Wednesday November 7th, 2007 - 4:39PM

* Listen to the WEBY AM-1330 "Your Turn" program now posted: Listen to Charlotte Brown, Ed Spears, and Mort O'Sullivan discuss the full-range of CMP issues and progress!

* Next non-profit Community Maritime Park Associates meeting Nov. 9

* Meet New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin Nov. 9th at New World Landing!

* Glenn's Corner: "The Friends' Site is Still Setting New Records!"

* Take a look for yourself: Latest graphics for Design Criteria posted

* Link up to the Maritime Museum

* Email addresses for all members of the non-profit Community Maritime Park Associates Board of Trustees

* Contact information for Ed Spears, acting Executive Director of the non-profit CMPA

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Here are the details:

WEBY AM-1330 "Your Turn" program posted: Listen to Charlotte Brown, Ed Spears, and Mort O'Sullivan, discuss the full-range of CMP issues and progress!

We've added another audio clip to the Friends' web site. This program features Charlotte Brown, Ed Spears, and Mort O'Sullivan, talking about the progress made on the CMP, and deals with several issues concerning the park including moving the sewage treatment plant, the quality of individuals applying for the executive director's position, the master developers, and timelines for the park - both those that have been fulfilled, and those that are in the process of fulfillment.

To get to hear the WEBY AM-1330 "Your Turn" program with Charlotte, Ed, and Mort, go to:
http://www.CommunityMaritimePark.com

And click on the link:
Media Gallery/Audio/Video

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Next Non-profit Community Maritime Park Associates meeting Nov. 9

NOTICE OF MEETING - BOARD OF TRUSTEES
COMMUNITY MARITIME PARK ASSOCIATES, INC.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2007, 1:00 P.M.
CITY OF PENSACOLA, 222 WEST MAIN STREET
2nd FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM, CITY HALL

PLEASE CALL ED SPEARS AT 436-5655 FOR MORE INFORMATION

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"Rise Up Pensacola - You're Destined for Greatness" posted on the Friends' website!

You'll especially enjoy Charlotte Brown's "Viewpoint" article that ran in the Pensacola News Journal. It will be up on the Friends' website this afternoon.

Click on:
http://www.CommunityMaritimePark.com

then click on the link:
Media Gallery/Publications

In that same area, you'll find the "Viewpoint" by Miller Caldwell - well worth the read!

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The non-profit CMPA Covenant with the Community partner, The Gulf Coast African-American Chamber of Commerce, throws an open house for Pensacola to meet New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin!

The non-profit Community Maritime Park Associates (non-profit CMPA) partnered with The Gulf Coast African-American Chamber of Commerce (GCAACC) to supervise the Contractors' Academy training workshops to prepare Pensacola Bay Area businesses to compete equally with others for contracts being let as part of the park-building process.

We received this press release from the GCAACC announcing they are throwing an open invitation to all Pensacola Bay Area residents to meet New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin at a special appearance Nov. 9 at New World Landing.

The event is free!

Here is the press release on it:

Contact: Darnell Sims
850-433-9807
850-512-6252

Headline: Honorable Ray Nagin Jr. Mayor, of the City of New Orleans will be the keynote speaker at the City to City Economic Exchange Conference on November 9, 2007, at New World Landing.

Story: The GULF COAST AFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE will host a city-to-city economic exchange conference on Friday, November 9th at New World Landing, 600 South Palafox, from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m..

Keynote speaker will be the Honorable Ray Nagin Jr., Mayor of New Orleans.

"In order for the city to change and move forward, I think it needed someone like me to come in as an outsider with a different perspective, a different way of looking at things," Nagin said recently when he sat down for an interview.

"I surrounded myself with people who think outside the normal box of government, with a few governmental people sprinkled in to kind of make sure we have the experience levels we need. That's basically how we've approached it - as new thinkers, as change agents, as a group trying to make the city better."

"His leadership ability is what struck me," says David White, an executive and a co-owner with Nagin of the New Orleans Brass hockey team.

"He's very disarming when he meets new people. He's also very intelligent. He had to be very savvy to be where he was at Cox. He's a very effective businessperson. He's just a real people person."

"There is hope and opportunity on the horizon," says Van Mansker, Chairman of the Gulf Coast African American Chamber of Commerce. "The future is bright for the cities along the Gulf Coast. We hope that Mayor Nagin can assist with the City of Pensacola's vision to develop a self-sustaining, successful business community for the many people looking to start or develop a small business."

This event will be FREE TO THE PUBLIC, BUT SEATING IS LIMITED! Get your ticket online at
http://www.africanamericancc.org

by call 850-433-9807, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Ticket deadline is October 31. 2007.

Thank you to our major corporate sponsors: Gulf Power Company, Cox, PNJ, AT & T Real Yellow Pages, Workforce EscaRosa

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* Glenn's Corner: " The Friends' Site is Still Making New Records!"

