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Here's your chance to get involved and help our community by doing your part to strengthen tourism and business here in South Walton. It's also a great way to keep up with what's going on with tourism, network, and make new friends.

The Walton County Tourist Development Council is accepting applications for citizens to serve on volunteer committees to assist the TDC with tourism development and creative initiatives. The TDC is currently looking for citizens/representatives to serve on the following committees:

Are you dreaming of sliding your toes in the sand, watching the sunset over the Gulf of Mexico, all while indulging in a weekend of delicious food, drink, and relaxation? Well, here's your chance! One beach-loving winner will get to enjoy all of it and more...  

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The 2013-2014 season marks Sinfonia’s eighth year of innovative musical programming as the region’s only fully professional symphony orchestra. Maintaining the tradition of “symphony redefined,” the non-profit symphony will present a stellar line up of concerts featuring the orchestra and world-renowned guest artists. Dubbed “Musical Identities,” the season culminates in the annual gala event featuring Tony and Olivier Award-winning singer/actress Patti LuPone.

Greg Mathews and Chris Officer are wearing out flip flops every day as they walk Florida beaches for Google Maps. They are carrying a bizarre backpack which has a big blue orb overhead. The 40-pound rig contains 15 cameras that each take a picture every 2.5 seconds to later create a Google "street view" panorama. They are trekking about 7.5 miles a day for the project which is a collaboration between Visit Florida and Google.

The duo started in the panhandle and have already walked across South Walton. The project should be completed and accessible on Google maps in 2014.

The Walton County, Florida, Hurricane and Storm Damage Reduction Project (Beach Nourishment Project) reached another milestone recently with the signing of the project’s Feasibility Study Report by General Thomas Bostick, Chief of Engineers for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The chief’s favorable report marks the culmination of the Corps of Engineer’s development and review process for the project, and the study will now be submitted to Congress and the Administration. The next step for the project is Congressional approval for construction authorization.

The Seaside REP Theatre presents Romantic Fools, consisting of 12, two-character comedies examining love, lust, dating, and romance — from a date with a caveman (Find Me a Primitive Man) to the joys of dull sex (One Man’s Secret Desire) to the surprise frustrations of having a perfect mate (The Stepford Guy).

With influences of Monty Python, Saturday Night Live, Jules Feiffer, the Marx Brothers, and classic vaudeville comedy, these sketches vary in style but all celebrate the inherent comedy of male-female relationships.

Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast will host the Oneblood mobile unit on Wednesday, Aug. 28, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the main entrance of the hospital. All donors will receive a free t-shirt and a meal ticket to the hospital’s café. Anyone who donates blood two times between June 1 and Sept. 30, 2013, will receive a free steak dinner courtesy of Outback Steakhouse®.

Taste of The Beach is uncorking its 2013 lineup and the three-day event kicks off with Vine to Wine - A Wine Preview on August 23 at Seascape Resort's ballroom from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Due to the popularity of the 18th annual Concerts in The Village, Mattie Kelly Arts Foundation (MKAF) is adding an Autumn Concerts in the Village series, Sept. 1-26, 2013. The five-week series kicks off on Sunday, Sept. 1 with the Southeast's premier seventies band, LavaLamp, and continues with live music every Thursday evening in September.
 

Gulf Place is hosting its monthly Third Thursday Wine Walkabout on Thursday, August 15 from 5-7pm.  Beginning in the Artists at Gulf Place green, visitors are given a merchant map of all the retail stores and restaurants involved in the walkabout and a glass of wine. The stores at Gulf Place stay open a few hours later than normal and attendees are invited to shop and socialize all while enjoying some very fabulous varieties of wine and food! Visitors indulge in tasting seasonal wines from around the world and tasty hors d’oeuvres at each stop on the walkabout.