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Looking for things to do in Myrtle Beach? We love family friendly activities, especially those with food and drink! We will keep updating as we hear of more. Feel free to submit the ones you know about that we don't have listed. Many of the events are affordable and family friendly but there are a few that the adults would prefer.
Click on each month to see what is happening.
Restaurant Week – This year it kicks off on the 12th to the 22nd. This is your chance to try out new restaurants or stay with old favorites.
Grand Strand Boat and Sportsmans Expo – at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center from the 6th to the 8th.
Rivertown Wine Around – downtown Conway on the 21st from 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm. Visit a variety of downtown shops offering tastings of 15+ wines.
SOS Mid Winter break – Main Street, NMB on the 13th to the 15th. Enjoy music and activities at the lounges. SOS website: www.shagdance.com
Weekend Freedom rally to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King – Various locations on the 13th to the 16th to celebrate the vision of MLK.
8th Annual Murrells Inlet Soup-Off – on the 21st at Suck Bang Blow from 11:30 am until 4:00 pm.
Taste of the Marshwalk – the 28th and 29th from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm. Sample the chef's favorite dishes from each of the eight award-winning restaurants from 11am to 4pm each day. Local artisans, crafters, live music, and kids activities will line the MarshWalk both days for a fun filled weekend in the Inlet.
Hotel, Motel and Restaurant Supply Show of the Southeast – the 24th to 27th at the Convention Center.
Conway Chocolate Walk – downtown Conway on the 4th from 11:00 am – 3:00 pm. Spend a Saturday afternoon exploring the shops and restaurants of Downtown Conway while enjoying chocolate treats prepared by the businesses.
MarshiGras – The evening will begin with a Costume Contest Parade lead by the Marshi Gras King and Queen. The parade will be accompanied by The Land of Dixie Band playing Mardi Gras-style music. The winners of the contest will be announced at the end of the parade. We are giving away over $1,000 in cash and prizes!
16th Annual KidzTime Festival – on the 25th from 11:00 am until 4:00 pm at Broadway at the Beach. There will be face painting, entertainment, activities and special visitors! It's a perfect event for the young and young at heart! Enjoy FREE admission, giveaways, live performances and more!
Surfrider Annual Oyster Roast / Bloody Mary Contest – on the 26th from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm. It's that time of year for shuckin' some tasty oysters and sampling some of the best Bloody Marys on the beach!
GSJWC 7th Annual "Jeans & Jewels" Fundraiser – at Billy the Kids Restaurant/Maxwell's Lounge. The Grand Strand Junior Women's Club presents our 7th Annual Jeans & Jewels Fundraiser. Tickets are $100 per couple & include entry into the $4000 reverse raffle, live & silent auction, delicious dinner, complimentary drinks, live entertainment & more supporting local non-profit charities across the Grand Strand.
19th Annual Myrtle Beach Marathon – the 2nd through the 4th. Check out all the events happening that weekend.
Surfside Beach Barbecue Fest – on the 10th with"Anything But Butts" – from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm and the 11th from 10:00 am to 4:00pm:"Best BBQ" —10 am to 4 pm "The Crave & Co." – 10 am to 1:30 pm "Josh Brannon Band"—1:30 pm to 4 pm Local vendors and snack vendors Games and inflatables
8th Annual Irish Fest – on the 11th at Market Common from 11:00 to 7:00 pm. Great family friendly event, with something for everyone including Great Beer, Irish Food, Live Entertainment, Vendors, Kid's Activities, including face painting, inflatables and much more.
29th Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade and Festival – on the 11th on Main Street, NMB from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm. This one-day, rain or shine event brings approximately 30,000 to celebrate being Irish and welcome the coming of spring. A parade begins the day at 9:00 a.m., followed by three stages of live music and a children's area with rides and amusements from 11:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Along Main Street approximately 150 vendors will display their crafts, services, information, products, or serve a variety of treats.
Annual Surf Dreams Foundation Mac-N-Cheese cook off – on the 12th from 12:00pm until 3:00 pm at Sara J's Seafood Restaurant benefit for Surf Dreams Foundation. The event will host some of the top restaurants and local chef's favorite recipes. Cash prizes for the Champion and the people's choice award. We will have something for everyone in the family. Bounce house, face paint and games for the kids while the adults can enjoy the live music, beer, corn hole and the best craft vendors on the beach.
The Myrtle Beach Highland Games & Heritage Festival on the 24th and 25th at Market Common. A Family Fun-Filled Day with Heavy Athletics, Live Celtic Music, Kids Games, Whisky Tastings, Authentic Scottish Foods and Merchandise and a lot more! A MUST SEE EVENT!
The Myrtle Beach Food Truck Festival scheduled for the 1st from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and will be free to attend. The festival will be located on the Burroughs and Chapin Pavilion Place between 8th and 9th Avenues North in the Oceanfront Boardwalk District. In addition to a multitude of delicious food trucks, there will be live entertainment, beer and wine with craft selections, kid's activities, and arts & craft, business and non-profit vendors.
