March 2009 Newsletter
Volume 3, No 3
A brand new feeling is in the air, and it's riding in on the warm breezes and sunny skyline of spring.
From sparkling reflections across the sand to tulips and jonquils brightening oceanfront lawns, spring is spreading across the Grand Strand. From colorful beach chairs popping up along the shoreline to faint green and pink colors across the trees and shrubs, Myrtle Beach is coming alive again with a joyful kick.
The SeaSide family has been busily preparing every room, every nook and cranny in readiness for you, our most important guest and friend. All the excitement and energy around here is focused on one thing - to ensure that you have the best beach vacation that you have ever had...even if it is your very first time here.
With a myriad of activities and festivals coming up on the Grand Strand's active events calendar, plus all of the great shows, shopping, and golf packages available year-round, we know you'll find that this is an exceptional time to come visit us. Check out our specials, too, and customize your stay into what suits your needs, whether a 60th anniversary or wedding reception or a quiet and romantic stay for two.
Your friends at SeaSide
News and Happenings at Seaside
Save Our Planet Campaign
Seaside's GREEN efforts to save energy and contribute our part to re-balancing nature now include a campaign called "Save Our Planet." Guests will begin seeing "Save Our Planet" cards in each bathroom of each property:
A towel on the rack
Means "I will use again,"
A towel on the floor means
"Please replace."
Guests may opt either to keep their towels and face clothes beyond their first use or ask Housekeeping to launder them. This program helps to conserve water and electricity at Seaside! With just a few changes by us humans, especially around the North Myrtle Beach part of the globe, we can reduce waste by 30%. That is huge, and it does indeed make a difference, both globally and locally.
Seaside Teams with Sister Property in the Relay for Life Campaign
Participating in the American Cancer Society's national marathon called Relay for Life, we at Seaside have partnered with our sister property Avista Resort 's team of Reservation agents to help raise funds. Now in the third month of the campaign, we have reached $600 toward our goal of $1,200 by means of car washes, sales of books and "foot print" donations emblems, and other efforts representing our sincerity in the effort to fight against cancer.
Most of us know someone whose life cancer has touched by this wide-spread disease. This Relay for Life effort is on their behalf, plus on the behalf of our community, and even on our own behalf. Each little step makes a difference in some way, sometimes a monetary difference and sometimes just touching the lives of those affected. For some of us, this experience has meant gaining an awareness through education, perhaps encouraging us to eat healthier foods, lead healthier lives, and have medical check-ups.
During your stay at Seaside, if you happen to see an employee wearing jeans on a Friday or see a "footprint" at the front desk or pass by a table of items affiliated with Relay for Life, we hope you will take a moment to ask us about our work on behalf of anyone touched by cancer. We would love to share our experiences during this campaign and encourage you to contribute.
Click here to donate
Employee Spotlight - Flo Lineberry
Flo Lineberry works at SeaSide's sixth floor breakfast room. In fact, she is so well liked and so much a symbol of our customer service that guests just call her "the breakfast lady."
While we have a team of fabulous people who work with her, her service has been outstanding for her reliability, creative preparation and display of the food, and friendliness at making sure that guests have what they need at the breakfast buffet. Served each morning from 6:00 to 11:00 am, breakfast means something different to each guest, but Flo makes sure that personal needs are satisfied, whether quiet time for just a cup of coffee and the newspaper or chats with guests seeking information about local happenings or routes to our many focal spots along the Grand Strand. Flo's flexibility is legendary.
In fact, over the years, with guests from here and abroad, she has learned enough foreign language to greet guests with "good morning:" in any of 15 languages. Beginning work in July of 2005, she is now in her fourth year with the Myrtle Beach Seaside Resorts, Flo enjoys both the busy pace of her work and the one-on-one warmth that she shares with the guests. Repeatedly performing above and beyond her job responsibilities, she takes a great amount of pleasure in her role as a team player for SeaSide Resort. In fact, the manager of Seaside Teena Jeffries praises her as being, "…very knowledge about the attractions in the local area and also in Charleston. She loves to make things for the children…and goes that extra step to please all of her guests.".
A personal note about Flo is that, as an animal lover, she enjoys playing with her cat, two dogs, bird. She has one grown son named Jacob and loves expressing her creative side, in particular designing Seaside's "Employee Praise Board" each month.
Well done, Flo!
Featured Recipe - Fruit Pizza
Kids of all ages will have a blast decorating this tasty fruit pizza that serves approximately 8 people. Select fruits for their variety of colors, shapes, and sizes in making all sorts of designs such as faces, patterns, words, or fun shapes.
Ingredients:
- 1 ready-to-bake piecrust (or your favorite recipe of crust, sugar cookie, or other dough)
- Filling -
- 1/2 cup soft spread fat-free or low-fat cream cheese
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon 1% milk
- Topping -
- A selection of berries and sliced fruits (for example, blueberries, strawberries, bananas, kiwis, seedless grapes sliced in half, Mandarin orange sections, pineapple, and seasonal fruits.)
- Shredded coconut (optional)
- Almond slivers (optional)
Preparation
- Make the crust, per package instructions. Place it unfolded and flat onto a large cookie sheet or pizza pan.
- Note: if you use two roll-up crusts, crimping the edges together slightly so that the edges will stay slightly rolled.
- Prick the crust lightly with a fork in about 20 places (allowing air to escape).
- Follow the package directions on the crust for baking, or bake it in a preheated 450 degree oven for about 9 minutes (lightly browned - do not overbake). Remove the crust from the oven and allow it to cool.
- During the baking time, whisk together the cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla extract, adding just enough milk to make it spreadable.
