Monthly Archives: April 2012

West O.C. Park & Ride shuttle service resumes May 3 for Springfest

Full summer schedule starts May 25

Ocean City, MD – Town of Ocean City shuttle buses to and from the West Ocean City Park and Ride on Route 50 will offer service for Springfest beginning at 6 a.m. on Thursday, May 3 and operating throughout the event, May 3-6.  The Park and Ride will also offer service for OC Cruizers, May 17-20.  When the Ocean City Park and Ride service is not available, Shore Transit will provide service to and from the Park and Ride and to and from the South End Transit Station.

Shuttle bus service for the summer season begins on Friday, May 25. Once again, the shuttle will make a stop at the Pac-Sun store within the Ocean City Factory Outlets in West Ocean City as it makes its way from the South Division Street Transit Center in downtown Ocean City to the West Ocean City Park and Ride.

Parking is free at the West Ocean City Park and Ride. Shuttle bus service is $3 ride-all-day good for a 24-hour period or $1 per boarding. Daily service begins at 6 a.m. and runs until 2 a.m., with service intervals approximately every 20 minutes. The ride-all-day passes purchased at the Park and Ride are also valid on Coastal Highway beach buses for a 24-hour period.

Discount coupons are available for passengers using the shuttle bus service. A booklet contains 20 tickets at a cost of $15, a savings of 25 percent off of the standard fare. Coupon books are available on any Ocean City bus (exact amount needed). Discount coupon booklets are also available at City Hall, 3rd St. and Baltimore Ave.; the Roland E. Powell Convention Center, 40th St. and Coastal Hwy.; Northside Park Recreation Complex, 125th St. bayside, the Public Safety Building on 65th St. and the north and south Boardwalk tram booths; these locations accept credit cards for payment.

Park and Ride shuttle buses offer passengers a luggage rack to place coolers, beach chairs, boogie boards and other beach-related items while in transit. The shuttles also have a bicycle rack on the front of the bus, which can carry two bikes. The shuttles are fully ADA-compliant with wheelchair accessibility.

The Park and Ride offers a convenient and hassle-free means of travel to visit the Boardwalk, downtown destinations or simply as a travel link to the town’s Coastal Highway beach bus system with service all the way to the Delaware line.  In season, Coastal Highway beach buses connect with DART Resort Transit at 144th Street Transit Station near the Delaware line, and Park and Ride Beach Buses connect with Shore Transit at the West Ocean City Park and Ride.  DART Resort Transit fare is $1 one-way or $2.10 for an all-day pass and the Shore Transit fare is $3 per boarding.

Greyhound bus service has also reopened for the season at the West Ocean City Park and Ride.  This facility is a full service Greyhound operation open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.  It will operate throughout the season until September 30.  The Greyhound ticket office is open from May 1 through September 30.  Even when the ticket office is closed (October 1 through April 30), Greyhound bus service is available year round at the Park and Ride.  For more information, you may call 410-289-9307 or online at www.greyhound.com.

For more information about the West Ocean City Park and Ride service, call the Ocean City Transportation Department at 410-723-1606.

Ocean City Museum Society receives two citations

Ocean City, MD – Maryland State Senator Jim Mathias presented a Maryland Senate Citation and a Governor’s Citation to Ocean City Museum Society Board President J. D. Quillin during the society’s board meeting held on April 18, 2012.

The citations were in honor of the brave and dedicated volunteers, citizens and elected officials for their immediate response in the aftermath of the Storm of 1962. The Museum Society recently hosted a dinner commemorating the “Storm of 1962” with many survivors of the storm participating in the event.

Gordon Katz to present “A Tract of Land Called Carmel”

Ocean City, MD — Gordon Katz, author of “102 Gentlemen & A Lady,” will be speaking at the St Paul’s by-the-Sea Church in Dewees Hall on Sunday April 29 at 10:30 a.m.  His presentation is entitled “A Tract of Land Called Carmel” and promises to enlighten the audience on the early development of Ocean City from a sandy beach in 1875. The public is invited to attend.

Ocean City’s Arbor Day Celebration planned for April 27

Ocean City, MD — The Town of Ocean City celebrates Arbor Day on Friday, April 27 at Northside Park, 125th Street bayside. Second grade classes from Ocean City Elementary School will present skits, poems, songs and artwork to show the importance of trees in our environment.

For over 25 years, the Ocean City Beautification Committee has partnered with the students to bring this program to the community.

Also during the celebration, the Mayor and City Council will be presented with two prestigious awards. The first is the National Arbor Day Foundation’s “Tree City USA” award, which the town has received for the past 24 years. Ocean City was the first barrier island in the country to receive this award. The second is the Maryland Community Forest and the Department of Natural Resources, Forest Service’s Maryland P.L.A.N.T. (People Loving and Nurturing Trees) Community Award, which Ocean City has received since the program’s inception 20 years ago.

The highlight of the event is when students assist the Mayor and Council and the Town Arborist in planting a tree at Northside Park as part of the Beautification Committee’s TreeMendous Program.

The celebration begins at 9:30 a.m. in the Northside Park community room with light refreshments. The festivities then move outdoors where the ceremony takes place weather permitting. The celebration kicks off with the presentation of the flags by the American Legion Color Guard. Following the tree planting, the students will enjoy demonstrations by the Ocean City Police Department’s mounted police and K-9 units.

All citizens and visitors are invited to join the Mayor and Council along with the Beautification Committee for this long-standing tradition.  For more information, call Donna Greenwood, Beautification Committee Chairperson, at 410-289-7060.