2nd Annual Compassion Through Fashion New Directions for Men, Women, and Families will hold their fundraiser on the 1st from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm in the Atlantic Ballroom at Marriott Myrtle Beach Resort at Grande Dunes. Complimentary hors d'oeuvres will be served and a cash bar will be available.This event will raise funds to assist New Directions in obtaining the tools and necessities needed to move people out of poverty and homelessness.
Baconfest 2017 on the 1st from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm at House of Blues. Area restaurants and local vendors on location serving all kinds of variations of BACON! Live music by Tru Sol on the deck.
Pelican's opening day will be April 5th.
Champion Autism Network (CAN) is sponsoring a Film Festival on April 7th and 8th at the Grand 14 Cinema at Market Common that exhibits films by or about people with autism. This event is designed to educate "neurotypical" people about autism, it's impact on the family unit and the lifelong challenges those with autism must contend.
Springfest on the 8th from noon to 4:00 pm at Barefoot Landing. Stroll along while enjoying artisan vendors, sidewalk sales, food sampling, live music and more!
2nd Annual Horry County Fair -10 Days of Fair Fun at Myrtle Beach Speedway! Celebrate SPRING BREAK 2017 at the Fair April 7th-16th with Daily Specials & Fun For All Ages! Free Entertainment, Games, Amusements, Food, Attractions, Racing Pigs, Petting Zoo, & More!
Myrtle Beach International Film Festival from the 19th to the 22nd. Being billed as the East Coast's answer to Sundance, the MBIFF has a reputation for outstanding films including writings and blogs making the statement that the MBIFF has the best film line up in the World.
SOS Spring Safari – from the 21st – 30th, the biggest adult party on the East Coast crashes into North Myrtle Beach like an ocean wave. A wide variety of activities is scheduled for the event.
Loris Spring Festival & Outdoor Expo on the 22nd from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm in Downtown Loris. Artisans, Farmers Market, Plants & Flowers, Duck Calling Competition, Kid's Area, Classic Car Cruise-In, 5K and 1 mile fun run, Outdoor Items and Equipment. This festival offers something for everyone in the family.
March of Dimes Walk for Babies – on the 29th beginning at 9:00 am at the parking located at Myrtle Beach Pelicans Stadium. Festivities will take place at the Myrtle Beach Pelicans Stadium and the three-mile walk will take place at Broadway at the Beach.
The Earth Day Music Fest and 5K – on the 29th beginning with a 5K at 6:30 am at the Myrtle Beach Speedway with bands performing throughout the day, until 5pm. The Health & Wellness Expo portion will also happen directly following the race. This is an all ages event and people are encouraged to bring their chairs and stay all day. This event combines fitness, awareness, education and fun.
Risen Christ "Taste of the Coast" – on the 29th from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm at House of Blues, Barefoot Landing. This is an annual celebration of the Grand Strand's best in food, drinks, and fun! Sample tasty specialties from the area's best restaurants, enjoy top local entertainers, and watch your kids enjoy games and other fun activities! This is the family event of the year and you won't want to miss it! Proceeds from Taste of the Coast will raise scholarship funds to benefit the students of Risen Christ Lutheran School.
Ground Zero Dragon Boat Festival – on the 29th at Market Common from 8:00 am until 5:00 pm. This is a fun event to watch and cheer on the teams all for a good cause.
Socastee Heritage Foundation – on the 29th from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. Family fun for the whole family.
Annual Blessing of the Inlet – on the 6th from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm at Belin Memorial United Methodist Church, Highway 17-Business, Murrells Inlet. The festival has grown to include a day of entertainment, more than 90 arts and crafts vendors, various Murrells Inlet restaurants and local food purveyors, children's play area with inflatable rides and fun events.
2017 Rivertown Music & Craft Beer Festival – on the 6th from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm along the streets of Downtown Conway. This annual street festival features arts, crafts, vendors, food, classic car show and craft beer tastings.
Taste of the Market Common on the 6th from 11:00 am – 4:00 pm. Come stroll from restaurant to restaurant, sample delectable selections, and enjoy all of the festivities. Buy your $1 food tickets in front of Grand 14 Cinema and set off to experience as many of their offerings as you would like.
Myrtle Beach Bike Week Spring Rally – May 12th – 21st. Click festival to find out what is going on during the week.
12 Annual Mayfest on Main festival – will be held on the 13th on Main Street, NMB from 10:00 am until 6:00 pm.The 12th annual Mayfest on Main Festival in North Myrtle Beach will feature live entertainment and family fun. The festival will also offer arts, crafts, food, a children's area, street entertainment and much, much more.
