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12-Year-Old Collects 152,000 Signatures to Ban Plastic Bags
Abby Goldberg of Grayslake is now taking her environmental fight against plastic bags to Illinois Governor Pat Quinn.
Governor Quinn: Don't let big plastic bully me!
That is how 12-year-old Abby Goldberg of Grayslake titled her online petition against plastic bags. As of June 30, the petition has collected 152,376 signatures from around the country. And the numbers keep growing.
The petition states: "Once again, big corporations are trying to use big government to control the rights of citizens in towns all over America, but this time you can help me stop it!"
It continues to talk about how she wanted to get a ban of plastic bags approved for her hometown, but then faced a bigger fight: "My friends and I were making great progress, until the oil and chemical industry pulled a dirty trick to kill my campaign; these lobbyists used the politicians that they bought to pass a bill that would make it illegal for towns across Illinois to create plastic bag bans! Even worse, they're trying to make it look like a green environmental bill, by putting in a few ridiculously low requirements for so-called "recycling" of plastic bags, and are bragging they're going to make it "a model bill for all states!"
Goldberg said the issue is about the bags, and big government.
"It's about small towns trying to say what they want to do," she said. "The plastic bags are really bad for the environment. I chose to try to get plastic bags banned in my town. This bill would stop that."
The elementary school activist at Prairie Crossing Charter School in Grayslake said she is excited by the response to her campaign at http://www.change.org/petitions/governor-quinn-don-t-let-big-plastic-bully-me.
"I'm so surprised," Goldberg said. "It makes me feel great because I know that my efforts have really made an impact. No matter how old you are, you can still do good things if you put your mind to it."
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Change.org stated that SB 3442 has passed both the Illinois House and the Illinois Senate and would make it illegal for towns across Illinois to create plastic bag bans.
The bill is now on Quinn's desk. He has not indicated whether he plans to sign the bill so Goldberg is mobilizing support to urge him to veto the measure.
"Kids and adults like me are standing up to big oil and big plastic, creating bans everywhere, including in Los Angeles, Hawaii, Seattle, Austin, and more. Communities should be able to decide for themselves whether or not to ban single-use plastic bags, including here in Illinois," Goldberg stated.
Supporters of SB 3442 have said that they hope this can be model legislation for other states, which could effectively limit the ability of communities nationwide to pass bans on plastic bags.
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"Young people like Abby Goldberg are using Change.org to level the playing field against big companies and big lobbyists," stated Mike Jones, deputy campaign director at Change.org.
"This has become one of our most popular petitions," he said. "This is an issue that certainly engages people. It attracts people who are concerned about the environmental impacts of plastic bags, and others who care about government not being able to tell people what to do."
Change.org is a platform for petitions about almost anything. Jones said they have nearly 15 million users overall from throughout the United States and in 10 countries around the world.
"In general, there are about 10,000 petitions started on change.org per month," Jones said. "Several stay small. Abby's is one of the ones that really hit a nerve."
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9:49 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
Enough government regulations! Don't like plastic bags: DON'T USE THEM.
Ditto for all the other crap going around today, from banning gay marriage & abortion to handgun bans to all the other nanny state regulations.
The only legitimate function of government is to protect my rights from being infringed by others, NOT to be the one doing all the infringing.
Jessica Bertelli
11:21 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
Thanks Bob, I agree with you that banning gay marriage, abortion and handguns is largely wrong. That's exactly why Abby's right on this -- the plastic lobby's bill is a ban on community choice. It takes away choice of local communities decide issues for themselves, and puts it into the hands of special interests that, trust me, are NOT doing this to protect your rights. They hope to trick you into getting them more money. Plain and simple.
Jessica Bertelli
11:31 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
I'd argue that plastic bag use is not a personal freedom, just like overly loud sound amplification in an apartment building, public dumping of toxic chemicals into your living room, robbery... they're in everyone's face, spread everywhere, destroy everyone's air, waste everyone's natural resources and thus the users force it to be a community issue, by imposing on other humans and the environment.
Regarding taxing bags or banning freedom or whatever, think for a second about it this way: the clean up costs for your "freedom bag" are huge and largely fruitless. That's paid for by your government, and then people complain that they're borrowing too much to run your government for you, but you won't let them raise taxes so... essentially you're crapping all over your city, allowing people less considerate than you are to crap more carelessly, spreading stink, then banning your fellow citizens from trying to clean up your mess, then when money's tight, voting against paying your fair share.
If these points don't ring true to you, there's really nothing anyone can say. When it comes to resources and the environment, it is not cut as cut and dry as stupid marriage bans, pot bans, etc. Thanks
9:50 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
Oh, yea, electronic petitions aren't worth the paper they're printed on.
Cindy McGowan
10:19 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
Kudos to Abby for taking a stand and following through on something so important to her and to the world we live in. There are however other considerations to make besides just making a blanket statement regarding banning all plastic bags. I happen to work in the plastic industry, so I obviously have a bias. I cannot speak for all manufacturers, however an extremely large percentage of our products do come from recycled material. We receive huge quantities of used plastic bags that we reprocess into the resin used to make our product. Also, there are additives that can be included in the resin that help break down the plastic quicker thus making it biodegradable. This is all in addition to things people can do on a personal level, ie, repurposing and reusing bags. So perhaps instead of an all-out ban, new guidelines can be recommended on the type of product used for consumers. We should all think of solutions and stay informed.
