Jazz & Blues with Cool 21 Friday at The City Wine Sellar

Jazz & Blues with Cool 21 Friday at The City Wine Sellar
Host: Debbie Malenfant
Location: City Wine Sellar
102 Water Street, Elizabeth City, NC 27909 US
When: Friday, August 8, 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Phone: 252-335-1163

Liven up your Friday night with Jazz & Blues by Cool 21. This unique band will relax and entertain you from 7:00-10:00 pm. Sit back, close your eyes, and you may feel like you are on Bourbon Street, New Orleans. Join us at The Sellar Wine Bar (located inside The City Wine Sellar) for dinner (served from 6:00-9:00 pm) or a cool glass of wine. Entertainment from 7-10 pm. Regular deli menu items served from 6-9 pm. Non-smoking inside venue. Smoking allowed in outside cafe. RSVP nice, but not necessary.

Check out other upcoming events at www.CityWine.blogspot.com. Call 252-335-1163 for more information.

Lynyrd Skynyrd Live in Concert here in Elizabeth City

Tickets are open to the public through www.etix.com or by calling 1-800-514-3849.

Bayside Manor Design House on WVEC-TV

On August 4th 2008 Russ Haddad, Director of the Elizabeth City Area Convention & Visitors Bureau, and Holly Wright, owner of The Wright Solution, went onto WVEC-TV for a noon news interview with Lasalle Blanks. They spoke about The Designer House at Bayside Manor happening Aug. 3 -- 17, 2008 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.



"The Designer House at Bayside Manor" tours will be held from Aug. 3 -- 17, Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sundays from 12 to 4 p.m. Tickets are $15 at the door and can be purchased in advance for $12 by calling Arts of the Albemarle at (252) 330-1333. A two-week pass is also available for $24 and allows ticket holders access to such special on-site events as a fashion show, butterfly gardening workshop and a harp concert. The boutique at Bayside will feature a "garden theme" displaying original paintings, prints, photography and handcrafts for purchase by Arts of the Albemarle artists and craftsman. For additional information go to www.BaysideManorTour.com

To find out more about Elizabeth City please go to www.DiscoverElizabethCity.com

Big Sale and Wakeboard Comp this weekend

This weekend is the tax free weekend in North Carolina. The Board Room will be offering great discounts along with the tax free weekend to make sure you get the most for your money. We know that you want your children looking good going back to school. We will also be in Chesapeake doing a wakeboard comp. along with Ski Boats Unlimited Saturday. Please read about below sale info!

Tax Free Sale will be

40% off all shorts, bathing suits, tank tops, S/S dress shirts and Flip Flops

20% off all pants/ jeans, L/S dress shirts, Hoodies, jackets and shoes.

10% off all S/S T-shirts, bags, backpacks and Accessories

(excluding crocs)
EAST COAST WAKEFEST WAKEBOARDING TOURNAMENT
by SKI BOATS UNLTD AT OAK GROVE LAKE PARK - THIS WEEKEND - AUGUST 2ND

INCASE YOU HAVEN'T HEARD !!!

BIGGEST PAYOUT EVER

$6,000.00 plus …
HUGE Trophies for 1st, 2nd & 3rd place and Prizes from "The Board Room"

Registration 7:30 a.m.
(First Come First Serve - 80 RIDER CAP)

Registration $45.00

We will have Wakeskate & Wakesurf Divisions
**If signing up for additional divisions there will be another registration fee of $25.00**

FOR MORE INFO CALL - SKI BOATS UNLTD. 252-547-2337
The Board Room
252-337-RIDE
252-337-7432 (fax)
103 Tanglewood Parkway
Suite I
Elizabeth City, NC 27909
www.wakeboardroom.com

National Night Out Against Crime

Elizabeth City Police Department
P.O. Box 347
Elizabeth City, N.C. 27909
252-335-4321

***For Immediate Release***

July 23rd , 2008
TO: All Broadcast & Print Media

FROM: Elizabeth City Police Department

REF: National Night Out Against Crime

The Elizabeth City Police Department will host their fourth Annual National Night Out Against Crime, Tuesday August 5th, 2008, from 5pm-10pm at Waterfront Park in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Set up to be completed at 4pm.

Festivities will begin at 5pm down at the waterfront with block parties being hosted throughout the city, where police will caravan and distribute crime prevention material. Then the opening ceremonies will begin at 6:30pm at the center stage with a speech from Frank Parrish with the District Attorneys office, and conclude at 9pm with a “Unity Walk” through the Cale/Shepard Street area.