36th Annual World Famous Blue Crab Festival – on the 20th and 21st from 9:00 am – 6:00 pm on the waterfront in Little River. The Festival is one of the largest festivals in the Southeast with attendance of more than 50,000. It will feature approximately 200 fine arts and crafts vendors, specialty food vendors, tremendous entertainment and a phenomenal children's area.
X Con World – on the 19th through 2nd at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center. This year, in addition to amazing guests from film, TV and comics, we also have the East Coasts LARGEST Cosplay Contest, 10,000.00 in cash and prizes will be awarded over 11 categories.
Memorial Day Cookout in Surfside Beach – from 4:00 pm until 8:00 pm. Fun for the family with concessions, live music and fun.
Memorial Day – The city has planned so many events for the celebration. Click to see all the events.
5th Annual Native Sons Salt Games – on the 3rd and 4th from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm.The 2017 Native Sons Salt Games features 15 competitions in two days. Learn what life is like living at the beach! Attendance is free of charge. The event will also include live entertainment, music, food, beer, games and much more! Burroughs and Chapin Pavilion Place (the old Pavilion site).
Sun Fun Festival – on the 2nd and 3rd at Plyler Park and will run in conjunction with the Salt Games. This year, Sun Fun will return to its roots with live beach music, shag lessons and a shag contest, kids games, a parade, and more. Click here for the schedule of events.
Myrtle Beach Corvette Club Car Show – will be held on the 4th at Broadway at the Beach by the IMAX theater.
Carolina Country Music Fest on the 8th to the 11th in Downtown Myrtle Beach. Enjoy a great line-up of country stars.
Rivertown Wine-Around – at the shops of downtown Conway on the 17th from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Spend a Saturday afternoon with our friends exploring Downtown Conway! Along the way visit a variety of Downtown shops offering tastings of 15+ wines. Attendees must be 21 to purchase tickets for this event and IDs with be verified at the check-in.
Festa Italiana – from 11:00 am until 7:00 pm on the 24th and 25th at Market Common. The Sons Of Italy Myrtle Beach Lodge #2662 celebrates 24 years of Italian Festivals with at The Market Common. Featuring authentic Italian foods. Featuring continuous live entertainment, Arts and Craft vendors, an Italian theme gift boutique, free face painting, a spaghetti eating contest, kids activities, and more. Admission $1.00.
Craftsmen's Summer Classic Art & Craft Festival on the 4th, 5th and 6th from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm and 11:00 am to 5:00 pm on Sunday at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center. Features original designs and work from hundreds of talented artists and craftspeople from across America. See the creative process in action as many exhibitors demonstrate throughout the weekend. There is something for every style, taste and budget with items from the most traditional to the most contemporary.
Beach, Boogie & BBQ Festival – on the 1st and the 2nd on the HGTC Market Common campus and is sanctioned by the Kansas City Barbecue Society (KCBS) with over $8,600 in cash and prizes up for grabs by 25+ BBQ teams competing for points and lots of bragging rights! The festival will once again be a host event for the '250KCBS' Meals Mission, where we will be donating around 30 cooked pork butts to a local food kitchen.
Coastal Uncorked Food and Wine Festival – will be on the 1st through the 3rd and returns for a unique culinary adventure over Labor Day Weekend. This year's festival events will be located in the parking lot behind Pavilion Park Central, near the Welcome Center on the 21st Avenue side of Broadway at the Beach. The festival includes Brews 'N the Beach Craft Beer Event, Chocolate Under The Moon and Grand Wine Tasting Tent.
7th Annual Myrtle Beach Wine Festival on the 16th from 11:00 am – 7:00 pm at Valor Park. Free admission but you need o purchase tickets for samples. Live entertainment and vendors.
SOS Fall Migration –
SeptemberFest! on the 16th from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm at Barefoot Landing and will feature "Flavor of the Landing", a tasting event benefiting Lowcountry Food Bank and highlighting Barefoot's restaurants & eateries. Plus enjoy kids activities, sidewalk sales, live music, cars on display & much, much more!
38th Aynor Harvest Hoe-Down Festival on the 16th from will be from 10:00 am until 10:00 pm and features musical entertainment throughout the day, children's entertainment, street dances and hundreds of vendors. Enjoy chicken bog, funnel cakes and other festival treats.
Rivertown Dine-Around on the 30th from 11:30 am to 3:00 pm in Downtown Conway! The Rivertown Dine-Around is a great opportunity for locals and visitors to sample the fabulous fare available in Downtown. Participating restaurants will offer a sampler menu featuring house specialties that reflect the spirit of the establishment. Mini-entree items on the sampler menu start at $2 and most items are not more than $4.
Fall Bike Rally – up and down the Strand.
Brew at the Zoo on the 30th from 5:30-8:30 p.m on the 30th. This craft beer tasting will feature over 30 regional and national selections and offers a rare opportunity after-hours to see Brookgreen's Native Wildlife Zoo. Guests receive a signature tasting glass and enjoy a silent auction hosted by The Friends of Brookgreen Gardens. Food and wine are available for purchase.
