Just when you think it we will never get a grocery store in Vilano, we have a Vilano Beach Main Street meeting where prospective developers from south Florida have plans to bring a grocery store to our area.

Come to the Vilano Beach Main Street meeting this Wednesday, November 18th from 4 - 6 p.m. at the Hampton Inn in Vilano where the prospective buyers of the grocery store site will be in attendance. They will be asking questions of the community and we will have the opportunity to ask questions, too.

Also on the agenda will be the restoration of the Bluebird and an update on the Sunday Market.

Here are details on this meeting and others that are happening this week that affect Vilano Beach.

Thanks and see you at a meeting this week?

Barbara Jenness is the Vice-President of the North Shores Improvement Association (NSIA), the parent organization for the Vilano Beach Main Street. She is also President of Friends of A1A and a homeowner in Porpoise Point---all areas that are having meetings this week.

This is your friendly reminder that tomorrow, October 17th from 4-7:30 p.m at the Vilano Beach oceanfront pavilion will be a celebration of the completion of the streetscape. Please come and invite your friends as the public is invited. Dignitaries include Congressman Mica, St. Johns County commissioners and commissioners-elect, representatives from Callaway Contracting, RS&H Engineering, and others.

The streetscape is complete in the Vilano Beach Town Center. So, that means a party, right? Right!

October 17, 2008 from 4 p.m. - 7 p.m. at the Beach Pavilion on the beach end of Vilano Road, the community is invited to celebrate the completion of the road and streetscape improvements to the Vilano Beach Town Center. The Ribbon Cutting ceremony will be held at 4:30 p.m. with music and food from 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.

If you wish to help plan this event, please attend the next meeting on Wednesday, September 3 at 4 p.m. at the North Shores Improvement Association's building at 120 Meadow Avenue.

Please contact me if you would like to be a sponsor.

The community has much to celebrate. We look forward to seeing you on the 17^th of October!