New Gig Harbor Logo Wear Now In Just in Time for Spring

The Gig Harbor Visitor Information Center, located at 3125 Judson Street, now has available new items in our line of Gig Harbor clothing. Great new colors and styles for men and women just in time for spring including jackets, fleece, sweatshirts, t-shirts (several styles), baseball caps and scull caps as well as the popular burgee. We also have the Puget Sound Wildside Book and the Gig Harbor Video. While supplies last, you will receive a environmentally friendly, reusable cloth bag with your purchase.
Come visit us and see the new stock. We are open every day EXCEPT Tuesday and Sunday.
www.gigharborguide.com

AND HERE IT IS - THE 2010 SUMMER CONCERT AND MOVIE LINEUP

The City of Gig Harbor is thrilled to bring to you once again, the hottest ticket in town, the Summer Sounds at Skansie, Tuesday evening outdoor concert series and the CinemaGig outdoor movie series for 2010.

In partnership with our wonderful sponsors - CenturytLink, St. Anthony Hospital and MultiCare Gig Harbor Medical Park we have spent the last two months reviewing and booking bands and movies and think we have the best line up EVER! Here it is, mark your calendar now so you don't miss a thing, because after all IT'S FREE!!

SUMMER SOUNDS AT SKANSIE

June 22nd The Rauccous Band www.RaucousBand.com
June 29th Soulstice (Fleetwood Mac Tribute Band) www.thesoulsticeband.com
July 6th the 133rd Army National Guard Band
July 13th Blackberry Bushes Stringband www.theblackberrybushesstringband.com
July 20th THE BEATNIKS www.thebeatniks.com
July 27th Freckles Brown Band www.frecklesbrown.com
August 3rd Danny Vernon (Elvis) www.dannyvernon.com
August 10th My Fathers Manouche www.yourfathersmanouche.blogspot.com
August 17th The Coats www.thecoats.net
August 24th Island Jamz www.islandjamzinc.com

CINEMAGIG OUTDOORS

Friday July 9th, Donkey Creek Park Date Night AIRPLANE
Saturday July 10th Skansie Brothers Park Family Night WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
Friday July 23rd, Donkey Creek Park Date Night MAMA MIA
Saturday July 24th, Skansie Brothers Park Family Night, GOONIES
Friday August 6th, Donkey Creek Park Date Night, THE PINK PANTHER (ORIGINAL)
Saturday August 7th, Skansie Brothrs Park Family Night, CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS
Friday August 20th, Donkey Creek Park Date Night, BLINDSIDE
Saturday August 21st, Skansie Brothers Park Family Night, FINDING NEMO

More details on this and other summer events coming soon. Stay tuned!!

Another Business Lost in Gig Harbor

Farewell to Le Bistro. A Gig Harbor Favorite. Read More.

If you really love somebody, help them get in shape!

The perfect Valentines gift for the one you love is health. Be inspirational to your spouse, significant other, kids, friends...anyone! Commit to being healthy for a long life of happiness and love. And start with a Valentines Day Run "You Knock My Socks Off" in Gig Harbor on the beautiful new Cushman Trail.

This four mile race begins and ends at Route 16 Running, located at 6565 Kimball Drive and goes North on Kimball and then onto the new portion of the Cushman Trail. Four mile begins at 8:30am and the kids dash starts at 8am.

Great prizes are in store, and all the proceeds go to benefit Healthy Communities of Gig Harbor and Pierce County, the organizer of the Gig Harbor Community Garden. Additional benefits go to the Gig Harbor FISH Food Bank.

Register ahead of time at Route 16 Running, or on line at http://www.route16runwalk.com/.

See you there! Happy Valentines Day!

Do You Want to Join Our Blogging Family?

The City of Gig Harbor Tourism Marketing office, along with our Gig Harbor Visitor Information Center, are the lead organization for the greater Gig Harbor area for promotion and marketing for the community. Our website http://www.gigharborguide.com/ is the most viewed site for Gig Harbor area information. And starting mid-March, our website will have a fresh, more colorful and much more user friendly layout! We can't wait to share it with you!