- After the crust has cooled, spread the cream-cheese mixture on top using a rubber spatula. Bring the mixture to the edge of the pizza.
- Arrange the fruit on the pizza using as much creativity as you and your helpers can find. Children have an especially good time with this part of the recipe, such as making a fruit-face, a clever mosaic, or words. If everyone agrees, sprinkle all or part of the pizza with shredded coconut.
- Slice the pizza using a sharp knife and serve. Refrigerate uneaten portions.
Local Events Calendar
4/1. Lenten Organ Meditation, an event at the First United Methodist Church in Conway, SC. Beginning at 12 noon at 1001 Fifth Avenue in Conway, SC, this event is lead by Billy Fallaw, Music Director. Call 843.488.4251 for details.
4/1-10/31. Grand Strand Fishing Rodeo. Anglers are invited to enter their catches in the tournament held all along the Strand with cash prizes. More information at 843.626.7444.
4/3-4. Prince George Plantation Tour. The majority of the plantations and town houses on this tour are privately owned and lent to the Episcopal Church Women of Prince George. Ticket prices for the tour are $35 for either day (see web site for details). Online at www.pgwinyah.org or call 843.545.8291.
4/4. Celebration of Market Common's First Birthday. This free event includes food, family activities, a fashion show, and plenty of surprises. Join in the fun from 1 pm to 5 pm at Market Common in Myrtle Beach. Call 843.839.3500 for details.
4/4. Park Palooza at Myrtle Beach State Park. Outdoor family activities and programs running from 10 am to 3 pm. Park location 3 miles south of Myrtle Beach off Highway 17. Meet at Shelter B at the park. For more information see website www.myrtlebeachsp.com or call 866.224.9339.
4/5. Vespers for the Passion of Our Lord, an event with the Chancel Choir of the Long Bay Symphony. Held at the First United Methodist Church (1001 5th Avenue) in Conway, SC, starting at 5 pm. For more information, 843.488.4251.
4/5. Eddie Miles' Salute to Elvis at the Alabama Theatre in North Myrtle Beach. This live performance begins at 7 pm. Call 800.342.2262 or see www.alabama-theatre.com for more information.
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Guest Comments
Just to let you know we have now stayed with you twice and really enjoy your location and your rooms. The staff has always been outstanding. We even stayed last May one night for our anniversary. Love the whirlpool in the one bedroom-big enough for the both of us. Therefore, we just purchased a timeshare with Oceania and mainly did this since we can stay with you as much as we want for great deals. We look forward to our future with you!
Email to Seaside from previous guest, the P Shaw family of High Point, NC,, 02-26-09
We stayed at the SeaSide in North Myrtle Beach back in May 08. It was wonderful. Everyone was nice, and the rooms were great!!! I like receiving this newsletter and seeing what is going on around there.
Email to Seaside from guest "Angie," 02-26-09.
[We stayed at Seaside in] Nov. 2008.... a group of 6 ladies.. we loved it…accommodations, staff, continental breakfast and much more. I completed a survey fairly soon after arriving home to NC. We ( the group of best friends/ sisters/ daughters etc.) have been coming for years and years, but we love you the most!!!!! I'll be calling soon for our Nov. 2009 week in a 3 BR 3 bath ocean front-------- the economy may be rough, but it's our week, and we look so forward to it...I will of course be seeking a great deal!!!!! Thanks for giving us such a wonderful place to spend our special week... can't wait to return!!!
Email to Seaside from guest "Ann" 02-26-09.
My wife and I spent a long weekend at the Seaside Inn this February. We've been to Myrtle Beach and North Myrtle Beach on several occasions. Seaside is by far the nicest property we have stayed at. Rates were competitive but the quality of the property and our room was top shelf. It's a smaller property (about 70 units) so you don't feel overrun by other guests. Staff at the property were friendly helpful and seemed genuinely interested in us as guests. Located very close to shopping and decent restaurants (i.e. Bearfoot Landing). We will definitely book the Seadise Inn next time we are in Myrtle.
Email from TripAdvisor.com from guest "RocnRobn" from Raleigh, NC, 02-05-09.
Fun Facts
A shrimp's heart is in its head.
Sand grains seldom travel more than a few feet above the ground.
A product of land rocks weathered through freezing, wind, bumping, and so on, sand particles move around, even traveling from one beach to another by offshore currents and waves. Heavier sand grains and rocks sink to the bottom layer of the beach. Lighter particles stay near the surface. Beach profiles shift, always changing, from one minute to the next because of the constant process of shifting forces such as wind, waves, tide, and even people.
Strong winds pile minute grains of sand from our ocean ridges, desert lake beds, and river deltas into large hills of sand called dunes.
Sand grains bouncing and rolling up the windward surface of a dune often form a series of ridges and troughs called wind ripples. Bouncing sand grains tend to land on the windward side of each ripple, thus producing a low ridge.
In Babylon 4,000 years ago it was the accepted practice that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar-based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the "honeymoon."
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So, in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to "mind your pints and quarts, and settle down." Over time, the expression evolved to mothers and other figures of authority telling their charges to "mind your "P's" and "Q's."
Many years ago in England , pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the "rim" (meaning "handle") of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill ,they used the whistle to get some service. The expressiont "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.
The following "words" appear to be typos or misprints, but, believe it or not, you can read them.
I cnnoat blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mind. Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy; it deosn't mttaer in waht odroer the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset nac be a taotl mses, and uoy nac still raed it wouthit a porbelm. This si bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
No word in the English language rhymes with "month," "orange," "silver," and "purple."
The microwave was invented after a researcher who walked by a radar tube noticed that the chocolate bar in his pocket melted.
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