoo.com (302) 335-4120

Treasurer:           Sylvia Diehl:  Delbelle2@aol.com  (302) 227-2157

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Our Fearless Leader

Captain Debbie!!!!! 

Message from our “Prez”:

Greeting Phellow Parrotheads:

As summer in quickly coming to end, we had a great August!  The sea cruise on August 18th was absolutely wonderful!  The weather was perfect and the eighteen of us who attended enjoyed Buffett music, food, drinks and great scenery and conversation!  Can't wait to do it again!!!  Once again I would like to say Thank You!!! to John and Linda Novosel for hosting our August meeting in their party house in Lewes.  It was another great turn out and everyone had a blast!  We have a lot of events coming up in September and October and I hope to see more great turn outs for these events.  Our next meeting is on Wednesday September 19th, at Sorentino's Restaurant in Dover, at 7:30 pm.  See you there!  

Debbie

Prez

One Particular Treasurer’s Report:

Delaware Seashore Parrot Head Club

                          Treasurer’s Report  August,  2007

$2073.12      07/21/07                          Beginning Balance 

+$178.00     07/30/07      Deposit        Dues - Jerrell                             10.00

                                                          2 Car. Soul T’s @$10               20.00

                                                          50/50 (BSB Fund)                     65.00

                                                          Raffle (Xmas Fund)                  70.00

                                                          Cruise $ - Bob Bush                 13.00

$2251.12      08/25/07                          Ending Balance

Spending Money – DSPHC Member-to-Member Discounts:

If you bring your DSPHC membership card & a driver’s license to these phriendly club members’ business, you’ll get a discount.

 

10% discount on all regular priced items at:
The Mizzen Mast
149 Rehoboth Ave. (Village By the Sea)

Rehoboth Beach, DE
Phins up to Sylvia Diehl for offering this discount !  

10% discount on boarding, grooming & pet supplies at:

Home Away From Home
18600 Raven's Way

Lewes, Delaware 

Phins up to Denise Irwin for offering this discount !

 

10% discount at:
Just Birkenstock Store
4551 Highway One (by Pier One & Starbucks) 

Rehoboth Beach, DE
Phins up to Dennis & Sharonlee Diehl for offering this discount !

The Lighthouse
7 Angler’s Road
Lewes, DE

Different specials each week, so be sure and ask the next time you’re there ! 

Also, check out the Parrot Head HQ page on the Lighthouse’s website :

http://www.lighthouselewes.com

AVIS CAR RENTAL DISCOUNTS FOR PARROTHEADS!!!

Call AVIS at (800) 831-8000 and while making the reservation give them this number:  AWD#K199476

And you will get a special discounted rate!! 

Coconut Telegraph - DSPHC News:

IT’S BEEN A LOVELY CRUISE…

Ahoy Fellow Phlocksters!!!  

August 18^th, 2007

DSPHC Cruise Down the Canal!!!!

Cruisin Couples…

BOARD MEETING MINUTES:  8/25/07 

Those who attended were Debbie Auld, Mike Ohr, Sylvia Diehl, Deb Hoff, Cathi Hochstedler, Pam McMillan and Matt Clark, Connie Groll, Bruce and Karen Wright.  We spoke at great length about Boat Drinks.  Meetings are setup with different people after Labor Day to discuss dates and what they can offer us.  Subject matter remained location(s) and entertainment.

MONTHLY MEETING:  8/25/07

We had a great time at the meeting!  John and Linda have a fantastic home and party house! 

IN ATTENDANCE:  John and Linda Novosel, Chris Austin, Karen Scaggs, Gary and Debbie Auld, Mike Ohr and Kate McKenzie, Matt Clark and Pam McMillan, Joyce and Dick Houston, Tom and Deb Hoff, Sylvia Diehl, Jim Kroon and Lori Brown, Allan Cairncross and Pat Murdock, Tom and Charlene Butler, Connie and Jerry Groll, Tom Davidson, John Sykes, Tom and Claudette Plebain, Holly and Barbara Wright and Bruce and Karen Wright.  We also had 3 guests.