At the same time, our Gig Harbor Guide Blog will also change. No longer will the blog be hosted at Blogspot. It will be hosted on our website and be much easier to access, comment and use as tool for the community. This is another great development for Gig Harbor.

As part of these changes, we are recruiting "guest bloggers" to join our team. The new blog will provide a great opportunity to bring community members into the conversation with insight, ideas, suggestions and tips about our community.

We've been thinking about some topics we would like to have community bloggers focus on; environment, heritage, recreation, food, kids and family. We are open to other ideas as well.

So here's what we need - if you are as passionate about Gig Harbor as we are, are a descent writer, not a politician or community hot shot, just an average Gig Harbor guy or gal, we'd love to hear from you.

Of course, the blog is the property of The City of Gig Harbor Marketing Department, and so we will have some rules; all blogs must be positive. Period. No slamming businesses, or people in the community. No political statements or candidate endorsements. If you can't be positive then this is not the place for you.

All blogs will be edited and reviewed by me (Laureen) prior to posting, so if you object to editing, then this is not the place for you.

We would love to expand our blog to have a greater voice for the community. Interested? Send me an email to apply. We will be taking applications over the next couple of weeks and will let you know who we have chosen by the middle of March.

We'd love to have you on the team!

lundl@cityofgigharbor.net

TOLL INCREASE IN OUR FUTURE?

IMPORTANT! Gig Harbor and Kitsap friends! Toll increases are in our future! Do you want a voice? Speak up to the WA Citizens Advisory Committee on Tolls, tomorrow, Tuesday Feb 9th 5-7pm at the Gig Harbor Civic Center, 3510 Grandview Street Gig Harbor WA 98335.
We need to fill the room and have a voice regarding this issue. Increased tolls will only decrease our ability to attract new business and visitors to our community at a time when our local business and local economy need it the most. toll increase will negatively impact our community and our ability to rebound from the hits we have taken this past year. We need to say no! Please come to the meeting and let your voice be heard.

Chocolate Covered Gig Harbor this Saturday

If I were you, I would watch your diet all week...just so you can splurge with out guilt this Saturday at THE ART OF CHOCOLATE, in historic downtown Gig Harbor. This new even is a great way to shake of the winter and enjoy the sweet taste of chocolate, all while enjoying beautiful Gig Harbor and the monthly Gig Harbor Art Walk.

Beginning at noon, pick up a passport at participating businesses to be eligible to win some wonderful prizes, including an overnight Gig Harbor get-away. Take advantage of discounts and store specials all while delighting in the arts and shopping for that special Valentine.

Here's a list of some of the special things being planned by downtown merchants;

• Gig Harbor's very own 7 Seas Brewery will be at Vanilla Bean on sharing samples of their beers during The Art of Chocolate.


• Mostly Books will feature a variety of Chocolate themed cookbooks


• In store raffles at Vanilla Bean, Simply Charmed and Sea Glass Interiors


• Water to Wine will host local chocolatier Matt Carter from 1-4pm for chocolate samples as well as wine.


• SeaGlass will have sample of gourmet chocolates, including novelty NW chocolates; halibut, slugs, Space Needle, ferry, orcas and shells.


• Bring your broken down feeder to Wild Birds Unlimited during the Art of Chocolate and receive 25% off a new one.


• Gig Harbor Gift Mall will be raffling a Valentine Gift Basket with lots of lovely gifts and of course, Chocolate


• Imagine Great Things also has a give-away basket and is serving chocolate truffles


• The Beach Basket will feature 50% off their winter clothing and 25% non-sale merchandise


• McBeckland's has a great sale on all day and will offer in store drawing.


• Continue the celebration a little later into the evening at The Keeping Room with an evening of love songs and chocolate treats from 5-8pm.

All this week the Gig Harbor Visitor Information Center, located at 3125 Judson Street will be giving away candy "Kisses" to our visitors. Stop in and say hi, and be sure to join all of the merchants in historic downtown Gig Harbor for THE ART OF CHOCOLATE, Saturday February 6th noon - 6pm.

http://www.gigharborguide.com/