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The Water Park prepares for the 2012 Season! (Marilyn VanWagner, GM)
Early Bird Special & Season Passes – The Water Park continues to offer Town residents an Early Bird Special on 2012 Season Passes! Go to our website at www.chesapeakebeachwaterpark.com and purchase your Season Passes today. Chesapeake Beach Town residents can enjoy a Season Pass for just $49. Season Passes entitle you to General Admission, Night Slides and all other Special Day features that will be offered at the park for the entire 2012 season.
Employment Opportunities – Employment opportunities are now available for the upcoming season. Visit our website and read about the positions available. Sign up for an interview! Once an interview is scheduled, please download the application from the website, complete it and bring it with you to your interview. Don’t delay! The deadline is March 15. This is earlier than in prior years. So, please spread the word to your family and friends.
Swim Lessons – You can also sign up for swim lessons on the website for the 2012 Season. We have four sessions available and each session has five different levels. You can start your babies as early as six months with the new program – Mommy and Me/Daddy and Me – that was launched in 2011. This level is designed to give babies and young children a head start on swimming. The children get comfortable in the water and begin to work on basic skills while interacting with the instructor and other children in a fun and safe environment. A parent (or adult) must accompany the child in the water. Visit our website for more information on swim lesson levels and the dates they are offered. Space is limited and the first two sessions always fill up quickly. Discounts are available for multiple children in the same family, and also for children who take more than one session during the season.
And speaking of swim lessons, the Water Park will partner again this year with water parks and other swimming facilities around the world to get the important message out about how important swim lessons are. This year’s date for the “World’s Largest Swim Lesson” is June 14 at 10:30 am. Join the 2012 WLSL Team and be a part of this amazing, life-saving, Guinness World Record-setting event. More than 20,000 children and adults, on five different continents, helped spread the message that Swimming Lessons Save Lives in 2011. Tragically, drowning remains the second leading cause of injury-related deaths of children ages 1-14. In fact, more than one in four fatal drowning victims are children 14 and younger. Research shows, if a child doesn’t learn to swim before the 3rd grade, they likely never will. We promise a fun morning and all participants in the event will be invited to stay the rest of the day at the Water Park as our guests. We appreciate your patronage all summer long, and this is just one of the ways we can give back to you and the
community.
Please “like us” on Facebook to stay informed about all of the activities at the Water Park! We will post all Chesapeake Beach Appreciation Days, Night Slides, Character Days, and other special events offered during the 2012 Season.
We always invite suggestions, questions and comments. So, please send them to waterpark@chesapeake-beach.md.us. Many of our best ideas come from Town residents, so we want to hear from you!
Chesapeake Beach Skateboard Park Continues to Move Forward
(Pat Carpenter, Editor)
At the November Town Council Meeting, the Town Council awarded a contract to Wally Hollyday Designs of Aliso Viego, California to design our new park. Wally Hollyday Designs is an award winning design/build firm that specializes in planning, designing and building custom concrete skate and BMX parks throughout the United States.
Wally Hollyday was in Chesapeake Beach on January 10 to meet with the skate- board park committee as well as skateboarders and their supporters to discuss the design of the park. Skateboarders came to tell Wally what they liked about his design and what they wanted changed. Wally told the committee that he walked away from this meeting with very definite ideas of what our skateboarders want. He is taking their suggestions back with him and will shortly be sending us a revised plan. Once Wally finishes the design, the Council will award the contract to build the park.
First Annual Stars and Stripes Festival set for May 26-28, 2012
(Connie O'Dell, Chairpserson)If you are like me, you probably spend much of January and February dreaming about the arrival of spring and summer. You know the routine; first we think of the
weather warming, the first sighting of a crocus, when can I get on the golf course and of course finding the perfect Easter dress. Then, along comes Memorial Day Weekend and our thoughts turn to how we will celebrate the beginning of the summer. Unfortunately, most of us do just that. We spend the entire three day weekend “sunning and funning” when we should be paying our respects to those who lost their lives serving our country... For the full Festival update, click here .
