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Shelley King ~Building a Fire~ at Spinnaker Lounge on the Sandy Beaches Cruise XXI – Video

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Shelley King ~Building a Fire~ at Spinnaker Lounge on the Sandy Beaches Cruise XXI
Shelley King ~Building a Fire~ performed at Spinnaker Lounge on the Sandy Beaches Cruise XXI, January 14, 2015. Filmed and produced by Eileen Llorente2015 all rights reserved. Shelley King...

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Shelley King ~Building a Fire~ at Spinnaker Lounge on the Sandy Beaches Cruise XXI - Video

NGO calls for seriousness in saving beaches

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Regional News of Monday, 16 February 2015

Source: GNA

Save Our Beaches Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organization, has called on stakeholders and government institutions to put measures in place to help fight the negative human activities destroying the coastal belt of the country.

Mining of sand, the practice of open defecation, and throwing of waste along the shores of the beaches, they said, had caused investors great loss, thereby making the beaches unattractive to tourists.

Paa Kwesi Wilson, Founder of the NGO, in an address to mobilise support to halt the practices and save the sea, said the beaches were important national assets that needed investments to turn them into beautiful resorts that would earn the country some foreign exchange.

However, he said, unfortunately, many Ghanaians did not appreciate the value of the beaches, hence they degraded them with their activities.

He warned that the destruction of the beaches could pose serious implications for human existence and wellbeing.

Ms Peace D. Gbeckor-Kove, Programmes Officer of the Environmental Protection Agency, (EPA) said the unsafe activities at the beaches had caused erosion, algal bloom and the influx of sargassum species to be forming at the beaches, thus killing aquatic life and leaving the fisher folks unemployed.

She said the dumping of refuse into the sea and not handling waste properly in the country was one of the reasons the EPA embarked on the waste segregation project to help promote the recycling some of these waste materials and to reduce the rate of waste generated.

Ms Gbeckor-Kove recommended the education of people to change their behavior and attitudes towards helping to manage urban waste, reusing and repair of waste produced, saying some of the waste could serve as raw materials for other products.

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The Brant geese are coming – no dogs allowed on Parksville Qualicum beaches

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Local beaches will be closed to dogs again Feb. 15 to April 15 to give the migrating black Brant geese space to fatten up during their long flight up the coast of North America.

"Compliance is up around 95 per cent or higher," said Vancouver Island University professor Greg Klimes. His resource management students help patrol the beaches during the closure.

"People are really good about it and I'd say 99 per cent of the people we do see with dogs on the beach are from out of town and just had no idea," he said.

He said his students provide information and don't argue if people resist, pointing out they don't have any authority. They will report details to conservation officers if people continue to disobey the ban.

Conservation officer Stuart Bates agrees, praising the compliance of most residents and that they have given out very few of the possible $230 fines.

"The geese see any dog as a predator," Bates said, adding the Brant's main predator in the north is the Arctic fox. "If they see a dog from even a distance on a leash they will stop feeding and fly out to sea."

He said it can take hours of feeding to make up for a five-minute-flight like that.

The geese are primarily feeding on eelgrass and herring roe to increase their fat stores.

The beach closures are in effect in Parksville from Doehle Avenue to the Englishman River, plus Rathtrevor Beach, which is also closed to dogs by a separate provincial park ban. People are still allowed to walk their leashed dogs on the boardwalk at Parksville Beach.

Dogs are also banned from the waterfront from the Little Qualicum River delta to Seacroft Road in Qualicum Beach and Columbia Beach in French Creek.

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Bulgarias Regional Development Ministry Seeks Concessionaires for 22 Beaches

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Bulgarias Regional Development Ministry is looking for concessionaires to manage 22 beaches for 5-year periods.

Although most of the beaches have not been taken care of for several years, there are a number of attractive offers in the resorts of Sveti Vlas, Elenite, etc, according to reports of Capital Daily.

The initial prices start at around BGN 2000 and reach nearly BGN 500 000 a year for the different tendering procedures.

The submission deadline is March 13, 2015 and the bids are to be opened one week after that.

Among the most expensive offers is the central beach of Sveti Vlas, which has an initial price of slightly over BGN 256 000.

At the same time, the western beach in that resort, which is substantially smaller, has an initial auction price of BGN 33 167, VAT excluded, a year.

The Regional Development Ministry is also looking for concessionaires to manage the beaches Elenite 1 and Elenite 2, with the annual fee for the bigger beach amounting to a minimum of BGN 134 479, VAT excluded, while the minimum fee for the smaller one stands at BGN 4787, VAT excluded.

Among the attractive proposals is the Nestinarka beach in the Tsarevo municipality.

The initial auction price for the Nestinarka beach, which boasts a top location in the southern part of the Black Sea resort, is BGN 227 509, VAT excluded, which makes it one of the most expensive beaches, according to the announcement of the Regional Development Ministry.

Some of the beaches have failed to attract the interest of concessionaires for years, including Kabakum - Central Beach and Kabakum - Biser in Varna and Chaika - North Beach, Chaika South Beach, Kamchiya - North Beach 2, and Kamchiya - North Beach 3 in Byala.

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Beaches in Ballina Shire to stay closed again today

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UPDATE 4pm: BEACHES throughout the Ballina Shire will remain closed over the weekend following more shark sightings in the area over the past two days.

A number of shark sightings have been reported, including one that was spotted by surf live-savers at Lighthouse Beach earlier today.

The latest sightings, and the fact that large numbers of bait fish remain present in the area, have prompted the decision to keep beaches closed until 6pm Sunday.

Police and local life-savers will reassess the situation on Sunday evening.

INITIAL REPORT: BEACHES across Ballina Shire will be closed again today, with Ballina Surf Life Saving Club deciding to keepShelly Beach and Lighthouse Beach closed until at least Monday.

SLS North Coast duty officer Garry Meredith said lifesavers were consulting with Ballina Shire Council and police and would make a group decision on the remainder of the coastline later today.

Lifesavers have staked 21 closed signs along the Shire's beaches and will continue to monitor the beaches today with jetskis and vehicles.

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