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Treasure Island newsletter, as always courtesy of Jeff Jenson 

 The cost of living  hasn't affected its popularity, we've noted. And that steady cruching sound you may have heard reverberating throughout city hall the past few months? Numbers, for the most part. (Consuming a bag or two of sea-salted potato chips could cause the same sound). But now, after months of figuring debits, credits, adding endless columns of numbers, creating spreadsheets, and balancing accounts, Budget Season is here! Next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, starting at 1pm, the City Commission and staff examine a virtual recycled forest of paper, all neatly stapled, indexed, organized and collated into what is known as The City of Treasure Island FY2009-10 Proposed Operating Budget (copies available online Monday). You'll thrill to live gavel-to-gavel budget coverage on TITV615 next week, starting Wednesday at 1pm.

Curb your enthusiasm, kids
SunsetBeach, predominately a residential neighborhood, experiences what many residents describe as an unending "spring break" every weekend or major holiday. The Treasure Island Police Department, responding to the volume of complaints voiced by the residents of Sunset Beach, will increase the number of officers assigned to the current police detail in the 9000 block of West Gulf Boulevard.

Six things the Treasure Island Police Department wants you to know:

• They will be checking IDs. Persons under twenty-one found in possession of alcohol will be charged, which requires a court appearance.
• Persons under eighteen years of age in possession of alcohol are also charged but will be detained until a parent can come for them, or they will be transferred to the very un-fun Juvenile Holding Facility for further action - they will not be allowed to "go home" with friends.
• If you'll be drinking alcohol, pre-arrange a designated driver and ensure only that person maintains possession of the keys.
• Parking violations can be from $30 to $250 and are strictly enforced. You block a driveway or an intersection? You'll discover your car ticketed and towed.
• Officers will be assigned to patrol the streets for persons driving under the influence of alcohol, crosswalk compliance, proper lane use and speeding.
• The fine for glass containers on the beach is a minimum $113.

Have fun, kids, but please ... respect the beach and our residents.

"SLICK" LAWYERS: There's a lot of oil and gas money ready to lobby the Florida Legislature for offshore drilling in Florida, in some cases wells as close to three miles from shore. Since we're all on a buddy-buddy first-name basis with Jim and Dennis ( Frishe and Jones, your state representative and senator, respectively) why not e-mail your views on a hulking oil platform, squatting over the Gulf of Mexico, forcing dolphins to wear gas masks and blocking out the sunset? ...
ON THE LOOKOUT FOR A FREE COOKOUT: Our Treasure Bay Golf Pro Gary Metzger (seen here casually festooned in what could be interpreted as an endorsement of a popular discount store) is, naturally, very big on golf. And that's what SNAG (Starting New At Golf) is: big golf. SNAG uses oversized equipment in a kinda-but-not-quite miniature golf style. Get in on SNAG Golf (bring the kids - They. Will. Love. It.) Saturday, July 11th from 5 to 7pm at Treasure Bay, 10315 Paradise Boulevard. It's free and so is Gary's cookout ... 14 TURTLE NESTS ON TI: It's shaping up to be the biggest nesting season in years for the threatened species with 101 barrier island nests so far. Unortunately, we heard about the turtle mugged by a gang of snails. When a police detective asked the turtle if he could explain what happened, the turtle said with a confused look on his face, "I don't know, it all happened so fast." ... AN OPENING FOR OPENING AND CLOSING: A job as bridgetender is available with the City of Treasure Island. Click here for the details ... Next e*ti: July 23rd.

- Jeff Jensen, Editor  

 Wrong, 3 Christmas trees are up now. And we never ate the Octopus.                                              This would have been the perfect night to shoot a reality show at my house. It was hilarious. Just a little back ground info. I am a single female 110 pounds, very creative with long fingernails and high heels. . . . . .That translates to I am not really good at putting up a Christmas treesand I hate fake trees but I am very good at organizing things and motivating people. (I can make a home cook meal that tastes great) So, every year I invite some friends over to have dinner and help me put up the Christmas tree. Most of my friends do not answer their phone in the beginning of December, but some of them are good sports. This year I could convince Manny and Ray, Deb, Toni, and Bobby.

All of them know that I do not do too many things the "ordinary way" and they come prepared. But this year I also threw Bobby in the game and that threw everything else way off. (Never a dull moment with Bobby) He brought over a surprise, two live octopus.

Needless to say that nobody knew how to clean them or cook them, but we tried (unsuccessfully I might say, it was a story by itself) In the meantime the rest of us started with the tree. I asked Ray to help me bring it in the house. We went outside and he froze, he did not believe that I was serious (I had cut a real Cedar tree from my backyard) (7 feet wide)Poor Ray, he started arguing with me and trying to convince me that this was impossible and would not work and even offered to buy me a tress at home depot if I would just give up on this idea. (he should know better, I never give up) so, we got the tree in the house and it took 6 people,  a couple of buckets, tree stands, bricks, string, pretty much everything in my garage to actually put it up. But, we did it!!! Do you know how heavy a cedar tree is? We had some "left over's" and Manny went to work and started at a second tree, inspired by this Deb, Toni and I started a third tree. (While Bobby was still giving good advice and dealing with the octopus) and my cat was watching it from a safe place (she thought, after the nearly got buried under the tree when it fell over 5 times) So, now I have 3 beautiful Christmas trees (one being 7 foot wide) but I have to have my Christmas party outside this year, because the house is packed with trees and it is really difficult to move around them.

This is only the beginning of my Christmas season, on Saturday I have my 15th anual "Girls only cookie baking day" Not once in 15 years did we produce " eat able" cookies. 

When I am not dealing with trees, I sell Real Estate  in Saint Petersburg Florida. Give me a call. I know the market, I know the neighborhood. Ask me about waterfront homes or condos in St. Pete beach. Treasure Island, Madeira beach, Seminole and other Tampabay areas. We also work with short sale and foreclosures.   727 409 8706

What is your tree story?