14th Annual Irish Italian International Festival – in North Myrtle Beach on the 30th. The festival begins at 10:00 am and continues until 4:00 pm with fun for the whole family featuring food from local restaurants, two stages of live entertainment, street performers, art and craft vendors and more!
42th Annual Atalaya Arts & Crafts Festival – on the 22nd to the 24th at Huntington Beach State Park near Murrells Inlet.Featuring more than 100 of the finest artisans, the Atalaya Arts & Crafts Festival provides aesthetic beauty against a background of natural beauty. Enjoy fine art, quality crafts and food, along with the musical offerings of several of the area's finest musicians.
Seacoast Artists Guild on the 23rd and 24th will be sponsoring it's semiannual arts and crafts festival at Valor Park from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. You can shop handcrafted items including photography, jewelry, pottery, glass and more.
Annual St. John's Greek Festival on the 28th through Oct. 1st at the St. John's Greek Orthodox Church. Enjoy Greek culture along with the food and dance.
The Pawleys Island Festival of Music & Art – this year from the 5th to the 21st at The Reserve Golf Club of Pawleys Island, has become one of the East Coast's most beloved music and arts festivals and anticipated things to do in the Myrtle Beach area. The Festival continues to add events and include new artists and there is a great line-up of performers this year.
South Carolina's Largest Garage Sale – returns to the Myrtle Beach Convention Center from 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, the 7th in the exhibit hall.
Brookgreen Gardens Harvest Home Weekend Festival on the 7th and 8th. More scarecrows, more animals and more fun from 9:30 a.m. – 4 p.m., and is filled with outdoor activities the whole family will enjoy. We'll have favorite activities such as scarecrow building, pumpkin painting, hayrides, live entertainment, and more.
Conway Fall Festival – from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm in downtown Conway. Arts and crafts, car show, food and entertainment for the whole family.
Live Art and Music Fest – from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm on the steps of the Court House. Presented by CREATE! Conway October is Arts & Humanities Month and CREATE! Conway kicks off the month with a community celebration of creativity. The Live Oak is a fun, family art event presented under the oaks and on the lawn of the Horry County Courthouse. Enjoy the Artisan Market with fine arts & crafts for sale while the kids visit the CREATE! Maker Zone. Bring a chair and enjoy a day of music performed by local songwriters and musicians. Coolers welcome.
Annual Chilympics Chili Cookoff and Festival- a. This event draws thousands of residents and visitors to raise money for the Grand Strand Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation, and has become a staple of Grand Strand events. This year's benefit, free and open to the public, begins at noon with chili samples available to purchase from over 40 area self-proclaimed "Chilimasters". In addition to trying some of the most inventive chili recipes, people come for the music, art, local crafts, and vendors.
Annual Little River Shrimpfest – at the Historic Little River Waterfront. Festival goers can expect to enjoy a children's area, face painting, stilt walkers, balloon artists, 2 stages of live music, and approximately 150 different vendors- including a variety of art and craft vendors, business expos, and community organizations. Fresh local seafood will be served by the local waterfront restaurants and your festival food favorites will be available from a variety of talented food vendors.
Annual Myrtle Beach Octoberfest – on the 14th and 15th at Valor Park, Market Common. Oktoberfest beer, pumpkin patch, food, and a variety of vendors! Kid's activities include face painting, inflatables, and much more!
Myrtle Beach Seafood Festival – will be a one day culinary extravaganza located downtown Myrtle Beach between 8th and 9th Avenues North along Ocean Boulevard. From fish to shellfish, and oysters, crabs and all things crustaceous, including music and fun for the kids.
Loris Bog-Off – from 9:00 am to 10:00 pm. Over 200 craft, retail and food vendors, 35,000 plus in attendance. Chicken Bog Cooking Contest, live music, fireworks, Free concert by National Country Artist, car & tractor show and much more.
Annual Taste of the Town – at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center from 4:00 pm – 10:00 pm. 50+ Restaurants under one roof!
Endless Summer Festival – on Main Street in North Myrtle Beach. Enjoy fabulous entertainment, lots of vendors with one of a kind specialty craft items, food vendors, and children's area with community stage and carnival rides. The festival will be held from 10 am – 4 pm. Best of all, this is a FREE concert, so don't forget to bring your beach chair and enjoy the music. Music begins at noon.
Halloween –
Souper Supper – from 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm at Broadway at the Beach. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children ages 11 and under and include all the soup you can eat plus baked goods, desserts and a live cupcake decorating station. Proceeds benefit the American Chef Culinary Federation education and students with scholarships.
Dickens Christmas Show – at the Convention Center. Shopping for the whole family to enjoy.
