To: West Galveston Island Property Owners Association Members
MINUTES: The minutes of our October 20 meeting will be on our website, www.wgipoa.com, in the next few days.
MEETING: The next meeting will be on November 17, 2012, beginning at 8:30 AM for breakfast burritos and coffee and 9:00 AM for the meeting at the Moody Gardens Hotel in the Salon A Room, which is next to the Ballroom on the first floor.
NOTE: CHANGE OF MEETING PLACE FOR 11/17 MEETING TO MOODY GARDENS HOTEL, IN THE SALON A ROOM, First Floor!
PROGRAM: The West Galveston Island Property Owners Association is very pleased to have the Port of Galveston as our main program and the guest speakers will be Captain John Peterlin, Senior Director of Marketing and Administration, and Roger Quiroga, former Galveston mayor and now the Port’s Director of Real Estate and External Affairs. The port has really expanded dramatically the past ten years and they will update us about the Port’s activities since Ike, the cruise ships, and future plans.
This will be a great meeting to learn about the Port of Galveston and please invite your neighbors and friends and come for breakfast burritos at 8:30 AM.
WGIPOA NEWSLETTER: The Volume two, issue three of the GalvestonWestender Newsletter is available with excellent articles to read at: http://www.wgipoa.com/tx/
Sea Turtles Donation: The HEART (Help Endangered Animals – Ridley Turtles) organization needs your help to protect the endangered Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle. HEART is a 501©3 charitable organization and donations are tax deductible. Visit the website at: http://www.ridleyturtles.org/ and please make a donation and to:
HEART, P.O. Box 681231, Houston, Texas 77268-1231.
Upcoming Events:
Ongoing: Join the American Shore & Beach Preservation Association (ASBPA) and automatically become a member of the Texas Chapter. See www.asbpa.org and www.texasasbpa.org for details.
Nov. 13-14, 2012: The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Association will hold its 2012 annual conference at the Francis Marion Hotel in Charleston, SC. Go to http://www.
Nov. 19 & 20, 2012: NCBIWA 2012: The annual conference of the North Carolina Beach, Inlet & Waterway Association, at the Blockade Runner Oceanfront Resort, Wrightsville Beach, NC. To participate or ask questions, email harry.simmons@ncbiwa.org
Nov. 27-29, 2012: Littoral 2012, held in Oostende, Belgium. Go to http://www.littoral2012.eu/.
Feb. 13-15, 2013: FSBPA (Florida Shore & Beach Preservation Association) National Conference on Beach Preservation Technology, Jacksonville, FL. Go to www.fsbpa.com.
Feb. 19-23 2013: 8th International Multipurpose Reef and Surfing Science Symposium, Rincón, Puerto Rico. Go to: http://www.imprsymposium.org/
Feb. 26-28, 2013: ASBPA (American Shore & Beach Preservation Association) Coastal Summit, ASAE Conference Center, Washington, D. C. Registration opens in November. See http://www.asbpa.org/ for details.
Sept. 9-11, 2013: Northeast Shore & Beach Preservation Association Chapter of ASBPA, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, email to Richard Weggel (weggel@drexel.edu).
Sept. 25-27, 2013: FSBPA (Florida Shore & Beach Preservation Association) Annual Conference, Delray Beach Marriott, Delray Beach, FL Go to www.fsbpa.com
Oct. 22-25, 2013: ASBPA (American Shore & Beach Preservation Association) National Coastal Conference, South Padre Island, TX. Registration opens in May. See http://www.asbpa.org/ for details.
Oct. 30-Nov. 3, 2013: Global Congress on Integrated Coastal Management (EMECS 10 – MEDCOAST 2013 Joint Conference) will take place at the Club Turban Hotel in Marmaris, Turkey. Abstract submission deadline is Feb. 4, 2012, and information can be found at: http://www.medcoast.org.tr/
Thank you for your support and we hope to see you on November 17, 2012, at the Moody Gardens Hotel, starting at 8:30 with breakfast burritos and coffee and at 9:00 AM for the meeting.
Jerry Mohn
President