Jessica Bertelli
11:14 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
To address some concerns on here about plastic, if you want to go there and don't want to do the research...
1. Yes, paper bags are in some way as bad and even much worse for the environment -- at the factory. That's why bag bans typically come with a discouragement fee of using those too. HOWEVER, plastic is a bigger problem. It's a non-renewable resource, leaving a product that never goes away, leaves potentially toxic chemicals in our bodies forever, just by handling them, and helps destroy our oceans. Remember that place we get our oxygen from? Yeah, the oceans. Paper is degradable. Paper is renewable. Paper is more easily recycled. Paper is not refused by recycling centers, as the vast majority of plastic bags are by the vast majority of recycling centers.
Think beyond the alarmist bell.
10:50 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
TO EVERYONE BUT BOB THE TROLL (See why below in the final comment):
Wake up. This is about a corporate special interest with no local power using their bought buddies in big government to control local government. If this were called the XYZ Control Act, written by the XYZ lobby group, and the bill slipped in "By the way, your town can never ban XYZ product, no matter the reason, no matter how bad you know it is for your town or how much it costs your town to deal with our product or what your citizens want," then ask yourself if you'd support it.
If you say you would, you're either not being honest with yourself, with me, or you work for the plastics industry.
This is not about recycling. Framing it as such is falling for a trick by the plastics industry to misguide you into discussing the wrong topic.
Why this isn't written for Bob:
Studies show that people like Cindy can be reasoned with, and trolls like Bob who mastered the ability to hate and use caps, but have not mastered reason, civility and thinking outside his own preconceptions cannot, so Bobby, you are disregarded.
Jessica Bertelli
10:57 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
GO ABBY! Stand up for our freedom - our right for a voice against an industry that has all the money to buy their own voice. People on here talking about plastic are missing the point...
It's great to argue about whether plastic bags can be truly recycled -- they can't in 99% of the cases, only downcycled -- or whether our dwindling supply of fossil fuels should be used for the convenience of making the lives of people like Bob easier to procreate, or whether we should destroy our ecosystems and future in order to grow our economy by consuming, consuming finite resources, feeling good about recycling here and there so that we make the party last another decade or two, at the cost of EVERYTHING....
This is about your town being to what to do. If you fall for their rhetoric, you lose, I lose, they win. It's so insanely obvious.
Rit Sheridan
11:01 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
Instead of "cursing" Abby's efforts, we as adults should be encouraging her involvement. Young people like Abby give me hope for the future of the World.
11:24 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
FYI, we do recycle all our paper and plastic bags, and most of our household garbage. We also use reusable bags for everything except fresh meat. By choice, not because someone forces us to do so. We also own fuel efficient vehicles and an energy efficient house. Again by choice.
Stuff that leaks, like fresh meat, or is moist, like frozen food just doesn't work well in paper, and I'd never put raw meat in reusable bags.
Jessica Bertelli
11:42 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
Kudos to you for doing some of your part, Bob! I mean that.
Unfortunately, not enough people do what you do to address this enormous, unprecedented problem, and even if they did, it's not enough. It just pushes our problem back a few years. Even if you reduced your plastic bag use by 90%, that'd still just delay the problem.
11:29 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012
How about schools that institute recycling programs, then dump everything, garbage and recycle, into the same dumpster? that's what's happening out there at least in our school district.
SO why bother spending extra money to buy all the recycle containers if the stuff in them doesn't get recycled?
Gary Kavanagh
12:02 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
Keep up the good fight Abby. Single use plastic bags are unnessisary, most never get recycled & they sit in the biosphere almost indefinitely.
Here in Santa Monica California we banned plastic bags & added a paper bag fee, but not without significant pushback from the petrochemical lobbies. It was so important for us as a beachside community, & the irreparable damage plastic particles are having to ocean life. Neighboring Los Angeles, a city as big in population as some countries, is moving forward with a ban modeled after Santa Monica's.
Young kids in the school system here helped champion the cause & made a "bag monster" suit from old bags & made appearances at local festivals & city council. The youth have to lead on policy for the future they will live to see, & I hope that your motivation prevails. Build a social movement. Fight. Win. You can do it.
Cindy McGowan
12:05 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
I also completely applaud Abby's efforts!! It's young people like her that will make a difference in everyone's lives now and in the future by insisting that local governments are allowed to have a voice. And as far as the argument whether or not plastic can or cannot be truly recycled or biodegradable, there are no "tricks" here. I was referring to something on a much bigger scale than simply the few bags of groceries we all pick up at the store every week. Consider the waste disposed of on a daily basis by the health care industry. Insisting on a ban is fine, however the need for solutions that will protect our environment as well allowing us to productively function as a society need to be considered. The technology and knowledge is out there.
1:14 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
Good for you A young progressive!! Keep up the good work!
a smith
1:54 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
Another your progressive..HA another young Obama democrat. Why do we need Govt to tell us to use paper or plastic. I like plastic as well and yes it can be recycled. Much better than carrying big paper bags or bringing my own bag. I dont want someone elses dirty bag where my groceries are. Good you want to get a petition but how bout work for a people not littering. Do you know how much stuff people just throw out of their cars or in parking lots.