BIDNESS HIGHLITES:   John made great Angus burgers on the grill and everyone brought all kinds of good things to eat!  Our brief meeting consisted of reviewing the special dates for Coastal Cleanup, Sept. 15th, Alzheimer's Memory Walk, Sept. 29th, Road Cleanup, Oct. 13th and the Rehoboth Beach Boardwalk Buddy Walk, which benefits Downs Syndrome, Oct. 20th @ 9:00am.  I spoke about World Food Day (Oct. 16th) and how we need to organize helping serve food like we did last year at the church, or doing some kind of food drive for that.  Mike Ohr talked some more about the progress he's made in organizing Boat Drinks.  Sylvia gave the treasurer's report.   We did the 50/50 drawing and Holly Wright won $62.00.  We then raffled off the rest of the items we had from Boat Drinks and the leftover shirts.  I believe we raised $46.00 from the raffle and $62.00 from the 50/50.  We all had a blast, eating, drinking, dancing and enjoying being together!  Our next meeting will be at Sorentino's Restaurant on September 19th @ 7:30pm.

Manana -  DSPHC upcoming meetings &events:

 9/15/07  - SATURDAY – THE COASTAL CLEANP.  OUR BEACH IS ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE INDIAN RIVER INTLET.  WE WILL MEET AT THE NORTH PARKING LOT OF THE INLET, WHICH IS ON THE REHOBOTH BAY SIDE OF THE ROAD, JUST NORTH OF THE BRIDGE.  THE CLEANUP WILL BEGIN AT 9:00 A.M.  MEMBERS SHOULD BE AT THE PARKING LOT NO LATER THAN 8:45 A.M.  THE RAIN DATE FOR THIS EVENT IS 9/22/07.  BRING GLOVES !!!

 9/19/07  – Monthly Meeting ~ Sorentino’s 7:30 p.m. 

 9/29/07 – SATURDAY - ALZHEIMER’S WALK - PARROT HEAD VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO ASSIST IN THE PREPARATION AND COORDINATION OF THE EVENT.   THEY WANT US AT THE GROVE PARK, WHICH IS RIGHT OFF OF REHOBOTH AVE. JUST PAST THE RAILROAD TRACKS AT 7:30 A.M.  WE HELP SET UP FOR THE WALK, DIRECT CARS FOR PARKING AND TAKE CARE OF A WATER STATION.

10/13/07 – SATURDAY – PARROT HEAD ROAD CLEAN-UP, 11:00 AM.  FROM ROUTE 1, TURN ONTO ROUTE 9 ( GEORGETOWN-LEWES ROAD ).  MAKE AN IMMEDIATE LEFT ONTO ROUTE 23 SOUTH.  MAKE AN IMMEDIATE RIGHT ONTO ROUTE 23 SOUTH ( BEAVER DAM ROAD ).  GO 2.3 MILES ON ROUTE 23 SOUTH.  YOU WILL COME TO A FORK IN THE ROAD.   OUR ROAD IS ON THE LEFTHAND SIDE OF THE FORK.  LOOK FOR THE ADOPT-A-HIGHWAY SIGN WITH THE PARROTHEAD NAME ON IT.  WE WILL MEET AT THE SIGN.  BRING GLOVES !!! 

Migration – Neighboring Clubs & Parrot Head Events:

 

The Washington Area Parrot Head Club is excited to invite you to spend an evening with us & Hugo Duarte!!  Friday, September 21   

(www.hugoduarte.com) to benefit the Capital Area Food Bank! For those of you who

 can't make it to MOTM this year, or those who want to start the party

 early, we're bringing a little piece of MOTM to you! Transport yourself to

 late night at the Hog's Breath on the back deck at Kilroy's, starting

 at 7:30pm. Admission is only $10 with a non-perishable food donation,

 $15 without. 

 Kilroy's is located in Ravensworth Shopping Center at:

5250-A Port Royal Rd.Springfield Virginia 22151Phone: 703-321-7733

http://www.kilroys.com/

Feel free to contact board@waphc.com or events@waphc.com with any

questions!

Amish Beach Bash!

      Come one, come all to the Amish Beach Bash Saturday, 9/29/2007.  Come and enjoy the music of Jim Hoehn, Tropical Soul and Jim Morris and the Big Bamboo Band!  All proceeds benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Lancaster, York and the Capitol Region!  Please help us help them in a big way!

      Tickets are $50 and $40, please go to our website, www.amishparrotheads.com, Amish Beach Bash link for more information.  If you have any questions concerning the event or would like to donate something please contact:  Rick Clapper – Rclapper1@verizon.net or Tracy McFatridge – m cridgef@comcast.net  

DOOR NUMBER THREE:

From National Geographic's Green Guide:

Even though we've told you to save them before, we just can't get enough of
those adorably fat, loveably tubby, roly poly manatees. And who could? Just
look at those faces!
Apparently, the folks over at Oreana Wine Company in Santa Barbara, Calif.,
felt the same way. Christian Garvin, Oreana's founder, developed a natural
affinity for the creature when he was younger, visiting relatives in Florida. He
even adopted one named Brutus, although Garvin says that Brutus appears to
have gone AWOL since no one has seen him in about two years. "They have a
pretty good life," he says of manatees. "They don't have to eat insects, just eat
grass, and they have no natural predators other than people and their speed
boats."
Speedboats have already killed 11 manatees this year in southwest Florida,
but a bigger problem manatees are facing is that of "red tide," algae blooms
spurred by a fatal bacteria that infiltrates the sea grass manatees eat. And if
red tide can spell doom for an entire species, can red wine help to save it?
A few sips of Oreana's Manatee Merlot ($10) will hopefully vault the
species' status from threatened back to safer territory. Twenty percent of the
proceeds from each bottle is being donated to the Save the Manatee organization,
founded by country crooner Jimmy Buffett and former Florida governor Bob
Graham to improve the welfare and habitats of manatees. And if red isn't your
favorite, Oreana has plans to sell a Manatee White wine next year.
So go ahead and raise your glass to saving a Floridian treasure with a
California vintage. After all, it's 5:00 somewhere.
To order a bottle, visit _www.manateemerlot. com_
(http://www.manateemerlot.com/) . The wine is also being sold in most Costco stores across Florida.

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The complicated uncomplicated life of Jimmy Buffett

Jack of all trades

Recording artist: More than 50 titles, half of them released on Buffett's labels. Sales in excess of $250 million.

Top songs: "Margaritaville," "Come Monday," "Fins," "Volcano," "A Pirate Looks At Forty," "Cheeseburger in Paradise". . .

Jamaican dogsled team sponsor: Chris Blackwell and Andrea Stewart have chronicled Buffett's sponsorship of Jamaican dogsled team Sun Dogs in upcoming doc of the same name.

Resorts, U.S. and Mexico restaurant franchises: Margaritaville Cafes, Cheeseburger in Paradise diners, Margaritaville Casino Resort

Novelist: Tales from Margaritaville, Where Is Joe Merchant?, A Pirate Looks At Fifty (autobiography), A Salty Piece of Land, The Jolly Mon, Trouble Dolls (children's books co-written with his daughter).

Film/TV score composer: Hoot, Rancho Deluxe

Movie producer: Hoot

Stage musical composer/producer: Don't Stop the Carnival

Actor: Hoot, Repo Man, Hook, Cobb, Congo, From the Earth to the Moon

Internet radio owner: Radio Margaritaville

Brewery brand owner: Land Shark Lager

Sep 01, 2007 04:30 AM

Greg Quill
Entertainment Columnist

 

Sometimes Jimmy Buffett's world gets a little too complicated.

After a lifetime spent in the pursuit of uncluttered self-contentment – "some music, a couple of hours in the water, a nap in the afternoon is all I really need," the American folk-pop icon said during a recent interview – he seems to have achieved exactly the opposite.

He's the head of a massive and complex empire that embraces recording, distribution, music publishing, merchandising and concert interests; the creation of several bestselling novels and an autobiography; Internet radio; movie and stage musical productions; two restaurant chains; a brewery, and a casino resort that will open in Biloxi, Miss. in 2010, not far from his birthplace in Pascagoula.

The 61-year-old accidental mogul, who also flies and collects antique planes and regularly sails his own yacht to distant and exotic destinations, says he has "about 4,000 or 5,000" people working for him and a handful of executives who take care of the various day-to-day operations of his multi-faceted business.

But though he likes to think he has his hand on the wheel, that's not always the case. A few months ago the much-mythologized, free-spirited macho icon worshipped by hundreds of thousands of self-proclaimed Parrotheads approved a general U.S.-food industry-inspired ban on Canadian seafood in his restaurants and immediately found himself at odds with his legions of Canadian fans, as well as relatives in Newfoundland.

"It came across my desk about six months ago, after all that media controversy over the seal hunt in Canada," Buffett said.

"It's a difficult issue. The Florida net ban, which we also supported, resulted in an increase in the fish population around the Gulf, so I went along with the Canadian seafood ban because I care about the environment and the welfare of the oceans.

"But I do have family in Canada, and I do understand the implications of the ban, and how it has affected their way of life. I hope it can be resolved. But I think the Canadian government can do a better job than I can."

Quickly changing the subject, he declares his only "real job is getting up onstage and making music ... that's my first love."

But he does that job at his own pace, performing only about 25 shows a year.

He plays the Molson Amphitheatre Wednesday night.

"I never thought I'd be doing this in my 60s," he said.