Alli Sports and Mountain Dew Announce Long Term Extension and New Dew Tour

For Immediate Release

For further information:
Alli, Alliance of Action Sports
Colleen Hillgard: (630) 908.6334
colleenhillgard@allisports.com

Dew Tour Kicks off 2012 with Beach, City and Mountain Events

Burr Ridge, Ill. – April 16, 2012 Alli Sports, a division of the NBC Sports Group, today announced a four-year renewal of their partnership with Mountain Dew, along with the 2012 schedule for the new Dew Tour. Alli Sports, together with Mountain Dew, who has been the tour title partner since its inception, is reshaping the Dew Tour to showcase action sports in three large-scale, premium and ‘grand-slam’ style events.

Leveraging the resources of the NBC Sports Group, which acquired 100% of Alli Sports last year, the new Beach, City, Mountain tour model will better serve the needs of the athletes and action sports community. The three premium events will boast expanded television programming and digital strategy across NBC, NBC Sports Network, nbcsports.com and allisports.com, as well as hyper-local promotional and programming opportunities through the NBC Sports Group’s owned stations and regional sports networks.  At the event level, each stop will include expanded and new sports and disciplines, and an enhanced on-site experience featuring more live music and a new “Dew Tour Experience,” bringing  all aspects of action sports culture to life throughout the five-day festivals.

“The action sports landscape has grown and changed dramatically since we launched the Dew Tour in 2005. The multi-stop series format was what the industry wanted and needed then.  The Dew Tour changed the industry forever, taking the sports to a whole new level.  The new Dew Tour, which will include three major events across Beach, City and Mountain venues, represents what the athletes and industry want and need today,” said Wade Martin, President & CEO, Alli Sports. “We believe our partnership with Mountain Dew represents one of the most unique, integrated relationships between brand and property in all of sports.  This partnership extension and the new approach we created for the Dew Tour together with Mountain Dew, the athletes and the industry, truly underscores that.”

“Dew Tour continues to work hand-in-hand with the athletes.  They asked for a platform that would elevate their sports and we worked with Alli to deliver that,” said Brett O’Brien, Vice President of Marketing, Mountain Dew. “With the new Dew Tour, we are working to ensure that we evolve along with the action sports community.  With input from the athletes, we’re developing a platform that answers their call for fewer, bigger, better events.”

Spanning the country August through December, the 2012 Dew Tour schedule will include returns to Ocean City, Md. and Breckenridge Ski Resort, with a debut event in San Francisco on the West coast. The Dew Tour will integrate the character of each stop into the overall feel of the event, capitalizing on impactful Beach, City and Mountain backdrops as each of the three events will draw inspiration from the host city to create its own identity.

•         Beach: Ocean City, Md.             August 16-19
•         City: San Francisco, Calif.         October 18-21
•         Mountain: Breckenridge, Colo. December 13-16
The 2012 Dew Tour will include over 30 hours of live television coverage on NBC and NBC Sports Network.  In addition, the Dew Tour will present an expanded digital offering including live competitions and behind-the-scenes exclusive content across multiple platforms.  In addition, all broadcast hours will be distributed live internationally across Alli’s extensive network of distribution partners.

“The NBC Sports Group is excited about the new model of the Dew Tour,” said Rob Simmelkjaer, SVP, NBC Sports Ventures and International. “This new approach is consistent with our ‘big event strategy’ and will allow us to leverage the powerful resources we have across broadcast, cable and digital.  From all angles – programming, promotion, production and scheduling – the new Dew Tour fits incredibly well into the NBC Sports Group.”

Utilizing the athletes as the drivers of the Tour, each of the three stops will present a different mix of sports and disciplines. Over the past six months, Alli Sports and Mountain Dew – reinforcing a long-standing commitment to the action sports community – have held panels with athletes, agents and industry veterans to determine the best way to progress the sports and elevate sports’ stars and the competitions. Open communication led to the development of the new model of the Dew Tour, as participants expressed their ideal courses, disciplines, formats and overall event authenticity.

“I think it’s cool that Alli and Mountain Dew held panels this year for all of the competitors so we can share our input on the event. Bringing the events to venues that have such a strong history in skate will step up the level of competition, and I’m looking forward to seeing it all come together,” said Mountain Dew athlete Paul Rodriguez.

For additional Dew Tour event information, visit www.Allisports.com and the Dew Tour Facebook page.

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Alli Sports
Alli Sports, is an action sports lifestyle brand whose mission is to connect fans with athletes and brands through best in class events, media, and authentic branded products.  Alli Sports includes: the Dew Tour, Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship and the Red Bull Signature Series; Alli Media, which creates, produces, and distributes original content; Alli RideShop, an online retailer carrying top skate and BMX consumer products; and Alli MotoShop an online retailer carrying top moto consumer products.  Alli Sports is owned by NBC Sports.  More information can be found at www.allisports.com.

NBC Sports Group
When the Comcast-NBCUniversal transaction was completed in January of 2011, the broad reach and storied history of NBC Sports united with Comcast’s 24/7 ability to super-serve fans to create the NBC Sports Group. The new sports media company consists of an array of broadcast television, cable television and digital sports assets, including NBC Sports & Olympics, Golf Channel, Versus, 11 SportNets (regional sports networks) and their respective websites. Together, the new combined assets of the NBC Sports Group possess an unparalleled collection of television rights agreements, partnering with some of the most prestigious sports properties in the world: the Olympics, NFL, NHL, PGA TOUR, PGA of America, USGA, IndyCar, French Open, Tour de France and The Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes.

About Mountain Dew
With its one-of-a-kind citrus taste, Mountain Dew exhilarates and quenches with every sip. In addition to original Mountain Dew® and Diet Mountain Dew®, the permanent DEW product line includes Mountain Dew Code Red®, Mountain Dew LiveWire®, Mountain Dew Throwback®, Mountain Dew Voltage® and Mountain Dew White Out®. For more information, check out www.mountaindew.com or www.facebook.com/mountaindew or on twitter @mtn_dew.