We are in the midst of celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Paradise NEWS, the community news magazine serving St. Petersburg and its nearby waterfront communities. For 25 years next month we’ve mailed this informative publication ten times per year to a growing readership in the place we have come to call Paradise. By we, I mean Renee my wife and partner in so many endeavors for 48 years and I, along with an amazing team of contributors we’ve assembled over the past quarter century.
If you are reading this, we’ve have all survived another summer of record heat and damaging storms. Our hearts go out to the survivors from the Bahamas, another island paradise, all but obliterated by Hurricane Dorian. We also remember our friends in the Midwest plains whose farm fields were flooded last spring, and the folks just dumped on by Imelda. As a tourism area and with a feature story about Steve and Bonnie Traiman’s delayed French river cruise last month, we are also mindful of the hundreds of thousands of vacationers left stranded around the globe with the sudden bankruptcy of Thomas Cook, the world’s oldest travel agency.
As of this writing, not only has our area once again survived thus far storm free, but there is also little sign of the red tide outbreak that had made life really miserable last year at this time.
The weather has begun to show signs of cooling a bit, and we are ready for that. Fall, winter and spring are the seasons most of us mean when we call this area Paradise.
There are outdoor events coming almost every day of the week in October and November, Preserve the Burg has Thursday evening movies in the park downtown, while St. Pete Beach offers Friday Concerts in the Park and Sunday Corey Market. There’s SPIFFS, Oktoberfests, Halloween Events, Seafood and Fishing Fests, Sanding Ovations, Chowder Challenge, Savor St. Pete and the historic Fish Broil, to name just a few. Many of our favorite restaurants have outdoor patios, most pet-friendly, which we have shunned for months, but which become attractive as the lows get a little lower.
See our expanded 16 page Arts and Leisure and Events sections, pages 47 – 63 for everything you need to keep yourself as busy as you want to be. For timely reminders, visit our website www.paradisenewsḀ.com and hit the newsletter tab. There you can read last Thursday’s weekly emailed electronic newsletter with the 5 top things to do this weekend. If you enter your email address, we will send you a new one each Thursday. We will not share your email address.
If you enjoy community fresh markets, there is a great Saturday market in downtown St. Petersburg, two Sunday markets on the barrier islands, on Corey Ave. (74th Ave.) SPB, and in Tierra Verde, and a Tuesday market in Gulfport year-round.
Paradise News is continuing its outreach with this and the next few issues. If you live in 33703, this is your sample issue. You can subscribe, read online or pick up a copy from hundreds of stacks around the downtown area and on the beaches. If you know of a company you enjoy doing business with that needs more exposure, let them know you are a Paradise NEWS reader by passing on a copy after you’ve read it. Few of our advertisers ever quit, so it must be working for them.
Give us a call with their name and phone number or email address and we will follow up.
Just call us at 727-363-6888 or visit us online at paradisenews.com.
Renee & Peter Roos
& All the Talented People that contribute to your Paradise News