Just what we need a Govt telling us something else we cannot use. I think Gov Quinn better worry about much more pressing things in Illinois like , the State is broke, high taxes etc etc. list goes on.
3:05 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
I don't believe in recycling, its a waste of time made up by people to make the masses feel better and participate in group think. From now on I will ask for plastic only, double bagged.
3:54 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
Oh irony. You realize that doing the exact opposite of something doesn't make you smarter than the people who are doing whatever you disagree with? You accuse people of not thinking about an issue and just doing something because everyone else is. You are not thinking about an issue and are just doing something because everyone else is doing the opposite. Bravo on that complex thinking there.
Besides, why stop at double bagged?
4:07 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
Eventually it will come back around. I'm old enough to remember when paper bags were the evil in this world, as grocery stores started to convert over to the friendly plastic bags. Kind of like the global cooling in the 1970s was all the rage. I'm just ahead of my time.
Gary Kavanagh
6:38 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
Science is a process of progressions in understanding. It is not always right, but it's a process of self correction as new or better data becomes available. The consequences of plastic were not well understood then because the stuff hadn't been widely used for long enough to see it's persistence in ecosystems and what the long term effects would be.
Global cooling was a real concern for a time because in the cycles of natural climate shifts in the historical record, we were considered due for a cooling age by some researchers. However climate models then hadn't developed to account for the effect of our emissions of stored carbon. Instead of a slight cooling, we are now getting incredibly rapid warming that is being borne out in smashed temperature records across the country and across the globe, stronger storms, and more crushing droughts in the Southwest.
Going back to thinking in terms of what data was available in the 1970's does not make you ahead of the times. It means you are stuck and incapable of making rational choices on the best information we have available.
5:01 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
I like plastic bags and have found many way to reuse them. I also recycle them if I collect too many. I don't think they should be banned.
7:39 pm on Saturday, June 30, 2012
Gary, wait a few years when cardigan sweaters and facial hair become a global threat. You may want to act now.
7:22 am on Sunday, July 1, 2012
Good for her! The government can ban regular lightbulbs, they can ban Cranberry juice ( a governor is working on that one), and you guys think this is so horrible? When plastic bags first came out, paper bags were practically banned. Paper: renewable, recyclable, biodegradeable, doesn't get stuck in trees, or clog up oceans and rivers. You can grow it back. Plastc? Hardly, and uses alot of petroleum in the manufacture. In this country, it is a federal law that 3 trees are planted for every 1 harvested - it is a very highly regulated industry. If you look at the whole country, the harvested areas are very small, and are growing back BEFORE the next area is harvested. There is nothing more sickening than a beautiful tree filled with ugly, wasteful plastic bags stuck in it's branches. Some people seem to think that every single tree is harvested, and that is simply untrue. The leftists who started the plastic thing in the first place ended up doing more harm than good, and now they want to act like they had nothing to do with it. Just like when they got everybody thinking how awful breastfeeding was; did more harm than good, and now they deflect and act like it was someone elses' idea. Anyway, Good for Abbey!
10:27 am on Sunday, July 1, 2012
Great scene from The Graduate 1967...one word....Plastics. Google it. By the way saw some very cute purses made from recycled plastic at a shop named NOTICE on Central in Evanston.
10:39 am on Sunday, July 1, 2012
Businesses started using plastic bags because the environmentalists made a big stink about paper bags. It will never end.
There is no science in present day environmentalism. Did you folks know that our grade schools are teaching our children that the earth is running out of water? Not fresh water... water. The quote from a sing on the wall in a local grade school:
"Water is going to DISSAPEAR from our earth, so please HELP! ..."
Many, many other signs just like it lined the halls. Science is NOT being taught in our schools. Radical environmentalists have taken control, and no one is stopping them.
Dan Arenov
3:54 pm on Monday, July 2, 2012
you got that right, Gary.
global wa.. excuse me. man caused climate change is in most of the kid's textbooks now. it probably will be for another hundred years until the scientists' funding starts drying up and they have to switch to 'ice age' alarmism.
8:07 pm on Monday, July 2, 2012
My car could be causing global warming these past few days. I get into it and it is hot. Could that be due to the corporatists who make Buicks? The barrons who take my credit card at Shell. Or maybe the Koch brothers are behind it.
1:32 pm on Friday, July 13, 2012
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Beach Sand Sculptures can address your Corporations Team Building activities with an exciting event. You're here for your companies' corporate retreat in a beach resort; why not treat your employees to some time on the beach with a fun filled Team Building Event. Beach Sand Sculptures can make this happen; we meet your corporate group at your convention location and bring all of the equipment necessary to teach employees Team Building exercise's while enjoying themselves on the beach. Teams will be provided with detailed demonstrations and mentoring throughout the process. Communication and team building principals will be conveyed while working together as a team to create improved communication techniques and sand castle success.
Corporate Logo Sand Sculpture:
Your group will be welcomed upon arriving at this event by a professional sand sculpture of your corporate logo. This exemplifies the importance of the event and creativeness you expect from your employee's. This sculpture will be utilized throughout the event for photography opportunities.