A life in music was a dream that foundered several times in the 1960s, when a Nashville deal yielded nothing, and the wannabe singer found himself divorced and prodding a typewriter as a journalist for Billboard. It was a job his mother would have approved.

"She always wanted me to be a writer in the grand Southern style. The seafaring side of my family are all great storytellers.

"But I didn't get spoiled by success," he chuckled. "I loved the beach too much, I worked in a bar, I did some busking ... finally I was lucky to find something in Key West that turned it around."

The thing he found was "Margaritaville," the song to which Buffett's name will forever be linked, the "what-me-worry?" plaint of a loser bathing his wounds in alcohol and the bucolic haze of a sun-drenched paradise.

The sentiments and the breezy delivery resonate across generations of those who, like Buffett, would eagerly trade deadlines and responsibilities for the chance to bang on their drums all day.

"I wrote that song in six minutes," he said, marvelling at its lasting cultural effects. "But I'm not the first person to sell escapism, and I had no idea that it would start something as big as the Parrothead movement."

Of course, Buffett encouraged them shamelessly. Parrothead-related business and merchandise generate revenue in the tens of millions every year, helping make Buffett one of the wealthiest music stars in the world.

"I've been lucky enough to be able to combine a creative work ethic with a lot of luck," he said. "This was not my plan. I never cared about security of longevity."

But Buffett seems to find treasure at the end of every adventure, except perhaps in the movie business and on the musical stage, where, he admitted, he flopped.

However, his natural talent for spinning yarns has developed in the last decade into a second career as an writer of novels and children's stories. His latest, Swine Not?, will be published in November.

"Unlike music, writing is hard and lonely work. I just wanted to see if I had the discipline to do it.

"I never thought I'd be a success."

Sounds like the story of Jimmy Buffett's life.

Jon Bon Jovi's star-filled Hamptons party is a rock & roll ball of fame

BY GEORGE RUSH
DAILY NEWS COLUMNIST

Monday, September 3rd 2007, 4:00 AM

A little Hamptons dinner party turned into a summit of the rock gods Saturday night.

Jon Bon Jovi and his wife, Dorothea, were celebrating nothing more than the end of summer when they invited some friends over to their East Hampton spread. But then their friends do include Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Billy Joel, Jimmy Buffett and Pink Floyd's Roger Waters.

The surf-and-turf dinner would have been enough for a crowd that included Renee Zellwegger, Naomi Watts, Howard Stern, "Today" anchor Matt Lauer, designer Donna Karan, New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner and "Saturday Night Live" producer Lorne Michaels.

But, about 11 p.m., Bon Jovi jumped onstage to join the party band. Pretty soon, people were dancing.

Before long, McCartney joined Bon Jovi at the mike - along with Joel, Buffett and Waters.

"Billy was wailing on the keyboards," said one guest. "They performed for a good hour of rock classics. Nobody could believe it. Howard Stern was really rocking out."

Though New Jersey boy Springsteen had left before the jam, Corzine seemed pleased when Bon Jovi belted out "Who Says You Can't Go Home," the theme song of the New Jersey Tourist Board

"The governor led people on to the dance floor," said the guest.

"The whole thing was spontaneous. It was the first Hamptons party in years that was actually fun."

JIMMY APPEARANCES…..

~~~MOTM 2007~~~

2007’s MOTM will be November 1st thru November 4^th at the end of the road in Key West.  Registration will again close on September 15th or at 3500 attendees, whichever comes first.

PHIP currently has 2500 registrations…. So get em in there quick pholks!!! 

 Info, & registration:  http://www.phip.com/

 THESE DSPHC MEMBERS ARE ALREADY REGISTERED TO JOIN THE FUN !!!...

Looks Like This Is The Final Crew for DSPHC!!! 

Auld, Debbie

Auld, Gary

Brittingham, Betty
Diehl, Sylvia
Enevold, Kathy
Heffner, Carolyn
Hefke, Karen
McKenzie, Kathryn
McKenzie, Michael
Mignone, Elisa
Ohr, Dave
Ohr, Jr., Mike
Ohr, Sr, Michael

Reese, Cindy

Reese, Tom

Ross, Angela
Zaleta, Bernard

Growing Older But Not Up - Upcoming Birthdays:

 

One more candle on the cake ….  A big fins up to current members celebrating birthdays in
SEPTEMBER!!!

Bob Hudson             9/3

Stan Rempuszewski 9/8

Connie Hall              9/9

Jane Green             9/12

John Sykes             9/14

John Bovich            9/15

Stan Alexion           9/19

Bruce Wright         9/19

Barbara Sharpe      9/21

Bob Hampshire       9/22

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