Thursday, July 17, 2008

SPI Wins Barefoot Beach Rescue

The report is in: Rob Nixon, volunteer coordinator for the South Texas Chapter of Surfrider Foundation, posted on the SPI Forum

WE WON THE BAREFOOT BEACH RESCUE!!!

Everyone mark your calendars for Saturday August 23 and block off the whole day for a beach restoration followed by some wine and live music by Tristan Prettyman!!

Thank you all for voting and helping Surfrider Foundation South Texas to bring this event to South Padre Island!!

Thank you, thank you!!

More details on where everything will be taking place to follow shortly!!

Once again Thank You from Stuart, Chrissy, Frank, Leah, Shawn, Dave, myself!!

And, I want to thank anyone who responded to my posts and helped by taking the time to vote for the South Padre Island beaches. Any and all attention we can bring to the issue of keeping our beaches clean and any help we can get will help.

Congratulations, Rob and to everyone else who worked so hard on this campaign.

2 comments:

Rob Nixon said...

Thank you Joni!!

I am looking forward to finally meeting you in August if not sooner.

Joni said...

and vice versa.

I did meet Jay,a friend of yours, I understand, at Dorado's the other night and told him I enjoyed reading your blog and posts on the forum.

Its nice that everyone can be part of the island community, and even an "old lady" is made to feel welcome.