OK, I'm waiting GaGirl

[CaptKen]

I'm not lucky enough for you to have missed it.

[gagirl]

Guess I did......since I don't know what you're talking about.

[BigDave]

Just tell him you missed him..he might have been in the rum when he posted that.

[gagirl]

I think he is talking about a news article or something, since he said "it". Guess I'm falling down on my snooping.

[Midwest For Now]

Never too late to get back on the horse. Hope one of you two posts the finding, and soon. Inquiring minds need to know!

[jerryb]

Was it the lifeguard issue?

[jobeibi]

It had to be the lifeguard issue. I only read the top paragraph though, so I only saw Mayor Oberst's name, not the Cap'n's.

Weird. The article is Front Page Above the Fold but I can't find it online.

Anyway... Since I can't copy & paste, I'll give you the first and last of the article.

Headline BEACH MAYOR: LIFEGUARD ISSUE DEAD by Pat Kelly

Mayor Gayle Oberst said Wednesday she is finished with all this talk about a larger lifeguard system. yadda yadda yadda [Ken Nelson said], "come hell or high water" the issue is not dead.

Go get 'em, Ken!

[CaptKen]

Yep, usually GaGirl is johnny on the spot with articles from the local news. I Figured it would be posted by the time I arose this morning.

[CaptKen]

Beach mayor: Lifeguard issue dead
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October 16, 2008 10:59:00 AM
By Pat Kelly / News Herald Writer
PANAMA CITY BEACH - Mayor Gayle Oberst said Wednesday she is finished with all this talk about a larger lifeguard system.
The government of Panama City Beach has accomplished all it can with the money available, Oberst told a combined board meeting of the Bay County Tourist Development Council and Panama City Beach Convention & Visitors Bureau.
"As far as I am concerned, the issue is at rest," Oberst said, emphasizing the city will spend $250,000 from its general fund next year on roving beach patrols through the police department and three lifeguards at the new city pier.
One Beach councilman, however, said "come hell or high water" the issue would continue.
The issue has been percolating in Beach City Council meetings since a wave of drownings along county beaches this summer, including the 11th earlier this month that brought to nine the deaths on city beaches. The other two occurred on county beaches.
The city held a public workshop last week, initiated by Councilman Ken Nelson, during which lifeguard officials from the beaches west of Bay County related how their lifeguard systems worked and how they were funded.
Oberst, sitting Wednesday as a board member of the TDC/CVB, said only one city council member has been pushing the issue. In addition, she has received no interest from the resort industry on whether a larger system of lifeguards was needed, she said.
"As long as the tort system is out there, people (the resort industry) are going to be reluctant to support lifeguards," said city attorney Doug Sale, speaking about private industry's fear of being sued.
Nelson, who does not sit on the TDC board, said afterward the city has a responsibility to ensure safety along the entire beachfront, not just the city pier area. He also downplayed the tort issue.
"Those hotels don't own those beaches," he said. "Those are public beaches."
The city has 50 public easements leading to the beach, Nelson said, and three roving officers from the police department were inadequate. The city needed to fund at least seven, and possible nine, lifeguards certified in openwater rescue, a certification the police officers lack, he said.
Nelson suggested lifeguards were not only needed at the city pier, but also at public parking lots at Beckrich Road and Churchwell Drive. The entire system could be funded by a city ordinance mandating a 50-cent assessment on room rentals per night, he said.
"It's basically an obligation," he said. "We are the only public beaches along the Panhandle without adequate lifeguards." He said "come hell or high water" the issue was not dead.

[wannabethere]

Way to go Capt!!! Fight for what is right!!! :P