National Night Out is an event held across the nation to promote crime prevention, police community relationships and neighborhood unity. More than 110,000 communities and 34 million people are expected to join forces on this night and make their neighborhoods crime and gang free.

The Elizabeth City Police Department certainly intends to do their part by having a going away party for crime that you will always remember and criminals would like to forget.

Local singing artist Linda Farley will have a live performance starting at 5:30pm with a local favorite “Further Adieu” capping of the festivities from 7:30pm until 10:00pm.

There will be scores of demonstrations, static displays by local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. A car & motorcycle show, planes, military vehicles, boats, race cars, monster trucks, and a NASCAR simulator. Plenty of kids activities to include face painting, super slide, a rock wall, Jurassic adventure, Dixie twister, moon walk, and a lot more. There will be live K-9, Project Lifesaver, and martial arts demonstrations. Don’t forget plenty of good food, OVER 150 booths.

The highlights of the night will be our very own, 2nd Annual “Doughnut Eating Contest” with a trophy going to the “Top Cop” and our 1st Tug-Of-War Challenge, “Come Pull Against the Pork.” We will also host a car and motorcycle show with best in show trophies going to 4 divisions, antique, newer model, sport and touring class.

Come out and enjoy this event; bring your lounge chair or favorite blanket and picnic in the park as we march crime out of Elizabeth City.

Contact: Lt. John D. Young, Elizabeth City Police Department, 252-335-4321 or 252-384-3657 or Officer Grace Carter at 252-384-3616.

Dismal Swamp State Park - August Events

Dismal Swamp State Park
2294 US 17 North
South Mills, NC 27976

We encourage participants to pre-register for all programs by calling the park office at 252-771-6593.

Sunday, August 17th

Make a Fish Kite: Looking for something creative to do on a Sunday afternoon? Join us in the classroom from 1pm – 3pm and make a fish kite. We’ll supply the materials, you supply the imagination. Ages 8 to adult; children must be accompanied by an adult.

Saturday, August 23rd

Serpents of the Dismal: Get a close-up view of some of Dismal Swamp’s native snakes. Learn the role that these reptiles play within the ecosystem and how to distinguish venomous species from the non-venomous. The program will be held in the auditorium and starts at 1pm. Open to all ages.

Sunday, August 24th

Moths: The Other Butterflies: Learn more about the “night butterflies” we barely see. Join us in the auditorium at 11am for a slide show of various moths and we’ll discuss what makes moths so fascinating to find and observe.

Saturday, August 30th

Black Bear: Meet in the auditorium at 3pm to learn a little bit more about the black bear. Suitable for all ages.

Daily Advance: 'Market Impossible'

One of our board members, Andy Montero of Montero's Restaurant, will be participating in the first ever "Market Impossible"! Which will be held at Elizabeth City's Downtown Waterfront Market this Saturday starting at 9:30 am. Please read the following excerpt from the Daily Advance article to find out more on this event:

By ROBERT KELLY-GOSS
Albemarle Life Editor
'Can food be entertaining? Sure, just ask the folks at Food Network.

That's where Downtown Waterfront Market got its most recent idea, a popular show called "Dinner Impossible." For Elizabeth City folks, however, we'll call it "Market Impossible."

The premise of the show is to give a chef near-impossible conditions and obstacles to overcome in order to create a meal in record time. Locally, market coordinator Denise Richards says a chef will have five minutes to gather produce from any one of six produce vendors at the farmer's market this Saturday, and then less than an hour to create a meal on a stage, for vendors and market-goers to see.

This is the first go at "Market Impossible," with plans to do it monthly. To kick it off, Richards recruited well-known restaurateur and chef Andy Montero and his sous chef Brandon Clark for the challenge.

"They keep trying to cut me down to less and less basic things I want to bring," says Montero, laughing about the limitations placed on him for the challenge.

The idea is to limit Montero and Clark as to what they can bring to the challenge; you know, you can't have a container of sauce on hand to gussy up a pan of sauteed squash. At first, Montero thought he would have a chance to bring some of his personal cooking equipment like burners and the like, but even that has been scaled down and forbidden. ......'

To read more from this article please click here. To find out more about the Downtown Waterfront Market please check out their website or call 252-338-0169.