Tuesday March 11th, 2008 - 1:07PM

Your Friends invite you to take a moment now to enjoy the newly reformatted web site! Add the links below to your Internet Explorer's Favorites today and come back regularly to get the latest news, and the most authoritative documentation about The Pensacola Bay Area's Vince Whibbs Sr. Community Maritime Park!

Friends of the Community Maritime Park, Inc. is pleased to announce our first sponsored ad on the Friends' web site. Our thanks to the private donor who brings the United Way campaign to every page of the Friends site! Every month more than 80,000 hits arrive at the Friends web site.

In addition to the milestone of progress the United Way ad represents, Friends incorporated its recently released logo into the Friends' web site design. We thank Micah Baldwin of MBaldwin Photography for her pro bono contribution. Her firm is the Official Photographer for Friends of the Community Maritime Park, Inc.

The makeover is complete with a clear, easy to navigate style created by Glenn C. Obert, chair of the Friends Board of Trustees and owner of Webfoot Enterprises. We thank him for his selfless dedication to helping make the Community Maritime Park dream come true!

Here are the exciting highlights:

Home Page of CommunityMaritimePark.com: The Friends logo uses a heron perched upon the bulkhead overlooking Pensacola Bay; it promises access to the waterfront for endless generations to come. On the Home Page you'll find an exciting buffet of news, events, documentation and other "must click" hyperlinks to keep you up-to-date on the latest happenings with the park.

Newsletters: Friends sends out an email on average every 4.6 days since it began functioning last summer. The latest is number 63! Scroll down through the various issues to get an accurate history of the journey so far, and all the exciting action coming up next!

Links: Surfing for related sites? Check out the Links for information ranging from the park Wikipedia entry to news about the Pelicans Training Academy!

Subscribe: Each opt-in emailed Friends news report goes to more than 10,000 validated email addresses. If you want to keep up with the biggest economic event in Northwest Florida's history, put your name on the list and don't miss a single second of the excitement!

Contact Friends: We want to hear what you've got to say! Got a question? Got a comment? Got a fresh idea? Then all you've got to do is click on Contact Friends!

Feedback: Want to know what others are telling Friends about the park? Then check out Feedback and see for yourself the massive number of enthusiastic supporters crying out, "We Want Our CMP!" You will be amazed at how deep the commitment to build the Community Maritime Park runs. In email after email, the message is the same: "We Want Our CMP!" Read them for yourself!

Images: Who do you know in our vast, growing collection of free-style photos taken at several park-oriented events? Click on Images and see for yourself! There's are lots of great shots including those of Quint and Rishy Studer at the Feb. 4, 2008 announcement of a $2.25-million donation to the Maritime Museum.

And check out all those who turned out for the Jan. 25, 2008, gathering to announce a $1-million contribution by the Lamar and Switzer families to the museum! In addition to the HUGE CROWD, you'll see shots of so many people attending including P.C. Wu, Dr Jimmy Jones, Rick Outzen, Kevin Doyle, Nancy Fetterman, Dr. John Cavanaugh, Ellis Bullock and Mort O'Sullivan, Jamie Page, Katie White, Mayor John Fogg, Glenn C. Obert and Judge Lacey Collier, Tom Bonfield and Dick Baker.

For a fantastic collection of the art prepared by Miller Caldwell's firm to illustrate the ideas we want to convey to the Master Developers, be sure to go through the art collection in the Sept. 26, 2007 presentation made to the non-profit Community Maritime Park Associates Board of Trustees.

Audio/Video : This collection features streaming audio and video of park supporters. Begin your journey with the Oct. 25, 2007 broadcast of the news-interview program "Your Turn" airing on WEBY AM-1330, Northwest Florida's Talk Radio. Listen as Mort O'Sullivan, Ed Spears, and Charlotte Brown discuss the park, its progress, and why it is a "First Priority" for our community. It is posted in five 9-minute segments (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ).

Earlier that day, Mort O'Sullivan appeared on NewsRadio 1620 to talk about the park. Listen to it and learn even more about why we need the CMP!

On Feb. 4, Quint Studer delivered a powerful, stirring call to action for our community. You'll want to watch this memorable video of Quint talking about the late Adm. Fetterman on the occasion of a $2.25-million donation to the Maritime Museum fund.

Publications: Reading is believing, and believe us, you need to read this collection of articles from the Pensacola News Journal. We start with a pictorial layout of the park, and examples of the different ways the multi-use stadium can accommodate concerts, soccer, football, and baseball events.

Second on the list is a Pensacola News Journal Viewpoint by Pensacola resident Charlotte Brown. She recalls her journey from curious to highly supportive as she learned more and more about the park and the incredible number of benefits it will offer
generation after generation of Pensacola Bay Area residents and their families. She closes with the stirring cry, "Rise up Pensacola! You're destined for greatness!"

Our third entry is another Pensacola News Journal Viewpoint, this one by Miller Caldwell, overseer of the architectural aspects of the park. He restates the driving force behind the park: "the non-profit CMPA (Community Maritime Park Associates) is resolute in its determination to make the park an international showpiece - a point of pride for the entire Pensacola Bay Area family of residents."

You can see for yourself the Friends' web site is chock full of the latest news, rock-solid documentation, and explodes with the excitement and energy this historic undertaking is in all its many aspects.

Friends of the Community Maritime Park, Inc. invites you to check out the site for yourself. Add it to your web browser's Favorites or Bookmarks. Visit it regularly. Sign up and enjoy the emailed news reports that will keep you "in the loop." It's all about you - your hopes, your dreams, your future, and the future of generations yet to be born.

The Pensacola Bay Area's Vince Whibbs Sr. Community Maritime Park will outlive all of us. It's historic in its vision, unprecedented in its economic impact, and priceless in its preservation of the waterfront access for generations to come.

Join your Friends as we all participate together in giving it life without end!
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This email is sent to you by The Board of Trustees, Friends of the Community Maritime Park, Inc.

Glenn C. Obert, Chair

Ellen C. Hoefer, Sec./Treasurer

Mike Bates

Katie White

Kenneth E. Lamb

Contributions to Friends of the Community Maritime Park, Inc. are tax deductible under rules governing IRS chapter 501( c ) 3 non-profit corporations. Give life to your commitment to see the Community Maritime Park dream come true with a tax deductible contribution payable to Friends of the Community Maritime Park, Inc.

Please address it to:

Mrs. Ellen C. Hoefer, Treasurer
Friends of the Community Maritime Park, Inc.
c/o Peoples First Community Bank
110 Garden Street
Pensacola, FL 32501

If you want more information before making a contribution, or want to make contributions of goods, services, or other types of contributions, please contact Kenneth E. Lamb by email at:

kenneth.lamb@CommunityMaritimePark.com

Friends of the Community Maritime Park, Inc. is an "open books" non-profit corporation. You can request a copy of our QuickBooks Pro 2008 file, or a printed operations statement in either Acrobat Reader format or standard printing by mailing your request to Mrs. Hoefer at the address above, or by emailing Mrs. Hoefer at:

ellenhoefer@peoplesfirst.com

You may call her Monday thru Friday between 9 AM and 4 PM at:

850-484-3000

When the phone is answered, please ask for Mrs. Hoefer at the Pensacola Garden Street branch.