Sand Sculpting Demonstration and Team Building Workshop:
The beach is always an fun and exciting place for learning and education. Our sand sculpting demonstration is both, educational and entertaining. Corporate and teaching backgrounds allow us to educate your group with the importance of simple team building principals.
Team Building Exercise and Sand Sculpting Contest:
Teams are created and provided with design criteria for the two hour sand sculpting competition. Beach Sand Sculptures ensures everyone works together and enjoys themselves. We provide mentoring and guided assistance during this process.
Judging and Awards Presentation:
Awards are judged on leadership, brainstorming, delegation, communication as well as execution of sand sculpture creations. This is a Team Building Event, we encourage upper management leadership to help oversee and judge the event as well. This conveys a leadership understanding and approval by participating employees.
Photography Opportunity with Corporate logo:
The corporate logo provides an opportunity for the entire group to gather around their company name as a united team. Individual team awards are photographed using the corporate logo as well.
Time Line for Event:
8:00 am to 12:00 pm Corporate Logo Sand Sculptures preparation 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Sand Sculpting Demonstration and Team Building Workshop 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm Team Building Exercise and Sand Sculpting Contest 4:00 pm to 4:30 pm Judging and Awards Presentation 4:30 pm to 5:00 pm Photography Opportunity with Corporate logo
Schedule your corporate team building event today – our calendar fills up quickly!
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So you've decided to ask her to be your wife. You are understandably nervous, desiring this event to be ultra-romantic. A special weekend getaway to Florida's beautiful Emerald Coast is your choice of location, because the beach is SO romantic. But, "How can I ask her to marry me on the beach?" you ask yourself. This is where BeachSandSculptures.com can help. TheSandman Rick Mungeam will walk you through the process, make suggestions and incorporate your unique ideas into the perfect marriage proposal sand sculpture for you and your bride-to-be. With a 100% "Yes" success rate, Rick can calm your nerves, quell your fears and help coordinate your special event. "When I first speak to a guy I can hear the energy and the excitement in his voice. These guys confide in me to help work through this process and then to see the event come to fruition is always exciting!" Rick Mungeam says beaming.
You will walk down the beach hand in hand with your lady and the two of you draw close to the sand sculpture. BeachSandSculptures.com will have sculpted a beautifully custom-made sand sculpture with the words "Will You Marry Me _______?" personalized with your bride-to-be's name. You drop to one knee to present the engagement ring and wait for her response. Overcome with surprise, she, of course, will say "Yes".
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Is your family or group looking for a fun activity that will create memories of their Gulf Coast vacation for years to come? Beach Sand Sculptures provide inspiring individual, group, and team building sandcastle lessons. We desire to bring "the child" out in us all. Stimulating each sculptor's imagination to draw out their unique artistic creativity, while providing an experience that is both memorable and FUN:-) "This is some of the best money we have invested in our vacation" – Tripadvisor Reviewer
BeachSandSculptures.com can provide an array of services beyond sandcastle lesson; from Marriage Proposals and Wedding Sand Sculptures to Corporate Team Building and Business Advertising. A Sand Sculpture can bring a unique ambiance to a Birthday Party, Family Reunion, Anniversary or Bon Fire Beach Party. On or off the Beach Sand Sculptures intrigue our mind, capture our hearts, and delight our souls. Call early to schedule your unique vacation memory today, the schedule fills up fast.
As a business owner and the sole marketing person I am always looking for place to list my our professional sand sculpting business at NO or a very low charge, but it needs to be effective. When I first became aware of Thumbtack I was hesitant. Would they give me a free listing and then incessantly pursue me to increase my listing to include a paid subscription. The first I heard from Thumbtack was when they had a client to refer. It was that simple; place the free listing and then wait for a referral. No barrage of of phone calls, or emails from the sales department. Just quick clean communication from someone who was a potential customer. I like that! If you are a business owner and would like to claim your free listing with Thumbtack, check out BeachSandSculptures.com's free listing today.
Beach Sand Sculptures are intriguing art;
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SAY IT – IN SAND – FEEL the RESULTS!
Richard G. Mungeam
Lead Sand Sculptor and Instructor
by Anne Bennett
In a former life Rick Mungeam was renowned residential architect traveling extensively designing custom resort homes showcased in several architectural publications. But the economic changes of 2008 resulted in Rick and his wife, Capri, selling their home in Colorado to begin traveling.
South Padre Island, Tx, late 2010, under the tutelage of Andy Hancock, Master Sand Sculptor, Rick learned the basics of sand sculpting. By mid 2011 Rick was honing his sand sculpting skills on The Emerald Coast of The Florida Panhandle, near Destin, along Scenic Hwy 30A, when his sandcastle with a romantic heart was used for a wedding, and later for several family portraits, Rick realized his talent might develop into a business.
Nov. 2011, Rick won the Pro-Am Division of The World Championship of Sand Sculpting to further exhort his talents. 2012 watched BeachSandSculptures.com became the reigning Sand Sculpting Champions and a visible and known presence along Florida's Emerald Coast.