By Glenn C. Obert / Friends' web site creator and administrator
glenn@webfootenterprises.com

In one of our previous newsletters, we discussed “The Bounce Rate.” For those that have missed that publication, The Bounce Rate is the percentage of site visitors who hit the first page of a site, then leave it - it is a way to get past the hype of some web sites that tell you all about the number of hits they get, but don't tell you if anyone is really interested in the site once they get to it.

According to Avinash Kaushik, Google's Analytics Evangelist, "it is really hard to get a bounce rate under 20%. Anything over 35% is cause for concern, and anything above 50% is worrying."

The lower the number, the better.

The Friends' site bounce rate peaked at only 7.69% for the month of October.

Traffic is up; way up!

This past October we had a total of 75,125 hits, which is about 5 times the number of hits for September (15345), and nearly 19 times the amount of hits in all of 2006 (3980.)

The site is, and always will be, available at:
http://www.CommunityMaritimePark.com

As always, we ask people to come to our side, and visit our new galleries. Everyone is invited to leave suggestions and ask comments about the site by clicking the contact tab at the top of the page.

Bookmark, or make it one of your web Favorites, then send this web address to everyone on your emailing lists for the best possible starting point for information about the park:
http://www.CommunityMaritimePark.com

As we progress, you'll see even more exciting, and timely, information about the most important economic initiative in the history of our area.

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* Take a look for yourself: Latest graphics for Design Criteria posted

Want to see for yourself all that the park is bringing to the Pensacola Bay Area? Then click on the link below, and check it out!

Pass the link around to your email lists, bulletin boards, email address list - everyone you know needs to know that the park is set on "Grow!"
http://www.CommunityMaritimePark.com

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The Multi-Use Facility - see it for yourself!

Want to see for yourself why so many people speak so highly of the multi-use facility planned for the park? Then go right now to:
http://www.CommunityMaritimePark.com

or cut directly to the gallery at:
http://supporters.communitymaritimepark.com/page/gallery

and see them posted on the Friends' website.

Here is what you'll see:

The facility's graphics simulate four different uses for the multi-use facility: football, soccer, baseball, and concerts.

As you can see for yourself, the promise to provide a multi-use facility is being fulfilled.

Immediately below the graphics for the Multi-Use Facility, you'll find the graphics shown at the September Board of Trustees meeting regarding the Design Criteria.

The Design Criteria package was presented back to the Board at the Oct. 12 meeting. It is a public record, so if you want to see it for yourself immediately, call Ed Spears, acting executive director of the non-profit Community Maritime Park Associates (non-profit CMPA). His contact information is listed, along with the email addresses of all the members of the Board of Trustees, further down in this newsletter.

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* Link up to the Maritime Museum

A number of people asked us to include a link for those interested in learning more about the Adm. John H. Fetterman State of Florida Maritime Museum and Research Center at the University of West Florida Community Maritime Park Campus.

Give this link a try, and then bookmark it for future updates!

http://www.uwf.edu/maritime

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Email Board of Trustees members with your thoughts and ideas!

Here are the email addresses for the Board of Trustees members. Remember, the non-profit Community Maritime Park Associates, Inc. (non-profit CMPA) operates in full compliance with Florida's Government in the Sunshine Act. All email communications are open public records available to anyone who asks for them.

The syntax for the Board members is first name.last name@whibbspark.org

Collier Merrill: collier.merrill@whibbspark.org

Dick Baker: dick.baker@whibbspark.org

Dr. Jimmy Jones: jimmy.jones@whibbspark.org

Eddie Todd: eddie.todd@whibbspark.org

Rev. Hugh King: hugh.king@whibbspark.org

John Merting: john.merting@whibbspark.org

Juanita Scott: juanita.scott@whibbspark.org

Judge Lacey Collier: lacey.collier@whibbspark.org

Kathlyn White: kathlyn.white@whibbspark.org

Rodney Jackson: rodney.jackson@whibbspark.org

Susan Story: susan.story@whibbspark.org

Acting Executive Director on loan from the City of Pensacola

Ed Spears: espears@ci.pensacola.fl.us

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Email Relay Participants: Please forward this to your email lists, blogs, message boards, and other publications. Thanks to you, more than 500 people not on the regular Friends email list get the latest updates on the Community Maritime Park each week. You are making a difference!

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Questions? Ed Spears has the answers!

"When in doubt, call Ed to find out!"

Here is the contact information for Ed Spears, acting Executive Director of the non-profit CMPA:

Edward E. Spears, Neighborhood & Economic Development Administrator, City of Pensacola
180 Governmental Center, Pensacola, FL
P.O. Box 12910 / Pensacola, Florida 32521
(850) 436-5655 (office) / (850) 595-1143 (fax) / email: espears@ci.pensacola.fl.us

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Don't miss even one exciting second as the CMP goes from vision to reality!

Get your own FREE subscription to the Friends report: http://supporters.communitymaritimepark.com

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That's it for this week - until then, "Thanks!" from all your friends . . . who are Friends of the Pensacola Bay Area's Vince J. Whibbs Sr. Community Maritime Park!

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