21st Annual Tree Lighting Celebration –
Intracoastal Christmas Regatta –
Nights of a Thousand Candles on November 30, December 1-2; December 7-9; December 16-19, 2017. See Brookgreen Gardens come to life amid the soft glow of more than 5,500 hand-lit candles and countless sparkling lights from 3 – 10 p.m. Walk the paths with a warm cup of cider, hear the sounds of hand bells ringing, carolers singing, and celebrate the season with family and friends
New Year's Eve 'Garden by Candlelight' Pre-Party. Begin your New Year's Eve celebration at Brookgreen when the sculpture garden will open from 6 – 9 p.m. with thousands of hand-lit candles, holiday lights, and music. Space is limited for this special evening in the gardens and advanced tickets are required.


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All Ebola, all the time
|Liberian journalist Wade C. L. Williams interviewing in the field.
That's how HMJ'12 graduate Laura Smith described her health communications work at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the day President Obama came to visit.
Carolyn Crist (HMJ'14) said the same, five weeks earlier, when physician Kent Brantly and health worker Nancy Writebol arrived at Emory University Hospital for what turned out to be life-saving care. Crist kept vigil in greater Atlanta and filed nearly every day for www.wired.com
For Liberian journalist Wade C. L. Williams, life has been "all Ebola, all the time" since the first cases were identified in March. She is the newsroom chief for Front Page Africa and her coverage of women in West Africa had already won international awards before the Ebola catastrophe hit.
Williams comes to UGA next month, where she will give a talk at the UGA Chapel on Thursday, Oct. 23. The event begins at 4 p.m and all are welcome.
She'll have a conversation with a select group of GradyCollege students the day before her public talk, as part of the McGill Symposium. This is Grady's annual celebration of journalistic courage, and first-year HMJ student Christopher McGee is one of this year's McGill Fellows.
Williams will also spend time with students and faculty associated with the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases. CTEGD, Grady College and UGA's Office for Academic Programs all worked together to host her visit. We're eager for her arrive and hoping that she and her family stay healthy and that Monrovia's airport remains open.
Although Front Page Africa is still trying to dig into political scandals, economic turmoil and other big stories, Ebola coverage is stretching them thin. Williams is functioning as an editor and as a shoe leather reporter.
"I've been scared to death myself sometimes after those difficult assignments," Williams wrote in a recent email. "I've covered burials, sick people abandoned, health facilities abandoned, I've gone into isolation centers, I've interviewed survivors. But I'm still here, well, not sick." She's highly conscious of CDC prevention guidelines and avoids contact with sick or dead people and their body fluids. Front Page Africa prominently displays prevention advice and tallies cases and deaths at the county level.
As an investigative reporter, Williams is not always loved by the people in power. In a New York Times op-ed piece, Williams lambastes Liberia's government for foot-dragging and for stifling media coverage that she says could have saved lives.
Meanwhile, the United States and other industrialized nations are finally taking Ebola seriously. As a result, the flow of people and supplies to West Africa is quickening.
At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, three recent HMJ graduates are on the Ebola team. Laura Smith's work in the Joint Information Center of the Emergency Operations Center earned her an invitation to meet President Obama when he visited CDC on September 16 to announce additional aid.
All three are part of the health communications team that competes with misinformation that inevitably swirls around any high profile disease outbreak. They scramble to make sure that professionals and the public have timely and accurate information in a fast-moving world.
Lacey Avery, who graduated in 2013, works on Ebola response communications in the same room as Laura. She is part of a team working on messages about infection control and prevention in U.S. and West African healthcare settings. Marcie McClellan, a 2012 HMJ graduate, also develops content but also checks to see how messages are being received.
"I actually just back from Arizona where I spent a week facilitating trainings and focus groups, where I got feedback on our Ebola press releases," Marcie said in a Sept. 13 email.
With disease forecasters saying that Ebola is going to get much worse before it gets better, the health journalism alums say their agency is in "all-hands-on-deck" mode for the foreseeable future.
"This is definitely the most intense response I've been involved in," said Laura. "It's all Ebola all the time and the information is constantly changing. My day job has been put on hold, as is the case with most people involved."
Independent journalist Carolyn Crist also put her life on hold when an editor at www.wired.com offered her the chance to cover the evacuation of two Ebola-infected Americans to Atlanta.
She moved into her grandmother's house south of Atlanta and over the next week drove to press conferences and interviews with experts at Emory University, in Cartersville (where Phoenix Air is based), at Dobbins Air Base in Marietta and at Georgia State University and Georgia Tech.
Carolyn participated in three press conferences and in three embargoed phone calls about the latest Ebola vaccine studies, joining the calls with reporters from the New York Times, Nature, Washington Post, USA Today and other major outlets, an experience she describes as "thrilling."
Six of her stories were published online by Wired; she's now working toward a feature for the magazine. "Fingers crossed," Carolyn says.
