Daytona Beach News
April 25th, 2008
Daytona Beach, FL - The International Female Ride Day, founded by Vicki Gray of MOTORESS in 2007, will begin its first annual celebration in the Volusia County area on May 2nd, 2008. Beginning at 6:30pm, Bruce Rossmeyer’s Destination Daytona in Ormond Beach, FL, will hold a safety seminar, fashion show, bike contest, raffles, giveaways, live entertainment and the Daytona Harley Davidson Drill Team will perform.
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April 16th, 2008
Ponce Inlet, Florida - The 10th Annual Shrimpfest is being held at the Inlet Harbor Marina & Restaurant April 19-20 for the benefit of the Daytona Beach College Culinary Institute. Saturday students will be serving visitors and honing their presentation skills for the competition Sunday evening. Shrimp dishes will be prepared by teams of students and will be judged for taste, presentation and creativity.
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February 24th, 2008
By Kirby Collins
Daytona Beach, FL - Bike Week will draw a half million or more bikers this year and Main Street bars like Dirty Harry’s and Boot Hill Saloon will feature Live Music, Wet T-shirt Babes and tons of bikes. Outside of Daytona, The Cabbage Patch will feature its World Famous Cole Slaw Wrestling, Live Music and much more. Bike Week runs Feb 29 to Mar 9.
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February 5th, 2008
By Kirby Collins
Daytona Beach, FL - Get ready race fans, Speed Week is heating up at Daytona International Speedway with more NASCAR and ARCA events. The Budweiser Shootout is the first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series with the DAYTONA 500 eight short days later.
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January 20th, 2008
Daytona Beach, FL - The racing season begins in Daytona Beach with the NASCAR Preseason Thunder and climaxes with the Daytona 500. “Speed Week” or “Race Week”, as it’s still called by longtime racing fans, has become a full season. Daytona International Speedway is not only the place where NASCAR fans pay homage, Sports Car fans enjoy races like the Rolex 24 at Daytona where many of the stars of racing will compete.
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December 18th, 2007
By Kirby Collins
In Florida we’ll celebrate the arrival of 2008 with champagne and fireworks in some places and tropical cocktails and live music at others. Whether you want to celebrate in Central Florida with fireworks of in Key West at Sloppy Joe’s, here’s a list of the more popular events.
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October 21st, 2007
By Kirby Collins
Daytona Beach, FL - This year we visited Bruce Rossmeyer’s Destination Daytona during Biketoberfest and it was one of the best events of the year. Destination Daytona is an excellent venue for Biketoberfest and Bike Week. With over 150 acres of space, the location is ideal for all the things a biker would love including bikini contest, live music, beer babes, vendors displays and product demonstrations.
There was plenty of parking for bikes and cars, trams transported visitors from remote parking areas. It was a first class effort with the Volusia County Sheriff Department providing excellent traffic control.
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October 3rd, 2007
By Kirby Collins
Daytona Beach, FL - There are many Biketoberfest events this year and here are the most popular. Dirty Harry’s, The Cabbage Patch, Boot Hill Saloon and others will feature music, babes and bikes.
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September 30th, 2007
By Kirby Collins
You don’t need to fly to Munich to enjoy Oktoberfest in Florida, Florida loves Oktoberfest as much as Florida loves beer and great German food. Floridians also love a party and there are many taking place.
Oktoberfest is a celebration of beer and food, though the history of Oktoberfest began with the marriage of Prince Ludwig and his bride Therese of Bavaria October 12, 1810. To honor the marriage a parade took place for the first time in 1835. Oktoberfest is now known as the Largest People’s Fair in the World.
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August 8th, 2007
By Kirby Collins
Daytona Beach, FL - At the east end of Main Street in Daytona Beach sits a landmark that has stood for 106 Years, the Daytona Beach Pier, also known as the Main Street Pier. The Pier is 1000 feet long, the longest on the east coast and is a great place for getting a bird’s eye view of the coastline and all the hotels along the beach.
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July 17th, 2007
Daytona Beach, FL - The Florida International Festival has selected the winners of the LSO on Call program. Sponsored by Black Crow Media and Hometown News, the program involves select members of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) who will give private performances for four area residents who love classical music, but are unable to attend concerts due to illness, disability, or other special circumstances.
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June 29th, 2007
 In Venice Florida, a golfer came face to face with a hazard at the sixth hole of a Lake Venice Golf Course and was bitten on the left arm by an 11-foot gator.
Near Daytona Beach in Volusia County a dolphin was rescued by SeaWorld in Turnbull Bay.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) will host a bald eagle draft management plan public workshop early next month as bald eagle numbers are improving and the FWC is considering removing them from the state endangered species list.
June 29th, 2007
All across Florida this Fourth of July there will be red rockets a glaring a bombs a bursting with fireworks displays nearly everywhere. Here’s a selected list of events across the state.
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June 26th, 2007
I’ve always heard that the best way to purchase a timeshare is to buy it on the secondary market and noticed this one bedroom for only $1300 in Daytona Beach at the Americano Beach Resort, and you don’t even have to sit through a 3-hour sales pitch, what a bargain.
And starting June 26th, timeshare owners have a new and free way to sell their unwanted week. Any timeshare owner may advertise their timeshare week for sale without charge. TimeshareWeek.com introduces a free classified listing service where timeshare owners can advertise their timeshare for sale, completely free.
April 23rd, 2007
450 Surfers attent the Southest Surfing Championships in New Symyrna just south of Daytona Beach. From From the competition that wraps up today, surfers can ride into the 2007 Eastern Surfing Championships, known as the Easterns, which could ultimately lead to the USA Surfing Championships.
From the Daytona Beach News Journal
“From the competition that wraps up today, surfers can ride into the 2007 Eastern Surfing Championships, known as the Easterns, which could ultimately lead to the USA Surfing Championships.”
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