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Monday JUly 10, 2006
The TCRC Sight Center will host its annual open house from 4 to 7 p.m. at 119 E. Washington St., East Peoria, in the Regions Bank building. Enjoy refreshments as you learn about the services the center offers.Bag it up!
Eat lunch in the Peoria Courthouse plaza as you listen to Laurel Jean perform from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. as part of the 2006 Brown Bag It series.
Family flick
The movie "Zathura" will be shown at dusk at Glen Oak Amphitheatre, so bring the family and a blanket. The cost is 25 cents a person. Before the movie, enjoy a performance of children's plays by Camp Onstage for free at 7:30 p.m.
Can you dig it?
Show your friends (ages 18 and older) you're all aces at open volleyball from 7:30 to 10 p.m. at Franciscan Recreation Center. The cost is $3.
India : BAIC strives to keep alive Bahamian heritage
The Bahamas Agricultural and Industrial Corporation (BAIC) declared plans for its upcoming 10-day handicraft summer course for high school students to promote the programme of spotting young Bahamian entrepreneurs.The programme commences from July 11, for children aged eight and above, featuring handicraft training in knitting, crocheting, beading and plastic canvassing each targeted for young children to develop new skills.
Training will be held at the Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institution (BTVI) while BAIC's a highly qualified and experienced shell craft expert Veronica Ellis will instruct summer course.
Ellis will direct the students in making blankets, clothing, hats and beaded jewelry.
The course is the best way to capture and develop creative individualism and generate wealth of knowledge among the youth.
Interval supports CTO education foundation
Interval International, a vacation exchange company, and resorts affiliated with its exchange network, announced their continued financial support of Caribbean tourism education with a $20,000 donation to the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) Education Foundation.The check was presented by David Callaghan, vice president resort sales and service, Interval International, to Hon. Pamela C. Richards, CTO Chairman and Commissioner of Tourism for the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Jacqueline Johnson, CTC, chairman of the CTO Foundation, as part of Caribbean Week in New York City.
"This is the seventh year Interval International and its resort affiliates have made a donation to the CTO Foundation, an organization that has done so much to educate Caribbean-based students in the hospitality and tourism professions," said Callaghan.
Your message high in the sky on a kite
Advertisers looking for a new venue to reach consumers as they head for the beach will be able to plaster their ads on kiteboarders sails starting this summer. The ad-laden sails skim and soar, drawing attention to their sponsors logo.To find out how to get your clients message gliding along the waterfront within view of consumers out having fun in the sun, read on.
This is one in a Media Life series on buying the new out-of-home venues. They appear weekly.
Fast Facts
What
Ads placed on kites that tow riders on wakeboards along beaches.
Who
Kite Billboard, headquartered in Largo, Fla.
How it works
Ads are printed on the entire surface of the kites, which tow riders across the water.
NBA players invade Nassau - on business
Capitalising on the attention sports figures tend to generate, the Ministry of Tourism hosted this year's annual NBA & WNBA Players Association Conference this past weekend at the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island.Tourism Minister Obie Wilchcombe says that his mi-nistry is looking forward to a long term relationship with the NBA & WNBA. "We hope that you all enjoy your visit here so much that the NBA Players Association would want to host a conference every year here in The Bah-amas," Wilchcombe joked.
He also said that Tourism, along with the Ministry of Sports, will be working toget-her to ensure that facilities are in place in order to host high profile sporting events here in the Bahamas.
A number of NBA players were at Sunday's conference in the Crown Ballroom of the of the Atlantis Resort.
JIMENITA SWAIN, Guardian Senior Reporter
Two tourists have contracted malaria after visiting Exuma, the Public Health Agency of Canada has reported, heightening fears that the recent outbreak of the potentially deadly disease on the island could deal a serious blow to the country's tourist industry.According to a statement posted on the agency's website, a Canadian and an American traveller contracted malaria after having recently visited Great Exuma.
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) said it was closely monitoring the outbreak and had advised Canadians travelling to the island to use anti-malarial medication and personal insect protective measures against mosquito bites. The Centre for Disease Control in the United States last week issued a similar advisory to American citizens travelling to Exuma.