Mayor Announces The Green Team! (Pat Carpenter, Editor)
Sustainable Maryland Certified Program (SMC)
We all want to leave our world better than we found it and the Town of Chesapeake Beach is no different. To that end, Mayor Wahl became a founding Mayor for the Sustainable Maryland Certified Program run through the Environmental Finance Center at the University of Maryland. The program strives to “preserve our civilization and the things we hold dear in perpetuity while enhancing our quality of life.” At their November Council meeting the Town Council passed a resolution to pursue Sustainable Maryland Certification and appointed Wilson Cochran as the staff liaison to the program. Mr. Cochran completed the necessary paperwork and the Town of Chesapeake Beach became one of the first twenty municipalities in the state to be officially registered.The next order of business was to form a “Green Team.” The Green Team will recommend which projects will be included in the program that the Town should undertake in order to obtain certification. The Green Team members are:
Mayor Bruce Wahl
Town Councilwoman Valerie Beaudin
Dr. Mike Shisler, Principal of Beach Elementary School
Jeff Labar, Chair of Chesapeake Beach Planning and Zoning
John Bacon
Wesley Donovan
Keith Pardieck
Ken Rasmussen
Eunice Lin
Elisabeth Henderson
Wilson Cochran
The Green Team will meet once a month. The times and dates of the meetings will be determined, with the goal of the Town of Chesapeake Beach leading the way in sustainability in the State. Four members of the Green Team, Mayor Bruce Wahl, Eunice Lin, Keith Pardieck and Wilson Cochran, attended training held on December 10, 2011 at the Maryland 4H Center to help get our program started. There was a great deal of important information provided at the meeting, and the Green Team looks forward to kicking off their efforts in 2012!
The Moonlight Cruises on the Bay were such a big hit last summer, that the Special Events Committee plans to bring them back…and bring back more of them! Instead of three or four, the “Fun Committee” is planning EIGHT this year! And we are working on a new system for registration that will allow people to register and pay for their tickets online. Check the Town website for all the details as dates are set and plans formulated.
Cruises will be the same great price -- $25 per person – and we’ll provide light refreshments, and will have beverages available for purchase.
Captain Luke Thatcher promises another great season on the Bay, so make your plans now to join us for a cruise and enjoy the beautiful moonlight on the Bay!
Chesapeake Beach Oyster Gardening Program -- The Town of Chesapeake Beach is partnering with the Southern Maryland Oyster Cultivation Society (SMOCS)
and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources to provide a collaborative and fun opportunity for the citizens and businesses of Chesapeake Beach to improve local water quality, while gaining knowledge of the Bay ecosystem. These fortunate volunteers will be assisting with national, state and private efforts to restore the Chesapeake Bay, through oyster gardening and oyster reef restoration. For more information, click here.
Message from the Sheriff's Department -- REMINDER: Please keep your vehicles and houses locked at all times. Every theft from a vehicle in Chesapeake Beach has been because it was not locked. The Sheriff's Department cannot stress enough how important it is to keep your vehicles and homes locked. For more safety tips from the Sheriff's Office, click here.The Town of Chesapeake Beach is Participating in Geocaching -- A geocache trail is a series of geocaches tied together by a common theme. The theme of the Maryland Municipal League (MML) Geocache Trail is Celebrating Maryland’s Cities and Towns. The trail is comprised of 78 city/town caches located in the 11 MML Districts (regions) throughout the state. A collectible, highly coveted geo coin will be given to the first 500 geocachers who locate a minimum of 22 city/town caches throughout the state. To be eligible for the coin, geocachers must pick up a passport at any participating visitor center, use the stamp in each cache on their passports and write in the cache code word. After at least 2 municipal caches in each district are discovered, geocachers may return to one of the county visitor centers and have their passports validated to receive a collectible coin. To view press release, please click here.
If any business wishes to participate by bringing items to the Town Hall, we will make sure that your item gets put into the geocache box. We are looking for anything that may have your business name or logo on it to attract people to your business.
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