Ebola is a global health catastrophe, and its toll on families and communities is sad beyond measure. This is also a time when reporters and health communicators work to arm us all with information that helps us stay safe and remain connected with our fellow humans.

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Parking Regulations - Definitions
"Faculty" and/or "Staff" means any person holding an appointment at the University.
"Student" is a person registered in an undergraduate or graduate program proceeding towards a degree, a diploma or a certificate at the University of Guelph, or otherwise taking credit and/or non-credit courses offered by the University
"Police" means the Campus Community Police and/or any member of an authorized police service.
"Parking Enforcement Officer" means any authorized member of the Campus Community Police, Campus Fire Prevention and Parking Enforcement Officers and includes student enforcement personnel
"Vehicle" includes motor vehicle, motorcycle or other motor-driven conveyance.
"Abandoned Vehicle" means any vehicle that is partially dismantled or wrecked, does not display a current permit or license plate and does not appear to be operable; and remains in this condition in excess of 48 hours, shall be considered abandoned and will be subject to tow away at owner's expense. Included in this definition are vehicles, trailers or other chattels occupying University streets, parking lots and laneways.
"University Vehicle" means:
A vehicle owned by the University and identified as such.
Vehicles rented or leased by the University and registered with the Sustainable Transportation & Parking Services and identified as such.
"Service Vehicle" means:
A private vehicle displaying an authorized service vehicle permit engaged in University business.
A commercial vehicle displaying an authorized commercial/service permit being operated by a firm engaged in University business.
The University parking year is the period from May 1st to the following April 30th. For purposes of these regulations the parking semesters begin and end as follows:
Summer: May 1 - August 31
Fall: September 1 - December 31
Winter: January 1 - April 30
"No Stopping" means: Motorists are generally not permitted to stop, whether occupied or not, for any reason except to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a Police Officer, Parking Enforcement Officer, or a traffic control sign or signal.
"Parking Meter" refers to an electronic appliance designed for the purpose of gauging and indicating a length of time within which a vehicle is, or may be, parked in a metered space.
"Metered Zone" means any portion of a street, or parking lot allotted for the purpose of parking vehicles in respect of which a parking meter system, a pay by phone system, or a pay by licence plate system may be established and maintained to collect fees for use of a metered space
"Pay by Phone" or grammatical variations of the term, means a system established by or on behalf of the university under which a person may:
set up a cash or credit card account with the university, and
pay the required fee for parking a vehicle at one specific location, either at a parking meter or specific designated parking lot, remotely by phone in accordance with the requirements of the university's system regarding pay by phone.


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It is with great joy and celebration that Mark and Samantha Smith were married last evening by Pastor Dave. Mark and Samantha have been members of our congregation from birth until now. They are active in the congregation's youth ministry and are well known servants within our community. After their week long honeymoon, they will return to their new home just outside Bartletville where Mark will … [Read more...]
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For the last three years, the Smith family have been members of our congregation, and their ministries throughout the church are invaluable. Frank, who is just 13, has begun a Bible study after school and has invited all his friends and classmates to join him in reading through the four gospels over the course of the school year. If you would like to contribute food or transportation for this new … [Read more...]
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What is Christmas without getting your hands dirty in the kitchen and baking some lip smacking desserts for your friends and family. The festive mode is on. Even my social media pages is enjoying the festive cheer. Infact I think my Instagram is on a sugar high! Its loaded with stunning images of some amazing desserts and cookies and I can't stop drooling over them. Boozy cakes to edible wreathes, gingerbread cookies to cookie boxes, apple pies to cranberry pies – its all there. Yes I feel the sugar overload too but its all about celebration and merry making. In the middle of this cheer, don't miss out on baking these Cranberry Jam Shortbread Bars.
These bars is everything you would want in your dessert – sweet, tart, earthy and super easy to make. The homemade Cranberry Jam lends a freshness to the whole dessert. Buttery, crumbly, soft and delicious is all what this dessert is about. Perfect for a get together this Christmas. Make sure to make a double batch, because its a guarantee that one batch will not be sufficient. Just when the cookies and pies were getting commonplace, bake these holiday special Cranberry Jam Shortbread Bars.
INGREDIENTS: (Makes 9 bars)
For the shortbread bars:
- 260 grams whole wheat flour
- 220 grams unsalted butter, room temperature + extra for brushing the mould
- 80 grams light brown granulated sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg powder (optional)
- pinch of salt
For Cranberry Jam: (Recipe on the blog)
- 200 gms of cranberries, fresh or frozen
- 120 gms granulated white sugar
- 3 – 4 tbsp water
- 1 tsp lemon juice (optional)
For Cranberry Jam:
- Wash the cranberries properly. Take the cranberries in a saucepan along with sugar ad water and let it cook on low-medium heat.