Their boys are grown now, but through home schooling their two sons Rick and Capri learned creative teaching skills that Rick now utilizes as he offers design services in the form of sand sculpting creations. From 30A and Santa Rosa Beach business advertisements in sand to corporate team building at WaterColor or Seaside, a private party on the Dune Allen Beach to corporate events at the ritzy Sandestin resorts, Alys Beach wedding proposal or a Rosemary Beach wedding sculptures, and inspirational sand castle on Grayton Beach or sculpting lessons at Topsail State Park, Beach Sand Sculptures can create a sculpture to meet your needs and exceed your wildest imagination.
Capri Mungeam
AKA Aqua Woman, Sand Sculpting Apprentice, Marketing
They say, "Behind every successful man their is a successful woman", this is often said to emphasize that a man's success often depends on the work and support of his wife. That may or may not be the case with The Mungeams, but one thing is for certain, they've been a successful business team for nearly 30 year now.
Initially sand sculpting was definitely Rick's forte, Capri talk with the people on the beach, handed out business cards and promoted Rick's Sandcastle Lessons. But over the last couple of years she has watched carefully and slowly absorbed many of the finer details of sand carving. She still feel like she has much to learn, but the alligator she sculpted on the Topsail Hill State Park Sand Sculpture caught the eye of many a "Gators" fans as one said, "that's a good lookin' gator".
The design development is Rick's department. "Rick is really the artist", Capri is fond of saying, "but I come up with a lot of ideas and sometimes their pretty good", she said with a smile. Typically when they begin a project Rick shovels and Capri hauls the water from the nearest water source – usually The Gulf of Mexico. They methodically work together to build their sculpture foundation and fill the forms. The couple has worked out their individual roles while they create a sand sculpture in order not to "step on each others toes" if you will.
The other major role that Capri takes is the "behind the sands" marketing. "I'm getting my marketing degree through Social Media. There is much to learn", . With the ever changing advertising/marketing innovations and technology The Mungeams realize, that today, if you aren't communicating with your the world via Social Media you are frankly "dead in the sand". When BeachSandSculptures.com on Facebook received it's 1000th "Like" in less than 6 months, Capri knew they were onto something very unique. They've even incorporated offering media and social media services to help clients to gain the maximum PR out of their Beach Sand Sculptures.
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Beach Sand Sculptures are captivating works of art
providing a fresh and unique MARKETING SOLUTIONS
On the beach or on location
small table-top pieces to 100+ tons of sand
Add THE WOW! Factor to your Marketing
What makes us different
Beach Sand Sculptures offers something VERY NEW and INNOVATIVE in Marketing and Advertising. We are a truly unique company with a personalized service that can provide sand sculptures to enhance and promote various events and activities, or supplement your traditional marketing plan. Our specialized services take an artistic approach to creating a one-of-a-kind sculpture to draw attraction to your Emerald Coast business or event.
"WOW" is what you will audibly hear!
Committed to THE WOW!
The perfect mix of innovation, technology, talent, dedication and hard work makes us a professional sand sculpting company offering our customer's access to THE WOW! THE WOW! tantalizes your customers heart; enriching their lives and builds delight in your brand. It's our passion for THE WOW! that drives us to create detailed awe-inspiring sand sculptures. We know it's only when we consistently deliver THE WOW! that you will come back for more. As one of the few professional sand sculpting companies in the world we decided early on to set the bar for integrity and technology in our industry.
THE WOW! + Media
We are always looking to better our sand sculpting skills, to build a better sandcastle if you will. But our services don't stop there; you can continue from advertising in sand -> straight into technology with Beach Sand Sculptures. After all, you want a sand sculpture to draw attention, right? Working together with your company and contacts we can prime the media with a pre-event press release, this might be the first step. We have discovered through the use of social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, we can create a media stir with pictures and/or video of a sand sculpture. In fact we are the pioneers in the sand sculpting industry to utilize technology to promote sand sculptures – real time! But be prepared, because a sand sculpture can draw crowds and media coverage you might not have expected!
Location, Location, Location
The Emerald Coast Beaches; Pensacola, Navarre, Fort Walton Beach, Destin, South Walton (SoWal) Beaches, Seascape, Sandestin, Miramar, Dune Allen, Santa Rosa Beach, Blue Mountain Beach, Grayton Beach, WaterColor, Seaside, Seagrove, Watersound, Alys Beach, Seacrest, Rosemary Beach, Inlet Beach, Carillon Beach to Panama City are the optimal location to take your marketing plan to the sand. With advanced notice we can sculpt sand anywhere in the world.
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Is Prohibition Finally Dying in Pennsylvania?
Pennsylvania remains one of only two states where the government operates a monopoly on liquor sales.
By Eric Boehm | PA Independent
HARRISBURG – While all eyes in the state Capitol were trained on the glittering rotunda for the swearing-in of a new attorney general, Corbett administration officials were hard at work Tuesday afternoon crafting a proposal that might finally lift Pennsylvania out of last vestiges of the Prohibition Era.
After years of failure, there is a chance 2013 will be the year Pennsylvania ditches the state monopoly for liquor sales.
Sources who have attended a series of meeting with the administration in recent weeks to help craft a still-unfinished proposal are hopeful that an announcement will be made in the next two weeks – before Gov. Tom Corbett gives his annual budget address, scheduled for Feb. 5.