- Keep stirring it occasionally. Once the berries have softened by 60%, take a potato masher and gently mash the entire mixture.
- Let the berries cook more and it will soften completely and start to thicken.
- Remove the mixture from the heat, stir in lemon juice if needed and allow the mixture to cool.
- Once cooled transfer it into a clean, moisture free glass container. Keep it in the fridge until consumption.
For Shortbread bars:
- Preheat your oven to 170 C for atleast 15 minutes and butter the baking pan and keep aside. (I used an 8 inch baking tin)
- Meanwhile beat the butter until smooth and pale. Add granulated white sugar and beat for 40 – 50 seconds until creamy.
- Now add vanilla extract and beat it for 20 – 30 seconds.
- Add whole wheat flour, salt and nutmeg powder and beat on low speed until it just comes together. Make sure the clumps are still there and it doesn't form a proper dough.
- Transfer 2/3 of the dough to the baking tray and press down evenly. Now using a fork prick the bars and allow it to bake for 15 minutes or until the sides are slightly brown.
- Once done, allow it to cool slightly and evenly spread the cooled down cranberry jam leaving some gap on the edges.
- Crumble the remaining shortbread dough on top of the jam evenly and gently press the dough down.
- Allow this to bake for 22 – 25 minutes or until the crumble is golden brown on top.
- Once done allow it to cool on the wire rack. While it is sightly warm, cut it into 9 bars of equal sizes. Once it cools down completely, remove it from the baking tray and eat!


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DINA MERI - Hairdresser Accessories
TRICOS is an indispensable tool where you can not make a diagnosis with the naked eye of the hair and scalp. TRICOS, interface and USB connector, is an electron microscope at magnifications up to 400X.
Fundamental and unique is the program provided for the creation and management of the tabs customer (in conformity with the Privacy Act) with the ability to make annotations on various analysis before and after treatment, rescue and subsequent comparison of the images, print customer card & sbquo, and so on.
TRICOS comes in a handy carrying case.
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Dec 30, 2010
In honour of the 86th episode of the roundtable, our topic is Get Smart. Deanna Toxopeus, Gary Mitchell and special guest (Get Smart expert and Deanna's husband) Rick Wirthlin talk about the great 60s sitcom, looking at why it works and why it is still funny even today. And you get to listen to Gary and Deanna freak out over a comic book starring the PotUS. There's plenty of laughs and puns for everyone. They also discuss the week in nerdliness and the nerd news.
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The article in the url below is an interesting survey of the state of CSR today – where we have been and, possibly, where we are going. In the process, it poses the following question:
"Is it naïve to expect corporations to assist in addressing the social, economic and environmental challenges of the day?"
There are two points the author makes, in particular, that I want to highlight. First, is the idea that the executives who lead the corporations of the past:
"… served not just stockholders, but also workers, customers and the community."
The implication reinforced throughout the article is that executives today serve only stockholders. It is frustrating continually to see such complex ideas presented so simplistically. I understand the constraints of space that newspaper journalists face, but that does not seem to be the main driver behind the problem. In general, we like to see the world as a series of dichotomies, rather than the continua that are all around us. Businesses today operate within a series of stakeholder relationships. They do not choose this; it is simply the way that it is. Now, they can certainly prioritize the interests of one group over another, but it is not true to say that executives only care about stockholders. It is impossible to run a business that way. An overly simplistic representation of this when discussing CSR prevents the more important discussion around stakeholder prioritization, which is the true challenge that executives face. In fact, you could argue that the main job of executives today is to manage among competing stakeholder interests to allocate scarce resources in the best interests of the firm.
Second, the author concludes that, due to the narrow, distorted perspective of businesses today:
"Elected governments are certainly imperfect. But to address our most intractable ills, they are the better tool."
As someone who has been thinking about CSR for many years (so is well aware of the many ways in which for-profit firms both create and destroy value, broadly defined), I think this statement is ludicrous. A strong and active government is clearly a vital component of a functioning democratic system. But, anyone who pins their hope for social progress primarily on government agencies and, heaven forbid, elected politicians, has just not been paying attention over the past few decades. No-one makes this point more effectively than Milton Friedman, in an interview on The Donahue Show in 1979 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GapXLpLoZBs), which I show in my class and should be, I think, compulsory viewing for all business students:
"The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way. In the only cases in which the masses have escaped from [grinding poverty], the only cases in recorded history, is where they have had capitalism and largely free trade. If you want to know where the masses are worst off, it is exactly in the kinds the societies that depart from that. So the record of history is absolutely crystal clear, that there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system."
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David Chandler & Bill Werther
Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: Stakeholders, Globalization, and Sustainable Value Creation (3e)
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Italian Neighbors: Or a Lapsed Anglo-saxon in Verona
Italian Neighbors: Or a Lapsed Anglo-saxon in Verona
is as summer gets into full swing that you are reminded you are
living in a foreign country. A strange breed of wasps, more than an
inch long, have made their nest in the eaves above our balcony and
will occasionally whir into the flat, causing intense alarm.