Several people with knowledge of the discussions say the administration is taking the lead on the issue this time, a notable shift from how Corbett has handled privatization during his first two years in office, when he would make public statements of support but often follow that up by telling lawmakers to put a bill on his desk before he would discuss specifics.
Signs now point to the governor taking the lead.
"We are seeing signs the administration will be a big part of the fight, leading from the front with a plan and a purpose that answers a broad-based bipartisan call from his constituents to give them choice and convenience," said Jay Ostrich, communications director for the Commonwealth Foundation, a free market think tank pushing for privatization.
Ostrich was one of several individuals summoned to the Capitol on Tuesday for a closed-doors meeting with administration staffers while Corbett attended the swearing-in of Attorney General Kathleen Kane, a Democrat, five floors down in the rotunda.
Those who attended Tuesday's meeting and others who have worked with the administration on crafting the proposal have described it as a painstaking process that is attempting to fit multiple puzzle pieces together in order to revamp Pennsylvania's complex and often arcane laws governing the sale of alcohol.
Licensed beer distributors in Pennsylvania are allowed to sell only cases and kegs of beer. Restaurants, bars and taverns can sell only six-packs. Some grocery stores have obtained restaurant licenses to sell six-packs.
For those with stronger tastes, liquor is available for purchase only at the roughly 620 stores owned and operated by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, a state agency that determines pricing and availability for all items in all stores.
The administration has been tight-lipped about the privatization plan, but Eric Shirk, a spokesman for Corbett, said there are several goals including "consumer choice, increased convenience and getting the state out of the liquor business."
During the past two years, Corbett has repeatedly pointed out the contradiction between the state's role in selling alcohol — and advertising its sale to boost the bottom line of the state liquor stores — and its law enforcement role when it comes to the purchase and consumption of alcohol.
Shirk declined to comment on the timing for an announcement saying the proposal is not yet finalized.
But talks are ongoing with key members in the Legislature as well.
"Ultimately, everyone wants to see better and greater consumer choice, the question is how do we get there," said Steve Miskin, spokesman for House Majority Leader Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, the most vocal legislative leader on liquor privatization during the previous session.
Miskin said Turzai would not be introducing legislation until after Corbett made his plans public, another sign the governor intends to be out in front on this issue in 2013.
Gene Barr, president of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce, was one of several people invited to the governor's office this week to weigh in on the liquor plan. He said Pennsylvania needs rethink how alcohol is sold.
The final plan should include more retail locations, including grocery stores and convenience stores, he said.
"Our view is that simply changing the person behind the counter isn't good enough," Barr said Tuesday.
Echoing the views of others who attended Tuesday's meeting and spoke off-the-record, Barr said there was no proposal "on the table" and he had not seen anything in writing. The administration is looking at a variety of ideas, he said.
But everyone interviewed expect a lengthy fight with the entrenched interests of the existing liquor system.
They and other opponents have argued that privatization actually will result in fewer options for consumers because grocery stores and convenience stores do not have the space to stock the wide array of choices that some of the largest state-owned liquor stores do.
Ostrich said the governor should give the people of Pennsylvania what they want — unlimited choice and greater convenience.
"We believe that happens when bread, beer and Bordeaux are bought all on privately-run shelves, and we certainly hope any plan coming from the governor has these elements as a strong part of it," he said.
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11:04 am on Saturday, January 19, 2013
the profit made in state stores goes to state revenue about 500 to 600 million a year pay for the state police and other state services, if they sell the profit goes to the new owners and the help will be part time minimum wage clerks. Who will make up for this lost revenue? Approximately 3000 present state store employees will lose their jobs.
8:02 am on Sunday, January 20, 2013
I was a owner of a Wholesale Wine and Spirits Company in New Jersey and a Manager of a Pa State Store and believe me the lack of thought on privatizing is typical of Politicans STUPIDITY. They need a comprimise systems like New Hampshire. I'm sure that with Joe Conti's Resignation it will make it easier for the PA consumers get their cheap Vodka and Box Wine. The state Owned System of Regulation needs some tweeking.Don't worry about jobs, privatizing will create jobs, but what it will do is take 600+ million from the state Treasury and give it to Wholesaler and Retailer Thieves. Liscensing FEEs will Never Make up that Loss except for the 1st Year when they get money from the sale of Liscenses. Without Regulation you will See Crime go UP we all ready have a problem with guns and straw sales. guns are nothing compared to alcohol. Oh Ya I'm also a Parent of an Alcoholic son . YOU HAVE NO IDEA THE PROBLEMS PRIVITAZATION WITHOUT THOUGHT WILL DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8:31 pm on Saturday, January 19, 2013
The State still will have a 6% sales tax, and a 18% Johnstown Flood Tax. Perhaps additional State excise and Local taxes can be added to make up for the lost revenue.
7:30 am on Sunday, January 20, 2013
Cant wait for PA to update their laws....beer distros and liquor stores will still survive along with employees to operate them, now there will be more convenience and less restrictions. It would be nice one day to get liquor, wine, and beer in one spot like every other state.
8:07 am on Sunday, January 20, 2013
But not were you can't regulate sale to minors and alcoholics.