Opposite the church we see a snake, head held high, sliding rapidly
along the wall of the flood emergency dike. Typing away at Il
Professore's desk, I become aware that a baby lizard has come in
through the French window and is soaking up the sunshine on the
tiles by my feet. Outside, freed from their winter covers, lemon
and orange trees flourish again in tubs by lowly back doors
shrouded with bead curtains against the flies."The
power of Tim Parks's narrative is such that we can never forget
he's living in a foreign country. Italy comes alive under his pen
and it's an Italy seldom represented.ITALIAN NEIGHBORS is not a dewey-eyed love letter to Italy.
Refreshingly, it's more of a newsy letter home to the parents, full
of colorful characters and humorous experiences --- the kind that
are found in, well, a neighborhood. This travel narrative lives up
to its title; it's about making a year-round home in a flat
surrounded by Italian neighbors, not spending expensive but idyllic
summers in the countryside only to return home to Britain or the
United States for the other nine months of the year.Tim
Parks has a wry tone that makes even a discussion about Italian
politics seem interesting and he puts it to good use describing the
village near Verona that he and his wife decide to make home. He
introduces us to Lucilla, a howling dervish of a woman who believes
the flat Tim Parks and his wife move into should have been hers;
Vittorina, a superstitious, gossipy woman whose generally morose
nature is overshadowed by her wholehearted laughter and innate
generosity; the green-thumbed and environmentally tyrannical
Giampaolo; and Vega, the dog everyone dreams of
poisoning.Politics, bureaucracy, local festivals, the challenge of
getting a telephone, the difference between government workers and
all other wage earners, and pregnancy Italian-style... ITALIAN
NEIGHBORS takes the reader behind Italian doors --- both quotidian
and unique --- to meet people, not stereotypes. This charming and
imminently readable book explains how the author and his wife
reached the "point of no return" and decided to put down roots in
the warm, centuries-old Italian soil.As
Tim Parks so eloquently puts it, ITALIAN NEIGHBORS is more than a
travel book...it's an "arrival book."
Reviewed by Jami Edwards on January 22, 2011
Italian Neighbors: Or a Lapsed Anglo-saxon in Verona
- Publication Date: June 1, 1993
- Genres: Nonfiction, Travel
- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Ballantine Books


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What you may wonder was the reason for my own version of "Trading Spaces"? I can sum it up in one word. DOOR.
Dear husband's space was previously located in an undefined area adjacent to the family room. The problem with that? The man never met a horizontal surface he could walk by without leaving a deposit of some sort...a tool, a week-old grocery list, a movie stub from daughter Amy's last month visit, a grocery receipt dated March 24, 2009, an empty soda bottle, a computer bit, bite, or bolt, a church program... Not sure if he is a certifiable pack-rat, a close contender for the "Hoarders" reality TV show, or was just born with an especially dominate MAN gene.
He kept sprawling closer and closer to the family room...into my quilting area...across the room to the piano...It was like watching a petri dish colonize a rare, insidious, and potentially lethal, unstoppable bacteria. Ever heard of MRSA?(Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus)? Well this was CRSA (Clean-Resistant Stuff-alococcus Allovertheplacis).
SO! The computer cave is now and forever more contained within a confined space...with a DOOR! The move is actually a win-win situation. I now have my quilting quarters and my card making area all in one space! Dear husband won't have to listen to my frequent diatribes regarding the state of computer clutter, plus the downstairs area is cooler - much more to my liking than his.
I'm still organizing the New and Improved Bubble. I don't like working in a cluttered workspace so I just made myself pretend I don't have a stack of unpacked crates and boxes sitting behind me and forced myself to make a card. I had to take time to challenge myself with not only working in a crazy mess but to use the yummy color challenge over at Play Date Cafe! Plus I used a stamp that I rediscovered during the moving avalanche! A Chunky Foam stamp - remember those?
Flowers Found
~Base card - PaperTrey Ink Spring Rain
~Stamped image - chunky foam stamp by Anita's
~Image colored with Copics, flower centers stamped with Taylored Expressions Friendship Blooms using Versamark and embossing powders: Cobalt Blue, Wintergreen Pastel (from my "what was I thinking when I bought this" collection, Eggplant, and Evergreen
~Background paper - Remember When - Blue Stripe
~Faux stitches using green fine point Sharpie
Play Date Cafe color photo inspiration
Totally Gorjuss - spring has sprung
Wee Memories - anything goes
Scrapbook Sisters - anything goes
I should have added a touch of ribbon - but it's not unpacked yet. Ribbon is next on my list! Maybe I'll post a few photos of the new Fiber Bubble when I get it all arranged.
Thanks for popping by.
Nancy in Iowa