10:24 am on Sunday, January 20, 2013
Just came from a trip to North Carolina. they still have liquor only ABC stores. PA is not the only state that is living in the past. The Johnstown Flood Temporary Tax is a big bite that has been around the necks of PA consumers for a long time. I think it is still against the PA law to buy, and bring out of state liquor into the state. Wouldn't it be nice to buy our spirits at your local supermarket, Costco, BJ, Sam's Club where the market sets the price.
1:29 pm on Sunday, January 20, 2013
Mork, I agree with you completely. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Privatizing liquor stores will only add to the problems of crime. I can just imagine some idiot driving to a local 7/11 at 2 am to get a cheap bottle of wine.
Jeff Lugar
8:00 am on Monday, January 21, 2013
How is a system that requires trips to three separate stores to get a case of beer, a six-pack of beer, and a bottle of wine not "broke?" It's wasteful of time and resources. Imagine instead throwing a Super Bowl party and having to go to one store for a 7.5 oz bag of potato chips, another store for a 2 oz bag, and another store to get pretzels; sounds insane.
And how is what time a person buys their wine even remotely your business or care?
David Neamand
11:35 am on Monday, January 21, 2013
Oh please give me a break! Privatizing will only help the consumer by giving them choice. This is America where private enterprise is supposed to be the norm. I have listen to those same tired objections for 20 years. Currently I drive to Md where I can find the wine I want to buy at a price I want to spend. Here it is between 12 and 15 % higher. Are there some buys? yes but by and large no. And no, I am not going to turn into an alcoholic just because it is cheaper. I have news for the both of you, kids who want booze are already getting it, so don't use that one on me either.
Liberty 1
6:25 am on Monday, January 21, 2013
I will believe it when I see it. It amuses me to read how by privitizing you will increase crime or that straw purchases will increase leading to increased teenage drinking. None of that occurs now? Get real and stop your whining.
David Neamand
11:36 am on Monday, January 21, 2013
Amen brother! Don't hold your breath though, they have been talking about this one for 20 years
7:07 am on Monday, January 21, 2013
So let me get this straight. With the state control, we had no alcoholics or crime and with privatization we will? What nonsense. Beer distributors and some state stores are open on Sunday. Lots of opportunity for people to obtain alcohol. Good grief. There will still be regs. regarding sale to minors. They can't go to wawa to buy cigs. Most other states seem to be able to handle private sales.
Morning Dew
4:12 pm on Monday, January 21, 2013
This can get done but several stakeholders will have to compromise. There is more than meets the eye regarding alcohol distribution in the State.
8:41 am on Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Let's face it. The only reason that this has hot happened yet is because it will expose the 18% Johnstown Flood Tax which has become a golden goose for the general fund. In order to shelf the discussion a new union contract was signed last year that lasts through 2015. I have lived in CA where you can go to the supermarket and buy everything in one place. It is a great system where prices do come down and choices go up. Safeway buys wine wholesale from vineyards taking away some of the industry mark-up allowing consumers to buy bottles cheaper than at any of the vineyards in Napa.
3:07 pm on Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Oh for goodness sake you cry over alcoholic parents, brothers sisters, wives and husbands who are alcoholics even with these laws in effect. Changing the way the government monopolizes everything will not slow the disease or it's process. I was a child of an alcoholic mother. So I know what I speak, the revenue is all the state cares about. What all the other states doing? You want to tax the crap out of us for alcohol then do it. Just like cigarettes, gas taxes, death taxes just bleed us all dry in the name of the almighty dollar but don't ever think that your alcoholics will be worse when its no longer privatized...that's a joke where theres a will......and yes we are all not as stupid as we look. We know all about the Johnstown Flood Tax, room on shelves in stores? Please.....I've been in Cali I know the system works and works well. Pa is such a backwoods state!


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Jackie Banks has three main loves in her life — her daughter, her job and her community.
As president of the Radcliff Optimist Club and as Upward cheerleading commissioner at her church, Banks is able to express that love in helping children in the community.
Originally from Mississippi, she moved to Hardin County 17 years ago after living in Germany for three years.
Now, 47 and a single parent of a 17-year-old daughter, Jasmine, she lives in Radcliff and works as director of purchasing at U.S. Cavalry.
Although when she was little she thought she'd be a dancer when she grew up, she went to college to study social work. She got married at 22, during her senior year, and didn't finish her degree.
"I was young and dumb and in my interpretation of being in love at the time," she said.
Years later, Banks went back to school and earned a degree in business management. She already was working in the purchasing field and decided to stick with it. She's made purchasing her career for the past 20 years. Her job allows her to help people, solve problems and "put out fires," she said.
"I can't see myself doing anything outside of purchasing," she said.
She became a part of the Radcliff Optimist Club four years ago because she wanted to be involved with something in the community that helped children.
She became club president in October.
"So far, it's going well," she said.
She will serve one year. But at the district meeting this month she was elected lieutenant governor of the region for next year. The region includes Kentucky and other states.
"I'm looking forward to that," she said. "It will be a bigger responsibility than president."
During her year as president, she hopes the club continues to touch the lives of children and reaches more than ever before. She also hopes to see membership grow and for new members to bring fresh ideas to the table.
"I like helping people," she said. "Especially kids, I can't stand to see a kid do without."
Banks said she might not have a lot but likes to see that her daughter has what she needs and most of what she wants. That bond with her daughter especially compells her to help children in need.
Between her job, volunteer work and a teenage daughter, her schedule usually is full.
She describes her daughter as a "girly girl.'
"She's just too funny," Banks said.
They love to lie back on the couch and watch comedies, but their absolute favorite thing to do together is shop.
Banks main wish for Jasmine is that she grows up to be productive and successful in society.
"I just want her to be successful and happy and I love her no matter what," she said.
In the summer Banks volunteers in the New Hope Missionary Baptist Upward cheerleading program.
Banks was asked to help because organizers knew her daughter cheered. After coaching a year or two she became commissioner of the cheerleading program three years ago.
Ellen Thompson works closely with Banks in the cheerleading program and said she is "instrumental" in gathering volunteers to coach kindergarten through sixth-grade children. Banks also is responsible for organizing the squads and training coaches with the materials and guidelines of the Upward program, Thompson said.
"Jackie brings enthusiasm and excitement to the program and has been extremely resourceful when called upon for ideas or suggestions on how to improve it," Thompson said. "Jackie always has a full plate, but still manages to uphold her commitments to other volunteer initiatives."
Banks enjoys the opportunities to work with young children.
"The little ones, they are something, but they are so sweet and eager to learn," Banks said.
The Upward program is a way to bring children to Christ through sports, she said. She sees the fruit of her work when she sees the littlest ones ask to say a prayer in the large group of all Upward participants.
"To see that, you know this was an awesome effort," she said.
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While it's perfectly legal to own, purchase or sell hemp products in the U.S., industrial hemp growth is still banned by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as a controlled substance. That hasn't stopped a handful of U.S. states like Kentucky, Washington and North Dakota from proposing similar legislation to license the technically illegal industry.
Franson and Kahn's bill claims the production of industrial hemp can be regulated to the point that it won't interfere with the "strict regulation of controlled substances in this state."
"The purpose of the Industrial Hemp Development Act is to promote the state economy and agriculture industry by permitting the development of a regulated industrial hemp industry while maintaining strict control of marijuana," the bill reads.
Minnesotans would have to apply to the commissioner of agriculture to be able to grow industrial hemp for commercial purposes, including a full background check by the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
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James Sanna
1:15 pm on Friday, February 22, 2013
I may be in the minority here, but I think the legislature should pass the bill to reward the bipartisanship—hemp got one of the most liberal and one of the most conservative members of the MN House to work together!
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11:34 am on Saturday, February 23, 2013
This legislation is a step in the right direction.
12:56 pm on Saturday, February 23, 2013
After 40 years, trillions of dollars, countless people in jail for an offense that wouldn't have been a crime without the war on drugs, overcrowded jails, and you're asking if industrial hemp should be legalized? The only people the "war on drugs" ever helped, is the lawyers, police, politicians, court system and federal agencies given the tax dollars to squander.
I'm not an advocate of people taking drugs. Clearly though, the war on drugs hasn't benefited the people that need help.
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6:20 pm on Saturday, February 23, 2013
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12:35 am on Sunday, February 24, 2013
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4:18 am on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
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We need people that use cannabis to work with the uneducated to make commonsense rules.
9:30 am on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
You are comparing Thalidomide to industrial hemp? How bizarre.
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BY DANNY GALLAGHER, McKinney Courier-Gazette
Published: Monday, December 11, 2006 1:59 AM CST
A McKinney man's plot to steal money from a convenience store by stealing the cash register almost worked until police caught him with the money and some crack-cocaine just three blocks away from the scene.
McKinney police officials said Ray Lockett, 24, of McKinney, is accused of stealing from the Town & Country Food Store on Greenville Avenue, located across the street from J.W. Webb Elementary School, on Nov. 28.
McKinney police Capt. Randy Roland said Lockett entered the store around 8:53 p.m., grabbed the cash register off the counter and ran back out of the store while a security camera on the adjacent wall captured the incident.
Police arrived at the scene and compiled a description of the thief that was sent to area officers. Officers found a man fitting the suspect's description on the corner of Bumpas and Standifer Street, later identified as Lockett, approximately a half-hour later, Roland said.
Officers found Lockett carrying the same "substantial" amount of cash left in the cash register minus the coins as well as some crack-cocaine, Roland said. A K-9 unit was dispatched to the area. They found the cash register abandoned in a field on Greenville Avenue next to a building, Roland said.
Lockett received two misdemeanor counts of theft and evading arrest, and a felony charge of possession of a controlled substance. He also received a $5,500 bond, which he had not posted as of Friday, according to Collin County Detention Center records.
This is not the first time the Town & County Food Store has been a crime victim. A masked gunman entered the store July 20, produced a semi-automatic handgun and demanded money from the clerk. The clerk proceeded to open the register but when the suspect turned his head toward the door for a moment, the clerk seized the opportunity. He grabbed the man and tried to slap the gun out of his hand. The gun discharged, firing a round into the floor. He continued to struggle with the gunman until he pushed him out the front door and into the street where the gunman fled on foot. The clerk was not seriously injured. No suspects had been identified or arrested in connection with the July 20 robbery.
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